http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/index.php For a Safe and Secure Israel. http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/index.php http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/images/banner4.jpg http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=3063 Everyone is distracted by the Olympics. The squabbling here on the campaign trail consumes the media. Two presidential candidates and a lame-duck president all are weighing in on foreign policy. No wonder Vladimir Putin thought it was a good time to invade Georgia.

Apparently the Russian prime minister knew exactly what he was doing but assumed no one in the West did. And he was right.

Our pundits and politicians are all over the map as Putin is variously portrayed as villain, victim, patriot, tyrant -- and more still.

The neoconservatives: We must make Russia pay a terrible price for subverting a democracy. Our policy of promoting liberal governments among the former Soviet republics, with integration into Europe and relations with NATO, was sound, and it cannot be allowed to be aborted by Putin.

Bottom line: Form a ring of democracies around Russia until it sees the light and likewise evolves into a constitutional state. http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=3064 ...In all of their efforts the distinction between Zionist and Jew is blurred, although the Arabs frequently claim to have no quarrel with the Jews, but only with the Zionists. We will deal with this lack of precise distinction, when we discuss the use of anti-Semitic themes in its propaganda.

Here, then, are some examples of recurrent themes:

An 'international" Zionist (often Zionist-Jewish or Zionist-Jewish-Communist depending on the audience) conspiracy was able to take aver Palestine because:

(a) It controls the mass media in this county.

(b) It controls the wealth of this country.

(c) It controls both political parties

Israel is guilty of stealing land and property that belongs to Arabs; of military aggression; of creating tension to help its pleas for aid.

The UJA. is not a chanty; therefore contributions should not be tax-exempt.

Highly Organized, well financed "minority groups" pressure the American government to adopt programs that are supposedly in their respective private interest, but are, in fact, detrimental to the United States.

The Zionists (Jews) are, in reality, loyal to Israel, and, therefore, aliens to America.

Israel benefits from anti-Semitism in the sense that it uses it as an excuse to increase immigration and ask for more aid

Israel preaches peace, but is guilty of aggression; it desires territorial expansion.

There would be peace if Israel accepted U.N. Resolutions

American prestige in the Middle East is damaged, end Arab-American friendship is inhibited by American supporters of Zionism.

Desecration Christian and Moslem holy places.

Charges of atrocity.

Israel persecutes the Arab minority

The Jews have been worse than even the Nazis in their relations to the Arabs.

http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=3065 http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=3066 http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=3067 http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=3068 http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=3069 A budding tourist industry, which boasts a ski resort, boutique wineries and posh inns, has sprouted on the unlikely brush and volcanic rock terrain of the Golan Heights, where memories of bloody battles are still fresh.

The Mount Hermon Ski Resort, which peaks at about 2,225 meters above sea level, has some 50 days of good skiing a year, says General Manager Menahem Baruch. The resort draws about 280,000 visitors a year.

An intelligence-collecting radar station sits on the mountain's summit, where, on a good day, a naked eye can see all the way to Damascus. The land is dotted with trenches, foxholes, and a now-empty army base captured by the Syrians in the 1973 Yom Kippur War and later retaken by Israeli troops, at the cost of the lives of more than 100 soldiers.

"The Hermon is not just a ski resort," Baruch says.

"Since Yom Kippur [War], it has become the eyes of the nation and has taken on the significance and importance of a national site."... http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=3070 It has become a familiar refrain that America and its allies are “losing the war in Afghanistan.” But a closer look at developments on the ground tells another story.

At first glance, the report out of Afghanistan this week would seem to validate the defeatist outlook. On Monday, Taliban guerillas ambushed and killed ten French paratroopers, while affiliated suicide bombers staged a raid against a U.S army base. Such highly publicized attacks on NATO troops are part of the enemy’s strategy to undermine public support for the war in Europe.

In the case of France at least, the Taliban’s strategy failed miserably. France’s resolute president, Nicolas Sarkozy, arrived in Afghanistan to show his troops “that France is at their side.” Declaring that his “determination is intact,” Sarkozy stressed that “France is resolved to pursue the fight against terrorism, for democracy and liberty. The cause is just; it is the honor of France and its armies to defend it.” Commentators may drone that Afghanistan is a lost cause, but France plainly disagrees.

That explains why, despite high-profile attacks, the French have operated as though Afghanistan were very much a winnable war. For instance, Sarkozy recently has strengthened France’s military contribution to the conflict by dispatching a 700-man battalion and by expanding the French contingent’s area of operations. (Previously, French troops, which now number about 3,000, were stationed mostly in Kabul.) If the Taliban thought it could scare a major European power into submission, it miscalculated.... http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=3071 Ohio Al-Qaeda terrorist Christopher Paul, who pled guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against targets in Europe and the US back in June, is still registered to vote according to the Ohio Secretary of State and the Franklin County Board of Elections. And if he isn't sentenced in the next few weeks (which doesn't appear likely), he may get to legally cast an absentee ballot, according to American Thinker contributor Patrick Poole http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=3072