"FOR EVERY GERMAN KILLED . . .

TEN ITALIANS WILL DIE."
- German High Command, 8 September, 1943



You would think the Israelis would know better, given their own history with the Germans, but we have this from an Associated Press report:

JERUSALEM, July 18 — The asymmetry in the reported death tolls is marked and growing: some 230 Lebanese dead, most of them civilians, to 25 Israeli dead, 13 of them civilians . . .

So the Jewish state believes ten dead Lebanese avenges and rectifies 1 dead Israeli? If not, they should argue differently by drawing down their planes and artillery pieces that kill indiscriminately.

And if they say, yea, the metric is accurate, a Lebanese child's life is but 1/10th an Israeli child's, I say this:

May your grand dream of nationhood end in the same fashion as the Third Reich's to which you are heir: in defeated wreckage and ruin.

'Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword."'
-Matthew 26:52

Stop Israeli Terrorism

The Israelis protest when Palestinian suicide bombers blow up a crowded cafe (as well they should) because it targets innocents. But what is so different about Israeli fighter-bombers blowing up a Lebanese apartment building? Or rocketing a van full of people and killing 5 children? The difference is technology. The Arab terrorist-soldier uses his body, the Israeli terrorist-soldier a plane.

The Israeli's complain about rocket attacks against Haifa killing 8. First, the attacks are in response to Israeli assaults on a sovereign nation. Secondly, 8 Israeli civilians were killed but over 100 Lebanese civilians have died in the first three days of the war. Are the latter's lives so worthless?

Neither terrorist should be supported. Both must be condemned.

It is time for America to stop blindly supporting Israel. Enough talk of punishing Hezbollah and Hamas. Let's start talking about punishing the Israeli terror-state for its complete disregard for human life other than its own.

No Bravery

IMAGES of Iraq put to the song NO BRAVERY, by James Blunt. Very moving.

For those who don't know, James Blunt was a British army captain who served in the Bosnian campaign. NO BRAVERY is based on his experience in those killing fields.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS? You must mean that OTHER America

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." - 1st Amendment, US Constitution

Lawmaker Wants Papers Probed Over Stories
June 25, 2006
Associated Press

WASHINGTON-
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration on Sunday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.

Rep. Peter King cited The New York Times in particular for publishing a story last week that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records.

King, R-N.Y., said he would write Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urging that the nation's chief law enforcer "begin an investigation and prosecution of The New York Times- the reporters, the editors and the publisher."

"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King told The Associated Press.
King's action was not endorsed by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, GOP Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.

"On the basis of the newspaper article, I think it's premature to call for a prosecution of the New York Times, just like I think it's premature to say that the administration is entirely correct," Specter told "Fox News Sunday."

Stories about the money-monitoring program also appeared last week in The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. King said he thought investigators should examine those publications, but that the greater focus should be on The New York Times because the paper in December also disclosed a secret domestic wiretapping program. He charged that the paper was "more concerned about a left-wing elitist agenda than it is about the security of the American people."

When the paper chose to publish the story, it quoted the executive editor, Bill Keller, as saying editors had listened closely to the government's arguments for withholding the information, but "remain convinced that the administration's extraordinary access to this vast repository of international financial data, however carefully targeted use of it may be, is a matter of public interest."

After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Treasury officials obtained access to a vast database called Swift _ the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. The Belgium-based database handles financial message traffic from thousands of financial institutions in more than 200 countries.

Democrats and civil libertarians are questioning whether the program violated privacy rights.

The service, which routes more than 11 million messages each day, mostly captures information on wire transfers and other methods of moving money in and out of the United States, but it does not execute those transfers.

The service generally does not detect private, individual transactions in the

United States, such as withdrawals from an ATM or bank deposits. It is aimed mostly at international transfers.

Gonzales said last month that he believes journalists can be prosecuted for publishing classified information, citing an obligation to national security. He also said the government would not hesitate to track telephone calls made by reporters as part of a criminal leak investigation, but officials would not do so routinely and randomly.

In recent months, journalists have been called into court to testify as part of investigations into leaks, including the unauthorized disclosure of a CIA operative's name.

He said the First Amendment right of a free press should not be absolute when it comes to national security.