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  • Posted By: Neshamah101 @ 12/18/2007 2:42:06 PM

    How banal is evil?

    You may wish to ask and you may wonder what all the Israeli and all the Jewish leaders are doing while this evil has been unfolding, thus far in the quite invisible, the metaphysical, i.e. spiritual realm and world?

    The same as they've done always before, watched it unfold, Baruch Hashem, participating in it, Baruch Hashem, for they themselves have sold their Souls to the mammon worshipping Illuminati of these globalized "free markets" (of Arbeit Macht Frei), the timeless Illuminati with its local and global offshoots (CFR, Bilderbergers, all Institutes of this and that, all cradles of illusory "higher learning," the Vatican, NATO, U.N., EU, OPEC, G-8, etc.) as was observed by Hannah Arendt after the Shoah:

    "Wittingly or unwittingly, the Jewish Councils were tools of the Nazis. Jewish leadership made the destruction of the Jewish people easier..." Hannah Arendt, "Eichmann in Jerusalem, A Report on the Banality of Evil

    Shabbat Shemot this week.

  • Posted By: Neshamah101 @ 12/18/2007 1:22:49 PM

    What "accidental" and "co-incidental" and "surprising" timing. What sorry and sickening corporatist and fascist Illuminati Skull and Bones timing to attempt to destroy Judaism and Israel.

    It is Tevet 9th today, Erev Tevet 10th, (y)our Fast of Tevet, and the repeated Siege of Jerusalem.

    Parashas Noach of the cosmic code and guide of the Torah and the Zohar for all Mankind foretells and forewarns us that "History repeats itself for those who refuse to learn from it."

    Live "love thy neighbor" to avoid and sidestep, Baruch Hashem, UPstep all Nazi -spirited harm and hurt anywhere and everywhere.

    "Charity saves from death," states our Torah/Zohar, "less is more" we are taught.

    Why isn't anybody listening?

    Why aren't you listening?

    Shabbat Shemot this week.




  • Posted By: sirisfi @ 12/18/2007 1:12:32 PM

    Former Italian President and the man who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio Francesco Cossiga has gone public on 9/11, telling Italy's most respected newspaper that the attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad and that this was common knowledge amongst global intelligence agencies.
    Cossiga's new revelations appeared last week in Italy's oldest and most widely read newspaper, Corriere della Sera. Below appears a rough translation.

    "[Bin Laden supposedly confessed] to the Qaeda September [attack] to the two towers in New York [claiming to be] the author of the attack of the 11, while all the [intelligence services] of America and Europe ... now know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the CIA American and the Mossad with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic Countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part ... in Iraq [and] Afghanistan."
    wake up america!!!


  • Posted By: sirisfi @ 12/18/2007 1:11:33 PM

    Former Italian President and the man who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio, Francesco Cossiga has gone public on 9/11, telling Italy's most respected newspaper that the attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad and that this was common knowledge amongst global intelligence agencies.
    Cossiga's new revelations appeared last week in Italy's oldest and most widely read newspaper, Corriere della Sera. Below appears a rough translation.

    "[Bin Laden supposedly confessed] to the Qaeda September [attack] to the two towers in New York [claiming to be] the author of the attack of the 11, while all the [intelligence services] of America and Europe ... now know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the CIA American and the Mossad with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic Countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part ... in Iraq [and] Afghanistan."

    look at the world from multiple angles. the american people have been brainwashed!!

  • Posted By: Jion @ 12/18/2007 1:19:16 AM

    Thank you Newsweek for publishing Ahmadinejad???s paper. Though, we have been so brain washed by Fixed Fox news and Pat Robertson???s Zionist 700 Club that we no longer can comprehend the facts.

  • Posted By: bohdansz @ 12/17/2007 4:35:45 AM

    If I were entrusted with responding to Mr. Ahmadinejad, I would first and foremost tell him that talk is cheap. There is always plenty of blame to attach on both sides, if we want too. But certain things remain paramount, and these things that his essay lacks. I see three that stand out: first, he is not saying how the security of Israel can be guaranted in view of his threatening words; two, he is not saying if, for the sake of peace and because of the world's mistrust of his threatening words, would he be willing to leave the uranium enrichment in an international consortium's hands; and three, he is not saying why Islam has caused so much mistrust in the last decades! These are the questions that Mr. Ahmadinejad should begin to address before he lies blame on others!

    • Posted By: runswithscissors @ 12/17/2007 6:39:39 AM

      You said "I see three that stand out"

      1) What do you mean by guarantee the security
      of Israel? The security of Israel is in it's own
      hands first. "Live by the sword, die by the sword".
      The Arab League flew to Jerusalem this summer
      and offered Israel full recognition in exchange
      for Israel ending it's oppression and occupation of
      Palestine. Israel didn't respond. It was in actuality
      a long "noooooo...". Israel did say "let us go have
      a 'peace conference' where we can draw this "no"
      out even longer". The 'peace conference' is not
      useless though, they got Saudi Arabia to show up
      by the US dangling a massive weapons sale as a
      carrot. By showing up Saudi Arabia gave Israel
      some defacto recognition. They also got the nations that
      showed up to sit down with Abbas, thus a cutting
      out of Hamas and a completion of the Israel/US coup
      against Hamas. (The Israel/US starving out and coup
      against the democratically elected Hamas puts a
      clear stamp on what Bush people mean by "promoting
      democracy".)

      The 'peace conference' didn't achieve peace, it didn't
      even create a plan for peace. It created a plan for a plan.
      Abbas and Olmert will meet over the next months to
      work out a plan. Jeesh. In the meantime, Israel will
      expand it's settlements and the internal divisions
      within the Palestinians can be exacerbated.

      After several more months of the long drawn out
      "nooooo" to the Arab League's dramatic peace offer,
      Olmert will be out of office and Bush will be going out
      ...another peace initiative down the drain.

      If Israel decided to say "yes" to peace instead of "yes"
      to conquest they would have peace with the Palestinians,
      peace with the Arab League and then the Iranians would
      follow suit.

      2) Put enrichment in a consortium's hands.

      Ahmadinejad has responded to this. Iran has experienced
      sanctions before, it is experiencing them now. The
      consortium would be subject to pressure from the US,
      which is subject to pressure from Israel.

      Why would Iran put it's "energy switch" in the hand's
      of Israel?

      3) "Why has Islam caused so much mistrust in the past?"
      The answer to that would be in the mirror. Tell the
      other readers why Crusaders and Zionists have caused
      so much mistrust. We will measure your forthrightness
      and then apply your insights about Crusaders and Zionists
      as a mirror for Islam.

      • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 12/17/2007 5:08:54 PM

        runwithscissors - as I recall, it was the warlord Yasser Arafat and his cronies who said "noooooo" to peace at Camp David. This was a peace plan negotiated under Bill Clinton. Instead of peace, Arafat chose to drive his people into the ground with a decade of "intifada." The Arab League's more recent "peace offer" would have essentially wiped Israel off the map by giving land inside of Israel to the Palistinian "refugees." I use quotations on "refugees" because most of these people never even lived on the land they were claiming. The Arab league's "peace deal" would have been like the USA giving Texas, Nevada, New Mexico and California back to Mexicans. The entire thing was a joke. The only realistic chance for peace was thwarted by the Palestinians themselves back in 1999-2000 - because they refused to accept reality on the ground. And so they are paying the price.

        • Posted By: runswithscissors @ 12/17/2007 7:18:29 PM

          Shankardada2 - Sigh. Digress into the 2000 Camp David negotiation... Jeesh.

          Sigh.

          Imagine the West Bank is a potato. Each of the dozens
          and dozens of eyes of the potato are Jews-only settlements sitting on
          the choicest land and water in the West Bank; slice
          across the potato with the sharp edge of a knife,
          crisscrossing the potato till it looks like a checkerboard -
          these knife scars are Jews-only roads; remove a sliver of
          skin along the longest edge of the potato - this was the
          only international border the West Bank has (with Jordan),
          and give that sliver to Israel, so that all outside commerce
          is cut off from the West Bank unless it passes through
          Israeli controlled territory; cut the potato into three
          pieces, because WITHIN the West Bank there would be Israeli
          controlled checkpoints, such that to travel one mile one
          might have to travel forty.

          Now take the three pieces, with
          the dozens and dozens of eyes, the knife scars and the skin
          from one side missing and put the pieces into Arrafat's
          hands and say the words "generous offer".

          Don't know where you live. But imagine your home state
          has checkpoints controlled by a foreign army. You want
          to go one mile, but instead you have to follow a circuitous
          route that adds up to forty. You can't take the certain
          roads, because those are Jews-only, and you have to avoid
          certain towns because those are foreign settlements and
          the settlers would take potshots at you if you came into
          view. THIS IS A COUNTRY? This is a "generous offer"?

          It was NO offer.
          --- ------ ------

          You said the Arab League offer was entirely a joke.

          The main sticking point IS the refugees. But the deal
          is not as you represent it: "wiping Israel off the map".

          Here is what the offer says:

          www.al-bab.com/arab/docs/league/peace02.htm

          II- Achievement of a just solution to the Palestinian refugee
          problem to be agreed upon in accordance with U.N. General
          Assembly Resolution 194.

          It does not demand that all four million Palestinians be
          allowed land in Israel. It is seeking a compromise
          formula.

          • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 12/18/2007 12:27:49 AM

            When the Arabs lost three wars of aggression, there were bound to be consequences. What the Palestinians want is to pretend that they and their Arab friends won the wars and therefore they should get whatever they want. Well, if you study history anywhere in the world, the losers wars have to accomodate the winners. Not the other way around. The sooner the Palestinians and Arabs get used to the realities on the ground and begin behaving like the losers they are, the better off they will be. Israel's terms at Camp David were VERY FAIR, when you consider the fact that Arabs lost every single war they ever fought against Israel, including the "Intifadas." Wnen has a victor ever offerred more favorable terms than this to a loser? Accept it my friend, and live with the consequences. What Arabs needed in the face of such a loss was a Gandhi or a Mandela. Instead they got Arafat and Nasrallah, both of whom declare "victories" on the ashes of their people. The "refugee camps" are an invention of Arabs to keep their populations inflamed and under control. In another 20 years, none of the original "refugees" will even be alive. So it's time ot move on and make peace.

  • Posted By: tevo @ 12/17/2007 8:13:23 PM

    The Palestine problem will exist as long as there are people who want nothing more than the elimination of the Jewish State and it"s people.

  • Posted By: tevo @ 12/17/2007 7:57:22 PM

    Truths, half truths, lies, what more would one expect from a man who wants a country removed from the face of the world.

  • Posted By: spuddude @ 12/17/2007 6:09:08 PM

    Where's Newsweek's OpEd on this piece? Plenty would have been said by the media had this been a similar release from any noted conservative. The lack of in-depth analysis is deafening and revealing.

  • Posted By: jash @ 12/17/2007 12:17:19 PM

    Tell me how this is an arrogant approach?

    read it and re-read it, and point to what exactly is so arrogant.

    It speaks nothing of the sort, only a true and eager longing for peace.

  • Posted By: St. Germain @ 12/17/2007 11:51:00 AM

    How does the U.S.GOV. expect we the people of the U.S.A. to refrain from violence, solve disputes in the legal system, and basicly live in peace and harmony with each other when they can't even solve diputes with other countries without war or the threat of war. You lead by example so hmmm.......my neighbor has a AR-15 and a AK-47, I best get down to the gunshop and get me a HK and a 50cal., as we are being taught to keep the peace by keeping our neighbors out guned.

  • Posted By: Hitch @ 12/17/2007 9:37:42 AM

    Blah Blah Blah - more radical Muslim propaganda... Unfortunately many in the U.S. will take it as truth and not view both sides of the issues.

  • Posted By: Constitution Believer @ 12/15/2007 8:11:28 PM




















    I have no idea of what is in this man's heart, but what I do know in this paper I hear more sanity than I have ever heard from the Bush Dictorual Administration. Wake up America, we are the most hippicritcal people on the face of the earth today.


    • Posted By: observer101 @ 12/15/2007 8:27:18 PM

      how so?

      • Posted By: bohdansz @ 12/17/2007 5:05:06 AM

        The level of a nation's hypocrisy is in the eye of the beholder, and let there be no doubt that all nations are guilty of hypocrisy to some extent. The argument between the U.S. and Iran won't be solved by measuring who is more hypocrite! The only way to solve it, is for both nations to be more humble! For Iran to be more humble means acknowledging that Israel has a right to exist, and that the West has a right not to fear an atomic bomb! For the U.S., it means willing to listen and help Iran and Islam to find their rightful place in the community of nations and in the world!

  • Posted By: buddy7 @ 12/16/2007 10:53:46 PM

    Ahmadinejad has brought up the nuclear issue once again. If he would research the history of the U.S. and its global role during WWII, he should be able to surmise that the global landscape was shifting. We were fighting conventional enemies and our destiny as a superpower (and the hope of other nations who looked toward us) was becoming increasingly evident. While I do not agree that we should be the world's "policeman," we did sign an armistice agreement with Russian in decreasing our nuclear stockpiles. We are no longer manufacturing nuclear weapons. Also, he has talked about our unilateral policy and his references to the Islamic approach to addressing conflicts and issues before us. We as Americans pursue the right to follow our faith (e.g. Christian, Jewish, Baptist, Evangelical) as we are able to understand it. We let our decisions and our actions be judge by God. If there are full-hearted attempts to make the right choices and decisions in our lives, we let God be the Ultimate Judge. Ahmadinejad is urging all Americans to convert to Islam. However, he talks of America's arrogance and being influenced by wealth. Iran is also influenced by wealth and does not distribute it equally. His message is baseless, empty, and withouth merit. It is only time before he is removed from power by those looking for a more moderate and stable Iran.

  • Posted By: rsangi @ 12/16/2007 1:39:13 PM

    "The man as an intellectual?"! Are you kidding me?! Listen folks, you don't have to be mindlessly touting this arsehole's filth, just because you are against the Iraq war or because you feel the pain of Palestinian innocents, ok? Why must you people be so either/or in your thinking? The man is as much of a messianic madman as George Bush and his ilk!! He is a lying, filthy, megalomaniacal, narcissistic, schizotypal.

  • Posted By: MathewHayden @ 12/16/2007 10:12:01 AM

    Some folks want America to start a war against Iran because Iran's president has issued threatening statements against a 3rd country Israel. With all the problems confronting our great American nation, we can ill-afford a misadventure instigated by vested interests of this third country. Will the folks with American interests the foremost in their hearts please stand up?

  • Posted By: MathewHayden @ 12/16/2007 9:59:39 AM

    Hats off to Newsweek for giving Ahmedinejad a chance to voice his opinion. I am sure there must have been intense pressure on Newsweek from various quarters to dissuade and threaten them against doing so. Congratulations to Newsweek for standing up to these pressures and letting free speech and diverse opinion prevail.

  • Posted By: KEVINXYZ72 @ 12/16/2007 9:56:35 AM

    Hats off to Newsweek for giving Ahmedinejad a chance to voice his opinion. I am sure there must have been intense pressure on Newsweek from various quarters to dissuade and threaten them against doing so. Congratulations to Newsweek for standing up to these pressures and letting free speech and diverse opinion prevail.

  • Posted By: zoundman72 @ 12/16/2007 5:45:34 AM

    Ahmadinejad disqualifies his arguments as fiction by the second paragraph of this lengthy fairy tale. Any talk of "universally accepted humane norms and mutual respect" by the head of a murderous, self-righteous regime that enslaves women and publicly executes dissidents is laughable. He claims a hankering to "eradicate poverty and injustice" wrought on the world by America and the Zionist lobby yet the average Palestinian living in Israel today enjoys a higher standard of living than most Iranian citizens. The only thing more preposterous than his baseless assertions is the fact that they are published. Still, his title is well chosen - "An Arrogant Approach" - we've got to give him that!

  • Posted By: bk42762@hotmail.com @ 12/14/2007 4:04:51 PM

    I am absolutely sickened that an American news publication published this load of crap and lies. What is happening to our country?

    • Posted By: elizmr @ 12/15/2007 9:31:15 PM

      Saudi princes own a big piece of newsweek.

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