Another provocation. I used to call stories like these "1938 Alerts," as if to say that they marked the run-up to a world war. But with the supine Obama in the White House, it is not 1938, and there will be no war -- only surrender without a shot being fired.
"Iran test-fires advanced missile," from the BBC, December 16 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Iran has successfully test-fired an improved version of a medium-range missile, state television has said.The Sajjil-2 has a longer range than previously-tested missiles which could travel 2,000km (1,243 miles), Iran's Arabic-language TV station announced.
That range would put Israel and US bases in the Gulf within range.
Correspondents say it is not the first time this missile has been tested, but the timing is likely to add to current tension over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
The West says that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons, a charge Iran denies.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the missile launch could increase the likelihood of further sanctions on Iran.
They must be quaking in their boots in Tehran!
I think Israel should do a pre-emptive strike on their nuclear and missile launch facilities in Iran, like they did with Iraq many years ago. The only thing that is holding them back is political correctness.
"...it is not 1938, and there will be no war -- only surrender without a shot being fired."
The Battle of Fort Detroit, in the War of 1812. The guy in charge of it, William Hull, was worried about casualties, so General brock and Chief Tecumseh were able to scare him into surrender quite easily.
Tecumseh had his braves walk in groups, in large circles around the fort, to make it look as if a huge Native force was amassing to help the British fight. This scared Hull; he was terrified of the Natives.
That's just the short version; for details see "The Invasion of Canada 1812-1813" by Pierre Berton, chap 4.
Brown: (Spoken in an feminine forced male voice)
If you don't stop I am going to hit you. (girlish swat by left hand on shoulder) Oh! Did I hit you to hard?
Sure, sanctions. That will show them. They don't give a damn what happens to their people anyway.
Perhaps Obama can smile them to death.
Obama wouldn't do anything if the Iranians had a missile that could reach the USA. He's hell-bent on assisting his Islamic brothers in destroying this nation, I believe this. All we can hope for is that Israel says "that's it" and erases the terrorist regime in Teheran.
Obama WILL DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about this problem. Ahmadinejad is one of his cohorts.
I used to call stories like these "1938 Alerts," as if to say that they marked the run-up to a world war. But with the supine Obama in the White House, it is not 1938, and there will be no war -- only surrender without a shot being fired.
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That's the most frightening thing imaginable—yet I can't argue with your analysis.
What if, after the invasion of Poland, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, after Nazi tanks started to roll into the Netherlands and France, there had been no action by the allies?
I used to call stories like these "1938 Alerts," as if to say that they marked the run-up to a world war.
Those in the West were sleepwalking back then, knowing what they were seeing was real but behaving as if weren't. Notably, this the era that led to the invention of the concept of Turnspeak.
*** 92:8 ***
The big difference now is that the sleepwalk is guided by Marxism, which entails the ideologies of globalism, socialism, multiculturalism, and environmentalism.
Only socialism was in play back in the good old days, when we were faced with a single highly organized expansionist nation set to take over the world. This time it's a loosely organized billion individuals living in some nations already taken over by their ideology, and in our own nations, aided and abetted by the Marxian ideologies.
*** 4:142 ***
And these soldiers fight in civilian clothes not uniforms, and fight us not from field positions, but from UN offices, college professor offices, lawyer offices, government offices, courtrooms, and news bureuas. Oh, they'll fight from their villages and mosques, too, but only when forced to do so.
*** Tabari 8:141 ***
Iran's new missiles are only a luxury. A vehicle for having a cataclysmic party, a bloodbath, a Qurayzian moment, but much bigger, a thermonuclear moment.
You don't have to like cheese to be a surrender monkey.
Thats it! No more odd-colored, thread-worn sport coat shipments to Iran. Enough is enough!
The MSM and the state dept. would have you believe that this is all Iranian bluster. Why should anyone think that. The Iranians know that they are staring Israel in the eye while testing this missile. They also know that Israel is not bluffing regarding it's intentions to strike Iran. Therefore, Iran may be antagonizing Israel and begging for a fight. They would only do that if they had something that we don't know about. Iran would not let us know what they have in their arsenal. And we really don't know what they have. All we get is what the MSM wants us to know. Obama don't know either. (Remember our U.S. intelligence estimate that said the Iranians gave up on nukes in 2003?)
With Israel facing anihilation, this may be a rough ride for all. 1938 is a very good anology but today things are on a much faster track. Lets hope for a good outcome but lets not fool ourselves about the seriousness of all this.
Oh, that's right. Iran is the new Germany and Amadinnerjacket is the New Hitler and so it is no longer the case that Iraq is the new Germany and Saddam is the new Hitler.
Since the establishment of Israel, the world has seen a sudden increase in the numbers of Germanys and the numbers of Hitlers in the ME and all of them, by some weird coincidence, are at or near the top of Israel's Enemies List.
Oh, and the unwritten rhetorical rule that references to those on Israel's Enemies List must include a mention of the 1930s is, sempiternally, in effect.
Poor widdle Israel. Whatever shall it do with only 200 nukes?
Catholic Guy, if I were a country in the ME and I was surrounded by countries that preached they wanted me gone from the map, who would you suggest they use as a metaphor?
Possibly mohammed? He hated Jews too.
Well, I guess we have our new anti-Semetic troll. You can play with Abdullah Mikhail.
Yep I have to agree, I would like to see Israel turn those sites into glass, if they could only generate enough heat.. Also I would like to see all other countries let them have at it. In other words mind their own buisness and let em solve this on their own..
Poor widdle Israel. Whatever shall it do with only 200 nukes?
Israel will do what it has to to defend itself. You needn't feel sorry for them. They will clean any ones clock very quickly. They have done it over and over again for the last 60 years. And God is not going to let them down EVER.
If Israel had existed as a nation during WWII, I am sure a lot less life would have been lost. It would have been a lot different for Germany in the ME with Israel distracting all of the Arab states. Africa would have been won sooner. The invasion of Italy and also Normandy would have been months if not a year sooner. Russia may not have had the military to control as much of eastern Europe as it did later. A whole Germany instead of a divided Germany.
Catholic, why do you hate free people who desire to live free and in peace so much? Or do you believe the lie of Islam?
Here's a choice for you; as (I presume) a practicing Catholic, would you feel more free to practice our religion 1) in an islamic state, or 2) in a Jewish state? Be honest!
If you were shaped by the same Baltimore catechism as was I, you will remember that the Jews are our bretheren of the first covenant. Jews will both tolerate and celebrate our religion. Moslems will behead us. Please, wake up!
Catholic Guy: Well put, indeed. Zionist supremacism will never hesitate to paint any adversary as Hitler redux, while ignoring, covering-up, and whitewashing its own ethnic cleansing, topped off with charges of 'anti-Semitism' against anybody who has the temerity to talk about the truth.
SuprKufrB: I am a practicing, traditional-minded Catholic who converted from a Jewish background, having spent several years in Orthodox Jewish yeshiva. I assure you that Orthodox Judaism does not and will not celebrate our religion in any way whatsoever, and any number of them will lambaste it as Avodah Zorah. Even the non-Orthodox will only like it if it meekly follows the alleged 'spirit of Vatican II'. Any traditionalist restoration, as we are seeing fleeting glimpses of recently, has been and will be denounced as setting the stage for more, allegedly 'anti-Semitism'. Yes, Israel has a greater level of civil rights the most anywhere in the Muslim world. Doesn't justify ethnic cleansing, and embroiling the region in warfare, while dragging the U.S. in as its sugar daddy.
Mr. Spencer: I think you should continue the amusing '1938 alert' tag line. I'm sure Iran will be invading Poland any time now.
I am a catholic but I respect the jews as an elder brother.He knows better.He was here before. I know he doesnt like my sermont of the mount where everything was overturned, and renewed, but that doesnt keep me from respecting him.
And besides, both, catholics and jews alike have fallen along the way many times like in the socialism delusion and have been accused of overpowering the world, ones before the others now.
But we are the same tree, roots trunk and leaves
Thanks, Sir. The reflexive (definitely not reflective) habit of responding with "antisemite" anytime any Christian writes anything even capable of being perceived as critical of Israel is but additional proof of the success the Jews have had controlling the minds and thoughts of Christians in the West; especially in America, where the new secular state of Israel is conceived of as a resurrection of the Old Testament Israel.
Well, there IS a new Israel, but it is not the one Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck visit, worship, and do the bidding of. The new Israel is the Catholic Church.
Ad Gentes: From the very beginning, the Lord Jesus "called to Himself those whom He wished; and He caused twelve of them to be with Him, and to be sent out preaching (Mark 3:13; cf. Matt. 10:1-42). Thus the Apostles were the first budding - forth of the New Israel, and at the same time the beginning of the sacred hierarchy
I remember reading Joe Sobran's reflections about working for William F. Buckley and requesting that Buckley publish in Nat. Rev. the story of how the IDF machined-gunned the outside of a Catholic Church during Mass because they had learned the Pastor of the Church was going to lead a demonstration against the IDF after Mass.
Of course, Buckley didn't print it for fear of The Jews.
Any truth written or spoken about America or our own crooked politicians is accepted at face value (with no charges of anti-gentile being screamed)but any truth about Israel or crooked Israeli politicians is attacked and the author of the observation is accused of being an antisemite and the rush to be the first Christian to make that charge is rapid enough to cause Usain Bolt envy.
For Christians, to charge one of their fellow Christians with the hate crime of antisemitism, is the fastest way for one to establish his bond fides as a reliable ally of Israel, I guess.
It is all very silly and childish but it does reveal the extent to which Israel-First is not solely a Zionist obsession.
It is the rhetorical sign of a malign and mephitic and "Conservatism."
Catholic Guy and Fairuzfan
I don't know what rock you crawled out from under but as a practicing Catholic, I take offense to ANYONE claiming to be Catholic who is antisemite. You have a small mind and everytime you open your mouth you restate the obvious. I have been a practicing Catholic for over 60 years and have never seen or heard of ANY Catholic who harbors hatred for Jews. Jews are our good brothers and Israel is a country of Jews.
You are probably multiculti's who are radical in your beliefs. You should be seen for what you really are.
"anti-semitism". Sigh...
I own several dictionaries (which I use as needed) and all of them agree: Semite includes both "Jews" and Arabs. Jews come from the line of Judah (Juden), which cannot, therefore, cover all Israelis. Remember, there were originally 12 tribes of Israel. You may be descended from one of them.
Arabs come from the lines of Joktan, Cush and Esau and not just exclusively from Ishmael as some would claim. Neither definition properly describes either the inhabitants of Israel, which includes nearly 1 million Arabs today, or of the Arabian peninsula, since Arab history has been hopelessly obfuscated by Islam. Suffice to say that 'Arab' and 'Muslim' have become almost interchangeable, since most Arabs are Muslim. But not all! But all Arabs ARE semites.
Argument No. 1 ist kaput, Ya!
Zionist: One who yearns for Israel, and especially Jerusalem, as "home". This yearning and delight is now approximately 3,500 years old. Israel has never died. While the Old Testament lives, so does Israel. And it behooves me to say that it is the Christian world that keeps the Old Testament alive, as much as, if not more than, the Jewish world. Oops... Another myth dies a deserved death.
Israel IS. It exists. It is real. It is inhabited by more than 5 MILLION non-Muslims. Israel is THEIR home. THEY built it, against all the odds, the kind of odds that not even the most insane gambler would take bets on. They have beaten the odds, time and again, just so that they can LIVE! Yet time and again, some sonofabitch decides that the Israelis have no right to be in their dream home, their Nirvana, their Jerusalem. Of course, that same sonofabitch wouldn't dream of giving up his own home to some layabout bum who has no intention of EVER working for a living, let alone pay for the house that 'someone else' built. Yet this is EXACTLY what happened in Gaza! What the f!!!
You want more? Israel had to deal with one of the most disgusting creatures who ever lived, an EGYPTIAN thief, liar and mass murderer, who followed in the footsteps of his 'esteemed' uncle, that British-appointed pro-Nazi: Haj Amin al Husseini, mastermind and leader of the Bosniak division of the Waffen S.S. and anti-Jew Personified, (cunningly disguised as the mild-mannered Clark Kent, according to the 'new history' of the modern Western University). I refer to none other than Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini a.k.a. Yassir Arafat.
Driven out of the "Palestinian" state of Hashemite Jordan by its "king", Arafat and his cronies (including Abbas) fled to the Lebanon... which he and his "PLO" promptly destroyed. Upon returning to Israel (?!?!? WTF!!!), he began his game of poker cum Russian roulette. Israel won, but the West lost. It refused to recognise Israel as completely and utterly legitimate before this pond-scum gasped his last AIDS-riddled, black-hearted breath...
Because the West got "confused", because Clin-ton got "confused", because the BBC got "confused", because the Bwitish ewite couldn't get their heads out of their collective arse, because ze French could not acknowledge zat zey do not like 'ow you say? ze Jooooos and will always deny Vichy and must now pronounce Viva le EU! and because the Germans still do not know what to make of anysing, we now enter into the final phase of an ancient war. Guilt is killing the world! Grow up! Israel IS! Guilt be damned!
I am a product of war-torn Europe. When I was barely pubescent, I was introduced to a man dying of cancer. He had a tattoo on his left forearm. It was a long number. He survived Bergen-Belsen. He said something to me that I have never forgotten: "I graduated from Leipzig Universitat summa cum laude, as a Doctor of Medicine. I looked after my patients like they were my children but, like so many of my forefathers, my children turned against me. I will never know why." He wept, because he could not understand. And, the soldiers who freed him also wept, those astonishing men of the 101st Airborne, because THEY could not believe...
I know why... because he was a Jew. No more and no less.
So, to any sanctimonious sonofabitch out there who thinks that Israel is anathema I say this: if Israel ceases to exist... so do you. Israel represents the "Judeo" in the Judeo-Christian ethos, upon which the Western world has been built (however badly). Without the Judeo half, we have no David to take on Goliath (which Israel has been doing for the last 60 bloody years). This leaves only the Christian half of the equation. And the Christian half relies on the Lion of David, who will return in all His power and glory, to subdue the whole world, by the two-edged sword that issues from His mouth, which is the Word of God. But this will be very, very, very, very, very costly. Are you ready for this? Well, are you? Huh? Huh?
I am, but I cannot bear the thought of the staggering loss of precious lives... So many. So many.
I say: God bless and preserve Israel and, by extension, all of us...
Amen.
"anti-semitism". Sigh...
I own several dictionaries (which I use as needed) and all of them agree: Semite includes both "Jews" and Arabs. Jews come from the line of Judah (Juden), which cannot, therefore, cover all Israelis. Remember, there were originally 12 tribes of Israel. You may be descended from one of them.
Arabs come from the lines of Joktan, Cush and Esau and not just exclusively from Ishmael as some would claim. Neither definition properly describes either the inhabitants of Israel, which includes nearly 1 million Arabs today, or of the Arabian peninsula, since Arab history has been hopelessly obfuscated by Islam. Suffice to say that 'Arab' and 'Muslim' have become almost interchangeable, since most Arabs are Muslim. But not all! But all Arabs ARE semites.
Argument No. 1 ist kaput, Ya!
Zionist: One who yearns for Israel, and especially Jerusalem, as "home". This yearning and delight is now approximately 3,500 years old. Israel has never died. While the Old Testament lives, so does Israel. And it behooves me to say that it is the Christian world that keeps the Old Testament alive, as much as, if not more than, the Jewish world. Oops... Another myth dies a deserved death.
Israel IS. It exists. It is real. It is inhabited by more than 5 MILLION non-Muslims. Israel is THEIR home. THEY built it, against all the odds, the kind of odds that not even the most insane gambler would take bets on. They have beaten the odds, time and again, just so that they can LIVE! Yet time and again, some sonofabitch decides that the Israelis have no right to be in their dream home, their Nirvana, their Jerusalem. Of course, that same sonofabitch wouldn't dream of giving up his own home to some layabout bum who has no intention of EVER working for a living, let alone pay for the house that 'someone else' built. Yet this is EXACTLY what happened in Gaza! What the f!!!
You want more? Israel had to deal with one of the most disgusting creatures who ever lived, an EGYPTIAN thief, liar and mass murderer, who followed in the footsteps of his 'esteemed' uncle, that British-appointed pro-Nazi: Haj Amin al Husseini, mastermind and leader of the Bosniak division of the Waffen S.S. and anti-Jew Personified, (cunningly disguised as the mild-mannered Clark Kent, according to the 'new history' of the modern Western University). I refer to none other than Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini a.k.a. Yassir Arafat.
Driven out of the "Palestinian" state of Hashemite Jordan by its "king", Arafat and his cronies (including Abbas) fled to the Lebanon... which he and his "PLO" promptly destroyed. Upon returning to Israel (?!?!? WTF!!!), he began his game of poker cum Russian roulette. Israel won, but the West lost. It refused to recognise Israel as completely and utterly legitimate before this pond-scum gasped his last AIDS-riddled, black-hearted breath...
Because the West got "confused", because Clin-ton got "confused", because the BBC got "confused", because the Bwitish ewite couldn't get their heads out of their collective arse, because ze French could not acknowledge zat zey do not like 'ow you say? ze Jooooos and will always deny Vichy and must now pronounce Viva le EU! and because the Germans still do not know what to make of anysing, we now enter into the final phase of an ancient war. Guilt is killing the world! Grow up! Israel IS! Guilt be damned!
I am a product of war-torn Europe. When I was barely pubescent, I was introduced to a man dying of cancer. He had a tattoo on his left forearm. It was a long number. He survived Bergen-Belsen. He said something to me that I have never forgotten: "I graduated from Leipzig Universitat summa cum laude, as a Doctor of Medicine. I looked after my patients like they were my children but, like so many of my forefathers, my children turned against me. I will never know why." He wept, because he could not understand. And, the soldiers who freed him also wept, those astonishing men of the 101st Airborne, because THEY could not believe...
I know why... because he was a Jew. No more and no less.
So, to any sanctimonious sonofabitch out there who thinks that Israel is anathema I say this: if Israel ceases to exist... so do you. Israel represents the "Judeo" in the Judeo-Christian ethos, upon which the Western world has been built (however badly). Without the Judeo half, we have no David to take on Goliath (which Israel has been doing for the last 60 bloody years). This leaves only the Christian half of the equation. And the Christian half relies on the Lion of David, who will return in all His power and glory, to subdue the whole world, by the two-edged sword that issues from His mouth, which is the Word of God. But this will be very, very, very, very, very costly. Are you ready for this? Well, are you? Huh? Huh?
I am, but I cannot bear the thought of the staggering loss of precious lives... So many. So many.
I say: God bless and preserve Israel and, by extension, all of us...
Amen.
Dear Spot on. I did not crawl out from under a rock. I was born on a rock; a bunch of them.
I am an Irish-Algonquin Crank from the hills of Vermont and I am the same age as the modern secular State of Israel and I have not in here, not outside of here, not anywhere, once, at any time, ever spoken one word of hatred about or against the Jews.
I suspect you are one of those poor souls unable to think for themselves when it comes to the State of Israel because, as you have just evinced in your commentary, you conflate State and Race.
Your assertions about me are just a projection of your insecurity about being unveiled as an antisemite because you too (who doesn't) harbor negative thoughts about the modern secular state of Israel.
Please, try to grow-up and act like a man and put away the childish charges of "antisemitic" every time some Christian criticises Israel.
Calling others an antisemite for no just cause reveals the fear and timidity at the core of your Christianity.
If you, or anyone else reading this, can site ONE word I have written even remotely capable of being wrongly construed as antisemitic, cite it or shut the hell up.
By your witness, y'all are giving Christianity a black eye (and now I suppose I will be accused of racism).
A Catholic from Vermont, eh? I'm from the midwest. Somehow, I don't think we have much in common. We have no ill will toward Jews here. We associate Jews with the our Christian culture. They are our Judeo-Christian cultural brothers. They like peace and freedom and we like peace and freedom. What's wrong with that? Their Israeli neighbors are constantly trying to kill them for no reason other than antisemitism. How can you approve of that?
Don't give that "poor" Palestinian line like Jimmy Carter. He is an antisemite, himself and his closest associates know it better than I.
Unless you are willing to fight WWII over again, the Israeli boundaries are permanent. The Palestinians and other Arab Hitler allies have to get over it. They were allies with Hitler and Hitler lost the war, remember? The Palestinians need to get to work, make peace, and quit bothering everybody.
Bye-bye, Spot on. I was willing to give you a fair chance but you are just making-up crap to continue your indefensible name-calling.
Don't give that "poor" Palestinian line like Jimmy Carter
I did not write one single word about Palestine but that does not stop you from pretending I did.
You are a shameless cretin. I challenged you to cite one word I had written capable of even being falsely construed as antisemitic and you could not do it and so you just made-up some crap about Palestine.
You are a flat out liar whose idea of what it means to be a Christian is now before all the world to see.
Catholic Guy,
"Poor widdle Israel. Whatever shall it do with only 200 nukes?" your exact words! This is ridicule of Israel!
Your brain must certainly be smart enough to understand "ridicule" and that "ridicule" is the worst form of defamation. By ridiculing Israel and the Jews that live there, you are defaming them and only an avid anti-semite would do this unless you are some other weird kind of horse's ass. And that is a distinct possibility unless you are 13 years old or less.
If this is not ridicule, defend yourself, man.