GOP Vixen

Another reason to ditch Olmert

The fallout from the half-ass war against Hezbollah continues. From a presentation made today by the Iranian ambassador in Beirut:

"Israel and its allies tried to create a deep gap between the Lebanese resistance force and the people that are faithful to it through imposing heavy casualties, vast scale material losses, homelessness, and other hardships, but their move further strengthened the Lebanese people's trust in legitimacy of resistance."

Spoken like a true Hezbollah backer.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia have so far tried to convince the Lebanese sides to observe restraint and work towards reaching consensus that could be mutually satisfactory, having somehow been successful in those respects."

I'm so glad the secularists are overseeing "restraint" and "consensus"...

Bring back Bibi!!

Ehud Olmert is hanging on by a thread after a scathing report saying he majorly jacked up the war with Hezbollah. There's only one thin left to do: BRING BIBI BACK!!!

NRO: My political Valentine

Of course I jumped at the opportunity when K-Lo over at National Review asked me to take part in their annual Valentine's symposium! The question: Who is your political true love? My answer:

"In the grand tradition of Anna Nicole, I can only narrow my pick down to several men—with a unifying political theme that has nothing to do with the Bahamian immigration minister. Instead, my love goes to the country that's taking the front-line position against terrorism. My first true political loves would be Likud party pooh-bah Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli U.N. ambassador Dan Gillerman. Not only are both men totally sexy, but what's sexier than standing up to a blustering Iran, a wimpy Arab League, a morally ambiguous United Nations, a heads-in-the-sand Europe, and the generally ignorant in one fell swoop? Hot guys like these aren't afraid to stick their necks out for what is right and don't follow the herd—and judging by the results of the U.S. midterm elections, there aren't enough men like that out there. Sexy men like Bibi and Gillerman also think beyond their little corner of the world and act accordingly without expecting loads of adulation in return—also a too-rare quality among the gents. Along those lines, if I could cut up construction-paper hearts, tape on Tootsie Pops and send them to all the sexy guys in the Israeli Defense Forces this Valentine's Day, I would. On the other hand, Hassan Nasrallah is the type of guy who, if he showed up at the door to take you out for an evening of dinner and Katyusha-waxing, one would be peering through the peephole and cringing, not daring to breathe lest he know someone is home, praying that he'll get the clue and take his stolen carnations and dragon breath back to Beirut."

Read that and the others' responses here!

This should be on Pay Per View

This Tuesday at Brandeis University: Jimmy Carter vs. Alan Dershowitz.

With Carter too chicken to debate face to face:

“'I think the inaccuracies of Carter’s points have to be pointed out. Carter said he wrote the book in order to stimulate a debate, but he won’t debate. I’m debating him whether he’s there or not,' Dershowitz told FOXNews.com.

 

'If his chair is empty, then that’s his decision,' he said.

... The university agreed late Tuesday to allow Dershowitz to issue a rebuttal following Carter’s speech. An ad-hoc group of students helped facilitate the agreement after the debate plans were scrapped. Carter reportedly refused to debate Dershowitz because, he claimed, the Jewish law professor 'knows nothing about the situation in Palestine.'

Dershowitz won’t be allowed in the gymnasium during Carter’s appearance because it is limited to university students, faculty and staff, but he will watch it from somewhere else on campus."

 

My sides are aching from the laughing -- Carter claims Dershowitz "knows nothing about ... Palestine"?

My money's on Alan. Who you calling apartheid, Jimmy?

Mooove the poop, says king

Jordan's King Abdullah apparently stopped to smell the roses, and got a whiff of something else:

"Israel says it's doing what it can to eliminate a royal stink that's developed along its border with Jordan. That's after Jordanian King Abdullah II complained of a less than princely odor wafting from the Israeli side of the countries' shared southern border, Israel's environment minister said Monday.

Gideon Ezra told Israel Radio that Jordanian officials last week asked that the stench from a livestock quarantine facility in Eilat be neutralized after it drifted across the border frontier toward Abdullah's palace in Aqaba.

Upon receiving the complaint, Ezra said, Israeli officials immediately spread deodorants around the site to clear the air and planned a thorough cleanup shortly."

Of course, there's always the option of setting up some big fans and blowing the crappy stench toward Hamas HQ...

Israel has nukes

So Ehud Olmert let slip. Which begs the question, who cares?

Can you think of any country that NEEDS a nuclear arsenal more?

Do you really think that they'll use them unless absolutely positively necessary (i.e. the whole country's about to die)?

And could you ever say the same about Iran?

Hey Hamas, we vetoed your ass!

One of the typically anti-Israel, politically charged, left-appeasing resolutions came up before the United Nations Security Council, and John Bolton appropriately put the smackdown on it. And Hamas is furious. Have some cheese with that whine, Hamas. From AP:

"The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resolution Saturday that sought to condemn an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and demand Israeli troops pull out of the territory.

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the Arab-backed draft resolution was 'biased against Israel and politically motivated.'

'This resolution does not display an evenhanded characterization of the recent events in Gaza, nor does it advance the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace to which we aspire and for which we are working assiduously,' he told the Security Council.

The draft received 10 votes in favor and four abstentions, along with the U.S. vote against. Britain, Denmark, Japan and Slovakia all abstained.

It was the second U.S. veto this year of a Security Council draft resolution concerning Israeli military operations in Gaza. The U.S. blocked action on a document this summer after Israel launched its offensive in response to the capture of an Israeli soldier by Hamas-linked Palestinian militants...."

This is because the U.N., always bending over backwards for the Palestinians despite their suicide bombings and martyr training, doesn't get that Israel would LOVE to live in peace and even (unwisely) gave up Gaza to show this. Instead, the Palestinians turn Gaza into an attack base from which they're just working to destroy Israel -- instead of working at creating a viable, peaceful state. And like I've said before, when you vote in violence-happy Hamas as your leaders, you live with the consequences.

Did you hear about the anti-Israel lobby in the L.A. teachers union?

Check out my Los Angeles Daily News column today on how the waters get muddied when lefty causes all jump on the same bandwagon, including this recent, interesting caveat:

"... Another example of inane, catch-all, backfiring alliances is that of the anti-Israel lobby and United Teachers Los Angeles. On Oct. 14, the L.A. chapter of the Movement for a Democratic Society was to hold a rally and Israeli boycott, divestment and sanctions planning meeting at UTLA headquarters, hosted by UTLA's Human Rights Committee. Local Jewish groups decried the union hosting such events, and UTLA President A.J. Duffy issued a statement late last week saying the meeting couldn't take place at the union building.

The MDS 'Statement on the "New Middle East",' posted in August on the Los Angeles Independent Media Center site, lauds terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, stating, 'We support a new internationalism founded on unity and solidarity with popular, mass-based resistance movements such as Hamas and Hizbullah struggling against those who oppress us all.'

Considering that Hamas has killed children (seven alone in the 2001 Sbarro pizzeria bombing) in its suicide attacks and encourages Palestinian kids to become 'martyrs,' and Hezbollah uses children as human shields in its blend-in brand of warfare, why would any teacher offer their wholehearted support?

Are L.A. teachers unwittingly signing up for Mideast advocacy with union dues?    

Rabbi Abraham Cooper at the Simon Wiesenthal Center - which is still asking that Duffy take 'explicit moral leadership' on the UTLA committee's anti-Israel boycott efforts instead of just changing meeting venues - said frustrated rank-and-file union members have been contacting the center, asking, 'What does this have to do with the needs of our community and our children?'..."

Read the whole thing! And while you're at it, let the Wiesenthal Center know you appreciate them taking on this scatterbrained action by the group that is supposed to be representing teachers.

I spoke to Rabbi Cooper yesterday and he told me that the MDS-UTLA HRC meeting is still scheduled to go forward this Saturday, just at another location. He pointed out again -- as we've had these talks before on other disturbing anti-Israel, anti-Jewish activities -- how there's this growing sentiment on the left that the most evil, most heinous entity on Earth is the Jewish state, and this is another manifestation of that troubling (and sorely misguided) trend.

Just ticking off the days till next Israel-Hezbollah war...

Check out my Los Angeles Daily News column today following the official pullout of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, by way of that laughable U.N. solution:

"Israel has officially finished moving out of Lebanon, leaving a simmering kettle and the United Nations in charge of the burner.

Let's assess the situation:    

- Israel Defense Forces soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev - abducted in a cross-border Hezbollah raid on July 12, thus sparking 34 days of war - are still missing.

- Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, proving to be an adept party planner, is holding victory celebrations after Israel was driven out of southern Lebanon by a United Nations-brokered cease fire.

- The Lebanese government still has no handle on Hezbollah, which continues to get support from Syria and Iran and boasts of a stockpile of at least 20,000 more rockets and missiles. And they don't seem to want to grasp control over Hezbollah. This 'see no evil, hear no evil' strategy has failed miserably before - namely, on July 12.

- Only a third of the international peacekeepers promised for Lebanon's southern region have actually been deployed. Those peacekeepers are, essentially, doing nothing as Nasrallah bloviates and prepares for the glory days ahead.

'In most ways, therefore, UN Security Council Resolution 1701 of Aug. 14 is a dead letter,' writes terrorism and intelligence news site DEBKAfile.    

There is undoubtedly a grave plot behind the United Nations building in Turtle Bay where these lifeless resolutions end up - those appeasement efforts disguised as action, that dumb strategy disguised as diplomacy. The U.N., never geniuses at waging lasting peace, has spent so much energy making sure that Israel gets out of the Lebanese region - lands from which rockets were being fired at Israeli civilians - in an effort to please Arab states that they've never given too much thought to what was left behind.

The rules of engagement for the United Nations Lebanon force are, basically, don't engage. ..."

Read the whole thing!

 

Swastikas displayed for Rosh Hashana

And I'll bet you a hundred bucks this isn't coming from the far-right skinhead twits:

"Two flags depicting Nazi swastikas were draped over a freeway overpass in Encino on Friday, on the eve of the Jewish High Holy Days.

Authorities began receiving calls around 5:45 a.m. that the flags were hanging from the Balboa Boulevard overcrossing to the eastbound Ventura (101) Freeway, said California Highway Patrol Officer Francisco Villalobos.

'Obviously, they're offensive, and a huge distraction,' CHP Officer Leland Tang said in a televised news report.

Officers went to the location and removed the banners. Swastika symbols were displayed about the same time from two freeway overpasses in San Diego County.

Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, begins at sundown. ... 'It's obviously not a coincidence that they're doing it on the High Holy Days,' said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. '... This is an act of hate that hurts and angers, but it pales in comparison that you have a regime in Iran that is having Holocaust cartoon contests ... and is set to be the next member of the nuclear club.'"

First of all, let me add that I know Rabbi Cooper and the man certainly has his eye on the ball -- he knows which way is up and knows when anti-Israeli sentiment crosses that line to anti-Semitism.

The Nazi flags, of course, are blatant anti-Semitism. And I know that stretch of the 101 well. And for months, there have been signs placed on the chain-link fencing on the overpasses here and there -- every single one denoting an anti-Bush or anti-war sentiment. "The war is a lie," etc.

Compound that with the recent anti-war rallies in Los Angeles where far-left groups have condemned Israel and compared them to Nazis and fascists, as well as the Allies in the War on Terror, as seen at this August rally downtown:

Freeway overpass activism is scattered widely throughout the southland, with signs seen on the 405, 110, 710, 101, etc. And every time I've seen a sign either hooked above the overpass or tucked into the corner, situated so drivers stuck in traffic will have to look, they've always been left-wing signs as noted above. This horrible placing of swastika flags for Rosh Hashana is being viewed by the offender(s) as a swipe at Israel, but is -- as much "criticism" of Israel is -- just vile anti-Semitism. I've seen it out at these rallies -- there are some people who hate Israel so much that that translates to hating the Jews too.