I don't yet have time for a very detailed report on the Jerusalem Conference, so let this illustrated post suffice.
Left wing politicians are so glued to their ideology that they can't see the terror and hatred through their Left-tinted lenses

Here's one of the charts, from an Arab internet site, shown during the talk by Lt. Colonel (res) Jonathan D. Halevi, Senior Researcher, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. We're just not "on the ball" when it comes to utilizing modern technology.

Yes, it's hard to believe. Aren't Jews supposed to be so smart? Well, it looks like we're not using our G-d-given talents for our own needs.

It was during the session called, Israel under Attack, and the Civilians of the Gaza Area Respond. Sharon Katz, of Voices Magazine, told me that the crowd was incredulous. Politicians, from southern Israel, who spoke "crowned" their remarks with support for Disengagement.

It's very disappointing, though not surprising, that Left wing politicians are so glued to their ideology that they can't see the terror and hatred through their Left-tinted lenses.

Ironically, during the campaign bloggers and mainstream journalists who stressed Obama's middle name were attacked for using underhand tactics to ruin his image, but when it came to his Inauguration as U.S. President, he, himself, used that very Arab/Moslem middle name. As a kid, even in Indonesia, he was known as "Barry," but at some point he began to use his full, non-white sounding, name, Barack Hussein Obama. Unlike many Afro-Americans who changed their American-sounding names to Arab ones when they became Moslems, like Cassius Clay becoming Mohamed Ali, Obama was given his name at birth, as "junior," named after his Kenyan father. Americans are in for a rough ride. Bush was booed at the Inauguration, something that bodes danger for the American public.

It is not going to be easy for Obama to please his fans, and they're not the subtle polite types.

Israel should send , George Mitchell, his emissary back home. Obama will soon be so embroiled in own domestic problems that he won't have time for us if we're firm.

The timing of this visit is a blatant interference in Israeli Elections, and G-d willing it will totally backfire on Kadima, Labor and Obama. How it will affect the Likud depends on how Bibi Netanyahu welcomes Mitchell. If he tells him to get lost, then he'll benefit, but if he tries to negotiate with him, then the Likud will suffer, because it'll show that push comes to shove, the Likud is no different from Kadima.

In case you've been wondering why I haven't posted all week, we were sans Internet in Eilat. Here are some pictures. And I'll end this post with a movie from my very first trip to Eilat.
I have no doubt that my support for the Ichud Le'umi, National Union, is the correct way to vote in the next Israeli elections

People have been sending me articles and letters warning that "a vote for Ichud Le'umi, National Union, will put Kadima back in power."  And the NRP diehards, in their new Jewish Home hats, are claiming that "NU is a wasted vote."  Shtuyot, total and utter garbage, scare tactics.  And then there are others claiming that we "must vote for Likud to get Feiglin in the Knesset."

I'll take these point by point:

• The Likud is a centrist party and isn't campaigning for my vote.  I don't agree with most of its platform.  To be a centrist party, the Likud needs the Ichud Le'umi to its right.  I'm not quite sure what Lieberman's party stands for, especially after his time in Olmert's coalition.  I am very suspicious of him, and Uzi Landau's presence there doesn't add anything positive.  Remember how some people tried to push Landau to run for head of Likud, but he just ran away.  The Likud should be campaigning to get Kadima and Lieberman supporters to vote for it and leave the Land of Israel loyalists to those truly loyal, the NU.
• The NRP-Jewish Home is the wasted vote.  It's just a "Kadima with a kippah."  It's a "supermarket" party too small and fragile to do anything good.  The old guys of the NRP thought that the public would fall for its face-lift and make-over, but the religious and nationalist public isn't that stupid.  According to some polls, it won't get in at all.  It was once the home of religious Zionism, but the fruits of their labor have outgrown them.
• And about Feiglin, even if he gets into the Knesset, as the most hated MK in the largest party, he'll get the worst appointments and the least amount of opportunities.  The NU MK's, even as, or especially as opposition, will be placed on the crucial committees, because they are opposition.  They will have more speaking time, since they won't be competing with the likes of Dan Meridor and Uzi Dayan. 

Yes, I have no doubt that my support for the Ichud Le'umi, National Union, is the correct way to vote in the next Israeli elections.

Olmert sure tells a good story.  Too bad, the Americans insist he's lying.  And Tsippi has another version, and the Arabs have a different one.

“I said, ‘Get me President Bush on the phone,’ ” Mr. Olmert said in a speech in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, according to The Associated Press. “They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn’t care: ‘I need to talk to him now,’ ” Mr. Olmert continued. “He got off the podium and spoke to me.”

I guess the pressure of the war is getting to them.  There are too many cracks showing in their happy troika.

A few things:

• It doesn't seem true that youtube is banning the IDF
• I have problems with Ann Bayefsky's, UN Watch, basic premis, re: the United States
• A Package from Home, gifts to IDF soldiers has the lowest overhead, making more of your donation go to the soldiers.

And of course, keep writing to the media, politicians etc telling the truth, contradicting what they're saying.

And pray!

• Refuah Shleimah, a total and speedy recovery for all the wounded, soldiers and civilians.
• Wisdom to our leaders, miliary, political and spiritual!