It's high time these leaders speak out loud and clear in America's defense and remind their people that Washington's last three military interventions were on behalf of Muslim people.

No one was willing to accept the blame for grotesquely distorted impressions of America abroad. Yet Hollywood comes up in almost every conversation with a Muslim, from intellectuals to small businessmen. In Pakistan, Muslim clerics and army generals says that the American values conveyed by Hollywood have contributed mightily to the rise of Islamist extremism.

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Our domestic culture hating terrorists?

Shaheen demonstrates how Hollywood has shown its greatest contempt for Arab culture, and how the majority of some 900 films researched, degrades and dehumanizes the average Arab, robed and turbaned, sinister and dangerous, engaged mainly in blowing up buildings and hijacking planes.

By Hollywood he probably means the producers and screenwrites. Wonder what kind of an ethnic group they belong to. Californian?

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As I grew up my "world view" was shaped by Warner Brothers cartoons - Arabs on flying carpets - silly - evil - swords & stupidity always trumped by Buggs Bunny.

Simultaneously (1962 - 1980) the Middle East events unfolded. The "Aaarabs" seemed either silly or incompetent - most assuredly psychotic - acting absolutely without foundation against the poor Jews who had been so abominably the object of bigotry, hatred - genocide.

I cheered for Israel every time she kicked Aaaarab ass. I cheered Sharon. Sabra and Shatilla was the watershed event, though I did not know it at the time . . .

It has taken me thirty years to explore the era of Jabotinsky.

PS . . . Arafat fits EVERY negative stereotype of "Aaaarabs". He is one of Israel's GREATEST assets. He needs to go.

I cheered Sharon. Sabra and Shatilla

That was Lebanese Christian operation.

That was Lebanese Christian operation.

How old are you? By any chance were you alive and paying attention at the time? Did you watch any of the "McNeal/ Lehrer News Hour (PBS) talking heads anguish over the question of whether or not the IDF's assistance for two nights running - the IDF's illumination of the night skies with parachute flares (U.S. supplied) had cost Israel her unquestioned moral authority? "Has Israel lost the moral high ground in the Middle East?"

At the time they seemed like silly questions.

How old are you? By any chance were you alive and paying attention at the time? Did you watch any of the "McNeal/ Lehrer News Hour (PBS) talking heads anguish over the question of whether or not the IDF's assistance for two nights running - the IDF's illumination of the night skies with parachute flares (U.S. supplied) had cost Israel her unquestioned moral authority? "Has Israel lost the moral high ground in the Middle East?"

I don't care what the left wing spin was, it was carried out by Lebanese Christians in retaliation for atrocities the Muslims had carried out against them.

And I don't believe you ever cheered it. Nobody cheered it.

Britannica.com . . .

( (Hebrew: National Military Organization), )

byname Etzel, Jewish right-wing underground movement in Palestine, founded in 1931. At first supported by many non-Socialist Zionist parties, in opposition to the Haganah, it became in 1936 an instrument of the Revisionist Party, an extreme nationalist group that had seceded from the World Zionist Organization and whose policies called for the use of force, if necessary, to establish a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan.

Irgun committed acts of terrorism and assassination against the British, whom it regarded as illegal occupiers, and it was also violently anti-Arab. Irgun also participated in the organization of illegal immigration into Palestine after the publication of the British White Paper on Palestine (1939), which severely limited immigration. Irgun's violent activities led to execution of many of its members by the British; in retaliation, Irgun executed British army hostages.

Irgun's members were extremely disciplined and daring, and their actions included the capture of ‘Akko (Acre) prison, a medieval fortress that not even Napoleon had succeeded in capturing. In the last days of the British mandate, it captured a large part of the city of Yafo (Jaffa).

On July 22, 1946, the Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 soldiers and civilians (British, Arab, and Jewish). On April 9, 1947, a group of Irgun commandos raided the Arab village of Dayr Yasin (modern Kefar Sha’ul), killing all 254 of its inhabitants.

After the creation of Israel in 1948 the Irgun's last units disbanded and took the oath of loyalty to the Israeli defense forces on Sept. 1, 1948. Politically, it was the precursor of the Herut (Freedom) Party, one of Israel's most militant right-wing groups, later merged with the Liberals into the Gahal Party. See also Stern Gang.

It took me thirty years to question my sympathy for Israel. The question now is, "How does the world manage the truth after decades of editing the news to create an extreme bias in favor of one side and hostile to the other. How do we restore the balance?

Irgun committed acts of terrorism and assassination against the British, whom it regarded as illegal occupiers, and it was also violently anti-Arab.

The Irgun was armed and financed by the government of Poland as a way of moving its Jews out of Poland to Palestine.

I missed Rove's calling a meeting of the nation's Agit-Prop masters in Hollywood. When did this take place?

Hollywood Needs to Clean Up Itself.

If Pakistan falls to Islamist forces, the well-funded, anti-American Wahhabi religious machine will be largely to blame.

To blame the Wahhbites that they spread subversion is like to blame mosquitos that they bite. They just cannot do otherwise without losing their purpose for existence.

The real culprits are the people like Zbigniew Brzezinski who think that Wahhabi subversion is a great tool for the Big Game against the Russia (and Russian friends like Serbs). But mosquitos seem to have no sense of direction and bite their sponsors too.

The Irgun was armed and financed by the government of Poland as a way of moving its Jews out of Poland to Palestine.

Great Polish general Anders, who managed to extract 100 000 people from the Gulag, to form Polish Army and take it out of the Soviet Union helped Jews too. He insisted that Stalin allows Anders to include also officers and soldier of Jewish origin (if they were from Poland). Later when army of Anders was in the Middle (Near) East he allowed then to "desert" and prevented the British prosecution against the deserters. That way Jewish paramilitary organisations in the Palestine gained many experienced and trained men. (Some of the the Jews in his army remainded though to the end of the war, and Anders was extremely thankful for their commitment to the Polish cause).

This Hollywood/New York crowd has made it their business to denigrate a variety of groups in this country. When anyone complains, the above cited bigots start accusing others of hate crimes.

Example: Abie now wants to label some frat boys as criminal for being silly at a party. Just think, the CIA hired this guy to teach them 'sensitivity training'.

And I don't believe you ever cheered it. Nobody cheered it.

You are quite correct. I DID NOT cheer on the butchery of Sabra and Shatilla. My statement . . .

I cheered for Israel every time she kicked Aaaarab ass. I cheered Sharon.

Sabra and Shatilla was the watershed event, though I did not know it at the time . . .

. . . was unclear. Up to Sabra and Shatilla I was, without question, in Israel's corner. Sharon was my hero.

In the years following Sabra and Shatilla I have reassessed my sentiments.

The Irgun was armed and financed by the government of Poland as a way of moving its Jews out of Poland to Palestine.

More like to Madagascar not to Palestine.

From this site:

The Irgun Abroad

ACTIVITIES IN EUROPE BEFORE WORLD WAR TWO
More than three million Jews, concentrated mainly in the large towns, lived in Poland in the 1930s. In Warsaw, for example, Jews constituted one-third of the population. The Polish government, worried by the increase in Jewish influence in the country, not only did nothing to hinder the illegal immigration movement which the Revisionists organized in Poland, but actively assisted it.

In 1936, Jabotinsky met with the Foreign Minister, Josef Beck, and created the infrastructure for collaboration. The Polish government hoped that the establishment of a Jewish state would lead to mass emigration of Jews, thus solving the Jewish problem in Poland. In November 1937, Avraham Stern (Yair), then secretary of the Irgun General Headquarters, arrived in the Polish capital armed with a letter of recommendation from Jabotinsky. He met with senior government officials and laid the practical foundations for cooperation between the Polish army and the Irgun Zvai Le'umi. Within the framework of this cooperation, Polish army representatives handed over to Irgun representatives weapons and ammunition which had been kept in special ammunition depots. The weapons remained under Polish army supervision until they were despatched to Eretz Israel. Some of the weapons were concealed in the false bottoms of crates in which the furniture of prospective immigrants was transported, or in the drums of electrical machines. When the consignments reached Eretz Israel, they were taken to a safe place, and the weapons were removed from their hiding place.

When in Warsaw Avraham Stern was much helped by Dr. Henryk Strasman, a well known lawyer and an officer in the Polish Reserve force. His wife Alicja (Lilka) was also of great help. The Strasmans introduced Stern to the Polish intellectuals and high officials. It was in their home that the preparations for the publication of the Polish periodical "Jerozolima Wyzwolona" (Free Jerusalem) were begun. It was Lilka who designed the cover - A map of Eretz Israel with the background of an arm holding a gun and the words in Hebrew: "" (This Way Only). This became later the symbol of the Irgun.

In March 25,1939, senior Irgun commanders from Eretz Israel participated in a course held in the Carpathian mountains, instructed by Polish army officers. The course took place under conditions of great secrecy, and the instructors wore civilian clothing. The participants were not permitted to establish contact with local Jews, and the letters they wrote home were sent to Switzerland, inserted in new envelopes, re-addressed to France, and finally posted from there to Palestine. The trainees received military training and were taught tactics of guerilla warfare.

When the course ended, they returned to Eretz Israel, apart from three who remained in Poland: Yaakov Meridor, who was responsible for despatching the weapons received from the Polish army; Shlomo Ben Shlomo, who organized a commanders course for selected members of Irgun cells in Poland (Isaac Raviv was one of the participants), and Zvi Meltzer, who organized a similar course in Lithuania.

The organization of clandestine Irgun cells in Europe had begun a year previously, and was mainly conducted among members of Betar. The plan was to train a cadre of fighters, who would immigrate to Eretz Israel illegally, bringing arms with them, to become a kind of commando corps. Avraham Stern was involved in organizing the Polish cells, and was assisted by Nathan Friedman-Yellin (member of the Irgun commission in Poland) and Shmuel Merlin (General Secretary of the New Zionist Organization in Poland).

The first course for Irgun commanders in Poland was held in the fall of 1938 and was headed by Aharon Heichman (a member of the Irgun General Headquarters), who was sent specially from Palestine for this assignment. Twenty four members of Polish "cells" took part in the course, which was conducted in complete secrecy. The Polish police, whilst aware of what was going on, did not intervene nor did they ask questions about the gunfire heard in the area.