There were several main goals of President Bush’s recent address to the Knesset in Jerusalem: to reinforce the perception that the government of America is a staunch friend of Israel; to shore up the expulsion regime of the American elite’s client regime headed by Ehud Olmert; to soften up the hearts and heads of Israeli Jews to accept more ‘painful sacrifices’ for ‘peace’; to distract attention from America’s arming and training of Fatah and to draw a facile distinction between Iran, Fatah and Hamas; and to roil the superficial debate between the GOP, ‘Team Red’ and the Donkeys, ‘Team Blue’ about which has done more to empower jihad and world disorder…a tough call. (more…)

Every year during the month of Iyar, sometime in May, debate resumes in Israel about whether those who love and seek the sovereignty and settlement of a Jewish state at least in all the land west of the Jordan should celebrate the official independence day Iyar 5 (this year, May 8) [1]. Given the failure of every government, increasingly obvious since 1967 and in place with ’official’ Zionist leaders by 1930, to fulfill this promise, some argue that to celebrate the existence of a State that works with the enemies of the Jewish people to frustrate redemption is confusion and self-contempt. Others still see the day, for all the failures of all the governments as a miracle, the beginnings of the truly sovereign Israel that the greatest sages say will mark the redemption [2].  (more…)