The Iranian Elections

Much of the world is breathlessly awaiting the outcome of the Iranian elections. There is hope in the West that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be unseated and Iran will move back from the brink in the nuclear confrontation. First, no matter who wins the election, the mullahs who actually control Iran will not abandon the nascent atomic project as it has become a matter of pride for the Iranian nation (and many of the clerics share Ahmadinejad's belief in ushering in the Mehdi by creating the chaos of the end times). Second, Ahmadinejad will almost surely win as educated, cosmopolitan Iranians who oppose him are widely outnumbered by Ahmadinejad's ill-educated, fanatic supporters. War between Israel, which can not afford to risk their survival on the wishy-washy West and now on America's leader who has suddenly pulled the carpet out from under the Jewish state, which has been left to Iran's devices by her erstwhile allies and whose very existence is at risk, is all but inevitable.

Their Supreme Arrogance

This morning, I switched between ABC and its interview of the Iranian madman and NBC with King Abdullah, the scheming Jordanian. Both are enemies of the Jewish state, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad more overtly, seeking total annihilation of the Jewish state and considering it his divinely commanded mission. The soft-spoken Jordanian though is no friend of the Jews. He slyly blames the entire crisis of the Middle East on them and now has Netanyahu as the bugbear with much of the rest of the Jew-baiting world agreeing that the new Prime Minister is the obstacle preventing just and lasting peace. This is utter sophistry as there is no Palestinian partner to make peace with, as the PA wants to extinguish the Zionist enterprise with a thousand cuts while Hamas, the voice of the vast majority of Palestinians, wants Israel obliterated with Jewish presence in the Holy Land extinguished outright. The Jews have no Palestinian arbiter who can deliver anything but more bloodshed and unending conflict. The gross conceit of Europeans who marshalled the Holocaust, orchestrating the systematic murder of their Jews and permitting the Shoah, and of the brash, insouciant American president to think they still have the power to dictate the fate of the Jewish state and Jewish people must be disabused forthwith-Jews do not live by sufferance anymore and never will again, never again.

Human Rights Hatefest

The Durban II UN conference in Geneva has descended into an Israel-bashing orgy. Just as the original Durban meeting singled out Israel for opprobrium, the ongoing parley is being used by such human rights stalwarts as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to launch diatribes against the "Zionist Entity". Multilateralism is employed once again by evil actors to attack the innocent. These international forums are worse than useless; they advance tyranny under the guise of protecting liberty.

America Goes Begging

After going to our NATO allies hat in hand, seeking help in Afghanistan and being rebuffed, Obama is now being turned away by the UN as he seeks sanctions against North Korea. To ask a body that cheered End time Islamist messianist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he spoke then announced he felt God speaking to him on the stage and loudly applauded Hugo Chavez when he said Bush had left the odor of sulfur behind, is demeaning the nation yet again. For the last superpower to ask for the tender mercies of Sudan and Libya is ridiculous. The UN long since should have been asked to leave New York and be sent packing to Geneva. A confederacy of willing, like minded democracies should have replaced it during the Cold War when it became a debating society and forum to side with the Soviets and have so-called non-aligned nations which were mostly puppets of the Reds act as if they were equals of the US and serve as a constant nuisance and financial burden to America all the while thwarting collective action that would have advanced justice. Asking a body of tyrannies to help on any international concern is fool hearty and counterproductive. A body dominated by the bad will never do good and only a moron or patsy would ask them.