Obama's 'Politically Correct' Prayer

I just received an email from an angry reader/listener condemning all of the Jewish People, 'your nation' he wrote, because someone took out the note that Obama apparently wrote and stuck in the crevices at the Kotel (Western Wall).  I don't think that anyone would really argue that it was an ethical thing to do.  But in politics, and running for the most powerful office in the world, nothing really is private when you make yourself public. His trek to the Kotel was out in public and cameras accompanied him. Whoever took the note that was left there and gave it to the papers was not right, but it was expected.

Here is a photocopy of the note from the New York Times, which while the media condemns the Maariv news paper for publishing it, and the breech of privacy, doesn't see a problem in re-publishing it in their own papers for millions of more people to read.

                             "Lord—Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will,"

Seems to me, that Obama probably knew his note would be read.  If John McCain, Britney Spears or Michael Jackson left a note, that note too would probably be pulled out for the media/paparazzi.  Again, it doesn't make it right, it's just the reality.  And Obama and his advisers probably knew that. 

If Obama really was writing a PRIVATE letter to G-d, he might have written something like this...(all in jest)

"Praise allah, Please protect my family and me from all the American and Israeli infidels. Forgive me my sins (of playing down my Islamic roots, -darn that middle name of mine), and help me guard against pride and despair (which will make me look too frightening to the West). Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just.  And make me an instrument of your will, praise allah! allahu akbar!  p.s. Please let me beat McCain"

or, his Western side might have written a note like this if he thought it would remain private.

"Dear jesus, Please protect my family and me from all these non-believers. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just.  And make me an instrument of your will, praise the father, son and holy ghost. p.s. Please let me beat McCain" 

Ok, I wrote this all in jest, but puleeze,,,  does anyone really believe he wrote such a politically correct generic prayer (not mentioning his god's name) thinking it would remain unread by all the curious people and media?

There's an old saying, "Don't be right, be smart." I think this is something Obama and his advisers expected would happen, and he went for the smart thing.  Smart guy.

I Don't Want To Say I Told You So...

I don't want to say I told you so, but...  I asked you all in a previous blog several days ago to keep your eyes open for more attacks and headlines having to do with Arabs from the eastern part of the city perpetrating attacks in the western part of the city.

Again, in just a matter of about 2-3 weeks, ANOTHER terror attack was perpetrated in Jerusalem by an Arab resident of the eastern part of the city.  News stories are again bringing up the idea of East vs. West.

In a Jerusalem Post article, the headline reads:" 'Reconsider employing e. J'lem Arabs', yet when one reads the article, the Mayor of Jerusalem actually only stated: "We should reconsider the employment of these people". The Mayor didn't say 'east Jerusalem Arabs', he said a more general statement of, 'these people', meaning 'Arabs'.  Why try to change his words?

And two other interesting articles showing people that there is a split and widening crack in the two parts of the city.  See: 

Israel keen to crack down on East Jerusalem

Diskin Warned of Copycat Attacks 3 Hours Before Attack
Yuval Diskin, chief of the Shin Bet (Israel's General Security Service), warned of the likelihood of another bulldozer attack just three hours BEFORE Tuesday afternoon's terror attack.

All this doesn't prove anything.  Yet.  But so far, what I asked you to keep aware of is seeming to pick up speed.  Those who want to see Jerusalem divided probably couldn't be happier.  The question still remains, are they in someway behind it?  

I am including two videos below for you to see.  The first one is of the last tractor terror rampage of July 2, 2008, but I believe it will be interesting for you to see because it shows with a computer animation, the actual attack.  You can imagine how scary it must have been and what damage he did when he killed and maimed innocent people in that terror attack.  (Only the first 30 seconds or so is important to watch here.)

This second video is of the actual shooting of the yesterday's attack (with the second tractor driver). 

It's a good thing we Israelis almost all have guns.  I do worry about my American friends who don't own a personal weapon, and don't have anything to protect themselves with if something should happen there.  Even with terror attacks, Israel is a much safer country.  Stay safe, all, and keep reading and paying attention to the news.

When Talk Is Cheap

Our generation likes to talk.
Bush talks with the terrorist Abbas from the PLO and deals with the North Korean regime.  Obama says America should talk with terror supporting Iran. In the meantime, America sells its weapons around the world, and declares war on 'terror', sends its soldiers to occupy a country way out in the middle east (that has oil), and then fights the terrorists that attack those poor U.S. soldiers out there.  (I am not taking a stance on the Iraq war, there are good points and bad points about it.  I am just mentioning it here to make a point that the Bush administration does not see a problem with fighting whom THEY consider to be terrorists, yet the people of Israel are not allowed to fight ours.) With all the talking with terrorists and terror supporting states, and all the killing other nations are allowed to do, Israel has its hands tied and has to keep talking, begging and groveling in order to try to get a peace treaty signed with Islamic terrorists.  We bare the brunt of this policy.  We are not allowed to fight our terrorists.  It is a two faced world.

I think with the great forms of communication we enjoy today, we have already understood the 'message' our enemies have sent us. They have stated over and over again that they do not, and will never, recognize us.  They have stated they want to throw us into the sea.  They have stated that we are not humans, rather apes and pigs, swine, etc.  They have told us that they will liberate the land with blood and fire.  They have told us that they will continue to kill us and are justified in doing so.  What more do we need to talk about?  Talk, talk, talk, yada, yada, yada.  Could the Western Allies talk with the Nazis? Sometimes talk is cheap.  Sometimes talk is shameful.

I think that this video below that was recently shown on Israel's Documentary channel shows how talking got this Jewish mother nowhere.  There's a time for talk, a time for action.  Watch these three clips below in order. 

I am skipping now to the last part of the documentary.  For those that want to watch all the parts, they can go HERE.

Talk, talk, talk.  They state they will never surrender, but the Nazis did when they were crushed by the allies and they could not continue their evil.  Today, the world is a better place because of that defeat.  Defeating this next evil empire of these Islamic terrorist crazies is the world's next challange.  Talk is cheap.