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The Palestinians were unhappy with the behavior of the German PM when she visited Israel:

“We were hoping to show her the wall that Israel built around Bethlehem, but she refused to go there,” [the spokesman] said. “President Abbas was hoping to draw parallels between Israel’s wall and the Berlin Wall. He wanted to remind [German PM Angela] Merkel of the days when she lived in East Berlin.”

“This woman is trying to be more Israeli than the Israelis,” the official said. “During her talks with President Abbas, she totally ignored major issues related to the peace process and chose to focus on the case of Gilad Schalit.

“Germany will not be able to play any role in the peace process because of the chancellor’s bias to Israel. Our people are obviously paying the price for the crimes that were perpetrated against the Jews during World War Two.” — Jerusalem Post

Their self-absorption is stunning. Parallels between the security barrier and the Berlin wall? Major issues related to the ‘peace process’ that are more important than Gilad Shalit, whom Abbas has personally promised to bring home? And the last statement is obscene.

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Barry Rubin, in today’s Jerusalem Post:

Once Britain ruled the waves, today Iran does

…It is the radical Islamists (and remaining radical Arab nationalists) who want to show that they are the ones with the “gunboats,” or rather hijacking airplanes, to keep up with current technology, who can make explosions in Western cities without fear of suffering meaningful retaliation.

In contrast, the West seeks to prove that it is nice. It seeks to apologize, to make reparations, to act as the weaker party. But, you see, the West is running the equivalent of a school for Middle Eastern politicians, intellectuals and revolutionaries. And the lesson it is teaching them is: You are strong and we are weak; you have ideas to believe in, we merely seek maximum comfort and expediency; if you hit us we will yield or look the other way; we are ready to confess our wrongdoing, you only speak of your being absolutely in the right. Like good students, they follow what they are being taught.

Meanwhile, imperialism has switched directions, running now from east to west. And if that is already so without nuclear weapons controlled by Teheran, what do we have to look forward to?

At least up to now, the gap in power that leaves the West the weaker side has not been technological, but rather psychological. It isn’t just a matter of gun-power, either, for the West refuses to use a force as potent as the battleship or aircraft carrier – its economic might. But economic, as well as military, supremacy is being conceded to the extremists and the dictatorships.

And thus, British navy personnel – like American diplomats a quarter-century ago – are seized and their government is to be made to apologize. The woman among the prisoners is forced to wear an Islamist headscarf to show which culture is to prevail… [my emphasis]

The interesting question is whether this is a foregone conclusion, or if it’s possible to reverse it. A starting point would be for westerners to understand that it would not be desirable to replace a system, albeit imperfect, that is based on democratic principles, with one based on religious authoritarianism. It’s surprising that so many do not seem to grasp this.

FresnoZionism wishes Jews around the world a happy and kosher Pesach, and especially those fellow members of the International Zionist Conspiracy to support and preserve the homeland of the Jewish people, the only Jewish state, the State of Israel.

As I write in my hametz-free home and wait for the beginning of the 59th Pesach since the founding of the state, I am reminded that what Hashem promised us so many years ago, the privilege to be a free people in our own land, can’t be taken for granted. Every generation has to fight for it in its own particular way, against its own enemies, from Amalek to Ahmadinijad.

So enjoy your seder Pesach and keep in mind that, unlike the Associated Press, we know what country Jerusalem is in!

Hamas wants to turn the Gaza strip into South Lebanon, digging tunnels, building fortifications, preparing anti-tank weapons, and stockpiling rockets. Recently, they’ve been putting pressure on Israeli troops guarding the border, an example of which was the shooting of an electrical worker last week (see: Black out Gaza!). Israeli military planners are expecting an escalation of rocket and infiltration attacks from Gaza; they are also concerned about a coordinated attack from Hezbollah and perhaps Syria in the north with Hamas forces. So they are certain that at some point they will be fighting there:

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