This is why deals are brokered “behind closed doors”, votes are held in the middle of the night, payoffs and promises; anything said to make those "independents" cave and bring this plan to pass the vote for cloture should be considered a “pie crust promise” easily made and easily broken. 

I promise Obama, Reid and Pelosi will sell them out in the end.  Anyone who thinks they will be there to pick up the pieces of shattered political careers should think again.  They will promise the world, but in the end they are a cheap prom date who crawls into the darkened backseat with them – an easy roll.  They won’t respect them for giving in and once they pass this albatross they won’t even recognize they exist -- this is how narcissists and manipulators operate; it's their modus operondi. 

One thing these folks can count on is that their constituents know they can’t be counted on – I don’t know how much louder we have to say it – Recent CNN polling shows 61% of Americans are against this bill and the numbers keep going up – we don’t want what this administration is peddling -- and yet the elitists are going to jam it through. 

“You can't just make something a right because you think it ought to be. This whole thing makes me sick. The republic is falling and is poised to collapse into oblivion because people believe they have the right to enslave other men. Because they think they ought to have a right to lifeworks and minds of other men.” – Jaquelyn Peterson, USMMA ‘08

If this WAS about health care (at all) then there would be considerations such as this (hats off to Wayne and myself for coming up with this pen stroke of brilliance)  but this is about power not health care which is PRECISELY why there is a fundamental failure in the political class to understand some very basic truths and realities (imagine that) so without further adieu here is my 2 cents worth on how to achieve health care reform without destroying 20% of the GDP and stripping Americans of their rights and liberties (exactly why the political hate me and my ideas).

Medicine is, has been, and will be, a commodity. It is produced by people, and cannot be a "non-commodity". Service or goods produced by people cannot be a "right".

True and viable health care reform can be achieved be quickly and relatively inexpensively by implementing the following steps, with special thanks to my partner in debate and my professional colleague Wayne Crawford, MPAS, PA-C:

1. Prohibit insurance from paying greater than 80% of actual cost: patients need to have some skin in the game and will dramatically control costs when they are so motivated (actual experience). If the doctor discounts for the patient, the insurance company participates in the discount. Enforce with insurance fraud statutes.

2. Revive charity hospitals: this will give doctors a place to donate care, students to train, and provide for the needy without huge tax based entitlement programs.

3. Tort reform: prohibit any patient who has received discounted or free care from suing, and implement a loser pays system.

4. Remove the barriers to increased use of Advanced Practice Clinicians (APCs) such as Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners; We provide 80% of the care, at the same quality, and for far less money than doctors.

5. Remove the interstate commerce barrier as it applies to insurance. Doing so would increase competition between insurance providers allowing health care consumers to drive through the free market principle of supply and demand. Implementing this will create a supply of affordable health care plans without destroying the free market based economy which is the natural result of controls through government intervention.

6. Allow individuals to create their own insurance pools and allow these pools take advantage of the same tax benefits that businesses get for providing health benefits to employees; this creates truly portable insurance that is tied to the individual rather than their employment.

Implementing these 6 steps would yield the following results:

• Health Care costs drop like a rock
• Insurance premiums (including malpractice) become affordable
• Access to care increases.
• Medicare/Medicaid fades away
• Taxes go down
• Government budgets become reasonable

So thank you for being strong.  As this monstrosity rolls forth and they attempt to wine and dine you into a "compromised bill" between the House and Senate; I implore you to prepare yourself for war.  This is going to get ugly.  A line has been drawn in the sand between the people of this great country and the elitists pushing manure as "conventional wisdom" 

I would like to know exactly where our elected officials stand.  Will they protect my right to choose my own health care, keep taxes low, and call for a complete de-funding of all abortion related services with tax payer dollars?  Will they stand, even if alone, to protect the Constitution and the Citizens of this country from all enemies foreign and domestic?  I wish they would let me know; I need to prepare myself for the attack on the Republic from enemies within and without.

I don't look to Hollywood for my values or moral guidance; I do look to them for an escape of the day to day and entertainment. Admittedly, as a conservative both politically and culturally I find that the movies I am willing to spend the amount of money a ticket and the requisite popcorn and cherry coke run are few and far between but I have no grudge on Hollywood per say except for Michael Moore but then he doesn't actually count as Hollywood. 

Whatever happened to personal choice? I don't need conservative pundits to tell me what I should or shouldn't do anymore than I need Hollywood to. There is a God given thing called free agency, will or choice whatever your religious bent chooses to call it. It is the right and dare I say responsibility that each of us has to make our own choices with the information we have at the time and then freely accept the consequences of those choices. So I go to movies and on some occasions much to the chagrin of my religious leaders I even see an "R" rated movie but again they are few and far between because for the most part I don't want my mind or soul polluted with that content. I don't order porn but I won't stop try to block anyone else from accessing it unless in the public library where children may have access to it or access to it or access would violate parole (yes, I believe that sexual deviants such as rapists, pedophiles etc should not be able to access the fuel of their deviance).  Similarly, I turn off Britney Spears' "3" an ode to threesomes when it comes on the radio but I vehemently support the freedom of all to listen to whatever content on the radio they wish -- if the Freedom Doctrine is passed choice is taken away from you -- not just the choice to listen to something but soon the choice not to as well. 

Conservatives can't have it both ways ... you can't demand the freedom to have your perspective heard while drowning out the opposition to do so makes you just as hypocritical as the far left. True freedom means that you use your God given will and brain to make choices for yourself and your children but not for the rest of society. 

You have the right to turn off or not see anything you like. Admittedly it is dangerous to close your eyes when driving down the freeway to avoid some billboards and I don't recommend doing so or even walking through a mall past A&F (Abercrombie & Fitch) which is known for peddling immodest and downright tasteless clothing that advertises everything from threesomes to porn targeting your tweens and teens; but you have the freedom not to patronize them, to write to their HQ and tell them your feelings and certainly to avoid their website.  

Cherish to freedom to refuse as much as to choose. My mother, reminded us as we would walk out the door "remember who you are and what you stand for" she always reminded us that we had honor and that as Christians and Conservatives we had to live in the world but we didn't have to be part of it -- we had daily opportunities to set a good example or to take the easy route and fall into step with the world. We had a framed statement by our door; one that I have as well, it says "Return with Honor" the meaning come  to both your earthly and heavenly home with honor not shame for the choices made day to day and in this life. 

Choice and Accountability my friends is the most precious thing we have been given. Unfortunately in today's world there is more emphasis on choice and less on accountability just as there is more on rights and less on responsibility but neither the government, nor Hollywood is primarily responsible for how you or your children respond to this message -- you as individuals and parents are responsible for your actions and to teach your children the values you want them to hold on to -- don't blame society if they don't -- look in the mirror at what kind of an example you are. 

The people I look up to most are not those who were in picket lines or rallies taking up this or that cause; my heroes and heroines are people who lived their lives according to the dictates of their conscience they weren't afraid to make their views known but they never tried to curtail anyone else’s' freedom to partake. 

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34024233/ns/health-health_care/

My response:

With all due respect to Dr. Caplan as a Pre-Eminent Bioethicist; but I am awfully tired of academics and politicians assuming that yet another government bureaucracy is the answer the problems and pitfalls in the American healthcare system. 

I am a Nurse Practitioner; I hold a master’s degree in nursing with a specialty in clinical education. I went on to earn a Post-Master’s Certificate as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner from the University of Utah and another as a Family Nurse Practitioner from George Washington University. Just like a physician, I am required to maintain state licensure as well as national certification in all specialties, Federal DEA registration as well as earning a mandated number of continuing medical education units every year. 

Prior to my graduate training I was a Registered Nurse for one of the premier healthcare systems in the nation; a healthcare system that was recently sited in the New York Times Magazine and applauded by the Obama administration because of high quality outcomes, use of evidence based medicine, lower costs and high patient satisfaction levels.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/magazine/08Healthcare-t.html?_r=1

This healthcare system is the pride of our community and a leader in many critical areas including cardiac, cancer, and trauma services.

http://intermountainhealthcare.org/about/overview/Pages/home.aspx

Hospitals & Health Networks magazine again included Intermountain in its annual ranking of America’s “Top 100 Most Wired Hospitals”— the eighth time in nine years. According to their researchers, hospitals on the list have superior medical outcomes, and information technology leads to higher-quality and lower-cost patient care.

In 2008, Intermountain Healthcare provided approximately $131 million in charity care, or free care to patients who can only partially pay or are unable to pay. That amount allowed nearly 217,000 patients and their families to focus on healing and not an impossible financial burden. And it eliminated the need for taxpayers to shoulder these costs.

We were the first hospital system to earn Magnet status from the ANCC for Nursing. Working as a charge RN on a 43 bed step-down ICU specializing in the care of Neurosurgery, General Surgery, Trauma and Solid Organ Transplant patients gave me the foundation for the excellent diagnostic skills that I need day to day in practice.   I am proud to say that I continue to work for this fine healthcare system as a Nurse Practitioner.

I take issue with the assertion, by Dr. Caplan, that I and my professional colleagues offer less quality healthcare. As anyone familiar with coding and billing knows, Advanced Practice Clinicians (APCs) can only legally bill for 85% of a physician’s fee although we provide 100% of the care. I am also offended being termed a “lesser trained physician extender” as this lumps a highly trained professional in the same pool as unlicensed personnel such as a medical assistant or certified nursing assistant. I take on the same liability as a physician when I assume the care of a patient, unlike unlicensed personnel. 

If Dr. Caplan and for that matter MSNBC were truly interested in viable reform rather than simply making derogatory statements regarding healthcare professionals who are, at the grassroots level, actually implementing healthcare reform they would be publishing solutions rather than snarky opinion pieces. 

The following underlying assumption is incorrect; a subtle attempt to insert a misstatement into the debate as if it were a fact.

Quote:

"By turning medicine into just another commodity, it is only natural that the price will be jacked up for what used to be the standard of care.”

Medicine is, has been, and will be, a commodity. It is produced by people, and cannot be a "non-commodity". Service or goods produced by people cannot be a "right" which is generally the direction the "medicine shouldn't be a commodity" crowd then goes.

True and viable healthcare reform can be achieved be quickly and relatively inexpensively by implementing the following steps, with special thanks to my partner in debate and my professional colleague Wayne Crawford, MPAS, PA-C:

1. Prohibit insurance from paying greater than 80% of actual cost: patients need to have some skin in the game and will dramatically control costs when they are so motivated (actual experience). If the doctor discounts for the patient, the insurance company participates in the discount. Enforce with insurance fraud statutes.

2. Revive charity hospitals: this will give doctors a place to donate care, students to train, and provide for the needy without huge tax based entitlement programs.

3. Tort reform: prohibit any patient who has received discounted or free care from suing, and implement a loser pays system.

4. Remove the barriers to increased use of Advanced Practice Clinicians (APCs) such as Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners; they provide 80% of the care, at the same quality, and for far less money than doctors.

5. Remove the interstate commerce barrier as it applies to insurance. This increases competition between insurance providers which will allow healthcare consumers to drive through demand a supply of affordable healthcare plans without destroying the free market based economy which is the natural result of controls through government intervention. Additionally, allow individuals to create their own insurance pools and allow these pools take advantage of the same tax benefits that businesses get for providing health benefits to employees; this creates truly portable insurance that is tied to the individual rather than their employment.

Implementing these 5 steps would yield the following results:

·         Health Care costs drop like a rock

·         Insurance premiums (including malpractice) become affordable

·         Access to care increases.

·         Medicare/Medicaid fades away

·         Taxes go down

·         Government budgets become reasonable

A local doctor in the city where I work has a modified urgent care concierge practice; the fee is 49.00 a month and each office visit is 5.00 he also offers a discounted family rate. There are many people who are uninsured, self-insured or have high deductible plans opting for this service because it meets their needs in a manner that a traditional plan does not. Tradition is fine in families and holidays; not so much in 21st century medicine.

It would be my suggestion that Dr. Caplan and his lap dogs at MSNBC check their facts before putting these sorts of pieces out. His article degrades and dismisses with a wide swath dedicated and professional clinicians in terming them “lesser trained” as well as creating the impression that Advanced Practice Clinicians are second rate to physicians and only see patients not worthy of a physician. While I recognize that it is his opinion it becomes touted as fact when truly it is fiction. On more than one occasion, patients who come into our walk in clinic ask if I will be their primary care provider because they feel valued and respected. They feel my empathy for their personal situation and empowered by the education offered. 

There are many areas of medicine that are responding to the demands of healthcare consumers in dynamic and creative ways. Just because it smacks of retail doesn’t make it unethical; it just makes it different. Shifting our paradigm is necessary if we are to survive. Clinicians must be dynamic, flexible and willing to change our mindsets to meet the needs of our patients not our own egos.

November 10, 2007 01:00 PM EST

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Kim

• Liberating Europe
• Liberating Korea
• Liberating Iraq (although we took way too damn long to do it)

• Allowing the UN to remain on US soil
• Remaining a part of NATO -- I think those self-righteous Europeans can protect themselves by now
• Not having the guts to overturn Roe v Wade and allowing the state sponsorship of the MURDER of millions of innocent children
• Leaving Vietnam in a shambles and allowing the slaughter of those people by communists
• Allowing Kosovo, a Muslim majority country, in the heart of Europe
• Pushing for Turkey, who committed genocide against the Armenians and continue to persecute Christians to join the EU and NATO
• Fighting against the Serbian Christians when they were waging war against Muslim Jihadists
• Propping up the Taliban against the Russians in the 80's
• Not obliterating Lebanon after they MURDERED our Marines
• Not obliterating every vestige of Crapistan after 9/11
• Not declaring that our enemy is indeed Islam, for without Islam there would be no jihad.
• Electing Carter, Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama.  Bush 43's "compassionate conservatism was just liberalism wrapped in the flag and it was his policies that paved the way for the obamination we are headed for ...

My Wish List for America

Kimberly Phillips

       I.            Health& Human Services

1.      No babies for money.  Welfare benefits are fixed at the time of enrollment and will NOT increase with the birth of additional children.

2.      Maximum of 18 months government assistance after which community assistance/charity will take over.

3.      No federal aid for abortion.  No federal aid for embryonic stem cell research – if it’s that “promising” then a private investor will pick it up

    II.            Healthcare Reform

1.      Prohibit insurance from paying greater than 80% of actual cost: patients need to have some skin in the game and will dramatically control costs when they are so motivated (actual experience). If the doctor discounts for the patient, the insurance company participates in the discount. Enforce with insurance fraud statutes.

2.      Revive charity hospitals: this will give doctors a place to donate care, students to train, and provide for the needy without huge tax based entitlement programs.

3.      Tort reform: prohibit any patient who has received discounted or free care from suing, and implement a loser pays system.

4.      Remove the barriers to increased use of mid level providers such as Physician Assistants; they provide 80% of the care, at the same quality, and for far less money than doctors.

Results: Health Care costs drop like a rock; insurance premiums (including malpractice) become affordable, and access to care increases. Additionally, Medicare/Medicaid fade away, taxes go down, government budgets become reasonable.

 III.            Foreign Relations

1.      USA out of UN, and NATO.  UN out of the USA.  We owe them nothing!  We apologize for NOTHING.

2.      The United States will not recognize the authority of the “World Court”, “International Community”, Human Rights Organizations or the Geneva Convention with regards as to how enemy combatants or terrorists are interrogated or incarcerated. 

3.      The United States will ask permission of no “International Body” in order to protect and defend our borders, citizens or national interests.

4.      No foreign aid – Don’t borrow to aid Afghanistan, Africa, the G20, World Bank etc.

 IV.            Immigration

1.      Enforce immigration laws; no sanctuary cities

2.      Secure the border -- the entire 3200 miles of the southern border.

a.      Cement block wall that is 250 feet below ground, 250 feet above ground ½ miles thick. 

b.      Manned by armed National Guardsmen sharpshooters with M16s and German shepherd drug sniffing dogs

3.      English is the OFFICIAL language of the United States of America.

a.      All official business and documents will be in English

b.      Foreign languages will be offered as electives in school

c.       Fluency in English is required prior to graduation from high school

d.      Basic understanding of English and the ability to take a citizenship test in English, and pass with a MINIMUM of 90% will be required for immigration to the United States.

    V.            National Security

1.      Destroy the criminal enclaves of Islam in the United States (money laundering operations, CAIR and fronts for funding terrorism against the United States and our allies. 

2.      No more “student” or “visitor” visas for Muslims; deport them as a “National Security Risk”.

3.      National “anti-Islamization” immersion classes within the prisons and Nation of Islam congregations. 

4.      Members of Islamic mosques must take an oath of allegiance to the United States. 

5.      All religious and/or political institutions agree to be monitored for incitement to terrorist acts or Jihadist recruiting by the FBI.

 VI.            Economy& Taxation

1.      Return to gold standard

2.      National Flat tax

3.      No corporate welfare – if they can’t make it in a Capitalist system there is a legal out; bankruptcy.

VII.            Energy

1.      End America’s dependence on foreign oil – Drill Here Drill Now

2.      End the power of the EPA to stop offshore drilling, and sale of land within states for clean development (i.e. oil shale reserves on state or federal land).

3.      Stop the insane overregulation against building new nuclear power plants. 

VIII.            Government

1.      Term Limits (2 terms for Congress, 1 term in Senate, 2 as President). 

2.      No personal use of campaign donations before, during or after election

3.      No government recognition or endorsement of any political party on any official document.

4.      End members of Congress retiree lifetime pension/pay/benefits.  It’s a part time and temporary job, not a career.

5.      Eliminate Judicial Activism.  Open judges up to not only a retention vote but also a recall vote that will remove them from the bench for abuse of power.  In other words, control whacked out judges through a check and balance system by the people.

6.      If a member of Congress writes a budget line item that is passed into law it must take effect during their term in office and it expires at the end of their term in office; no holdovers.

7.      Eliminate pork/pet projects.  Any earmark placed within a bill must directly relate to the parent bill.

a.      If it is an economic stimulus bill then each and every earmark must list how it will stimulate the economy by which benchmarks it will be measured and a time line for re-assessment

  IX.            Miscellaneous

2.      Stop the assault against traditional family values.

a.      Marriage is defined as a legal union between 1 man and 1 woman and both persons are of legal consenting age (over 18years).  DEAL WITH IT.

3.      Right to Work Country.  Institute a purely Capitalist system.

a.      Eliminate government bailouts; there is no such thing as “Too Big To Fail”

b.      Eliminate Unions and their TOXIC contracts. 

c.       Eliminate the ACLU -- this is redundant as they ARE a UNION

4.      Professional organizations are just that, no more lobbying under the cover of professional societies (NEA, ABA, AMA, ANA etc.) Furthermore, Professional associations are no longer allowed to use dues or donations for PAC/lobbying purposes.

5.      Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts; again, if the project is worthwhile it will be funded by private donors.

6.      ONE appeal for a criminal; no more abusing the judicial system with endless appeals.

     X.            Voting

1.      All voters must be registered and verified as eligible to vote 3 months prior to a given election. 

2.      No more Individual State Primaries or Caucuses.  There will be a national primary and a national general election. 

3.      Every registered voter will be issued an ATM like voter card that will have 4 tiers of verification prior to their vote being validated.

a.      Picture

b.      Embedded demographics (Name, DOB, Address, SSN, DL#)

c.       PIN (Unique)

d.      Finger print/retinal scan

4.      Machines will be nationwide but your local elections will come up when you insert your card and your vote will be credited to your home district.  This eliminates the need for absentee ballots.

5.      Registered voters will be notified of polling machines locations including domestic, foreign, or on military bases.

6.      Anyone attempting to fraudulently vote will trip security system in the machine to suck up your card with a notice that says:

!!!ATTEMPTED VOTER FRAUD!!!

MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS IN ELECTION

AND/OR

ATTEMPTED IDENTITY FRAUD

YOUR CARD WILL BE RETURNED BY US POSTAL SERVICE

60 DAYS POST ELECTION

Help Wanted: A Congressional Reminder

It’s time to get honest with ourselves. The Republican National Committee has worse taste in candidates than I have had in boyfriends and boy have I dated some doozies. After George H.W. Bush’s tax gaff and his failure to launch a kill strike on Saddam Hussein, we got Clinton, then we allowed ourselves to be duped into running Bob Dole and while he was a good senator an honorable fellow and WW2 veteran he wasn’t a closer when it came to a Presidential race. After eight years of the Clinton 3 ring circus it was time to try a re-tread of the same blue print. We ran another Bush. Silly us we assumed that George W. Bush was a conservative. How could we be so stupid? It’s not like he didn’t have a track record of capitulating in Texas. Then again, Democrats in Texas are Republicans in Minnesota. So he was touted as being a coalition builder. We bought into his snake oil salesman pitch of being a “compassionate conservative” the very statement makes me want to lose my lunch.  The reality is that “compassionate conservatism” was nothing more than liberalism wrapped in the flag. George W. Bush blew so many ‘golden opportunities’ it’s just silly. So here are just a few:

1.    After the heinous Saudi sponsored terrorist attacks on our soil he came up with the brilliant strategy that Americans should continue to shop and travel – to keep the engine of the economy going – well now with 20/20 hindsight we know where that idea got us …

2.    Medicare Drug Benefit – one of the biggest government entitlement programs designed and we have NO way to pay for it.

3.    No Child Left Behind – Great idea George – teach to a test rather than tried and true principles. While I appreciate your attempt to take on the Teacher’s Union and weeding out teachers who were worthless, this was not the way to do it. What we needed was expanded Charter Schools and a National School Voucher Program so that parents could use their tax dollars to send their child to private schools.

4.    Failure to name our enemy – Islam – and instead going out of your way to embrace domestic enemies through the likes of CAIR. 

5.    A totally mismanaged “War on Terror” … Because you were afraid of offending your Saudi business contacts and failed to name the enemy you allowed the UN and the media to run the war rather than the military until it was damn near too late. Shock and Awe became a bumper sticker. The very notion of ‘nation building’ in the Middle East is ludicrous. We should have done a Dresden Style Attack on Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Iran simultaneously and airdropped the rest of the Islamic world sample bottles of Kaopectate. The message: You attack us, we destroy you …

6.    The economy … well what can be said he started us on the road to the destruction of the free market, capitalism, and private industry. He started the bailout and nationalization of banks and industries that would have been better served by declaring bankruptcy, getting out of toxic contracts with unions and re-organizing. The problem with government is that they are into instant gratification (can we call that a Monica?) rather than allowing the market to correct for bubbles and baubles.

Ok, enough of Bush and his failures … History will judge him and I don’t think it will be kind.

The Republicans under the Bush administration screwed the pooch big time. They were a rudderless ship in a squall. We watched them carry the water for the Bush policies and we lost in midterm elections and in the Presidential year. The Republicans have become impotent not only because they lost their majority standing in both the House and the Senate but also because they gave up the principles that got them elected in the first place. They drifted to the middle, buying into the “lie of the day” that moderation would allow them to keep their jobs. 

12 Values

• Honesty
• Reverence
• Hope
• Thrift
• Humility
• Charity
• Sincerity
• Moderation
• Hard Work
• Courage
• Personal Responsibility
• Gratitude

All of the principles of Conservatism fit within these 9 Principles and 12 Values. It’s time that Congress gets on the same page as the people of this nation. That we put our National Security, Our National Interests, our National Sovereignty ahead of their desire to keep a job that was only supposed to be a temp job anyway. The founding fathers never imagined that we would have career politicians; it would be an affront and an obscenity to them. It is time to clean house – the entire house. If you want to keep your job then prove it and earn it … there is NO Tenure track any more. We the people are tired of this globalism of the internationals being allowed to dictate our policies. We believe that in order to be a Superpower, once again that we will not capitulate to the UN or to NATO. We do not need nor do we require the world’s permission to defend our sphere of influence. We demand that our government stop living in a utopian pipe dream and start answering to the real threats facing us. We demand that you, congress, represent us or submit your resignation. There are many Americans looking for a job these days and I am betting more than one of them could do a better job than some of you. This is reality … do your job or get pink-slipped. We’ve had just about enough.

  Pieces of the “Peace” Process

The New York Times, that bastion of liberal guilt that makes even Jews hate themselves has published yet another scream against Israel. In the famous words of Gomer Pyle, USMC … “Surprise, surprise, surprise!” 

Read it all here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/opinion/27fri1.html?_r=2&ref=opinion

This writing though is going to be focused “like a laser beam” on taking this nonsense apart – paragraph by paragraph -- and exposing liberalisms naked bias against Israel with clarity and intellectual honesty so that even those with only the mildest interest in the Middle East will be able to identify it. 

According to the NY Times Editorial requires the following in order for Israel to be considered “A Partner for Peace”

1.       Negotiate with the Palestinian Authority for Peace

a.      Israelhas been negotiating with the Palestinian Authority and Fatah under the auspices of The United States State Department for years. They continued to concede their rightful and sovereign territory even to the detriment of their own people and national security not to mention national interests. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanded that Israel buy into the “Two State Solution” and “The Road Map to Peace” even though there was no commitment to peace from the Palestinian Authority or Fatah.    For more information on the history of the “Two State Solution” read the following excellent article by Victor Sharpe In The American Thinker. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/the_two_state_solution_is_87_y.html

b.      In fact, Fatah is as much a militant terrorist organization as Hamas is the only difference is that the Fatah terrorists show up at United Nations meetings in suits and ties; this makes them “acceptable” even though they are just as vehemently committed to the destruction not only of Israel as a country but the Jewish people as a whole as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda et al. 

What liberals fail to admit is that Islam is the foundation of this virulent hatred of Israel and the Jews, and they are 100% committed to the annihilation of both; in order for there to be a “partnership for peace” there has to be more than one party at the negotiating table. I would like one person to show me concrete evidence of even one commitment to peace that the Palestinians have kept. You cannot because it simply does not exist. The Palestinians are committed to one thing and one thing only and that is maintaining their global status as victims because it works for them. Liberals love to make the Jews and Israel look bad because it works for them even though there is absolutely no basis in reality for their position.

2.      Freezing further settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank

a.      By this logic the best way to eliminate the squalor the Palestinians choose to live in is to destroy the towns that the Jews are building in their own sovereign territory.   The Palestinians choose to live in their “refugee” camps because then the liberal human rights activists will spotlight the nasty, mean and cruel Israelis. The Palestinians have a country all their own and it is not within the borders of sovereign Israel. The Palestinian people belong to Egypt and Jordan. Neither country wants them, why you may ask? Put very simply it is because by and large the Palestinians are trouble makers, thugs and criminals that threaten the peace and security of those nations. In their mind it is easier and ultimately more beneficial to their cause to prop up a war with Israel than to demand that the Palestinians assimilate into their society and play by the rules of civilization rather than tribal terrorism. 

b.      The Jews have every right to this land and the Palestinians are nothing more than “squatters” on the land. The Jews have obtained all the permits required by not only Israeli but International Law in order to build communities and yet they are vilified. They live in fear that even after obtaining these permits to build that the IDF will be sent in by the liberal Defense Minister Ehud Barak to destroy their homes and communities.

3.      He should lift roadblocks between Palestinian cities and towns that are not needed for security.

a.      Exactly which roadblocks are not needed for security? Each time Israel has lifted roadblocks security checkpoints into Israel terrorist attacks have increased. I am sensitive to how inconvenient it is for the Palestinians who benefit from working in Israel to be held up in long lines, but I would remind all the readers here that it is pretty damn inconvenient to be blown up when you walk into a mall, a restaurant, a hotel, a school or get on a bus too. When the Palestinians call for and succeed in ending their proclivity for terrorism and suicide/homicide bombings then we can talk about lifting roadblocks and eliminating security checkpoints. I assure you the Jews aren’t excited about living in a country that requires them to be scanned every time they want to go into the grocery store. Here in America, we complain about being scanned and having to take off our shoes in the airport, can you even imagine living in a country that has experienced so many terrorist attacks against them that you would have to go through these same security measures to pick up a gallon of milk? Would you stand for such measures unless you were committed to peace? Of course not, you would initiate whatever it takes to curtail the problem.

4.      In East Jerusalem, he should stop the humiliating eviction of Palestinians.

a.      Stop the humiliating eviction of Palestinians? My God, can we please just visit reality for a moment? These Palestinians are building illegally without permits in East Jerusalem. They are squatters! This is no different than if your neighbor foreclosed on their home and a homeless person moved in; why is it humiliating to evict a criminal? Why are we supposed to feel sorry for those who break the law?

5.      In Gaza, he must expand exceptions to the blockade to allow the import of cement and reconstruction materials.

a.      Do you know what the Palestinians in Gaza are building with the building materials and cement allowed to come through? They aren’t rebuilding schools, grocery stores, or even homes; no they are using these materials to rebuild the tunnels used to smuggle weapons used for attacks against Israel in terrorist attacks against civilians. To suggest that Israel allow materials that will be used in their annihilation is not only stupid it is obscene.

6.      He will not get in the way of the militant group Hamas entering a Palestinian unity government with the rival Fatah faction--as long as that government is committed to preventing terrorism and accepts past agreements between Israel and the Palestinians.

a.      The day Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, The Muslim Brotherhood, Al Queda et al will commit to prevent terrorism and accept past agreements with Israel and the Palestinians is the day we all sit down and eat a pulled pork sandwich – it isn’t gonna happen folks – these are terrorist organizations to even suggest they would give up and prevent further terrorist attacks is just silly utopian fantasy born of sparking up a dooby in some Chelsea basement coffee shop.

7.      He will recognize that the United States has its own interests in diplomacy with Syria, Iran and the Palestinians — and allow the Obama administration the freedom to pursue them.

a.      The United States has no national interests in diplomacy with states that sponsor and import terrorism. 

b.      The United States certainly has sphere of influence in the Middle East. Politically, however, it has become trendy to attempt to broker a peace agreement there, regardless of how fragile or how it betrayed our one true ally in the region because it would make us look good in front of the UN and the “International Community”. Every administration since Carter has tried to broker a ‘midnight deal’ all of which have been an unmitigated disaster not because of Israel’s failure to play but because the Palestinians have no intention of ever being serious about peace. 

8.      He also will not start a preventive war with Iran.

a.      In the early 80’s Israel destroyed the nuclear reactor built by Saddam Hussein; is there any sane person today who is not eternally grateful for that ‘preemptive’ attack? Of course not; at the time though Israel was vilified. Iran and their insane leader will lie, cheat and steal their way to a nuclear weapon. We know they have no intention of utilizing this technology for infrastructure. The leading international intelligence agencies know that Iran, just like North Korea, is interested only in one thing being the country with the nuclear weapon who can take out Israel and then the United States.  “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people” is their mantra and even if they choose not to use it themselves they will sell it to the highest bidding terrorist organization. We should be begging Israel to take out Iran, since we don’t have the guts to do it ourselves.

Since when does standing up for your national security, national interests and national sovereignty make you the evil empire? Since when is it smart to allow those committed to your annihilation free reign within your borders? How come, if you are a liberal, the only litmus for being serious about peace is surrendering to your enemy, giving up all national sovereignty and becoming a vassal state to a "culture" that has not only made overtures but has out right said that it would annihilate not only the country but your entire people?

How is it that the only proof of a commitment to peace is national suicide?  When will the other side be held to this same standard?  When all the Palestinians give up EVERYTHING  and KILL THEMSELVES then I will know THEY are serious about peace -- see how ridiculous this sounds when you turn the tables -- the NY Times would NEVER suggest such an asinine thing and yet they have no reservation in suggesting the Netanyahu go before his people and say -- "I am serious about peace with the Arab world; therefore since it is Passover, except this time instead of leaving Egypt, we are going to leave Israel and head south -- when we get to the Reed Sea, instead of asking

G-d to split it so we can cross on dry land we are all just going to drown ourselves because this will show all the liberals in the international community how serious we are about peace." 

This anti-Zionist attitude is used to cover up the naked anti-Semitism within liberalism. That so many American Jews buy into this sort of self-hatred is just disgusting.

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At the origin of America, our Founding Fathers built this country on 28 powerful principles. These principles were culled from all over the world and from centuries of great thinkers. We have distilled the original 28 down to the 9 basic principles.

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There are too many conservatives who are all too willing to grant what a liberal NEVER would were the roles reversed ... the benefit of the doubt and assuming good intent.  My issue with this is that in order to "give Obama a chance" requires conservatives to abandon their core principles ... and that is something I am just unwilling to do.

• I still believe in the sanctity of life and in order to give Obama a chance I would have to embrace "the freedom of choice act" which allows for partial birth abortion, repeals the need for parental consent for an abortion and denies babies born alive after a botched abortion the right to safety, warmth or life saving medical treatment. I believe in the holy state of marriage between 1 woman and 1 man who are of consenting age.  I do not believe that any group of people constitutes a family.  Marriage is the bedrock of society and is sanctified by God Almighty and we have no right or business in redefining it. 

• I still believe in the supremacy of our founding documents namely the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.  I believe their words should be revered not revised and in order to give Obama a chance I would have to see them as "fundamentally flawed"

• I still believe in the Judeo-Christian values this great country was founded upon.  More over I will NEVER accept that Islam as it is practiced by those sworn to my destruction, the destruction of my friends and family, the destruction of the United States and of Israel has any place or value in Western Civilization; In order to give Obama a chance I would have to embrace Islam, a religion that allows jihad to fester within its rank and file.  Frankly, I see alot of jihadists and few if any Muslims speaking out against or doing anything about the tenet of jihad or the "radicals" that embrace it.  If you love me then show me ... show me that you will speak out that you will excommunicate anyone who teaches jihad or incites hatred in your ranks.  Turn them into the authorities do not allow them to befoul your religion or your mosques -- until you do that I am afraid there is nothing to say.

• I still believe in the power of the individual to better their own lives over collectivism, socialism or Marxism.  I believe in the supremacy of the family and community efforts to show compassion to those who are struggling.  In order to give Obama a chance I would have to overlook a myriad of bureaucratic government programs that enslave people forcing them into a cycle of poverty and dependence. 

• I still believe in the power of the free market to correct failing economies.  The strongest economies are not artificially bolstered by government intervention.  In order to give Obama a chance I would have to abandon the principles of free market economics for those of collectivism and social engineering.  

• I still believe that having a strong military is absolutely necessary to maintaining our national security and to protect our national interests within our sphere of influence.  In order to give Obama a chance I would have to abandon this belief in favor of community organizers and social workers.  I would have to accept that diplomacy and negotiation without pre-conditions with those sworn to our destruction is a policy worth pursuing.

• In order to give Obama a chance I would have to abandon my core belief that the only way to eliminate the threat of global jihad is to finally declare war on the sponsor of jihad.  The religion of peace as it has been dubbed is the religion of jihad of honor killings, of suicide bombers, of beheadings and various other forms of savagery.  It is a religion that officially calls for the destruction of all "infidels" (read: Christians and Jews) who unwilling to submit.  It is one of the chief global sponsors of Anti-Semitism.  Western Civilization hangs in the balance.  We must declare war on the religion that at its core embraces jihad because actions speak louder than words ... talk is cheap.  The jihadists are masters of propaganda but they prove their real intent by their actions ....their actions prove they are 100% committed to the death of every infidel and the destruction of all of Western Civilization in favor of a worldwide caliphate.

Yesterday, we heard more rhetoric in the form of an inaugural speech. From what I heard and no, I couldn’t stomach listening to him ramble aimlessly nor watch Michelle glowing in that hideous get up that was a cross between my grandmother’s living room drapes, her sofa and what appeared to be a life preserver left over from the Titanic … I have never dreamed of being in politics let alone President of the United States and yet after the speech that deflated and failed to uplift the spirit of the nation, I feel it is my duty to draft my own version ….

Counter Inaugural Speech 

My fellow Americans:

Today marks the transition of power in government. Today brings us to a cross roads of ideologies. I believe that the foundational documents of this great country should be revered and not revised. I believe in you the people of America, not government sponsored programs to end these difficult economic times. I know, in my heart of hearts, that it is the dedication, ingenuity and the Spirit of America that will inspire hope and change. 

I believe that there are dangerous enemies not only to America but to all of Western Civilization. We must not fool ourselves into pretending that they are our friends. Rather we must be prepared and have constant vigilance against any group who undermines the values of freedom and liberty. We must continue to be, as the late President Ronald Wilson Reagan said “A beacon on the hill” This does not mean that I will continue the fallacy of exporting democracy to countries who have no desire for it or the means to preserve the gifts given to them. It means that I will utilize our military and resources to further our national interests within our sphere of influence. Hear me now when I say that I will not seek nor counter any protest from the “international community” when it comes to defending this country, her citizens, her interests or her constitution from any enemy foreign or domestic. The oath I have taken just moments ago, I take seriously. It is a mantle I take on with great sobriety and purpose of heart. I hereby dedicate myself, my time and talents to that end. I ask for your prayers that I may have wisdom and clarity of mind as I undertake the duties of this great office and seek only to protect and defend this great and glorious land.

I recognize that the economy is on everyone’s mind these days. We have not been good stewards and now we are reaping what we have sewn. The best stimulus package is not drafted in a boardroom in Washington. The best economic stimulus is created when government gets out of the way and lets Americans get to work. It is my intention to cut across the board government spending by 12%, suspend income taxes for 3 months, decrease the capital gains tax, eliminate the “death tax” and renew the tax cuts initiated by President Bush. The strongest economies are not bolstered artificially. Times are tough at this moment, but this is but a moment and if we can discipline ourselves and avoid knee-jerk reactions we will come through this spectacularly. This is the time when we pull ourselves up, dust ourselves off and get to work. This is the time when sacrifices must be made. Some will work two or three jobs for a short time; others will be the employers. We must all work together and be united in purpose.

I have often been asked how can we help those who struggle, who simply don’t have the ability to help themselves? The answer to this is first family, next communities including religious institutions and finally government intervention. I have a plan for revamping the entire welfare system, a plan that will allow those in need to retain their dignity while getting the help they need and building work skills as they are able at the same time. Some will say it is impossible. I believe in the premise as Mr. Walt Disney did “It’s kinda fun to do the impossible!” More importantly, I have seen this system work worldwide successfully and I know that it will work here.

My fellow citizens, I beseech you to answer the clarion call. Be good neighbors to each other. Build up your communities. Lift each other. Where there is crime begin neighborhood watch programs. Be involved with your police departments and create communities that say loudly to criminals YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE. Where there is despair bring compassion, strengthen those who are struggling. Take a few hours each week to volunteer your time and talents and reach out to those in need. Parents, talk with your children not at them. Listen to their concerns. Share in their joys, counsel them in their quandaries and be swift to punish and curtail unacceptable behaviors; then just as swiftly show them an increase of love. Youth of America you are the promise of a great nation. Study hard in school, get involved in wholesome activities, be a part of your community. Stand strong against anything that degrades you as a person. Create a creed that you will live by. Make decisions now so you don’t have to in the heat of passion. Be prepared for at some point and I cannot possibly say when you will be called upon. The family is the foundation of society, as a nation we must protect and defend the family from anything that tears at that most vital fabric – the fabric of our communities and our nation.

We are a nation of many. We are diverse in many ways, however the one thing we have in common is that we are all Americans. Do not segregate yourself from your neighbors. Resist the urge to be a hyphenated American. Your heritage will always be a part of you, becoming an American is not subtracting anything just adding more to the greatness that is already there. Our families or perhaps even you may have come from across land and sea to this great land for opportunities, make the most of what this country has to offer; education, employment and communities that care. 

 This great land was founded on the principles of Christianity – principles that allow religious pluralism to flourish. Wherever you choose to worship or choose not to worship is a freedom granted to you by the framers of this government – a government that we should never forget is of the people, by the people and for the people. 

We have many challenges before us, and we will face those challenges with the grit of our ancestors; of the pilgrims and pioneers who have come before us. We will learn from the mistakes of the past and look with hope to the future. Our success as a nation depends on all of us being united in cause and purpose. Our success lies not in programs but in the perseverance of the American people. Americans are people see adversity as a challenge to overcome; people who see problems not as stumbling blocks but stepping stones. Together we will rise above the fray we will be strengthened in our resolve to leave for the next generation a stronger nation rooted in the best ideals of the past and committed to building a better tomorrow for everyone.

Again, I ask for your prayers; prayers for wisdom and commitment. Pray for your congress and senate that they will execute their duties faithfully and represent you not special interests. If they should fail to meet your expectations, tell them. If I fail to live up to your expectations, I want to know; I need to know so that I can do a better job. I believe in you. I recognize that you have placed your faith in me to lead you and this nation for the next 4 years. We have a lot to accomplish and little time to do it. I know that it is only through the help of God Almighty that this can be done. I humbly thank you for your faith in me. 

Thank you and God Bless America.

Constant vigilance!

http://www.islam-watch.org/Others/Stages-of-Islamization.htm

Anonymous

01 Sep, 2007

Based On the Evidence of 1200 Years of Islamic History

Introduction:

FACT #1:

The goal of Islam is the subjugation of the entire world to Islam through the establishment of a global Islamic rule and the eradication of all non-Islamic populations, cultures, religions, thoughts, knowledge, symbols, traditions and ways of life.  This goal is non-negotiable in fundamental doctrines of Islam and in the eyes of true Muslims.

FACT #2:

Islamists will not stop their assault (open or clandestine) on the non-Muslim world as long as they have not achieved Islamic rule.

FACT #3:

IN ISLAMIC TEACHING, THE END ALWAYS JUSTIFIES THE MEANS: Islamists have no respect for the rules, laws or values of the non-Islamic world, to them only the rules of the Islamic world are legitimate. In their mind, when they destroy the non-Islamic world then the rules will change to Islamic rules, laws and values.

FACT #4:

ISLAMISTS CONSIDER TREATIES WITH NON-MUSLIMS AS NON-BINDING. When in non-Muslim countries they will pretend a social behavior as a cover up to their true intentions of domination over the non Muslim world.

TIP: When it comes to Islamists, ALWAYS LOOK AT WHAT THEY DO, NEVER WHAT THEY SAY: Lying, treachery and deceit are the Islamists' tactic of choice in their jihad of conquest of the non-Muslim world. This tactic (AL-TAQIYYA, or religious deception, pretending to be friends of the Non-Muslims in order to strengthen themselves against them) is a commonly practiced by Islamists. DECEPTION IS THE KEY TACTIC EMPLOYED BY ISLAMISTS.

FACT #5:

As a rule of thumb to get the truth from any Islamist, simply reverse what they say to a non-Muslim.

FACT #6:

The founder of Islam, MUHAMMAD WAS AN ISLAMIST.  Whether you able to face or ignore this harsh reality is beside the point, you will inevitably face its truth on the day you find yourself within the killing zone of Islamists.

Stages of Islamization

STAGE ONE: INFILTRATION

·         First migration wave to target non-Muslim society.

·         Appeal for humanitarian tolerance from the target non-Muslim society.

·         Characterized by professed tolerance of others and their beliefs.

·         Attempts to portray Islam as a peaceful religion and Muslims as victims of misunderstanding and racism.

·         Images of women and children used to portray Muslims.

·         Establishment of mosques as power bases (today globally funded by Gulf countries oil revenue). (Mosques are safe havens for Jihadi recruitment and subversive projects).

·         Muslim leaders promote large push for increased Muslim births in target non-Muslim society to increase native Muslim population.

·         Misrepresentation of their intentions or aims as a cover up for clandestine operations.

STAGE TWO: CONSOLIDATION OF POWER

·         Proselytizing efforts increase.

·         Establishment and recruitment of fundamentalist Jihadi cells.

·         Efforts to convert alienated segments of the population of target non-Muslim society to Islam.

·         Revisionist efforts to Islamize history.

·         Efforts to destroy all evidence of incriminating historical evidence and sources that reveal true character of Islamism.

·         Intellectual Jihad to discredit non-Muslim culture.

·         Assault on cultural assumptions and icons of the non-Muslim world, such as democracy, law and science.

·         Increased dissemination of anti-western propaganda and anti-western psychological warfare.

·         Efforts to recruit allies who share similar goals (Communists, socialists, anti westerns activists, anti-globalists, anarchists).

·         Alliances with the enemies of the Western society particularly anti capitalism leftists. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

·         Attempts to indoctrinate children to Islamist viewpoint. Efforts to infiltrate education system to propagate pro-Islamic points of view.

·         Increased efforts to intimidate, silence and eliminate non-Muslim intellectuals and leaders.

·         Efforts to introduce blasphemy laws into non-Muslim society in order to silence critics.

·         Continued focus on enlarging Muslim population by increasing Muslim births and migration to target non-Muslim society.

·         Use of first and second generation Muslim citizens of target non-Muslim society as Jihadist foot soldiers and public fronts.

·         Use of charities to recruit supporters.

·         Use of crime and fraud to obtain funds to finance activities.

·         Covert efforts to bring about the destruction of non-Muslim society from within.

·         Development of Muslim political base in target non-Muslim society. Efforts to penetrate political and legal structure of country so as to support Islamic growth from within.

·         Use of bribes and blackmail of non-Muslim authorities to get them to disregard establishment of subversive activities.

·         Islamic Financial networks strengthened to fund political growth, large acquisition of land and resources by any means. (Today they are funded by Muslim charities; Gulf countries Oil revenue and criminal activities).

·         Highly visible assassination of critics aimed to intimidate opposition.

·         Tolerance of non-Muslims diminishes and greater demands are placed upon Muslims to adopt strict Islamic conduct.

·         Clandestine amassing of weapons and explosives stores in hidden locations in target non-Muslim society.

·         Continuous and covert attacks and challenges against target non-Muslim society leaders and religious symbols.

·         Overt disregard and rejection of target non-Muslim society's legal system and culture.

·         Efforts to undermine and destroy power base of non-Muslim religions such as Jews, Christians, Hindus or Buddhists in target non-Muslim society.

·         Efforts to destroy the social structure of the country and bring the downfall of non-Muslim government.

·         Use of Islamic gangs in campaign of fear and terror against Jews, Christians, Hindus and non-Muslims to reduce their populations and influence in the target non-Muslim society.

STAGE THREE: OPEN WAR WITH TARGET NON-ISLAMIST SOCIETY'S LEADERSHIP & CULTURE

·         Large-scale destruction of population, assassinations, killings, bombings.

·         Intentional efforts to spread chaos in the target country to undermine its government and culture.

·         Acts of barbarity and fierceness as a deliberate policy intended to foster submission of opponents.

·         Open and covert efforts to cause economic collapse of the society.

·         All opposition, no matter what kind, is challenged and either eradicated or silenced.

·         Widespread ethnic cleansing with Islamic militias.

·         Rejection and defiance of target society secular laws or culture.

·         Murder of all opposition political, religious and intellectual leaders of target society.

·         Murder of all moderate Muslim intellectuals who envision other alternatives to radical Islam.

·         Toppling of government and usurpation of political power.

·         Imposition of Sharia law.

·         Mass execution of non-Muslims, ethnic cleansing.

STAGE FOUR: ISLAMIC THEOCRACY

·         The Qur'an and the Sharia becomes the "law of the land."

·         All non-Islamic human rights cancelled.

·         Freedom of speech and the press eradicated.

·         All Religions other than Islam are forbidden and destroyed.

·         Enslavement and genocide of non-Muslim population.

·         Destruction of all evidence of non-Muslim culture, groups and symbols in country.

Observations from Half a World Away

Kimberly Phillips     Salt Lake City, Utah USA

As I sit here half a world away from my friends in Israel, my heart goes out to those who have been living under the constant threat of terrorist attacks, in spite of and sometimes because of political brokering. Today, we live in a world that extols the values of political correctness and moral relativism/equivalency.   It is stylish and vogue to be spiritual but not religious and to say that every religion, creed and belief has equal value; that there is no black and white just shades of gray and that good and evil are terms of a bygone era; an era where racism and prejudice ruled and when people were ‘just plain mean’.  These are the lofty ideals of the globalist liberals within the "international community" these are the ideals which have forced Israel into making concession after concession to a people who have absolutely no interest in real and lasting peace. 

For decades Yasser Arafat imported his hatred. The PLO gave birth to the terror infrastructure of today. For reasons that escape me every president in recent memory has made it part of their legacy to broker a peace agreement in the Middle East. The terrorists have no better friend that President Carter who extols their virtues. The Camp David Accords were a raw deal for Israel but gained President Carter Nobel Peace prize. Reagan refused to abandon his Middle East Plan although Prime Minister Begin described it as ‘the saddest day in history’ that Israel alone was left out of the negotiations. President George H.W. Bush continued on Reagan’s path. Then on the heels of the Bush 41 administration came the second intifada. President Clinton helped to polish his foreign policy image with the UN by pushing through the Oslo Accords to the utter detriment Israel.   George W. Bush revised the Oslo Accords and started with his Road Map to Peace and the Annapolis Convention both of which forced Israel to make even more concessions and gain absolutely nothing from the Palestinian side.

 Once the Palestinian people elected Hamas as the governing power in Gaza it should have been obvious to the world what their intention was. The only peace that the Palestinian people are interested in is a peace that destroys the Jewish nation both physically and spiritually. Certainly there have been "lulls" in the violence or "times of quiet" so to speak, but for anyone who is truly paying attention to the situation these are periods of time used by terrorists to import and stock up arms and recruit for their cause. 

Since the formation of the modern state of Israel, the world has forced Israel into idiotic "land for peace" deals. The people of Israel continue to provide infrastructure (power, water, sewage treatment and first class medical care) to people sworn to their annihilation. The people of Israel have been forced into freeing known terrorists they have captured and are holding in prisons; people who the moment they were freed have gone back to planning attacks not on military installations but targeting schools, busses, synagogues, shopping centers, restaurants and hotels; places where they can inflict the most civilian casualties. The terrorists prey on the worst fears of people forcing them to wonder if the next time they get on a bus to go shopping or dropping a child at school if they will ever see them again – surely this is the definition of a living hell. 

The Jews are a hearty people. They are made of stronger stuff than the terrorists. They are living in the land promised to them for 5000+ years. They are resilient and will overcome the enemy within and the enemy from without. The enemy within are the liberals who consistently protest "the settlers" and call for concession after concession all in the name of an elusive peace; but it is the peace of pipe dreams. They have deluded themselves into believing if they side with the enemy that they will be protected. This, of course, is a lie. Terrorists don't care if you are on their side or not; you are an infidel and unless you submit by the sword to Islam you must be killed. The existential enemies on the outside are those who insist that Israel’s response to violence and terrorism is measured, restrained and proportional. They are the hypocrites who call for Israel’s citizens to put up with circumstances that which they never ask their own to endure.

I have many friends who watch media outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, BBC and other networks for their news on the Middle East. The feeds that are broadcast by these media outlets are leftist and Anti-Semitic. The vitriol against Israel for protecting their citizens and sovereign territory is nothing short of shocking. I often have to explain the unilateral disengagement from Gaza to them. Prior to the disengagement the Gaza Strip was the home to greater than 70% of the produce grown in Israel.  The people of Gush Katif had found methods to make the desert bloom literally and figuratively.

The Jews of Gush Katif were forcefully and violently ejected from the homes and jobs that they had built up for over 30 years; all in the name of peace. Those of us who have been paying attention knew that in only a matter of months what had been a hub of production and community building would now be destroyed and turned into a launching ground and training camp for terrorist activity and we were right. To this day, there are people from Gush Katif continuing to live in trailers and who are unemployed even though they were promised permanent homes and jobs by their government.

In 2006, terrorists operating under the Iranian and Syrian backed Hezbollah movement kidnapped Israeli soldiers and attacked Israel from the country of Lebanon. The world cried for restraint. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice again brokered deals through the UN that essentially tied the hands of Israel.    People of northern Israel were living in bomb shelters and yet where was the cry for humanitarian aid for them? There was a deafening silence from the "international community" for their suffering. Yet the Lebanese people got 24/7 coverage and in some cases, for political expediency, news agencies even doctored photos to make it appear that Israel targeted civilian centers so that charges of war crimes would be levied against Israel yet again. Tunnels used to smuggle weapons from Egypt into Gaza were never shut down. In fact, the only people who have followed the UN resolution are the Israelis. The terrorists laugh at the toothless resolutions of the UN. The UNIFIL peacekeeping troops are little more than mercenaries on the payroll of Hezbollah hence the terrorists are as well or perhaps even better armed than they were prior to 2006.

Finally, after years of bombardment by rockets and missiles from Gaza into Sedrot and Ashkelon, the Israeli government has taken decisive action. Diplomacy, negotiation and patience brought only more attacks.  It was decided that a military operation against the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza was the ONLY option left to Israel and the air strikes began yesterday. The headlines scream of more than 200 people killed in strikes. They also make sure to tell you that civilians were killed in the strikes and some of them children. While it is true that some civilians will undoubtedly be among casualties of ANY war, what the media FAILS to mention is that these civilians are living within the proximity of Hamas controlled terrorist compounds and are more than likely willing "human shields" for the jihad against Israel. There is a twisted mindset within jihad that somehow justifies the use of civilians including children – a mindset that praises martyrdom over life.

Regardless of how targeted any attacks are by Israel they will be castigated by the "international community". It is a given. There will be calls for sanctions against Israel for human rights violations because of idiotic things such as closing crossings into Israel and enforced curfews.

I would ask any who rail against border crossings being closed if they would build a house without any doors on it. I would ask those who cry about long lines and the inconveniences of profiling induced car and body searches if they would allow people with bombs to drive through their neighborhood. It's pretty darn inconvenient to be killed; and it's pretty darn inconvenient to end up an orphan because your parents were shot by terrorist snipers on the highway. 

When you have Arab members of Knesset (Israeli Parliament) inciting those they represent into the killing of Jewish civilians I would say 'game on' to whatever the Jewish people have to do to protect their own. It is about time the Israeli Arabs decide where their loyalties lie – they seem to want all the perks of being an Israeli citizen – the safety of police and military protection, homes, jobs and infrastructure all the while plotting against the very people who give it to them. They have a representative voice in the government and yet they choose to openly use this voice not to create a peaceful and productive environment where both people can live in harmony but to incite and whip into frenzy those who sympathize with the jihad. 

There are those misguided 'peace activists' who call for a Palestinian state within Israel. I call to your attention that if the Jewish settlers are evicted from Judea and Samaria (aka 'the west bank’)as the Road Map to Peace calls for that Israel will have exactly 10 miles between Gaza and the proposed Palestinian state. This creates indefensible borders for Israel between hostile parties. This is tantamount to suicide. There are 50+ Islamic majority countries in the world and 1 Jewish nation, a nation that is approximately the size of New Jersey. This is land that has had a Jewish presence since the literal beginning of time. The Jews were forcibly evicted from every Muslim nation regardless of how long their families had been on the land; where is the cry for their 'right of return'? There is a land dedicated for the Palestinians, it is a country known as Jordan. Jordan and for that matter no Muslim nation, want to accept the Palestinian people because they whip up trouble wherever they settle. Ultimately, it is easier to support a war between the Palestinians and the Israelis than to accept responsibility for their own. 

There is one nation from the border of Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea – Israel – and long may she live. I pray for peace in our time. I fear though that until Israel becomes a not only a state but a Jewish State this will not happen. So long as they allow those committed to their annihilation to live within their borders there will be terror. As long as the secular Israelis in fight against the Religious Nationalists and evict settlers from their land brokering false peace against their own there will be bloodshed.

As an American and a Christian I stand with the Jewish Nation of Israel. I stand with the settlers of Judea and Samaria. I stand with the Jews fighting for the right to live in Hebron; I stand against terrorism. I stand with my friends fighting the war on terror wherever that front is … from the IDF fighting in Gaza to the US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan; and from the fronts that have yet to be named such as Darfur and India – whoever stands against the Islamic Jihad has a friend in me. 

As I finally close I recall the words of a favorite song in my hymnal:

Redeemer of Israel

1. Redeemer of Israel,

Our only delight,

On whom for a blessing we call,

Our shadow by day

And our pillar by night,

Our King, our Deliv'rer, our all!

2. We know he is coming

To gather his sheep

And lead them to Zion in love,

For why in the valley

Of death should they weep

Or in the lone wilderness rove?

3. How long we have wandered

As strangers in sin

And cried in the desert for thee!

Our foes have rejoiced

When our sorrows they've seen,

But Israel will shortly be free.

4. As children of Zion,

Good tidings for us.

The tokens already appear.

Fear not, and be just,

For the kingdom is ours.

The hour of redemption is near.

Text: William W. Phelps, 1792–1872; adapted from Joseph Swain, 1761–1796. Included in the first LDS hymnbook, 1835. Music: Freeman Lewis, 1780–1859 Exodus 13:21–22

To those who speak against Israel I pity you. It is written in Genesis 12 that those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed. G-d is patient, but his patience for those who persecute his people is wearing thin. To the governments who force Israel into concessions I would warn you that you are bringing untold hardships upon your people; that will rest squarely upon your shoulders should you persist in these actions.

To those who call for mercy upon the terrorists I remind you of the Talmudic injunction:                        

"He who is merciful to the evil, in turn does evil to the merciful".

We must vindicate every life torn asunder by terrorism. Justice must be served. Justice isn't fairness. Justice is a swift and strong response. Terrorist actions must be met with a ferocity that has been hidden until now.   There is no room for a "proportional" response. The message must be clear …. For every rocket there will be air strikes, for every sniper shooting, car bomb, suicide attack will be met with death and destruction.  We will no longer tolerate strikes against us. Your ideology is not welcome in our country or the civilized world; we will strike you wherever you are and wherever it rears its ugly head we will strike with a death blow. A line has been drawn in the sand; you are with  G-d or with the world. The world calls for moral equivalency while G-d calls for intellectual honesty and moral clarity. Make no mistake about it; the last days before the Messiah are upon us. Ask yourself what your motives are.   Ask yourself whose side are you on?