Erdogan’s Hate for Israel

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.

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?“

Haaretz

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.

Gilad Shalit is Going Home!

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

New Product from Iran: Let us Kill Our People or We Will Kill You!

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.

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."

YNETNEW.COM
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.

"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.

HAARETZ.COM
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.
To make the picture ever clearer here, basically what Syria and Iran are saying is this, “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!” 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.
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.
Once again: we have Islamic Revolution of Iran to thank for such new phenomenon.

Iranian Government’s Agenda in the Region: Assisting Dictators to Stay in Power

It is amazing. The Islamic Revolution of Iran has turned into Oppression University around the globe. The perfect example is this:

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.

JPOST.com

Syria is going through Iranian Government oppression handbooks play-by play. This is from a while back in an article in Wall-Street Journal:

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.

Wall-Street Journal

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.

NEVER AGAIN!

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.”

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.

JPOST

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.
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.

Another Supporter of Palestinian Cause Resort to Lies—Gee I am Shocked!

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 MORONS FORGOT TO CHECK WHETHER THESE NAMES WERE ACTUALLY ACTIVE AT THE TIME OF THE FLOTILLA INCIDENT.
It was quickly proven that many of the names were simply copied from name of the soldiers who defended Israel during Operation Cast Lead. To add to the story, it was also shown that some of these guys were from different Units in IDF that were completely unrelated to Navy or any Special Ops Units. 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.
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.

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Give us a State or We will Kill you!

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

made by Palestinians:
Senior Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath said Wednesday that the Palestinians' statehood bid at the United Nations is the only alternative to violence, stressing that the UN move will give the Palestinians the chance to promote their rights.

Here is the link.
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.
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.

Perfect Example of Mainstream Media’s Support for Obama

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:

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.
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.

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.
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.
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.

So, am I being wrong here?

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CAIR’s 9/11 Message is Nothing but a Lie

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.
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:

“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.

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.
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.
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.
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.

Stupid Argument of Terrorist-apologists about Naval Blockade of Gaza

Turkey and its Islamic Fundamentalist Ruling Party is demanding an apology from Israel and they are following it with an ultimatum. Click here for the article. 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.
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.

Fifth Anniversary of my Blog-Wow!

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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Escalation would have been a Wrong Move

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.
Hamas is playing along and they are actually working with Israel in restoring peace in the region. Click here for the story. 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.

BBC’s Blatant Anti-Israel Bias

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.
Let me know what you think of this.

Fake Jews: the New Tools to Justify Terrorism Against Israelis

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. Here is the perfect example. 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!
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.
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.
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.

The Joke of the Day: Saudi Arabia Teaching Syria about Human Rights

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. The latest joke of the “Arab Spring” is Saudi Arabia. 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.
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.
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.
Let me know what you think and whether you could see any hope for the region.

"Captain Israel" Has Come to Rescue!

Remember the stupidity of “Foreskin Man” 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 “Foreskin Man” 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".


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.

Feel free to leave your comment and let me know what you think about this.

Thanks to Israelicool Blogger.

An Amazing Display of Iranian Heart

Honestly, what a beautiful move!!

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.

Click Here for the full story.
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. 

Protest in Egypt for “Islamic” Government

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. Here is an article from NY Times with regards to the “Unity Protest”.

Obama is a Loser

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.

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."

Here is the link to the rest of the article. 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.

Tough Times for Hezbollah -Part 2

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 (Click Here for the link). Nasrallah said,

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.

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.
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.

Amazing Victory for Israel on the Sea

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.
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.
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. It is a very interesting article that explains the situation and how the whole process started falling apart for the Pro-terrorist movement.

“Gay Orthodox Shabaton was like ‘heaven’”: WHAAAT!!!!

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.
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:

Gay Orthodox Shabbaton Was Like ‘Heaven’
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.”

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.

“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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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?”

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.

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.

“I have the Internet — I would still be in the closet without it,” he adds.

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.

“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.

“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.”

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.

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Unknown Heroes Behind the Mission that Located Osama Bin Laden

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:

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Disparate strands
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
'We'll get there'
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bigger picture
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reassuring confidence
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

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

Releasing of the Oil Reserves: a Stunt for Election ONLY!

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!!! Click Here for the full story. 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.
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!
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!