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href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>224</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-1634079445684607045</id><published>2012-02-13T20:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-13T20:41:02.418-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mossad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Attack'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iranian scientists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Ambitions'/><title type='text'>What Goes Around Comes Around?! NOT!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PaBoA3uwmWw/TznlkA17z3I/AAAAAAAAAt8/adUbKJ245I0/s1600/diplomat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="214" width="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PaBoA3uwmWw/TznlkA17z3I/AAAAAAAAAt8/adUbKJ245I0/s320/diplomat.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, Iran tried and failed miserably to retaliate against Israel for the revenge of the death of the evil scientists in Iran.  As I was browsing through news articles in different sites, I came across the same response from the Terrorist Apologists which was “what goes around comes around” in the comment section of the news articles.  Is that so?  So let me get this straight, let’s just say Israel was the party who targeted those scientists.  Even if Israel has done that, Israel chose a legitimate target which was the nuclear scientists who were trying to provide Iran with a nuclear bomb.  Iran targeted an Israeli diplomat in a foreign soil.  One was a legitimate target and the mission was intended to prevent a war, the other one was a simple act of revenge in blatant violation of the international law and diplomatic immunity.  Of course for the barbarians of the Iranian Government, if you are a Jew or Israeli, you are a legitimate target.  If you have any doubt, refer to the previous post and the Islamic Justification to kill around 10 million Israelis.  &lt;br /&gt;Israel’s intention is simply to avoid an all-out war, for Iranian government the intention is a simple revenge and it was a cold blooded murder.  They did not succeed of course and these incompetent agents could not even be creative and they had to copycat the style from different agents.  To make the matters even worse, they failed to kill anybody.  You see, this is the barbaric nature of the Islamic Government of Iran.  They are barbarians and they think like barbarians.  As long as they could kill anybody, they would think that they have scored a victory.  However, those fools who always cry “collective punishment” or “excessive force” every time Israel targets Palestinian terrorist in response to a terrorist attack, they were quick to say “what goes around comes around.”  &lt;br /&gt;Well, just like always, they were wrong because one was a legitimate target to avoid a full blown war and the other was a simple act of murder.  One is dedicated to fight evil and secure its citizens’ security; the other is motivated by hatred and revenge.  At the same time, by the same logic, Israel has the right to assassinate every single Iranian Diplomat abroad.  Most of these diplomats are nothing but terrorist spies who are looking for target for Hezbollah and Iranian terrorist to target anyways.  If you have any doubt, look into Iranian Opposition members who were assassinated in European or foreign countries.  Almost every single one of these murders involved an agent who had some relation with an Iranian Diplomats.  At the end, the hateful bunches were not even able to achieve that goal.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-1634079445684607045?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/1634079445684607045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=1634079445684607045&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1634079445684607045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1634079445684607045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-goes-around-comes-around-not.html' title='What Goes Around Comes Around?! NOT!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PaBoA3uwmWw/TznlkA17z3I/AAAAAAAAAt8/adUbKJ245I0/s72-c/diplomat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-4213641285626880571</id><published>2012-02-07T20:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-07T20:44:48.215-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Intellgence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IAF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Basij'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran War'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Ambitions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Bloggers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Semitism'/><title type='text'>Iranian Basji Member Torpedoes Terrorist Apologists Case</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QPZu3oOpL04/TzH6huTA0AI/AAAAAAAAAtw/JkmujKifzOM/s1600/alireza-forghani.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="167" width="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QPZu3oOpL04/TzH6huTA0AI/AAAAAAAAAtw/JkmujKifzOM/s400/alireza-forghani.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The Terrorist-Apologist groups have found a new dilemma to focus their energy on it.  The reason for such new focus is due to the threat that it imposes in order to literally wipe Israel off the maps.  Since these groups simply have no regards to Israeli or Jewish lives in contradiction of what they actually allege to justify their discriminatory position against Israel, they are very much trying to justify Iranian government position and they are actually defending that ruthless regime.  They are desperately and actively trying to “protect” Iranian regime in the mist of all these and they are trying to provide justification for the Regime’s actions in Iran.  However, there are guys like Alireza Faraghani (I have included his ugly mug in this post) that makes life a lot harder for them with his absolutely honesty and of course stupidity.  &lt;br /&gt;This guy, in his blog maps out a complete plan about how to wipe Israel off the map.  I don’t mean through political regime change as the propaganda mouth-piece of the Regime claim here.  He means literally wipe it out through military strike.  He is very truthful about the true intention of the people in the background and policy makers for this regime.  He is an engineer student and he is also member of the Basij who are very influential and a paramilitary group in Iran.  This guy includes all sorts of citing into his argument and he also makes a pretty decent argument to justify the killing of civilians and Jews.  He is not ashamed of his claim and he actually cites to the Supreme Leader to provide religious authority to murder all the Jews.  However, what is even funnier is it shows how stupid the ruling regime and its puppets are in order to think that they can actually destroy Israel.  &lt;br /&gt;This guy claims that Iran should make one pre-emptive strike and take out everything at the same time.  He goes into lots of detail to map out the plan.  What is funny is the lack of knowledge that he uses in order to make such case.  First and foremost, if Israeli intelligence who is constantly listening to the Iranian Regime and its leader even gets a wind of such plan, they will turn Iran into a Radio Active Parking Lot.  Second, Israel has a lot of defensive measures and they could simply absorb a lot of the attack in the first stage of attack if Iran is successful to launch such an attack.  However, what this moron forgot is Israel has 9 nuclear submarines that could respond back with outmost fury.  Plus Israeli Air Force (IAF) with its radar jamming technology could turn Iran blind and capture absolute air superiority within minutes if not short hours.  Then, guess what’s going to happen?  Idiots like this will be vaporized.  &lt;br /&gt;There is no significance to his posts.  It is nothing but a feel good post trying to give some confidence.  I read his post in Farsi and there is also an English translation.  However, the important part is the level of hatred and lack for humanity that is involved in his argument.  It is the proof that the world needs to see that Iran and this kind of people who are part of the ruling regime of Iran should never ever acquire nuclear capability.  Even if it means a deadly war between the two countries, Israel cannot allow Iran to even have the capability to develop such weapons.  Well, we could all thank this moron for portraying the true deadly and warmongering nature of the Iranian ruling regime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://alireza-forghani.blogfa.com/post-80.aspx"&gt;Here is the link to his post&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-4213641285626880571?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/4213641285626880571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=4213641285626880571&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4213641285626880571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4213641285626880571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2012/02/iranian-basji-member-torpedoes.html' title='Iranian Basji Member Torpedoes Terrorist Apologists Case'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QPZu3oOpL04/TzH6huTA0AI/AAAAAAAAAtw/JkmujKifzOM/s72-c/alireza-forghani.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-6440541121951866451</id><published>2012-02-04T21:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-04T21:03:18.638-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Election 12'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Election'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barack Hussein Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barrack Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Republican Party'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drawing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democratic Party'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GOP'/><title type='text'>Amazing Drawing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z-AaqOq86FQ/Ty4NPpLbkkI/AAAAAAAAAtk/5pELc2m67s8/s1600/the-forgotten-man.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="201" width="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z-AaqOq86FQ/Ty4NPpLbkkI/AAAAAAAAAtk/5pELc2m67s8/s400/the-forgotten-man.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, it is election year and we have a lot of crazies running on the Republican Side.  Frankly, I am truly concerned about the Right Extremist and they are affecting and literally destroying the future of this country.  However, it does not mean I agree with our current President.  From day one that I got to know this man, I realized he is nothing but an empty suit.  I believe if he gets elected for the second term, we will have to say goodbye to America’s dominance in global aspect because people like him simply do not care for it.  We will also have our civil liberties thrown away in a flash of the moment and our taxes could be raised a lot higher than it is now.   Anyways, I hate to cover elections or write about it because it is one of the most shameful times of the year.  However, I came cross this drawings and it made me smile.  I thought that this drawing truly nailed it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-6440541121951866451?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/6440541121951866451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=6440541121951866451&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6440541121951866451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6440541121951866451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2012/02/amazing-drawing.html' title='Amazing Drawing'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z-AaqOq86FQ/Ty4NPpLbkkI/AAAAAAAAAtk/5pELc2m67s8/s72-c/the-forgotten-man.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-5915769662677941336</id><published>2012-01-12T12:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T12:08:57.921-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Intellgence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian News Paper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Khomeini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Keyhan News Paper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Ambition'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Defense Forces'/><title type='text'>Prominent Iranian Newspaper Asks for Revenge!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5CkuDL3-Uvg/Tw89nVI6nrI/AAAAAAAAAtY/yAN4rfal7ho/s1600/kayhan_ahmadinejad_newyork.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="126" width="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5CkuDL3-Uvg/Tw89nVI6nrI/AAAAAAAAAtY/yAN4rfal7ho/s200/kayhan_ahmadinejad_newyork.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;In the aftermath of the mysterious bombing of the evil scientist in Iran, the conservative Newspaper in Iran has called for retaliation against Israeli Scientists.  To give the readers a bit of background about Keyhan Newspaper: this newspaper is one of the oldest newspapers in Iran.  Almost from the birth of this murderous regime in Iran, Keyhan got took over by the ultra-conservatives in Iran and turned into their political mouth-piece for the Supreme Leader who at that time was Khomeini and the current Supreme Leader who is Ali Akbar Khamenei (two mass murders in Iranian history).  This newspaper and its opinions have been incredibly violent and it actually portrays how the leaders in Iran think or perceive world events.  In many aspects, it has given an inner-look to Iranian murderous Regime and its goals and policies.  Hussein Shariatmadari is the chief editor and columnist in this newspaper.  He is the author of this column about Israel and he is a close friend and ally of Khamenei during the internal power struggles.  Of course Shariatmadari is a murderer himself and his hand has the blood of many Iranians on them.  He is a criminal himself who has made a mockery of the name Journalist.  &lt;br /&gt;So he claims that Iran should retaliate against Israel for the scientists’ justified assassination.  Let’s just for a second believe that he is right about Israel committing the act.  Isn’t Israel really justified?  Isn’t Israel truly justified to actually bomb and militarily attack Iran?  Iran has been attacking Israel for years.  Iran has been bombing Israeli embassies and Jewish centers around the world for years.  Who asked Iran to be Israel’s enemy?  Hasn’t Iran armed Israel’s enemies for years that have resulted in death of thousands of Israeli citizens?  What had Israel done to Iran to deserve all these attacks that Israel has suffered as the result of this regime?  Since its inception in 1979, Iran has been murdering Israeli citizens for their sick religious belief that needs another argument.  Iran has been the murderous regime that is obsessed with wiping out this country from the face of the earth.  Iran has been the one who mastered the art of suicide bombings through belts.  Now this sick regime who has been nothing but the terrorist nest in the region is thinking about retaliation against Israel for the death of a nuclear scientist.  If anything, Iran should realize that Israel assassinated this scientist to simply slow down the process or halt Iranian nuclear ambitions to at least preserve the peace in the region and avoid an all-out war.  If anything, Israel is simply trying to prevent more destruction.  &lt;br /&gt;If Shariatmadari wants to play the victim here and say Iran has been target of a terrorist attack, maybe he should think twice because all options are on the table.  He is a warmonger ultra-violent journalist in Iran who openly called for execution of political prisoners in Iran.  Many of those political prisoners are no longer with us because they disappeared or got executed.  However, Israel and US are not defenseless.  Iranian military is still 30 years behind before they could even live up to what these two countries are capable of in terms of causing damage and destruction.  If Shariatmadari wants to retaliate, he needs to know that the order to open fire has been given and the only results will be the suffering of Iranian citizens.  One day, maybe one day, he might have to answer to Iranians for his pure stupidity.  So my answer is this, Shariatmadari: not in your wildest wet dreams you could ever imagine to harm anybody in Israel especially its scientists.  If your murderous regime could have done it, they would have done it.  Hezbollah is still trying to revenge Mughnieh’s death.  Rests assure, Israel is far more powerful than you think and she will DEFEND ITS CITIZENS unlike you who have murdered your own citizens.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/iran-newspaper-calls-for-retaliation-against-israel-over-killing-of-nuclear-scientist-1.406938"&gt;Link to the Story in Haaretz.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-5915769662677941336?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/5915769662677941336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=5915769662677941336&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5915769662677941336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5915769662677941336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2012/01/prominent-iranian-newspaper-asks-for.html' title='Prominent Iranian Newspaper Asks for Revenge!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5CkuDL3-Uvg/Tw89nVI6nrI/AAAAAAAAAtY/yAN4rfal7ho/s72-c/kayhan_ahmadinejad_newyork.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-402415938404413238</id><published>2012-01-11T10:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T10:45:45.199-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Intellgence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Citizens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran War'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Racism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mossad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Racism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kurds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Ambition'/><title type='text'>Iranian Racism: Casting Kurds as the Bad Guys Now!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XFJRvtKXk1k/Tw3YbkFxNqI/AAAAAAAAAtM/BdNxhHqbbn4/s1600/508095997.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" width="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XFJRvtKXk1k/Tw3YbkFxNqI/AAAAAAAAAtM/BdNxhHqbbn4/s200/508095997.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, so let me get this straight.  Fars New Agency considers itself a news organization.  However, I was under impression that a news organization has some guidelines and rules to follow in order to report an act and they should avert or at least pretend to not be a propaganda mouth-piece.  Here is what they reported, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"My own confidential Israeli source confirms today's murder was the work of the Mossad and MKO, as have been a number of previous operations I've reported here," Richard Silverstein, a senior Jewish American journalist, said in his weblog named Tikun Olam. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010170807"&gt;Fars News Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I read this and I decided to check the source.  It turns out that the source of their accusation is a Self-Hating Israeli guy who is a complete nut-job.  This blogger has zero credibility and his source is “his friend in intelligence.”  If you read even further, this idiot quotes this French reporter who has HEARD about Israeli cooperation with the Kurdish Resistance Fighters.  There is absolutely zero credibility to this story because they have not specified a credible source or specific source or specific act to back this claim up before reporting it as FACT.  It is all in vague language.  However, Richard Silverstein, (the stupid self-hating Israeli) is a blogger and he has the right to publish anything and everything on his blog THAT IS HIS OPINION.  How stupid is this Fars News Agency to use A BLOGGER AS A SOURCE OF NEWS.  &lt;br /&gt;This is the product of absolute desperation by the Iranian murderous regime.  They are being outplayed by both Israel and US.  The drums of war are getting louder and louder.  Now, pathetic this news agencies are desperately trying to blame anything and everything on everybody.  I am not contemplating that Israel was not behind this attack.  However, I have seen zero proof that Israel was behind the attack either.  Therefore, when it comes to reporting of the news, you could argue it is BELIEVED that Israel MIGHT be behind the attack.  However reporting it as a fact and using a blogger and “his friend” as a source is a complete utter stupidity.  &lt;br /&gt;Fars News Agency who is the political mouth piece of the Iranian Regime is trying to use its RACIST method to cast blame on other Iranian Minorities.  They are trying to blame it on the Kurds and build a pathway to murder these minorities that have already been slaughtered throughout ages in Iran.  Fars is trying to allege that true Iranians are behind the government and nobody would cooperate with Israelis or Americans.  However, Fars I have news for you and you could use me as a source if you wish to make another report about this bombing using a blogger as a source, THERE ARE FAR MORE DESPERATE, POOR, IMPOVERISHED, OPPRESSED IRANIANS WHO HATE THIS REGIME THAN KURDS.   This is pure racism that the regional countries have historically utilized to hide their shame.  It is always someone else’s fault.  It is always minority’s fault.  Iranians are supporting this murderous regime 100%.  These are the claims that this fake new agency is trying to make in order to redeem this shameful regime.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-402415938404413238?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/402415938404413238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=402415938404413238&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/402415938404413238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/402415938404413238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2012/01/iranian-racism-casting-kurds-as-bad.html' title='Iranian Racism: Casting Kurds as the Bad Guys Now!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XFJRvtKXk1k/Tw3YbkFxNqI/AAAAAAAAAtM/BdNxhHqbbn4/s72-c/508095997.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-6499353919783392133</id><published>2012-01-06T12:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-06T12:53:37.628-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Strait of Hormuz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S. Military'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><title type='text'>Difference Between Savagery and Civilization</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RZqLIavOZys/Twde238cfgI/AAAAAAAAAs0/QaLYZ5Y9bIQ/s1600/120105-usnavy-iran-usskidd-8a_photoblog600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="196" width="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RZqLIavOZys/Twde238cfgI/AAAAAAAAAs0/QaLYZ5Y9bIQ/s320/120105-usnavy-iran-usskidd-8a_photoblog600.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This is amusing.  The situation at the Strait of Hormuz is becoming more interesting by the day.  So, Iranian threatens the U.S. 5th Naval Fleet from returning to the region.  Of course, American response is this: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A heavily-armed counter-piracy team from the Navy destroyer USS Kidd met little resistance when they boarded the dhow where they found 15 armed pirates and the 13 Iranians who were being held hostage. The pirates were taken into custody. The Iranians were set free in their dhow.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/06/10005159-despite-tensions-us-rescues-13-iranian-seamen-from-pirates"&gt;MSNBC.COM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the difference between savagery and civilization.  Although Iranian Government has been threatening and destabilizing the region for internal gains, the American gesture has been more than kindly.  Iranian Regime take hostages to show-off their non-existence power and suppress the opposition, Americans release the Iranian Hostages by utilizing and threatening the lives of their best soldiers.  All politics aside, it was a great gesture from U.S.  I cannot wait for all the ungrateful responses from Iranian Government and their propaganda mouth-pieces’ abroad.  &lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R9qgbr1CZIo/Twde8_aVJTI/AAAAAAAAAtA/XO5NkqQ3Uuk/s1600/103976_600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="152" width="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R9qgbr1CZIo/Twde8_aVJTI/AAAAAAAAAtA/XO5NkqQ3Uuk/s200/103976_600.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To these people, Iran is always the victim.  However, they are right, Iranians are the victims, but the perpetrators are the Iranian murderous Regime and their supporters.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-6499353919783392133?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/6499353919783392133/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=6499353919783392133&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6499353919783392133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6499353919783392133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2012/01/difference-between-savagery-and.html' title='Difference Between Savagery and Civilization'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RZqLIavOZys/Twde238cfgI/AAAAAAAAAs0/QaLYZ5Y9bIQ/s72-c/120105-usnavy-iran-usskidd-8a_photoblog600.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-8452428256614247909</id><published>2011-12-30T10:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T10:47:50.741-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Political Cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Happy New Year'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Year'/><title type='text'>2011 In Review--HAPPY NEW YEAR!!</title><content type='html'>Today is December 30th and 2011 is coming to an end.  I could not come with anything to write about to sum up the year 2011.  The reason is 2011 was such an eventful year that I would not know where to begin.  So, I decided to basically review the year with some political humor and political cartoons.  So Enjoy! Happy New Year to everyone  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V0gkYkKbiwc/Tv4GeWKQLFI/AAAAAAAAArI/c9Cnv-7k49g/s1600/2012-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="230" width="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V0gkYkKbiwc/Tv4GeWKQLFI/AAAAAAAAArI/c9Cnv-7k49g/s320/2012-9.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ag1gk5TeBVI/Tv4GhbsM1hI/AAAAAAAAArU/tHYEI1OUG3s/s1600/2012-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="233" width="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ag1gk5TeBVI/Tv4GhbsM1hI/AAAAAAAAArU/tHYEI1OUG3s/s320/2012-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8YE3TdUXzE8/Tv4GlaCwiZI/AAAAAAAAArg/fLkCFltPZlo/s1600/2012-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2UDK6g2oqnA/Tv4G62w5a_I/AAAAAAAAAso/lojBWooRP8Q/s1600/2012-last.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="253" width="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2UDK6g2oqnA/Tv4G62w5a_I/AAAAAAAAAso/lojBWooRP8Q/s320/2012-last.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-8452428256614247909?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/8452428256614247909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=8452428256614247909&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8452428256614247909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8452428256614247909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-in-review-happy-new-year.html' title='2011 In Review--HAPPY NEW YEAR!!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V0gkYkKbiwc/Tv4GeWKQLFI/AAAAAAAAArI/c9Cnv-7k49g/s72-c/2012-9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-3431040864453208693</id><published>2011-12-29T13:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T13:21:07.997-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S. Military'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iraq War'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran War'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran and Iraq war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Facility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Ambitions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eight Years War'/><title type='text'>Iran is Itching to be Attacked</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T4yQw-yGKas/TvzZKDwK1OI/AAAAAAAAAq8/jtnW3vXZD00/s1600/1112229-stennis-10a_photoblog600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="214" width="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T4yQw-yGKas/TvzZKDwK1OI/AAAAAAAAAq8/jtnW3vXZD00/s320/1112229-stennis-10a_photoblog600.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran is playing with the fire.  I wrote it in the previous post about how Iran is desperate to restore its image.  Now, they are going a step further.  I think they are actually trying to stir up some sort of conflict in order to buy the support for the regime just like the way they did the same thing during Eight Years with Iraq that was over two years into the wear.  However, they chose to continue the war in order to use that as an excuse to murder and wipe out the opposition groups and establish full control over the nation.  It worked beautifully.  Their excuse: We got Attacked! It was the Iranians and Khomeini’s terrorists who tried to mingle in Iraqi’s internal politics by trying to support a Shia Uprising against Saddam.  They called it “exporting our Islamic Revolution” and it is well-documented in Montazeri’s Memoires.  Saddam took advantage of the opportunity and attacked Iran.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran has been threatening the region by closing down the Strait of Hormuz and now they are tracking and filming American Aircraft Carriers.  If that is not enough, they publicize such an act which is nothing but act of desperation or stupidity.  A well capable military would never ever need to televise its intelligence reports or capabilities on the state televisions.  The situation is getting worse by the hour and Iran is escalading the situation by their stupid comments or acts in order to provoke the Americans. (&lt;a href="http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/29/9803654-iran-tracks-us-aircraft-carrier-amid-strait-of-hormuz-tension"&gt;MSNBC.com&lt;/a&gt;)  However, there are more to these acts and I think it is absolutely brilliant. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It seems to me that the Iranian Regime is basically trying to pull the same stunt.  I think they are trying to somehow agitate Americans or the Israelis to attack them.  They are full-well aware of the fact that US will not conduct full-scale war and take over the country given Afghanistan and Iraq situation.  Therefore, any military strike would be a simple tactical military strike in order to destroy Iran’s military installations and Nuclear Facilities.  Ultimately, the regime will stay in power and they could use the same excuse that they got attacked.  It is a total win-win situation for them.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jNrCrbmtXqE/TvzZDOHsdQI/AAAAAAAAAqw/CQVHFDI3qFc/s1600/irandecember2009cartoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="140" width="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jNrCrbmtXqE/TvzZDOHsdQI/AAAAAAAAAqw/CQVHFDI3qFc/s200/irandecember2009cartoon.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Given this day and age and the technology, I hardly believe they could simply buy Iranian support if Iran gets attacked.  With the progress of social media and its usage in Iran, I don’t think Iranians would be fooled into supporting this deadly regime.  I believe they are going to use this attack as an excuse to launch full scale war against the opposition and completely wipe them out.  I mean mass graves and mass executions would be underway for anybody who dare to question a simple thing about this regime. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusion, Iran is itching for an attack.  That’s why they are doing stupid things like this to agitate the world powers.  They know that the globe is thirsty for oil and no matter what happens, their product is in high demands.  Russia and China will be more than glad to get that oil.  However, they need to stay in power and I believe a military strike against Iran will ensure its survival if it is a tactical strike.  The questions is whether survival of this regime is worth allowing this regime to become nuclear, and the answer is a clear no, because if they do grab the bomb, then there is no stopping this regime.  Therefore, I am sorry Iranians, I believe you guys are doomed!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-3431040864453208693?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/3431040864453208693/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=3431040864453208693&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/3431040864453208693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/3431040864453208693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/12/iran-is-itching-to-be-attacked.html' title='Iran is Itching to be Attacked'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T4yQw-yGKas/TvzZKDwK1OI/AAAAAAAAAq8/jtnW3vXZD00/s72-c/1112229-stennis-10a_photoblog600.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7979295581440158375</id><published>2011-12-27T19:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-27T19:30:56.619-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Intellgence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Citizens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Facility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Ambitions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mossad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Death Penalty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Execution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Police'/><title type='text'>This Man is Innocent</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jHmBV_kNCnw/TvqMqUBgBXI/AAAAAAAAAqk/YP7f635w6Zc/s1600/Hekmati_2094233c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" width="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jHmBV_kNCnw/TvqMqUBgBXI/AAAAAAAAAqk/YP7f635w6Zc/s320/Hekmati_2094233c.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This man is an innocent man.  For those who don’t know this guy, Iranian Terrorist Regime accuses this man of spying.  According to the reports, he has entered Iran three months ago.  He wanted to visit his sick grandmother and that was it.  The Iranian Regime picked him two weeks after he had entered Iran.  According to Telegraph, Iranian Prosecutor who is more like Iranian death squad has asked the Iranian sorry excuse for judicial system for Death Penalty against this poor innocent man.  The question is why?  Why would Iran accuse this man of espionage if he is really an innocent man?  The next question how could Iran make such a claim?  The answers to both of these questions are incredibly simple if you have ever resided in Iran.  If you have not and/or do not know anything about this, then it might puzzle you.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would Iranian Barbaric regime accuse this innocent man of espionage?  What is the point?  What do they get out of it?  The answer is incredibly simple.  Look at my previous post titled “Bad Times for Iran”.  Iran is going through some tough times.  Iranian regime has been taking some serious blows in the world of Intelligence warfare.  For a very long time, the Western Powers including U.S. and Israel monitored Iranian Government and their terrorist intelligent services.  However, they never openly and directly engaged them.  These Western Intelligence Units never directly engaged Iran and its units within Iran. The reason is quite simple due to 1950s CIA failures that literally destroyed a working democracy that planted the seed for Islamic Revolution of 1979 and Iranian hatred for America.  However, things have changed significantly.  The US is trying to prevent Israel from engaging Iran militarily.  Now they have started Cold War style warfare against Iran that includes covert activity to sabotage Iranian Nuclear Ambition.&lt;br /&gt;Recently, Iran has been taking many hits.  The mysterious explosions has been incredibly damaging to the rulers of Iran.  It has severely damaged Iranian capabilities when it comes to intelligence warfare.  It has undermined Iranian Regime’s ability to control its sensitive sites and their ability to protect them.  Therefore, Iran is in desperate needs to restore its power that has been undermined by these bombings and activities.  Iran’s regime was under impression that they are in full control. They thought that they could simply deter any country to directly engage them militarily by holding the whole world hostage and its missiles could defend Iran.  They had under-estimated American intelligence power.  They wanted to play with the big boys when it comes to intelligence and now that they are playing, they have realized that they are pretty week.  They are using this innocent man to restore such belief in Iranian Regime’s powers.    &lt;br /&gt;There is absolutely no proof that this innocent man is a spy or he was involved in espionage.  There is not a single shred of proof, paper work, conversation, or anything like that to prove that this man tried to enter Iranian Intelligence.  Their whole case is based on TV Confessions.  Given Iranian report card, nobody would believe this government’s contention that this innocent man is a spy.  The man entered Iran and he was picked up by Iranian Terrorists two weeks after his arrival.  There is no way in hell anybody would believe such claim that he is a spy.  However, why would Iran use this man for such a foolish claim?  The answer to this question leads us to the next question which is “How would Iranian Regime benefit from such a stupid claim?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;How?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As it was stated above, Iranian regime had underestimated the Western Intelligence and its power.  They had forgotten that US had experiences of Cold War.  They had also failed to monitor’s Israel’s experience in covert operations and her intelligence war against Terrorism.  On the other hand, Iran had created this vision of this “Ruthlessness” among its citizens that they are capable destroying any movement against Iranian Regime.  It was to deter the internal forces who are trying to basically change this regime.  They had created this image that Iran’s Intelligence is capable of fighting anybody anywhere in order to preserve this regime and this regime is too powerful to be changed or destroyed.  The image has been simply shattered in the past couple of months. &lt;br /&gt;In Iran, there is a lot of noise about fog of war.  Iranians and its citizens are worried about the war that is coming.  Although the regime is desperately trying to claim that they are still in full control, the recent bombings and assassinations are showing more than ever that this government is losing its power grip.  Another indication of such worries is Iranian Currency and how it has significantly lost its value against dollars.  For years, Iranian Currency was sort of stable against Dollar.  Now it is losing its value which indicates the level of worries among masses in Iran. These developments are destroying the deterrence and powerful image that this government has been trying to create in order to preserve its survival.  This would give energy to the opposition and internal forces against this regime by saying, “Look, maybe this government is not as powerful as they had claimed to be”.  So now the government is in desperate need to amend such image and restore it.  &lt;br /&gt;The way that this government is going to restore that power image is by using this innocent guy.  Nobody believes these TV confessions.  Iranian government also knows that nobody believes these confessions.  However, the Iranian government is simply trying to show off its ruthlessness by saying that regardless of what happens, we are still in power and we could kill anybody and everybody.  They are basically trying to score a point by terrorizing the masses in Iran by saying that look we could easily suppress any movements and there is nothing anybody could do about it.  This is more like public hanging except with much broader audience.  They are trying to deter anybody from rising up in Iran against this regime.  &lt;br /&gt;Another way that this regime is using this innocent man is by falsely providing false hope. They have denied a lot of reports about the explosions.  The reason is because that these explosions having too embarrassing for the regime and the reason has been stated above which is that it shows that this ruthless regime is weak.  Now they are trying to fool the citizens by claiming that they are actually keeping up with the fight.  Another example of such desperation was downing of the American Drone.  Iranian Regime put it on state television and showed it off to the public.  Why would they need to do that? The answer is very simple: they are very desperate and it is to restore the faith in the regime.  Countries do not just televise victories unless they need to use it for their own benefits.  Iran needed to televise that drone and it only proved Iranian desperation for some sort of victory. &lt;br /&gt;In the end, the saddest part is that this innocent man is the victim of this regime trying to restore its powerful image.  His trial is nothing but a joke and it is an insult to the judicial proceedings.  Iran is desperate and it is trying to maximize its survival by any means necessary.  This is truly a sickening crime against Humanity and the world is absolutely silence about it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7979295581440158375?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7979295581440158375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7979295581440158375&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7979295581440158375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7979295581440158375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-man-is-innocent.html' title='This Man is Innocent'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jHmBV_kNCnw/TvqMqUBgBXI/AAAAAAAAAqk/YP7f635w6Zc/s72-c/Hekmati_2094233c.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-1937420161916061477</id><published>2011-12-25T15:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-25T15:54:57.059-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Occupy Movement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Domestic Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media Bias'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Left'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Communists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tea Party Movements'/><title type='text'>Occupy L.A Cost the City Millions of Dollars</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RmFj_NEeiZk/Tve25x-2nKI/AAAAAAAAAqY/u27BIvBrBz4/s1600/Occupy.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" width="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RmFj_NEeiZk/Tve25x-2nKI/AAAAAAAAAqY/u27BIvBrBz4/s320/Occupy.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, so let me get this straight, these bastards and freeloaders don’t have jobs and they don’t want to work, and now I have to also pay for their pure stupidity too?!  As if the hard-working people are not paying their “fare-share” which is more than we all should, now they are also costing us additional money?! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The two-month encampment cost the city at least $2.35 million, not counting repairs to the lawn and fountain outside City Hall, according to a report issued Friday.  Much of that cost -- more than $1.7 million -- will be added to the growing pool of red ink in this year's city budget. The Occupy bills will increase an anticipated $72-million shortfall over the next six months, City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana said.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/12/occupy-la-lawsuit-financial-damages.html"&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seriously, I am sick of these whack-jobs Occupiers.  I lived in Berkeley who had Occupiers EVERYDAY in People’s Park.  You know what we called them?!  We called them “BUMS” and/or “HOBOS”.  Seriously, these Leftist Former Bastard of Children of Communism who are too lazy and/or stupid to get a job should stop blaming others and start looking for a job.  You want to make your voice heard, stop destroying property and acting like Lunatics and start voting.  If that’s not working, then stop voting all the way to the Left of the political spectrum.  California went down the tube long looong time ago with Leftist agenda that were implemented in this state.  Every single big business and corporation left this state because they could not take it anymore.  Big and Small businesses are suffering everyday as a result of this state’s hostile attitude toward them.  The Unions are the one who are assisting this state.  &lt;br /&gt;The Occupiers should seriously go back because with exception of Media and bunch of Leftist Wackiests who love this kind of movements, the American public quickly grew tired of them.  They were super rude, disruptive and ignorant of other people.  Not to mention they were incredibly dirty and they fell into every single stereo type they could possibly have when it comes to protesters.  They were also instances of blatant Anti-Semitism.  There were reports of Rape and sexual assaults in their camps.  Media hated Tea Party Movement, but they were never like this.  This is amazing.  Tea Party Movement and their protests were never like this and yet the Media destroyed them.  Yet, these Occupiers are being cheered like bunch of heroes when they are actually costing us a lot of money. &lt;br /&gt;Either way, it really pissed me off when I saw that news article about additional cost to the city.  The reason I am saying is that I live in this town.  This town is broke already and there are many things wrong here.  This town has already destroyed business through high taxes and parking tickets and anything and everything that could milk people.  Why should we pay for these idiots?!  Why did the city drop charges against these guys?!  Why?! Now they are going back to their lives while we are stuck with the bill?!  Seriously where is the justice in that?!  Did Tea Party ever do anything like this?  &lt;br /&gt;I really hope Americans could come to their senses.  It seems like as times are getting worse, sanity is also losing its grip and it is being replaced by Leftist Wacky Agenda that has produced nothing exception, death, starvation, mass murderers, and other global crisis every time it has been implemented.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-1937420161916061477?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/1937420161916061477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=1937420161916061477&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1937420161916061477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1937420161916061477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/12/occupy-la-cost-city-millions-of-dollars.html' title='Occupy L.A Cost the City Millions of Dollars'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RmFj_NEeiZk/Tve25x-2nKI/AAAAAAAAAqY/u27BIvBrBz4/s72-c/Occupy.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-604301789798920585</id><published>2011-12-07T08:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T08:58:37.567-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hezbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Syria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion of Peace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nasrallah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Muslim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islamic Fundamentalist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><title type='text'>The Rat Came out of his Hole!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EXNQ1jzFSaQ/Tt-bN8XRtxI/AAAAAAAAAp0/BVL9rEe4f4g/s1600/Hezbollah.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="214" width="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EXNQ1jzFSaQ/Tt-bN8XRtxI/AAAAAAAAAp0/BVL9rEe4f4g/s320/Hezbollah.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “Rat” came out of his hole and spoke about “Armed Struggle” against Israel.  This rat is "Nasrallah".  Every time he speaks, I laugh.  I should not do that because he has a lot of crazy followers and of course thanks to billions of dollars of stolen money from Iranian national treasury who are in dire need themselves, they have a huge and powerful arsenal of weaponry too.  However, what makes me laugh harder is what a hypocrite this guy is when it comes to freedom and struggle and bumper-sticker slogans.  &lt;br /&gt;Hezbollah and Nasrallah were stiff supporters of the Arab Spring.  However, when it comes to one of the deadliest regimes in the region, they are in support of dialogue and reform.  This rat has been hiding for the past years in a hole scared of losing his life.  Yet, he invites his followers not to be scared of Israel and becoming Shahid in the armed struggle against Israel.  The hypocrisy is amazing.  So, it is ok for others to die during armed struggle with Israel, however it is not ok for Mr. Nasrallah to die in the same process?  Is your life worth more than your fellow Muslim Mr. Nasrallah?  How is it that a typical Muslim person does not ask the same question is beyond me.  However, to add more salt to the wound, now you are taking the side of tyrannical regime in Syria?  &lt;br /&gt;The day that we have questions like that coming from Arab masses is the day that I would firmly believe that "Arab Spring" will have positive end results for the Arab community.  Other than that, gear up for some disaster for the future to come because one tyranny will be replaced by another one through these regime changes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-604301789798920585?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/604301789798920585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=604301789798920585&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/604301789798920585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/604301789798920585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/12/rat-came-out-of-his-hole.html' title='The Rat Came out of his Hole!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EXNQ1jzFSaQ/Tt-bN8XRtxI/AAAAAAAAAp0/BVL9rEe4f4g/s72-c/Hezbollah.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-4284147016964759448</id><published>2011-11-30T18:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-30T18:38:39.253-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EU'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Facility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Europe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Ambitions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ElBaradei'/><title type='text'>Bad Time for Iran!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zvM3tLZcU44/TtboqrL-vUI/AAAAAAAAAmo/cQU9ipbXJJU/s1600/Iran_Nuke__Sites.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zvM3tLZcU44/TtboqrL-vUI/AAAAAAAAAmo/cQU9ipbXJJU/s320/Iran_Nuke__Sites.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680983799819582786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things are not too good for Iran.  It is amazing how deceiving this corrupt government of Iran has been.  First there was the damaging IAEA report on Iranian Nuclear facility that basically confirmed what Israel has been screaming for a decade that Iran is in pursuit of Nuclear Weapons.  Then we have had two mysterious blasts in sensitive military and nuclear sites.  At first, this corrupt regime tried to hide its shame and its lack of responsibility by all sorts of lies about what the causes of the explosions were.  To make matters worse for the regime, they were dumb enough to resort to the barbaric nature of the regime and attack UK Embassy in Iran.  &lt;br /&gt;I simply do not understand, but what the hell are they thinking?  In this stage, in brink of War where reports are all pointing fingers at a regional war, why would this stupid regime resort to this sort of tactics to attack UK embassy in Tehran.  To make matters even worse, they are dumb enough to call the protesters Students.  They were not students.  They were not the real students in Iranian universities.  Those students were suppressed with outmost cruelty.  The regime raped those students in their secret jails.  These barbarians were the thugs of Basij that is a para-military group in Iran who walk around in plain clothes.  &lt;br /&gt;I think the regime miss-calculated their move on this one.  They thought that if they could resort to terrorist tactic and barbarianism that is the true nature of this regime, they would be able to somehow twist UK’s hand to back down or win some sort of points with them.  The outcome was completely different.  The fall out has not been too good for the regime.  UK is closing its embassy and sending the Iranian diplomats home.  Germany and France have been making moves in solidarity with UK government.  At the same time, it has enhanced the push for more sanction against this regime from EU who is a big trading partner for the Regime.  &lt;br /&gt;In the middle of all this, I think there is one person who deserves to be shot.  This sorry excuse for a sub-human worked very hard to push Iranian agenda during his time in IAEA.  Of course, he did win a Noble Peace Prize for his accomplishment which did nothing but bought time for Iran to pursue their goal of building a bomb.  This person is ElBaradei. Now he is in Egypt trying to establish a democracy which has been nothing but a disaster.  Oh yeah, Muslim Brotherhood has won majority of the seats in the election there too.  Awesome!  This guy should be shot and instead Europe whose embassies are being attacked in Iran awarded him a Noble Peace Prize.  &lt;br /&gt;At the end, I want to commend Israel and its secret services.  They are doing an amazing job slowing down Iranian nuclear facilities with little or no mistakes.  Iran thinks just because they can build missiles and threat the region with an all-out war, they could simply achieve their devastating and deadly goal of getting a bomb.  Israel will not allow that to happen.  Israel cannot let that happen and believe me when I say this: Israel will do everything to stop this country from achieving this goal.  Israeli scientists have been preparing for such a day for a very long time and they are bringing out their innovation and their new weapons to stop this barbaric regime of Iran.  Once again, we see Israel as the leader of the free world trying to save the region just like they did with Iraq and its nuclear ambition.  I am truly proud of this country and their accomplishment.  Kol Hakavod!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-4284147016964759448?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/4284147016964759448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=4284147016964759448&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4284147016964759448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4284147016964759448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/11/bad-time-for-iran.html' title='Bad Time for Iran!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zvM3tLZcU44/TtboqrL-vUI/AAAAAAAAAmo/cQU9ipbXJJU/s72-c/Iran_Nuke__Sites.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7816173107981437720</id><published>2011-11-20T18:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T19:07:21.382-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Debt Crisis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entitlement Programs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taxes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IRS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democratic Party'/><title type='text'>New Government Ploy to Steal Your Money: They will do Your Taxes for You</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7UJN1RRnLE/Tsm_ElDau4I/AAAAAAAAAmc/Qx-SGj4WWeA/s1600/tax_IRS_cartoon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 276px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7UJN1RRnLE/Tsm_ElDau4I/AAAAAAAAAmc/Qx-SGj4WWeA/s320/tax_IRS_cartoon.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677278890664049538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I read a lot of news on daily basis.  Lately it takes a lot to surprise me when it comes to news.  Then I came across &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/15/proposal-to-let-irs-prepare-tax-returns-raises-concern-as-dc-looks-under/"&gt;this article about IRS Preparing taxes&lt;/a&gt;.  My initial reaction was shocked.  This is stupid.  This is beyond stupid.  Holy Crap!!  I cannot believe I am seeing this and this is brought to you by: DEMOCRATS!   Well, for those who wants to use these services: This is fraud.  If you would like for the United States Federal Government to keep track of your sources of income and be hit with levies in case you run into some tough times, then go ahead and use this system.  This is like giving a bully, like IRS, schedule of your classes to make sure that he could find you at his convenience to steal your lunch money.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is an advice as a tax attorney to all the readers: do not give any additional information to IRS regardless of your status if it is not required by the IRS.   Any information you provide WILL ONLY BE USED AGAINST YOU.  IRS is not the friendly agency as they love to make you think.  If you have any doubt, please come talk to thousands of our client who are dealing with this ruthless agency.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This new system is another Democrat ploy for their agenda and they are trying to basically keep track of American citizens for their big government goal that would only benefit them.  &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dj8OIEzOYGM/Tsm-6ayepBI/AAAAAAAAAmQ/65nCWs-Y6g4/s1600/TaxPieCharts72108.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 151px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dj8OIEzOYGM/Tsm-6ayepBI/AAAAAAAAAmQ/65nCWs-Y6g4/s320/TaxPieCharts72108.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677278716109956114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will reduce productivity and it will only aid Democrats and their agenda.  I really do not understand how low Democrats will go in order to insert their goals.  This is basically what they are trying to do in order to deal with the debt crisis.  However, the ploy they are using is not cutting their costs and their spending.  They are not trying to live within their means, rather the government is simply trying to take the money from others and give that money to other people through other federal entitlement programs.  This is what I like to call “redistribution of wealth” and our friends in Democratic Party are the responsible robbers in this case.  This program is another ploy to enforce such program.   This will not assist the taxpayer in any shape or form rather it provides damaging data to IRS.  It simply arm IRS with unnecessary information that would enable this ruthless agency to pick on anybody as they please.  To put it shortly, a taxpayer who uses this service is simply stupid.  I hope those Liberal Democrats (who by the way tends to be very rude and uncooperative when it comes to solving their tax problems) should use this system and enjoy the fruits of their government and ideology.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7816173107981437720?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7816173107981437720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7816173107981437720&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7816173107981437720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7816173107981437720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-government-ploy-to-steal-your-money.html' title='New Government Ploy to Steal Your Money: They will do Your Taxes for You'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7UJN1RRnLE/Tsm_ElDau4I/AAAAAAAAAmc/Qx-SGj4WWeA/s72-c/tax_IRS_cartoon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-4211931968133831163</id><published>2011-10-24T13:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-24T13:12:38.934-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Erdogan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Turkey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rescue Operation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islamic Fundamentalist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Political Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islamists'/><title type='text'>Erdogan’s Hate for Israel</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RGCM2BOC9sk/TqXGsnwyPKI/AAAAAAAAAmA/ejhbm0AZgCk/s1600/turkey%2Bq.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 190px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RGCM2BOC9sk/TqXGsnwyPKI/AAAAAAAAAmA/ejhbm0AZgCk/s320/turkey%2Bq.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667154176005782690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is happening in Turkey is the prime example of having an Islamic Ruler with Islamic Agenda.  This is also significant because it is an accurate account of reality of the Middle East and why there will not be peace in the region based on the status quo.   I’ll start with this comment by Golda Meir who said, “We will have peace in the Middle East the day that our neighbors start loving their kids more than they hate Jews.”  Turkey turned down Israel's assistance.  How much do you really have to hate the Jews that you are willing to pay for it by the blood of your own citizens?  Turkey turned down Israel’s assistance in the aftermath of the earthquake.  Regardless of how prepared you are, you never turn down assistance during natural disaster if it could save even a single life.  Turkey claimed that they are well-prepared for the disaster and they do not need any foreign assistance and they have turned down ALL foreign assistance.  In my opinion, that is just load of crap that only you witness in countries like Iran.  Here, Erdogan and his Islamist Gangs do not want to improve Israel’s image among its public opinion.  It is as simple as that and they are willing to pay for it with Muslim Turkish Blood.  They cry over Palestinian blood that they claim are being spilled and how the nine-dead Turkish terrorists died in that Flotilla incident, yet they are willing to sacrifice 1000s of lives of their own citizens.  According to almost every single report or account coming from the region, the rescue operation is not going well at all.  Nobody believes the official government account that only 265 have died so far and the rescue mission is going very well.  Even Turkish citizens are starting to question why did Turkey has turned down Israel assistance since Israel and its rescue operations are notorious to be one of the best in the world.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Dugan Yalma, who witnessed rescue workers attempting to pull people out of a collapsed building in the heart of Van, and who was unaware that he was speaking to an Israeli reporter, told Haaretz that “there are simply not enough professionals. "They work without careful handling. I do not understand why more international crews have not arrived. The Israelis have an excellent rescue team, why isn’t [Prime Minister] Erdogan allowing them to come?“ &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/haaretz-special-report-turks-frustrated-by-government-s-earthquake-response-1.391772"&gt;Haaretz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, I’ll say this: this is result of allowing Political Islam enter the political Islam.  Now compare it to Israel and what it is willing to do for its citizens.  It was only last week where Israel paid a hefty price for ONLY ONE OF ITS CITIZENS by releasing 1027 subhuman terrorists who truly deserve to have a bullet right between their eyes.  Israel, who constantly is demonized by this same barbaric government of Turkey, proved to the world what it means to value it citizens’ lives.   Israel is willing to sacrifice and release 1000s of terrorists that it has worked so hard to put behind the bar, to secure the life of a single one of its citizens and Erdogan and his Islamic Gang are willing to sacrifice 1000s lives of ITS OWN citizens simply to avoid any opportunity for improvement of Israel’s image in the world and among its citizens.  The sickest part is that they have rejected all foreign assistances just to mask and justify such a horrible that was truly politically and religiously motivated.   I am sure Turkish citizens and media will not tackle this issue and the result will be 1000s unnecessary dead that could have been rescued.  Again, this quote sums it perfectly: Israel will have peace the day that its neighbors love their children (or citizens in this case) more than they hate Israel.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-4211931968133831163?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/4211931968133831163/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=4211931968133831163&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4211931968133831163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4211931968133831163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/10/erdogans-hate-for-israel.html' title='Erdogan’s Hate for Israel'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RGCM2BOC9sk/TqXGsnwyPKI/AAAAAAAAAmA/ejhbm0AZgCk/s72-c/turkey%2Bq.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7370059757786553605</id><published>2011-10-12T15:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-12T15:37:41.058-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Soldier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian Cause'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jewish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'>Gilad Shalit is Going Home!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WmtaS-c3WOk/TpYWmiIF0zI/AAAAAAAAAl0/IZcHYib2fpM/s1600/Gilad.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WmtaS-c3WOk/TpYWmiIF0zI/AAAAAAAAAl0/IZcHYib2fpM/s400/Gilad.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662738432716559154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday was a huge news day.  Of course I was swamped with massive amount of work and I didn’t get to write anything about them.  A lot of my points that I have been writing about for the past five years came true.  Iranian agents from Quds Army were busted in their attempt to conduct a terrorist attack within U.S. Soil.  I am not going to tackle that issue now and tell you “I TOLD YOU SO!”  I won’t write about Iranian propaganda mouthpieces in this country who are throwing conspiracy theories around without single shred of direct or circumstantial evidence either.  I am going to write about how proud I am to be an Israeli and a Jew today.  &lt;br /&gt;Israel and Hamas came to an agreement with regards to release of Gilad Shalit. I do not care for the price that was paid; all I know is that it was the right decision.  He is a Jew and he is still alive and Israel should bring him back to Israel at any costs.  This is a true proud moment for Israel and it showed how much it values its citizens’ lives.  Today is the day that we could hold our head high in the international community and show them what it means to defend your citizen in every battlefield.  In a region where most of the neighboring government are murdering, torturing, oppressing, and committing all sorts of crimes against their own citizens in search of democracy, this small country set an example as to what it means to value its citizen’s lives.  Look at the “Arab Spring” and the level of cruelty involved there to see the difference.  Look Egyptian achievement of democracy in the region that resulted in oppressing of the religious minority and empowering of the religious fanatics.  Now look at Israel and how much it values its citizens’ lives.  I am truly proud of Israel.  &lt;br /&gt;I really do not care about how Palestinians are celebrating.  Truly, it does not matter at all.  Israel is bringing back its soldier and he is going home after five years.  I wish him well and I congratulate Israel for this accomplishment. &lt;br /&gt;One issue: Khaled Mashal who is one of Hamas’s leaders in Syria called it a Palestinian National Achievements that all Palestinian should be proud of.  My question is proud of what?  Palestinians should be proud of kidnapping, coercion, torture, and breaking every single international in the book with regards to PoWs or enemy combatant as they like to classify it?!  This is what they should be proud of?  Is this Palestinian dedication to humanity?  War?  Violence?  Terrorism? Murder?  Kidnapping?  Israel just had another one of its scientists win Noble Prize and they won it not in one of those Affirmative action prices that they usually give to Arabs or Muslim nationals to make them feel better such as Peace Prize (although it is highly Ironic).  They won the noble prize in chemistry and that is Israeli national pride.  5 out of 7 winners were actually Jews this year.  This is what Israelis and Jews are proud of.  Israel’s pride is the fact that she paid a tremendous price to bring its beloved citizen home.  Israel’s pride is the fact that they value their citizens’ lives and they will do anything to rescue them.  This is the vast difference between the two cultures and moments like these are when you could see the true faces of groups like these.  &lt;br /&gt;About those right wingers who are criticizing this deal: if you oppose this deal you are not a Jew.  Very simple!  A Jewish life is worth a lot more than just 1000 terrorists.  Israel has pretty mighty armed forces to defend Israelis and Jews around the world and hopefully they’ll hunt anybody down and send them to meet their 72 virgins if they choose to go back to terrorism against Israel.  For now, Gilad is going home and everybody should be happy about it.  Don’t worry, Israel will protect itself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7370059757786553605?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7370059757786553605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7370059757786553605&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7370059757786553605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7370059757786553605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/10/gilad-shalit-is-going-home.html' title='Gilad Shalit is Going Home!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WmtaS-c3WOk/TpYWmiIF0zI/AAAAAAAAAl0/IZcHYib2fpM/s72-c/Gilad.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-5099368432987532280</id><published>2011-10-04T20:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-04T21:03:29.530-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Israel Campaign'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Syria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Assad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Facility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islamic Fundamentalist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Political Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Semitism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Spring'/><title type='text'>New Product from Iran: Let us Kill Our People or We Will Kill You!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g4MNy0HO4Ec/TovVqfFuUUI/AAAAAAAAAls/OfQN_-3hojY/s1600/iran-syria-stop-killing.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g4MNy0HO4Ec/TovVqfFuUUI/AAAAAAAAAls/OfQN_-3hojY/s200/iran-syria-stop-killing.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659852282597888322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is more like an update from my last post.  It did not take longer than just one day after my previous post to see this new update that reiterate and supports my position that Syrian Regime is going through Islamic Republic of Iran’s handbook on how to murder and destroy democratic movement.  Well using Israel and blaming her for all their problem is not unique to Iran, however the tactic is very much unique.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday threatened to set fire to the Middle East, and especially to Israel, if NATO attacks Syria, the Iranian Fars news agency reported. In a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Assad said: "If a crazy measure is taken against Damascus, I will need not more than six hours to transfer hundreds of rockets and missiles to the Golan Heights to fire them at Tel Aviv." &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4131259,00.html"&gt;YNETNEW.COM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, let me get this straight, if NATO strikes Syria, Syria will strike Israel?! Hold on, Syria: YOU ARE KILLING YOUR OWN PEOPLE AND MURDERING THEM, WHEN DID ISRAEL COME INTO THIS PICTURE?  Well, the reason that I say that it is Iran who is directly involve in the picture is that Iran said the same exact words that if they are attacked by U.S.A on their nuclear sites, they would attack Israel regardless of who has conducted the attack.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; "The enemies know if they fire a missile toward Iran, the dust from explosions by Iranian missiles will rise in Tel Aviv even as their missile is still in the air," a report by the semiofficial Fars news agency on Tuesday quoted cleric Mojtaba Zolnour as saying. The cleric issued a similar warning in October, when he said Iran would blow up the heart of Israel if the United States or the Jewish state attacked it first. His comments are not unusual.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/iran-vows-to-strike-israel-immediately-if-attacked-1.283990"&gt;HAARETZ.COM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you could see in this case, even the wording is almost the same.  They both mention Tel Aviv and they show off their barbaric intentions.  This is another token of civilized society in these regions and it goes to show you what kind of animals and subhuman barbarians Israel has to face for its survival.  Iran is now the prime example of Anti-Semitism.  There is absolutely no question in that department.  I do not think there is anybody under this sun who could claim Iran is not Anti-Semitism.  Just like Europe back in Dark-Ages that blamed everything on the Jews, Iran and now Syria are trying to buy support for their murderous regimes by dipping into natural and global Anti-Semitism that has manifested itself into the Anti-Israel campaign.  Although the tactic to blame Israel for their blame is nothing in the Middle Eastern politics, however attacking Israel in the face being threatened from a different party is the direct result of Iranian inventions and dragging the whole region into an absolute disaster.  This is what we could simply call Global Terrorism that Islamic government of Iran has invented to secure its survival.  &lt;br /&gt;To make the picture ever clearer here, basically what Syria and Iran are saying is this, &lt;strong&gt;“let us kill our people and oppress the masses and export as much terrorism as we want to the region or else we will set the whole region on fire!”&lt;/strong&gt;   Keep in mind, for the time being, they could only reach this region and that is all they would set fire on.  Imagine the day they acquire a nuclear weapon and they develop ICBMs.  At that point, they would terrorize the whole globe and threatened the survival of humanity.  This is exactly why Iran should never ever be allowed to acquire nuclear weapon. &lt;br /&gt;This is direct dedication of Political Islam to humanity.  The reason is very simple; this ideology was born out of Iran and Islamic Revolution of Iran where the mentality is that if we got nothing to lose, therefore everybody loses.  This is similar to the idea of suicide bombers and it is rooted in the same thinking patterns.   Khomeini said it best that “how could you scare a group of people when they are not afraid of dying?”  The same thinking pattern applies here where they are saying, if we are going down, we will take down the whole region and we will kill as many people as we could to stay in power.  Political Islam and the promise of after life and defending Islamic values was used to basically pioneer such ideology and now ruthless leaders who have lost all aspects of legitimacy have resorted to the same tactics.  Now, they are using it against their citizens and they are acting as the true mad men that they are in order to buy themselves more time to stay in power.  &lt;br /&gt;Once again: we have Islamic Revolution of Iran to thank for such new phenomenon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-5099368432987532280?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/5099368432987532280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=5099368432987532280&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5099368432987532280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5099368432987532280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-product-from-iran-let-us-kill-our.html' title='New Product from Iran: Let us Kill Our People or We Will Kill You!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g4MNy0HO4Ec/TovVqfFuUUI/AAAAAAAAAls/OfQN_-3hojY/s72-c/iran-syria-stop-killing.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-2154045444250201409</id><published>2011-10-03T18:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-03T19:03:13.754-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Green Revolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Revolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Syria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Assad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><title type='text'>Iranian Government’s Agenda in the Region: Assisting Dictators to Stay in Power</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F_bS_YdfnfQ/ToppWNZw7WI/AAAAAAAAAlk/m6IzJXxdHPA/s1600/Iran.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F_bS_YdfnfQ/ToppWNZw7WI/AAAAAAAAAlk/m6IzJXxdHPA/s320/Iran.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659451712020213090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is amazing.  The Islamic Revolution of Iran has turned into Oppression University around the globe.  The perfect example is this: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;LONDON - Syrian diplomats in foreign capitals are mounting campaigns of harassment and threats against expatriate dissidents protesting outside their embassies, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=240444"&gt;JPOST.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Syria is going through Iranian Government oppression handbooks play-by play.  This is from a while back in an article in Wall-Street Journal:   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;In recent months, Iran has been conducting a campaign of harassing and intimidating members of its diaspora world-wide -- not just prominent dissidents -- who criticize the regime, according to former Iranian lawmakers and former members of Iran's elite security force, the Revolutionary Guard, with knowledge of the program.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125978649644673331.html"&gt;Wall-Street Journal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isn’t it amazing?  There are some Iranians who call themselves educated and they speak of Islamic Revolution of Iran as if it was the greatest thing ever happened to Iran.  The end result is this: Iran’s gifts to human and civilized society is basically how to oppress and destroy democratic movements and of course export of terrorism.  Not only that this government is oppressing its own citizens, it is teaching other dictators in the region how to do it.   Well, Iranians: enjoy your achievements.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-2154045444250201409?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/2154045444250201409/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=2154045444250201409&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2154045444250201409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2154045444250201409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/10/iranian-governments-agenda-in-region.html' title='Iranian Government’s Agenda in the Region: Assisting Dictators to Stay in Power'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F_bS_YdfnfQ/ToppWNZw7WI/AAAAAAAAAlk/m6IzJXxdHPA/s72-c/Iran.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-1515774835712834283</id><published>2011-10-02T18:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-02T18:36:20.922-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Semitism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Semite'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ahmadinejad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><title type='text'>NEVER AGAIN!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-edQpiKv0eYU/TokRFedfZjI/AAAAAAAAAlc/g8a7rldkMy4/s1600/Ahmadinejad.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-edQpiKv0eYU/TokRFedfZjI/AAAAAAAAAlc/g8a7rldkMy4/s320/Ahmadinejad.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659073192541513266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am stunt.  I am truly amazed at this much Racism and Anti-Semitism that is coming from Iran.  The true disgusting nature of these leaders and their ideology is showing its ugly face and the world is absolutely silent about it.  Imagine if an American leader would have said that “All Blacks should go back to Africa.”  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that in order to solve the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the "Palestinians should go home," and "those that were brought [to Israel]" should as well, AFP reported.&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=240289"&gt;JPOST&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could you imagine the uproar?  Well, this monkey of Iran and his racist mentality that is widely shared among Arab leaders, Pro-Palestinian Supporters, and “Religion of Peace” followers, openly state this kind of intentions and yet the world continues to condemn Israel.  This is 1939 all over again.  Israeli Left should open their eyes and see what is going on how dangerous the situation is becoming.  &lt;br /&gt;However, those people who support this kind of stupidity of this Sub-human called Ahmadinejad should know one thing: Israel is not going anywhere and Jewish people are living in rightful homeland.  Palestinians are more than welcome to live in their future state side by side with this Jewish homeland if they choose to live in peace.  Other than that, this whole region will go up in flames and all of these numb nuts’ lands would turn into a nuclear desert.  This is why Israel’s nuclear bombs have “Never Again” written on them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-1515774835712834283?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/1515774835712834283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=1515774835712834283&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1515774835712834283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1515774835712834283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/10/never-again.html' title='NEVER AGAIN!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-edQpiKv0eYU/TokRFedfZjI/AAAAAAAAAlc/g8a7rldkMy4/s72-c/Ahmadinejad.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-4892100048869953968</id><published>2011-09-26T20:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T20:13:26.428-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Erdogan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Soldier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Commando Units'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian Cause'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian Lies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Flotilla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Turkey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraudulent Cause'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IHH'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Heroes'/><title type='text'>Another Supporter of Palestinian Cause Resort to Lies—Gee I am Shocked!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FAZUVCY-fZA/ToE94DFNEjI/AAAAAAAAAlU/6YsFGsPIigM/s1600/ihh.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FAZUVCY-fZA/ToE94DFNEjI/AAAAAAAAAlU/6YsFGsPIigM/s400/ihh.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656870640063156786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OH boy, Turkey has turned into a gift that keeps on giving.  However, just like other supporter of Palestinian Cause and the true nature of this Fraudulent Cause, it filled with lies, deceit, miss-representation of material facts, fictitious stories, and many other fraudulent acts.  This time, with wink and silent support from Turkish Islamist Ruling party, IHH tried to claim that after countless hard work and research, they have released the names of the “soldiers who were involved in the killing” of the nine Turkish Terrorist.  However, here is the kicker: THESE &lt;strong&gt;MORONS FORGOT TO CHECK WHETHER THESE NAMES WERE ACTUALLY ACTIVE AT THE TIME OF THE FLOTILLA INCIDENT&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;br /&gt;It was quickly proven that many of &lt;strong&gt;the names were simply copied from name of the soldiers who defended Israel during Operation Cast Lead&lt;/strong&gt;.  To add to the story, it was also shown that some of these guys &lt;strong&gt;were from different Units in IDF that were completely unrelated to Navy or any Special Ops Units&lt;/strong&gt;.  For example was soldier to be a low Ranking Officer in the Artillery Units.  Oh boy the Irony!!!!! You see, lies and deceit is hacked into the DNA of Palestinian Cause.  Truth is simply not their friend and they need to resort this kind of activity to make a point.  Justice will never be served when truth is being destroyed.  Of course, global Anti-Semitism will simply ignore the truth and believe these lies just how they believed Hitler and his lies.  &lt;br /&gt;Oh yeah, let’s give these liars a state when its whole notion and supporters are nothing but frauds and liars.  Mahmud Abbas’s Doctorate Thesis was written about how Holocaust never happened and Jews exaggerated it to oppress Palestinians.  Sooner or later, the world will face the truth just like how it faced Post-Hitler world when the truth finally came out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4128276,00.html"&gt;Click Here for the link to the story&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-4892100048869953968?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/4892100048869953968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=4892100048869953968&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4892100048869953968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4892100048869953968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/09/another-supporter-of-palestinian-cause.html' title='Another Supporter of Palestinian Cause Resort to Lies—Gee I am Shocked!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FAZUVCY-fZA/ToE94DFNEjI/AAAAAAAAAlU/6YsFGsPIigM/s72-c/ihh.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7448046196822611484</id><published>2011-09-21T14:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T15:20:18.672-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Israel Campaign'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.N.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian Cause'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Semitism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><title type='text'>Give us a State or We will Kill you!</title><content type='html'>I am truly enjoying this circus show in the U.N.  It has basically turned into a forum for global Anti-Semitism in the name of Palestinian Rights.  Except this worthless organization is powerless when it comes to other crimes against Humanity and also grotesque crimes against Israel itself.  However, I love this statement &lt;blockquote&gt;made by Palestinians: &lt;br /&gt;Senior Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath said Wednesday that the Palestinians' statehood bid at the United Nations is &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the only alternative to violence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, stressing that the UN move will give the Palestinians the chance to promote their rights.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/senior-palestinian-official-un-bid-is-only-alternative-to-violence-1.385885"&gt;Here is the link&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;So the argument is pretty clear here, give us a state or we will kill you.  This is what I love to call typical Arab Mentality which violence, death, destruction, and war has the final word.  They are basically taking the world hostage and now they are trying to do it through blackmail.  &lt;br /&gt;Remember how Israel was born?!  Did Israel threaten anybody in the U.N that “give us a state or else we will have violence”?  No, well this is what I mean when I call U.N. a global forum for Anti-Semitism because they are giving a state that has said clearly that “we are intending to create a state free of Jews”.  I really do not know the outcome of this circus but it worth looking at rhetoric that is coming out of this pure stupidity.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7448046196822611484?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7448046196822611484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7448046196822611484&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7448046196822611484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7448046196822611484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/09/give-us-state-or-we-will-kill-you.html' title='Give us a State or We will Kill you!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-3119561454024626986</id><published>2011-09-14T21:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-14T21:31:00.198-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Political Cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Election'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Election 12'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mitt Romney'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Election 08'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rick Perry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oprah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GOP'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Domestic Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media Bias'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democratic Party'/><title type='text'>Perfect Example of Mainstream Media’s Support for Obama</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZAcQLg_iDA/TnF_C6xWn5I/AAAAAAAAAlM/MPdQvF2L0Ss/s1600/solyndra_20110914_094710.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 274px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZAcQLg_iDA/TnF_C6xWn5I/AAAAAAAAAlM/MPdQvF2L0Ss/s320/solyndra_20110914_094710.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652438695439409042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a reader, please answer whether I am wrong to think like this at the comment section of this blog.  I really want to know if I am just reading too much into this.  Why is this not a Scandal?  Why is it that only Fox News who is the Republican Mouthpiece, is the only Media outlet who is covering this story?  If it was during Bush Administration, the Media would have ripped Bush a new one in terms of out of control corruption and lack of transparency claims.  How many scandals did the media create during Bush’s Administration or events that they classified as “scandals?”  During tough economic times, when our Debt is to the roof, the country is bankrupt, millions of dollars gets wasted and it is not considered a scandal?  Yet, Obama administration and his loonytoons approves massive amount of money for this so-called Energy Saving company or Green Jobs, and the company went out of business after Millions of dollars were given to them and there was simply no results.  What would have happened if Republicans have done that? Here is a quick summary: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Obama administration officials on Wednesday defended a $528 million loan to a solar-panel company that went bankrupt this month, claiming the firm fell victim to global economic trends but that federal investment in alternative energy must continue. &lt;br /&gt;The testimony came as Republican and Democratic lawmakers raised sharp questions about the decision that ultimately left taxpayers on the hook for millions, and as newly released emails show administration officials were raising doubts about the loan proposal to Solyndra months before it was finalized. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a perfect example of failures of the Stimulus package and the Leftist agendas.  The whole Green Job movement and government involvement to revive the economy through taking over it and passing out hand-outs simply WON’T WORK.  Besides all the ideological failures that this news update proves, this is also the perfect proof that the Mainstream Media is in bed with Obama.  They simply do not want to accept the fact that this has been one of the worst Presidents this country has ever seen.  The Media is simply trying to get him re-elected and they are doing their best to try to cover for this guy.  To be honest, they did get him elected on the first place when he simply had no qualifying job experience to ever be the president of this country.  &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mY0uv5WmVEA/TnF84-v0VII/AAAAAAAAAlE/-okNk6ZeqKU/s1600/opra.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 120px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mY0uv5WmVEA/TnF84-v0VII/AAAAAAAAAlE/-okNk6ZeqKU/s200/opra.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652436325684761730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favorite moment comes from Oprah where she was so excited about him and she was pushing his agenda directly to her female audience that was the directly resulted in Hilary losing to this incompetent president in the Democratic Primaries.  Then when they asked her couple of months ago about Obama’s approval, she responds, “I am not involved in Politics, I really do not know what is going on, therefore I cannot comment on Obama’s approval and job performance”.  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?  YOU ARE ONE OF THE BIGGEST REASONS HE GOT ELECTED AND NOW YOU ARE NOT INVOLVED IN POLITICS?!  In that case, you only helped him out because he was BLACK and Oprah you voted only based on racial preference and THAT MAKES YOU A RACIST!!!!  If you are not involved in politics, then based on what criteria did you use your power to get this fool elected as the President of this country?  If you are not involved in politics, what qualifications did you have to go to such extend and putting on those crazy shows about him?  If you are not involved in politics, next time, please shut the hell up instead of trying to influence American Publics opinion.  Well, no matter how much they try to cover Obama’s butt, there is one thing they could never do anything about which is unemployment rate which is above 9%.  You could not lie about the unemployment rate and that is the perfect proof of the incompetency of this President.  &lt;br /&gt;At the end, I cannot predict what would happen on November of next year due to the fact that GOP has been taken over by Rightwing Extremists such as Perry and Bauchman.  I do not know a lot about Perry and I am still trying to learn more about him, however he strikes me as a Nutjob. I like Mitt Romney but his chances of being the GOP candidate is slipping to the craziness involved in the extreme right.  This is subject of another argument of why extremism is gaining more power in this country as oppose to sanity that we desperately need in these tough economic times. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, am I being wrong here? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/14/officials-raised-concerns-solar-firms-solvency-ahead-bankruptcy-emails-show/"&gt;Read more on this story here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-3119561454024626986?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/3119561454024626986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=3119561454024626986&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/3119561454024626986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/3119561454024626986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/09/perfect-example-of-mainstream-medias.html' title='Perfect Example of Mainstream Media’s Support for Obama'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZAcQLg_iDA/TnF_C6xWn5I/AAAAAAAAAlM/MPdQvF2L0Ss/s72-c/solyndra_20110914_094710.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-6231593005518687403</id><published>2011-09-11T18:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-11T18:38:04.915-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='War On Terrorisim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Israel Campaign'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anniversary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Attack'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CAIR'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islamic Fundamentalist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='9/11'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist'/><title type='text'>CAIR’s 9/11 Message is Nothing but a Lie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DlQRVec-41E/Tm1h4CMIShI/AAAAAAAAAk8/kTH3jpnIHUo/s1600/cair.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 137px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DlQRVec-41E/Tm1h4CMIShI/AAAAAAAAAk8/kTH3jpnIHUo/s400/cair.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5651280722708154898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is the 10th Anniversary of September 11th attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon.  That is the day that changed the course of history and the last decade.  The results were two wars and hundreds of thousands of people dead on both sides.  &lt;br /&gt;Of course what pursued after that day is subject to different argument and perspective.  That is something I will not do because there is no point in it.  However, what grabbed my attention was CAIR’s (Council for Islamic-American Relation) announcement for the anniversary.  The leader said: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“It was always a gang of criminals, called al-Qaeda, who happened to be Muslim, who are trying to justify their acts through faith and through religion,” Rehab said.  Rehab says the American people should not allow politicians, right-wingers and TV networks make them fear fellow Americans who are Muslim.&lt;/blockquote&gt;First and foremost, it was not a Gang of Criminals WHO HAPPENED TO BE MUSLIM.  It was a Gang of criminals who WERE Muslims and having faith in Islamic FUNDAMENTALIST was the motivating factor behind their attack.  It was no accident that they were Muslim.  Being Muslim was a big factor in motivating them to conduct such deadly attack.  What sect of Islam is the responsible party is a different argument.  However, let’s not deceive the world.  The second issue is that they were not a gang criminals.  As a matter of fact, many of these terrorist did not have any criminal records.  The acts in itself is criminal.  However, up to the point of attack, they pretty much held a clean criminal record.  Therefore, this statement in itself is a lie because 1.  They were not a gang of criminals and 2. they did not “happen” to be Muslims.  &lt;br /&gt;However, on the eve of September 11th, there are major issues that CAIR needs to address instead of such a pathetic statement that is nothing but a lie.  Instead of stepping up to the plate, they simply passed the bucket and blamed others for their problems.  CAIR needs to tackle issues such as their ties to Islamic Terrorist Groups such as Hamas.  CAIR needs to clean its act and its stand against Israel before it could even try to blame others for the problem.  CIAR has been misleading Americans for way too long and only recently FBI finally got the memo and cut off contact with this group.  This group has been subject to numerous investigations.  &lt;br /&gt;The main issue is CAIR being a group that support terrorism and they use Islamic law of Taghieh (which allows for a Muslim to lie and deceive for greater good of Islam) to push their agenda.  One should not mistake CAIR with typical Muslims.  In the U.S., 99.99% of Muslims are peaceful Muslims that have found refuge in this country and they are simply trying to go through their lives.  I personally happen to have a lot of friends who are Muslims.  However, groups like CAIR are not the representative of these people. &lt;br /&gt;CAIR needs to clean up its act.  They need to take a stronger stand against ALL SORTS OF ATTACK ON CIVILIANS INCLUDING ISRAELIS.  If CAIR wants to be taken seriously, they need to stop encouraging Anti-Israel actions on campuses, support for Islamic Groups in the region, and using their resources to put a more humanitarian face on the terrorist groups in Israel.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-6231593005518687403?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/6231593005518687403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=6231593005518687403&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6231593005518687403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6231593005518687403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/09/cairs-911-is-message-nothing-but-lie.html' title='CAIR’s 9/11 Message is Nothing but a Lie'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DlQRVec-41E/Tm1h4CMIShI/AAAAAAAAAk8/kTH3jpnIHUo/s72-c/cair.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7197812819939021162</id><published>2011-09-01T09:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-01T09:45:20.600-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Erdogan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist-apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Naval Blockade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Flotilla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Turkey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Navy Commandos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Law'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='International Law'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Heroes'/><title type='text'>Stupid Argument of Terrorist-apologists about Naval Blockade of Gaza</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D-8PMRLBWQo/Tl-1UbwwuKI/AAAAAAAAAk0/d2UTAbmu4Fw/s1600/turkey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D-8PMRLBWQo/Tl-1UbwwuKI/AAAAAAAAAk0/d2UTAbmu4Fw/s320/turkey.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647431820400179362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turkey and its Islamic Fundamentalist Ruling Party is demanding an apology from Israel and they are following it with an ultimatum.  &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/turkey-in-warning-to-israel-you-have-one-day-to-apologize-for-gaza-flotilla-raid-1.381975"&gt;Click here for the article&lt;/a&gt;.  I do not know whether Israel should do it or not for diplomatic reasons.  However, my question is this: why should Israel apologize for nine dead Turkish terrorists who ignored all the warning and attacked Israeli commandos and took two of the injured soldiers as hostage?  Plus, this stupid Islamic Government who is demanding an apology forgot the fact they ENCOURAGED this movement and they knew the terrorists and their intentions.   However, my favorite part of this is the comment made by Islamic Fundamentalists and terrorist-apologists who argue that Israel should be sued because the event took place in international water.  Funniest part is every time I read their comments they try to deceive the world with the word “international waters” and they try to base their argument on this fact.  If these numb-nut morons and anti-Semites would have picked up a single book, based on the same international law that they LOVE to quote every time it fits their arguments, they would have learned that Naval Blockade enforced by a country does not have to take place in territorial waters.  As a matter of fact, naval blockade and its enforcement HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH INTERNATIONAL WATERS.  A country that is enforcing the blockage has the right to stop any vessel in international if it has REASONABLE BELIEF that the vessel is intending to violate the blockade.  If the vessel fails to follow the warning and orders of the enforcing party, then the enforcing country has the right to engage the vessel.  This was the simplest rule I learned in Maritime Law class I took back in Law School.  Then the argument shifts to the issue of whether the blockade is legal in its totality which is a whole different argument separate from these idiots stance that it took place in international water.  &lt;br /&gt;Even if they want to argue from that angel, Israel will be the party who would prevail in that argument too.  The naval blockade Israel is enforcing is legal due to the fact that Gaza Strip is considered hostile territory and Hamas has openly indicated that they are at war with Israel.  Hamas is the ruling government of Hamas and in its charter it clearly specifies that they plan to destroy Israel.  Therefore, Israel has all the legal necessity to enforce a legal blockade due to the fact that they have used these waters to smuggle in weapons that are used against Israeli citizens.  Therefore, all these numb-nuts morons who have made a mockery of international laws at the world stage should first read the law before they try to quote it.  But again, we are not dealing with people with common sense rather than we are faced with a group of people who are fueled by hatred.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7197812819939021162?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7197812819939021162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7197812819939021162&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7197812819939021162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7197812819939021162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/09/stupid-argument-of-terrorist-apologists.html' title='Stupid Argument of Terrorist-apologists about Naval Blockade of Gaza'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D-8PMRLBWQo/Tl-1UbwwuKI/AAAAAAAAAk0/d2UTAbmu4Fw/s72-c/turkey.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-8185703457054417310</id><published>2011-08-25T17:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-25T17:24:26.060-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anniversary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Update'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Details of Blog'/><title type='text'>Fifth Anniversary of my Blog-Wow!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nUu14jsapbk/TlbnBAA_D8I/AAAAAAAAAks/rNBw37pWbxM/s1600/start.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 379px; height: 256px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nUu14jsapbk/TlbnBAA_D8I/AAAAAAAAAks/rNBw37pWbxM/s400/start.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644953187325513666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although this is might be a month overdue, but last month was the fifth year anniversary of my blog.  I cannot believe that five years have passed since I started this blog.  I started this blog when the Lebanon War of 2006 started.  This was my way of expressing my opinion about what was happening.  I am looking at some of the posts I put up and it feels like I am rewinding my life and history at the same time.  It’s been HALF A DECADE since I started this blog.  It is still unbelievable.  I started this blog with the same picture and I must admit it is truly an amazing picture.  Well, here is a small little update with regards to what has happened to my life since I started this blog.&lt;br /&gt;Throughout these five years, my life went through tremendous changes.  I made a lot of friends and a lot of enemies because of this blog.  Of course the content of this blog caused some sudden discomfort to terrorist-apologists up in Berkeley and Leftist numb-nuts who were truly sick in the head.  When I say sick in the head, I mean sick.  They resorted to all sorts of sick and psychotic acts that ranged from prank-calling and at one point death threats.  Of course, the main perpetrator was finally identified last year and the coward quickly disappeared.  Of course, these cowards would disappear the second they are identified because they are as I like to call them “chicken bullies”.  That means they are the type of bullies who are bullies online and in hiding and they would never show their face due to the fact that they know they are the scum of the society themselves.  However, like I said, as soon as the main perpetrator was identified, I never heard from any of them EVER AGAIN!  So much for protectors of justice and humanity as they claimed to be!!  &lt;br /&gt;During the past five years, I started and finished law school in San Diego.  I moved to back to Los Angeles and I took the California Bar Exam for the first time and I failed with only four points missing.  That was truly a hard thing to go through.  Then I went through the appeal process.  The appeal process was unsuccessful and I decided to retake the bar exam one more time even though I had a good job in Marketing.  Of course, this time I passed and at the time I was working at a Civil Litigation Law Firm in Los Angeles.  However, I really did not enjoy working at the firm and I quickly started searching for a better job with much better pay.  That’s where I found my current employer which is a Tax Firm.  In law school, I hated Tax.  I never understood it and I thought it was the most boring area of law.  However, due to our current economy and the lucrative salary, I decided to take this job.  &lt;br /&gt;I quickly realized that Tax is truly the best field because I was good with numbers.  I busted my behind for three months.  I worked 15-16 hours a day.  I even worked on Sundays and I did not take a single day off.  Even when I was sick I showed up to work.  All the hard work quickly paid off because I was able to advance in the company in the fastest paste possible.  Within only four months, I was promoted to supervising attorney.  I also ranked fourth best attorney in the firm.  I became the “go-to-guy” who got all the hard complicated cases or high profile clients.  I have about 140 cases for myself and supervising over 600 cases.  I have the highest case load and the biggest team and I have been here for only eight months.  Although the working hours did not improve and it actually got worse, but the salary definitely improved. &lt;br /&gt;Besides the respect, quick advancement, and of course great salary, this job provided me with an opportunity to help a lot of people.  Our clients range from all aspects of the society and listening to their story truly teaches you a lot about life.  The satisfaction of helping people is really priceless.  When you assist a client and provide them with successful results, you could hear their voice and how appreciative they are, and there are no words that could express my feelings at that moment.  I had a client breaking down and cry when I gave her the good news.  That in itself is worth all the hard work you put in to resolve the cases.      &lt;br /&gt;Besides the career changes and moving, my life took a lot of interesting turns.  I would be lying if I say at times I did not think about quitting.  However, constant hard work and putting in many hours pays off at the end and this is what exactly happened to my life.  Although being happy could be a very vague terms to use because there are many different kind of happiness, look at the past five years, I could confirm that I am very happy with my life.  &lt;br /&gt;Well, five years has passed since I started this blog and I have covered many news article and world events and wrote my opinion about them.  We are living in a very volatile time.  I must say, I have zero intention of quitting this blog. So, stay tuned for hopefully many more years to come.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-8185703457054417310?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/8185703457054417310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=8185703457054417310&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8185703457054417310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8185703457054417310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/08/fifth-anniversary-of-my-blog-wow.html' title='Fifth Anniversary of my Blog-Wow!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nUu14jsapbk/TlbnBAA_D8I/AAAAAAAAAks/rNBw37pWbxM/s72-c/start.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7880312799620449000</id><published>2011-08-22T10:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-22T10:45:43.498-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Syria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Truce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'>Escalation would have been a Wrong Move</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KeKazJ2qAZk/TlKVwp373rI/AAAAAAAAAkk/k1YzcQQk6f0/s1600/israel-alone091720101.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 287px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KeKazJ2qAZk/TlKVwp373rI/AAAAAAAAAkk/k1YzcQQk6f0/s320/israel-alone091720101.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643737946155376306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although I am not the type who would agree with the Left and I believe Leftist are suffering from a mental disease, in this occasion I would have to side with them.  However, it seems that I’m  not alone on this issue.  Now is not the time for escalation.  Hamas is desperate at this point and they need peace.  Peace or ceasefire is ALWAYS a good thing.  Yes, I know, for Hamas Ceasefire means “Re-Arm” and “Re-boot”.  However, if Hamas is playing a good boy role, why ruin it?!  Yes, they are sworn to destroy Israel and yes they truly believe in it; however as any reasonable person know that it is not going to happen.  Israeli intelligence units and IDF are closely watching Hamas’s every move.  They are figuring out where every leader lives, breeds, eats, sleep, and all details of their actions.  Therefore, the day that Hamas tries to flex its muscles again, Israel will hand them another wooping much larger than Operation Cast Lead.  Therefore, there is no need for escalation on this matter.  Yes, Israel lost seven people and it is truly a sad event.  However, sometimes in life, you need to think and hold back for greater good which is peace in this case.  &lt;br /&gt;Hamas is playing along and they are actually working with Israel in restoring peace in the region.  &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-and-hamas-both-working-to-stop-the-escalation-1.379915#article_comments"&gt;Click here for the story&lt;/a&gt;.  Israel does not want escalation due to “Arab Spring” and Syria up in North.  At the same time, Gazans are also enjoying a relative peace.  The U.N. bid is also coming up and the last thing Israel needs at this point is escalation.  Hamas on the other hand have their own issues to resolve that does not involve Israel.  Frankly, as much as it was a sad day for Israel to lose those seven, I believe Israel reacted perfectly to the event.  They took out the PRC Leader within hours along with bunch of his sub-human commanders.   The responsible party has paid the price for their crime.  Now, it is time to move on and not punish the groups that were not involved in it.  Who knows?! Maybe in couple of years Hamas actually comes to the table for peace negotiation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7880312799620449000?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7880312799620449000/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7880312799620449000&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7880312799620449000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7880312799620449000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/08/escalation-would-have-been-wrong-move.html' title='Escalation would have been a Wrong Move'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KeKazJ2qAZk/TlKVwp373rI/AAAAAAAAAkk/k1YzcQQk6f0/s72-c/israel-alone091720101.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-8112544841218446618</id><published>2011-08-18T20:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-18T20:46:14.234-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Israel Campaign'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media Bias'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Attack'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Egypt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BBC'/><title type='text'>BBC’s Blatant Anti-Israel Bias</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H_oiwtCLpOI/Tk3cgJBoI5I/AAAAAAAAAkc/XltNyLOvO-s/s1600/BBC.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 194px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H_oiwtCLpOI/Tk3cgJBoI5I/AAAAAAAAAkc/XltNyLOvO-s/s320/BBC.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5642408352901768082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today Israel took a hard hit.  Of course, it is too early to say what exactly happened and how it did happen.  However, this sort of acts should not happen.  It is easy for some right wingers to say let’s hit Egypt, bla bla bla.  However, this is exactly what the terrorists want: Israel attacking Egypt.  I am not going into detail with regards to this matter.  However, what shocked me was the stupidity of BBC and their blatant Anti-Israel rhetoric.  Israel is the victim here, Israel was attacked, Israelis were murdered and this is the article they first had on the front page of BBC.com.  This picture is showing a Palestinian man sitting down in tears and in grievance.  Who he is sad for: the terrorist leader of PRC that Israel killed hours after the terrorist attack in Israel.  To make matters even worst, the headline reads: Israel Pounds Gaza.  Seriously?! Well, if this does not proof the Anti-Israel biased in BBC, I really do not know what else do.  This is nothing new.  Once again, BBC has chosen to show its ugly biased though this subliminal use of words and picture to buy sympathy for the fraudulent cause of these terrorists.  &lt;br /&gt;Let me know what you think of this.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-8112544841218446618?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/8112544841218446618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=8112544841218446618&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8112544841218446618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8112544841218446618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/08/bbcs-blatant-anti-israel-bias.html' title='BBC’s Blatant Anti-Israel Bias'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H_oiwtCLpOI/Tk3cgJBoI5I/AAAAAAAAAkc/XltNyLOvO-s/s72-c/BBC.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-5254869673653897514</id><published>2011-08-09T20:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-09T21:07:48.546-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Persian Jewish Community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian Cause'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Protests'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reform Judaism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Flotilla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Diaspora Jews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraudulent Cause'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Judaism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reform Jews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jewish Community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jewish Law'/><title type='text'>Fake Jews: the New Tools to Justify Terrorism Against Israelis</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G7YXS0qXQEg/TkICdeyfyiI/AAAAAAAAAkE/TtXH1-WgtlI/s1600/jews_against_occ.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G7YXS0qXQEg/TkICdeyfyiI/AAAAAAAAAkE/TtXH1-WgtlI/s320/jews_against_occ.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639072388925606434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember this guy in Berkeley used to yell out that “I am a Jew and I am against Israel” and “Israel is not my homeland.”  It turns out that some of these guys are not Jewish, not by name and not by ancestry either.  &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=233141"&gt;Here is the perfect example.&lt;/a&gt;  This guy went on flotilla and argued that he is the Jewish Voice against Israel.  His argument was that he is an American and Israel does not represent him.  Well, there is only one little problem: HE IS NOT A JEW!  &lt;br /&gt;This problem is not anything new.  It is just that nobody had the guts to ask these guys, “hey Mr. Jew, how are you Jewish?  Is your mother a Jew?  Do you practice Judaism?  Did you ever have a bar mitzvah? Do you go to temple? Do you keep kosher? How the F**** are you a Jew?  Just tell me something, anything!” You would simply see that they claim: I am a Jew.  It is amazing.  &lt;br /&gt;You see, only in the United States, where Reform Judaism has systematically destroyed and cleared the line of Judaism, you would see stuff like these.  No other country like in the U.S and U.K where reform Judaism is the strongest, do we ever seen this phenomenon of Jews being Anti-Israel and it strictly has to do with the fact they are the most distanced one.  With exception of Naurei Nitka who is a fanatic sect of Judaism, you almost never see any family or any Jew who practices Judaism and has Jewish values in his house, to be Anti-Israel.  That would be very very rare. Due to the fact that the line of who is a Jew and who is not a Jew has been erased and redrawn so many times by the so-called Rabies, the mixture of intermarriage along with abandonment of Jewish house rules, Jewish values, and Jewish culture, you would see Sub-humans like these lying about the fact that they are Jewish and the funny part is nobody could argue against them.  Seriously, what is left of Judaism in Reform Judaism?  Yes, there are some Jews who support Palestinian cause.  However, these Jews are not even Jews anymore.  There is nothing Jewish about them because they have simply assimilated.  Another example of this is my personal experience.  When I was friends with some terrorist-apologist hypocritical Iranians in Berkeley, I was introduced to this girl who claimed to be a Jew and Anti-Israel.  I was shocked.  Iranian Jew against Israel?  So when I talked to her, it turned out, that she was only half Jewish.  From father side, and she had no connection to Judaism what-so-ever!  Funny part was she thought I was an idiot and tried to claim that she is half Jewish.  In Iran, if anybody would inter-marry, they would be kicked out of the society and nobody would ever contact that person ever again.  99% of the time, these people would convert to Islam and they would turn into the most Anti-Semites and Anti-Jews themselves.  Therefore, I could see where her hatred of Israel and Jewish Homeland came from.  &lt;br /&gt;In today’s age, since there is no more standard of measurement as to who is a Jew and who is not a Jew, who could be considered a Jew and who could not be considered a Jew, deceitful people would call themselves Jews for the purpose of destroying the Jewish Homeland.  Reform Judaism should look at themselves and hold themselves strictly responsible for this mess.  The reason is because if it wasn’t for them keep messing around with the Jewish law to fit their own laziness and lack of respect for Judaism, there would not be a national tragedy waiting to happen from the fake Jews who legitimize the fraudulent Palestinian cause and mask its generic and inherited Anti-Semitisim. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-5254869673653897514?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/5254869673653897514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=5254869673653897514&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5254869673653897514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5254869673653897514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/08/fake-jews-new-tools-to-justify.html' title='Fake Jews: the New Tools to Justify Terrorism Against Israelis'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G7YXS0qXQEg/TkICdeyfyiI/AAAAAAAAAkE/TtXH1-WgtlI/s72-c/jews_against_occ.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-345929982026903739</id><published>2011-08-07T17:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-07T17:35:55.514-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Egyptian Protest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.N'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Syria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='King Abdullah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Assad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Human Rights'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Saudi Arabia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Egypt'/><title type='text'>The Joke of the Day: Saudi Arabia Teaching Syria about Human Rights</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j3GjXfcfXbE/Tj8ufONXj_I/AAAAAAAAAj8/LAKeKrOVvCI/s1600/assad-saudi-king-abdullah2-300x225.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j3GjXfcfXbE/Tj8ufONXj_I/AAAAAAAAAj8/LAKeKrOVvCI/s400/assad-saudi-king-abdullah2-300x225.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638276372416139250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seriously, is there any region funnier than Middle East when it comes to politics?  I swear, “Arab Spring” has turned into my daily entertainment and a way of distract myself from Eighty Hour work week.  &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14439303"&gt;The latest joke of the “Arab Spring” is Saudi Arabia&lt;/a&gt;.  The land of barbarians and the true signature of backwardness of globe, Saudi Arab, who still cuts-off hands and treats women like dirt through systematic and institutionalized backward laws, has condemned Syrian actions in the region.  Holy Cow!! Seriously King Abdullah, if I were you, I would sit in a corner and not make a peak.  Anybody should talk except you!! Your country, your laws, your whole culture is epidomy of backwardness and human rights violations.  Please, who are you to tell Syria what to do and not to do!?  I hate Syrian regimes with passion and everything it stands for; I hate Assad and there is no question about it.  At the same time, the news that is coming out of Hama is absolutely deplorable.  However, I cannot stand on the side and watch King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia condemning Syrian regime’s action when Saudi Arabia is a lot worse than Syria.  &lt;br /&gt;I must say, the Middle East and its politics are incredibly humorous.  However, time after time, nation after nation, groups after groups, as “Arab Spring” is unfolding; it shows how hypocritical these regimes and ideologies has been with regards to Israel.  These regimes are absolutely murdering their citizens, they are killing them like there is no tomorrow, but for years the world was condemning Israel for defending herself against terrorist groups in the region.  The funny part is the reaction of terrorist groups and their supporting government.  Iranian government reaction has been the most entertaining to watch.  They called Syrians protesters “Kharabkar” which means “terrorist” in Farsi.  If that is not enough, they went ahead and called Bahrain’s protesters: “heroes”.  There is one difference here, Bahrain protesters were getting supports from Iranian agents in the country and they were Shias.  Very long and complicated story short, it is a joke and nobody and I mean nobody looks better than Israel in the region with regards to respect for its citizens and human rights value.  The reason is very simple; these governments were only simply using the Palestinian and their cause as a tool to justify their positions and their backwardness at the world stage.  Now, I wonder, on September, how will the U.N. welcome and justify creating another country who will be far worse than any of the nations that we are seeing?  I mean, look through their history and how Hamas and Fattah murdered each other.  &lt;br /&gt;At the end, it is still too early to say what would “come out” of the “Arab Spring”.  So far, it is been a joke and with no real progress on any ends.  Egypt is a mess that is turning into an Islamic mess.  Tunisia is also dealing with Islamic movements and the liberals are finding it difficult to fight them off.  Libya is the most glorious one and it seems there is no end in sight for the time being.  Syria is not moving ahead either and the only thing we are witnessing is sectarian warfare and I think it will end with Assad being stronger than ever.  I would be surprised if Syrian Protesters could become victorious in terms of removing Assad from power.  &lt;br /&gt;Let me know what you think and whether you could see any hope for the region.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-345929982026903739?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/345929982026903739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=345929982026903739&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/345929982026903739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/345929982026903739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/08/joke-of-day-saudi-arabia-teaching-syria.html' title='The Joke of the Day: Saudi Arabia Teaching Syria about Human Rights'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j3GjXfcfXbE/Tj8ufONXj_I/AAAAAAAAAj8/LAKeKrOVvCI/s72-c/assad-saudi-king-abdullah2-300x225.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-1565895726755117883</id><published>2011-08-02T21:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-02T21:32:47.240-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Semitism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Semite'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Left'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Law'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Diaspora Jews'/><title type='text'>"Captain Israel" Has Come to Rescue!</title><content type='html'>Remember the stupidity of &lt;a href="http://www.israellycool.com/2011/06/04/foreskin-man/"&gt;“Foreskin Man”&lt;/a&gt; from the numb-nuts sex crazy weirdoes of San Fransicko who love to force their so-called ideologies on others based on the fact that they think they know better than everyone else?  Well, if you don’t, to give you a quick review, the numb nuts in San Fransicko tried to pull a horrific 1st Amendment Infringement by outlawing circumcision based on the fact that they felt that their miserable already sex crazed life was  missing some more sexual pleasures.  Well, it’s not their fault, these guys up there are mostly on Anti-depressants or some sort of drugs and they are truly miserable.  There is a void in their lives that somehow they cannot fill it and they try to blame on many different factors.  Well, this time, they screwed up big time because they tried to outlaw circumcision through passing some sort of law in the city of San Fransicko.  If it was not bad enough for such horrific move, they screwed up even further when they came up with a Cartoons called &lt;a href="http://www.israellycool.com/2011/06/04/foreskin-man/"&gt;“Foreskin Man”&lt;/a&gt; that was incredibly Anti-Semitic by any standards.  I mean anybody who saw it would just simply say, “This is F***ed up.”  Well, here is the “Captain Israel” that has come to take care of "Foreskin Man".  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jtEt4kvtR5E/TjjMBRm4_NI/AAAAAAAAAj0/hlTQh6zL6j0/s1600/foreskinman-capt-israel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jtEt4kvtR5E/TjjMBRm4_NI/AAAAAAAAAj0/hlTQh6zL6j0/s400/foreskinman-capt-israel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636479255932632274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it would have been better if "Captain Israel" would have circumcize "Foreskin Man."  I completely agree with this Comic.  This comic proves a very essential fact which is, if it was not for Israel, the Jews around the globe would not have enjoyed the respect and the prestige that they enjoy in today’s societies.  The “Foreskin Man” Comic is a living proof that Jews could never ever trust or rely on any ideology regardless of its origins or source.  From Extreme Right to Extreme Left or just simple Left, a Jew will never ever find a home.  That home is in Israel and it is Israel that will defend the Jews.  No one else!  This goes to crazy Leftist numb nuts of Israel or Jews in America who have found refuge in this country and call this place home and say that Israel is not their Jewish Homeland, here is my message to you: you want to know what the Jews of Germany called Berlin?  They called it their Zion (Jerusalem).  That same “Zion” cooked them like animals not more two decades later.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to leave your comment and let me know what you think about this.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Israelicool Blogger.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-1565895726755117883?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/1565895726755117883/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=1565895726755117883&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1565895726755117883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1565895726755117883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/08/captain-israel-has-come-to-rescue.html' title='&quot;Captain Israel&quot; Has Come to Rescue!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jtEt4kvtR5E/TjjMBRm4_NI/AAAAAAAAAj0/hlTQh6zL6j0/s72-c/foreskinman-capt-israel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-2632225396843502497</id><published>2011-07-31T15:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-31T15:31:24.940-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Citizens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Women Right'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Women'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Women Issues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranians'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><title type='text'>An Amazing Display of Iranian Heart</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jmpw9GwOBRE/TjXXtrDMCSI/AAAAAAAAAjs/uJY68nNsVrg/s1600/forgiveness.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 183px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jmpw9GwOBRE/TjXXtrDMCSI/AAAAAAAAAjs/uJY68nNsVrg/s200/forgiveness.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635647688374225186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honestly, what a beautiful move!!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;An Iranian woman blinded and disfigured by a man who threw acid into her face stood above her attacker Sunday in a hospital operating room as a doctor was about to put several drops of acid in one of his eyes in court-ordered retribution. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43961877/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/"&gt;Click Here for the full story.  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have nothing but admiration for this young lady and her dignity.  She was in position of power and she had the life of the person who ruined her life in her hand, yet she chose to take the high road and pardon this stupid young man.  I am calling him stupid not in a sense to justify his action, rather I believe he should spend the rest of his life in jail.  This whole acid-throwing thing that has developed is a very barbaric act.  Unfortunately, it is increasing in Iran as a way of forcing girls into marriage.  This practice is not an act that has developed in Iran.  This has been imported to Iran from foreign nations.  There is actually a huge NY Supreme Court Case about such a practice.  Ultimately the victim actually ended up marrying the guy.  However, at the end, I have nothing but respect and admiration for this young lady from Iran.  She is showing a truly heart of an Iranian where unfortunately lately this sort of hearts have diminished due to Iranian government’s evil acts, lies, and interference in the region.  It is good to see that Iran still have people like her and they are the symbols of Iranian rich culture.  Her courageous act got a well-deserved global media’s attention and it justifiably gave her world popularity.  I would like to personally salute her strength and wisdom.  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-2632225396843502497?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/2632225396843502497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=2632225396843502497&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2632225396843502497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2632225396843502497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/07/amazing-display-of-iranian-heart.html' title='An Amazing Display of Iranian Heart'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jmpw9GwOBRE/TjXXtrDMCSI/AAAAAAAAAjs/uJY68nNsVrg/s72-c/forgiveness.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-5772869285496790795</id><published>2011-07-29T16:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-29T16:47:34.655-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Egyptian Protest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barack Hussein Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Muslim Brotherhood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barrack Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Egypt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arabs'/><title type='text'>Protest in Egypt for “Islamic” Government</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AlCI3IXqdPA/TjNGidicMpI/AAAAAAAAAjc/Hfe-87M2ptk/s1600/muslim-brotherhood.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 274px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AlCI3IXqdPA/TjNGidicMpI/AAAAAAAAAjc/Hfe-87M2ptk/s320/muslim-brotherhood.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634925116629201554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Today, there was a “unity” rally in Egypt.  Of course, this rally was more like Islamisation and invitation to convert Egyptian Government into an Islamic government.  Seriously: IS ANYBODY SURPRISED?  Oh yeah, Obama, good job on forcing Mubarak to leave.  Except one issue, you forgot to ask the same thing and apply the same pressure to other Arab countries such as Yemen and Syria.  Arab Spring is ready to turn into a hot Islamic Summer.  Of course, there is nothing wrong with an Islamic style government except take a good look at Iran, Saudi Arab, or Gaza Strip and the level of democracy that is being implemented by these Islamic Rules.  The question is whether the military will turn back the clock into Mubarak times and start clamping down or allow democracy to take roots and allow these groups to come to power.  Either way, the story is not going too well.  Oh yeah, ElBaradei, enjoy your achievements because it smells like 1979 in Iran where the Mullahs highjacked the Revolution and turned it into an Islamic Revolution and you said it would not happen.  Well, the quote "I told you so" comes to mind.  &lt;a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/tension-rises-as-islamists-dominate-tahrir-square/"&gt;Here is an article from NY Times with regards to the “Unity Protest”.  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-5772869285496790795?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/5772869285496790795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=5772869285496790795&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5772869285496790795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5772869285496790795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/07/protest-in-egypt-for-islamic-government.html' title='Protest in Egypt for “Islamic” Government'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AlCI3IXqdPA/TjNGidicMpI/AAAAAAAAAjc/Hfe-87M2ptk/s72-c/muslim-brotherhood.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-6773828427079478014</id><published>2011-07-29T16:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-29T16:25:22.727-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barack Hussein Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barrack Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Domestic Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media Bias'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Americans'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Presidential Race 08'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democratic Party'/><title type='text'>Obama is a Loser</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lYFySrnk354/TjNBXuS-LKI/AAAAAAAAAjM/MSti452v1lw/s1600/noyoucant.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lYFySrnk354/TjNBXuS-LKI/AAAAAAAAAjM/MSti452v1lw/s200/noyoucant.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634919434591022242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2008 when Obama was elected, I was not too thrilled.  Obama has alienated a lot of this country’s allies.  I saw right through his rhetoric from day one and realized that this guy is all talk.  Oh well, two years into his presidency and our country is facing a crisis.  This article summons it in the best way possible.  Obama is a “loser” and that is why Americans do not like him.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The past few weeks I've asked Democrats who supported him how they feel about him. I got back nothing that showed personal investment. Here are the words of a hard-line progressive and wise veteran of the political wars: "I never loved Barack Obama. That said, among my crowd who did 'love' him, I can't think of anyone who still does." Why is Mr. Obama different from Messrs. Clinton and Bush? "Clinton radiated personality. As angry as folks got with him about Nafta or Monica, there was always a sense of genuine, generous caring." With Bush, "if folks were upset with him, he still had this goofy kind of personality that folks could relate to. You might think he was totally misguided but he seemed genuinely so. . . . Maybe the most important word that described Clinton and Bush but not Obama is 'genuine.'" He "doesn't exude any feeling that what he says and does is genuine."&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html"&gt;Here is the link to the rest of the article.&lt;/a&gt;   I believe this article explains Obama’s popularity in an honest fashion where Mainstream Media has failed to do due to their love affection with Obama.  Remember, this is what happens when Media elects a president instead of the people.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-6773828427079478014?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/6773828427079478014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=6773828427079478014&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6773828427079478014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6773828427079478014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/07/obama-is-loser.html' title='Obama is a Loser'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lYFySrnk354/TjNBXuS-LKI/AAAAAAAAAjM/MSti452v1lw/s72-c/noyoucant.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-309315270358822288</id><published>2011-07-26T18:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-26T19:16:35.529-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.N.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hezbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Syria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lebanon War'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Assad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hizbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nasrallah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lebanon'/><title type='text'>Tough Times for Hezbollah -Part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4AmL1w7ra1M/Ti9z3CGwvwI/AAAAAAAAAjE/h5MzFdv-cp0/s1600/06-053%252520disproportionate%252520response.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 233px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4AmL1w7ra1M/Ti9z3CGwvwI/AAAAAAAAAjE/h5MzFdv-cp0/s320/06-053%252520disproportionate%252520response.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633849048159010562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is Lebanon War Anniversary.  And Nasrallah of course has to give a speech about it.  However, Hezbollah is not doing too well as we have previously discussed in length on this blog.  Syria is in deep trouble, Hezbollah agents might get indicted for murdering Lebanon’s Leader Rafig Harriri, and Iran’s isolation and internal problem is not getting any better.  That is exactly why we see speeches like this &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=231131"&gt;(Click Here for the link)&lt;/a&gt;. Nasrallah said, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I confidently say to all the countries, governments and companies that will submit tenders in order to start oil excavation that Lebanon is capable of protecting these companies and oil and gas installations.  I tell the friends and the foes that Lebanon will rely on all the elements of strength in order to regain its natural resources, and the most important element is the army-people-Resistance formula,” the Hezbollah leader added.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love their mentality.  For these guys, every where is considered to be disputed areas.  They have claim to water, air, land, and anything and everything.  The U.N. has approved of Israeli Plan but Nasrallah is saying these are disputed areas.  Of course he would say such thing.  So, basically what this terrorist is saying, he’ll solve the Lebanon problems through force.  Of course, he would say such thing.  He is going through Terrorist Group handbook line by line.  Groups like Hezbollah are not political forces; rather their whole existence is only dependent on violence or threat of violence.  They rule through terrorism.  They are trying to solve these international problems not through negotiation or proper channels, but rather through guns.  However, the important issue to point out is that he is not here to solve the problem or protect Lebanese sovereignty.  He is simply trying to legitimize Hezbollah existence in Lebanon.  Hezbollah is in serious trouble in coming days.  They are desperately trying to keep the current Syrian regime in power.  Therefore, they need to act like barbarians from 7th century who solved their entire problem with their swords in order to justify their existence. &lt;br /&gt;Hezbollah needs support and they are desperately trying to get it by any means necessary. They look incredibly stupid by supporting Egyptian overthrow of Mubarak, yet they are supporting the murderous Regime of Assad in Syria whose crimes are far worse than Mubarak.  This sort of behavior will lead to nothing but destruction of Lebanon.  In his speech, he comments about how they created confusion in IDF during Second Lebanon War.  Granted! However, what happened to Lebanon?  Do you honestly thing that the next war that you’d be fighting for Gas will simply stop Israel?  The objective between the two wars will be very different.  The only end result will be destruction of Lebanese lives and infrastructure.  Of course, like always, he would dig into Iranian stolen money.  However, the question is whether Lebanese would fall for that or not.  Who knows, it might work.  For the time being, these speeches are nothing but act of desperation for legitimization.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-309315270358822288?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/309315270358822288/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=309315270358822288&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/309315270358822288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/309315270358822288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/07/tough-times-for-hezbollah-part-2.html' title='Tough Times for Hezbollah -Part 2'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4AmL1w7ra1M/Ti9z3CGwvwI/AAAAAAAAAjE/h5MzFdv-cp0/s72-c/06-053%252520disproportionate%252520response.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-4522294947397809159</id><published>2011-07-19T20:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-19T20:50:32.223-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Erdogan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Commando Units'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sayeret'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Flotilla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Navy Commandos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sayeret Matkhal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trukey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Defense Forces'/><title type='text'>Amazing Victory for Israel on the Sea</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r3FmMJI_LEo/TiZQByl-WAI/AAAAAAAAAi8/JIBTi2GGJvQ/s1600/flotilla.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r3FmMJI_LEo/TiZQByl-WAI/AAAAAAAAAi8/JIBTi2GGJvQ/s320/flotilla.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631276375764523010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congratulation to Israel, Israeli intelligence, and Israeli defense forces!! From all political spectrums in Israel, people are congratulating these guys.  They handled it very professionally.  Keep in mind, last year 10 terrorist ended up dying, couple of Israeli elite commandos ended up injured (I was fortunate enough to meet them) and it was followed by massive amount of condemnations from around the globe.   Erdogan and his Islamist gang took advantage of the situation to destroy friendly ties the two nations of Israel and Turkey.  This year, the organizers thought they could pull of the same thing, except this time it would be much bigger.  They were trying to delegitimize Israel’s existence and its sovereignty.  From intelligence front, to diplomatic front, to military front, everybody started working around the clock to tackle this issue.  The results: from hundreds of people (including very popular Leftist Wack-jobs) and around 20 ships that were prepared to sail to Israel, only ONE STUPID FRENCH YAT was able come near Gaza and it was taken care of in a very peaceful fashion.  This is amazing.  &lt;br /&gt;One thing that the dumb Lefties had forgotten: in this case, Israel is defending its homeland.  Those Lefties are not defending their homelands; they are simply taking a summer vacation and trying to make their miserable lives important.  For Israel, it is the question of existence and it will fight it with everything at its disposal.  It wasn’t the issue Gaza or helping Gazans for either side.  It was the issue of defying Israel and its sovereignty and its right to defend itself against terrorist and Israel established in a perfect fashion.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/idf-learnt-from-last-year-s-mistakes-when-dealing-with-latest-gaza-flotilla-1.374070"&gt;Here is an editorial from Haaretz who always love to bash Israel, but had only pleasant things to say to describe Israel’s handling of the situation&lt;/a&gt;.  It is a very interesting article that explains the situation and how the whole process started falling apart for the Pro-terrorist movement.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-4522294947397809159?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/4522294947397809159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=4522294947397809159&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4522294947397809159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4522294947397809159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/07/amazing-victory-for-israel-on-sea.html' title='Amazing Victory for Israel on the Sea'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r3FmMJI_LEo/TiZQByl-WAI/AAAAAAAAAi8/JIBTi2GGJvQ/s72-c/flotilla.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-4043345009885076749</id><published>2011-07-14T21:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-14T21:31:31.381-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lesbian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Judaism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gay Rights'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Legal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gay-Marriage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jewish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Orthodox Jews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Homosexuality'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jewish Community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jewish Law'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Law'/><title type='text'>“Gay Orthodox Shabaton was like ‘heaven’”: WHAAAT!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nCBz3jW-ZOo/Th_Bg9j0eEI/AAAAAAAAAi0/N7dvZA2Ci_Q/s1600/gay_jewish.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 318px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nCBz3jW-ZOo/Th_Bg9j0eEI/AAAAAAAAAi0/N7dvZA2Ci_Q/s400/gay_jewish.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629430831261186114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I read this story, I could not stop laughing.  I am a strong advocate of Gay/Lesbian Rights.  The reason is very simple: nobody should be treated any different based on their sexual preferences.  I am advocating for legal rights and equal rights in work places.  People have the freedom to choose to do whatever they want.  There should not be a discriminatory system that interferes with your sexuality.  However, I am also very critical of Gay/Lesbian groups based on the fact that I believe they have abandoned the important fight which is equal rights in the society and they have decided to force feed the society and picking the “in your face” fight.  For example, one is gay marriage.  They are not fighting for equal rights for the gays.  Instead, they have decided to change the definition of marriage.  They could have easily fought for the same exact rights under the civil union.  &lt;br /&gt;However, this story blew me away.  As I said, I could not stop laughing.  I have very mixed feeling about this.  I do not know whether to support it or not, but I know that it is very interesting.  The only question that I have is this: how could these people who consider themselves “Orthodox Jews”, who are supposed to follow the strict rules of the Bible, justify the fact that the Bible clearly states its stance against Homosexuality and although affirm its existence in the society, it states that “G-d Deplores it.”  I mean I would understand the acceptance of Reform Judaism for Homosexuality.  However, under strict “Orthodox” rules, how could they justify it?  I am just wondering.  Here is the story: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gay Orthodox Shabbaton Was Like ‘Heaven’ &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Usually, when Adam goes to shul, he feels like part of him is just not there. In the black-hat synagogue he attends with his children, he feels that he’s always guarding the secret that he’s gay.  Although he grew up in the haredi community and attended its institutions, he no longer feels comfortable in that world, even as his children are very much integrated into the community. While he has come out to his ex-wife, his children still don’t know.  Last month, he walked into Kabbalat Shabbat services at the Isabella Friedman Retreat Center and felt exhilarated, as the first-ever Orthodox gay lesbian transgender community Shabbaton was beginning. Gone were his fears of not being accepted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam, who is in his 30s, said the minyan, with its mechitza, was in the Orthodox tradition, a “service that my own black-hat father would feel right at home in. There were literally people with black hats. There’s something so powerful about not having to withhold part of me. I hadn’t connected to a Friday-night tefilla, prayer, like that in many years.”  That high continued through the weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Others among the 140 attendees echoed Michael’s words. Participants included 40 women and 100 men of all ages, among them couples with children, people like Michael who grew up Orthodox and were struggling to somehow fit in, ba’alei teshuvah, converts, and those who left the Orthodox world and were now on its margins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some were very much in the closet, others were out, and some came out after the weekend. One male couple has a civil marriage and is now planning a religious ceremony, and invited fellow participants to join them. One haredi young man came from England, with the encouragement of a Reform rabbi in whom he confided.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Shabbaton was organized by Eshel, a collaborative program established by individuals and organizations involved in the Orthodox gay Jewish world, including JQY (Jewish Queer Youth), GLYDSA (Gay and Lesbian Yeshiva Day School Alumni), Tirtzah, Orthodykes and Neharim. Rabbi Steven Greenberg, director of Orthodox programming for Neharim and a member of the seven-person steering commission of Eshel, describes the Shabbaton as an “unmitigated success of the Orthodox gay community.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eshel was formed last summer, just around the same time, coincidentally, as a group of Orthodox rabbis issued the “Statement of Principles on the Place of Jews with a Homosexual Orientation in Our Community,” which affirmed that all human beings are to be treated with respect and urged that those Jews with gay orientation be welcomed as full members of the community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Shabbaton, meant to be a safe space for attendees to express themselves, was decidedly closed to the press. But shortly after the Jan. 21-23 event, organizers felt that “this was too important a moment not to share,” and invited a reporter to speak with participants. Like Adam, many of the people quoted here are referred to by pseudonyms to protect their privacy. The details of their lives are true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam, whose marriage broke up years ago, is very protective of his children, and understands that the ramifications for them in the haredi community would be huge, if he were to come out. He’s now in a relationship with another man, who’s from a Conservative background and is accommodating to his religious needs. But he remains Orthodox, feeling “foremost a father. This is their world.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As much of a high as the Shabbaton was, Adam says it’s just not the reality of his life. But the experience has motivated him to move more quickly toward finding a more integrated life. He’s begun the process of trying to figure out how to tell those closest to him, to change this “bizarre half-life that has eclipsed me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I feel strongly based on my personal experiences that the continuing push for non-openness — people say, ‘This is your issue, we’ll accept your struggle, but don’t talk about it’ — is so damaging,” he says. That’s what led me to make a very bad choice. At the end of the day I stood under the chupah.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarah, who is in her late 20s and lives outside of Philadelphia, feels very isolated in her Orthodox community but believes there is room for “compassionate acceptance.” Being at the Shabbaton made her realize for the first time that a relationship with a Jewish woman who shared her religious commitment was actually possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Hayley, 33, who is transgender, the entire weekend was “heaven, like walking through a dream. You didn’t feel like you were being analyzed or judged, no need to look around worrying about what other people were thinking.” She attended along with her wife Lena and 7-year-old son.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hayley grew up as an Orthodox man in the Sephardic world, where he was taunted, not supported by the rabbis, and never felt like he fit in; he later served in the U.S. Navy and married. After five years of marriage, he told Lena about the cross-gender feelings that were making him feel miserable in his life. Lena supported his efforts to change sexes, and they have remained a couple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their son used to go to a yeshiva, but after Haley’s transition, they sent him to a public school out of concerns for his comfort and hope someday to switch him back. The couple prefers Sephardic-type services but rarely go to synagogue in their Brooklyn neighborhood, as Haley knows that some people in the community know about her, including some relatives, and “people in this community can be violent.” She adds, “I feel that rabbis and other should reserve their judgment until they’ve been in my shoes.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hayley, who punctuates her conversation with “Baruch Hashem,” thanking God, says that they would like to find a close-knit community where she and Lena could feel at home. She laughs and says that they have many more friends now that she’s a woman, and most are Orthodox.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some participants cried on the telephone as they recalled experiences with rabbis who told them they were unwelcome to study in their yeshivas or that “suicide wasn’t such a bad outcome if therapy didn’t work,” or relatives who sent condolences as though they had cancer. Several spoke of being sent by family members and rabbis to reparative therapy — with the intention that they would be “fixed” or changed — and how painful and damaging that was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Yoshi, who grew up with emotional and physical abuse, the very rabbis who brought him deeper into a committed Orthodox lifestyle were the ones who rejected him once they learned of his sexuality, tore his belief away from him and fractured his relationship with God. He attended with his partner, and both are thinking of becoming rabbis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several participants said that they made their own peace with halacha, or were at least at peace with themselves, citing that very few people can strictly follow all of the laws, and that they try to live with integrity, according to Torah values. Some spoke of possibilities of different interpretations. One man admitted he had no good answers, and has both respect for the halacha and a strong feeling that “this is the way that God made me.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moshe, 45, who lives in the South and feels triply ostracized as Jewish, Orthodox and gay, says, “Orthodoxy needs to evolve, to embrace gays and lesbians in their midst. They are in their midst. Nobody here is trying to change halacha; we’re not trying to negate the Torah. We’re trying to ask, Will people please make room for us?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A member of the group that built the gay and lesbian synagogue in Greenwich Village, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, Barry, 64, found that Orthodox liturgy speaks to him most and now belongs to an Orthodox shul on the Upper West Side. He has come out with his rabbi, and feels that many in the synagogue know about his status, even if they don’t talk about it, and have long been welcoming toward him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe, a graduate student in psychology in his mid-20s from the New York area who identifies as Modern Orthodox down to the core, says that he gained a historical perspective on the issues by attending the Shabbaton. He now has great admiration for those who are generations older who had remarkable courage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I have the Internet — I would still be in the closet without it,” he adds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yehuda Greenberg, project director for Eshel, said that the Shabbaton exceeded expectations. While they had initially thought of it as an annual event, they will probably hold them more frequently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“There has been a watershed change in the last 10 years in how this challenge is being addressed in the Orthodox community,” says Naomi S. Mark, a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in New York City who sees a lot of Orthodox LGBT clients as well as their families.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The Shabbaton was a milestone in showing how the Orthodox gay community is getting organized, supporting each other’s efforts to stay connected to their religious roots even as they explore their identity in new ways.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mark sees the conventional Orthodox community as much more open than a decade ago, and encourages gay people to keep telling their stories to promote understanding. “It makes one hopeful for what can happen in another 10 years. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://privateinvesigations.blogspot.com/2011/02/gay-orthodox-shabbaton-was-like-heaven.html"&gt;Click Here for the link to the story.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-4043345009885076749?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/4043345009885076749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=4043345009885076749&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4043345009885076749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4043345009885076749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/07/gay-orthodox-shabaton-was-like-heaven.html' title='“Gay Orthodox Shabaton was like ‘heaven’”: WHAAAT!!!!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nCBz3jW-ZOo/Th_Bg9j0eEI/AAAAAAAAAi0/N7dvZA2Ci_Q/s72-c/gay_jewish.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-2024825353494784586</id><published>2011-07-05T18:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-05T18:22:09.686-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='War On Terrorisim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barack Hussein Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S. Military'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barrack Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media Bias'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bin Laden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Osama Bin Laden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Heroes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Media'/><title type='text'>Unknown Heroes Behind the Mission that Located Osama Bin Laden</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3vTAXVfrytI/ThO4Ezt9ADI/AAAAAAAAAis/IY1DfH4QE54/s1600/the-mission-against-osama-bin-laden-white-house-situation-room.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3vTAXVfrytI/ThO4Ezt9ADI/AAAAAAAAAis/IY1DfH4QE54/s320/the-mission-against-osama-bin-laden-white-house-situation-room.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626042752257818674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an amazing story about a man who was behind the mission who captured the arch terrorist of our decade or possibly this century.  Heroes like these never receive public acknowledgment of their success nor will they ever be publicly thanked by the main-stream Media.  It has to do with these agents safety and security.  However, some of it has to do with the fact that our society has lost touch with who are the true heroes of our society.  They are more concerned about consumerist and pop-culture heroes or some dumb singers, actors, and/or activist doing something for publicity stunt and they hold them up as to be the icon of our society.  However, heroes like these don’t need public recognition of their good work.  I believe they get the true satisfaction when they can see the title “mission accomplish” and that would be more than enough for them.  From bottom of my heart, I salute heroes like “John” and I thank them for their hard work. Here is the story from MSNBC.com: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;WASHINGTON — After Navy SEALs killed Osama Bin Laden, the White House released a photo of President Barack Obama and his Cabinet inside the Situation Room, watching the daring raid unfold. &lt;br /&gt;Hidden from view, standing just outside the frame of that now-famous photograph was a career CIA analyst.   In the hunt for the world's most-wanted terrorist, there may have been no one more important. His job for nearly a decade was finding the al-Qaida leader.  The analyst was the first to put in writing last summer that the CIA might have a legitimate lead on finding Bin Laden.  He oversaw the collection of clues that led the agency to a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. His was among the most confident voices telling Obama that Bin Laden was probably behind those walls.&lt;br /&gt;The CIA will not permit him to speak with reporters. But interviews with former and current U.S. intelligence officials reveal a story of quiet persistence and continuity that led to the greatest counterterrorism success in the history of the CIA. &lt;br /&gt;Nearly all the officials insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters or because they did not want their names linked to the Bin Laden operation. &lt;br /&gt;The Associated Press has agreed to the CIA's request not to publish his full name and withhold certain biographical details so that he would not become a target for retribution.&lt;br /&gt;Call him John, his middle name.  John was among the hundreds of people who poured into the CIA's Counterterrorism Center after the Sept. 11 attacks, bringing fresh eyes and energy to the fight.&lt;br /&gt;Disparate strands &lt;br /&gt;He had been a standout in the agency's Russian and Balkan departments. When Vladimir Putin was coming to power in Russia, for instance, John pulled together details overlooked by others and wrote what some colleagues considered the definitive profile of Putin.   He challenged some of the agency's conventional wisdom about Putin's KGB background and painted a much fuller portrait of the man who would come to dominate Russian politics.&lt;br /&gt;That ability to spot the importance of seemingly insignificant details, to weave disparate strands of information into a meaningful story, gave him a particular knack for hunting terrorists.  "He could always give you the broader implications of all these details we were amassing," said John McLaughlin, who as CIA deputy director was briefed regularly by John in the mornings after the 2001 attacks.&lt;br /&gt;From 2003, when he joined the Counterterrorism Center, through 2005, John was one of the driving forces behind the most successful string of counterterrorism captures in the fight against terrorism: Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Nashiri, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Ramzi Bin Alshib, Hambali and Faraj al-Libi.  But there was no greater prize than finding Bin Laden.  Bin Laden had slipped away from U.S. forces in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in 2001, and the CIA believed he had taken shelter in the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan. &lt;br /&gt;In 2006, the agency mounted Operation Cannonball, an effort to establish bases in the tribal regions and find Bin Laden. Even with all its money and resources, the CIA could not locate its prime target.&lt;br /&gt;By then, the agency was on its third director since Sept. 11, 2001. John had outlasted many of his direct supervisors who retired or went on to other jobs. The CIA doesn't like to keep its people in one spot for too long. They become jaded. They start missing things.   John didn't want to leave. He'd always been persistent. In college, he walked on to a Division I basketball team and hustled his way into a rotation full of scholarship players.&lt;br /&gt;The CIA offered to promote him and move him somewhere else. John wanted to keep the Bin Laden file.  Champagne was uncorked at the CIA's headquarters after it was confirmed that Navy SEALs had killed Osama Bin Laden. &lt;br /&gt;He examined and re-examined every aspect of Bin Laden's life. How did he live while hiding in Sudan? With whom did he surround himself while living in Kandahar, Afghanistan? What would a Bin Laden hideout look like today?&lt;br /&gt;'We'll get there' &lt;br /&gt;The CIA had a list of potential leads, associates and family members who might have access to Bin Laden.  "Just keep working that list bit by bit," one senior intelligence official recalls John telling his team. "He's there somewhere. We'll get there."  John rose through the ranks of the counterterrorism center, but because of his nearly unrivaled experience, he always had influence beyond his title. One former boss confessed that he didn't know exactly what John's position was.  "I knew he was the guy in the room I always listened to," the official said.  While he was shepherding the hunt for Bin Laden, John also was pushing to expand the Predator program, the agency's use of unmanned airplanes to launch missiles at terrorists. &lt;br /&gt;The CIA largely confined those strikes to targets along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. But in late 2007 and early 2008, John said the CIA needed to carry out those attacks deeper inside Pakistan.  It was a risky move. Pakistan was an important but shaky ally. John's analysts saw an increase in the number of Westerners training in Pakistani terrorist camps. John worried that those men would soon start showing up on U.S. soil.  "We've got to act," John said, a former senior intelligence official recalls. "There's no explaining inaction."  John took the analysis to then CIA Director Michael Hayden, who agreed and took the recommendation to President George W. Bush. &lt;br /&gt;In the last months of the Bush administration, the CIA began striking deeper inside Pakistan. Obama immediately adopted the same strategy and stepped up the pace.   Recent attacks have killed al-Qaida's No. 3 official, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, and Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.  All the while, John's team was working the list of Bin Laden leads. In 2007, a female colleague whom the AP has also agreed not to identify decided to zero in on a man known as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, a nom de guerre. &lt;br /&gt;Other terrorists had identified al-Kuwaiti as an important courier for al-Qaida's upper echelon, and she believed that finding him might help lead to Bin Laden.  "They had their teeth clenched on this and they weren't going to let go," McLaughlin said of John and his team. "This was an obsession."  It took three years, but in August 2010, al-Kuwaiti turned up on a National Security Agency wiretap. The female analyst, who had studied journalism at a Big Ten university, tapped out a memo for John, "Closing in on Bin Laden Courier," saying her team believed al-Kuwaiti was somewhere on the outskirts of Islamabad.&lt;br /&gt;Bigger picture &lt;br /&gt;As the CIA homed in on al-Kuwaiti, John's team continually updated the memo with fresh information.  Everyone knew that anything with Bin Laden's name on it would shoot right to the director's desk and invite scrutiny, so the early drafts played down hopes that the courier would lead to Bin Laden. But John saw the bigger picture. The hunt for al-Kuwaiti was effectively the hunt for Bin Laden, and he was not afraid to say so. The revised memo was finished in September 2010. John, by then deputy chief of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Department, emailed it to those who needed to know. The title was "Anatomy of a Lead."&lt;br /&gt;As expected, the memo immediately became a hot topic inside CIA headquarters and Director Leon Panetta wanted to know more. John never overpromised, colleagues recall, but he was unafraid to say there was a good chance this might be the break the agency was looking for.&lt;br /&gt;The CIA tracked al-Kuwaiti to a walled compound in Abbottabad. If Bin Laden was hiding there, in a busy suburb not far from Pakistan's military academy, it challenged much of what the agency had assumed about his hideout.&lt;br /&gt;But John said it wasn't that far-fetched. Drawing on what he knew about Bin Laden's earlier hideouts, he said it made sense that Bin Laden had surrounded himself only with his couriers and family and did not use phones or the Internet. The CIA knew that top al-Qaida operatives had lived in urban areas before.  A cautious Panetta took the information to Obama, but there was much more work to be done.  The government tried everything to figure out who was in that compound.&lt;br /&gt;In a small house nearby, the CIA put people who would fit in and not draw any attention. They watched and waited but turned up nothing definitive. Satellites captured images of a tall man walking the grounds of the compound, but never got a look at his face.&lt;br /&gt;Again and again, John and his team asked themselves who else might be living in that compound. They came up with five or six alternatives; Bin Laden was always the best explanation.&lt;br /&gt;This went on for months. By about February, John told his bosses, including Panetta, that the CIA could keep trying, but the information was unlikely to get any better. He told Panetta this might be their best chance to find Bin Laden and it would not last forever. Panetta made that same point to the president.&lt;br /&gt;Panetta held regular meetings on the hunt, often concluding with an around-the-table poll: How sure are you that this is Bin Laden?  John was always bullish, rating his confidence as high as 80 percent.  Others weren't so sure, especially those who had been in the room for operations that went bad. Not two years earlier, the CIA thought it had an informant who could lead him to Bin Laden's deputy. That man blew himself up at a base in Khost, Afghanistan, killing seven CIA employees and injuring six others.&lt;br /&gt;That didn't come up in the meetings with Panetta, a senior intelligence official said. But everyone knew the risk the CIA was taking if it told the president that Bin Laden was in Abbottabad and was wrong.  "We all knew that if he wasn't there and this was a disaster, certainly there would be consequences," the official recalled.&lt;br /&gt;Reassuring confidence &lt;br /&gt;John was among several CIA officials who repeatedly briefed Obama and others at the White House. Current and former officials involved in the discussions said John had a coolness and a reassuring confidence.&lt;br /&gt;By April, the president had decided to send the Navy SEALs to assault the compound.  Though the plan was in motion, John went back to his team, a senior intelligence official said.  "Right up to the last hour," he told them, "if we get any piece of information that suggests it's not him, somebody has to raise their hand before we risk American lives."&lt;br /&gt;Nobody did. Inside the Situation Room, the analyst who was barely known outside the close-knit intelligence world took his place alongside the nation's top security officials, the household names and well-known faces of Washington.&lt;br /&gt;An agonizing 40 minutes after Navy SEALs stormed the compound, the report came back: Bin Laden was dead.  John and his team had guessed correctly, taking an intellectual risk based on incomplete information.   It was a gamble that ended a decade of disappointment. Later, Champagne was uncorked back at the CIA, where those in the Counterterrorism Center who had targeted Bin Laden for so long celebrated. John's team reveled in the moment. &lt;br /&gt;Two days after Bin Laden's death, John accompanied Panetta to Capitol Hill. The Senate Intelligence Committee wanted a full briefing on the successful mission. At one point in the private session, Panetta turned to the man whose counterterrorism resume spanned four CIA directors.&lt;br /&gt;He began to speak, about the operation and about the years of intelligence it was based on. And as he spoke about the mission that had become his career, the calm, collected analyst paused, and he choked up.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43637044/ns/us_news-security/"&gt;Click here for the link to the story on MSNBC.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-2024825353494784586?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/2024825353494784586/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=2024825353494784586&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2024825353494784586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2024825353494784586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/07/unknown-heroes-behind-mission-that.html' title='Unknown Heroes Behind the Mission that Located Osama Bin Laden'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3vTAXVfrytI/ThO4Ezt9ADI/AAAAAAAAAis/IY1DfH4QE54/s72-c/the-mission-against-osama-bin-laden-white-house-situation-room.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-6892248880836130245</id><published>2011-07-04T11:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-04T11:39:55.065-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist-apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='4th Of July'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Americans'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S.A.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Left'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American Forces'/><title type='text'>HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GdpNNvqKVgo/ThIH_kxtZnI/AAAAAAAAAik/3bqbOT15kWE/s1600/4th.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GdpNNvqKVgo/ThIH_kxtZnI/AAAAAAAAAik/3bqbOT15kWE/s320/4th.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625567673324496498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is 4th of July.  I have a lot of respect for this country and the opportunities it has provided me.  I can honestly say that this is the best country in the world.  As much as we like to whine and complaint about this country and politics involved here, it is still the best country in the world.  Many of the Leftist wack-jobs love to bash this country and try to change it into something they think is the best for the world that resembles a lot like the Soviet Union, China, and other communist or socialist countries, however these idiots do not know the value of this country and how lucky we are to live in this country.  Another funny part is, a lot of Leftist-Wack-Jobs who happen to be Middle Eastern, tends to bash this country in every opportunity they get and instead praise other countries such as Cuba and/or one of those Arab countries.  I know some of these terrorist-apologists, and yet they never ever want to move out this country and/or go live in one of those countries that they uphold to be better than this country.  They call this country imperialistic and the reason for Muslim Sufferings around the globe, yet they have been educating in its universities for free or via Federal Loans and taking advantage of its opportunities without even saying thanks once.  Well, these people are only simply torturing themselves with their political bickering and condemnations of this great country.  This country hasn’t been perfect and it won’t be perfect either, however it is the closest thing we have to perfection.  Happy 4th of July and Happy Birthday to the United States of America.  Thank you for everything&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-6892248880836130245?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/6892248880836130245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=6892248880836130245&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6892248880836130245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6892248880836130245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/07/happy-birthday-to-land-of-opportunity.html' title='HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GdpNNvqKVgo/ThIH_kxtZnI/AAAAAAAAAik/3bqbOT15kWE/s72-c/4th.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-4967872044351996751</id><published>2011-06-23T09:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-23T09:40:29.400-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Syria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barack Hussein Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oil Companies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barrack Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Presidential Race 08'/><title type='text'>Releasing of the Oil Reserves: a Stunt for Election ONLY!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_dAEsO-1Ls/TgNsH2aYctI/AAAAAAAAAic/0AyBTxClUN8/s1600/2008-0805-oil-chris.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 235px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_dAEsO-1Ls/TgNsH2aYctI/AAAAAAAAAic/0AyBTxClUN8/s320/2008-0805-oil-chris.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621455642009563858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, now we are definitely in election mode.  U.S. voluntarily decides to release some of its reserves to ease the deficiencies of Libya and the conflict there.    Yeah Right!!! &lt;a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/06/23/oil-prices-dive-as-iea-announces-oil-release/"&gt;Click Here for the full story&lt;/a&gt;.  This is a stunt by Obama administration since things are not looking good at all for him.  His disastrous economic policies have not worked.  Geee what a Surprise?!  His main focus became passing the “health care reform” that would cost the U.S Government billions of dollars and it would worsen our debt problem.  His Stimulus Plan was nothing but a waste and a payoff to his allies.  So now, the gas prices have gone up.  There is one thing about Gas prices that you should and to put it in the most simplified fashion, if gas prices go up, the economy will tank.  High gas prices would hit American pockets directly.  The cost of living, the cost of food, the cost of air-travel, and many other type of costs would dramatically increases.  If the costs increases in such a bad economy, it would simply destroy any sign of recovery.  These are the signs we are seeing here.  However, another issue is that America voters would look at gas prices as a way to evaluate a President.  The Mainstream Media used the gas prices to destroy Bush. &lt;br /&gt;When Gas prices went up under Bush, the mainstream media ripped a new one for Bush.  They accused Bush of being in bed with the Oil Companies and they are doing it together just to make them money.  Under Obama, time after time, we witnessed his open relationship with the Oil companies.  The biggest one was: BP.  BP was the biggest contributor to Obama’s campaign before he was elected as the President.  However, they received a huge pay off.  To make a very long story short, with Obama’s hidden green light, Ireland approved a Libyan terrorist who plotted and executed a terrorist plan that caused a bomb to go in an American flight killing all the passengers on that flight, to be released from Irish jails (he was supposed to die 3 months after his release which was 3 years ago-HE IS STILL ALIVE).  That happened with BP heavily lobbying the courts behind the doors.  Two weeks after the release of that murderer, Gadhafi personally awarded BP with the rights to do offshore drilling of the Coast of Libya.  Then if it wasn’t bad enough, as soon as things started getting bad in Libya, Obama without the consent of Congress or even addressing the issue with the American public, conducted air-assault to support the oppositions in Libya.  However, Obama quickly stopped the air raids and handed over the operation to NATO after the Libyan opposition took over the oil rich territories and refineries.  Guess who had the most stakes in those areas: BP AGAIN! (BTW: mainstream media just argued that Obama is involved in Libya ONLY for humanitarian issues and to prove to the Arab world that he is with the people).  Questions: why hasn’t he lifted a finger against Syrian regime who is one of the main supporters of terrorism in the region and openly murdering Syrian citizens?  Oh yeah, No BP and no Oil! &lt;br /&gt;So now he is about to go into reelection and the economy is tanked, mysteriously and without any warning or fair reasons, he releases U.S reserves which would not solve U.S economy problems in the long run.  This act is more like a bandage for a short term.  It will help the economy maybe for a year or two until the election.  This is amazing.  Instead of thinking long term to solve the problems, he is simply thinking about reelection only.  ENJOY THE CHANGE YOU BROUGHT AMERICA!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/06/23/oil-prices-dive-as-iea-announces-oil-release/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-4967872044351996751?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/4967872044351996751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=4967872044351996751&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4967872044351996751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4967872044351996751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/06/releasing-of-oil-reserves-stunt-for.html' title='Releasing of the Oil Reserves: a Stunt for Election ONLY!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_dAEsO-1Ls/TgNsH2aYctI/AAAAAAAAAic/0AyBTxClUN8/s72-c/2008-0805-oil-chris.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-2778220428952897140</id><published>2011-06-20T09:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-20T09:28:28.211-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Legal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Women Right'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Law School'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S. Supreme Court'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Law'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Feminisim'/><title type='text'>U.S. Supreme Court Court Hands over a Perfect Ruling</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q_lObcK1Szs/Tf91DbgQW9I/AAAAAAAAAiM/rex4v9oL_YU/s1600/20101126-walmart-pro-bono.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 199px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q_lObcK1Szs/Tf91DbgQW9I/AAAAAAAAAiM/rex4v9oL_YU/s400/20101126-walmart-pro-bono.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620339561764772818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is a very slow news day.  However, being a former law student and an attorney, I love to check the Legal News too.  I was shocked to see this piece on MSNB.com.  &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43464488/ns/business-consumer_news/"&gt;Click Here for the full story&lt;/a&gt;.  The Supreme Court finally blocked this massive stupidity and corporate crushing law suit to go on.  Lately, The Supreme Court (S.C) has been handing down very intelligent rulings with regards to businesses.  This law suit was nothing more than a stupid tactic for Class Action Lawyers uniting with bunch of feminists who seems to have no connection to reality, to make some money.  There are huge problems for females struggling in the job market to be treated and paid the same as the men; however this case was not addressing it.  The S.C. saw right through it and they attacked the core issue of the problem which was: the claims are too scattered and this case is simply too big.  Overall, good ruling on the part of S.C.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-2778220428952897140?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/2778220428952897140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=2778220428952897140&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2778220428952897140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2778220428952897140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/06/us-supreme-court-court-hands-over.html' title='U.S. Supreme Court Court Hands over a Perfect Ruling'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q_lObcK1Szs/Tf91DbgQW9I/AAAAAAAAAiM/rex4v9oL_YU/s72-c/20101126-walmart-pro-bono.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-1042389330997079464</id><published>2011-06-12T17:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-12T17:47:38.671-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Israel Campaign'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Egyptian Protest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.N.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hezbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Syria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Semitism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nasrallah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Egypt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arabs'/><title type='text'>Hypocrisy of Pro-Palestinian Thirst for Freedom</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-swscHx-sfO8/TfVdJkufCVI/AAAAAAAAAhg/0ZluW7B_DcM/s1600/Syria-Protests-Up-To-88-Killed-As-Security-Forces-Open-Fire-In-Bloodiest-Uprising.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-swscHx-sfO8/TfVdJkufCVI/AAAAAAAAAhg/0ZluW7B_DcM/s400/Syria-Protests-Up-To-88-Killed-As-Security-Forces-Open-Fire-In-Bloodiest-Uprising.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617498529273416018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I am following the Arab Springs, I am very reluctant to invest any hope in any of the movements.  I try to follow it and learn from it and use history to find glimpse of hope in the mist of such movements.  One thing that I have learned is that this movement is way too chaotic across the region to be able to categorize them in a single description.  For example, nobody could come out and say that these movements are Islamic, or they are secular, or they are pro-Palestinian, or pro-Western.  It is too chaotic for one to even predict what will happen in the near future or even plan for it.  However, the tales that are coming from these movements tends to have the similar theme to it. &lt;br /&gt;Arab Spring has provided the key players in the region with a chaotic environment that permit these players to play their hands.  From Iran to Al-Qaeda to Hezbollah to Palestinian Movements, they are desperately trying to somehow create an environment that serves their best interest.  At the same time, some of these players are desperately trying to rescue their allies in the region.  This is where hypocrisy of the pro-Palestinian movements and its supporter has shined that would stupefy an unbiased viewer.&lt;br /&gt;Syrian Army is committing horrendous crimes against humanity.  They are openly and vindictively massacring the anti-Government supporters.  &lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2077207,00.html"&gt;Click here for the article in Time Magazine that describes some of these atrocities&lt;/a&gt;.  What do we see from the Arab world and the supporter of the pro-Palestinian movements? NOTHING! Absolute silence! Not a word!  To add to the wound, the U.N. who will pass libraries of resolutions condemning Israel for “Excessive Force” if a terrorist suffers a scratch during an act of terrorism against Israel’s civilian population, has been fairly quiet. &lt;br /&gt;The hypocrisy takes a much better turn.  Iranian government who has been actively involved in many of the anti-government movements in the region and openly supports and/or funds these movements, has chosen to describe the Syrian Opposition as “kharabkar” which basically means terrorists.  Iran has been actively involved in Bahrain and Egypt.  In Bahrain, there are stacks of documents proving Iranian involvement in the movement and Islamisation of the movements.  Yet, when it comes to Syria, whose government is far worse than Bahrain with regards to oppression of its people, they have been absolutely silent.  &lt;br /&gt;Now let’s go a step forward, if being silent about the Syrian movement and characterizing them as “terrorist” is not enough, they are actively involved in suppression of these movements in Syria.  Of course, the Iranian government and its leaders are experts at suppressing movements and they are handing out expert advice as to how to murder these protesters and defusing their movements.  Iranian government has a spectacular track record when it comes to murdering and destroying democratic movements.  There are many evidences that show that many acts that Syrian governments are committing are coming directly from Tehran.  One example of it is not allowing funeral services taking place for the soldiers who were shot by the Syrian Army.  Another example is when the person heard the agent not speaking a word of Arabic.  &lt;br /&gt;A lot of the pro-Palestinian mouthpiece in this corner of the world will try to classify these evidences as mythical tales.  However, one aspect of this movement that gives support to these claims is Hezbollah’s behavior.  The Coward leader of Hezbollah, Nasrallah, who has been in hiding since 2006, openly supported the Egyptian movement against Mubarak.  At the same time, he openly supports Syrian’s government who is far more barbaric toward the protesters than any other regime with exception of Libyan government.  Nasrallah even went further to support and praise Assad as a ruler of Syria.  This sort of acts directly proves that Iran and its Bitch (a.k.a. Hezbollah) are actively supporting Assad’s massacring of the protesters.  Hezbollah and Iran are not just quiet supporters and if history has taught us anything, it would show that these two agents will directly get involved to support their interest.  &lt;br /&gt;So at the end, so much for Freedom and Human Rights!!! Pro-Palestinian groups are mute, the U.N is quiet, and Hezbollah and Iran are actively working to destroy the Syrian Anti-Government movements.  One might ask, Why?  What difference does Syria make for Palestinians?  The answer has to do with Hezbollah and its enemy Israel.  Syria is a direct supporter of Hezbollah and provides this terrorist group with supply lines of Arms that are purchased by Iranian money for this group.  The rout is pretty direct: Iran buys and produce these weapons, ship them to Syria, and from Syria they are delivered to South Lebanon and Hezbollah.  These so called Pro-Palestinian groups hate Israel so much and with so much passion that they will sacrifice anything and anybody to achieve their goal which is ultimately the destruction of this Jewish State.  Human Rights and Freedom is only an excuse or justification.  These groups are fueled by hatred.  This is the good old anti-Semitism that we see in action in today’s world.  &lt;br /&gt;These Pro-Palestinian groups were sitting quietly when Iranian protesters were being raped and murdered back in 2009.  These same groups are still sitting quietly as Syrian government is repeating the same crimes against its own citizens.  The level of barbarianism involved in this region in terms of suppressing these movements is beyond anything our civil society could even begin to imagine, yet stupid groups such as Coldplay is busy making stupid songs against Israel.  The Arab Spring proved one thing at the end and that is the level of Morality the Israeli Army and Israeli Government has shown in terms of dealing with not just regular protesters who are asking for democracy and/or freedom, rather group of people who are sworn to destroy and massacre its population.  The Western world is too blind with its inherited Anti-Semitism to realize appreciate this level of morality and self-control that Israel has utilized throughout history to deal with its enemies.  However, sooner or later, the Arab public will see the difference.  &lt;br /&gt;At the end, nobody knows what will happen in Syria.  Most likely thousands will be massacred and then the protesters will vanish.  This is the Middle East Dictators’ Playbook.  Then another war with Israel might pop out or we have this stupid U.N Recognition of Palestine that will be utilized by these ruthless regimes to distract their publics.  All I could say is this that my thoughts and prayers are with those Syrian Protesters.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-1042389330997079464?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/1042389330997079464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=1042389330997079464&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1042389330997079464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1042389330997079464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/06/hypocrisy-of-pro-palestinian-thirst-for.html' title='Hypocrisy of Pro-Palestinian Thirst for Freedom'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-swscHx-sfO8/TfVdJkufCVI/AAAAAAAAAhg/0ZluW7B_DcM/s72-c/Syria-Protests-Up-To-88-Killed-As-Security-Forces-Open-Fire-In-Bloodiest-Uprising.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-6864000254143342726</id><published>2011-06-05T19:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-05T19:44:08.126-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Political Cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Syria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian Cause'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Assad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraudulent Cause'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arabs'/><title type='text'>The Whores of the Middle East: Palestinians and their Fraudulent Cause</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DBQj5Dt5Qa0/Tew-dUP4oxI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/HQFRmwazPow/s1600/80156311-israeli-soldiers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DBQj5Dt5Qa0/Tew-dUP4oxI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/HQFRmwazPow/s400/80156311-israeli-soldiers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614931508796629778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One again, the whores of the Middle East are at it again.  By whores of the Middle East, I am referring to the Palestinians and their fraudulent cause.  I have analyzed why I classify this cause as a fraudulent cause in detail.  However, to sum it up, the reason this cause is fraudulent is because it utilizes nothing but lies and propaganda to deceive the world and utilize their inherited historic anti-Semitism to buy sympathy for their cause.  A true cause would never ever need to resort to lies, deceits, terror, tampering and photoshoping pictures, fake videos, fake victims, fakes bodies, and many other deceitful acts they have committed throughout the history.  &lt;br /&gt;Another perfect example of this fraudulent cause is the fact the troubled leader of Syria has taken up Palestinian cause to divert attention from his ruthless campaign against his domestic protestors.  This is nothing new.  These whores of Middle East are constantly being used by the dictators or Islamists from each corner of this region.  One day, Palestinians are Pro-Saddam, another day they are Pro-Kaddafi, another day they are Pro-Assad.  Just like the local whores who would just be with anybody who are willing to pay them anything, this fraudulent cause and its supporters switch side in a minute regardless of how contradictory their ideologies are in comparison to each other.  In many cases, these supporters would not even support a democratic movement in countries who are big supporters of Palestinian Cause.  They have even taken arms against the local activists and participated in oppression of democratic movements.  A perfect example of it is Iran and during the Anti-Government protests after the controversial election of Ahmadinejad.  Die-heart fan of Palestinian Cause were completely mute about what was taking place and not a single word of support had come from any of them.  It was a shocking sight since these supporters hold themselves to be supporter of Human Rights and people’s right to choose.  It even shocked a lot of Pro-Palestinian Iranians.  To be honest, it was an enjoyable view for me.  &lt;br /&gt;This fraudulent cause is nothing but a local whore because as soon as anybody wishes to buy some support for their illegitimate government, they start supporting Palestinian Cause.  Another perfect example of it is Turkey and its new Islamist movements.  New election is coming up and now we hear Turkey trying to use Anti-Israel slogans to rally support this Islamist party.  Of course, just like bunch of sheep, these citizens run to the polls and vote these guys into the office thanks to their anti-Semitic beliefs.  &lt;br /&gt;Over all, the Arab Springs has done an amazing job magnifying the true value of the Palestinian Cause.  A perfect example of such stupidity is Syria.  &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=223778"&gt;Click here for the full story&lt;/a&gt;.  Assad is going through The Middle East Handbooks line by line.  In the same day that his troops slaughtered 20 protesters, he encouraged and supported an international crime and breach of Israeli Border.  The Syrian borders have been the safest border for Israel for over 25 years.  Now that Assad is in trouble, he is trying to divert attention by utilizing the local whores.  &lt;br /&gt;I sometimes wonder and ask, “Do these Palestinian have ANY self-respect?”  I mean come on, throughout history, one dictator after another dictator, one extremists government after another extremists supported them and they quickly jumped in their arms and allowed them to use them as whores to oppress their own citizens, and the only results for them was just more death, terror, and embarrassment.  Isn’t it time for Palestinian to truly stop acting this way and cut off contact with these dictators and illegitimate governments?  &lt;br /&gt;I do not know if this could be a correct prediction, but I think sooner or later, things will change in the Middle East.  Sooner or later, the Arab and Muslim communities across the globe must wake up and ask the proper questions.  But meanwhile, Palestinians and the supporter of such fraudulent cause should know that they are not making friends this way by breaching Israel’s border.  They are only making enemies in Syria and if Assad falls, they would lose an ally for simply siding with Assad.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-6864000254143342726?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/6864000254143342726/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=6864000254143342726&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6864000254143342726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6864000254143342726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/06/whores-of-middle-east-palestinians-and.html' title='The Whores of the Middle East: Palestinians and their Fraudulent Cause'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DBQj5Dt5Qa0/Tew-dUP4oxI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/HQFRmwazPow/s72-c/80156311-israeli-soldiers.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7825154929096556036</id><published>2011-05-31T21:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-05T19:48:53.694-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Israel Campaign'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian Cause'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boycott'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UCU'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Universities'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Semitism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Professor James A. Gregor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Academia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nazis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Academics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Left'/><title type='text'>It Smells Like 1930s in Europe</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qk_edOcRrNI/TexABomIxZI/AAAAAAAAAhY/MPvEH5pCI70/s1600/sign-jan-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qk_edOcRrNI/TexABomIxZI/AAAAAAAAAhY/MPvEH5pCI70/s400/sign-jan-3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614933232245589394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I read this, the only thing that popped into my head was, “it smells like 1930s in Europe”.  &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=223094"&gt;Click here for the full story&lt;/a&gt;.  Well, to sum it up, UCU which is University and College Union and largest trade union for academics, has voted to disassociate itself from the EU working definition of anti-Semitism.  This is amazing.  In another word, they have the audacity to come up with a definition of their own to mask their biased view or justify their anti-Semitism.  This step has many different hidden meaning to it that needs to be pointed out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hypocrisy&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;This step is a significant step in the world of Academia or at least among these hateful numb-nuts.  By taking this step, this group of Academia is basically declaring to the world that if we do not like a definition of something, we will go ahead and change it to justify our view.  The world of Academia is bound by set of rules that they need to follow.  These rules have been established through experiences in history.  Anti-Semitism and its definition have been created through history lessons and experiences of the victims who suffered under these practices.  What this group of idiots who call themselves academics is saying is that we know better than history, we know better than world, and we will dictate to the world what this definition should be.  They are trying to ignore history and the victims’ plight in order to dictate to the world what they consider to be justified treatment of human beings.  This is a perfect example of complete utter ignorance that exists among the world Academia and their distance from reality.  This is the hypocrisy because they are dictating to other government what they should do or not do and ultimately refrain from dictatorship, yet they are the biggest dictators of the globe dictating what should be considered Anti-Semitism and what should not be considered that.  The results of their acts will simply provide others with the tools to persecute and justify killings of a group of people.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lame Justification&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;One might ask why they are redefining the term “Anti-Semitism”.  Their lame justification is that the current definition does not allow criticism of Israel.  It seems to me that these academics are blind, deaf, or too stupid to see the reality on the ground.  Nobody on either side has ever claimed that Israel should not be subject to criticism due to “Anti-Semitism”.  However, there is a huge difference between criticism of Israel and being Anti-Semitic.  If these stupid Academics would take a good unbiased look at the people who support them, they will realize most of these idiots who are die-heart supporter of Palestinian Cause tends to be Anti-Semitic in their rhetoric.  They are simply trying to justify and wash their hands of any responsibility.  Just take a good look at what is being published in the Arab world and their justifications of attacking Israel.  Just take a good look at Facebook Pages of Pro-Palestinians and read what is written in the comment sections of these pages regarding killing the Jews.  To make matter even better, just look at the rhetoric that is being used against Zionism and the rhetoric that were being used during Nazi era against Jews.  The only difference is that the word “Jews” have been replaced with “Zionists” and the meaning of the sentence is still the same.  &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R3phZCjWolU/TeXHJXAVrlI/AAAAAAAAAhE/sYplVwQzT38/s1600/anti-semitic_cartoon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R3phZCjWolU/TeXHJXAVrlI/AAAAAAAAAhE/sYplVwQzT38/s320/anti-semitic_cartoon.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613111474195377746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  In many cases, the sentences are completely identical.  Even looking at the cartoons coming from Anti-Israel side, they have a striking resemblance to the cartoons used for persecution of Jews during Nazi era all around Europe.  (One simple example is the cartoon I have included here).  Therefore, this argument that UCU is making with regards to criticism of Israel is never anti-Semitic is completely false and nothing but a wishful thinking.  &lt;br /&gt;One amazing aspect of such view comes from the fact that a lot of people that are pro-Palestinians turn out to be Muslims and leaded by Muslims.  Their problem with Israel is not the plight of Palestinians rather than it is the existence of Jewish State in what they consider to be an Arab land.  THAT IN ITSELF IS RACIST.  UCU does not want to pay attention to that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;History&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;This sort of behavior is not anything new.  This level of stupidity is nothing new if you look at history.  During 1930s, Nazis and the world of Academia run by Hitler and his scholars, constantly and actively tried to redefine terms in order to promote and justify their Anti-Semitic views.  This sort of act is nothing new.  At the same time, Academia loves to take credit for the development of human values and rights which is completely wrong.  With regards to the right of Jews and their human rights, it had nothing to do with the Academics.  It had to do with the heinous and egregious crimes committed against Jews during WWII and the natural reaction of the societies that came to its senses and said, “this is wrong”.  Now, the UCU wants to take it upon them to redefine history and a term that is developed throughout history.  However, their act is nothing but justification of promoting hatred against a group of people of certain belief and religion which in this case is Judaism.  This should never be allowed and it should be stopped.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stupidity of Academia and Social Science&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;This sort of acts is another signature of the stupidity of Academia and those being out of teach with the reality of what is going on around the globe.  As I mentioned previously on this post, Academia during Nazis did not take major steps to help the Jews or even mention their plight.  If anything, if you read the work of Academia during that era or previous to the conclusion of WWII, it is filled with Anti-Semitic rants.  The perfect example is Carl Marx and Thomas Pain.  Although they have two different views of politics and ideology and they both contained completely different messages and at some point contradictory to one another, their work is filled with Anti-Semitic rants about Jews and their behaviors none of which has any sort of truth to it.  Rather these rants were simply rooted in their Anti-Semitic beliefs.  This could prove that the world of Academia has always had some sense of Anti-Semitic views that it tolerated as science due to the personal belief of the Academics.  &lt;br /&gt;Another point that should be pointed out as a result of these acts by UCU is that it proves how stupid and worthless social sciences are in terms of shining lights to what they consider to be the “truth”.  Unlike other type of sciences, social sciences are not really considered science.  There are no set terms to define an event.  There is no set logic that could be fixed without having to change in future.  For example, in math, the whole world knows that two plus two (2 +2) is Four.  Nobody could come here and argue that it would be any different.  As Professor James A. Gregor wrote in one of his books, the world of Academia in Social science is filled with materials that are there to fit the author’s beliefs that in many cases turn out to be wrong and completely flawed.  Perfect example is Academia’s love for Marxism during the early and mid-stages of the 20th century.  The result of such love and infatuation is the biggest mass murder of people all around the globe that put Nazis to shame.  From Russia to Vietnam to Cambodia to African Countries, Marxism and its value, encouraged and supported by global Academia, ravaged country after country and killed and murdered people in millions.  The world of Academia washed its hands of the responsibility and their major support for such movement in their college campuses and books they wrote.  They always came up with excuses to justify Marxists crimes.   Not to go further into this subject, a lot of these Academics who are anti-Israel are the former Marxists or people who studied under those Marxists Academics. &lt;br /&gt;What the Academia tried to do was simply to change the reality on the ground and come up with a system to redefine society in a way they saw to be fair.  The results were mass murders in levels that human race has never witnessed at any time in its history under this sun.  The same exact notion is apparent in micro-level here.  The world of Academia and especially UCU is trying to redefine a term created by history and historic event in order to fit it into what they consider to be “truth” and dictate to others how they should live their life or treat others.  Just as Professor Gregor mentioned in his book, the social science are not bound by any set rules, and it is subject to different changes of the society or belief of the author of the theory.  One person could say something now, and the other person could come back with a completely different term.  In a different word, the truth never exists in social sciences; rather the truth is simply relative to the author’s belief.  &lt;br /&gt;In this case, the world of Academia is not happy with the definition of Anti-Semitism.  They are simply tired of justifying their positions to escape the reality of being Anti-Semitic.  Therefore, what they are doing is simply to do away with the definition of the term.  They simply do not have a case to present to world, and they are trying to change the rules of the game in order to establish themselves as relevant in the argument.  This is the prime example of stupidity of Anti-Semitism.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;In the end, the history will be the judge.  This sort of acts might present them with temporary relief from true justice and truth; however, it will not provide them with ultimate victory.  If they are resorting to pathetic acts of redefining terms, it is a perfect proof of the weakness of their argument.  They are trying to ignore the truth by turning a blind eye to the Anti-Semitic views of the majority of the supporter of the Palestinian Cause.  It is nothing new in history.  It is nothing new in Europe.  Europe is at its best and time after time, they have shown it throughout history.  They are simply too Anti-Semitic to play any role to negotiate or dictate to Israel how it should conduct negotiations with its neighbor who are sworn to destroy it.  This sort of acts is not helpful at all for peace, Palestinian cause, or Human Rights as they claim they are trying to do by resorting to this sort of acts.  It will only provide other dictators in the region, such as Iran, with the tools to kill their own people and conduct horrendous crimes against humanity and resort to simply redefine terms to justify their acts.  This sort of acts is the biggest crime against humanity and the Academia and their silence against UCU’s actions are the responsible party that history will hold accountable in its books.  This is why, It smells like 1930s.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7825154929096556036?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7825154929096556036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7825154929096556036&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7825154929096556036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7825154929096556036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/05/it-smells-like-1930s-in-europe.html' title='It Smells Like 1930s in Europe'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qk_edOcRrNI/TexABomIxZI/AAAAAAAAAhY/MPvEH5pCI70/s72-c/sign-jan-3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-987679687783655251</id><published>2011-05-27T18:07:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-27T18:11:53.686-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Navy Seals'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S. Military'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Netanyahu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Osama Bin Laden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Heroes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Remembering Memorial Day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><title type='text'>Cartoons that Say it All</title><content type='html'>Memorial Day Weekend is upon us.  Although I will probably be working through the weekend, I would like to take a moment to honor the brave men and women in uniform who have taken upon themselves to defend this country.  I saw this cartoon and I thought to myself that this is one of the best cartoons I have ever seen.  So I decided to put it up on my blog.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NSHKcc9B9Ds/TeBK4rIfkDI/AAAAAAAAAgk/1SQwlizFabI/s1600/Seals.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NSHKcc9B9Ds/TeBK4rIfkDI/AAAAAAAAAgk/1SQwlizFabI/s400/Seals.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611567473215115314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also saw these two cartoons that made me laugh.  I believe the artists in both of these cartoons nailed it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uzSw_Q4PHck/TeBLCpRJSiI/AAAAAAAAAgs/_zqs2JsUnCc/s1600/Israel%2B2.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uzSw_Q4PHck/TeBLCpRJSiI/AAAAAAAAAgs/_zqs2JsUnCc/s400/Israel%2B2.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611567644513225250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JfwMWXbuTdk/TeBLHB1_X_I/AAAAAAAAAg0/w5msQ0FH-Go/s1600/Israel%2BOne.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JfwMWXbuTdk/TeBLHB1_X_I/AAAAAAAAAg0/w5msQ0FH-Go/s400/Israel%2BOne.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611567719829692402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end, I wish everybody safe Memorial Day Weekend and don’t forget to honor our men and women in uniform.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-987679687783655251?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/987679687783655251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=987679687783655251&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/987679687783655251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/987679687783655251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/05/cartoons-that-say-it-all.html' title='Cartoons that Say it All'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NSHKcc9B9Ds/TeBK4rIfkDI/AAAAAAAAAgk/1SQwlizFabI/s72-c/Seals.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-1587326263457834457</id><published>2011-04-10T15:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-10T15:25:48.776-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Soldier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rescue Operation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'>You Can Run, but You Can’t Hide ….</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F8-tWBLQn8g/TaIuaCW2KKI/AAAAAAAAAgc/qyleP1VHNno/s1600/1_wh.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 249px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F8-tWBLQn8g/TaIuaCW2KKI/AAAAAAAAAgc/qyleP1VHNno/s320/1_wh.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594084711991748770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout its short history, Israel has always pulled stunts like this.  Gilad’s Schalit abductor has been sent to meet his 72 Virgins.  Here is the article covering the story.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;IDF: Shalit abductor killed&lt;br /&gt;Senior Hamas man involved in IDF soldier's abduction killed in Gaza strike, army says&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Senior Hamas member Taysir Saliman Abu-Saname, killed by the IDF in a southern Gaza Strip strike early Satruday, was involved among other things in Gilad Shalit's abduction, IDF officials said. The sources said the Shalit family was informed of the news.  Abu-Saname held several senior posts in Hamas' military wing, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. He was also involved in the firing of rockets on the southern Israel city of Eilat, military officials said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamas denies claims. However, Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas' armed wing, said Saname killing "will not affect our work" and dismissed Israel's claims. He said Israel "does not have the information about Shalit's capture to be able to say who among our leaders had a role in its execution." Ubaida also accused Israel of "looking for an achievement as a cover for their crimes." Army: 11 terror cells struck.  Overall, IDF aircraft and armored forces struck some 11 terror cells in the northern and southern Gaza Strip, including terrorists firing rockets and mortar shells at Israel, the army said Saturday evening. The Air Force bombed another 15 terror targets in the Strip, including outposts, smuggling tunnels, and sites used to store and produce weapons. The army said that the targets were hit accurately.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, terror groups fired more than 120 rockets, mortar shells and missiles at Israel in the past two days, including more than 50 on Saturday. &lt;a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4054445,00.html"&gt;(Click Here for the Link to Source)&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After reading this, what comes to mind is this: you could run, but you could never hide from IDF if you have Jewish blood on your hand.  Israel has always fulfilled its promise to soldiers and their family that they’d do everything in their power to bring back soldiers or their body and bring their capturers and murderers to justice.  Let’s hope for a day where Schalit is returned to his family.  I am praying for daring rescue operation where it truly embarrasses Hamas.  However, even if it is done through an exchange, I’d still be happy.  He is an IDF soldiers who is still alive and MUST BE RETURNED TO HIS FAMILY ALIVE.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Overall: My sincere congrats to IDF for this achievement.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-1587326263457834457?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/1587326263457834457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=1587326263457834457&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1587326263457834457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1587326263457834457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/04/you-can-run-but-you-cant-hide.html' title='You Can Run, but You Can’t Hide ….'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F8-tWBLQn8g/TaIuaCW2KKI/AAAAAAAAAgc/qyleP1VHNno/s72-c/1_wh.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-5384762040108255867</id><published>2011-04-10T10:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-10T10:25:55.073-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operation Cast Lead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.N'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Goldstone Report'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arab Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'>Arab Spring or Israel Spring?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HvjMvlAmtsw/TaHoDmPEoSI/AAAAAAAAAgU/dFp95yml-go/s1600/1124-gaza-map.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HvjMvlAmtsw/TaHoDmPEoSI/AAAAAAAAAgU/dFp95yml-go/s320/1124-gaza-map.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594007360671883554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we’re dealing with the situation in the Arab world, you can’t fail to think what is Israel busy doing.  Israel’s hands are tied with Hamas.  Israel has declared a silent war on Hamas.  This silent war is summarized in this Washington Post Article.  &lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/7/israels-attacks-on-hamas-a-policy-of-prevention/?page=1"&gt;(Click Here for the Article)&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;br /&gt;The questions that jumps out is “why now”?  Things are flaring up in Gaza and southern Part of Israel.  However, why has Israel waited this long to go into action?  Israel has always been one step of its surrounding threats and it is mere negligence if Israel just ignored the problem with Hamas.  The answer lies within several changes in the region.  &lt;br /&gt;1.  The first change is the most obvious one.  The Arab Spring is changing the complete picture for the region.  As much as a lot of Terrorist Apologists are celebrating the events in the Arab world and calling it a slap in the face for Israel, Israel is quietly taking advantage of these events.   This goes to prove the world that the Arab world and Arab government are incredibly unstable and unpredictable.  Therefore, any peace treaty with these countries would simply prove to be nothing but a joke.  The perfect example is Egypt.  Even though EU and other Western countries who tend to be huge critic of Israeli policies are silent about what is happening in those Arab countries, but they are observing what is taking place in those countries.  They are getting a sense of understanding with regards to the type of threat that Israel is surrounded with.  At the same time, they are discovering about the Arab hypocrisy.  All these Arab countries cried their eyes out for the Palestinian.  They would be up in the arms in the UN if a single terrorist would be killed in Gaza strip.  Yet, they are brutally murdering their own citizens with a straight face.  Perfect example is Syria.  Therefore, the critics of Israel cannot really pick on Israel if Israel is taking steps to protect herself.  It is the best time for Israel to go into action and neutralize her enemies who are sworn to harm Israel’s citizens.  The notion of “Israel has the right to protect her citizens” is making a lot of sense to those Western countries.  &lt;br /&gt;2. The Goldstone report was retracted by the Goldstone.  I do not know what changed his mind or how did it change, but it was the biggest surprise of the year.  I really did not see that happening and if you would have told me last year that this damaging and inaccurate report would be retracted by Goldstone himself, I would have said “you are being delusional.”  Well, it happened and its effect, although minimal, allows Israel to point out that these fact finding groups are completely incompetent with frivolous agendas that does not involve truth.  Goldstone’s retraction will not change anything for Israel.  The funniest part is that the U.N has said that they have no intention of discrediting the Goldstone report even though its author has said it is inaccurate and defective and should not be used.  This is U.N. for you.  Israel will have to face the U.N. hypocrisy, however now the game has changed.  Israel does not need to redeem herself to these Arab Propaganda Mouth Pieces (a.k.a. UN Resolutions) simply because they are losing accuracy day by day.  It gives Israel a free hand to simply chase after these Hamas terrorist around the globe.  &lt;br /&gt;Israel has its work cut out for her.  The war with Hamas is not something that is won overnight.  This is the Middle East politics.  Great majority of Israelis have the same mindset that this is a long war.  With exception of bunch of Leftist Groups in Israel or U.S who are losing credibility on hourly basis, Israeli citizens are behind their government in terms of a Hamas showdown.  Hamas on the other hand does not have such a blessing.  There is growing discomfort with Hamas as a government due to the fact that they failed to deliver what they promised.  Hamas is finding new friends in Egypt and Egyptian government.  However, it would not be enough to redeem its failures in Gaza Strip.  Palestinians in Gaza Strip are not dumb and as much as they love to hate Israel for their problems and shortcomings as a nation, they can still feel the pain that Hamas is inflicting upon them through disastrous and self-serving policies.  This is exactly why we see Hamas is not interested in any sort of direct conflict with Israel at this point.  There are also rumors floating around with regards to rift between the Political and Military wings of this terrorist organization.  This is not good news for Hamas.  &lt;br /&gt;Now let’s put the whole picture together.  The Arab Spring is consuming most of World’s attention.  U.N and other NGO’s credibility took a hard hit with regards to Goldstone retractions, plus the ruthlessness of Arab Government and their stunning hypocrisy, add that to growing dissatisfaction of Gaza’s residence with Hamas, and this is one opportunity for Israel to go into a silence war with Hamas.  Israel might or might not engage in military actions against Hamas which might involve ground forces, however at this point Israel has the upper hand.  I wonder: should we call it “Arab Spring” or “Israel Spring”?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-5384762040108255867?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/5384762040108255867/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=5384762040108255867&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5384762040108255867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5384762040108255867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/04/arab-spring-or-israel-spring.html' title='Arab Spring or Israel Spring?'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HvjMvlAmtsw/TaHoDmPEoSI/AAAAAAAAAgU/dFp95yml-go/s72-c/1124-gaza-map.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-8157002849931520217</id><published>2011-02-10T16:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T23:42:33.590-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Egyptian Protest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion of Peace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Protests'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Muslim Brotherhood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Green Revolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Egypt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islamists'/><title type='text'>Egypt: The of Embarrassment for Iran</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-seRZUGbPyDI/TVTmoSygtbI/AAAAAAAAAgM/j3psECe6sK0/s1600/protest.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-seRZUGbPyDI/TVTmoSygtbI/AAAAAAAAAgM/j3psECe6sK0/s320/protest.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572332218876999090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lately, I have been very disinterested about politics.  I do not understand why, but this should be one of the most interesting times in politics and Middle Eastern affairs.  Maybe it is work that is killing any interest I have in other areas besides Tax Law.  However, as I am browsing through the News and the history unfolding in the Middle East, I cannot ignore the events that are taking place in Egypt.  Honestly, it is very hard to predict what will happen in Egypt.  Some people are worried about Muslim Brotherhood taking over Egypt like Khomeini did in Iran or Hezbollah did in Lebanon not too long ago.  We really cannot foretell what will happen.  However, no matter what happens, it will not be as bad some people say it would be for the region especially for Israel.  However, as I am looking at the events in Egypt, I cannot fail to be truly embarrassed and ashamed of where I was born.  &lt;br /&gt;The reason that I am ashamed is that there is this rivalry between Persians and Arabs.  Persians always classify Arabs as barbarians.  They pride their cultures to be more superior and more civilized than Arab culture.  Arabs on the other hand always classify Persians to be not truly Muslim.  They call them fire worshipers and stuff like that.  However, Iranians always held themselves to be more civilized than Arabs.  The embarrassing part is the way Arab government of Egypt dealt with their protesters compared to Iranian government dealing with Green Revolution.  Although people have been killed during the protest in Egypt, however the level of cruelty that you witnessed during the Iranian’s crack down on Green Movement is incomparable by all standards to the protests in Egypt.  I believe that it is safe to claim that Egyptian Army along with Egyptian authorities dealt with the protesters with some level of civility despite all the threats thrown out by the protesters.  One of these threats was the claim by the protesters that they would take over the Presidential Palace and physically force Mubarak out of power.  &lt;br /&gt;What we witnessed in Iran was just absolutely cruel.  During and after the protests, protesters started missing.  The leaders of the Green Movements started vanishing and being jailed.  There are numerous claims of young protesters, including both sexes, of being raped the Iranian authorities while being captive.  Many people are still missing.  Even during the protest, we witnessed cars running people down and killing them.  Who could forget what happened to Neda?  &lt;br /&gt;Egyptian protests have been fairly more successful than Iranian protests.  The reason for that is Iranian government agents are less likely to have mercy on their people than Egyptian authorities.  In another words, Iranian Police are more ruthless than the Egyptian authorities.  The Egyptian Army has held back from harsh crack down as oppose to Iranian authorities and paramilitary groups who absolutely devastated the Iranian citizens through heinous crimes committed against these protesters.  &lt;br /&gt;There could be one reason to explain such a difference.  I know it is very wrong to point this out and of course nobody will want to go there, but one way to explain this difference in level of cruelty is the RELIGION OF PEACE.  Iranian agents are motivated by “Islam”.  Of course, the leaders’ motivation is also holding on to power for personal gain and they are profit driven.  However, once you have higher authority, higher than human rights on your side, you could pretty much justify any crime in the name of religion and specifically in this case “Islam”.  Using that name and justifying their acts in the name of Allah and Islam gives them higher level of cruelty because all they could do is branding someone as Enemy of Allah or Kafer and therefore he deserves to die.  Egyptian military and authorities for the most part are more secular.  They really do not have that many options to justify their actions.   Iranian agents on the other hands hold themselves to be Hezbollah or to translate “Party of G-d”.  They view themselves agents who protect Islam and therefore they should not be held accountable for their actions.  &lt;br /&gt;In this matter, one could blame Islam as a religion.  However, this problem should not be taken as a way to channel hatred.  The problem lies within allowing religion to take control of the government.  The separation of Church and State is the issue here that Egyptian protesters should pay a close attention to for their future government.  One could look at Iran and learn that unless there is a clear separation of Religion and Government, all their efforts today is futile.  The next government will not be as civilized as the current government when it comes to crack down if the government is an Islamic government or secular government with Islamic tendencies.  In that case, just like Iran, they would have a higher authority behind their cruel agenda and that means they do not have to be held accountable for their actions.  &lt;br /&gt;But today, you cannot fail to be ashamed as an Iranian when you compare the two movements and see the Iranian government treatment of its citizens.  Iranians should really reevaluate everything in their culture, politics, religion, and other social issues to find an answer for why their movement was not as successful as Arab movements in the region.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-8157002849931520217?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/8157002849931520217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=8157002849931520217&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8157002849931520217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8157002849931520217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2011/02/lately-i-have-been-very-disinterested.html' title='Egypt: The of Embarrassment for Iran'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-seRZUGbPyDI/TVTmoSygtbI/AAAAAAAAAgM/j3psECe6sK0/s72-c/protest.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-1458552579746266856</id><published>2010-12-15T22:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-15T22:07:05.718-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hezbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lebanese आर्मी'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hizbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist'/><title type='text'>Tough Times for Hezbollah</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/TQmsgeSA-qI/AAAAAAAAAf8/tIGiOO_Q7AM/s1600/6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/TQmsgeSA-qI/AAAAAAAAAf8/tIGiOO_Q7AM/s320/6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551157689595263650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I saw &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=199603"&gt;this article &lt;/a&gt;and the first thing that popped out in my mind was wow!  Hezbollah is trying to amend relations with Lebanese in order to establish itself as a legitimate force in the region elected by the people for the people.  Hezbollah is trying act affectionate toward Lebanese Army simply to buy their love due to the outcome of the tribunal that will be released soon.  Funniest part is that in this article, Nasrallah is thanking Lebanese Army for their effort to remove the camera.  They are alleging the Cameras are from Israel with absolutely no proof. It is no coincidence that these Cameras were discovered at this time and Hezbollah asks Lebanese Army to remove them and then thank them.  &lt;br /&gt;Basically, Hezbollah is trying to legitimize itself even further in advance given possibility of being found guilty of killing Hariri.  If the tribunal holds Hezbollah responsible for killing of Hariri, it would reaffirm the claim that Hezbollah is nothing but the tools of regional powers such as Iran and Syria.  The outcome of this tribunal will simply affirm Israel’s claim that Hezbollah is not looking after Lebanon’s best interest, rather they would pursue national interest of foreign governments and put it even ahead of Lebanon’s national interests.  It would also create further rift between regional religions within Lebanon showing that the Shias are simply not after the best interest of Lebanon, rather they are looking to gain power and advance their religion in the country.  &lt;br /&gt;Given the situation in Lebanon and how tense it is there, Hezbollah is also facing a new problem.  Hezbollah must go through massive budget cuts.  The reason is because Iran has been hit hard with sanctions and they can no longer fund terrorist activities of their illegitimate children in the region. &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=199611"&gt;This article (click Here for the Article)&lt;/a&gt; argues that Iran has cut Hezbollah’s budget by at least 40%.  Here is even crazier part: Iran annually funds Hezbollah with at least one billion dollars.  You look at Iran and the staggering poverty, up to 20% prostitution rate, and many other economical problems, you would have to ask yourself: how crazy is this Iranian government to waste Iranian money like that just for religious reasons and is it sane to allow these crazies acquire a nuclear capability?!  So now Hezbollah has to go through massive budget cuts for their terrorist activities and of course they can no longer bride their supporters in southern part of Lebanon as much as before, so they will surely come across problems dealing with the people.  &lt;br /&gt; With their legitimacy under question, Hezbollah keeps threatening the region and the international community that they would not hand over anybody to the tribunal.  Of course, it is crucial for them to never accept responsibility.  In groups like these, taking accountability is never an option.  They will always lie to their citizens and keep them in dark.  You could see the same thing in Palestinian governments, terrorist groups, Iranian government, and many other Arab and Muslim countries.  For them taking responsibility for their action is like kiss of death.  So they will fight if they have to and they might even conduct a violent takeover in Lebanon if they have to, but they will not delegitimize themselves and take accountability for their acts.  At the same time, their budget is being cut.  &lt;br /&gt;So things are not looking good for Hezbollah in Lebanon now.  That’s why we’re seeing Hezbollah first trying to legitimize its existence through threat of Israel and demonizing and exaggerating threat of Israel in the region.  With that, they are also trying to make friends with Lebanese through using Lebanese Army and praising them for their effort to show that they are a nationalistic force in the country and they are faithful to the best interest of Lebanon.  So they are killing two birds with a stone.  It will be interesting what the future will bring.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-1458552579746266856?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/1458552579746266856/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=1458552579746266856&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1458552579746266856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1458552579746266856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2010/12/tough-times-for-hezbollah.html' title='Tough Times for Hezbollah'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/TQmsgeSA-qI/AAAAAAAAAf8/tIGiOO_Q7AM/s72-c/6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-1613386038760087454</id><published>2010-09-17T16:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-17T16:56:21.946-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Judaism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yom Kippur'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Facebook'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Forgiveness'/><title type='text'>Yom Kippur: Day of Forgiveness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/TJQAGSgKRRI/AAAAAAAAAf0/TIssbd9pIBE/s1600/IMG_0539.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/TJQAGSgKRRI/AAAAAAAAAf0/TIssbd9pIBE/s320/IMG_0539.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518035551481644306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is start of Yom Kippur.  It is the day that Jews will try to ask G-d for forgiveness.  It is also the last day to have obtained forgiveness from people we have hurt or saddened.  One might ask how hard it is to ask forgiveness and/or obtain forgiveness.  Nowadays, a lot of Jews, using up to date technology, will write mass Texts, Facebook Status, or Twitter to ask for forgiveness.  It is a very arbitrary and childish act.  If one is making an attempt to obtain forgiveness, according to Jewish law, just asking for forgiveness is not enough.  They have to make necessary efforts to obtain that forgiveness.  Then how would the Jewish Law define obtaining forgiveness?  &lt;br /&gt;According to Jewish Laws, one must first think very hard and analyze his past year’s acts.  Through that, that person must first be truly honest to himself and figure out whether anybody could have got hurt, mad, sad, embarrassed, or ridiculed by his acts whether his acts were intentional or unintentional.  After that, they have to go up to that person and expressly ask for forgiveness and state specifically the reason for what they are asking for forgiveness.  They must be sincere in their apology and it should not be arbitrary just because Jewish Law is requiring him.  He or she must do anything and everything reasonable to obtain that forgiveness.  If one truly makes the effort to obtain the victim’s forgiveness, the victim MUST forgive the other person.  This is the spirit of the Yom Kippur and it should be done before Yom Kippur.  After obtaining that forgiveness, that person who has committed the act must actually ask from G-d for forgiveness for sins he has committed during the year and all the people he have hurt.  According to Jewish Law, G-d WILL to forgive your sins if you have truly asked for forgiveness from others, because the logic is that “if the Human beings are that forgiving which is a positive act, The G-d Almighty, who is the Creator and Designer of the all Humans and everything that is positive cannot be Forgiving?”  After Yom Kippur, that person is obligated to have truly improved his acts toward others and that person MUST make efforts to prevent himself from committing the same acts or saying the same things to others that might hurt them.  THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF YOM KIPPUR.&lt;br /&gt;However, in today’s society where everything is mocked including religion, people simply send a mass text to everybody asking for forgiveness.  As much as it is a nice gesture, however it becomes truly annoying when somebody is asking for forgiveness in such a impersonalize fashion.  If that is not enough, you would receive hundreds of Texts asking for forgiveness, and on top of that, sometime you would see the same text you received from different person.  The person who was truly hurt by that person’s act would think, “What? I am not worthy of your time so that you’d pick up the phone and talk to me?!”  &lt;br /&gt;In conclusion, Yom Kippur should not be the reason that we ask for forgiveness.  In all aspects of life, we should be careful not to hurt others’ feelings.  With that said, I hope all my Jewish friends have an easy fast.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-1613386038760087454?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/1613386038760087454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=1613386038760087454&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1613386038760087454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1613386038760087454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2010/09/yom-kippur-day-of-forgiveness.html' title='Yom Kippur: Day of Forgiveness'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/TJQAGSgKRRI/AAAAAAAAAf0/TIssbd9pIBE/s72-c/IMG_0539.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-8528536326047759396</id><published>2010-09-07T10:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-07T10:52:48.151-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Commando Units'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sayeret'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Documentary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weaponology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Military Channel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sayeret Matkhal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Defense Forces'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Heroes'/><title type='text'>Military Channel’s Documentary about Israeli Commandos</title><content type='html'>I have always enjoyed watching Military Channel.  However, I never ever thought these guys would go this far and might I add that I am pleasantly surprised.  Well, here is a documentary about Israeli Commandos.  While you are watching these clips, just try to pay attention what is the ultimate message that these commandos are sending or what is the motive behind every soldier.  As oppose to Terrorist apologists and fighter of religion of peace or Arab countries, they are not saying: we’re here to kill, destroy, or ruin.  Rather, they are motivated by protecting their citizens.  That’s the ultimate difference between the two sides: one is there to kill and destroy because they are motivated by hatred and lack of tolerance for another religion’s right to establish their existence as a nation and the other is there to protect its citizens and their safety and security.  Enjoy the documentary ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="background-image:url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/V0amrKTo2xU/hqdefault.jpg)"  width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/V0amrKTo2xU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/V0amrKTo2xU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style="background-image:url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/BV975Ano28A/hqdefault.jpg)"  width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BV975Ano28A?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed 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src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-8528536326047759396?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/8528536326047759396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=8528536326047759396&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8528536326047759396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8528536326047759396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2010/09/military-channels-documentary-about.html' title='Military Channel’s Documentary about Israeli Commandos'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7860511525277911421</id><published>2010-09-02T17:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-02T17:52:02.591-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian Cause'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Settlers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nazis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Attack'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'>Miracles in the Mist of Dark Times</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/TIBGqKM-rVI/AAAAAAAAAfk/fbbPjPuZCh8/s1600/blog.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/TIBGqKM-rVI/AAAAAAAAAfk/fbbPjPuZCh8/s320/blog.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512483634008730962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know a lot of Palestinian Terrorist, Apologists, and their supporters in this country first deny the Holocaust and then they use it as a theme for their own struggles.  However, there are stories like this that just reminds of who is the Nazi in this story and who is the victim.  When I read this story, it reminded me of the same miracles where the Nazi soldier's gun would get jammed and the Jew was able to escape.  Now, we see the similar stories in Israel.  Wherever a Jew goes, miracles like these tend to follow them.  Ironic part is that it is the same animals who use the Nazi theme for their fraudulent cause to justify committing horrific acts like these.  &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=186930"&gt;Here is the source of the story&lt;/a&gt;, but I have also copied and pasted it here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Moreno describes ‘miracle’ escape from Hamas attacker &lt;br /&gt;By BEN HARTMAN AND KHALED ABU TOAMEH  &lt;br /&gt;09/03/2010 02:13 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Couple wounded in West Bank shooting saved by terrorist's rifle malfunction which allowed them to hide in roadside ditch.   A husband and wife who were wounded in a shooting attack on Wednesday night in the West Bank escaped death when one of the attackers’ guns jammed and they were able to hide in a nearby ditch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma’aleh Efrayim resident Moshe Moreno told Army Radio on Thursday that he and his wife, Shira, were driving on Route 60 when a car pulled up behind them and began “riding his bumper.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreno said he waved to the driver, signaling him to pass, and “then we took a turn and the car passed us and opened fire.”&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The terrorists sprayed the car with automatic rifle fire and the vehicle spun out of control, overturning on the side of the road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The attackers approached the car when suddenly, amid the hail of gunfire, one of their rifles malfunctioned, and the Morenos were able to escape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“One of the guns jammed and we took the chance to roll out of the car and take cover,” Moshe said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Morenos hid in a ditch and called police, who rushed to the scene to search for the assailants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreno added that he and his wife, who was lightly wounded, were lucky that the shooting took place as they were driving on an incline, saying that if the gunmen had attacked as they were heading downhill they would probably have plunged off the road to their deaths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking from his hospital bed, where he was being treated for a gunshot wound to the shoulder, Moreno told Channel 2 that as the gunmen passed his car they “opened fire from, at most, one meter away. Luckily, I was only hit in the shoulder.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The incident was the second in two days in the West Bank, both claimed by Hamas. In a terror attack outside Kiryat Arba on Tuesday night, gunmen riddled a car with bullets, killing four residents of the settlement of Beit Hagai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moments after that shooting, paramedics rushed to the scene, including Zaka rescue and recovery organization volunteer Maimon Even-Haim, whose wife, Kochava, was among the four victims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even-Haim’s friends in the rescue unit tried to keep him from reaching the car where his wife lay mortally wounded, but he could not be swayed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking to Channel 2 on Wednesday, Even-Haim said, “She looked so beautiful, so pure. I kept telling her, I’m here, I’m here, but she didn’t move.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even-Haim said his colleagues told him his wife died instantly, but when he arrived he could tell that “she didn’t. I saw her face and could tell she didn’t die right away.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Palestinian Authority security source said on Thursday that its men had seized the car used in the Beit Hagai attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The source said that the car was found in Hebron and that the PA security forces were now questioning several suspects linked to the vehicle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The source refused to comment on reports that the PA has arrested two men suspected of involvement in the attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The PA security forces have arrested more than 300 Palestinians from different parts of the West Bank since the attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The crackdown has been described as the largest security operation by the PA since its inception.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamas, however, announced that the number of those arrested by the PA in the past 48 hours had reached 550. It said another 1,500 Palestinians suspected of affiliation with Hamas had been summoned for interrogation by the various branches of the PA’s security services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamas said that the detainees included prominent political figures, physicians, engineers, university students, former security prisoners who were released from Israeli jails, and relatives and friends of Hamas legislators living in the West Bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eyewitnesses told The Jerusalem Post that the Fatah-dominated security forces also rounded up dozens of worshipers as they emerged from mosques following evening prayers in many cities and villages. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7860511525277911421?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7860511525277911421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7860511525277911421&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7860511525277911421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7860511525277911421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2010/09/miracles-in-mist-of-dark-times.html' title='Miracles in the Mist of Dark Times'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/TIBGqKM-rVI/AAAAAAAAAfk/fbbPjPuZCh8/s72-c/blog.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-5546342270970883995</id><published>2010-08-31T10:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-31T10:15:13.511-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Erdogan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Flotilla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islamist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islamists'/><title type='text'>Turkey’s Attempt to Fix Ties with Israel</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/TH04mkD1U-I/AAAAAAAAAfc/gsVK3Sye6nA/s1600/allie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 244px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/TH04mkD1U-I/AAAAAAAAAfc/gsVK3Sye6nA/s320/allie.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511623754137293794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not a while ago, I read this report by this professor regarding how Turkey does not need Israel.  The professor even went further to claim that Turkey does not need the West either.  He even claimed that it is the West who needs Turkey because Turkey is the bridge between the West and the Muslim Middle East.  The professor argued his case through cultural and economic stand point, none of which in my opinion has any basis.  It was a simple wishful Anti-Israel thinking to justify an Islamic takeover of Turkey.  &lt;br /&gt;Oh well, as time went on, it was proven to be false.  For those who are not my friends on Facebook, I did not write anything about it on my blog.  However, I argued on my Facebook that Turkey will have to backtrack no matter what the results is or how the world reacts to Flotilla incident.  I predicted that the world and especially Europe are taking notes about Turkey’s involvement.  I must confess that I did not expect how soon that prediction would come true.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=186518"&gt;Here is the News Article&lt;/a&gt;.  As it is shown, Turkey has to shift its policy.  Turkey had no other choice but to be friends with Israel.  As much as Erdogan would love to destroy that alliance, Turkey’s role as a key figure in the Middle East is directly tied with its alliance with Israel.  Even at this point that Turkey is trying to make friendly gestures toward Israel, members of Congress and Jewish leaders do not trust Erdogan and the reason for it is very clear.  Erdogan comes from a party with Islamic background and tenancies.  Erdogan was also suspected of being an Islamist before he was even elected.  His harsh criticism of Israel resembles rhetoric from Iran and other terrorist harboring nations who use Islam as a tool for legitimacy.  At the same time, Erdogan had the audacity and of course out of pure stupidity to claim that Israel’s policy toward Palestinians is worst than what is going on in Darfur where more than 100,000 people have been brutally murdered by Arab/Muslim militias.  Of course, the only reason he is not condemning the crimes in Darfur just like other Leftists’ or Arab leaders is due to the fact that the group who is committing all the crime happens to be Muslims.  Erdogan claims that his support for Palestinian is notioned in his thirst for humanity and human rights.  However, it does not take an idiot to see that Erdogan is a closet Islamist and his biased views toward Israel is rooted in his religious beliefs that Israel does not have the right to exist in what he claims to be a Muslim land.  &lt;br /&gt;Of course, this view is shared with a lot of pro-Palestinian Muslim supporters who simply do not care for the living condition of Palestinians.  Perfect example of this is some Iranian students in Diaspora who are die hard Pro-Palestinian fans.  When you ask them, what Arabs have done for you that you support their terrorist and fraudulent cause like that; their only response is because “I support Human Rights for all people.”  However, in their blogs or publications, you do not see a word condemning what is happening in Darfur.  When you call them out as to why have you dedicated most of your blogs to condemn Israel and not a word about what is going on in Darfur, they simply respond, “I don’t have time to condemn every Human Right violation in the world.”  &lt;br /&gt;As it is shown, people like Erdogan and those bloggers are fueled not by love for Human Rights, rather than it is hatred.  It is the hatred of Jews and the Jewish State that motivates these people to act the way they do, to say things that they say, and believe what they believe.  I remember, after Flotilla incident, CNN was interviewing this Persian girl who was on Flotilla about what took place.  The girl started just pure Anti-Israel rants and lies about what had taken place.  Of course, this was right before Israel releases the footages from what had happened.  She said lie after lie about how Israel entered the ship opening fire indiscriminately, without any warning, and how ruthless the soldiers were after boarding the ship.  Later it was shown that it was the terrorist passenger of the love boat who attacked and attempted to lynch the commandos that boarded the ship with paint-guns.  As it is obvious, the hatred of Jews and Israel motivates a person to go on national T.V and lie like that to justify a cause.  People like Erdogan are not motivated by love for Human Rights.  They are motivated by hatred.  &lt;br /&gt;This hatred is the reason why U.S. Congress and American Jews do not trust Erdogan and people like him.  At the end, it will take a lot more for Turkey to restore its reputation in the world stage as a serious key figure.  It is irrelevant how economically powerful they are in the region, if they choose to behave like Iran and other terrorist nations, they will simply lose their status.  That also goes against what Atta Turk had wished for Turkey.  What Erdogan did toward Israel was incredibly stupid and of course it was financed by Iran.  A lot of people suspect that Erdogan and Turkey will pay a heavy price for it.  Erdogan is incredibly popular in Turkey and of course that is thanks to hatred of Jews and Israel in Turkey.  However, Europe and the U.S will not trust Turkey for a long time as an ally.  So the last question is, was it really worth for Erdogan to defame Israel (make no mistake, what he did to defame Israel was brilliant-no body caused Israel that much damage like what Erdogan did) given the current results for Turkey?  If you ask me, he will certainly do it again.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-5546342270970883995?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/5546342270970883995/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=5546342270970883995&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5546342270970883995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5546342270970883995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2010/08/turkeys-attempt-to-fix-ties-with-israel.html' title='Turkey’s Attempt to Fix Ties with Israel'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/TH04mkD1U-I/AAAAAAAAAfc/gsVK3Sye6nA/s72-c/allie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-415025377075750210</id><published>2010-08-24T17:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-24T17:57:08.653-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operation Cast Lead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='miracle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>Unbelievable Story of a Mother who Lost a Son in Gaza</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/THRm6E3ZzRI/AAAAAAAAAfE/UGnuVk-aWHg/s1600/Gaza+Operation.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/THRm6E3ZzRI/AAAAAAAAAfE/UGnuVk-aWHg/s320/Gaza+Operation.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509141392105524498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a true story that is going around in Israel.  It blew my mind.  So I am going to use such an inspiring story to make my come back to the blog world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dvir Aminolav was the first Israeli soldier killed in the 2008 Gaza War. His mother Dalya missed Dvir, terribly. One night before she went to bed, she said in a loud voice: "G-d, give me a sign, give me a hug from Dvir so that I will know that his death had some meaning."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That week her daughter asked her to accompany her to a musical performance at The International Crafts Festival in Jerusalem. Dalya, feeling quite depressed, did not want to go to the concert, but she didn't want to disappoint her daughter either, and agreed to go halfheartedly. The concert was a bit delayed. A two-year-old boy began wandering through the stands. He walked up to Dalya's seat and touched her on the shoulder. A preschool teacher, Dalya turned around, saw the boy and smiled warmly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What's your name?" Dalya asked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Eshel," the boy replied.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"That's a nice name. Do you want to be my friend, Eshel?" The boy nodded in reply and sat down next to Dalya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eshel's parents were sitting two rows above. Concerned their little boy was bothering Dalya, they asked him to come back up. But Dalya insisted that everything was fine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I have a brother named Dvir," two-year-old Eshel chimed in, as only little children can. Dalya was shocked to hear the unusual name of her beloved son, and walked up the two rows to where Eshel's parents were sitting. She saw a baby in his carriage, and apologizing, she asked, "If you don't mind me asking, how old is your baby and when was he born?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The baby's mother replied, "He was born right after the war in Gaza."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dalya swallowed hard. "Please tell me, why did you choose to name him Dvir?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baby Dvir's mother began to explain. "When I was at the end of my pregnancy, the doctors suspected the fetus may have a very serious birth defect. Since it was the end of the pregnancy, there was little the doctors could do and I just had to wait and see how things would turn out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I went home that night, the news reported that the first casualty in the war was a soldier named Dvir. I was so saddened by this news that I decided to make a deal with G-d. 'If you give me a healthy son,' I said in my prayer, 'I promise to name him Dvir, in memory of the soldier that was killed.'"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dalya, the mother of Dvir, stood with her mouth open. She tried to speak but she couldn't. After a long silence, she said quietly, "I am Dvir's mother."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The young parents didn't believe her. She repeated, "Yes, it's true. I am Dvir's mother. My name is Dalya Aminalov, from Pisgat Zeev."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With a sudden inspiration, Baby Dvir's mother handed Dalya the baby and said, "Dvir wants to give you a hug."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dalya held the little baby boy in her arms and looked into his angelic face. The emotion she felt at that moment was overwhelming. She had asked for a hug from Dvir - and she could truly feel his warm and loving embrace from the World of Truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you Meir for the story ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-415025377075750210?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/415025377075750210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=415025377075750210&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/415025377075750210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/415025377075750210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2010/08/unbelievable-story-of-mother-who-lost.html' title='Unbelievable Story of a Mother who Lost a Son in Gaza'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/THRm6E3ZzRI/AAAAAAAAAfE/UGnuVk-aWHg/s72-c/Gaza+Operation.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-3072038996286624226</id><published>2010-04-18T14:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T14:45:08.305-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barack Hussein Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jerusalem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><title type='text'>Hope</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/S8t9Xkl3lRI/AAAAAAAAAe8/4p4PnH9AC4E/s1600/obama-and-israel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/S8t9Xkl3lRI/AAAAAAAAAe8/4p4PnH9AC4E/s320/obama-and-israel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461596817029829906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is been a very long time I haven’t written anything.  What can I say, this is when the real life happens and you are forced to work long hours.  &lt;br /&gt;Anyways, in the world of politics, I try not to even check the news.  Things are not good and of course our beloved President, Barrack Hussein Obama is proving all of my predictions.  The best example is his treatment of Israel.  &lt;br /&gt;I cannot believe that Israel is forced to stop construction of buildings in its eternal capital.  I think Bibi said it the best, “JERUSALEM IS NOT A SETTLEMENT, IT IS OUR CAPITAL.”  Besides that, Obama is just showing its true face.  I am still amazed at the Jews who supported this moron as a president.  With regards to Health Care Bill, I don’t know what to say.  All I could say is that Universal Health Care has never worked and I have no doubt that it won’t work here either.   When was the last time that government took over an industry and it actually worked and generated long term profit?!  Government track record with regards to taking over private sector is the best indication of the future failure that we will witness.  I cannot wait to see that going to doctor has become like going to DMV.  Bunch of good for nothing, freeloaders government workers who don’t give a damn about you or your business and they act as if they are doing you a favor by JUST DOING THEIR JOBS!  Isn’t that amazing?  Well we voted for this guy.  &lt;br /&gt;What Republican Party is doing is another argument.  With regards to Tea Party Movement, I really don’t know much about them.  There are a lot of rumors about Liberal groups posing as Tea Members and holding signs that are racist and things are spelled incorrectly.  Again, I don’t know the details; therefore I will refrain from supporting or opposing them.  If the Libs are proven to be doing such act, well I am not surprised.  &lt;br /&gt;With regards to Israel, things are not good for Israel and it is all U.S’s fault.  However, things are not going well for Obama either.  November elections are coming up and he needs to turn things around.  All together, I hope he changes his methods with regards to Israel and his expansion of government.  &lt;br /&gt;I will be posting more stuff soon.  Sorry for the long delay! &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-3072038996286624226?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/3072038996286624226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=3072038996286624226&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/3072038996286624226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/3072038996286624226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2010/04/hope.html' title='Hope'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/S8t9Xkl3lRI/AAAAAAAAAe8/4p4PnH9AC4E/s72-c/obama-and-israel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-4666188199119692984</id><published>2009-12-31T13:39:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-31T14:03:07.148-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hezbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2009'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Truce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Protests'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Green Revolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pictures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Defense Forces'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arabs'/><title type='text'>2009: An Interesting Finish for Hamas and Iran</title><content type='html'>Today is the last day of 2009.  A year filled with events and shocks.  This year was also the first year we had the pleasure of having Mr. Obama as our president.  However, what amazes me the most how this year came to an end.  During the past week, many of terrorist apologists or supporters came to some sort of truth that maybe their whole thinking method has not been so right.  You might ask why, and the answer is very simple.  Just look at the past week.  Two major developments that many in News Media did not get a chance to analyze.  &lt;br /&gt;The first event is what took place last week in Gaza. &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sz0fV1v3wWI/AAAAAAAAAe0/GfBQ9YG-4SM/s1600-h/hamas_cartoon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sz0fV1v3wWI/AAAAAAAAAe0/GfBQ9YG-4SM/s320/hamas_cartoon.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421523986489524578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For weeks, Hamas was trying to mobilize Gazans to participate in the rally that Hamas was organizing to commemorate one year anniversary of their shameful defeat in Gaza.  Guess what happened?  Not that many people showed up!  One might respond: “well maybe they were busy or they just didn’t feel like it.” The answer is believe me people care in Gaza.  How do we know?  Just look at the past rallies that Hamas held in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.  Thousands and thousands people used to show up to demonstrate their support for Hamas.  The reason is fairly simple: Hamas failed to make their lives better.  Hamas turned out to be just a stereo typical Arab government or regime who only promise a lot and deliver a little.  Last year, Hamas foolishly thought they can encounter Israel through direct military conflict.  They wanted to create an image for themselves resembling Hezbollah had after Lebanon War of 2006.  With that stupid thought they vowed that they won’t reinstate the ceasefire that was in place for six months.  Weeks before the ceasefire come to an end, they started bombarding Israeli border towns such as Tserdot.  As I mentioned in my previous blogs, boy they were gravely mistaken because just like Hamas was preparing, Israeli military was studying Hamas and they hit them hard and quick.  Hamas was shown to be completely incompetent when it comes to battlefield and direct contract with IDF ground troops.  Hamas fighters were itching for Israeli incursion into Gaza and they proved to be nothing but failures.  Their tactics were simply not sufficient to encounter IDF ground troops.  With exception one or two casualties, the only Israeli casualties that Israel suffered was result of friendly fire and it was less 15 soldiers.  Even though every Israeli casualty is a tragedy for Israel, it was just embarrassing for Hamas.  After the war, Hamas had nothing to show to Gazans.  Hamas had no achievement or accomplishment for aggregating Israel to attack Gaza strip.  Gazans are not stupid, they know full well it was Hamas’s stupid method that sent an invitation to Israel to enter Gaza.  After the war, Hamas agreed to a ceasefire that holds until today.  Hamas promised reconstruction; Hamas promised glorious days for Gaza and the only thing they delivered was destruction.  A year after the war, Israelis live in peace and Israel’s economy is flourishing.  The only thing Hamas is trying to gain is calling Israel “War Criminals” and most of the evidence that they are offering is nothing but Hearsay which is inadmissible.  So if we move past history, we will see that Gazans finally woke up and realized that Hamas is nothing but a typical Palestinian or Arab movement that promise a lot and deliver nothing.  As one resident of Gaza said in an interview for why he didn’t attend the rally, Hamas did not even build a single factory after the war to provide jobs for the Gazans.  They only reconstructed their weapon factories that benefit their own members.  They completely ignored the tough economic situations that Gazans are going through.  Gazans finally realized that Hamas loves the fact that they are living in poverty so they could use it as a PR campaign to destroy Israel’s image in the international community.  The Gazans see how Israel is helping their own citizens while Hamas is only thinking about rearming itself to grab more power.  At the end, Hamas has lost legitimacy and it is a major development.  &lt;br /&gt;Another issue that was developed in the last week of 2009 is Iran.  Boy Iran just shocked the world on Sunday.  Iranians just took to the street on Ashura day using one of the most sacred religious Shia days to criticize the regime and especially the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenie.  What was even more shocking in the news is that Iran’s rulers and its thugs and gangs stormed Hosseinie Jamaran which was a place where Khomeini chose as his residence and used to give powerful speeches.  &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sz0b0zWQSBI/AAAAAAAAAes/qkjOKPW4eKE/s1600-h/jam3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sz0b0zWQSBI/AAAAAAAAAes/qkjOKPW4eKE/s320/jam3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421520120374642706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jamaran was a sacred place and it was a symbolic structure for the regime.  This regime is so desperate that it violated the sanctity of a structure that they had set up to be sacred.  These thugs stormed it and after they were confronted with the opposition supporters, they pursued to break windows and doors of the place.  This is super embarrassing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sz0aL8ots0I/AAAAAAAAAek/RuQtdW6rMWw/s1600-h/Beating.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 191px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sz0aL8ots0I/AAAAAAAAAek/RuQtdW6rMWw/s320/Beating.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421518318981722946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; On the Ashura day, this was a day that Regime had used for years to legitimize itself.  For years, they used this day and Imam Hussein to confront world powers.  Now this day became a thorn in their own eyes.  The regime acted stupidly by confronting the protesters like that.  Videos emerged how ruthless the regime’s agents were in confronting the protesters such as running them over with cars.  However, it also showed that Iran’s movement is gaining momentum and it is more powerful than ever.  Iran’s regime tried to make up for the embarrassment by trying to set up a counter protest in support of the regime.  However, as documents started showing up on Facebook and twitter, it showed that government had to bus in people from different towns and most of these people were government workers who were forced by the companies they worked to show up to the protest.  An example of it is the employees of Bus Stations and Buses were ordered to check in and show up to the protest.  The government provided buses and transportation.  The irony is that the speaker of the protest was not even from Tehran, he was from Mashhad.  Amazing! All together they gathered all these people through coercion at a square in Tehran and used it as photo op to somehow legitimize themselves.  Iranian opposition fired back by screaming “death to Khamenie (The Supreme Leader)” on their rooftops at night time.  It could have been heard all over Tehran.  &lt;br /&gt;Question is why these two developments are significant and how are they even related?!  Very simple: it goes to show those idiots leftists in this country that this kind of school of thought that they hold very dear to their heart won’t work.  The Left absolutely loved Hamas.  They called them “freedom fighters from people of Gaza who are fighting against Zionist Colonists”.  They called Ahmadinejad a leader of Iran who is standing up to the U.S and they desperately tried to justify his position against Israel and U.S.  Ahmadinejad used Zionism and Israel to gain legitimacy in the Arab world.  Arab world absolutely worshiped Ahmadinejad.  He was the second most popular leader among Arabs after Nasrallah.  Why?! Simply because he had the balls to say what the Arabs were actually feeling about Holocaust.  Iran is a major supporter of Hamas and if it wasn’t for Iran, Hamas would not be this powerful or they would simply cease to exist.  Now Iran’s legitimacy has been questioned and Hamas legitimacy is slowly but surely vanishing.  All together, it goes to show you that this kind of school of thoughts is a lot like Marxism.  IT SIMPLY WON’T WORK!  It shows that this kind of school of thought that the Left and the Arabs around the world loves to look up to is nothing but hot air, and when it comes to it, they will massacre their own people for personal self interest. &lt;br /&gt; Funny thing: since the start of the movement, I haven’t heard a peak from a single Arab that they support Iranian students!  GEE I WONDER WHY?! Iranians supported Palestinians, Lebanon, Syrians, Iraqis, and many other Arab movements all around the world.  Iranians shed tears for them, gave them BILLIONS of dollars and guess what happened?  They got nothing in return.  Iranians abroad were more anti-Israel than many Arabs in U.S college campuses.  Funny thing: they got nothing back from their Arab comrades.  Most of them are quiet.  Funniest thing is most of these pathetic Arabs are trying to question media coverage instead of actually showing support for Iranians.  They write things like “how come Media groups don’t cover Palestinians like they are covering Iranians.”  Just like always, they can’t look and act any more pathetic.  So much for gratitude for Iranians from their Arab friends!   Most of them don’t want to see Ahmadinejad going down and I wonder why?! &lt;br /&gt;All together, we are ending 2009 with major developments.  I am not in any position to make any predictions but even though things are not that good, I must say there is still A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL! &lt;br /&gt;HAPPY NEW YEAR!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-4666188199119692984?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/4666188199119692984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=4666188199119692984&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4666188199119692984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4666188199119692984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/12/2009-interesting-finish-for-hamas-and.html' title='2009: An Interesting Finish for Hamas and Iran'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sz0fV1v3wWI/AAAAAAAAAe0/GfBQ9YG-4SM/s72-c/hamas_cartoon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-3496136320820854537</id><published>2009-12-20T16:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-20T17:17:01.249-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Montazery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Revolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran and Iraq war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><title type='text'>Ayatollah Montazeri</title><content type='html'>It’s been a while that I have not written anything.  However, the loss of this courageous man motivated me to write something about him and honor his loss.  Montazeri is one of the leading figures in the Islamic Revolution.  Even though he was a great fighter against the previous regime in Iran, however after the revolution he broke ranks with the government and only pursued the will of people.   A lot of people were involved in the revolution and only after the revolution they came to conclusion that what a mistake it was.  I am not claiming Montazeri ever regretted calling for the revolution.   However he did stand up to the government even though the regime ruthlessly tried to shut him up.  Yesterday he passed away.  What it means for the Green Revolution is beyond me, but for now it does not seem very peaceful for the Islamic Regime.  Another thing that I like about this guy is that when he shined a lot of light into the stupidity of the Iranian regime and it showed how ruthless this regime is.  My favorite memory of him is when wrote about how Iranian military ran the war with Iraq and how incompetent the leaders and military strategists were in the war.  He talked about how a cleric with absolutely zero military experience was giving military orders and deciding how to fight a war.  It also showed how a lot of Iranian casualties could have been easily prevented if Iran had not ruthlessly murdered all of previous regime generals.  Overall, from what I know from him, he was a man of people who really cared about the Iranian demanded from the regime.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-3496136320820854537?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/3496136320820854537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=3496136320820854537&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/3496136320820854537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/3496136320820854537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/12/ayatollah-montazeri.html' title='Ayatollah Montazeri'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-412929663118832351</id><published>2009-10-02T12:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-02T12:18:22.335-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iraq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S. Military'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iraq War'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barrack Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S Troops in Iraq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Afghanistan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Left'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democratic Party'/><title type='text'>Afghanistan is Not Iraq</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SsZR9R3ckDI/AAAAAAAAAec/POS8rscIZj8/s1600-h/afghanistan.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 191px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SsZR9R3ckDI/AAAAAAAAAec/POS8rscIZj8/s320/afghanistan.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388084117405208626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, we’re under President Obama rule now.  He is our President and there is nothing you could do about it.  However, one thing that pisses me off is what the hell happened to the “Anti-War” people.  I thought they were against the war and against violence.  Why did they vanish?  The reason I am asking this question is because Obama is talking about increasing troops for Afghanistan and he is investing more money in that country.  &lt;br /&gt;Personally, I think it is a horrible mistake.   I am not saying we’re defeated and we should cut and run.  The reason I am saying this is because Afghanistan is not Iraq.  Sorry to say this but THERE IS NO HOPE FOR AFGHANISTA.  Afghanistan is not Iraq.  Iraq has future and there is hope for Iraq.  But Afghanistan does not have anything.  &lt;br /&gt;The difference between the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan is that Iraq has natural resources.  On top of that, Iraq has an educated population too that could take over the government.  The natural resources could pay for rebuilding Iraq and the educated population could assist the democracy to work.  Iraq at the same time has been thirsty for democracy.  Yes, there are crazies in Iraq too.  There are sectarian differences, however thank to Al-Qaeda and their terrorism that devastated this country, people have decided to set aside their differences at least for now.  At the same time, the only reason Iraq fell apart in the beginning was that there were not troops in the region and the country was not secured.  It was the lack of management of the war by President Bush that forced Iraq into chaos.  At the same time, it was also the Media and their hatred of Bush that added fuel into the fire in Iraq.  The terrorists quickly realized that if they could destabilize Iraq, they have enough allies in the U.S with same hatred of Bush that they could force U.S to pull back.  They were successful to some extent.  With every soldier that died in Iraq, the media actively assisted those terrorist by highly publicizing it.  They were all screaming: “Vietnam, Vietnam” or loonies such Cindy Sean who grossly took advantage of her son’s death to push her own wacky ideologies on the Americans.  Directors such as Michael Moore and other morons were just adding more fuel to the fire.  Thank G-d, with exception of Michael Moore movie, none of the movies made a dime and they were a complete loss.  However, the only benefit was terrorists were gaining more power and moral support.  Of course, Democrats being out of power at the time were also benefiting from it.  Let’s just say, Iraq fell apart because of many reasons that could have been prevented.  I don’t want to go too much into detail of what happened.  &lt;br /&gt;However, Afghanistan is not Iraq.  Afghanistan is not Iraq though.  Afghanistan does not have any natural resources.  Meaning, there is no money to rebuild it.  Who is going to pay to rebuild this country in this economic mess that we’re in today?  Afghanistan does not have any infrastructure.  There are no roads, no electricity, no clean water, and many other goods that a country a needs.  At the same time, the worst part is that not that many educated people live there.  The country is so backward that it would take hundreds of years to bring it even remotely up to date in terms of infrastructure, education, and political process.  This country has been devastated by tribal war for many many years and there is almost no change in sight.  The country is still heavily religious and the signs of Taliban practices and rules and can been seen everywhere.  The practicing religion has an extreme sect of Islam which is Wahabisim.  The same type practiced in Saudi Arabia.  There are other type of Islam there too, however it seems like Wahabists are incredibly powerful in that country.  I have said before and I say now, Wahabisim will never ever work with democracy and it is the most violent type of Islam that needs to be eradicated.  I don’t care if it is someone’s religion; Wahabsim is almost like Nazism and should not be tolerated in any sense or form.  Strategically speaking, Afghanistan is located where there are a lot of mountains around.  This will provide natural shields for all types of insurgent activities.  Iraq was flat; tanks could easily relocate from one place to another.   Troops could easily be transferred from one location to another.  However in Afghanistan, it is not so easily achieved.  The weather, geographical location, and existence of no road make military activity a hell.  Investing more troops in Afghanistan will not work that well.  I really hope it does, but I think Obama is making a huge mistake in this case.  &lt;br /&gt;In conclusion, the only apparent thing in here is the hypercriticism of politics and of course of the Left.  They were screaming “peace peace peace”!  I still remember the signs that say: “fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity”.  My question is what happened to the virgin?  What happened to peace?  Did they abandon it?  What happened to media criticizing this president and his decision?  When Bush (worst Commander in Chief in U.S history) with recommendation and pleas of generals in Pentagon especially General David Petraeus wanted to increase the troops, they were criticizing him left and right, but now they are completely silent on this matter?  At the end, I think Obama and Left are creating another Vietnam and our troops are going to pay a hefty price for it.  I hope not, but that’s the direction we’re headed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-412929663118832351?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/412929663118832351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=412929663118832351&amp;isPopup=true' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/412929663118832351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/412929663118832351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/10/afghanistan-is-not-iraq.html' title='Afghanistan is Not Iraq'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SsZR9R3ckDI/AAAAAAAAAec/POS8rscIZj8/s72-c/afghanistan.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-6991979078811040973</id><published>2009-08-14T11:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-14T11:08:21.172-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operation Cast Lead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Human Shields'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Human Rights Groups'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'>Human Rights Groups Frivolous Claim</title><content type='html'>After a long delay, I am back.  I have been incredibly busy.  However things have been great.  It’s been a tough life, but the accomplishments are what make the hardship sweet.  Anyways, I am coming back to blogging after four months and I am coming back with a video to refute Human Rights Watch and their report about IDF’s alleged war crime.  Let’s take a look at one of their claims of alleged war crimes.&lt;br /&gt;Human Rights groups have been documenting fabricating stories from sources connected to Hamas.  They claimed that IDF soldiers opened fire on civilians despite the fact that they were showing white flags.  IDF conducted investigation and it became obvious that those claims are frivolous.  At the same time, Human Rights groups whom by the way get massive donations from Saudi Arabia and they presented claims of heavily criticizing Israel during Operation Cast Lead and other operations in order to collect those donations, forgot  the fact that Israel has been filming a lot of the missions just for this reason.  &lt;br /&gt;This video I have posted shows exactly why Human Rights groups are losing legitimacy and they are nothing but empty think tanks for the left and have become terrorist mouth piece and apologists for the killers.  This video also proves that Hamas has been using human shields and yes Human Right Groups forgot to mention it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YJgfZ9_6miE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YJgfZ9_6miE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-6991979078811040973?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/6991979078811040973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=6991979078811040973&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6991979078811040973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6991979078811040973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/08/human-rights-groups-frivolous-claim.html' title='Human Rights Groups Frivolous Claim'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-6928179992891911612</id><published>2009-05-04T08:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T09:15:38.637-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taliban'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.S.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Robert Gates'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Facility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pakistan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islamic Fundamentalist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pakistan Nuclear Bomb'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Ambition'/><title type='text'>To Attack or not to Attack</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sf8RInxTeSI/AAAAAAAAAeM/3UWPoVc3_Wk/s1600-h/Pakistan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 273px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sf8RInxTeSI/AAAAAAAAAeM/3UWPoVc3_Wk/s320/Pakistan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331999323642362146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one sneaked up on a lot of people who keep up with the news.  Pakistan has become the main concern for many Western Countries.  More importantly, it has become the main issues for U.S. and Israel.  As our secretary of defense, Robert Gates, has said that there are “grave concerns” with regards to the situation in Pakistan.  Taliban and Islamic Fundamentalist forces are moving closer to capital city of Islamabad in Pakistan.  As we know, Pakistan has nukes.  That is a recipe for disaster.  But honestly, is it a surprised to anybody now?  This is fairly simple: YOU DO NOT ALLOW ISLAMIC NATIONS WITH FUNDAMENTALIST TENDECIES TO ACQUIRE NUCLEAR WEAPON.  Is it racist or Islamo-phobic to say that?  Yes, but as our Supreme Court has made a ruling, when it comes to matters of national security, it would require strict scrutiny to review the racial classification.  Here is the government compulsive interest in this matter: SURVIVAL OF HUMAN RACE!  Is that enough concern to finally say: maybe we should not allow Pakistan to have nuclear power because if we look inside their country, even though they have a lot of secular citizens who want to go through their daily lives, we also have a lot of wack-jobs running around.  &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518742,00.html"&gt;Here is the link to the news about Pakistan and situation there&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;If that was not enough, Democrats and numb-nuts Lefties in this country, caused Musharaf to step down through their constant protests.  They did it not because of democracy and what is right, they did it to defame Bush and get rid of Bush’s allies.  Remember how Kerry went to Syria, remember how Pelosi did the same thing and went to Syria.  They did the same thing to Musharaf who was a very strong leader.  He was able to secure the government.  However, as soon as Democrats took over both of Houses, they had to get rid of him.&lt;br /&gt;Now, as we’re reviewing what’s going on in Pakistan, it is clear that you cannot allow a nation with fundamentalist points of views, with views that does not value human lives to acquire powers that could point humanity in jeopardy.  When you have a group of people who believe that there is a better life waiting for them after this life is over, you probably do not want to trust them with something that could wipe out a whole nation.  Mr. Gates: you are the same guy who has been saying that maybe U.S should come to terms with Nuclear Iran.  Nuclear Iran is not an option.  A country who believes in apocolyptian 12 Imam cannot be trusted with a nuclear bomb.  Iran was just nominated as the biggest harbor of terrorist in the world, and you want to allow them to have a nuclear bomb?  Does that sound intelligent to anybody?  &lt;br /&gt;For those who argue that Iran wants to get a nuclear bomb for deterrent reason: this is a complete B.S.  Iran wants a nuclear bomb to bully the region, so nobody would stand up to them for all the terrorist activities that they are conduct in the region such as in Iraq, Yemen, Oman, Lebanon, Gaza, Egypt, and many other countries. Iran wants Islamic revolutions all over the region just like Khomeini promised with saying: we will not stop until we raise the Green Flag of Islam over every Mosque, Churches, and other government building in the World.  If you think it is a crazy idea, just look around the region and Iran’s agent in those countries I mentioned above.  At the same time, if one of those crazies ever is in the mood, they would simple give one of these to Hezbollah and all they need to do it is detonate right on the border of Israel and Lebanon and there goes Haifa.  &lt;br /&gt;I hope this event teaches U.S the lesson of life time: YOU CANNOT ALLOW IRAN BECOME NUCLEAR.  Iran is not a Western Country, Iran is not Turkey.  Iran is a nation filled with different fundamentalist gangs.  Iran has a stable strong government.  However, within this government, there are different sources of power, different groups, different mafias, and different people who are crazier than each other.  In the end, the question is: if or when Taliban takes over Pakistan, are we going to attack Pakistan or not?  Better question is: is U.S going to allow Iran to become a nuclear power or not?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-6928179992891911612?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/6928179992891911612/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=6928179992891911612&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6928179992891911612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6928179992891911612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/05/to-attack-or-not-to-attack.html' title='To Attack or not to Attack'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sf8RInxTeSI/AAAAAAAAAeM/3UWPoVc3_Wk/s72-c/Pakistan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-1708753303667105095</id><published>2009-04-28T16:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-28T16:12:27.650-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Independence Day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Law School'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><title type='text'>I am a J.D Now</title><content type='html'>Well, this is it.  I’m a J.D now.  Yay!! I am not sure when I’ll take the bar, but most likely it will on February 2010.  I am going to continue working for my current employer.  However, the good news is that the Law School with all its responsibilities is over.  Everyone asks me how exciting is it or whether I am incredibly happy.  I really don’t know what the big fuss is about.  Yes, I am happy; however I am not super excited.  It was a hard three years and I will be lying if I say I will miss it.  However, it is a chapter of my life that came to its conclusion.  I am not too happy, and I am not sad either.  I am very indifferent about it.  I guess it could also be because that I am super busy and the whole notion of graduating law school hasn’t register with me yet.  &lt;br /&gt;On a different note: HAPPY 61ST BIRTHDAY TO ISRAEL.  Now that is something to happy about.  Even though I probably would not get a chance to celebrate it, it is a good event that could make me smile.  It is good to see the only Jewish Homeland and country gets older.  Even though all of its enemies wish death upon it(and actively pursuing it), it is good to see that the only Jewish nation that is the only country who would stand up for Jews around the world, gets a year older. . Here is a clip to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day.  This video is a year old, but it has great imagesKol Hakavod Israel. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OcZJPvjjoCw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OcZJPvjjoCw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-1708753303667105095?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/1708753303667105095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=1708753303667105095&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1708753303667105095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1708753303667105095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-am-jd-now.html' title='I am a J.D Now'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-5142107885860393721</id><published>2009-04-20T14:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T15:04:42.780-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='durban II'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Racism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ahmadinejad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holocaust'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holocaust Remembrance Day'/><title type='text'>Holocaust Remembrance Day U.N Style!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sezvu3vRkII/AAAAAAAAAd0/Nsbno2dzjP0/s1600-h/koterba.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 233px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sezvu3vRkII/AAAAAAAAAd0/Nsbno2dzjP0/s320/koterba.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326896047787708546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.  We also had to witness the circus that U.N had created for Racism.  The guest of honor was Dr. Ahmadinejad.  This little retarded monkey who is nothing but an attention whore used this forum to talk about Holocaust and attack Jews and Israel.  I applaud the EU delegates who left the conference.  It was truly embarrassing for Ahmadinejad.  &lt;br /&gt;One issue that many people failed to notice was that Ahmadinejad in his speech talked about Islam as the last religion on Earth.  Do people know what that means?  That means any religion that came after this religion is not valid and therefore they are Kaffer.  According to Islam, Kaffers have 2 choices, one to submit to rule of Islam and believe in Allah, or face death.  This resulted in millions of people being massacred throughout history under this horrible justification.  If that is not enough, in Iran, other religions that were born after Islam invaded and raped Iran such as Baha’i were persecuted against on daily basis.  Thousands of them were killed and their belonging confiscated after the Glorious Religion of Peace Revolution in Iran.   The way he introduced Islam as the last religion is RACIST in its core, let alone other subjects he talked about.  And this little retarded monkey was the guest of honor in this circus we love to call U.N.  Amazing!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sezv5DRsEaI/AAAAAAAAAd8/z7Sx0q0RmT8/s1600-h/Holocaust.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sezv5DRsEaI/AAAAAAAAAd8/z7Sx0q0RmT8/s200/Holocaust.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326896222683533730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As this racist piece of crap was giving his speech, civilized world was remembering Holocaust outside.  Holocaust survivors were being greeted outside of that mockery of humanity where they were conducting Durban II.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SezwHaq24bI/AAAAAAAAAeE/Qf-YFZTxTy8/s1600-h/blog.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SezwHaq24bI/AAAAAAAAAeE/Qf-YFZTxTy8/s200/blog.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326896469481284018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Well I have a message for you Mr. Ahmadinejad: NEVER FUCKING AGAIN!  You will not live to see a day that Holocaust is repeated through destruction of Israel.  NEVER AGAIN!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2008/11/dorooghe-it-is-lie.html"&gt;This is also something I had translated from an Iranian poet.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Here is the clip where this monkey as embarrassed.  It is truly embarrassing for Iranian all around the globe to have this retarded monkey represent Iran.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PmH6ns1rCjc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PmH6ns1rCjc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-5142107885860393721?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/5142107885860393721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=5142107885860393721&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5142107885860393721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5142107885860393721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/04/holocaust-remembrance-day-un-style.html' title='Holocaust Remembrance Day U.N Style!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/Sezvu3vRkII/AAAAAAAAAd0/Nsbno2dzjP0/s72-c/koterba.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7229577815636850477</id><published>2009-04-13T19:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-13T19:54:49.542-07:00</updated><title type='text'>HAPPY PASSOVER</title><content type='html'>Sorry I have been very busy and inactive in terms of blogging.  I would get back to it soon.  It’s been a while that I have visited Israel.  That is why I put up this video.  Happy Passover!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sfF6-TkAnBM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sfF6-TkAnBM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7229577815636850477?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7229577815636850477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7229577815636850477&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7229577815636850477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7229577815636850477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-passover.html' title='HAPPY PASSOVER'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-4651393193091275149</id><published>2009-03-12T15:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-12T15:30:58.046-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hezbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hizbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><title type='text'>HEZBOLLAH: PARTY OF ALLAH OR CRIMINALS?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SbmNHL5BS-I/AAAAAAAAAds/vv0L6NXoN0A/s1600-h/n11317224_30970922_3374.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SbmNHL5BS-I/AAAAAAAAAds/vv0L6NXoN0A/s320/n11317224_30970922_3374.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312432390050761698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been incredibly busy.  I am working more than 40 hours a week along with full load of courses.  I am graduating in a month and I am totally unprepared.  However, work is taking 75% of my time.  It is an incredibly interesting job.  At the same time, these days there are not really much to write about.  I am not allowed to write about the job I am doing, otherwise it would blow your minds away.  However, I can still comment on them.  &lt;br /&gt;Hezbollah calls themselves party of G-d.  Iran who is a religious country openly support Hezbollah if not control them.  The interesting part is that this Party of G-d from “religion of peace” are the biggest criminals ever walked on the face of this earth.  Their whole foundation, their whole structure is funded by fraud, IP crimes, human smuggling, drugs, and of course Oil money that is well deserved by Iranian people.  They are of course, stiff supporter of fraudulent Palestinian Cause.  These people have incredible well organized cells in South America, Europe, China, and many other parts of the world that cooperate with a lot of Mobs in those areas.  The purpose: to make money for their deadly cause.  However, the way they make their money is through criminal activity and crimes against the indigenous people of those areas.  Again: this is a party who hold themselves as Party of G-d; if they are Party of G-d, why are they bunch of criminals?  Is criminal activity that includes rape, murder, human smuggling, theft, burglary, IP crimes, and many other crimes, a notion that their G-d wants to promote itself?  The more I read about these things, the more I realize what a bunch of criminal crooks they are who are nothing but a mob looking after their own self-interest.  &lt;br /&gt;At the end of this path, it amazing how bunch of little school boys who goes to universities in this country, who never even lived in those areas (of course w/ exception of some vacation they took for a week or two),  look up to these criminals.  They all call themselves: WE’RE ALL HEZBOLLAH.  They have no idea what kind of criminal they are calling themselves.  Hezbollah is criminal gang; it’s not a political force.  A political force that is funded by criminal activity is nothing but a mob or organized crime.  Their ideology is in total contradiction with their actions and it is clear that this Party of G-d is nothing but a party of criminals.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-4651393193091275149?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/4651393193091275149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=4651393193091275149&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4651393193091275149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4651393193091275149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/03/hezbollah-party-of-allah-or-criminals.html' title='HEZBOLLAH: PARTY OF ALLAH OR CRIMINALS?'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SbmNHL5BS-I/AAAAAAAAAds/vv0L6NXoN0A/s72-c/n11317224_30970922_3374.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7507140276253135502</id><published>2009-01-29T15:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T15:53:42.385-08:00</updated><title type='text'>COMMENT MODERATOR IS ON</title><content type='html'>Due to barbaric nature of our beloved supporter of “Palestinian Cause” and “religion of peace” and of course their lack of respect, I am forced to turn on the “comment moderator”.  This is caused by a terrorist apologist who was educated in Berkeley and his gang who openly deny holocaust (aka Nahid and Pouya who never criticized her).  They have resorted to their childish attacks and insults that is only utilized by people whose cause is simply empty and fraudulent.  They would try to silence you through harassment, intellectual terrorism, and sabotage.   I believe this is caused by their frustration and anger regarding the fact that Hamas got their asses kicked and now they don’t have anything to celebrate for.  It seems to me that these people were dramatized or sexually harassed as kids by their family or relatives or someone close to them due to the fact that they are so hostile and uncivilized.  Anyways, sorry for inconvenience to other readers.  Leave your comments and I will publish them as soon as I get a chance.  Thanx&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7507140276253135502?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7507140276253135502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7507140276253135502&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7507140276253135502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7507140276253135502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/due-to-barbaric-nature-of-our-beloved.html' title='COMMENT MODERATOR IS ON'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-2570108797302108570</id><published>2009-01-29T11:39:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T11:56:16.426-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operation Cast Lead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Soldier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pictures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Picture'/><title type='text'>OPERATION CAST LEAD</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="width:480px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://w710.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http://w710.photobucket.com/albums/ww108/akahen/1a97560e.pbw" height="360" width="480"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/slideshows" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn.gif" style="float:left;border-width: 0;" &gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://s710.photobucket.com/albums/ww108/akahen/?action=view&amp;current=1a97560e.pbw" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn_viewallimages.gif" style="float:left;border-width: 0;" &gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-2570108797302108570?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/2570108797302108570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=2570108797302108570&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2570108797302108570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2570108797302108570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/operation-cast-lead.html' title='OPERATION CAST LEAD'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-907707357764723840</id><published>2009-01-25T19:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-25T19:20:18.207-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Car'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Personal'/><title type='text'>My New Car (Part II)</title><content type='html'>I know it is a bit too old, but when I was busy writing about Operation Cast Lead.  I did not want to divert the attention.  However after I got my old car, I realized that driving a big car is not really for me.  I am more into sporty and fast cars.  Therefore, as soon as a complication came up with the contract for Nissan Murano one, I returned the car.  Now I lease a 2009 Acura TSX.  I got this car about three weeks ago.  This model has a brand new body and of course new interior too for 2009 models.  It is an amazing car and of course, it does not fall into Persian stereo type of BMW or Mercedes.  I got the sport package for this car.  It is truly an amazing car.  The color I got is the same color as the one in this picture.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SX0rFaAt0sI/AAAAAAAAAdU/kMhpGF8v3CY/s1600-h/acura-tsx-2009-pre-01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SX0rFaAt0sI/AAAAAAAAAdU/kMhpGF8v3CY/s320/acura-tsx-2009-pre-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295436108739236546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SX0rCOa8iPI/AAAAAAAAAdM/8bbbAOXPz8c/s1600-h/0803_48z%2B2009_acura_tSX%2Binterior_view-781736.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SX0rCOa8iPI/AAAAAAAAAdM/8bbbAOXPz8c/s320/0803_48z%2B2009_acura_tSX%2Binterior_view-781736.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295436054088419570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-907707357764723840?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/907707357764723840/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=907707357764723840&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/907707357764723840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/907707357764723840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-new-car-part-ii.html' title='My New Car (Part II)'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SX0rFaAt0sI/AAAAAAAAAdU/kMhpGF8v3CY/s72-c/acura-tsx-2009-pre-01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7118475528191144988</id><published>2009-01-22T16:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-22T16:40:05.558-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operation Cast Lead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hezbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IAF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hizbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Truce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Facility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Nuclear Ambition'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'>Operation Cast Lead and its Humiliation for Hamas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SXkQZmH0pDI/AAAAAAAAAc0/lR8eR7bZ_QE/s1600-h/Gaza+Operation.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SXkQZmH0pDI/AAAAAAAAAc0/lR8eR7bZ_QE/s320/Gaza+Operation.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294280868866860082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we’re finalizing the closing chapter of Operation Cast Lead, every side is trying to figure out what just happened and what is going to happen in future.  Hamas was looking for a way to upgrade its respect around the globe and maybe promote its reputation to Hizbollah’s Level.  They were itching for an Israeli incursion into Gaza so that they could create a second Lebanon for IDF.  After Lebanon 06, IDF had lost its deterrence in the Arab world especially in Gaza.  Hamas was looking for an opportunity to repeat what Hizbollah had done in South Lebanon.  On the other hand, Iran and their agents in the region were pushing Hamas into this conflict.  Iran had greatly benefited from Lebanon and its support for Hizbollah.  Iran needed to drag Israel into a bloody conflict to distract her from attacking Iran’s nuclear facility during the transition of U.S administrations.  Therefore, they supplied Hamas with everything they could possibly find to prepare them to attack Israel.  Hamas also thought that they are going to teach Israel a new lesson.  They dug tunnels just like Hizbollah had done; they had used schools and mosques as weapon depot, and they were just waiting for Israelis to come.  So when the ceasefire came to an end by early December, they were confident enough that they could confront Israel militarily.  They also had received green light from their master (aka Iran) to start a confrontation.  So with full confident in their capabilities, even before the ceasefire come to an end, they alleged their readiness to confront Israel and resumed their attacks against Israeli civilians in the south.  However, they had miscalculated one thing.  Just like Hamas who was preparing for a war, Israel was watching Hamas’s every move.  Not even that, Israel had prepared its special units and trained them to confront Hamas in Gaza and urban areas.  Israel had learned necessary lessons from Lebanon to confront Hamas in Gaza.  Basically, Israel has Hizbollah to thank for its victory in Gaza.  Israel inflicted severe damages through air within hours of the start of conflict.  Israel was patient in its planning and she used diligence to conduct its operations in Gaza.  IDF was very organized in going into Gaza.  Israel kept clear channel of communication between commanders unlike Lebanon that units were all confused and nobody knew what to do.  A perfect example of how much damage Israe caused Hamas is this: according to Persian Israel Radio based in Jerusalem, Iran had trained about 100 Hamas fighters in Iran and they had snuck back into Gaza to prepare Hamas to confront Israel.  These fighters had received special training with regard to different type of conducting terrorist attacks or weapon trainings.  Israel chased and killed all 100 of these fighters.  In terms of military objectives, Israel showed its superiority in terms of combat and urban fighting.  Hamas had booby trapped every inch of Gaza.  Hamas looked miserable in the battles.  Israel lost 13 soldiers during this whole operation; 5-7 of them were caused by friendly fire.  That is a total embarrassment for Hamas.  How misrule and humiliated should you be that another country has to declare victory for you?  Hamas totally miscalculated its objectives and forgot that they are not Hizbollah and Israel was very prepared to confront them.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another issue that arised as a result of this war was the drift that created between commanders in Gaza and Syria.  Khaled Mashal was sitting in his comfortable house in Syria ordering these commanders to keep fighting.  He was benefiting from all the civilians who were dying in the fighting.  However, Hamas commanders kept saying that they were ready for any ceasefire and Hamas commanders in Syria kept rejecting it.  This showed the level of inhumanity and lack of respect for human life in part of Hamas commanders in Syria.  They did not even value the lives of their own men; would you imagine what they would do to Israelis if they ever get a chance?  They could not care less that their fighters did not stand a chance confronting IDF and they were just benefiting from high civilian casualties.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another issue that is important to notice is remember in Lebanon 06 how the Arab protesters were actually happy the war was happening and they were proud of Hizbollah.  &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SXkQ-UHeubI/AAAAAAAAAc8/eO47X3a03MY/s1600-h/juice.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SXkQ-UHeubI/AAAAAAAAAc8/eO47X3a03MY/s200/juice.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294281499688745394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;AngryArab blogger was celebrating the war and congratulating Hizbollah on their victory and their actions toward Israeli citizens.  They were not sad even a bit that there was a war happening simply because Israel was losing civilians; not even that, they were congratulating Hizbollah for killing and terrorizing Israeli citizens through their bombardment of civilians cities.  They were so proud of their war and they were not hiding it.  However, in this war, since Hamas was being humiliated, they were furious.  Not even that they were furious, they resorted to Anti-Semitic tactic to send their messages to the world.  Their protests were filled with absolute hate.  They were calling themselves protesting for peace and for peaceful purposes.  What happened?  How come last time that they had achieved a bit of success, they were not protesting for peace or ceasefire, but out of the sudden they decided to protest for peace?  Either way, they were humiliated just like Hamas because this time they portrayed their anger through violence and they showed their true barbaric natures.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end, Operation Cast Lead was a total success for IDF.  Unfortunately there were many civilian casualties, however the blame does not rest on Israel, Israel was targeting what any other country would target which is military targets.  &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SXkRpQCUiJI/AAAAAAAAAdE/ecPwvUArFFc/s1600-h/gcampbell.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 164px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SXkRpQCUiJI/AAAAAAAAAdE/ecPwvUArFFc/s200/gcampbell.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294282237327739026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Israel went after targets that Hamas had produced by using them for military objectives such as flying missiles toward Israel.  This time, there are extensive video library as to what Israel targeted and the extend Israel went through to defend civilian lives in the conflict.  The losers were not Hamas, the losers were Palestinian population in the areas who had to suffer and they will suffer in future.  Not that they care, in their mind, it is Israel’s fault no matter what happens.  However, Hamas will restore its military capability within a year or two, but until then, at least there will be some quiet time for the both side.  All together, Israel restored its deterrence that she had lost because her failures in Lebanon.  Now Hizbollah is on notice that Israel is ready to confront them, and if one day Hizbollah decides to send them an invitation, IDF is going to deliver them a hefty and destructive gift.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kol Hakavod IDF!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7118475528191144988?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7118475528191144988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7118475528191144988&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7118475528191144988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7118475528191144988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/operation-cast-lead-and-its-humiliation.html' title='Operation Cast Lead and its Humiliation for Hamas'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SXkQZmH0pDI/AAAAAAAAAc0/lR8eR7bZ_QE/s72-c/Gaza+Operation.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-4567185330572055170</id><published>2009-01-20T15:45:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-20T15:49:41.532-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bush'/><title type='text'>Mission 1 Accomplished</title><content type='html'>Today, everybody is focusing on Obama.  I think it is a bit exaggeration, but it is still a historical day.  However, we should not forget about the last president either.  Bush had a lot of flaws as a President.  He was the worst Commander in Chief that this country has ever seen in its history.  However, there are many things that he did right.  Therefore, he does deserve to be thanked for them.  You could also pay your gratitude by going to the site. &lt;a href="http://mission1accomplished.com/"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SXZiUGi9GtI/AAAAAAAAAcs/5SnU3l9t7SA/s1600-h/Bush.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SXZiUGi9GtI/AAAAAAAAAcs/5SnU3l9t7SA/s400/Bush.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293526509514726098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mission1accomplished.com/"&gt;Click here for the link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-4567185330572055170?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/4567185330572055170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=4567185330572055170&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4567185330572055170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/4567185330572055170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/mission-1-accomplished.html' title='Mission 1 Accomplished'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SXZiUGi9GtI/AAAAAAAAAcs/5SnU3l9t7SA/s72-c/Bush.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-2640932818556241000</id><published>2009-01-15T18:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T18:57:41.461-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operation Cast Lead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IAF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><title type='text'>Israel Divert Missiles to Save Civilian Lives</title><content type='html'>This is amazing and a slap in the face of those who say Israel does not value civilian lives or purposely targeting civilians.  This shows a complete fabrication of such stories and the best proof that Palestinian Groups such as Hamas are solely responsible for civilian deaths in those areas due to the fact that these groups use them as a human shield.  I applaud Israeli Air force and their morals.  I wonder how many Air-Forces around the world would do such a thing.  Now compare it to Hamas and Palestinian Cause supporters who purposely target civilians to send their hateful message.  Do you see a difference?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JUeSE3WWX_M&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JUeSE3WWX_M&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-2640932818556241000?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/2640932818556241000/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=2640932818556241000&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2640932818556241000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2640932818556241000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/israel-divert-missiles-to-save-civilian.html' title='Israel Divert Missiles to Save Civilian Lives'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-1725085155076441837</id><published>2009-01-13T15:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T15:24:56.402-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operation Cast Lead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Commando Units'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion of Peace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'>Anti-Aircraft in a Mosque</title><content type='html'>Israel is embarrassing Hamas time after time.  This time, Israel is doing an amazing job releasing videos showing extend of Hamas’s War Crime and utilizing civilian infrastructure for military purposes.  I wonder why the members of “religion of peace” are so angry now.  I guess this Anti-Aircraft and many missiles and mortars were taking a refuge in that center for “religion of peace” to escape Israeli ruthless aggression against them.  Good job IDF and keep up the good work. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ylVnv5WkAhA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ylVnv5WkAhA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a different development, Red Cross finally comes to its senses.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-1725085155076441837?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/1725085155076441837/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=1725085155076441837&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1725085155076441837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/1725085155076441837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/anti-aircraft-in-mosque.html' title='Anti-Aircraft in a Mosque'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-2067354910982693638</id><published>2009-01-12T20:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-12T20:56:22.912-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operation Cast Lead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion of Peace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Semitism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Protests'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Racism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islamists'/><title type='text'>Palestinian Racism is Coming Out</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SWwd7S-cy0I/AAAAAAAAAcI/QLA5OLE6D_g/s1600-h/IMG_8604.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SWwd7S-cy0I/AAAAAAAAAcI/QLA5OLE6D_g/s400/IMG_8604.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290636566796749634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we see the protests happening around the world, you can’t fail to see the level barbarism this fraudulent cause of Palestinians are putting forth.  I went to an Israeli rally and I did even see a single sign that was remotely racist or against Palestinians.  They were protesting against Hamas, and you could not even see a word such as Palestinians anywhere.  There was no flag burning, no calling for wiping off anybody, and they only protested against Hamas actions.  However, take a good look at Palestinian protests.  “[d]eath to Juice”, “Israel should be wiped off”, and "Jews are terrorists" signs are everywhere.  By the way, for the Americans who are watching from the side lines, look at the Palestinian protests, you will not see a single American flag.  I have also included a video of people who belong to “religion of peace” and I ask, ARE THESE SUB-HUMANS REALLY PEACEFUL IN THIS VIDEO?  They are dancing and screaming “la elaha elal lah” and stumping on Israeli flags, and yet they claim to be peaceful?  What is peaceful about them?  You could see the same act that you see in beheading videos and now they are walking around openly saying “death to Jews”.  Where is NY Times to document these protests, where is NY Times to document this level of racism?   This is perfect proof Israel is not dealing with civilized community or people or culture.  She is fighting barbarians like that who are only defrauding the world in a global scale and utilizing the same old global Anti-Semitism to buy support for their fraudulent cause.  Israel is fighting the true fascists of our time, the ones who even sided with Hitler during WWII.  Make no mistake, if it comes down to it, Palestinian will not only repeat Holocaust against Jews, they will take it to a different level in terms of barbaric ways they will achieve their goals.  These protests and how barbaric they turn every time Pro-Palestinians protests are the significance of the fact that Palestinians do not want peace, they just want to destroy Israel and throw Jews in to the sea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xfUSi2aE1bM&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xfUSi2aE1bM&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JP8usWwZNm4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JP8usWwZNm4&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://zombietime.com/gaza_war_protest/"&gt;Here is the link &lt;/a&gt;to more pictures and more racism for those who are interested.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-2067354910982693638?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/2067354910982693638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=2067354910982693638&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2067354910982693638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2067354910982693638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/palestinian-racism-is-coming-out.html' title='Palestinian Racism is Coming Out'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SWwd7S-cy0I/AAAAAAAAAcI/QLA5OLE6D_g/s72-c/IMG_8604.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-3465724992386112271</id><published>2009-01-11T17:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-11T17:54:37.028-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operation Cast Lead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.N.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israeli Commando Units'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'>Videos from Operation Cast Lead</title><content type='html'>Terrorist apologist’s websites are coming up with posts after posts with propaganda articles.  However the amazing part is that they are only articles.  They are only in form of opinion or unsubstantiated report or some propaganda piece produced by terrorists.  Israel on the other hand is releasing video after video embarrassing Hamas.  Operation Cast Lead is going pretty good, IDF’s casualties are relatively low and they are inflicting painful damages on Hamas. Israel is providing factual proof regarding Hamas’s War Crimes.  These videos are perfect proof of how Hamas is hiding behind civilians.  The latest one is this video about Hamas using a school and a zoo and they are booby trapping this school.  As we know Schools and Zoos are considered civilian infrastructure and utilizing such facilities to achieve military purposes is considered the violation of Protocol I which is a WAR CRIME.  Of course U.N. does not even bother criticizing such acts.  Here is the video: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uHhs9ihSmbU&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uHhs9ihSmbU&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-3465724992386112271?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/3465724992386112271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=3465724992386112271&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/3465724992386112271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/3465724992386112271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/videos-from-operation-cast-lead.html' title='Videos from Operation Cast Lead'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-8962580247816576945</id><published>2009-01-08T16:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-08T16:47:47.122-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Israel Campaign'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist-apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian Cause'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Semitism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraudulent Cause'/><title type='text'>Hamas and Palestinian Cause</title><content type='html'>When watching this clip, just remember: Palestinians voted for these guys, and not too long ago, they rallied in millions in their support.  If that’s not enough, take a good look at the speeches given, they are not talking about Zionists, they are talking about Jews specifically.  However, their agents and apologists in Europe and U.S. campuses cannot say Jews openly; therefore they proceed with the same Anti-Semitism B.S and replace the words Jews with Zionism.  That is completely accepted and encouraged by the so-called liberal left and academia.  Hamas is Palestinian Cause.  This is Palestinian Cause for you, a fraudulent cause that has done nothing for humanity except deceive and misleading it with one deadly goal: get rid of Jews from their inheritance and annihilate them from their own land.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i08L09V0_sg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i08L09V0_sg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanx LGF&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-8962580247816576945?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/8962580247816576945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=8962580247816576945&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8962580247816576945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8962580247816576945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/hamas-and-palestinian-cause.html' title='Hamas and Palestinian Cause'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7734366065473605622</id><published>2009-01-07T12:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T15:27:14.615-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operation Cast Lead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian Cause'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Protests'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holocaust'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islamists'/><title type='text'>Core of Palestinian Cause and Supporters!</title><content type='html'>This is for those who say Anti-Zionism has nothing to do with Anti-Semitism.  Wow! This is Palestinian Cause for you.  It’s just that this time they said what they really think.  First, they openly denied Holocaust, and then they tried to use Holocaust for their own benefit by calling Jews Nazis.  &lt;strong&gt;Check out the scene on 3:05 on the video.  It will Shock you.&lt;/strong&gt; What is amazing about this video is it is exactly what is wrong with Middle East.  I love the fact that how they guy is preaching the "religion of peace" and then listen to the end: they are going to have no choice but to accept it.  Doesn’t that sound forceful a bit?  And then the next scene, the supporters of such “religion of peace” charge the Israeli supporters and try to intimidate them instead of protesting.  They think they more you intimidate, the more you get message crossed.  It shows exactly what Israel has to deal with in that region.  Except Israel does not stand back and be scared and say: “they are so violent”.  Instead they fight back and stand up for their existence.  Otherwise, as that girl said it, they would send “back to ovens” by people like her.  Watch the video and be prepared to be disgusted by absolute stupidity, barbarism, and idiocy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j3Xl68kP4wo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j3Xl68kP4wo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This video seems a lot similar to the protests in Berkeley against Israel.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7734366065473605622?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7734366065473605622/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7734366065473605622&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7734366065473605622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7734366065473605622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/core-of-palestinian-cause-and.html' title='Core of Palestinian Cause and Supporters!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-80008181056717213</id><published>2009-01-05T13:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T15:29:59.001-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operation Cast Lead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'>Interesting Article of the Day!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SWJ2LG6fi2I/AAAAAAAAAcA/56oiPLqGxAs/s1600-h/capt_cps_ork71_040109024507_photo00_photo_default-512x363.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 227px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SWJ2LG6fi2I/AAAAAAAAAcA/56oiPLqGxAs/s320/capt_cps_ork71_040109024507_photo00_photo_default-512x363.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287918845692971874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today as I started new semester, I started reading news.  I was looking for any excuse to write another article about the Gaza operations.  However, I don’t know why nothing jumped out except this article I read at Haaretz.  The title said that Sarkozy said, “Gaza Operation does not Strengthen Abbas.”  And the first reaction I got was, who gives a F about whether Abbas is strengthened or weakened when Israel’s southern cities are being bombarded on daily bases?  Jesus man, are European this stupid, naïve, or whitewashed that they think a country would put the safety and security of its citizens ahead of some corrupt leader of the another entity who are calling for your destruction.  The only difference between Fatah and Hamas is Fatah is a bit less extremists, but they are still very corrupt and violent.  Sarkozy should come with much better incentive for Israel to end its battles against Hamas in Gaza strip.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052589.html"&gt;Here is the link.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-80008181056717213?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/80008181056717213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=80008181056717213&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/80008181056717213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/80008181056717213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/interesting-article-of-day.html' title='Interesting Article of the Day!'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SWJ2LG6fi2I/AAAAAAAAAcA/56oiPLqGxAs/s72-c/capt_cps_ork71_040109024507_photo00_photo_default-512x363.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-6641294103387141838</id><published>2009-01-01T13:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T13:58:48.570-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IAF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Truce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'>Some Data and Video from Gaza</title><content type='html'>The world is mad at Israel for standing up for herself.  The world demands Israel to cease all attacks.  Here is a simple data that should be presented to them with the question, do any of their countries would tolerate this act of aggression against their country?  Hamas chose to end ceasefire, and even during the so-called cease fire, there were daily rocket attack on southern parts of Israel. &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SV07QtftNLI/AAAAAAAAAb4/n2hU-L6faN0/s1600-h/data+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SV07QtftNLI/AAAAAAAAAb4/n2hU-L6faN0/s400/data+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286446695879357618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, the war is not going bad either.  I have no doubt that it will not stop Hamas from rockets. &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SV046JmmLoI/AAAAAAAAAbo/ad12gOsbK0A/s1600-h/Hamas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 248px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SV046JmmLoI/AAAAAAAAAbo/ad12gOsbK0A/s320/Hamas.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286444109264203394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; However it is good to create a deterrent and create a high price for every rocket that is flown toward Israel.  When the price is too high, they might think twice before shooting anything toward Israel.  Yesterday, Israel sent a big fish to heaven and fulfilled his child fantasy of becoming a martyr.  Sheikh Nizar Rayyan, 52, a senior Hamas leader and cleric, was killed along with several others on Thursday when an IAF aircraft dropped a bomb on the eight-story Jabalya apartment building he lived in, the IDF said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a different note, Hamas and those leftist terrorist-apologists are crying their eyes out that Israel is butchering the Palestinians.  Now, here is another video of how Hamas has utilized religious and civilian compounds for military objectives.  If the leftist wack-jobs are crying because Israel targeted a mosque and they want to call an attack on civilian infrastructure, they need to check Protocol I and what is considered a military objective.  As soon as a compound is used for storage or to fulfill any military objective, they lose the civilian status and they become a valid military target.  However, this is not a new argument.  The reason is because the other side is going to argue that Israel is reckless in choosing its targets, the counter argument is going to the recklessness lies not on Israel, rather it is Hamas who has chosen those civilians areas to prevent Israeli attacks.  Anyways, I am not going to get into details of this argument, but this video is a perfect example of what Hamas is doing and how they are violating international treaties.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LCVr7MBhgj0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LCVr7MBhgj0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanx LGF&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-6641294103387141838?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/6641294103387141838/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=6641294103387141838&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6641294103387141838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6641294103387141838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2009/01/world-is-mad-at-israel-for-standing-up.html' title='Some Data and Video from Gaza'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SV07QtftNLI/AAAAAAAAAb4/n2hU-L6faN0/s72-c/data+1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-6489493350673268232</id><published>2008-12-31T11:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-31T11:18:52.346-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IAF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Victocrat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Truce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>While the other side has restore to their daily lies and rhetoric, Israel is coming up with hard cold facts and proof to show why Israel is conducting its attack.  While the other side is using bumper sticker slogans and crazy wack-job former congresswomen to mislead international community as they do every time, Israel is releasing more videos of they are actually targeting.  As Palestinians are staging more photos to defraud international community, Israel is showing the world what they are targeting.  As the Arab world is enraged again and again for a war that Hamas chose to begin, Israel is showing what they are targeting.  As Iran is closing down more newspapers for criticizing Hamas for using Palestinian population as their shield against Israeli attacks, Israel is doing all it can to protect its citizens in the South.  The same victocrat tactic is being used again and again to buy sympathy for terrorist activities of Hamas.  This time, it is not going to work, not that international community is not going to fall for it, they have already fallen for it, only that Israel will keep pounding Hamas target.  Anyways, here are more videos of what is taking place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="370"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.liveleak.com/e/1d9_1230734701"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.liveleak.com/e/1d9_1230734701" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="450" height="370"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="370"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.liveleak.com/e/c26_1230732943"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.liveleak.com/e/c26_1230732943" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="450" height="370"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="370"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.liveleak.com/e/7f0_1230584566"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.liveleak.com/e/7f0_1230584566" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="450" height="370"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-6489493350673268232?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/6489493350673268232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=6489493350673268232&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6489493350673268232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6489493350673268232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2008/12/while-other-side-has-restore-to-their.html' title=''/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-6975810716040198321</id><published>2008-12-29T17:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T15:27:52.165-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operation Cast Lead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IDF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Truce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>This is most likely the last post of 2008. This is also the 150th post of the blog.  I really don’t know what to write about or what is happening in Gaza.  I do not even want to start saying who is to blame and why is this happening.  I am not even going to touch on pictures that are being staged by Palestinians to defraud the international community.  All I am going to do is simply post videos from the battlefield and show you the precision of Israeli targets.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="370"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.liveleak.com/e/213_1230583275"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.liveleak.com/e/213_1230583275" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="450" height="370"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="370"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.liveleak.com/e/424_1230574962"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.liveleak.com/e/424_1230574962" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="450" height="370"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-6975810716040198321?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/6975810716040198321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=6975810716040198321&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6975810716040198321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/6975810716040198321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2008/12/this-is-most-likely-last-post-of-2008.html' title=''/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-5065064970361813834</id><published>2008-12-24T10:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-24T11:06:38.321-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Car'/><title type='text'>My New Car</title><content type='html'>Well, after those miserable finals and finishing that scholarly writing, I came back to Los Angeles in search of some quiet and down time.  Boy was I wrong?  I had to deal with my old Honda Accord breaking down on me.  I really do not know how I survived driving that car or did not get into a bad accident.  I almost had no breaks, the engine had also problem, the heater was not working, and lately the windows did not work either.  I feel sorry for the sucker who is going to buy this lemon.   Anyways, after dealing with that old car, I came to a conclusion that keeping that car was a huge mistake and just a waste of money.  So with assistance and support of my family, I finally closed a deal on a brand new 2009 Nissan Murano.  I have never had a brand new car all to myself, and it is a totally different feeling.  I was driving a Nissan for my college years and they are fairly a reliable car.  At the same time, I have wanted to join the sport utility cars club for a while, so I went with this choice.  It is an amazing car, but driving a Nissan does not go well with Persian community of southern California.  Either case, I am happy with the car and it is an amazing car. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SVKHS-2LGBI/AAAAAAAAAbg/vpx5tzXQw5Y/s1600-h/car+outside.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SVKHS-2LGBI/AAAAAAAAAbg/vpx5tzXQw5Y/s320/car+outside.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283434073036625938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SVKHLp1ffYI/AAAAAAAAAbY/o7Z9Ie7K2Nc/s1600-h/car+inside.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SVKHLp1ffYI/AAAAAAAAAbY/o7Z9Ie7K2Nc/s320/car+inside.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283433947137539458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SVKHS-2LGBI/AAAAAAAAAbg/vpx5tzXQw5Y/s72-c/car+outside.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-384101534837244255</id><published>2008-12-17T10:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-17T10:43:23.126-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><title type='text'>Craziest Chase Ever</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QTVnpr2ZqZg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/384101534837244255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2008/12/craziest-chase-ever.html' title='Craziest Chase Ever'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-5945268529787817208</id><published>2008-12-14T15:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-14T15:55:34.500-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Finals'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iraq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iraq War'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Funny Video'/><title type='text'>Flying Shoe Toward Bush-Courtesy of Iraqi Freedom</title><content type='html'>Every semester during finals, I put up something funny to cheer myself up.  This semester, news blessed me with such a clip.  OH my G-d, Thanks to Matt, I got distracted by this video.  I have to say that it really made me laugh.  Today is a crazy day.  I am jailed at the library due to finals and missing out on a lot of fun stuff on TV.  First on NFL, Chargers had a crazy win that they desperately needed.  Second, I might be buying a car by the end of today.  And now this video: it totally made my day.  I am amazed at the way Bush reacted.  I can’t believe his reflexes are this sharp.  Whether going to Iraq was a good idea or not, or the consequences or handling of the situation in Iraq was done in a competent fashion, there is one thing I wonder: I wonder if this so called “journalist” (who by the way is supposed to be unbiased and just report) would have been able to do the same thing during Saddam regime.  Bush said it very nicely, it’s part of freedom and expressing how feels about The United States President who made this act possible.  MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!&lt;br /&gt;Overall, it is hilarious and it totally made my day.  Thanks Matt! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe height="339" width="425" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/28223089#28223089" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-5945268529787817208?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/5945268529787817208/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=5945268529787817208&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5945268529787817208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5945268529787817208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2008/12/flying-shoe-toward-bush-courtesy-of.html' title='Flying Shoe Toward Bush-Courtesy of Iraqi Freedom'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-2973598608991478028</id><published>2008-12-11T13:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T14:27:26.276-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Bloggers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ahmadinejad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dekhshan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iranian Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><title type='text'>Ironic Turn of Event for an Ahmadinejad Supporter</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SUGTX0cAd0I/AAAAAAAAAbQ/bzAcjfSs0Og/s1600-h/Derakhshan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SUGTX0cAd0I/AAAAAAAAAbQ/bzAcjfSs0Og/s200/Derakhshan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278662275677321026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two three days ago I had a confrontation with some Terrorist-apologists from Berkeley that I know from Undergrad.  I am not going into detail what took place, but it was just typical argument between the two sides along with some personal and childish attacks.  However, one thing I heard from this Iranian guy was that Palestinian situation is the most important issue and that Israel was the root of all evil in the region and a lot of horse maneuver like that.  What was amazing is that he was referring that Israel is more important to him than Iranian situation.  It was amazing for me to see Iranians who care more about Israel than their own country which is Iran.  Today, I read in the news regarding this Iranian blogger called Hussein Derakhshan.  This guy is a stiff supporter of Ahmdinejad and his policies toward Israel and U.S.  In another word, he is a mouth piece for this ruthless government and he always channels his criticism toward Israel.  He is a lot like these terrorist-apologists in Berkeley that I had the pleasure of meeting.  However, Derakhshan was a lot more involved and he is a lot gutsier than those guys in Berkeley.  Derakhshan is a brilliant Persian writer and has done a lot for Iranian blogger.  Many in Iran call him the G-d father of bloggers in Iran.  The irony of this story is that he was just picked up security agents in Iran and he has disappeared for the last week or two.  &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728163521&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"&gt;Here is link to the news article about him&lt;/a&gt;.  It is funny, the same government that he was strongly supporting is the one who is violating his human rights now and jailing him.  He visited the “evil Zionist” country and he was sent to speak in a University, that same government that he was defending him in “Zionist” universities is the one who has jailed him now.  I hope nothing bad happens to him and he gets release soon because he is a human being and even though our political views vastly differs, I don’t want anything bad happen to him. He hasn’t committed a serious crime against humanity except expressing his opinion.  I just think this is ironic.  I wonder if these terrorist apologists would change their mind if they were Mr. Derakhshan?  I highly doubt it because their hatred of Israel goes well beyond just their so called "sense of humanity" and sympathy for Palestnians.  It is sad that we live in a world like this today that we have these people think like that.  The guy thought he was defending his country against the evil Zionists, yet he ended up being jailed by the same group of people he was tyring to defend in the Media.  &lt;br /&gt;Here are the link to his Farsi and English Blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hoder.com/weblog/"&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i.hoder.com/"&gt;Farsi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-2973598608991478028?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/2973598608991478028/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=2973598608991478028&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2973598608991478028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/2973598608991478028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2008/12/ironic-turn-of-event-for-ahmadinejad.html' title='Ironic Turn of Event for an Ahmadinejad Supporter'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SUGTX0cAd0I/AAAAAAAAAbQ/bzAcjfSs0Og/s72-c/Derakhshan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-8196762430812156702</id><published>2008-12-02T11:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-03T12:12:41.690-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Religion of Peace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anti-Semitism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Torture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jews'/><title type='text'>Mumbai Terrorists Tortured Jews</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/STWLDv58gbI/AAAAAAAAAbA/fy2lQIM9YSI/s1600-h/funural.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/STWLDv58gbI/AAAAAAAAAbA/fy2lQIM9YSI/s320/funural.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275275435049779634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barbarians from “religion of peace” in Mumbai conducted a gross attack. Amazing part of it is their true hatred of Jews.  Apparently they had tortured the Jewish hostages before killing them.  Here is a small detail of what has happened: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“The couple left a 2-year-old son, Moshe, who was rescued by his Indian nanny. Rivka was six months pregnant when she was killed, a Chabad spokesman, Avraham Berkowitz, said Tuesday.&lt;br /&gt;The condition of bodies recovered from the Nariman Building, which housed the Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch retreat, horrified doctors, the Telegraph reported.&lt;br /&gt;"I have seen so many dead bodies in my life, and was traumatized," a mortician told the Telegraph. "It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood."&lt;br /&gt;Some were found with their throats slit and others were executed in a line with a bullet to the forehead.&lt;br /&gt;The crowd of thousands at their funeral included Israel's president, Shimon Peres, the country's chief rabbis and other top government officials.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460133,00.html"&gt;Click here for the full story&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/STWLYKj19vI/AAAAAAAAAbI/O7MAKq4mXFk/s1600-h/child.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/STWLYKj19vI/AAAAAAAAAbI/O7MAKq4mXFk/s200/child.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275275785802217202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The amazing part is that liberal morons in Media around the world are still trying to search for a name for these morons (&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122816892289570229.html"&gt;Click here for the story&lt;/a&gt;).  A lot of them still trying to call them something else besides terrorists, or still trying to refuse to call them Islamist Terrorists.  I don’t know how they want to explain the fact that these ISLAMIST TERRORISTS were fueled by Islam, not by Christianity, not by Judaism, and at the same time, it is not the first this has happened.  This is truly sad.  A lot of Terrorist-Apologists are sitting quietly, not a word about what had happened, at the same time, they always argued that Muslims are not and could not be anti-Semitic.  These apologists argue that their only problem is with Israel and they are trying to stop the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinian.  I really would like to see how they would respond to this act of torture.  Now, their brothers just grossly tortured Jews before cutting their throat or shooting them point blank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the video of the funeral.  Again, compare it with the “religion of peace” funerals and how they would react.  Look what the Rabi is asking at the end, and what kind of revenge he is asking for, and compare it with the revenge and skull and bone crushing that we usually see from the other side.  The sad part is that BBC and Yahoo tried to put a violent spin to his speech.  They wrote that the Rabi was asking for revenge and how G-d would take revenge, but they never wrote what kind of revenge they were asking for.  This is what I call Liberal Moron White Washed News who has lost complete morality and accuracy due to the fact that they are trying to cater to their bigger audiences and not to piss them off.  Either way, just do the comparison of the funerals and the type of revenge the religions are usually asking for. &lt;iframe height="339" width="425" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/28030600#28030600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-8196762430812156702?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/8196762430812156702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=8196762430812156702&amp;isPopup=true' title='32 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8196762430812156702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/8196762430812156702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2008/12/mumbai-terrorists-tortured-jews.html' title='Mumbai Terrorists Tortured Jews'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/STWLDv58gbI/AAAAAAAAAbA/fy2lQIM9YSI/s72-c/funural.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>32</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-7930124797250860824</id><published>2008-12-01T14:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T15:02:42.641-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World Aids Day'/><title type='text'>World Aids Day</title><content type='html'>Today is world’s AIDS day.  Unfortunately, AIDS these days don’t get as much attention as it deserves.  Even though, this sickness is slaughtering millions of people, somehow the world has forgotten about it.  I know one reason: it is no longer primary issue for gay community.  They got bigger causes to stand for such as Gay Marriage.  These days, causes such as Gay Marriage and Global Warming theory are more important than a disease that is slaughtering millions of people around the world.  Of course, let’s waste money and media attention on those rather than saving lives.  Today is World’s AIDS DAY and we should all do something to help.  Here is the link of how you could get involved. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.worldaidsday.org" title="Link to the official World AIDS Day website"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.worldaidsday.org/images/WAD/ribbon_download.gif" width="120" height="89" alt="Support World AIDS Day" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-7930124797250860824?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/7930124797250860824/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=7930124797250860824&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7930124797250860824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/7930124797250860824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2008/12/world-aids-day.html' title='World Aids Day'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-5209309022205260675</id><published>2008-11-29T20:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T20:16:45.115-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist Apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='वो'/><title type='text'>WOW</title><content type='html'>Wow!&lt;br /&gt;I could only say WOW.  I really don’t know what else to write or how to even respond to this guy.  I’ll just show you the video and let you decide for yourself.  Wow!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eXX__iJJvXc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eXX__iJJvXc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-5209309022205260675?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/5209309022205260675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=5209309022205260675&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5209309022205260675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5209309022205260675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post.html' title='WOW'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-3286019403953409015</id><published>2008-11-23T11:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T12:07:49.131-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ahmadinejad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Translation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holocaust'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dorooghe (IT IS A LIE)'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poetry'/><title type='text'>Dorooghe (IT IS A LIE)</title><content type='html'>I haven’t done this for a very long time.  Once in a while, I translate something from Farsi (usually Music or a video clip) to English.  I usually do this to show the level hatred or stupidity in Iranian ruling government.  However, this time I am translating a poem that is truly amazing.  I had no idea how hard it is to translate a poem.  It is still not as good as it should be, but it gets the job done.  It is regarding Dr. Ahmadinejad and his stance on Holocaust.  I don’t know whether it is composed inside Iran or by opposition groups in exile.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i1e6y5TACjA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i1e6y5TACjA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TRANSLATION:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;You say the murder of wondering tribe is a lie, &lt;br /&gt;Thousands of bodies in the burning oven is a lie, &lt;br /&gt;The bullet on mother’s heart while holding her baby, the baby’s look at her lifeless mother is a lie&lt;br /&gt;Europe and the long burning cold winter, the naked bodies of lifeless ladies is a lie&lt;br /&gt;The gas chambers in the heart of the night is a lie&lt;br /&gt;The bodies of injured and weak babies is a lie&lt;br /&gt;The young and old are in line for executioner, the orphans who are left from these friends is a lie&lt;br /&gt;You say that cold base of Auschwitz and the voice of boots of soldier is a lie&lt;br /&gt;The cry of millions of miserable Jews from the oppression of bloody thirsty Nazi leader of Europe is a lie&lt;br /&gt;But is the oppression against the Iranian nation a lie? &lt;br /&gt;Is hanging friends in the name of religion a lie?&lt;br /&gt;Is cutting the heads of Pens for the crimes of writing and publishing the truth a lie? (He is referring to shutting down newspapers in Iran and execution of some of the writers or owners of news papers)&lt;br /&gt;Say whether the daily execution of open minded and intellectual is a lie? &lt;br /&gt;The Iranian woman in a season of unfair battle, the Iranian woman in a season of unfair battle, is putting that dark Hijab on her by force a lie? &lt;br /&gt;Say whether by force or threat of force using raiser and knives, confiscating and jailing Iranian freedom a lie? &lt;br /&gt;You are saying something that every wise free man should know that saying of an unwise dictator is nothing but a lie.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-3286019403953409015?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/3286019403953409015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=3286019403953409015&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/3286019403953409015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/3286019403953409015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2008/11/dorooghe-it-is-lie.html' title='Dorooghe (IT IS A LIE)'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-5228117309463063029</id><published>2008-11-18T15:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-18T15:33:01.605-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='U.N'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorist-apologists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hizbollah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Human Rights'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gaza Strip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iran'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Human Right Council'/><title type='text'>U.N. Human Rights Council Wastes $23 Million on an Art Piece</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SSNQdk57U5I/AAAAAAAAATk/_9HAznOpank/s1600-h/Human+rights.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 249px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SSNQdk57U5I/AAAAAAAAATk/_9HAznOpank/s320/Human+rights.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270144458006680466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every once in a while, when you need to waste some times, start an argument with a terrorist-apologist regarding Israel/Palestinian situation.  It would not take them more than thirty seconds before they point out to Human Right Groups or U.N. Human Right Council and their condemnation and reports regarding Israel.  They always classify these groups as neutral self-less groups whose only goal is to promote Human Rights.  That might be true in theory, but reality is far from the theory in this case.  For many years, there has been criticism of these groups regarding their treatment of world’s human right abusers such as Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and many African countries, while they pick on Israel for every little detail.  Perfect example: it was Hezbollah who used cluster bombs first.  Then Israel responded with carpet bombing using cluster bombs of Southern Lebanon in the last two or three days of the war.  These groups heavily criticized Israel for using those bombs, while mentioning very little that Hezbollah used cluster bombs.  They didn’t even bother to mention it was Hezbollah who used these cluster munitions first.  These groups have been criticized for being biased toward Israel.  In Iran, student activists are vanishing and executed, opposition are being repressed, and teenage girls are being exported to Arab nations as prostitutes, yet Human Rights Council rarely bring up the subject. &lt;br /&gt;Now, with all those criticism, they do something as stupid as this: &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454191,00.html"&gt;Click Here for the link&lt;/a&gt;.  They spend millions of dollars for their self-fulfilling parties and pat themselves in the back for the spectacular job they have done in promoting Human Rights.  It is a shameful organization that has been nothing but a constant disappointment in every field they tried to make an improvement.  Their departments are probably filled with Anti-Semites or incompetent people who probably get paid by rich Saudis and Arab leaders to endlessly criticize Israel and defame the Jewish nation.  Otherwise, why else would they turn blind eye to situation in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other Muslim countries and make countless attempts to defame Israel.  However, this news article provides the best proof how incompetent these groups have become in terms of helping people in need such as in Congo were people are dying in thousands.  Instead, let’s worry about Israel’s closure of Gaza strip and terrorist groups are suffering in those region.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-5228117309463063029?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/5228117309463063029/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=5228117309463063029&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5228117309463063029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5228117309463063029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2008/11/un-human-rights-council-wastes-23.html' title='U.N. Human Rights Council Wastes $23 Million on an Art Piece'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SSNQdk57U5I/AAAAAAAAATk/_9HAznOpank/s72-c/Human+rights.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31569376.post-5821973317218990603</id><published>2008-11-11T20:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T20:29:30.446-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Political Cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Election 08'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Veterans Day'/><title type='text'>Veterans Day</title><content type='html'>I don’t have much to say.  However I do believe this picture describes everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SRpbaxmCSWI/AAAAAAAAATU/cchSNtKC_Uw/s1600-h/veteran.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 332px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SRpbaxmCSWI/AAAAAAAAATU/cchSNtKC_Uw/s400/veteran.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267623229710813538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31569376-5821973317218990603?l=benjaminkahen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/feeds/5821973317218990603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31569376&amp;postID=5821973317218990603&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5821973317218990603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31569376/posts/default/5821973317218990603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://benjaminkahen.blogspot.com/2008/11/veterans-day.html' title='Veterans Day'/><author><name>Ben Kahen, ESQ.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06566195213493551536</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/R8xxs9LHa7I/AAAAAAAAALY/2a2pOAIzUdM/S220/smoking.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oB9wOV-9oiA/SRpbaxmCSWI/A
