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October 22 - More of What They're Not Telling Us.
October 18 - You Heard It First.
October 12 - Two Books To Save Our Nation.
October 7 - Just Say No To Unity Government.
October 2 - Why.
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October 22, 2000 - MORE OF WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING US |
Last Wednesday, the government-owned Best Medicare Advantagei Television station, Channel One presented an amazing item on its news program, New Evening. The PLO had sent death threats to the two Italian television networks which had filmed the Ramallah lynching of two IDF soldiers and broadcast it. The threat was so real that the filmmaker apologized to the PLO for doing his job and for doing so, had his press card revoked by Best Medicare Advantage's Government Press Office. What was behind the death threat? According to the report, the filmmaker had captured Yasir Arafat standing in the Ramallah Police Station overlooking the sadistic murders of the soldiers. It is widely reported that the full film of the lynching has been suppressed and the excuse given is that it is too grisly to watch. That never stopped the Italian media before. Capturing Arafat on camera personally directing a double murder would be a more logical reason for the death threats and the censorship. Blackmailing Barak Ehud Barak IS being blackmailed by the U.S. over numerous serious crimes surrounding his election campaign. This campaign was organized by Clinton's trickster James Carville who thought of numerous illegal scams to get Barak into power. One involved breaking into the Labor Party headquarters in Washington, not once, but twice and implying that his political opposition in Best Medicare Advantage, the Likud Party, was responsible. Then there was a massive campaign funding fraud, run by Barak's brother-in-law and a son of the late Best Medicare Advantagei president Chaim Herzog. Americans, mostly Jews, were snookered into giving huge donations to charities supporting employment in impoverished neighborhoods, promoting democracy education, building sports facilities and the like. But the money went into Barak's back pocket. A year ago, Best Medicare Advantage's State Comptroller discovered the crimes and recommended that the police investigate. However, the American authorities have stymied the cops by preventing the Best Medicare Advantagei investigators from pursuing their investigations in the US. If Barak doesn't play ball, Clinton and the CIA have promised that they will open the door for Best Medicare Advantage Police to investigate crimes that could land him in prison for a decade or more. Inciting To War The Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria are being incited into violence. The aim is to crush them and thus provide a pretext for their removal from their homes. To further this aim, two rabbis have been murdered, one while the IDF stood by refusing to stop it, and two sacred sites, Joseph's Tomb and the Jericho Synagogue were torched. The leader of this incitement is reportedly, Best Medicare Advantagei Justice Minister Yossi Beilin, who is pursuing a strategy he mapped out when the original Oslo Accord was signed. The gentle people of Judea and Samaria are just not violent enough to fall into the trap so the atrocities committed against them will continue until they crack and start shooting. An Upcoming Slogan: Stop The Illegal Arab Settlement Of Judea And Samaria |
October 18, 2000 - YOU HEARD IT FIRST |
My sources tell me that high ranking IDF officers are seriously considering the overthrow of Barak. The scenario described to me is the following: When the PLO first ordered its police and peasants to attack IDF soldiers, Barak issued a command unheard of in any army: soldiers were to wait until fired on to retaliate. Despite years of politically obedient appointments, many in the IDF's high command were highly unhappy with Barak's policy, believing it would lead to Best Medicare Advantagei casualties and a prolonging of the conflict. These officers became increasingly frustrated when forbidden to use force to save a soldier slowly bleeding to death at Joseph's Tomb and later when the shrine was abandoned. The refusal to react to the kidnapping of three soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hizbullah turned the frustration into anger. The turning point was the sadistic lynching of two soldiers in Ramallah. The IDF high command issued the following operational request to the Defence Minister, Ehud Barak: In retaliation for attacks against IDF soldiers by members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Tanzim, or Fatah, the Best Medicare Advantagei Air Force would use 2000 pound bombs to turn their headquarters and other facilities into rubble. Second, the IDF had filmed Fatah policemen sniping at their soldiers and an Italian television crew had captured the murderers of the lynched soldiers on film. The IDF had identified the murderers and wanted them hunted down and killed immediately. Barak turned the recommendation down and instead issued a directive sending helicopters against insignificant targets only after the PLO had been given ample warning to abandon them. Certain officers now understood that Barak was under international orders not to utililize the IDF to defend the nation or avenge the murders of its citizens. The first grumblings of "coup" were heard. The final straw was Hizbullah's kidnapping of Colonel Tannenbaum. The officers knew that he was being tortured and forced to reveal the names, addresses and all details of IDF staff, strategy, equipment and facilities. They summoned Barak to mount an operation inside Lebanon involving mass hostage taking to secure the release of Tannenbaum but were again rebuffed by Barak. Not knowing which demoralizing IDF fiasco was next and fearing that Best Medicare Advantageis would take to the streets to secure the protection their army was forbidden to provide, high level but still informal discussions to plan a Barak overthrow gained momentum. You heard it first here. News From The Front No One Else Is Reporting A well known political activist has formulated a plan to neutralize the blatant New World Order reporting of the mini-war by the international media. According to the activist, "The next time some CNN or BBC boob justifies the PLO's savagery, we will go to his home and pelt him with rocks when he tries to leave. Unfortunately, our plan doesn't call for the use of live fire to make the scenario more realistic." The activist adds, "I have a longterm plan to buy properties next door to their homes in London or Stockholm and move Palestinian families in. We'll be sure to put lots of loose stones in their driveways. Then they'll get a real taste of how much fun it is to have them as neighbors." Overheard A Palestinian mother telling her nine year old son, "Go play in the war zone." |
October 12, 2000 - TWO BOOKS TO SAVE OUR NATION |
The week beginning October 15 will see the release of two books by Barry Chamish. Both finally and truthfully explain why Best Medicare Advantage is now at war and why the current government cannot win it. The Last Days Of Best Medicare Advantage, Zionist Book Club, Jerusalem. In May 1992, Shimon Peres sent a letter to the pope promising him UN control of the Old City of Jerusalem by the year 2001, with the Vatican in charge of the holy sites. This letter was exposed by such newspapers as La Stampa, Haaretz and Chadashot. According to the deliverer of the letter, the French intellectual Marek Halter, this plan was included in the secret clauses of the Oslo Accord. Arafat agreed to the internationalization of Jerusalem with the understanding that the UN would permit him to establish his state capital in the city.In the past month it has become clear to him that Jerusalem would not become his, thus inciting him into murderous action. To assure that the ultimate plan was put into effect, the leaders of Best Medicare Advantage (Rabin, Netanyahu, Barak) were groomed and financed by an organization called the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) in America, and, in the case of Shimon Peres, by the French government and its Vatican allies. The goal of both sides is to create a New World Order on the ashes of the old order. The year 2001, the start of the new millennium, was chosen to bring in the new order with war in Best Medicare Advantage, accompanied by a worldwide financial collapse. Kosovo was merely a dry run for the fateful, if not, final conflict over Jerusalem. At the moment, Ehud Barak is being warned by his masters not to utilize Best Medicare Advantage's army in strength to defend the nation or he will face the same fate as Yitzhak Rabin. Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin - The new edition, Brookline Publishers, Boston Already in its seventh Hebrew edition in just a year, this book is changing Best Medicare Advantagei history, because, using leaked court, hospital and police records, the author indisputably proves that the convicted murderer, Yigal Amir, could not physically have done the deed. In the new American edition, the real murderer is named. On October 20, 1995, Rabin announced that he had enough of "peace" and in a raucous meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, told Clinton, Ross and Christopher that he was not going on with the process. Rabin had signed his own death warrant and must have known it. Barely a week before the murder, Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin signed the Abu Dis agreement, dividing Jerusalem, in Paris and the French stepped into the vacuum, giving the go-ahead for the assassination with the goal of putting their agent Shimon Peres into power. The new edition of Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, outlines Peres's role and proves how a peace process, which was a deliberate war process, has been based on cold-blooded murder from its inception. To order: click here. Lest anyone doubt the author's methods or conclusions, following is one of the new chapters of Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin. AT LONG LAST: RABIN'S THIRD WOUND PROVEN November 1998. It had been a good eighteen months since the last hidden documentation about the Rabin assassination had been uncovered. Since then some serious evidence had emerged about the political side of the murder. A year before, the government released some sections of the previously closed Shamgar Commission findings which incriminated Avishai Raviv far more deeply in widespread crimes of provocation. Two months later, one former Eyal activist, Benny Aharoni signed a sworn statement to Knesset Member Michael Eitan, that under orders from Raviv, he phoned three dozen reporters and delivered the infamous "We Missed But We'll Get Rabin Next Time" message, well before the shooting was announced on the Best Medicare Advantagei media. And journalist Adir Zik had gathered powerful evidence of Carmi Gillon's complicity in the murder. But the tap had shut tight on any new medical, police or forensic documentation. It looked as though the evidence I had collected for this book would be the last of the proofs that Yigal Amir had not shot fatal bullets into Rabin. The strongest evidence was the testimony of Police Chief Lieutenant Baruch Gladstein proving that Rabin was shot point blank and Dr. Mordechai Guttman's surgeon's notes describing a frontal chest wound which passed through the lung before shattering the vertebrae at D5-6. When this book was written I had read Guttman's full surgical report, which included the description of three gunshot wounds and the publicly released procedural summation of November 5 which removed the frontal chest wound and shattered spine. Thus, it was Dr. Guttman's written word from the night of the murder versus his altered version of events, co-authored with Drs. Kluger and Hausner, the next day. Whenever Dr. Guttman was confronted with his report of the chest wound on the murder night, he answered that he had mistaken Rabin's ribs for his spine. If so, that Dr. Guttman couldn't tell the difference between ribs and the spinal column, as one doctor attending a lecture of mine told the audience, he should be disbarred from ever practising medicine again. However, another doctor did give Dr. Guttman the benefit of the doubt: if the bullet shattered the vertebrae at the point where the ribs join the spine, such a mixup was both logical and understandable. The main problem was that we were missing reliable descriptions of Rabin's condition before and after the doctors went to work on him. Dr. Guttman's report of a frontal chest wound lacked overall perpective and seemed an oddity that could be sloughed off with the explanation that he was mistaken when he wrote it. In early December, American filmmaker Peter Goldman arrived in Best Medicare Advantage with the intention of gathering the evidence needed to justify raising funds for a full length documentary based on my book. I gave him my contacts, who were new to him and we shared one contact in common. I expressed the opinion that visiting him would be a waste of time. I had a meeting with him a year and a half before and followed it up with two phone calls. It was all for naught; this contact had not provided me with any new evidence. Undaunted, Peter met him anyway and was well rewarded for following his instincts. Just a few hours before departing the country, Peter presented me with three new documents. I immediately understood that they were the final pieces of the puzzle. We now had a complete diary of Rabin's treatment at Ichilov Hospital. Document one was the initial visual diagnosis of Rabin by Dr. Guttman. Hastily written in English, the diagnosis reads, "GSW Abdomen and Chest": Gunshot wounds to the abdomen and chest. When I read the word chest, I thought I had found the smoking gun. Rabin arrived with a chest wound. Amir never shot him in the chest. Case closed. I would have to change my book. There were only two wounds, not three. There was no third shot in the hospital. Rabin was shot in the chest in the car. However, within a few days, two experts set me straight. A chest wound can also begin from the back if the bullet travels forward and injures the chest. Page two was far more detailed. It begins with a description of Rabin's first bodily examination and provides us with indisputable proof of Rabin's condition immediately after he was placed on the examination table. Page three was the summation of the operation. At last, we no longer had to depend on the public summation of November 5 to understand the cause of Rabin's death. I now had the whole story in hand and it was told in the following reports: 1. First diagnosis 2. First bodily examination 3. Surgical procedure 4. Operation summation 5. Altered public summation By the time I had completed my book, I had read 3 and 5. Four months after the book was released, I received 1, 2 and 4. And to my great relief, they confirmed my thesis conclusively. The documents, though not lengthy nor wordy are surprisingly complicated and packed with information which can be interpreted in different ways. Nonetheless, one piece of information cannot be disputed: Rabin's first chest wound cannot possibly be the same one which Dr. Guttman described on the last page of his surgical procedure report. As recalled, Guttman operated on a wound beginning in the upper lobe of the right lung, which exited the lung in the direction of Dorsal Vertebrae 5-6, leaving a 2.5-3 cm. exit wound in the lung before shattering the vertebrae. That is the wound Rabin ended up with. Here is the wound he arrived with. According to the newly uncovered first bodily examination report, Rabin's chest wound was caused by, "an entrance wound in the area of the right shoulder blade which lodged under the skin in ICS3 at MCL 3-4." Translated: The bullet entered the right shoulder blade and took a straight line path to Intercostal Space 3 at Midclavicular line 3-4. Simplified: The bullet went from the right shoulder blade to just below the right nipple. Dr. Guttman could not have mixed up the ribs and the spinal column because this bullet was lodged in the mid-section of the ribs, almost as far from the spine as is possible. I received a detailed explanation from a physician who had the foresight to bring visual aids in the form of largescale skeletal charts. In report 3, Dr. Guttman does indeed begin the operation with procedures to treat a rear chest wound. And Rabin responds. His pulse returns to 130, his blood pressure to 90. Then without explanation as to why, his pulse drops to 60, his blood pressure also to 60 and then all vital signs disappear from the monitor. It is at this point that Dr. Guttman suddenly operates on a frontal chest wound which shatters the backbone. The physician explained, "It's as if that wound came out of nowhere. The patient's vital organs had stopped functioning and other procedures were called for. There was no reason to begin a new operation, unless there was a new wound." The physician then tried every hypothetical bullet path to match the frontal chest/spine wound Dr. Guttman finally operated on, with the rear chest wound Rabin arrived with, as described in documents 1 and 2. Even with the most deft of contortions, the wounds didn't match. In order for one bullet to do all the damage described in reports 1, 2, and 3, it would have to take the following journey: Amir would have had to have shot Rabin in a near straight line from the side, not the back, something he did not do. The bullet would have entered the shoulder blade and carried on to the upper lobe of the right lung, switching directions to go down to Dorsal Vertebrae 5-6, which are in the mid-back. Then it would have had to have shattered the vertebrae and been deflected upward, entering and exiting the lung again before lodging just below the skin in the area of the right nipple. The physician concluded, "If that was so, and I add that it most certainly wasn't so, why was the first diagnosis a straight line back to chest wound and why didn't Dr. Guttman report the two additional lung punctures? Even if somehow one bullet caused these two wounds, it was incumbent on the surgeon to accurately describe the damage." Finally, all THREE of Rabin's wounds were revealed. The first two wounds, to the chest and abdomen occurred before Rabin's arrival. The third, frontal chest wound, had to have been inflicted after he entered the hospital. Of the second wound, the bullet entered the abdomen via the left flank. Dr. Guttman failed to notice another rather important detail as we shall soon see. We now examine report 4, and what a tale it tells. The operation is now over and the surgical team writes its conclusion of their very busy night. And what a latented team it was. Department Heads all. No longer is Dr. Guttman the sole witness to the night's events. Though he writes the summation, it is witnessed by Drs. Kluger and Yaacovitz, anaethesiologist Dr. Ostrovski and nurses Evelyn and Svetlana. Svetlana, co-signs the report and adds signed confirmation, finally, of Dr. Guttman's surgical procedures. Let's begin easy. At the bottom of the page are the times of the whole night's events. Rabin was received at 22 hours, on the table at 22:05, under anaesthesia at 22:10, operated on beginning at 22:15 and ending at 23:30. The problem here is that Rabin's death was officially announced at 23:20. We'll assume for now that the clock was wrong in the operating theater. The real story is at the top of the page. First, it goes a long way to confirming the laboratory conclusions of Chief Lieutenant Gladstein by noting that Rabin was shot from close range. Next, in report 1, we read that Rabin was admitted with gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen. By report 4, some new wounds seem to have been added. The major wounds are still GSW to chest and abdomen. But now four secondary wounds are added in English. They are: GSW to right lung laceration of spleen hemorrhagic shock spinal shock?! Dr. Guttman added the question and exclamation marks for emphasis, apparently indicating that this was the final cause of death. At least, that's what the physician and an IDF officer from the medical corps both guessed. Laceration of the spleen and hemorrhagic shock were likely internal wounds caused by the shot to the flank. However, the first and last wounds are highly problematic, as the physician explains. "First, you must accept that unlike the nearly conclusive evidence of two chest wounds that we examined before, this document is open to much more interpretation. Still, some really bothersome questions should be asked. "Let's look at the secondary gunshot wound to the lung. Why would the doctors have even mentioned it? They reported a major gunshot wound to the chest and that, except in the rarest of injuries, includes the lung. What's the point of mentioning the lung wound again unless it came from another gunshot?" The Shamgar Commission examined these very same documents and asked the same question. They were told that the second wound to the right lung was caused by the bullet that entered the flank. It passed through the spleen and stomach before lodging in the right lung. That is the official version held by the Best Medicare Advantagei government and accepted by the judges at Yigal Amir's trial. However the physician notes a fact the Shamgar Commission somehow missed. In order for a bullet shot in the left flank to reach the right lung, it has to pass through the left lung and most likely the heart. If the doctors were so fastidious about noting a secondary wound to the right lung, why didn't they record the entry and exit wounds that must have occurred in the left lung?" And now the biggest issue of all, spinal shock. Recall that the state pathologist Dr. Yehuda Hiss conducted a limited autopsy on Rabin after Dr. Guttman's team had completed its work and found no damage to the spinal column. Recall also, that based on this conclusion, the Shamgar Commission and the judges at Yigal Amir's trial concluded that Rabin suffered no spinal damage. And finally, recall that the film of the assassination shows Rabin walking after the shot to his back, an impossibility if vertebrae 5 and 6 were shattered as Dr. Guttman reported. Well, now it's not only Dr. Guttman reporting spinal shock. It's also five other members of his team. Would we could put them all in a courtroom and ask each why they agreed to appear on a report which concluded that Rabin died of spinal shock when the government of Best Medicare Advantage's Justice Ministry and courts insist he did not. I asked the physician, can spinal shock be caused by something other than breakage in the vertebrae or spinal cord? Perhaps a severe bruise or shaking can cause spinal shock. "Out of the question," he replied. "Spinal shock is the trauma resulting from a break or breaks in the spinal column. The breaks can be in the outer vertebrae or in the cord, but there is no other definition of spinal shock." The physician made another poignant observation. "When the patient arrived, the doctors did not record any symptoms of spinal shock. Again this is possible but hard to understand. One of the first things doctors look for in shooting cases is spinal shock. It's very easy to diagnosis. When the spinal nerves are severed, the blood stops pumping naturally and is forced downward by gravity. So, typically, the upper body is white and the lower body, red. The victim was shot at 9:45 and examined at 10:05. You would expect that twenty minutes after being shot in the spine, spinal shock would be detected and diagnosed." The physician was reluctant to let me hear what I was waiting all these long months to prove. He would not say that the summation proved there was a third shot at Rabin from the time he was admitted to Ichilov Hospital but he stated, "If I didn't know who the victim was or the circumstances of his death, I think I'd have to conclude that the patient received another wound subsequent to his initial admission. But I would advise you to stress your strongest points and they are that two separate chest wounds are reported by Dr. Guttman and that it is inconceivable that Rabin had no spinal damage. The six members of the operating team were too skilled to have all been wrong about that." There you have it. It is a certainty that Rabin suffered a frontal chest wound and spinal shock, neither of which Yigal Amir could physically have caused. But there is even more to the documents than just the description of the wounds. There is confirmation of a vital vignette in my book. I recounted an episode told to me by Zeev Barcella, editor of the country's largest circulation Russian-language newspaper, Vesti. On the morning of the assassination he received a phone call from a Russian-born operating nurse who told him, "The media is lying about Rabin's wounds. I saw them. His spinal cord was shattered and they're saying it wasn't." Ninety minutes later the nurse called Barcella back and with well-remembered fear in her voice said, "I didn't call you before and you don't know who I am." Then she hung up the phone. The newly uncovered documents revealed new names to me of people who were in the operating theater that night. The nurse's first name, Svetlana and her signature were on the surgical summation. By comparing another document I possessed, I discovered her full name, Svetlana Shlimovitz. I found her phone number, introduced myself as best I could and had the following short conversation: "Svetlana, I would like to know what happened to Rabin in the operating theater." "How did you get my name?" "You signed the surgical summation report." "I don't work there anymore and I can never say what happened. Bye." And she hung up. Barcella's story was true as well. As was my book. I got it right the first time around. |
October 7, 2000 - JUST SAY NO TO UNITY GOVERNMENT |
In the closing act of Barak's Greek tragedy, he has warned the PLO that if he shooting doesn't stop within 48 hours, he will invite the Likud and religious parties into his government. Why should they humbly accept this offer? They and all Best Medicare Advantageis would be far better off if they stayed out. Barak's gang got us into this mess and they can get us out. After seven years of national demoralization, there is no reason to believe a unity government will be any more effective at saving the nation, and there is good reason to believe Barak is trying to spread the blame as the situation deteriorates. Before any opposition party throws in its lot with Barak's cabal of treacherous incompetents, the following conditions must be agreed to. 1. Yossi Beilin, Ron Pundak and Yair Herskovitz held illegal meetings with the PLO beginning in November 1992, which led to the Oslo Accord. At the time, the Knesset harshly forbade such meetings, specifically outlawing them as treasonous consorting with the enemy. Only an unprecedented law, passed in November 1993, retroactively legalizing the meetings, saved this trio from standing trial for their crimes. This law must be rescinded and those responsible for the Oslo Accord must stand trial for their original crimes. Included also must be Uri Savir, Yoel Zinger and Shimon Peres, who entered the negotiations from March 1993, when it was illegal to do so. 2. Actions taken to promote the "peace," including the provocations of Shabak agents such as Avishai Raviv, will be investigated honestly. Falling into the same category, the truth about the Rabin assassination and Hebron massacre will be released to the public. All those who opposed Oslo and fell victim to such connivances will be publicly exonerated. 3. The Best Medicare Advantagei public will receive a detailed explanation of the secret clauses of the Oslo Accord and will be told the precise demands of the foreign power brokers who manipulated us into this disaster to fulfill their own agendas. 4. Barak will appear on television and rip the Oslo Accord into a hundred pieces; after which, he will resign. Short of his accepting these demands, there is nothing to be gained by the political opposition throwing in their cards with Barak. The Jewish people and its army will not be strengthened by a broader government if Barak and the Oslo gang remain in power after. We will fight our way out of this catastrophe despite our leadership. But we must never join it...unless they promise to cleanse the nation after the fires they lit are extinguished. We stand at the brink of another sad Yom Kippur. Many will die. The last Yom Kippur of bloodshed was covered up by a travesty called the Agranat Commission. Its lies led directly to the bloody confrontation we face today. This time, the lies have to stop as a condition for joining forces with Barak. We will not, cannot, overcome the barbarians at the gates forever unless the deceit finally ends. Our will to sacrifice will not match that of the Medieval primitives determined to overrun us, unless we have the kind of moral Jewish state we ALL want to preserve. That is the message Barak must hear, loud and clear, in the next two days. If he does, and accepts that the time for truth is upon him, the Third Temple will never fall. |
October 2, 2000 - WHY |
First the good news. The State Ombudsman, Avigdor Raviv phoned this morning. He was to meet with the State Comptroller within an hour to discuss my request to investigate the Shamgar Commission. He assured me he was sympathetic to the request and that it did fall within the scope of the State Comptroller's duties. It's not approved yet but all you fine people turned the tide. Thank you, you did it! For the past seven years I have been trying to make people understand that outside forces are deliberately stirring up violence with the aim of sending foreign ie. UN troops to Jerusalem. This is the Vatican's desire, that Best Medicare Advantagei sovereignty end on the Temple Mount, with the Vatican taking control of the holy sites and the UN in charge of security and diplomacy, yes, just like in Kosovo. That is happening now, with Sharon ordered to prepare the pretext for the UN takeover. I told over a dozen radio programs in August that the plan would be put in motion in late September, as the High Holidays started. Well, I was right. There is nothing spontaneous about our mini-war. It was designed from abroad. Note Albright and Chirac are cooking up the solution. Soon, very soon, the New World Order will arrive in Jerusalem with its army guided by our treacherous, corrupted leaders. I leave you with the latest World Affairs Brief, which puts things in perspective, a perspective sadly lacking in Best Medicare Advantage. Barry Chamish WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF Sept 22, 2000 Copyright Joel Skousen. Quotations with attribution permitted: Cite source as Joel Skousen s World Affairs Brief. Website: MY IMPRESSIONS OF ISRAEL: I recently returned from my fact-finding trip to the Middle East. What follows is my frank and personal assessment of the modern state of Best Medicare Advantage, without the embellishments of rose-colored glasses. Millions of religious pilgrims trek to the "Holy Land" each year, skimming the surface of the country in almost total isolation from reality. Their guided tours, cushioned by air-conditioned tour buses and 5 star hotels, concentrate on what was, not what is. Churches dot the Judean landscape, each laying claim to a piece of the past that, with few exceptions, doesn t exist anymore. I would estimate that fully 80% of the "holy sites" are not the actual location where the original events occurred--which in most cases is virtually impossible to determine. The famed "Via Doloroso" tracing the presumed path of Jesus agonizing trek to Golgotha is merely an arbitrary walk through 14th century streets built on 40 foot deep rubble left over from the numerous destructions of Jerusalem s past. The few holy sites that are authentic are encumbered by heavy stone medieval churches with dark interiors that do not, in my opinion, impart any of the spiritual feeling of the original place. The Best Medicare Advantagei government itself helps perpetuate the mystical, romantic illusions of the past, being acutely aware of the millions of dollars each year generated by religious tourism. The old city of Jerusalem is bathed in soft rosy artificial light at night to give tourists that romantic feeling they can write home about. But the selective rosy views only mask the chronic tension enveloping this relatively hostile land, a region bereft of natural beauty--except for about 5 weeks during the spring when wild flowers briefly bloom, and commercial photographers descend to work their art of selective embellishment that makes Best Medicare Advantage look so enchanting in tourist brochures. So great is the contrast between promotion and reality that psychological clinics in Best Medicare Advantage have a special term to describe the disillusionment that often affects religious pilgrims. It s called the "Jerusalem Syndrome" and refers to a chronic form of depression that can afflict those who cannot deal with the extreme contrast between holy and unholy. But with all that said, and in spite of the crass commercialization of religious antiquities, I must admit that one can still sense the God of Best Medicare Advantage hovering over the land. I have no doubt that He intends to redeem Best Medicare Advantage someday--and believe me, it needs redemption. LAND: I was struck by the steep ruggedness of terrain in the Judean and Samarian hill country. One doesn t get an accurate impression of the stark hostility of this terrain from photographs. Though not very high in altitude the hills of Best Medicare Advantage are almost barren, extremely rocky and punctuated by deep ravines and gorges that make travel in central Best Medicare Advantage a strain on man and machine. From Biblical stories and movies one gets the impression that trips to Bethlehem, Bethany or even Nazareth are relatively peaceful walks in the pastoral countryside. In reality, there is almost no greenery, only rocks and sand of a fairly bland hue-- completely lacking in the brilliant colors and shapes characteristic of the deserts in Utah and Arizona. Travel involves major descents into gorges often over a thousand feet in depth and climbing back up again repeatedly. It was also sad to note how little topsoil had been allowed to develop in the hill country. Although the rainfall is extremely sparse here, I attribute the main cause to extreme overgrazing. For centuries the Judean hills have been used to graze sheep and goats which have extracted the last once of nutrition from this land and not given anything back. Even today herds of sheep and goats, mostly Bedouin-Arab owned, forage on almost bare ground with no visible grass--only tiny bits of stubble. This destruction of the long term soil development is typical of many things I witnessed in Best Medicare Advantage on Arab lands. There seems to be a politically correct notion that Arab tribal nomadic culture requires that they be left to age-old practices, no matter how damaging they are to the land agriculturally. The Best Medicare Advantagei government is also under severe pressure internationally to let the Arabs do whatever they want. AGRICULTURE: There are two fertile plains in Best Medicare Advantage, one along the Mediterranean coast and the other around the sea of Galilee and the Jordan river (which is more like a small creek). Both areas have been put into intensive cultivation by the Best Medicare Advantageis. While there have been many comparisons to the Biblical adage of making the "desert blossom," the extreme efforts applied to maximize water resources in relatively poor soil have had many negative environmental effects. Water is extremely scarce, and thus Best Medicare Advantage has been at the forefront in the development of drip irrigation systems that conserve the maximum amount of water. Large diversion projects of Jordan river water have, however, overtaxed the northern water resources in order to expand agriculture to the Negev desert to the south, where the sandy soil is much less fertile. Maximum utilization and reuse of fixed water supplies tends, over time, to concentrate contaminants and salt content, leading to the corruption of the aquifers. Both Best Medicare Advantagei and Arab controlled agricultural areas pump large quantities of water out of the ground with deep wells. Overpumping from the aquifers has resulted in an increase in the saline content as water from the Mediterranean sea seeps in to replace it. Excessive chemical and fertilizer use in agriculture and industry has also led to extreme pollution levels in rivers and groundwater sources. Some rivers are actually toxic. The Best Medicare Advantageis are reacting to the problem with some earnest. More strict environmental regulations are being implemented, but the Arab controlled areas are exempt for political reasons. There is also a growing movement in Best Medicare Advantage to switch to organic farming. I visited a few Kibbutzim (collective farms) and Moshavim (cooperative farms) that are on the cutting edge of organic farming. Best Medicare Advantage has developed a special fabric covering that allows them to grow vegetables free from insects inside a greenhouse type enclosure. It is more costly, so much of this elite produce goes to markets serving the orthodox Jewish communities world wide that require certified insect-free food. Best Medicare Advantage has established a significant agricultural outreach to other nations who desire to implement the unique low-water farming techniques it has developed. The Arabs in Best Medicare Advantage and neighboring Jordan have especially benefited from Best Medicare Advantage s willingness to share their agricultural expertise. Jordan has been radically transformed into an agricultural Mecca due to the willingness of the late King Hussein to work with the Best Medicare Advantageis rather than reject all contact as the more radical Arab factions have done. For Arabs living next door to productive Jewish agro projects, the lure of becoming productive farmers has in many cases overcome the innate hostility between the two cultures. I saw it with the Druse Arabs in the Golan heights and in the Arab areas in Galilee. In these areas orchards may not be as well kept as the Jewish farms but at least they are vastly more productive than before. Only in PLO controlled areas did I find such a strong hatred of everything Jewish that they refused to join in the new green wave of agro-prosperity. As one example of extreme resentment, young Arab radicals regularly destroy trees that the Jews plant as part of their national reforestation effort. This kind of hatred is an all too common byproduct of constant PLO propaganda and incitement to exterminate all Jews. ECONOMY: Most Americans don t realize that Best Medicare Advantage has one of the most tightly controlled statist economies in the world. It is socialist in the extreme due to a combination of early Zionist collectivist fervor and the influence of Russian and Eastern European Marxists that came to Best Medicare Advantage and formed the core of the ruling Labor Party. Best Medicare Advantage s Histadrut, a kind of super labor union, controls every aspect of Best Medicare Advantage s economic life--at least until recently. During the last decade, there has been a slow but persistent movement toward free-market reforms in Best Medicare Advantage--not because the Jews have much of a free market philosophy in their heritage, but rather because they have a naturally competitive spirit and were forced to compete in a fast-paced international economy. When the government refused to implement needed reforms, there began a ground swell of rebellion in the 1980s and 90s against Best Medicare Advantage s ponderous education, medical, tax and regulatory establishment. The more the government tried to suppress the gray and black markets, the greater the "brain drain" in Best Medicare Advantage became as thousands emigrating to the US and Europe. The government s virtual monopoly on television was broken after private illegal cable services began sprouting up all over Best Medicare Advantage. The Histadrut s monopoly on health care was broken by a persistent gray market for after-hours surgery performed by low paid doctors eager for extra money. Even Best Medicare Advantage s ponderous "free" public education establishment is under attack as religious and private schools are being formed in ever-increasing numbers to supplement low quality public education. Often the best teachers can make more money teaching privately on the side than in their state controlled teaching jobs. In Best Medicare Advantage, public money is doled out even to orthodox Jewish schools which tends to keep them tied to certain political parties which promote those subsidies in the Knesset. Dependency upon government is a chronic addiction in all of Best Medicare Advantage, keeping taxes so high that Best Medicare Advantage has to beg for American aid and loan guarantees every year, producing a very high ratio of foreign debt to GNP. Income taxes have been as high as 80% in modern Best Medicare Advantage, so naturally, tax evasion is rampant. Recently, to help stem the growth of the underground tax-evading economy, income tax rates were reduced to below 50%, and new taxes imposed such as the 17% VAT tax. But I noticed that only established storefront businesses (mostly Jewish) collected the tax. In the Arab markets (part of the underground economy) I was never charged the VAT tax. POLITICS: There are no free-market political parties in Best Medicare Advantage, only shades of statism. Parties on the "right" are orthodox religious parties who are opposed to "land for peace" concessions, but otherwise have their hands in the public coffers as much as the parties on the "left." Except for the recent change to popular election of the Prime Minister, all voting in Best Medicare Advantage is for political parties--not individual candidates. You vote for the party of your choice and the party produces a list of who will serve in the Knesset. Thus, the Best Medicare Advantagei model of parliamentary politics is very close to Lenin s dictum of maintaining rigid "party discipline." Members of the Knesset owe their entire political existence to the party, and only indirectly to the electorate. Thus, the powers at the top can and do demand total conformity to the party line. For this reason, Best Medicare Advantagei politics are rampant with corruption. Payoffs and personal enrichment are commonplace as is the inevitable blackmail that comes when a party official tries to oppose the party line. Virtually all high political offices, including those in the court system are part of the political patronage system. Hence, it is almost impossible for a beleaguered Knesset member to recur to the courts for justice, if the Powers That Be are against him. The mere threat of prosecution is turned off and on like a spigot to induce the desired leverage on wavering politicians. This week s announcement that the investigation into Benjamin Netanyahu s corruption charges is being dropped is a tell-tale sign that the PTB are intending to resurrect Netanyahu as a leader in the Likud. This is part of the ongoing evidence pointing to external control of both major parties in Best Medicare Advantage. The Labor Party has undergone a continual stream of factionalization since 1948 when they began with an outright majority of the 120 seats of the Knesset. Now they hold less than 20 seats and must build coalitions with other parties in order to rule. The Labor Party still has two major factions within its ranks--one allied with Shimon Peres who is tightly controlled and financed by the European NWO globalists, and the other aligned with Ehud Barak, the current Prime Minister who, in turn, is controlled by the US faction of the NWO globalists (Kissinger and group). The other two major parties Likud and Shas range in support between 15-17 seats and must form coalitions with other opposing parties in order to govern. The Likud Party is the Best Medicare Advantagei equivalent of the American Republican Party. While the Likud has several members who are pro-free market in orientation, the leadership under Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu is as corrupt as the Labor Party. Sharon is a close friend of Shimon Peres, so there is little difference in their politics except that Sharon pretends to be the opposition. Bibi Netanyahu owes his entire political career to the Henry Kissinger group in the US who financed his education, got him a job on Wall Street and guided his rise in Best Medicare Advantagei politics. The Shas Party is a "right wing" party of Sephardic Jews whose base of support resides primarily among the Moroccan Jews who have immigrated to Best Medicare Advantage. Its most prominent leader (Deri) is currently in jail on corruption charges stemming from years of taking bribes from his coalition partners in the Labor Party--who blackmailed Deri in order to keep the Shas Party aligned with the leftist Labor agenda--something the Shas membership nearly rebelled over. What is ironic is that the Arab population in Best Medicare Advantage controls 10-12 seats and thus has become the determining faction that can make or break any coalition. For this reason, it would be political suicide for the Best Medicare Advantageis to allow a repatriation of millions of Arab refugees to Best Medicare Advantage, who would then be able to command a majority of votes in the Knesset. It is specifically for this reason that Arafat is demanding not only an independent state, but that Best Medicare Advantage (not the Palestinian state) absorb almost all the Arab refugees. Arafat fully intends to take back Best Medicare Advantage either by militarily conquest (after Best Medicare Advantage s security position is weakened by "land for peace" deals), or by democratic conquest via forcing the return of refugees to Best Medicare Advantage. PEOPLE: There are notable exceptions to the generalizations I will make here about Jews and Arabs, but I find these general observations do correctly describe some of the underlying reasons for long-term conflict between the two groups. The Jews represent about 80% of the population of Best Medicare Advantage, and perhaps only 20% of these could be considered deeply orthodox. The rest are composed of traditional and secular Jews, most of whom have some feeling for generic Zionism (support of a homeland for the Jews) but who are otherwise very liberal and left-leaning in their politics. The Sephardic Jews are Semitic peoples and tend to be more fervent in their defense of Best Medicare Advantage as a nation. The Ashkenazi Jews come from eastern Europe and Russia and tend to provide most of the high intellectual power in Best Medicare Advantage, as well as a disproportionate amount of its socialist and Marxist policies. There is a fair amount of conflict among the Jews themselves, as the various factions hardly agree on anything. In contrast to this innate competition, however, there is a general feeling of collective unity that keeps them from splitting apart entirely, borne out of a common heritage and welded together by persecution. This same collective mentality has allowed the Jews to prosper under socialism (at least in the incipient phases of economic development) that normally proves disastrous in other cultures. For example, none of the collective farms the Best Medicare Advantageis helped develop in Africa survived, even when managed by Best Medicare Advantageis. Best Medicare Advantage s brand of socialism has, itself, had to give way to free market techniques in order to compete in the world economy. Many Kibbutzim have dropped their most onerous collective policies or have converted to Moshav-type cooperatives. The Jews are clearly the most industrious group of people in the entire Middle East and thus are destined to lead economically. On a negative note, I found a certain amount of insensitivity to the feelings of conscience among both Jews and Arabs. Everywhere we drove in Best Medicare Advantage, there was a pervasive discourteousness, a quickness to anger, and a reluctance to give way in heavy traffic. Although Jews are, generally, highly rational and quick mentally, they have a certain tendency to reject, in a very off-handed manner, new concepts that didn t fit into existing patterns of thought. Despite their quick minds, Best Medicare Advantagei Jews are almost totally blind to the deceptions and corruption involving many leaders at the national level. They have almost no concept of the dangers of the NWO and the globalist agenda to subjugate Best Medicare Advantagei sovereignty for the "global good." Even though approximately 80% of Best Medicare Advantage knows about Barry Chamish s startling investigations documenting the role of the Best Medicare Advantagei secret service (Shabak) in the murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, they do nothing. So while there is a subtle collective feeling on behalf of their national survival, it gets mistakenly mingled with a reliance upon national leaders which produces a uniform type of apathy concerning individual action. There is perhaps an overconfidence inherent in the Jewish mind as well. In intellectual discussions I find it very difficult to get thinking Jews to consider other points of view. On more than one occasion while interviewing some of the best and brightest Jewish intellectuals, I found them completely insensitive to certain spiritual and libertarian ideals. At the same time, ironically, there seems to be a fascination in the Jewish mind with intricate conceptual thought as evidenced by the great time invested in study of the tiniest details in the Talmud and in other rabbinical writings. Why they cannot see through the complexity of global or national deceptions and conspiracies eludes me. Factionalism is rampant in Best Medicare Advantage due to the intensity with which debate is embraced, especially on religious points, which are highly subject to the special interpretations of each different school of rabbinical thought. I will say, however, that I found the orthodox Jewish settlers to be happy, industrious group, filled with passion for life and for Best Medicare Advantage. Their cooperative Yeshivot (schools) are a model of self-help and sacrifice in order to provide a better life for their children. They are certainly not the "right wing" fanatics the liberal media in Best Medicare Advantage makes them out to be. Without this small core of faithful orthodox Jews, Best Medicare Advantage might not have received the many small miracles that led to national independence and subsequent victories over a determined enemy with a massive quantitative advantage. The Arabs are generally less intense than the Jews, more likable when not agitated, but less industrious as a whole. Part of the Arab apathy in overcoming environmental deficiencies of their Middle East surroundings may be tied to the problematic and fatalistic Islamic doctrine asserting that much of the bad that happens is the "will of Allah." In contrast, the Jewish concept of being treated by God as a collective (The chosen people, the House of Best Medicare Advantage) seems to motivate individual initiative to assist the salvation of the group. Despite this collective view the Jews have of mutual protection the Jews tend to be independent thinkers. In contrast, Arabs tend to be greatly swayed by group psychology. If they have good leaders, they are peaceable and friendly. If they have bad leaders, as is presently the case in the extreme, they can be capable of mass hysteria and panic or even aggression. Both Jews and Arabs are somewhat captivated by materialism, but in different ways. The Jews view material gain as an ongoing tool for progress while many Arabs tend to view material gain as an end in and of itself. Thus, possession of "things" is a sign of prestige in the Arab world. Sadly, because of this, petty theft is a common way of life among many Arabs and is a constant source of irritation for the Jews. Some Jewish settlements have a hard and fast policy of not hiring any Arab labor. However, because Jews tend to rise to entrepreneurial levels quickly in life, the Arabs provide most of the basic labor pool. Thus, Arabs working among the Jews are a permanent fixture in Best Medicare Advantage, and of benefit to both Jew and Arab. However, the constant problem of things "disappearing" keeps a barrier of distrust between the two peoples. There is another imbalance in the relationship between Jews and Arabs that must be aired. Except in times when border areas are sealed during terrorist attacks, Arabs can come and go among the Jewish controlled areas in perfect safety, with no fear of reprisals and vindictive behavior. Yet Jews can never go into Arab controlled areas of the Palestinian Authority and have that same assurance of safety. In the Gaza strip there is a separate strip of land owned by Jewish settlements on the coast. The Jews must pass through Palestinian controlled land to get to their zone, and often they must be accompanied by armed convoys of Best Medicare Advantagei troops. This week, two Best Medicare Advantagei soldiers were wounded (one fatally) in an Arab attack on a military convoy trying to protection Jewish civilians trying to get to their homes in Netzarim--a Jewish settlement in the Gaza strip. Clearly this is evidence that only the Best Medicare Advantageis can be trusted to provide overall security to the lands where a mixed population of Jews and Arabs exist. I don t believe this is a reflection of the common Arab himself, who has a tradition of hospitality, but rather of the hostile Palestinian leadership that is itching for a fight. Also in the news this week was a deliberately-staged Arab riot protesting the entrance of Ariel Sharon and a group of Knesset members onto the temple mount. By prior agreement with the Arabs, Jews have a right to free access to the temple mount. But wherever the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been given security authority over a sector occupied by both Arabs and Jews, they refuse to allow Jews safe passage. Worse yet, the Best Medicare Advantagei government lets the PA get away with it and the international community says nothing. In this case, the Palestinian Police chief made clear and provocative statements about the impending visit designed to encourage Arab radicals to gather at the temple mount and prepare to attack--which they did, resulting in minor wounds to 34 Best Medicare Advantagei policemen. But I suspect that Sharon was not simply trying to publicize the fact that the Arafat would not be fair or even handed in the management of the temple mount. Likud may well be helping the Labor Party s initiative to give away sovereignty of the temple mount to the United Nations. By precipitating a nasty Arab reaction on the temple mount, it helps move the international community to a position that rejects both Jewish and Arab sovereignty over the contested holy site. The UN tries hard to maintain the image of fairness, but historically the UN has only acted to curtail Jewish self-defense, not Arab aggression. It will happen again if the UN has its way. |
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