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The Price of Fanatic Messianic Ideology

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The German support to Israel is on one side completely understandable, the commitment of the German nation to the state of Israel and to its protection is something that is the perfect reflection of German adulthood and responsibility for the crimes of the past, on the other hand this support does not come without questions or doubts, which is a blessing.

The Germans have sold a couple of submarines to Israel in the last 10 years, the submarines are regarded as the ultimate dooms day weapon because of their ability to strike the enemy even once their country has been obliterated. In the Iranian scenario this does not really hold any water, because the Iranians do not seem to care to be blown to pieces as long as they kills lots of Jews as the more evil parts of their holy books command.

Now the last deal of submarines delivery is on its way but Germans are quietly showing their anger over the repeated violations of Israel in building on predominantly Arab-Palestinian lands east of Jerusalem. It is not only the fact that the Israeli prime minister Netanyahu insists on building permits phases every time the Palestinians do anything in the political arena, but also the fact that he had promised many of the worlds leaders he will not build in east Jerusalem, not as punishment and not as any building expansion plans, he keeps “forgetting” this promise, and this time is not the first time.

The building in those parts is done mainly to satisfy a small and crazy minority of Israel religious Jews who insist on living on Arab lands, even though they got enough “Jewish” land to build on, these are the demented Israeli settlers with their messianic ideology are leading the vast majority of Israeli into uncharted territory, rushing forward with no regard to anything but their ideology. It is no secret that the majority of Israelis reject these people, however their connection to the government via the hard core right side gives them a lot of space to operate in, and the cooperation of the prime minister at times.

However now it seems that there is some opposition to this, by Germany, who is considering stopping the submarines deals if Israel does not get back to its senses and attains some controls over those loose right wing fanatics, now Israel will start to feel the price for this unnecessary building aggravation.

Diplomacy and Cartoons Don’t Mix

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A couple of days ago I saw this news item about someone in UNESCO being angry with the Israeli representative to that organization because a newspaper in Israel had published a cartoon that mentions something about bombing a UNESCO office in Ramallah, these kind of news do not really grab attention because someone being angry on Israel for being a democratic and free state is almost a daily thing in our world, however I saw a second mention of the same thing in another site, and now it seemed more interesting to report.

The News on Ha'aretz Israeli Newspaper

So what we have here is someone with a very poor sense of humor, and on top of it a complete lack of understanding of the Israeli free press, the paper that published this cartoon is a left wing, pro Palestine daily newspaper which is famous for its critic of the Israeli prime minister, who is the star of this cartoon. This cartoon mocks Netanyahu, presenting him as eager to attack Iran nuclear facilities and telling the combat pilots to attack a UNESCO office on the way back as response to UNESCO letting the Palestinians into their club.

The Cartoon

Now this makes headlines over the world, but Huffington Post went a step further, with a headline that shouts something about UNESCO angry on a cartoon showing Israeli planes bombing UNESCO office (that’s the cartoon above, right here).

This whole thing combines into a nice mash of anti Israeli sentiments in the UN and over the press, making it look like even the mentioning of the state of Israel to UNESCO officials brings out an aggressive attitude, and mentioning it to the press imminently brings about thoughts of ultra aggressive military behavior. One thing is clear, keep this up and the Israelis will just abandon any diplomatic efforts of any kind.

Add to all of this the cartoon releated events in the last couple of years and you will find this to be the smallest of problems, when people got killed, UNESCO offices burned and personal murdered as well as the recent torching of a Paris based cartoon publisher and you should wonder how biased we have become.

Huffington Post gets lost in translation

Germany Has a Nasty Flashback

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Germany has to be feeling a little off, it turns out that a Neo-Nazi gang has been targeting non Germans for over a decade now, with 10 murders, eight Turkish one Greek and a policewoman, this gang is no small news. The worst thing about this news is that the murders lean heavily towards the nationalistic side, and not the religious.

To target vendors of Turkish Kabab is borderline idiotic, because simply anyone who likes this sort of food can try and produce it, to make an assumption that no one of German heritage will be involved in this kind of food is crazy – enter the Neo-Nazi group, with their perverted idea of superiority of race. The Greek killed is also a frightening indication that these people will not stop at religion but rather have ethnic food identify the target.

You need to really be blind to the elephant in this room, there are plenty of normal and non violent Germans out there who are seriously concerned about the future of their country, about the rising rate of violence and the heavy toll that social welfare is costing the German taxpayer, the subtle threats made from the Turkish prime minister just weeks ago made it clear that this problem is only beginning to manifest itself.

With the “guest” Turks numbering above three million now, and with the feelings of resentment that the Turkish people (in Turkey) feel towards Germany (called the German demand to teach Turkish children German a “human rights violation”) this is a very serious problem that the German people need to address without falling into the dark abyss of the past.

Germany Has A Problem

The 20th Duggar Baby

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The Duggars

Some people seem to think that if they put God in the drivers seat everything will just work out great. You can also assume that putting a fictional and non responsive deity in charge would end in disaster, even those who are hard line believers would not step into their car and say “I am letting God decide when to break, I am in his hands now”, because they realize no one will hit the breaks and they would just slam into a wall.

However it is not the same when thanking God for anything, giving credit it seems is the one thing God is actually useful for, instead of saying how lucky you got to win the lottery or how well trained you have become to score in the Superbowl you just hand the credit over to God (or Jesus) in sign of your true modesty and humbleness.

But with babies it works differently, first because you might have not wished for a child and when the news breaks you need to put the responsibility on someone, or you are just blindly walking through life and irresponsibly carrying other people with you, and you do that in the name of God.

The news tell us that Michelle Duggar, mother of 19 children, and 45 years old, is now expecting yet another baby, “I was not thinking that god will give us another one…” she is quoted saying, well, its not god that gave you the baby, its your husband and your utter lack of awareness. Lets just start from the beginning, we humans, like all mammals, need time to get our babies to a stage in which they can start to take care of themselves, it usually take 3 years for a young child to to be able to walk and even ran properly.

In ancient times mothers would carry their babies until an even later age, also breastfeeding them longer, meaning that the time a human mother had to invest in a baby was considerably long, which restricted that number of babies a human mother would produce. So if any creator would have any target number of children for a human mother it would be around 4 or maybe 5, not much more, because humans also died at the age of 30-40, meaning that they would have only two decades of reproductive ability.

Even with these numbers we need to remember the hardship of ancient lives, the disease, the lack of proper medicine and treatment, no understanding of inflammations and how to fight them, wild animals, natural disasters etc.

But science came along, increase the average life span, invented medical treatments that caused decreased rates of death at delivery, and it was suddenly possible to have much more babies than before. It was not God that came along and made changes, but humans trying to better life. It was humans blocking the creator plan to kill as much as 30% of women who delivered babies.

It is also this modern, men made, health and technological improvements that make sure that Ms. Duggar has all her babies alive and well, because 1,000 years ago she might have looked at a much smaller family. So it is not god she needs to thank, but modern science, because that is what enabled her to have 19 kids and be pregnant at 45, if God is doing anything here is to trying to kill her at birth, or do the same to her baby.

Who’s Dragging Who Into the Next War?

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Scary title, ha?

Though many in this West do not want to see any new war on the horizon (energy costs, stock markets and failing economies are the main and only reasons, not human suffering and death) a confrontation is becoming a real possibility these days. It has been years since the Iranian nuclear effort has been in the global public eye, the statements made by Iranians in reference to their plans were very aggressive and promised anyone who will try to stop them much harm, they were (and still are) very happy to reference Israel as one of those who will want to stop them as many times as possible.

And so we learned that the head of army in Iran, as well as almost any cabinet minister there (including the president of course) believes that Israel will be wiped out of the map eventually, and to add a “catch 22” theme to the whole thing that Iranians also promised the Israelis to destroy their country if they will try and stop the Iranian nuclear program, basically meaning you are dead if you do and you are dead if you don’t, pretty clever.

Now, with the last report on Iran’s nuclear program being published it looks like we are very quickly heading into a physical confrontation between the two countries, as the West looks on and does nothing. Of course Washington has something to do with it, the failed system of punishments on Iran has not done anything to decrease its will or ability to get Nuclear capability, because when you got the Russians and Chinese in your market the U.S. does not seem to make a strong impression.

This next war will not be about money or natural resources, it will be a religious war, a war driven and delivered in the name of god, between Islam on one side and Judaism/Christianity on the other side but also within Islam, between the Shiite Iran to its Muslim Sunni countries.

In this probable scenario Israel will try and strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, in it own defense, since many Iranian officials have promised to destroy Israel over the years, however Israel is not fighting any holy war here, its just trying to survive a lethal development. Israel’s next war is anything but a religious war, its 1.5 million Muslim citizens and many other ethnic minorities, the damage will not sort out religious and believers when it strikes, and almost any nuclear device activation in any part of this small country will inflict damage on many different faiths, which is much more than you can say about the helpless people of Iran who are shoved into this conflicted by religious mad leaders.

Surprised? Really?