A Chanukah Miracle?

Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum told our correspondent that Tel Aviv carried out the strikes after receiving green light from its allies and certain regional countries... Arnt we allies with Isreal? A little off target for this artical, but we are allies with the agressor in this fight? Bushes green light? Smart ppl please explain to me.

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I???m so happy!! For months I rode my bicycle to work instead of my truck. So I did my little part. Why should I pay $4.50 a gallon a gas to countries who hate us? Times are changing! My next vehicle will get 100 mpg ??? Ha ha! I???m already on the waiting list http://www.aptera.com/ Want to correct the problem in the Middle East? QUIT GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY!!!!!! THAT WILL SHUT THEM UP! The solution starts in our own backyard with energy independence! It really was amazing to see the American public cut down on the driving!

Likud will come to power soon in Israel, Netaniagu will not hesitate to mercilessly overrun Gasa iand, if necesasray. Lebanon (had Israelins not hesitated and used more than 1/100th of their firepower - they would have easily buried Hesbollah together with thousand of civilians, problem which will not stop them now), and when they find out that public outcry is not so bad as Olmert was afraid - Iran's day will come. No miracles, oly survivor logic.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: The road to peace in the middle east is energy independence. Once those countries actually have to grow up and get a real economy, they'll stop this insanity. So the next time you go car shopping, think about that.

If the powers that be in Iran (and Ahmadinejad isn't one of them) have decided that Iran must obtain strategic weaponry to guarantee Iran's sovereignty (which is to say, their own positions of power), it is pointless to imagine that outside pressure will stop them. As far as setting off a nuclear arms race in the region, who in the region has any real cause for alarm about Iranian nukes that wasn't already alarmed by Israeli ones? Saudi Arabia? Rubbish... if the presence of an arsenal said to number in the HUNDREDS of nuclear weapons in the hands of the Jewish state didn't propel the Saudis into arming themselves, neither will a much smaller arsenal in the hands of the Shia state to their north... Iraq? Afghanistan? Azerbaijan? All of them have bigger problems than the prospect of an Iranian nuclear arsenal and more immediate adversaries than the Iranian government...which isn't even an adversary for them at all.

Only Israel would be concerned. And Israel already RAN its own "arms race"... with nobody else on the track, so lets not be too concerned about that, at THIS late date. There is no sound reason for the United States to be leaning on Iran over this at ALL, and plenty of good reasons NOT to... merely beginning with the obvious fact that threatening someone is a very good way to persuade them to arm themselves to the teeth; it is NOT a logical method to persuade them NOT to do so. IF Iran obtains a nuclear weapon, they will have a deterrent to the oft-threatened Israeli attack... and virtually nothing more. Iran couldn't launch a pre-emptive strike capable of preventing a much more devastating Israeli response; both nations would be deterred from attacking each other...and what is wrong with that? It worked for the USA and USSR.

This is an absolutely amazing and disgusting article. Here we have Newsweek paying Mr. Hirsh to lament the natural demographic transition of birthrates. Recall that Mr. Hirsh and his Jewish media go ballistic when California considered measures to sustain a white majority -- and California is beset with massive illegal immigration.

I tend to agree with Hirsh and the Jews that we can afford to be tolerant, and are best served by doing so, as regards Calfornia's demographics. But for Hirsh to lament that a supposed democracy will, without immigration but just due to natural birthrates, shift to an Islamic majority? And for Newsweek to pay him to write it?

It seems to be lost on Mr. Hirsh, Newsweek, and the Jewish media elite that the founding premise of Israel was to allow for the safety of Jews. Whether Iran has a bomb or not, Jews in Israel are now at very high risk indeed. How much oil money would bribe loose a bomb from the Russian interior? $150 million? Medvedev and Putin wouldn't even have how to know of it. Pirates grab an Isreali fishing boat, Mumbai style, ride up to the coast, and goodbye Israel.

Mr. Hirsh, and Newsweek, would do better to spend their ink asking America to accept allowing Isreail Jews to migrate here as citizens. With their hard work, great values, acumen, and now needed cash, I suspect they'd get a fair hearing.

The Isreali causus existencius has failed. The US under Jim Crow was no place for Jewish refugees to seek a home. History has moved on. We can offer shelter here, pull HItler's burr from the belly of the Arabs, and plan for a brighter world tomorrow.