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Israelis And Palestinians: A Tale Of Two Cultures

The following was written by my good friend, Joe, over at A Yank In Kiwi Land back in August 2007. When I had first read it, it had quite an impact so I saved it.   After hearing our President recently throwing Israel under the bus in favor of going back to the pre-1967 borders in order to benefit the Palestinians,  I thought I would post this  as Joe is spot on concerning the history of the Jews and Palestinians.

What intrigues me about the whole Palestine as “confiscated land” mantra is that it was a multi-lateral decision to do so; one of the first (if not the first) mandates of the then-newly formed UN. Prior to Palestinian land being Israeli land, it belonged to the British who wrested it from the Ottoman Turks in the aftermath of WWI. Today’s Palestinians always speak of “their land” when it never was a sovereign nation. It was always owned by somebody else, and the people who call themselves Palestinians were the subjects of those foreign occupiers. And here’s the big rub: The Palestinians for over a thousand years never seemed to care. It’s only when that land was allocated to the Jews that they got their kababs in a twist. And to be certain, if the Palestinians had tried with the Turks the same militant terror tactics they now use in an attempt to establish their own autonomy, the Turks would have slaughtered them with nary a wink’s loss of sleep over it. The British had their hands full and were probably happy to leave the area due to escalating fighting between the Jews and Arab Palestinians and attacks by both on the British with regard to each side’s interpretation of the League of Nations Mandate, the McMahon Agreement, and the Balfour Declaration.

The Palestinian hatred of the Jews is not blind, ideological, or religious; it’s because the Jews are productive. As Jewish settlers moved into the area during the 1920’s from Europe and elsewhere, they immediately made the land work for them, cultivating the soil using age-old irrigation techniques, transforming desert into productive olive and fig groves; while the shiftless Palestinians sat by and watched, knowing that all along they could have done the same thing, but for some reason didn’t – or couldn’t. Now many will say that is because the Palestinians never had the financial backing to do so, unlike the Jews who received financing from Zionists in the US and elsewhere. While that is true to some extent, most Jews came to Palestine with nothing and received little, if any, help from outside Zionist sources. One can go into any “poor” neighborhood in any city in any nation and see that not all the poor people living there live in squalor. Many take pride in what they have and keep a clean house and tidy garden, their children clean and well-mannered. And let’s not forget about rich nations like Saudi Arabia who could just have easily aided their Palestinian cousins but didn’t; the same wealthy House of Saud that funds global terror and has spawned many of today’s terrorists. Surely they cannot claim that they were economically deprived or disenfranchised in any way. So, contrary to the prevailing Marxist “wisdom” of the modern liberal that socio-economic conditions dictate behavior and is the main driver of terrorist and other criminal activity, money has little to do with the two contrasting views of life. It has to do with the values of two different cultures – one that is industrious and productive, having contributed greatly to the advancement of every society in which it has assimilated; that has pride enough in whatever it has to turn lemons into lemonade – the other self-pitying, bitter, and resentful, having contributed nothing to even their own society for over a thousand years since it became the product of a death cult known as islam.

Yes, the Palestinian is bitter and resentful and understandably so. It must be hard to look at a fellow Semite – the Jew, the Israeli cut from the same ethnic cloth being so productive and positive about life – and then looking in the mirror and seeing a miserable failure.

Obama Ignores Mainstream America

Obama's inner Bolshevic rage is bubbling to the surface and he's no longer going to take this kind of treatment from mainstream America. Yes, he's becoming angry with us. So he's resolved to ignore us.

When literally tens of thousands of concerned American citizens from across the nation showed up in Washington, DC on Sept. 12 to make their voices heard in unison to protest the management of the gooberment under the auspices of Obama's out-of-touch leadership he ignored them. Despite the widespread publicity over the past few months concerning plans for the event, on the day prior, when asked to comment on the sea of people making the pilgrimage and descending on the capital to express their opposition and broad dissatisfaction with government, White House officials said they had no knowledge that such an event had been planned. White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs said he didn't know who those people were. Obama simply got the heck out of town. Democratic Party leaders and left-wing pundits simply characterized those who participated as a bunch of dangerous right-wing redneck racist crackers.

Over the past few days, our Community Organizer of the United States (COOTUS) went on an unprecedented presidential blitz of media appearances which included CBS's "60 Minutes," Bloomberg, and CNBC. Then there were the five public affairs talk shows on Sunday; ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulous", CBS's "Face the Nation", NBC's "Meet the Press", CNN's "State of the Union" and Univision's "Al Punto, con Jorge Ramos." It all culminated with his appearance on CBS's "Late Night with David Letterman" on Monday. Nice. Now we're left to wonder why Obama did not appear on Fox News.

One would think that if Obama wanted to reach out and talk to all Americans in his effort to push through something he is convinced will be good for all of us, he would have also appeared on Fox News considering the fact that Fox News is probably the most viewed cable news network in the country. Doesn't he want to use his much touted charisma, charm and oratory skill to persuade everybody to jump on the socialist bandwagon with him? Some assert that he was being vindictive by not appearing on Fox because he felt snubbed by that news network not airing his speech on Sept. 9 to a joint session of Congress. Others feel Obama is doing what he can to marginalize Fox News because too many people are paying attention to the news and news analysis coming from that network.

Why would Obama want to do that? Is he really marginalizing Fox News? Or is he just continuing to marginalize mainstream conservative America by ignoring them?  Why would he want to deprive so many people of the experience of having a thrill run up their leg?

JH

Guardian Angels Of This Flying Business

Every generation of every nationality requires a hero. It finds one or makes one. In earliest times, he was mythical. A little later, he was some great warrior or explorer. But some man has always been set apart from this fellows and accorded the adulation of the multitude...then along came the spectacular flights. At this juncture, America was search its collective soul for a new hero, and it seized upon these unsuspecting fliers. So the toga was handed about, falling in turn upon each succeeding ocean spanner or record breaker.

Strangely enough, with all the shouting that has been done, all the medals which have been struck, the right man in this flying business has yet to be picked.

Human flight was a comparatively new art. For thousands of years, man had longed to soar among the clouds. It was not unnatural then that some member of the flying fraternity should fill the national need for a hero.

For some reason the pilot was selected. He it was whose will directed these new machines of flight, whos courage permitted performance of such feats of daring high above the earth.

So, selected he was. And each small boy decided not to be a policeman, fireman or railroad engineer, but envisioned himself a flier when he grew to man's estate.

So we pulled a parade, waved flags, made medals, played the band and greeted like a Viking arriving at Valhalla each new pilot who flew a little higher, or a little longer, or a little faster.

Why not? Your airman wore proudly the symbols of his profession. He was a striking figure in this new industry. Small wonder that the little lads foreswore old models and changed their boyhood dreams.

But we made a great mistake, as multitudes often do. The fellows who make airplanes fly, and make records fall, and who drive 10,000 airplanes 50 million miles a year, were not the pilots. They were the mechanics.

Let me tell you about this fellow as I have come to know him...and see if you don't agree with me.

Most men work for reward. There are various forms of reward-cheers and commendations of onlookers, money, pleasure, self-expression, self-satisfaction. The pilots get all of these in some degree.

What does the mechanic get...his hands are cut and black from contact with greasy engines. He can't keep that-skin-you-love-to-touch and maintain any intimacy with an airplane power plant...Don't ask me why or what kind of man would elect such a role, such a life. Rather, tell me why there is a hermit, wizard, nurse, nun or saint. I don't know! There is no accounting for occupational tastes, but every time I fly I thank fate for a good mechanic.

He's no dunce, either. To learn all he knows would give many a college professor an awful headache. He gets his invaluable training over a long period of years. The school of hard knocks is his. Truly, he learns to do by doing.

The modern airplane engine is no simple mechanism. It has more parts than has the human body, and more ailments. A divine providence has fashioned your own mechanism more smoothly, coordinated your organs better than man has built this engine. But the good engine mech knows every part, every symptom, every malfunction, as well as any doctor knows the cases of and remedies for you aches and pains.

Some years ago, I was assigned a plane for flight. I started to climb in and the mech said, "Lieutenant, I wouldn't take that ship up. The engine doesn't sound right to me." I ran it up and it delivered full power. It hit on both switches, accelerating promptly, and I couldn't detect any indication of trouble. I called for the engineering officer. He ran it up and marked it OK, but the mechanic still shook his head.

I took off and joined a practice formation and soon forgot the warning of my mechanic as we flew over San Diego Bay, past Point Loma.

Twenty minutes later, the engine quit cold without warning. I set her down in the sea. Being a land plane, she soon sank.

While swimming around, waiting for a rescue boat, I made one resolve that has remained with me through the years. When a good mechanic says an engine's bad, I don't fly that plane. He's the doctor.

Those mechanics are versatile, too. Mine was on that rescue boat. He has never to this day said, "I told you so," but couldn't rest until we had fished that plane off the ocean floor.

Then he displayed one of his rare "human weaknesses" by spending his Sunday holiday taking it apart to see what had failed. His expression never changed as he showed me the cause.

So you see, the airplane mechanic is human. In fact, he has the instincts, training and mental ability of a surgeon.

One of the characteristics that we always like to associate with heroes is courage. Here your mech is not found wanting. He'll fly with any pilot, any time, and that's something I won't do. It takes more courage to ride than to pilot the plane yourself. You always know what you are going to do. He never does...I have known some pilots to get cold feet. Yet, I have never known a mechanic to decline to fly.

One of my best men who had cared for the special plane of high officials in Washington for some years, once came to me and asked to be relieved from those duties and assigned to routine work. He said that the tremendous responsibility he carried was undermining his health.

I know another mechanic who spent his last dollar to buy a flashlight so that he could better see to make his inspection in closed hangars on dark winter days.

Examine the rolls of the airmen dead and you'll find mechanics as well as pilots. Yet, their names are forgotten. Others get the adulation, the praise, but the medals and the commendations...but I say, "My hat's off to you mechanics. You may be ragged grease monkeys to some, but to me you're the guardian angels of this flying business."

This tribute to mechanics first appeared in print in April 1931. The author was Capt. Ira C. Eaker, later LTGen. Ira C. Eaker, Chief of Air Staff, USAF, who retired in 1947.

Admin Note

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VW

Jimmy Carter: Racist

In a sit down with Jim Lehrer, Mark Shields and David Brooks, former worthless President Jimmy Carter calls Barrack Obama a “Black Boy”.

JIMMY CARTER: Around the world. Around the world. And I think it already has sent a wave of approbation and admiration in many countries around the world, just knowing that this black boy who grew up with just a loving mother and grandparents — and that was about all he had to start with — does now have a chance to become the nominee of the Democratic Party for president.

If this statement had been uttered by a Republican, any Republican, they would have been roasted and hung by the MSM and Democrats.    

Has anyone heard of any condemnation towards this Georgia Peanut Farmer?  It was  Democrats from Georgia who wore the white hoods, burned crosses, and terrorized blacks, white republicans, and Jews. 

Carter Babbles about Bubbling Racism

If you haven't already heard, when asked to comment on the growing opposition to the direction Obama's "hope and change" is taking America, former illustrious leader Jimmy Carter explained in no uncertain terms that it is because racism still exists. He wants us all to understand that it is racism bubbling up to the surface and that is why more and more people are no longer willing to buy Obama's snake oil. Oh no, it's not because they don't want the snake oil. He said it's because there is a belief among many white people around the country that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country despite the fact that Obama is an African-American who was elected by them. Yes. That is what he told us. It is racism bubbling up to the surface.

Oh...now that is thought provoking. Well, I have only one thought on that. Carter must have gotten the inspiration for that revelation and those words of profound wisdom while he was biting the bubbles rising to the surface of his bathwater and I'm not talking about soap bubbles. He and other qurps like him would now like to entice others to join them in a variation of this game and light the bubbles with a match.

I am truly weary of Jimmy Carter trying to rehabilitate his image as an abysmally failed leader in America. He is pathetic in his attempt to recapture some spotlight and somehow position himself once again as something he is not. He was pawned off on America as a "man of the people" over thirty years ago which culminated in his catastrophic tenure which proved to be detrimental to freedom, democracy, and American ideals.

Now what does he think? That enough time has gone by for most of us to experience sufficient memory loss so that he can now jump on the bandwagon with this new "man of the people" and insult millions of Americans who stand in political opposition to a neophyte who is attempting to sell them more snake oil. Same kind of stuff that he himself had tricked the same people into buying before. It's just been placed into a different package with a nifty new label composed with lofty linguistic chicanery, but the ingredients are still the same - poison.

It was snake oil then, as it is now, and the consequences of buying it and drinking it will be the same as it was before.

The American people are waking up and are realizing the truth in the words of Thomas Sowell. "The most important thing about what anyone says are not the words themselves but the credibility of the person who says them." Mr. Sowell went on to say, "The words of convicted swindler Bernie Madoff were apparently quite convincing to many people who were regarded as knowledgeable and sophisticated. If you go by words, you can be led into anything."

Carter should apologize to the American people for insulting the American people and while he's at it he should also apologize for the injuries he brought upon the nation with his own dismal leadership.

The Poles are Wrong!

"Betrayal! The U.S. sold us to Russia and stabbed us in the back," the Polish tabloid Fakt declared on its front page.

Ah, sorry, they got it wrong.  Obama did not sell the Poles to Russia.  He GAVE them away.  We got nothing for them.

Way to support our friends and allies, BHO!  Guess you just showed the world how much they can trust us, huh? 

VW

Criticizing Obama

Anytime someone criticizes the President, it's racist.  The "Joker-Socialist" poster was acclaimed by the left to be racist for no other reason than it took a political shot at Obama.  Joe Wilson told the world during a speech that Obama was lying.  That was racist.  Wilson nailed it, but veracity is color blind.  Obama was lying and we all know it and Wilson had the cajones to say what most of us knew and called him on it.  His approach is not one I approved of, but I doubt race had anything to do with his outburst.

It's time we told the left to shove their race card up into their hinter quarters and tell them to shut up.  Obama is an avowed and open leftist and socialism is not America.  It has nothing to  do with race.  Jimmy Carter is as bad or worse than Obama.  Bad government and bad politicians come in all colors.  Obama and Carter are two of the worst.  It was Jimmy that made me a Republican!

Obama just caved to the Russians for nothing in return.  He is not making us safer.  You do not deal with the likes of Putin from a position of weakness.  In this poker game, you don't throw away your aces and hope your opponent does as well.  It's either madness, or it's idiocy.  Either way, we, as a country, are now less safe.

He lies and then lies again to try and save himself.  He's beginning to look like Bill Clinton on steroids.  I'm getting tired of the "First there is a public option, then there isn't then there is game. 

If I thought for that the government running health care would correct the problems we have, I'd be down at the nearest Democratic Office signing up in a New York minute.  Only the blind partisan thinks nationalized health care would work.  We can't even run Amtrack trains at break even.  We lose a billion a year there and people think the feds can run health care?  I gotta ask you how you can think they will run your health care if they can't even run the damned trains?

So again, take your race card and put it where the sun never shines.  It ain't even personal, it is my opinion and my right to criticize any politician I want.  

I hope that the American people are waking up to this whole race game.  I hope people will start seeing the race shills for who they are and that they are dealing the race card from the bottom.

/Rant

VW