Thursday, July 30, 2009

Hamas and Nazism--a Historic Tie? (Who is trying tyo re-write History?)

Hamas and Nazism--a Historic Tie?


July 25, 2009 by Alan M. Dershowitz
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Hamas, the terrorist organization that specializes in targeting civilians, has now decided, according to a New York Times headline, to shift “from rockets to culture war” in an effort to garner public support for its cause. Part of its ongoing public relations campaign is to portray the Israelis as the “new Nazis” and the Palestinians as the “new Jews.” In order to bring about this transformation, it must engage in a form of Holocaust denial that erases the historical record of widespread Palestinian complicity with the “old Nazis” in perpetrating the real Holocaust. It has become an important part of the mantra of Hamas supporters that neither the Palestinians people nor its leadership played any role in the Holocaust. Listen to Mohammad Ahmadinejad talking to students at Columbia University:

If [the Holocaust] is a reality, we need to still question whether the Palestinian people should be paying for it or not. After all, it happened in Europe. The Palestinian people had no role to play in it. So why is it that the Palestinian people are paying the price of an event they had nothing to do with?...The Palestinian people didn’t commit any crime. They had no role to play in World War II. They were living with the Jewish communities and the Christian communities in peace at the time.

The conclusion that is supposed to follow from this “fact” is that the establishment of Israel in the wake of the Nazi genocide of the Jewish people was unfair to the Palestinians. Central to this claim is that neither the Palestinian people nor their leadership bore any responsibility for the Holocaust, and if any reparations are owed the Jewish people, it is from Germany and not from the Palestinians. The propounders of this historical argument suggest that the West created the Jewish state out of guilt over the Holocaust. It might have been understandable if a portion of Germany (or Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, France, Austria, or other collaborator nations) had been allocated for a Jewish homeland—but why Palestine? Palestine, according to this claim, was as much a “victim” as were the Jews.

I hear this argument on university campuses around the United States, and even more so in Europe. The truth is that the Palestinian leadership, supported by the Palestinian masses, played a significant role in Hitler’s Holocaust.

The official leader of the Palestinians, Haj Amin al-Husseini, spent the war years in Berlin with Hitler, serving as a consultant on the Jewish question. He was taken on a tour of Auschwitz and expressed support for the mass murder of European Jews. He also sought to “solve the problems of the Jewish element in Palestine and other Arab countries” by employing “the same method” being used “in the Axis countries.” He would not be satisfied with the Jewish residents of Palestine—many of whom were descendants of Sephardic Jews who had lived there for hundreds, even thousands, of years—remaining as a minority in a Muslim state. Like Hitler, he wanted to be rid of “every last Jew.” As Husseini wrote in his memoirs, “Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish problem in a manner befitting our national and racial aspirations and according to the scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of its Jews. The answer I got was: ‘The Jews are yours.’”

The mufti was apparently planning to return to Palestine in the event of a German victory and to construct a death camp, modeled after Auschwitz, near Nablus. Husseini incited his pro-Nazi followers with the words “Arise, O sons of Arabia. Fight for your sacred rights. Slaughter Jews wherever you find them. Their spilled blood pleases Allah, our history and religion. That will save our honor.”


In 1948, the National Palestinian Council elected Husseini as its president, even though he was a wanted war criminal living in exile in Egypt. Indeed, Husseini is still revered today among many Palestinians as a national hero. Yasser Arafat, in an interview conducted in 2002 and reprinted in the Palestinian daily Al-Quds on August 2, 2002, called Husseini “our hero,” referring to the Palestinian people. Arafat also boasted of being “one of his troops,” even though he knew Husseini was “considered an ally of Nazis.” Today many Palestinians in East Jerusalem want to turn his home into a shrine. (Ironically, it is this home that was bought by a Jew to build the controversial Jewish housing development in East Jerusalem.)

It is a myth, therefore—another myth perpetrated by Iran’s mythmaker-in-chief as well as by Hamas and by many on the hard left who seek to demonize Israel—that the Palestinians played “no role” in the Holocaust. Considering the active support by the Palestinian leadership and masses for the losing side of a genocidal war, it was more than fair for the United Nations to offer them a state of their own on more than half of the arable land of the British mandate.

The Palestinians rejected that offer and several since because they wanted there not to be a Jewish state more than they wanted their own state. That was Husseini’s position. Hamas still takes that position. Perhaps their new “culture war” will finally cause them to reconsider—and to accept the two state solution.
Printed with permission from www.hudson-ny.org Read the entire article HERE

Baruch atem b'Shem, Yeshua

Bad things happen to Jews on Tisha B'Av (Obama)


Thursday, July 30, 2009

Barack Obama and the Jewish Fast of Tisha B'av

The Jewish Fast of Tisha B'Av begins tonight at sundown. Like Yom Kippur, it is one of only two full day fasts on the Jewish Calendar. Unlike Yom Kippur, it is a sad mournful fast.

This fast always reminds me of my Mom. When I was a kid I would cry at the drop of the hat, my mom would tell me that if I continued to cry she would give me something real to cry about. Many of my friends claim that it was their parents that invented that saying, but in actuality it was God who invented it, and he was talking about Tisha B'Av.

When Moses sent twelve spies into Canaan, ten of them came back with a report that the land was unconquerable. The fledgling Israeli nation could never defeat those Canaanite Giants, they claimed There were cries throughout the Children of Israel asking Moses to take them back to Egypt. They forgot all about God, and his promise to help us conquer the land. That was the first Tisha B'Av. God's response was not only the generation that knew slavery would die out in the desert, but Tisha B'Av will be a horrible day for the Jews, until the coming of the Messiah. In other words,like my mom God would give us something real to cry about.

From that day forward, horrible things have happened to the Jewish people on or around Tisha B'Av. Some of them include:

  • The First Temple was destroyed
  • The Second Temple was destroyed
  • Bar Kokhba's revolt against Rome failed
  • In 1290 King Edward I expelled the Jews from England
  • In 1492 the deadline for Jews to leave Spain, Convert or Die
  • The beginning of WWI –which lead directly to the rise of Hitler
  • 1941 Hermann Göring ordered SS general Reinhard Heydrich to make all the necessary preparations for the Final Solution.
  • The first transports reached Treblinka and the extermination of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto began on July 23, 1942, Tisha B'av
  • In 1955 El Al Flight 402 was shot down over Bulgarian airspace on the 8th of Av.
  • The AMIA Bombing (Asociación Mutua Israelita Argentina) by terrorists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which killed 86 and wounded more than 120, was on July 18, 1994, the 10th of Av.
  • In 2004, Barack Obama Gave the Keynote speech at the Democratic Convention on Tisha B'av and was crowned the heir apparent of the Democratic Party. He just might prove to be the most anti-Israel President ever.
  • The Disengagement from Gaza began on the 10th of Av, leading to years of rocket bombardment from Hamas
  • On the 17th of Tammuz in 2009 (the day the walls of Jerusalem were breached leading to the destruction of the Temple) US President Barack Obama called on Israel to give up its claims to the most holy part of the City.
  • The Week of Tisha B'av in 2009 President Obama sent four representatives to Israel, pressuring her to stop settlement construction, and not to attack a country dedicated to destroy her, before it becomes a nuclear power.
That first Tisha B'Av occurred because we didn't trust God and his promise to give us the land of Israel. In a way our collective egos were too big, even if we felt that we were unworthy of God's reward, as some scholars believe, it was still an ego issue. We felt that we knew better than God. That he wouldn't keep his promise.

Thirty-five hundred years later we are still weighted down by our large egos. Many American Jewish leaders seek to gain favor from an anti-Israel President. Other psuedo leaders such as J-Street, are selling-out their people funded by someone who was born Jewish but rejects its precepts and beliefs (George Soros).

Thirty-five hundred years ago, Israel said they could not conquer the land and were punished. Today many Jews still show no faith in God and God's promise. Even worse, support a United States President, who fittingly has his own ties to Tisha B'av, and who would seemingly have the Jewish State destroyed.

On this Tisha B'Av, as well as every other day, I will pray that we wake up before it is too late.

Lo Alecha: Obama fails to name anti-Semitism envoy


There is a Jewish Song that says...if not now...When?

Obama fails to name anti-Semitism envoy

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The Obama administration has failed to name an envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism around the world as mandated by US law since the previous ambassador was relieved of his duties at the start of the president's term more than six months ago, officials said Thursday.

Anti-Semitic graffiti found...

Anti-Semitic graffiti found on the walls of Jewish community buildings in Vilnius, Lithuania. Illustrative.
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The failure to name a new envoy for the post raises questions about the importance the new administration attaches to the fight against anti-Semitism, said Rafael Medoff, director of the Washington DC-based David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

"Foot-dragging on the selection sends a message that anti-Semitism is not of great importance to the United States," Medoff wrote in a monograph to be published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs titled "The Politics of the American Response to Global Anti-Semitism."

According to Medoff, "At a time when anti-Semitism remains a staple of government propaganda in the Middle East, when violent anti-Semitic incidents are reported almost daily throughout Europe, and when even the streets of Washington are not untouched by anti-Semitism's violent potential, that is the wrong message to send."

The State Department's Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, which was established by a Congressional initiative in 2004, advocates American policy on anti-Semitism both in the US and internationally.

The proposal to establish such an office was initially opposed by the Bush administration, which took 18 months to appoint an envoy to head the office, Medoff said.

The envoy, Dr. Gregg Rickman, was removed from his post when the Obama administration took office in January in keeping with standard policy when a president of a different party takes power.

"On the one hand, it is understandable that at a time of multiple domestic and foreign crises, the Obama administration does not see this position as a top-tier concern," Medoff wrote. "Yet it is nevertheless surprising how far down anti-Semitism appears to have slid on the new administration's list of priorities, particularly when it was the Democrats themselves who fought so hard to create the position over the vehement opposition of the Bush administration."

A White House spokesman referred queries on the issue Thursday to the State Department. A State Department official said Thursday that upon the inauguration of a new president, ambassadors from the previous administration tender their resignations.

The official said that as with all Ambassadorial and other senior positions, there is an appointment process, which is ongoing, that includes the president nominating a candidate followed by Senate confirmation.

Vatican official says free-market economics legitimized greed (Update Michael James Stone)


Leading Vatican official says free-market economics legitimized greed


VATICAN SECRETARY of State Tarcisio Bertone said free-market economics legitimised greed. “Greed market has substituted free market,” Cardinal Bertone said yesterday in a speech to Italian senators in Rome.

In his speech, the cardinal cited Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical calling for a new financial order. The 82-year-old pontiff on July 7th published the 150-page Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth). The pope’s reflections on capitalism were two years in the making and publication was held up by the credit crunch. “Once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced by improper means and without the common good as its ultimate end, it risks destroying wealth and creating poverty,” the pontiff wrote in the encyclical.

Cardinal Bertone, the second-highest official in the Vatican, underscored the pope’s message to Italy’s legislators. Since the 1970s, he said, developed nations had “exposed their real economies to the whims of finance” and convinced consumers to spend beyond their purchasing power.

Benedict has been outspoken in denouncing globalisation. In an October 7th speech, he reflected on crashing markets and concluded that “money vanishes, it is nothing” and warned that “the only solid reality is the word of God”. – ( Bloomberg )


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I agree.

How many infomercials selling "flip houses" for a living went off the air and how many "bad loans" were about third, fourth and fiftieth home loans on properties being "renovated".


How many YOU FIX homes were off the air when the Greed of people caught up with the Need of Money and no one was there to "pay the piper".


We can pretend it was margins, banks, the other guy, the Republicans or even the weather, but it was GREED.


Your's and Mine. Since no one confessed it, but accused each other, I hope we fail, and continue to fail till we confront the real issue on economic woes we have:


You; Me. Greed.


Having been poor often, The economy did not affect me. Having faith, I was saddened for others, but I had not been duped into confusing Greed for NEED and lived by my means. We will recover as a Nation, but I fear the Christian has sold his soul for what he Wants rather than What God would have us "need" from Him.

We failed God, that is the Economic forecast.


Michael James Stone

(The Spirit of Anti-Christ) ~Michael James Stone Citizens Are More Radicalized ~ Bible Prophecy Today


(The Spirit of Anti-Christ) ~Michael James Stone -Citizens Are More Radicalized ~ Bible Prophecy Today

When politics becomes Prophecy we must examine carefully our hearts and find out where we are in regards to those we oppose.

Are we opposing those is authority over us? Are we opposing God? Are we supporting hate or propagating false accusations?

These are the "spirit of anti-christ" issues that whenever we talk of prophecy we must bear in mind:

This is NOT our Home. We are Ambassadors for the Gospel, not about setting some standard no one lives up to.

When ever a political piece comes out lately at Bible Prophecy Today, or anywhere else, I have to examine very carefully the facts versus the fiction and the Friction caused rather than the Faith Promoted to see of which "spirit" the author is writing in.

The Enemy of our souls, would like nothing better than for us, who are called to be Light and Truth, Hope and Love, Mercy and Kindness, Forgiveness and Grace to forget why we are here and become instead....

Accussers of the Brethren.

Are You?

THAT is not our role, nor is it why Jesus Died.

You are meant to be something better.

I have posted the positive and negative about President Obama, BPT, WND and even myself, I don't have to lie, deceive or exaggerate for ratings on Google or AdWords for profit.

I can tell the Truth and it will cost me as I will upset apple carts like the "lets Slam the President Routine" so many are on.

I don't agree with President Obama on many issues, but I will not deride the office nor denigrate the authorities placed over me as many many many more are giving into doing.

Why?

Jesus said so.

It is time those who say they know him repented.

It is time to be factual and actual in Our Faith, Our Hope and Our Love in Jesus Christ , then some pack of yappping and scrapping pack of dogs over tidbits or dogbones to statisfy a deadline to publish.

Judgement HAS INDEED COME to the household of God, and seeing HOW they post, and WHAT they post, I can tell who is His in Jesus by how much they love the Brethren...,

Or How much they Like to attack people and politics.

It's time Prophecy was about who is coming not not HOW BAD SOMEONE IS.

Michael James Stone

Misconceptions Concerning Bible Prophecy: 1-4~Nathan Jones

Misconceptions Concerning Bible Prophecy: 1-4

Nathan JonesBy Nathan Jones

Are you one of those who avoids Bible prophecy like a plague, either because you are scared of it or because you consider it impossible to understand? Do you think it is irrelevant to your Christian life?

Don PerkinsLamb & Lion Ministries interviewed Bible prophecy expert and all-around nice guy Don Perkins, the founder and director of According to Prophecy Ministries in San Diego, California, about how he would respond to 14 common misconceptions that are out there concerning Bible prophecy. The following are the first four.


1) Studying Revelation will drive you crazy.

As a young man and growing up all my life, when I would go to church that was one thing that I heard. It become a psychological barrier for me. When I became a Christian I surrendered my life to the Lord. As a young Christian I would never go into the Book of Revelation. There are many people today I know that are hindered because they were taught the same thing — they'll go crazy. It wasn't until the Lord called me to this area of ministry that I found out the blessing. Revelation 1:3 tells you, "Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near." And I've been blessed!

Why would God give us a book that nobody can understand? I ask people all the time why would God do that? Why would He give us something that He didn't want us to understand? Well, I just think it's a satanic thing. Satan does not want anybody reading the Book of Revelation — no one! Because, the Book of Revelation says Satan is going to be totally defeated and Jesus is going to be completely triumphant.

I came to that revelation when I started studying. Now I understand why I was fed that lie, because I see in the end the demise of the Devil.

I learned that the Book of Revelation can be used for spiritual warfare. Here's how I use it: every time Satan tries to remind me of my past, I remind him of his future. And, do you know what he does? He tucks tail and runs. I know his future because I know the Book of Revelation. The Word of God is so clear.


2) Bible prophecy is too depressing.

I hear that one all the time. People say, "I don't like Bible prophecy because it's too depressing." And, "It's all about blood and gore and beasts and things that go bump in the dark."

True, IF you only study that part of it. You've got to understand that in the Book of Revelation and overall in Bible prophecy there are so many wonderful things in it. As a matter of fact, when you look at the Book of Revelation the last chapters talk about eternal bliss. In other words, what eternity is going to look like for the redeemed.

Now, I will admit there are some very hard chapters in the Book of Revelation. For the Great Tribulation, the Bible is clear in its description of how that event is going to look. But, it doesn't stay there. Many people throw the baby out with the bath water because they look at the signs and at the Trumpet Judgments and those things, but they never look at anything else in the Book of Revelation as a blessing.

Well, the Book of Revelation has a lot of terrible things in it in terms of the wrath of God being poured out upon this earth and so does the book of Isaiah. But, the thing that we need to remind people of is that in Bible prophecy there is only good news for those who know the Lord, those who are redeemed.

In the last book of the Old Testament, the book of Malachi says that when the Lord returns those who have rejected Him are going to suffer the wrath of God and it's going to be a terrible day for them. In fact, some of the Scriptures say the presidents, prime ministers of the world are going to crawl into holes in the ground and cry for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them. But, it says for those who are believers they'll go forth like a calf released from a stall, acting plum silly waving their hands, dancing and shouting, and saying "Hallelujah, here he comes!" all full of joy and happiness. There's only good news for believers.

I really think you must be a student of the Scripture to really understand Bible prophecy.


3) Bible prophecy is impossible to understand because it's just full of symbolism.

Well, symbols point to a literal event. Symbols always help you to better understand a literal thing. I think in that regard, people need to understand that symbols point to something that's literal, or it gives us a clear picture of a literal event.

So, if you symbolize all of the Book of Revelation then you will get into trouble in prophecy. The thing about symbols, too, is that symbols stand for something literal, but usually the Bible tells you what it is. For example, in the Book of Revelation Jesus is pictured standing among some candlesticks, but it tells you who the candlesticks represent — churches. It says He has stars in His right hand, it tells you, the stars represent the pastors or the angels of those particular churches who are the messengers of those churches.

Also, another example, the Book of Revelation says that when the Jews flee from Jerusalem in the middle of the Tribulation they will flee on the wings of a great eagle. People say, "Ah ha! That means the United States is going to provide the airlift because our symbol is an eagle." But, if you go back and look at the Bible, and the Bible's its own best interpreter, the same term is used when the Jews fled out of Egypt. All it means is it is a symbol of God's protection for them. So yes, there are symbols, but the symbols have a meaning.

Safety in interpretation lies in the Scriptures. The Scripture will always interpret scriptures.

All of Bible prophecy is not symbolic. Take the book of Zechariah. It says the Messiah is coming on a donkey. He's going to be hailed as king. He's going to be betrayed by a friend for 30 pieces of silver. Thirty pieces of silver will be used to buy a plot of land. He'll be lifted up. He'll be pierced. All that meant what it said — literally!

If the plain sense makes sense don't look for any other sense, or you will end up with nonsense. And that is so true.


4) Bible prophecy is irrelevant to contemporary Christian living.

You know that one really gets me. I hear it all the time. Pastors tell me that you can't tie it into today's life. "It's all pie in the sky, sweet by-and-by. I've got to talk about contemporary problems. I've got to help people today." Well, I don't know of a better book that will help you in contemporary living. For me, Bible prophecy is the message that has really put an urging in my heart and has given me a hope that helps me to live in this relevant day.

I found that if you can ever convince a Christian of two things, really convince them... number one, Jesus is coming back. Now, the average Christian says, "Yes, he's coming back." But, they believe it in their mind, but they don't believe it in their heart. When you believe it in your heart you start living. But, as long as you believe it in your head, it's just a mental thing. If you can ever convince them, number one, Jesus is really coming back, and number two, that is an event that could occur any moment, their lives will be transformed. Changed, totally changed! They will commit their lives to holiness. You won't have to preach against drinking. You won't have to preach against gambling. You won't preach against promiscuous sex. People will put it aside.

Also, it is the greatest motivator I know of for evangelism. People will start sharing the Word. How can anything be more practical than that? It's so practical.


In the second part of "Misconceptions Concerning Bible Prophecy," Don Perkins will respond to misconceptions 5-9.

Free Iran ignored, Opress Israel promoted


A tale of two cities

Why is world silent over Tehran, ‘outraged’ about Jerusalem?

Abraham Cooper, Harold Brackman

Published: 07.30.09, 16:37 / Israel Opinion

A world consensus is building. Not about Global Warming, AIDS, the global economic recovery, or nuclear proliferation. And tragically it’s most definitely not about standing in solidarity with the heroic Iranian people struggling against its corrupt regime.


US-Israel Dispute

Start with east LA / Ophir Falk, Yaron Schwartz

Demographic data on LA dwarfs 'demographic problem' in Jerusalem
Full Story

No, the Russians, EU, UN, France, and the United States all agree on the pressing need to put an end to building nurseries for Jewish newborns in east Jerusalem!

Russian Foreign Minister Nesterenko is appalled by a plan to build 20 housing units in an east Jerusalem neighborhood near Mount Scopus.

French Foreign Minister Kouchner damns the erection of even one structure as a threat to the roadmap to peace. And Ruprecht Polenz, head of the German Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, warns that any construction runs the risk of Israel “gradually committing suicide as a democratic state.”

So it’s nurseries and apartments—not suicide bombers and missiles —that threaten the annihilation of the Jewish State!

Curiously, when the Jerusalem Municipality which has removed unauthorized Jewish settlements also ordered demolition of homes being built without permit in east Jerusalem - by Palestinians - Sweden’s president declares that action “further threatens the chances of peace.”


But when word leaked that al-Jazeera celeb and suicide bomber promoting cleric Sheik Youssef al-Qaradawi was working in parallel with Hamas to stop Jews from living in east Jerusalem while enabling Hamas to “broaden its base in the city,” the international community was silent.


Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu reflected: “Imagine what would happen if someone were to suggest Jews could not live in or purchase (property) in certain neighborhoods in London, New York, Paris or Rome.


The international community would certainly raise protest.


Likewise, we cannot accept such a ruling on east Jerusalem . . . Israeli Arabs are not forbidden from buying houses in west Jerusalem and Jews must be granted the same right in the eastern part of the city.”


What’s going on here?

Meanwhile, back in Europe, governments did precious little to indicate they give a damn about the Twitter revolutionaries in Tehran.


Two of the continent's business giants - Germany’s Siemens partnering with Finland’s Nokia - provided the mullahcracy with the technological means to suppress young Iranians using the phones and social networking to promote cyber-age democracy.


Nothing - not the beating of civilians on the streets, nor Tehran’s headlong rush to develop nuclear weapons - has slowed the stream of European firms happy to prop up the Iranian regime for a few million Euros.


And many on the Continent are slipping back into nasty habits.

London observer Robin Shepherd wrote about a rising tide of elite hostility demonizing Israel and delegitimizing English Jews, Norway is spending millions to rehabilitate a Nazi collaborator who had presented his Nobel Prize to Goebbels in 1943, calls for anti-Israel boycotts abound in academic circles throughout Western Europe, and newly elected three-piece suit Far-Right MEPs mingle, too comfortably, in the halls of the European Parliament.

What’s going on here? Not the “fog war of war” in which democracy’s soldiers shoot each other by mistake. In Europe before World War II, losses to “friendly fire” didn’t begin in 1939 on the battlefield. It happened earlier when French conservatives shouted “Better Hitler than Blum,” and England with France allowed Hitler to gobble up Czechoslovakia’s people like sheep for the slaughter. Prime Minister Chamberlain’s signature umbrella provided no protection against the killer fog that had already disabled the United Nations’ predecessor - the League of Nations - in the face of Japanese and Italian aggression.

Distortion, appeasement and denial

The recent offer by Washington of a Mideast “nuclear umbrella” will make no one in Kuwait, Cairo, Abu Dhabi or Tel Aviv sleep more securely - not if it means the Obama Administration is treating an Iranian nuclear bomb as a fait accompli. This is not the Cold War where mutually guaranteed destruction served as deterrent. The world is looking at the nuclear button in the hands of religious fanatics who believe the 12th Imam is about to usher a cleansing apocalypse that will subject Iran’s neighbors to blackmail by uranium and bring to fruition their goal of “wiping off the map” the “Great Satan,” America, and the “Lesser Satan,” Israel.

Israelis survived this long because they have squarely dealt with reality. In 1981, they bucked the entire international community and took out Saddam’s nuclear facility. After over 160 Palestinian suicide bombings, they finally halted the carnage by building a security fence. Stability and peace in the Middle East is a crucial priority, but a two-state solution will never be achieved if “friends” are seen as forcing Israel back to its 1967 “Auschwitz borders,” and validating Palestinians’ delusions they can deny the Jewish people’s historic rights to its eternal capital of Jerusalem .

As for Iran, the brave Iranian young protesters like Neda, who gave up their lives because they understood that “talks without preconditions” would not alone move the mullahs, should have taught us all a lesson. Seven decades after Munich, there is no doubt that appeasing Ahmadinejad will fail to thwart nuclear weaponizing or to answer the pleas of a people that has had enough of the mullahcracy.

Everyone prefers effective sanctions to war with Iran - but where is the game plan to thwart Tehran’s evil designs? Where is the funding for pro-democracy groups in Iran? Where are the calls to bar Ahmadinejad from returning to the UN podium this September? When will democracies signal the multi-national companies in bed with Tehran - do business with them OR us?

The longer the EU and the US are befogged by distortions, appeasement, and outright denial that causes the world to view Jerusalem rather than Tehran as the real threat - the more certain that military action against Iran will be ultimately required.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper is associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center

Dr. Harold Brackman, a historian, is a consultant to the Simon Wiesenthal Center