Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. While more than 1200 rockets rained down on southern Israeli towns during the latest violence from Gaza’s Hamas, the terrorist organization’s leader Ismail Haniyeh arrogantly warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to "play with fire . . . Neither you nor your army and police can win this battle. What's happening in Jerusalem is an intifada that must not stop." In fact, an unending intifada against the Jewish state has been the central mission of Hamas since its inception, and part of that war against Israel includes what Palestinians claim is their legal “right of return;” that is, the right of those Arabs who fled or were expelled from what became Israel to now return,
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While more than 1200 rockets rained down on southern Israeli towns during the latest violence from Gaza’s Hamas, the terrorist organization’s leader Ismail Haniyeh arrogantly warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to “play with fire . . . Neither you nor your army and police can win this battle. What’s happening in Jerusalem is an intifada that must not stop.”
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office”. [Aesop]
This essay relates to the United States and Israel, both of whom sadly, suffer from dysfunctional democracy at this time. A report by Dov Fischer which appeared in American-Thinker of Oct. 11, 2012 is as relevant as prevailing conditions. It is entitled, “Jews and American Conservatism” and commences with a reminder that in the previous year, an extraordinary event had occurred. Voters in the Queens-Brooklyn 9th Congressional District of New York elected Bob Turner, a solid Republican conservative to the seat abandoned by disgraced Anthony Wiener.
As Fischer points out, it marked a watershed moment in American Jewish history, as “Orthodox Jews finally flexed some muscle alongside Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union.” The given seat had been in the hands of the Democrats since 1923! Upon reflection, Jewish voters had been liberal Democrats as long, if not longer.
The Raven ...the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
- Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue show "...What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven" -F.A. Hayek -
The Road to Serfdom
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.