Eric Yoffie’s Questionable Resolution

By Jerome S. Kaufman, World Jewish News Agency Columnist, National Secretary of the Zionism Organization of America

One can’t help but wonder how the more than 2000 voting delegates at the Union for Reform Judaism developed the military and political expertise to draft a resolution demanding a clear exit strategy from Iraq? How embarrassing for the Jews to have one of their largest organizations take such a stand against an administration attempting to defend us, despite dedicated politically-motivated malicious criticism from almost all the media and dissident groups as typified by flagrant anti-Semites like Cindy Sheehan and her scruffy band of malcontents camping outside President Bush’s home in Texas. Evidently the fact that President Bush’s war against terrorism is directed entirely against the enemies of the Western world and the State of Israel had no impact on the delegates. Evidently the delegates at the Reform movement conclave think that this worldwide multi-pronged attack will simply disappear if we just once again turn around and go home. The Islamists will somehow not take this as a complete victory and pursue us with even greater and more confident motivation. The resolution calls the war, “untenable” and claims that President Bush did not exercise all his options before going to war. How many times was Bush to go to the UN for confirmation and help? Never mind the fact that Kofi Annan’s son Kojo had received money from one of the U.N.'s prime contractors under the Oil for Food scam with at least $17 billion grafted out of a U.N. relief program for Iraq. And how naïve would one have to be to not believe that the father was not intimately involved? Never mind, the French, the Russians and at least one Britisher, George Galloway, who yells daily about the rape of Jerusalem by Zionism, were knee deep in the Iraqi Oil for Food scandal making millions of dollars in payola money from Saddam Hussein. These were the nations and people President Bush was supposed to convince to help us in Iraq against Saddam Hussein, the payer! Never mind between 1991 and 1998 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conducted more than 1500 inspections. IAEA released a report in 1997, with updates in 1998 and 1999, which it believes offers a technically coherent picture of Iraq's nuclear program.  The summary of the IAEA report says that following the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraq launched a "crash program" to develop a nuclear weapon quickly by extracting weapons grade material from safe-guarded research reactor fuel. This project, if it had continued uninterrupted by the war, might have succeeded in producing a deliverable weapon by the end of 1992. Never mind that Hussein spent eight years from 1980-1988 attempting to conquer Iran. Never mind in 1988 he committed inhumane atrocities against the Kurds in Halabja a town of 70,000 people where 5,000 people died immediately as a result of a chemical attack and an estimated 12,000 people died during the course of those three days. Never mind in the First Gulf war of 1991 he did conquer all of Kuwait, ransacked its banks and touted off millions of dollars worth of gold and then proceeded to set fire to all of Kuwait’s oil fields in order to bankrupt the country and thwart his defeat by the United States.  Never mind that George W. Bush has taken our first real stance against the terrorism that the Clinton Administration (1993 to 2001) swept under the rug. During those years while militant Islam was sharpening its teeth, the following direct attacks on the US were virtually ignored:

Blow up of the US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon 1983
Blow up of Marine Barracks Beirut, Lebanon 1983;
Blow up Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;
Blow up, the first time, of the New York World Trade Center 1993;
Blow up Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;
Blow up Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy attack 1998;
Blow up US Embassy, Dares Salaam, Tanzania 1998;
Blow up USS Cole Aden, Yemen 2000

Finally, in their great newly found confidence Islamic terrorists bombed the New York World Trade Center and Pentagon September 11, 2001.

Also, note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide. Who were the attackers? In each case, the attackers on the US were Muslims. Exactly what did Eric Yoffie and his declared “grass roots” of the Reform movement in their ultimate political and moral wisdom want George W. Bush to do - pretend that they happened to someone else as did his immediate predecessor?
 As to Eric Yoffie’s hyperbolic statement that, “American Jews, and all Americans, are profoundly critical of the war and want the administration to tell us how to bring our troops home.” I don’t think so. What Americans do want is for our armed forces to defeat our enemies and to maintain the marvelously free world with which G-d has blessed us.

Give them the Death they Revere

 By Arlene Peck, World Jewish News Agency Columnist

 The Arabs are bombing, murdering, mutilating, raping and wreaking havoc all over the Judeo/Christian world.  Israel has nothing to do with it…nothing!   The front pages have been completely filled with the latest catastrophic actions from these savage, barbaric Arabs who tortured and slaughtered hundreds of school children and their mothers during the past few days in the horrific school bombings.  Children! Babies, who were forced to drink their own urine, because they were tortured and denied water and food for over two days. One five or six year-old child was reported to have been killed by having a bayonet thrust through his little body when he had the audacity to ask for water from these "brave men" who were holding them hostage. Then if that wasn't bad enough, over twenty of these small children were shot in the back from snipers on the  roof-tops as they were trying to break away to run to the safety of their mothers arms.  

The Muslims are experts in killing babies. I remember the massacre of the Kindergarten in Maaolat some years ago.  More so, I remember covering the war in June of '82 in Lebanon and saw what cowards these vermin were. They excel in bombings and terror attacks on subways, planes and schools.  But when they have to fight man-to-man combat, they disappear or run out with their hands in the air, waving white flags before the first shot is fired. They also captured two French journalists as hostages, so as to influence French domestic laws. This is especially interesting since Mr. Jacques Chirac and France have gone out of they’re way to alienate their western allies and welcome these thugs with open arms into their country. They want to pressure the French to change their laws on headscarfs. Otherwise, they were going to use the journalists to make a political statement. Folks, this is only the beginning. Within five years the required fashion in Paris will be burqas. Page two in the Times continued with a story of how a female “suicide” bomber wearing an explosive device stuffed with metal bolts killed at least nine people in a Moscow subway station in a blast and injured about a hundred more. This, in addition to the two airplanes that the Muslim fundamentalist’s blew up a few days ago, in Russia. Then over a hundred more countrymen were killed.  I can’t even look at the television and see the nightly death toll of our soldiers in Iraq. We are paying a great price with our soldiers blood to bring freedom to this modern day Babylon. 

The reality is, if we don't root out terrorism in all it’s forms, wherever it is, this nightmare that we are watching being played out on the nightly news will eventually reach our shores again, as well as the free nations around the world. Somewhere buried in the LA Times was a story about how these same subhuman savage “militants” who had killed twelve Nepalese workers want more!  More concessions and more blood!  Later in the day I received a graphic video of them, beheading these poor civilians. We are dealing with a mentality that only understands force. 

I've seen it!  The Russians aren't known for being very politically correct.  If I were living through the horror they've gone through these past few days, I'd pressure my government into sending a "laser-guided missile"   dipped in pig blood into every one of those mosques  where they plan, train and finance these attacks,  with a note attached reading, "Never again!"  In fact, now would be a perfect time to drop leaflets on the mosques that plan and train the terrorists that from now on the next thing dropped on them are missiles dropped in pig oil. No more 'restrained action' as they are regularly ordered by our government, the EU and UN. When the next terrorists action happens, do it!  Somebody has to do something!  President Bush is out there trying to defend his policy in Iraq because of these very same terrorists and we are still going on and on and on over locating the WMD’s, when everyone and their Arab brother’s know that they have been moved into Syria.  Who do we think we're kidding?  This effort must be worldwide. Whether it's Afghanistan, Russia, the Philippines, United States or Israel!  It is the freedom of every individual that is at stake here!  When are we going to wake up!   Our lives are being disrupted on a daily basis.