THE ENGLISH GODFATHER OF PALESTINIAN TERRORISM

The founder of the Palestinian terrorist movement was Amin al-Husseini (1897-1974).

As Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, he organized Arab rampages killing Jewish settlers in Palestine throughout the 1920s, and formed an alliance with the Nazi Party of Germany in the 1930s.

He met with Adolph Hitler in Berlin in November 1941 to encourage him to slaughter Jews in Europe so they couldn’t escape to settle in Palestine, and ordered Arab families to flee Israel upon independence so Arab armies could invade in 1948.

As one of the founders of Palestine Liberation Organization, he mentored his nephew Rahman Abdul Rauf al-Qudwa (more…)

ONE BILLION ALLIES

If I ask you to think of India, the image that most likely appears in your mind’s eye would be the Taj Mahal.

Arguably the most famous building in the world and considered by many to be the most beautiful structure mankind has ever created, it was completed in 1648 by the ruler of India, Shah Jehan, to immortally entomb his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

There is a painful problem with this image, however, for the great majority of folks in India: the Taj Mahal isn’t an Indian building. It’s Moslem, and thus for Indians a symbol of Islamic imperialism. (more…)

Bitterness and Bad Karma

Bill Safire is normally the only thing worth reading in the New York Times, and he proved it with his latest column (datelined 12/8/03), which is devoted to completely messing up the mind of every Bush-hating Democrat in America.

As you are well aware, Democrats today devote their emotional energy to two passions: hating President Bush and fantasizing about President Hillary in his place. Safire, in an act of political sadism, explained to Democrats that they cannot have their cake and eat it too: one of these twin passions has to be sacrificed for the other.

The Democrats’ Nightmare starts (more…)

THE MOSLEM MYTH OF JERUSALEM

It is a commonplace in a story or article about the Arab-Israeli conflict that mentions Jerusalem to repeat the Moslem mantra that “Jerusalem is the third holiest city in all Islam, next to Mecca and Medina.”

You’ve heard this innumerable times — but how come? Just why is Jerusalem so important to not just Jews and Christians but Moslems as well?

The reason is one single line in the Koran.

Sura (Chapter) 17 of the Koran is called -al-Isra, the Night Journey, due to the first verse which reads:

Praise be to him (Allah) who took his servant (Mohammad) by (more…)

Why Bush is Scared in 2004

This is a black day, a day for anyone associated with the Republican Party to be ashamed and embarrassed. Piling a new trillion-dollar Medi-Pander entitlement to appease geezer-beggars on top of all the others that the Republicans should be busy eliminating is way, way beyond scandalous. Why, then, has the Republican Party from President Bush on down become determined to betray its basic principles?

If you ask George Bush, Dick Cheney, or Karl Rove this question, they will look at you as if you are from Mars. “You’ve never had a near-death experience, have you?”, they will ask in return. (more…)

THE CHINESE CHRISTIAN CRUSADES

Let’s play fill-in-the-blanks. In general, Americans and Europeans are Christians. Arabs are Moslems. Indians are Hindus. Chinese are _________?

If you have trouble filling in the last blank, it’s because the answer is blank. From time immemorial, the Chinese have been the least religious of any of history’s major civilizations. Daoism, Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism are rationalistic quasi-religions lacking any personal relationship with a transcendent deity or deities. The ancestor- and spirit-worship of Chinese folk religion is individualized to families only.

This is one reason why China has periodically endured spasms of murderous cultural insanity. In the middle of the 19th (more…)

Why Bush Will Win in 2004

A year from now you and I will be celebrating George W. Bush’s re-election. It’s in the bag, and the reason why is deeper than the economy or Iraq. It’s because GW figured out Bill Clinton’s secret while the Dems forgot it.

What enabled Slick Willie to prevail over the greatest scandals besmirching any US president is a certain kind of psychological wizardry called Learned Optimism. Cognitive psychologist (and TTP columnist!) Dr. Joel Wade uses the technique to help his patients overcome depression and a sense of helplessness.

Learned Optimism involves confronting any failure or depressing situation by viewing it (more…)

Good Vibrations – How Dick Cheney Can Find Saddam’s Hidden Weapons

I love the way President Bush mispronounces the Iraqi dictator’s name:  SAH-dum, not sah-DAM.  Whereas the latter pronunciation in Arabic means “One Who Confronts,” the former means “Barefoot Beggar.”  Be assured that when GW says SAH-dum in his speeches broadcast to the Arabic world, he is doing it on purpose.

The Barefoot Beggar has finally agreed to let in UN inspectors because he is confident he can hide his WMD — weapons of mass destruction — from them.  But if GW tells Dick Cheney to give his former colleagues at Halliburton a call about utilizing oil field discovery technology, that (more…)

The Anti-American Right

Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it?  It’s the Left — liberals, left-wingers, socialists, commies, pinkos, the Noam Chomskys and Alec Baldwins and Barbra Streisands — that hates America.  But the Right — good old flag-waving patriotic God Bless America conservatives?  How could they possibly be anti-American?  It sounds ridiculous.

Yet whatever sense or nonsense it makes, Anti-Americanism is seeping into the entire conservative movement and is threatening to splinter it into pieces.

I’m not talking about the racist nuts, the white supremacists and militia types.  I’m talking about mainstream heartland conservatives.  Howard Phillips, head of the famed Conservative Caucus, is (more…)

Adolf in Malaysia

It is only with the most extreme caution and reluctance that someone making repulsive and racist statements should be labeled a Nazi.  Hitler’s crimes were so monstrous that most comparisons to them cheapen and insult their horror.  Yet there are times when such comparisons are justified and Malaysian leader Mohammed Mahathir’s now-infamous speech is one of them.

Have you ever read Mein Kampf?  Hitler’s tract begins with a diatribe against Communism, or International Socialism.  Hitler wanted a National Socialism based on racial and national solidarity (the nickname “Nazi” comes from the first two syllables of the German pronunciation of “national” (more…)

ARM WRESTLING WITH RUSSIA

It was a gorgeous spring day in Washington D.C. when I got a call from Dana. The year was 1995. “Hey, Jack, can you come to my office late this afternoon? The Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg and his entourage will be here and I’d like you in on the meeting.”

Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and I had been friends since we were in Youth For Reagan in 1966 (Reagan’s original campaign, for California Governor). After working in the Reagan White House for all 8 years, he got elected to Congress in 1988, and now served on the International Relations Committee. (more…)