Every time there’s a terror attack in Israel – which happens somewhere, virtually every day – we deal with it as it is: “terror”.

Everyone who lives here – left and right alike -- knows what we’re facing. We may have different ideas about what to do about it, how to prevent more of the same, or what should be done about the perpetrators, but only the ‘Peace Now’ crowd tries to deny that it’s terror.

Most certainly, our Prime Minister would never characterize a terror attack as “incomprehensible.” We comprehend it perfectly – no problem there. We know who’s attacking and we know exactly what they hope to accomplish by it.

That’s not the case in the US, in the hazy world of the Community Organizer.

In the US, after an Islamic jihadist managed to kill 13 people on an Army base, the Community Organizer sought to characterize the “tragedy” the same way he would an earthquake or tidal wave: something that just happened. Something for which no one, or any ideology, could be blamed.

I was going to write something myself this morning about the Community Organizer’s totally inapposite speech at Fort Hood, but when I read Rush Limbaugh’s comments, I realized he’d said it better than I ever could.

Rather than paraphrase him, here’s part of ElRushbo’s analysis about the Community Organizer’s words. Read the whole thing at www.rushlimbaugh.com

OBAMA: This is a time of war. These Americans did not die on a foreign field of battle. They were killed here on American soil in the heart of this great state, in the heart of this great American community. This is a fact that makes the tragedy even more painful, even more incomprehensible. It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy but this much we do know. No faith justifies these murderous and craven acts.

RUSH: Yes, it does.

OBAMA: No just and loving God looks upon them with favor. For what he has done we know that the killer will be met with justice, in this world and the next.

RUSH: I mean folks, ought to read to you what my friend Andy McCarthy wrote about this at National Review Online: "After the carnage we’ve seen for two decades, and the high religious authorities that have endorsed it, it is simply astounding that an American president -- at a solemn memorial service for soldiers killed just days ago by a jihadist acting on his rational, broadly accepted understanding of his religious duty -- could claim that 'no faith justifies' sneak-attack murders, and that no religion teaches that 'God looks upon them with favor.'

In fact, a widely held interpretation of Islam holds exactly these principles. No one is saying that all Muslims follow Hasan’s construction of Islam, but hundreds of millions do and they have scriptures to back up their beliefs -- scriptures we could all read if we’d just pull our heads out of the sand. To deny that is to deny reality. A country can’t be protected by people who lack the will to face reality."


And that's what we have in president Obama. I'm still struggling, does he face reality, is he this naive or is he this cunning? He's got to know what jihad is. He's got to know of the imams that preach it. He's got to know that there are scriptures in these people's book that suggests the way to get to heaven is to kill infidels. This is not even arguable. As Andy says here it's not about all Muslims but clearly hundreds of millions of them.

The whole situation is tragic, all right. But the tragedy is that the US and everything it stands for – liberty, freedom, opportunity for all – is under attack. Not just by the Islamic terrorists who seek to bring it down, but by the man who now sits in the White House.

As Rush says, is he this naïve, or is he this cunning?

There’s nothing the world loves more than a dead Jew.

That’s why, in those long-ago days when the Community Organizer and Missus Bubba were vying for the chance to live in the White House, they agreed on one issue: If Iran launched a nuclear attack on Israel, they would respond.

Which is to say, the moment Iran had obliterated Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, THEN they both said they’d take action.

What action?

The Community Organizer was typically cagey about his plans. He did say (April 17, 2008) that if Israel is attacked by Iran, he would take “appropriate action.”

Missus Bubba went one better: a few days later, on April 22, 2008, during an appearance on Good Morning America, she said the US would definitely retaliate: "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Missus Bubba claimed. “In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."

“Obliterate”. Wow – that's a good word, and Missus Bubba took the heat for it too, mostly from the Europeans.

But remember, even she was saying what she'd do AFTER an Iranian nuclear warhead had already wiped out most of Israel.

Last week Louis Rene Beres, a professor of International Law at Perdue, published a fascinating column – read the whole thing here: http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/20533/

Beres notes that at one point, even Joe-Schmo Biden said that Israel, as a sovereign country, had the right to “anticipatory self defense”, defending itself from the incipient holocaust before the Iranians actually launched the warhead.

Now, of course, Biden has been silenced. It’s not nice for Israel to threaten Iran like that.

But here’s Benes statement about what would happen in Israel if Iran did attack.

“What does Israel really have to fear in a nuclear Iran? There are tangible and terrifying answers. Twenty-nine years ago, I published the first of nine books that contained informed descriptions of physical and medical consequences of nuclear war. These generic descriptions were drawn largely from a major 1975 report by the National Academy of Sciences, and included the following still valid expectations: large temperature changes; contamination of food and water; disease epidemics in crops, domesticated animals, and humans due to ionizing radiation; shortening of growing seasons; irreversible injuries to aquatic species; widespread and long-term cancers due to inhalation of plutonium particles; radiation-induced abnormalities in persons in utero at the time of detonations; a vast growth in the number of skin cancers and an increasing number of genetic disease.

“Overwhelming health problems would afflict the survivors of any Iranian nuclear attack upon Israel. These problems would extend beyond prompt burn injuries. Retinal burns would occur in the eyes of persons far from the explosions. Many Israelis would be crushed by collapsing buildings and torn to shreds by flying glass. Others would fall victim to raging firestorms. Fallout injuries would include whole-body radiation injury, produced by penetrating, hard gamma radiations; superficial radiation burns produced by soft radiations; and injuries produced by deposits of radioactive substances within the body.

“After an Iranian nuclear attack, even a "small" one, those few medical facilities that might still exist in Israel would be taxed far beyond capacity. Water supplies would become altogether unusable. Housing and shelter could be unavailable for hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of survivors. Transportation would break down to rudimentary levels. Food shortages would be critical and long-term.

“Israel's complex network of exchange systems would be shattered. Virtually everyone would be deprived of the most basic means of livelihood. Emergency police and fire services would be decimated. All systems dependent upon electrical power could stop functioning. Severe trauma would occasion widespread disorientation and psychiatric disorders for which there would be limited therapeutic services.

“Normal human society would cease. The pestilence of unrestrained murder and banditry would augment plague and epidemics. Many of the survivors would expect an increase in serious degenerative diseases. They would also expect premature death, impaired vision, and sterility. An increased incidence of leukemia and cancers of the lung, stomach, breast, ovary and uterine cervix would be unavoidable.

“Extensive fallout would upset many delicately balanced relationships in nature. Israelis who survive the nuclear attack would still have to deal with enlarged insect populations. Like the locusts of biblical times, mushrooming insect hordes would spread from the radiation-damaged areas in which they arose.

“Insects are generally more resistant to radiation than humans. This fact, coupled with the prevalence of unburied corpses, uncontrolled waste and untreated sewage, would generate tens of trillions of flies and mosquitoes. Breeding in the dead bodies, these insects would make it impossible to control typhus, malaria, dengue fever and encephalitis.

“Throughout Israel, tens or even hundreds of thousands of rotting human corpses would pose the largest health threat. The survivors would envy the dead.”

Here’s the problem: we – the whole world – have lived so long with the threat of nuclear annihilation that we’ve become all too accustomed to the idea.

We’re desensitized. We all might recall that horrifying photo of the naked little girl running screaming, after the bombing of Hiroshima. But we’ve become so complacent about what a nuclear attack would do that we can discuss it calmly, treating it as though it were just a slightly different version of Swine Flu.

We’ve become so complacent we can allow ourselves to consider relying on largely-theoretical missile defense systems or the goodwill of the now-elected (unfortunately) Community Organizer, who's biggest campaign promise was that after a nuclear attack by Iran, he would “take appropriate action”.

Right now, the international community is giving Iran yet another opportunity to renounce their oft-stated plan to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. We’re waiting for inspections, for assurances, or else – by gosh – we’re going to get tough. We might even impose sanctions.

Oh, wow. Sanctions! Well, that'll make Ahmadinejad tremble.

The thing is, Israel can’t afford this kind of dithering anymore. The threat to us is not theoretical, it’s been promised, over and over and over. Iran is working as fast as they can to bring it about.

I don’t know any more than you do what the Israeli officials are really planning to do, where their red lines really are.

But I do know one thing: waiting until after Iran has attacked is not an option, even if that meant that the whole world would then wax eloquent about what a marvelous place Israel had been, once upon a time.

Stranger than fiction.....

An Israeli was visiting Paris and happened upon a terrible scene. A dog was attacking a little girl. The Israeli intervened and pulled the little girl to safety but the dog died.

Pretty soon he was surrounded by reporters. “Where in Paris are you from?” one asked. “Tomorrow the headlines will read, ‘Brave Parisian saves girl from dog’, or maybe ‘Heroic Parisian rescues little girl from savage beast.’"

"Actually," the man said, "I am not a Parisian."

"Alright, so the headlines will be ‘Brave Frenchman saves girl from dog.'"

"Well, actually I am not from France either."

“So where are you from?” the reporters wanted to know.

"Israel," he replied. To which the reporters turned and walked away.

The next day, the headlines read, "Israeli-generated violence consumes Paris. Dog dead, little girl injured."

A joke -- of sorts. But Abu Mazen is trying the same thing – for real.

A couple of days ago our world-designated “peace partner” Abu Mazen told a shocked world that he had “no desire” to run for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority in the upcoming January elections.

Why not?

“Israel does not want peace, does not want to stop settlement construction and does not want the two-state solution,” Abu Mazen said. “No matter how much they [Israel] try to assault our holy sites and lands, we won't allow them to do so," he said. "Jerusalem will remain the eternal capital of the Palestinian people."

(If you can stand it, you really ought to read the whole article. It’s nothing short of insane how the terrorist Abu Mazen rants that the “Palestinians” have done everything they can to bring about peace, but the Israelis refuse to do anything at all to make it happen. Here’s the link: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1257455214562&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%

So there’s no peace, Abu Mazen says, and the whole thing is Israel’s fault. May as well go eat worms.

But today the real reason Abu Mazen is allegedly pulling out is revealed.

What’s the real problem? Hamas, not Israel. That’s what former IDF intelligence Director Zev Farkash says.

"Abbas has no control in Gaza. The chance of a peace pact between Hamas and Fatah [Abbas’ party] is zero. The physical separation of the Palestinian Authority into two areas - Judea and Samaria ruled by the PA under Abbas and Gaza under Hamas – has virtually ruined any chance that the PA can carry out the American goal of turning it into a country."

Well, well, well. Abu Mazen is just joining the crowd, doing what comes naturally. Whatever your troubles are, blame Israel.

All that said, I still don’t believe Abu Mazen, spiffed up as the man of peace, Mahmoud Abbas, will really relinquish control.

After all, from all around the world, cash is still pouring in to help the poor beleaguered ‘Palestinian Authority’. There’s no doubt at all that a goodly portion of that finds its way into Abu Mazen’s own pockets. Abu Mazen will probably decide that while the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune do sting a bit, they don’t hurt nearly as much as would turning down free cash. As long as the money spigot still functions, why quit?

All that fawning attention from the world doesn’t hurt a guy’s ego one little bit either.

The old terrorist won't quit. He just wants to be begged – and bribed – to stay.

Are you ready for this? Here’s a list of United States Senators who today walk the halls of Congress holding their heads high.

In a place where courage, independence and common sense have been in remarkably short supply, here are the Senate Seven who dare to speak out for Israel:
Senator Sam Brownback, R-Kansas
Senator Jim Bunning, R- Kentucky
Senator John Cornyn, R- Texas
Senator James Inhofe. R- Oklahoma
Senator Jon Kyl, R- Arizona
Senator Joseph Lieberman, I – Connecticut
Senator David Vitter, R- Louisiana

What did they do? They’ve decided that Israel should be allowed to designate Jerusalem as its national capitol.

Pretty earth shaking, wouldn’t you say?

May not sound like it, but it is. Up to now, for 61 years, Israel has not been granted that right, most especially because of the series of lily-livers who’ve occupied the White House.

On November 2, Sen. Sam Brownback introduced S. 2737 and six co-sponsors signed on immediately. S 2737 is quite simple -- it abolishes the “security waiver” that US presidents have used to prevent implementing a 1995 law that declared that Israel’s holiest city and eternal city, Jerusalem, is the capital of Israel.

"It is long overdue for America to recognize the sovereign right of Israel to choose Jerusalem as its capital city,” Sen. Brownback said.

No kidding.

Here’s the backstory:

In 1948, when Israel became a state it established Jerusalem as its official capital. We built the Knesset, Supreme Court and other government buildings there, but until after the Six Day War in 1967, when Israel recaptured the entire city, most government business was transacted in Tel Aviv.

In 1967 we officially annexed the eastern part of Jerusalem and requested international recognition for Jerusalem as our capital city.

Most governments -- including the US – ignored us. They continue to maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv in deference to Arab claims over Jerusalem. Hostile Arab governments refer to "the Tel-Aviv government" because they regard Jerusalem as theirs.

Worse than just keeping the embassy in Tel Aviv, however, is the fact that the US simply refuses to recognize any part of Jerusalem as a part of the Israel. For example, Americans who are born anywhere in Jerusalem cannot register their country of birth as Israel.

What supercilious nonsense! Why can’t a child born in Jerusalem, of all places, be allowed to list “Israel” as his place of birth on his US passport? Yet under long-standing US practice, a child born in Jerusalem lists only the city – Jerusalem – as his birthplace, with no country designated at all.

In the mind of the US’s Arabist bureaucrats, Jerusalem isn’t located in any country.

In any event, thanks to US Jewish groups and a strong cohort of Christian sympathizers, in 1995, Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which required the US embassy to be relocated to Jerusalem.

It didn't work. Successive presidents -- George Bush the First, then Bubba, then George Bush the Second, and now of course the Community Organizer –chose to ignore the congressional mandate, saying it was “advisory” only.

But wait – it gets better. The 1995 law set forth the official policy of the US toward Jerusalem: that it would remain a united city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected.

It also recognized Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel, and specified that no later than May 31, 1999, the US embassy would be relocated to Jerusalem. It even set forth a penalty: 50% of the money used to maintain embassies abroad could not be spent if the US Embassy weren’t open in Jerusalem by May 31, 1999. It had accountability, too. Every six months, the Secretary of State was required to report progress to Congress regarding the relocation of the embassy.

So for ten years, every six months, under the two Presidents Bush, Bubba and now the Community Organizer, waivers were issued, saying, in effect, that “national security” issues prevented the move.

Congress tried again in 2002. They included a section in H.R.1646, the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, to again force the US to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move the embassy there.

Still nothing happened.

So now Sam Brownback and his band of merry men are trying again, this time by taking away the excuse of the “security waiver”.

Obviously the Community Organizer’s administration will fight this tooth and nail. Still, for an administration that likes to point to “facts on the ground”, you don’t get much better “facts” than the existence of Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol. And with Arab terrorist missiles now able to reach Tel Aviv, there’s no reason to insist that American embassy employees will be any more secure in Tel Aviv than Jerusalem.

So kol hakavod – much honor and respect – to the Senate Seven, who dare, at this most dangerous time in Israel’s history – to make public their support.

“I will bless those who bless you
And curse him that curses you;
And all the families of the earth
Shall bless themselves by you." Genesis 12:3

Thanks to www.mideastweb.org for the historical details.

Abu Mazen, have you no shame?

Rhetorical question, of course, because we all know the answer. Of course not.

Shame? What is that? Certainly nothing Arab terrorists concern themselves with.

In yet another announced resignation from political leadership, Abu Mazen (leader of the terrorist party Fatah, who now, resplendent in his Western haircut and bespoke suits, prefers to be known as Mahmoud Abbas) is pulling our cumulative legs again.

Well, why not? It works every time for him.

Every time the going gets tough over there, Abu Mazen announces he’s retiring – or not running – and then dollars, encouragement and support, in about equal measure, flow in from around the world.

So here he goes again: Abu Mazen announced yesterday he has "no desire" to run in the presidential election in the PA territories, slated for January 24. His resignation is ““is not meant as a tactic, or to manipulate.”

For decades we’ve known that when someone says, “It’s not the money. It’s the principle of the thing,” then we know it’s the money. When the Community Organizer announces that something “Is not about me”, then we know it’s all about him. When you hear Abu Mazen say his resignation isn’t “an attempt to manipulate” then you know it’s an attempt to do just that.

He used his most recent announcement of his retirement to blame Israel and the US, of course – Israel has “ruined” negotiating efforts by refusing to stop construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem as a precondition to negotiation. The US, for its part, is at fault for backing Israel -- which gives you some idea of just how dumb Abu Mazen’s thinks the rest of the world is.

In terms of duplicity, you don’t get much better than this:

Speaking directly to the Israeli public, Abu Mazen said: "Peace is more important than any achievement for a political party. Peace is more important than any government coalition. For many years, my opinion and vision have been that peace was still possible and I have sincerely worked to achieve this goal."

WHAT???

Just since the Oslo “Peace Agreements”, here are some of Fatah’s terror attacks:

November 27, 2001, 2 killed, dozens wounded when gunmen opened fire on a crowd in the Afula bus station
November 29, 2001, 3 killed, 9 wounded in a suicide bus bombing.
December 12, 2001, 10 killed, 30 wounded in Emmanuel by a bomb and gunfire on a bus
January 15, 2002, an American kidnapped and murdered at Beit Jala.
January 17. 2002, 6 killed, 35 wounded in Hadera when a gunman opened fire on a Bar Mitzvah celebration
January 19, 2002, 2 killed, 40 wounded, when a gunman opened fire on a crown in Jerusalem.
January 27, 2002, a female suicide bomber killed one and wounded 150 in Jerusalem.
January 30, 2002, a suicide bomber wounded two in Taiba.
February 18, 2002, a car bomb killed one and injured one near Jerusalem
February 18, 2002, 3 killed, 4 wounded by gunfire and bombs in Gush Katif
February 19, 2002, 6 killed, 1 wounded when a gunman opened fire on soldiers near Jerusalem
February 22, 2002, one killed in a drive by shooting north of Jerusalem
February 25, 2002, 1 killed and a pregnant woman wounded by gunmen in Gush Etzion
February 25, 2002, I killed, eight wounded by a gunman shooting into a crowd in Jerusalem
February 27, 2002, a female suicide bomber wounded three in Samaria.
March 2, 2002, 10 killed, 50 wounded by a suicide bomber just outside a Jerusalem synagogue.
March 2, 2002, 2 killed, 50 wounded by gunman near Netanya.
Marcy 10, 2002, a shooting attack killed one in Netzarim.
March 12, 2002, a shooting attack killed one, wounded one in an ambush near Kibbutz Matzuva
March 14, 2002, a remote controlled mine killed 3, wounded 2, on the Karni-Netzarim road.
March 20, 2002, 7 killed, 30 wounded by a suicide bomber in Afula.
March 21, 2002, 3 killed, 86 wounded, by a suicide bombing in downtown Jerusalem
March 29, 2002, 2 killed, 28 wounded by a bombing in a supermarket in Jerusalem
April 12, 2002, 6 killed, 104 injured in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market by a suicide bomber.
May 27, 2002, 2 killed, 27 wounded by a suicide bomb in a Petah Tikvah shopping mall.
January 5, 2003, 23 killed, 108 wounded by two suicide bombers in Tel Aviv
January 29, 2004: 10 killed, 50 wounded in a bus bombing in Jerusalem.
February 22, 2004: 8 killed, 60 wounded in a bus bombing in Jerusalem.
March 14, 2004: 10 killed, 16 wounded in two homicide bombings at the port of Ashdod


Are you getting the picture? Enough, already. I’m tired of typing.

There are hundreds of these terrorist attacks – and remember, these are only the attacked CLAIMED by Fatah – not by Hamas or by other terrorist groups. These are only those that Abu Mazen’s Fatah party claims credit for.

Abu Mazen served as arch terrorist Yasser Arafat’s top deputy for 40 years, and to this day, insists that terrorist organizations are legitimate “Palestinian” entities, and that they have a right to defend themselves against what he terms the “illegal occupation” of “Palestine” by Israel.

And of course this list also doesn’t include some very personal terrorist work by Abu Mazen himself – he was the one who financed the attack on the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.

So now, to hear Abu Mazen, the man who has perpetrated, supported and encouraged terrorist attacks to weep crocodile tears at his own goodness, laying it on thick about how he’s “worked for peace” this whole time – well, it’s just too much.

How about that nose, huh?

Double, double toil and trouble
Fire burn and caldron bubble…

Halloween may be over, but Mrs. Bubba never stops playing her role. As it happens, Mrs. Bubba is right here in the Middle East, something that ought to terrify every Israeli – and anyone else who sees what’s happening here as a foretaste of what’s on its way to America. So foul a day we have not seen.

What happened? Hamas, the Arab terrorists who brought you Aza, today announced they have missiles that can reach Tel Aviv.

In the beginning, Hamas was limited to trying to kill civilians in Israeli communities just alongside their border – Sderot, Shaar ha Negev and border kibbutzim. Then last winter they expanded their reach and started hitting larger population centers, Beersheba, Ashkelon, Ashdod.

But today, armed with still longer range missiles from Iran, they say they can reach Tel Aviv.

To translate that into California-speak, it’s like before, terrorists could only bomb Fresno, Bakersfield and Culver City, places some have suggested a few mortars could only improve. But now terrorists have acquired weaponry that capable of hitting San Francisco! Now even the most peace-loving liberal can see there’s a problem.

Interesting synchronicity, because on the same day Hamas makes their announcement, Mrs. Bubba, in Cairo, touts her long-time support for Hamas’ partners in terror, the “Palestinians”.

What prompted Mrs. Bubba’s remarks -- to Al Jazeera, yet, the terrorists media outlet – was that a couple of days ago, she’d appeared to say something nice about Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. That drove the Community Organizers’ Arab friends nuts, so she had to establish her bona fides with the terrorists.

As her hubby was wont to do, let’s parse what Mrs. Bubba said in Cairo yesterday:

``I think President Obama was absolutely clear. He wanted a halt to all settlement activity.”

That much is absolutely true. He said he didn’t even want to see a cement mixer is Judea, Samaria or “east Jerusalem”.

``The alternative to stopping all new settlement construction is that it continues.”

Oh, like, wow. Is that profound! But wait, it gets better.

“We the United States do not want to see that, and I know that the Palestinians don't want to see a set of construction activity that will further prejudge or prejudice the outcome.''

A “set of construction activity”? Curious phrase. But let’s go on. Remember, since the ascension of the Community Organizer to his throne, the Arabs – “Palestinians” --assured of his absolute support, began to insist that they would not even enter negotiations with Israel until all settlement activity had been halted.

Get that: before they will negotiate, they want Israel to concede first. And Mrs. Bubba doesn’t think that “prejudges or prejudices the outcome”?

``I was the first American associated with any admin to call for the establishment of a Palestinian state when I first did it 10 years ago.”

That phrase, “associated with any administration” is interesting. One has to wonder what else Mrs. Bubba can claim to have said during pillow talk, since it was her husband who appeared to be the President back then.

“A lot of people thought that was very radical. Now there is consensus we must get to a Palestinian state.''

If she actually said it, no kidding it was radical – it still is. The only place there’s a consensus that “we must get to a Palestinian state” is in the Arab-dominated US State Department and among the 23 Arab nations plus their assorted anti-Semitic groupies and hangers-on. There’s certainly no such consensus in Israel, and we’re the ones expected to cede a third of our country to the terrorists. One would think our opinion might count for something.

``I can't help but reflect back that when my husband was working so hard...it came very close. If it had gotten to an agreement we would not be talking about settlement activity...There would be a Palestinian state, it would have a capital in East Jerusalem.”

She’s right about that, too. If arch terrorist Yasser Arafat hadn’t walked out in frustration when Israel’s weak-kneed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin refused to give him 100% of the land he was demanding -- instead of the 97% Rabin stupidly offered – there would indeed be a “Palestinian” state. It would unquestionably have a united Jerusalem as its capitol, because Israel would be gone, nothing more than a figment of history.



If Bubba himself had succeeded, Israel would have long-since been defeated. Why? Because 1. The land area remaining would have been militarily indefensible – nine miles wide right at the point where our population density is the highest, exactly where out single international airport is located; and 2. Because we would have given away our prime source of fresh water. There’s no easier way to defeat an enemy than to turn off the water faucet. Starving out your enemy is one quick way to victory – thirsting them out is even faster.

Then, Mrs. Bubba concluded, “I would be working to further the interests of the Palestinian people.”

Well, probably not. Why would Mrs. Bubba be working to further the interests of the Palestinian people – any more than she now works to further the interests of the Saudi Arabian people, the Syrian people or the Libyan people? The new nation of “Palestine” would be just one more Islamist terrorist state. The only democracy in the Middle East -- the only real friend the US has in these parts -- would be gone.

But hark! All is not well for the Community Organizer. Even as Macbeth’s witches predicted trouble, so should the Community Organizer beware.

Today’s election results in New Jersey and Virginia also foretell the future:
“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes….“

Sayonara, Mrs. Bubba. Write when you get work.

Headline: “Palestinians accuse U.S. of killing peace prospects”

My first response? Thank G-d.

Not that I don’t want peace – which is to say, a just settlement between two peoples, allowing each to pursue their joint and several aspirations in confidence and safety, free from fear of each other.

But that’s not what the “Palestinians” mean when they say ‘peace’. What they mean is an end to the existence of Israel.

They want Israel gone – and then indeed, there will be ‘peace’. Oh, they’ll still have all the internal wars and uprisings, but they won’t have Israel to kick around anymore. Given all the infighting in the Arab world – all 23 countries – it’s clear the absence of Israel wouldn’t result in peace in the Middle East anyway, but at least the Arabs could find someone else to blame.

So if that’s what Reuter’s mean by this headline – that the US has “killed” the ‘Palestinians’ hope of eliminating Israel -- then that’s the first good thing the Community Organizer has accomplished. (But hey – even Hitler had nice handwriting. No one can be all bad, can they?)

In short, I long for the day in which the “Palestinians” heinous ‘peace prospects’ are dead and gone. If Obama accomplished that, that’s a good thing.

Alas, that’s probably not what Reuter’s meant. What’s more likely is that the Arabs are saying they’re profoundly disappointed with the Community Organizer because he hasn’t come through with the goods they believed he’d promised them, i.e., the end of that pesky Jewish state.

The Arab nations – to one of which the Community Organizer literally bowed down – had been led to believe that with the election of Muslim-friendly Hussein Obama, Israel would by this time be so weakened through Washington policy directives that our demise would be within their crosshairs.

To their dismay, that didn’t happen – to an admirable extent, Bibi stood his ground. So now the Arabs feel bitter and cheated. They’re ready to blame Hussein Obama for the failure of “peace” – which is to say, the failure to implement their agenda in eliminating Israel.

See? That’s what happens when you overpromise. Once you’ve promised the sun, the moon and the stars, then when you deliver only a few galaxies, the beneficiaries of your promises feel cheated. They won’t be grateful for the 80% you did deliver. They’ll remember only the 20% they didn’t get.

A seasoned statesman would have known that. Someone with just a tad of experience in something other than the cajones-busting work of Community Organizing in Chicago, of all places -- where cement booties are optional negotiating tools – would have learned that.

Someone with a bit of actual experience in something other than reading someone else’s golden words off a teleprompter would have known: you don’t just go out and promise you’ll be able to force some third party to bend to your will.

But the Community Organizer, in his incredible naiveté, doesn’t understand that. Witness the Olympics fiasco. He assumed the world will bend to his greatness, thanking the heavens above for the ability to do his bidding.

Yeah, well, not everyone is completely twitterpated with his presence.

What I actually think happened is that the Community Organizer – and his trusty sidekick Mrs. Bubba – fell victim to the Jerusalem Syndrome.

The Jerusalem Syndrome – a real set of psychological manifestations – is a recognized group of mental phenomena that come about after a visit to Jerusalem. It involves a number of religiously themed obsessions, delusions or other psychosis-like experiences. If affects Jews and Christians alike, and is independent of any previous incidences of psychopathology.

In a nutshell, a person afflicted with the Jerusalem Syndrome is overcome with a sense of divine mission. They start to believe they alone have the answers to all the world’s problems. That by their dictates, unity, sanity and harmony can be restored to the universe at large.

In short, a person afflicted with the Jerusalem Syndrome believes he can make the lions lie down with the lambs – and more importantly, that in the morning, both critters will wake up healthy and whole.

Hussein Obama appears to be so afflicted. He visited Jerusalem and became obsessed with the notion that he could bring about peace in the Middle East.

He thought he could speak, and it would be. That he could dictate, and the great unwashed masses would follow. That he could envision peace, and the doves would fly.
That didn’t happen. Not to mix a metaphor or anything, but the Community Organizer didn’t have nearly enough pixie dust to cover everyone over here, so there were whole blocks of us who didn’t believe. That’s the problem.

So now the “Palestinians” are upset. They expected the demise of Israel to be handed over like the head of John the Baptist. They didn’t get it. Now they’re unhappy.

Not to worry. If international relations really do function on the “Mouse that Roared” principle, then what will happen very soon is that the “Palestinians” will be granted tens of millions more of your tax dollars, to help them get over their feelings of rejection.

Count on it.