Scotland Should Regain its Indpendence

I don't understand the morality behind Great Britain's protests and threats to the Scottish people about their independence bids. Davka Great Britain, the country behind the invention of all sorts of countries and imaginary histories, is having fits because the Scots want to regain their independence.

Analysing the survey, which put yes at 51%, to 49% for no, Kellner wrote:"Seldom has the term 'knife-edge' carried such lethal force. A two-point gap is too small for us to call the outcome."
The speed and size of the collapse in the no campaign's lead is astonishing, Kellner said. "The fact that the contest is too close to call is itself remarkable, as Better Together seemed to have victory in the bag. Month after month, they held a steady lead, averaging no 58%, yes 42%. In the past four weeks, support for the union has drained away at an astonishing rate."

The Scots do have a long history as a separate people, nation, kingdom. According to Wikipedia, it's 2,000, yes, two thousand years old. This chart covers the second half of that time.

That's in total contrast to countries invented by Great Britain, like Jordan, modern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, India and Pakistan. Don't forget their biggest con on the world, "Arab Palestine," which they have been trying to get as to block a Jewish State for almost a hundred years.

I don't see why Scotland shouldn't be be able to regain independence if the people want. They certainly pass the shared history, culture test unlike most modern nations. And supporting their quest doesn't in any way give legitimacy to the Arabs here. Just the opposite. Contrast documented Scottish History with the faux people of "Palestine," sic.

What Should We Believe re: Chemical Weapons, Iraq, Syria, Obama, Peace etc.?

We live in very confusing, tricky times etc.   Along with the blessings and advantages of instant communications, internet and more, there is also the downside.  Anyone can post anything, truth, lies, tricks etc. It was once a schlepp to get over to someone's wagon or tent to hear his message, but now, you just have to answer your phone or turn on your computer or television. You don't have to leave the comfort of your favorite chair.

So, you tell me:

Are we supposed to believe that United States Secretary of State Kerry can broker a deal to make "peace" between Israel and the Arabs?

Has Syria been secretly transporting its chemical weapons to Iraq? Or is that untrue?

Will the latest "Arab spring" bring a breath of freedom and fresh air?

Has United States President Barack Hussein Obama made the right decision to go with Russia on Syria?

Is the "Two State Solution" the savior of the State of Israel or could it be the cause of its destruction?

Everybody claims to "KNOW."  But considering how few people really agree with each other, then it's obvious that they don't know because two conflicting opinions/facts can't be right.

Today while paddling around the pool, I was talking health and recipes with a friend. She asked how I cook vegetables.  I told her that I use plain old-fashioned soy oil.

"But I've been told that olive oil is healthier."
"Yes, it is, but I don't think that it's any healthier after being cooked.  The experts say that we should only use cold-pressed olive oil, because the heat can destroy the goodness, vitamins, minerals.  Cooking with olive oil then destroys even more.  So I use olive oil in salads but not for cooking."

Yes, that's an example of how my mind works.  I don't cook with honey for the same reason.  If heating the honey for commercial production isn't good for the honey, then heating it for cooking can't be good either.

I look and listen to what the Arabs are saying.  I consider the Palestine Media Watch site to be extremely important. Instead of listening to politicians and the media projecting their presumptions, I want to know what our enemies are saying to each other and their people.  They are not educating for peace with Israel.  They are education, promoting the total destruction of the State of Israel and the banishment of the Jewish People.

They have been very clever in how they do it.  This was explained with multiple illustrations at the event memorializing Emanuel Winston, Twenty Years Since the Oslo Accords. Unfortunately, the Jewish People hasn't been using its advertising and promotion talents to counteract the Arab campaign.

It's time for us to take the lead, isn't it?

No Comprendo! What Good Would It do For the USA-GB Alliance to Attack Syria?

Honestly, I think there should have had been a surprise "surgical attack" on the sites of the nuclear development in Iran.  But I don't see what useful, suitable target there could be in Syria. 

Warplanes and military transporters have begun arriving at Britain's Akrotiri airbase on Cyprus, less than 100 miles from the Syrian coast, in a sign of increasing preparations for a military strike against the Assad regime in Syria.

It's one thing if they had secret agents to surprise assassinate/execute Assad and his higher ups. 



It's pretty clear that the United States hasn't a clue as to what to do and what the Syrian and Arab culture, mentality is really like. Yes, I understand that they are "outraged."  But how do you militarily attack a "regime" in a useful, efficient way?  I'll never forget the absurdity of the American attack on Iraq that killed thousands of soldiers and civilians to give Sadam Hussein a fair trial.  What fair trial di they give to those soldiers and civilians they killed? And if the allied forces do get the Assad regime out of power, who will rule in his place?  Does the United States really want to find itself with another Iraq to rule?

Barry Rubin writes that none of what's going on in Syria is really all that new.

To understand Syria’s special feature, it is best to heed the all-important insight of a Lebanese-American scholar, Fouad Ajami: “Syria’s main asset, in contrast to Egypt’s preeminence and Saudi wealth, is its capacity for mischief.”
In the final analysis, the aforementioned mischief was in the service of regime maintenance, the all-encompassing cause and goal of the Syrian government’s behavior. Demagoguery, not the delivery of material benefits, is the basis of its power.
Why have those who govern Syria followed such a pattern for more than six decades under almost a dozen different regimes? The answer: Precisely because the country is a weak one in many respects. Aside from lacking Egypt’s power and Saudi Arabia’s money, it also falls short on internal coherence due to its diverse population and minority-dominated regime. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein used repression, ideology, and foreign adventures to hold together a system dominated by Sunni Arab Muslims who were only one-fifth of the population. In Syria, even more intense measures were needed to sustain an Alawite regime that rules based on a community only half as large proportionately.

I don't think it would be wise on Israel's part to use logic and common sense when trying to predict Syrian action.  Yaakov Lappin is wrong:

Any US military step will probably serve as a “slap” to the Syrian regime, but won’t go as far as toppling President Bashar Assad from power.
Hence, it would be an act of self-destruction on Assad’s part to drag Israel into the conflict, for any direct Syrian retribution against Israel would endanger the very existence of the embattled regime in Damascus.

It's important to remember that the "international community" is consistently wrong in its analysis and policy when it comes to the Middle-East, which is the most dangerous thing when talking about international peace and stability.

One response that would make sense would be for Israel, Right, Left, Center, politicians, academics and media to publically state that the Golan will remain forever in Israeli hands for the safety and security of Israel, Jews and non-Jews alike.

Egypt- Ruled by The Mobs, Rioters Rule

That so-called "wonderful Arab Spring"  by political pundits like United States President Barack Hussein Obama has taken off its mask and is proving to be pure anarchy in Egypt.

Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times

CAIRO — Egypt’s military officers removed the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, on Wednesday, suspended the Constitution and installed an interim government presided over by a senior jurist.

Let's call this a dark day for world peace.  One has to be more than delusional to believe that the sacking of elected President Morsi is a benign show of Egyptian democracy.

BBC

Egypt's army has removed President Mohammed Morsi from power, suspended the constitution and pledged new elections following mass protests. The army chief announced the move in a TV address. The head of the constitutional court is expected to be sworn in as interim leader on Thursday. Mr Morsi's supporters denounced the move as a military coup and said he was being held in detention.  

No doubt that things will only get worse in Egypt and other Arab countries.  It's important to remember that when a nation does not have a history, culture or tradition of democracy, it's terribly difficult to suddenly develop it.  Imposing democracy and western values and procedures on a country that never, ever lived in such ways  is dangerous and foolish, totally unrealistic.

The United States hasn't learned its lesson, neither from Vietnam, nor from Iraq and the entire Israeli "peace process/negotiations" is based on the very same fallacy, that you can turn a bunch of terrorists into law-abiding, peaceful citizens of a democratic country.

I'm a realist, a pragmatist, I wasn't impressed by any of the "Arab springs," and I'm certainly not impressed or reassured by this latest change of leadership in Egypt.  It's simply the rule of the mob.  It's dangerous and it can be very contagious. I hope the world is ready, but hoping is a rather useless emotion.  Good luck everyone.

Who is Bombing Syria? I Don't Care! My Enemy's Enemy is My Friend

Syria is a very dangerous country.  It's not just dangerous to Israel.  It threatens its own citizens, neighboring Arab countries and is a danger to that nebulous concept of "world peace."

So, the fact that "somebody" is bombing it doesn't really bother me, as long as its aim is accurate, hits the Syrian target and doesn't harm Israel in any way.

A series of explosions were heard in Damascus overnight Saturday, as the official Syrian news agency SANA claimed that Israel carried out a rocket attack on the Jamraya scientific research center in Damascus.

And from CNN:

An image taken from a Youtube video purportedly shows an explosion on a mountain filmed from a Damascus suburb Saturday.

(CNN) -- Syria accused Israel of firing rockets into the Damascus suburb of Jamraya on Sunday, striking a "scientific research center," Syrian state TV reported.

It is the second Syrian claim this year of a strike against what observers have described as a government defense research facility, and it comes one day after U.S. officials first told CNN that the United States believes Israel carried out an airstrike against Syria.

Israel Defense Forces declined to comment on the Syrian TV report. "We do not comment on these reports at all," an IDF spokesperson said.

This is the way a dangerous country should be stopped, not with talk and idle threats, the way it's being done with Iran.  The big problem now with stopping Iran's nuclear development is that it has been going on for years, and years and years already.  The whole world knows about it, and the whole world has heard rumors that Israel will bomb them like it did to Iraq decades ago if...   Well, it's impossible for Israel to bomb Iran the way it did Iraq way back when, because when then Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the air strike, it caught the world by surprise.  There hadn't been years and years of public and international discussion about the pros and cons and whether or not the United States would approve, support the move etc.



It's dangerous to delay in destroying enemies, just like when you delay treatment against cancer, the cancer grows and spreads.  So, I really don't care what country is bombing the chemical weapons plants in Syria. They should just do a good and complete job of it.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Dubai and Why It's Not For Israel To Destroy Iran's Nuclear Reactor

I certainly have no inside knowledge about the execution of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in Dubai.  The world, the media etc want to believe that it was Israel.  Those who admire Israel insist that only Israel could have pulled it off so professionally and those who revile Israel want to show how evil and untrustworthy Israel is, daring to illegally use and tamper with foreign passports etc.




Since most vast majority (this is no 55%) of the world has neither sympathy nor friendship for us, no matter what happens they'll find some reason to condemn us.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was an evil man.  There's no real debate about it, even among those trying to catch Israel on "technicalities."  Generally, the world and media are silent over these sorts of events.  There's a code of silence, because each country's espionage experts know that if they investigate the deeds of another country, their own "specialists" will be endangered even more.  So here we have an example of how the antipathy for Israel will now make it harder for Great Britain's real life 007's, "Bond, James Bond."



Ever since I heard the ridiculous idea that it's up to Israel to destroy Iran's nuclear reactor, I envisioned the world condemning Israel if it's foolish enough to do it, successfully or not.  Yes, there's a major chance that the world will never move against Iran's bomb, but I still don't see why it's up to Israel.  When U.S. President George Bush The First went to war against Iraq, Iraq attacked Israel, not the United States.  Nobody cared.

Israel must remember that we're alone.  No country supports and defends us.  We must do what is good for us and stop looking for approval and support from others.

Different Cultures, Different Values, Different Understandings of Democracy and Honesty

The newscasts from Iran are frightening.

Naive American politicians think that as long as they organize elections in a violent, totalitarian country, the country has been "tamed."



Elections aren't the magic drug, not in Iran and not in Iraq.



Remember that the P.A. Pseudistinian Arabs voted for the terrorist group/party Hamas.



There won't be peace between us and the Arabs until the Arabs are ready and really want it. It's not up to Israel. Nothing we do will facilitate peace. It will take a number of generations until the Arabs change, and that's if they want to, and raise their children to want peace.

Nu? What did they expect?

The Americans are moaning and ranting about the rash epidemic of suicide bombers in Iraq.

Why should they be surprised?

• It's the Arab mentality
• Did the Iraqis actually invite the United States armed forces into their country?

Whereas the Vietnamese used to incinerate themselves, solo, in the street as a protest tool, the Iraqis bring as many Americans and others along with them to their graves.

The United States and its allies are trying to police the Iraqis into a western democratic country. Sorry, Charlie, but it won't work. It's like trying to lose a couple of sizes with a girdle, rather than a diet, which can take a long, long time and some body-types can never be the shape of one's dreams. Much too strong and tight corsets can cause damage to internal organs.

Democracy cannot be taught by foreign forces. Outsiders, and even locals, can't legislate changes in culture and mentality. This is especially difficult when they see how the world's diplomats and media are supporting terrorism against Israeli Jews. Also with the precedence of Vietnam, the Iraqis know that it's a just a matter of time when America will flee. And then the terrorists will be even stronger. I'd wager a guess that even the rule of Saddam Hussein won't look so bad in comparison.