By Andrew L. Jaffee

“‘We received yesterday at the Rome conference permission from the world… to continue the operation,’ Justice Minister Haim Ramon said.” So quotes the BBC on Israel’s interpretation of “the decision by diplomats not to call for a halt to its Lebanon offensive at a Middle East summit” in Rome. The Jewish state’s interpretation is correct, at least from the standpoint of U.S. support, which is the only country that really counts.

The House and Senate have passed almost unanimous resolutions supporting the Jewish state. Secretary of State Rice has ruled out a “ceasefire.” President Bush has stated categorically that, “Israel has a right to defend herself.”

Today, Israel received further confirmation of U.S. support to smash Hezbollah. From the San Diego Union-Tribune:

Rice is not expected to press Olmert for a quick end to Israel’s assault, despite international pressure to limit civilian deaths and a mild rebuke to Israel issued by the United Nations Security Council on Thursday over bombing of a U.N. post in Lebanon that killed four unarmed military observers. …

“Now is the time to address the root cause of the problem, and the root cause of the problem is terrorist groups trying to stop the advance of democracy,” Bush said at the White House. “Our objective is to make sure that those who use terrorist tactics are not rewarded.” …

“Hezbollah attacked Israel. I know Hezbollah is connected to Iran,” Bush said. “Now is the time for the world to confront this danger,” Bush said. …

U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, seeking confirmation to the post he now holds temporarily, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Iranians are Hezbollah’s “paymasters, and they’re calling the tune.”

He stood by estimates that Iran contributes $100 million annually to the Shiite Islamic militants, who have supplanted Lebanon’s central government as the effective political and military force in the southern region bordering Israel.

“It’s not realistic to think that you can have an effective government where there’s an armed group operating within the state functioning as if it’s its own government,” Bolton said, “controlling its own territory, using its own weapons, and functioning at the behest in many cases of foreign governments.”

Israel indeed has a green light. That means “go.” Which means an end to Hezbollah.

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The Anti-Defamation League provides a common-sense view on the war between Israel and Hezbollah:

Israel’s goals in the conflict against Hezbollah are being received in a generally sympathetic fashion. Israel says that at the end of the conflict, Hezbollah must be severely weakened; most of its missiles dismantled; the terrorist group moved out of range of Israel’s northern border; a force, preferably that of the Lebanon government, but maybe an international force must take control of the south, and a way must be found to prevent Damascus and Teheran from resupplying Hezbollah with more and increasingly sophisticated missiles.

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By Fern Sidman

As day 15 of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah terrorists concluded, it was reported that little was accomplished on the diplomatic front at the Rome summit. United States Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice was joined by the United Nations, European Union countries, Arab states such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia as well as Canada, Russia, Cyprus and Turkey in seeking a resolution the burgeoning war between Israel and Hezbollah.

According to CNN’s John King, Secretary of State Rice was “under siege” by world leaders who pressed for an “immediate cease fire in the region”. The position of the United States as voiced by Secretary Rice was that a cease fire must be “sustainable” and cessation of hostilities must be part of a wider plan to permanently disarm Lebanese Hezbollah militants.

CNN reported that, “one source involved in the talks said everyone but the United States wanted to press ahead with an immediate cease-fire, but Rice argued that taking that approach would leave Hezbollah in place and still armed with its rockets.”

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Please take the time to contact your lawmakers vis-a-vis AIPAC’s note on Hezbollah and the EU:

A letter circulating for signatures in the House of Representatives would urge the European Union (EU) to formally designate Hizballah a terrorist organization and thereby eliminate its ability to openly raise funds throughout Europe. The EU has consistently failed to take such a step despite Hizballah’s continuing attacks on Israeli civilians. The letter was authored by Reps. Elton Gallegly (R-CA) and Robert Wexler (D-FL), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House International Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Emerging Threats. Ask your Representative to call for Hizballah’s addition to the EU’s list of terrorist groups.

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By Canadian Coalition for Democracies

Toronto, Canada, Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - The Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD) has been granted intervenor status at the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182. David Harris, CCD Senior Fellow for National Security, will serve as legal counsel and intervene on behalf of CCD at the Commission of Inquiry.

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By Bill Narvey

One thing in common amongst arm-chair military strategists is that they ascribe to the “war is hell” theory. So hell should be included in their theory when giving advice: Israel should lay down a rolling carpet of death and destruction in Lebanon as well as in Syria and Iran with planes, tanks and troops. These strategists have had no training or experience in war and military strategy, which necessarily must be developed and implemented with an eye to international relations, of which they have no experience and practical knowledge of either.

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by Daniel Pipes
Jerusalem Post*
July 26, 2006
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3783
* Cross-posted with permission

The current round of hostilities between Israel and its enemies differs from prior ones in that it’s not an Arab-Israeli war, but one that pits Iran and its Islamist proxies, Hamas and Hizbullah, against Israel.

This points, first, to the increasing power of radical Islam. When Israeli forces last confronted, on this scale, a terrorist group in Lebanon in 1982, they fought the Palestine Liberation Organization, a nationalist-leftist organization backed by the Soviet Union and the Arab states. Now, Hizbullah seeks to apply Islamic law and to eliminate Israel through jihad, with the Islamic Republic of Iran looming in the background, feverishly building nuclear weapons.

Non-Islamist Arabs and Muslims find themselves sidelined. Fear of Islamist advances – whether subversion in their own countries or aggression from Tehran – finds them facing roughly the same demons as does Israel. As a result, their reflexive anti-Zionist response has been held in check. However fleetingly, what The Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abu Toameh calls “an anti-Hizbullah coalition,” one implicitly favorable to Israel, has come into existence.

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By Fern Sidman

While Israel is engaged in heavy fighting with Hezbollah terrorists on the northern front and Hamas terrorists on its southern front, it would appear that Israel’s proverbial nemesis, better known as the media, has opened a third front with its incessant assaults on Israel.

While the media may not be launching Katyusha or Kassam rockets aimed at Israeli cities, the rockets that the media launches are instrumental in degrading Israel in the war of public opinion. Case in point would be the drastic difference in the content and modality of reporting between the two major cable networks, CNN and Fox News.

To the average viewer, it would appear that CNN and Fox are reporting the news from two different planets. While it is true that the Ted Turner owned CNN, has its own left wing agenda along with the perfunctory anti-Israel bias that goes with that territory, and Roger Ailes’ Fox News has a more conservative, pro-Republican platform, the stark and extreme contrasts cannot be missed. To state that their coverage of the current war between Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas is diametrically opposed would be a gross understatement.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

As an ardent supporter of Israel, I’m starting to have a hard time understanding the number of gaffs racked up by the Jewish state’s armed forces (IDF) in their campaign against Hezbollah’s Islamo-fascists. Israel and its Mossad intelligence is renouned for an excellent pin-point accuracy in targeting terrorists. But, as of today, approximately 300+ Lebanese civilians have been killed by the IDF, and an Israeli bomb killed 4 U.N. observers. Keep in mind that Hezbollah has slaughtered 41 Israelis, 19 of whom were civilians, with at least 388 wounded. And Israel is a nation that warns civilians before attacking, and allows still hostile Lebanon humanitarian aid corridors. And there is evidence of U.N. involvement with Palestinian terrorists. But what has happened to the Israel that defeated the combined forces of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria in the Six Day War?

Yes, that was a war between armies, and today’s war is between an Israeli army and terrorists hiding behind human shields. But has the IDF lost its edge? Is it bad intelligence? Is it urban/guerilla warfare? Somebody please help me to understand. After all, today’s wars have a public relations aspect, like it or not, and especially for Israel, whose every move is under the microscope because of the plague of anti-Semitism that will not die.

On a positive note, Israel “killed senior Hezbollah commander Abu Jaafar, who Israel says was in charge of the central area of Lebanon’s border with Israel” and “killed between 20 and 30 Hezbollah fighters in the area in the past 24 hours.”

But whatever is hindering its anti-terrorist efforts, Israel needs to get its ducks in a row and smash Hezbollah — fast and with minimal civilian carnage.

netWMD Special Report: Hezbollah Facts

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Forget the vast Jewish banking conspiracy which controls the U.S. government. A CNN poll shows that Americans sympathize with Israel by far over the Hezbollah Islamo-fascists:

Based on what you have read or heard about the conflict in the Middle East, are your sympathies MORE with Israel or MORE with Hezbollah?

	July 19
Israel	57%
Hezbollah	4%
Both (vol.)	4%
Neither (vol.)	20%
No opinion	15%

In addition, the majority of those polled felt that “Israel’s military reaction to the situation in the Middle East” was “about right.”

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Here is an excellent video produced by the son of one of netWMD’s contributors, Bill Narvey. It is not propaganda but a brief one-minute statement in words and pictures of what led up to the current war between Israel and the Islamo-fascists Hezbollah and Hamas. Please distribute as widely as possible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G379w5G1ydM

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By Canadian Coalition for Democracies

STAND WITH ISRAEL RALLY

Wednesday July 26, 7:30 pm
(Please come early. Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Toronto Centre for the Arts
5040 Yonge Street, Toronto
Map

Keynote Speaker, Retired Major General Lewis MacKenzie
Dr. Charles McVety, Canada Christian College
Israeli Consul General Ya’acov Brosh
M.C. Robert Lantos
With live satellite-feed from northern Israel

Support Israel’s right to defend its citizens against terrorism

Organizational support for this rally is provided by UJA Federation, Canadian Jewish Congress and Canada-Israel Committee. More than 100 diverse Jewish and non-Jewish community organizations are co-sponsoring the event, including Canadian Council for Israel Jewish Advocacy (CIJA), B’nai Brith Canada, Canada Christian College, Canadian Coalition for Democracies, and many others.

View UJA Online Invitation

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is again spouting Jew-hatred. (I’m starting to repeat myself, but he keeps sticking his foot in his mouth.) He’s denied that the Holocaust has occured. He’s advocated the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel. Now, he and his soon-to-be nuclear armed Islamo-fascists, are making ominous and awful statements again:

“Israel pushed the button of its own destruction by attacking Lebanon,” Mr Ahmadinejad said while addressing an education conference.

He did not give further information but suggested Islamic nations and others could isolate Israel and its supporters, AP news agency reported.

He also repeated last year’s calls for Israel to move out of the Middle East, comments which sparked widespread condemnation.

“I advise them to pack up and move out of the region before being caught in the fire they have started in Lebanon,” he said.

The “Axis of Evil” is for real, as Iran and North Korea may be coordinating their efforts in the worst possible way: in the development of nuclear weapons and corresponding delivery systems.

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by Moshe Feiglin

The Army of Allah (in Arabic, Hizballah) is attacking us from the north and south. Facing the primitive Army of Allah is a super-sophisticated and pragmatic fighting force. The Arab is fighting for his God, his goal is victory and he has all the self-sacrifice and patience in the world. The Jew is fighting for a little bit of peace and quiet. His goal is to “deter” the Hizballah and his patience is short. Who’s going to win?

Attacks from the air can reduce the number of Katyushas daily being fired at Israel from about 100 to…let’s say 10 or even 1. The Hizballah terrorist will fire just one rocket per day before he is destroyed by our pilots. Once a week: a katyusha on Haifa, one on Tiberias, one on Tzfat – not a downpour, just a drizzle. It will be a great accomplishment for Israel’s air force. But who will win?

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By Randy A Sprinkle

The terrorists today have the will to destroy us, but they don’t have the power. We have the power to eradicate them, but we must now show that we have the will.

- Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Brit Hume on the Fox News - Sept. 14th, 2001

The United States is often referred to as the world’s only super power and while that may be a valid statement, what does it really mean?

The potential of a nation is only that. More often than not, the destiny of a nation is determined by will-power and unity rather than physical power. Potential will be realized only to the extent of the will and unity that exists among the people.

History shows that great nations often begin with a small group of determined people. Certainly in the case of America this is true. Many of the people who came to America’s shores were the poor persecuted and despised rejects of Europe. What drove these individuals was self-determination which in the end proved to be the greatest possession they brought with them on their ships.

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