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The more I read Ben Stein, the more I like the guy. He is wise…

A Few More Little Facts
By Ben Stein (in The Spectator)
Published 8/8/2006 12:09:45 AM

Here are a few little facts you might like to know:

When the Israelis capture Arabs in their wars, the captured Arabs are well fed, well housed, and eventually returned to their homes. When the Arabs (specifically the Syrians) have captured Israelis, they castrate them, cut off their male organs, decapitate the Israelis, and stuff their male organs in their mouths and leave the bodies on the field. Sometimes they also defecate on the bodies.

Israel has a population of about six million Jews. If a rocket hits a group of Israelis who are lying in the sun and kills 12 of them, that is the equivalent of the United States losing 600 men in one rocket attack. If nine Israeli civilians are killed in a rocket attack on a Haifa repair shop, that is the equivalent of the USA losing 540 civilians in one swoop.

Hezbollah is basically an arm of the Iranian army. Iran has a population of close to 70 million. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, are eager to join the fight against Eretz Israel. Even if by some miracle Israel wiped out every Hezbollah killer in Lebanon tomorrow, Iran could easily replace them forever. Resupplying the missilery is child’s play: just buy it from China, our dear friends, who will sell it to anyone. This means Israel is in for an extremely prolonged, agonizing period of suffering.

For anyone with even a sliver of sensitivity to see this happening to a people who have already suffered more than any other people in history, is torture. To see George W. Bush stand up for Israel while the left whines about totally meaningless multilateralism — which means asking France to defend Israel, sort of like asking Martin Bormann to defend Israel — is to see clear decency versus a waffling, age-old anti-Semitic sickness.

The line of the fight between civilization and barbarism runs right along the Israel-Lebanon non-border. If it’s not won there, it won’t be long until the front line is right here, and then it will be too late. When George Bush stands up for Israel, he stands up for the whole future of mankind. Yes, he has flaws and has made serious mistakes, but right now, he is a hero for the ages.

Canada Free Press is reporting that “peace advocates” are volunteering to serve as human shields for Hezbullah in Lebanon. This hurts my head. The terrorists are lobbing missiles from population centers, UN outposts and mosques onto civilian targets in Israel. Someone thinks they need protection? ‘Splain it to me, if you please.

ISM sending ‘human shields’ to Lebanon to aid HezbollahBy Lee Kaplan (Wednesday, August 9, 2006)

Adam Shapiro, one of the founders of the International Solidarity Movement, has resurfaced after a long hiatus and has teamed up with Northern California ISM’s Leader, Paul LaRudee, to create a program for ISM ‘activists’ to act as human shields for Hezbollah in Lebanon. The ISM has acted as human shields for Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the PFLP in the West Bank and Gaza for the last four years, according to Shapiro’s wife and ISM co-founder, Huwaida Arraf.”

Follow the links and be amazed. Or not. Let’s let these misguided guys and gals guys go over there and stand in front of a Katyusha rocket launcher. Maybe there’s something to Darwinian selection after all.

From Ynetnews:

Christian Embassy funding emergency projects to help children, elderly, soldiers under fire In recent weeks, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem has responded to the growing humanitarian needs of embattled communities in northern Israel by launching a number of aid projects aimed at bringing relief, particularly to children confined to bomb shelters.
In one of the latest examples, on Tuesday the ICEJ sponsored a day excursion for three bus loads of children from the hard hit areas of Kiryat Shmona, Karmiel and Nahariya to visit the Shefayim recreational water park near Herzliya. The children also received some of our 500 ‘activity kits’ for children in bomb shelters assembled in cooperation with the King of Kings congregation in Jerusalem. The friendly mascot ‘A.J. the Lion’ was on hand to greet the children and hand out gift packets. One youngster was so
thrilled to be having fun outdoors in the water park that he called his parents to tell them how great it was. When the father found out who had sponsored the trip, he was quoted as saying, ‘For weeks we wanted the city, the government, Jewish organizations, anyone to just get us out of this hell, and who comes to help but the Christians! I can’t believe it.’ “

This is great. According to the source, Israeli Defense Force folks hacked into Hezbullah/Lebanese television broadcasts and inserted this video. It’s catchy and you can dance to it…. It’s called Yalla Ya Nasrallah.