I laugh at Jews who accuse the Arabs of terrorism. Look at Moses. He had the purely political aim of national divestment from Egypt. He brought plagues on Egypt, an early form of biowarfare. Finally, he had Egyptian civilians, including babies, killed. And the oppressed Jews looted their oppressors. Doesn’t that sound like a model for Palestinian terrorism? It’s not that Moses did a bad thing; rather, the terrorism of the Palestinians is an equally ethical form of war.

No, it isn’t. It has just ceased to be right. And the process started when the great freedom fighter and good soldier Begin turned into an inept politician and gave away the Sinai for nothing.

Thus only twelve seats for Likud now is no surprise. I like it that Kadima got far fewer than expected: evidently, the voters recognized its quasi-right claims as nonsense. You cannot be half-right: realism does not compromise itself. Just let some leftist misconcepts into your agenda, and watch the entire policy go hollow.

Olmert will betray his voters further by aligning with the leftists. Welcome to Israel, governed by an alliance of the spineless and the Left.

Being born and, educated in the USSR, I imagine I understand things there better than foreign commentators given to wishful thinking.

America has the discouraging habit of involving itself in places it has not even the slightest clue about. The Middle East was it for decades, and now the Bush Administration has decided to meddle in Eastern Europe.

What the US strategic interests in that area are, I cannot imagine. Since Russia doesn’t need containing, why spend billions propping up regimes hostile to Russia and strengthen Russian nationalists fearful of Western expansion?

Anyway, last year the US funneled about a billion dollars into the Ukrainian Orange Revolution, the American inmates’ robe color. Vast numbers of demonstrators were hauled in from the provinces for $16 a day, and the locals joined the show to get free goodies, like food and coats.

America, as usual, propped one scoundrel up against another. The opposition was led by the pro-Russian prime minister, twice convicted of rape and robbery. The pro-American side naturally consisted of Ukrainian nationalists, largely anti-semites. Both sides forged elections in the regions they controlled, and the result of 46% for the pro-Russians was not unreasonable. The US officials just did not know that in non-democracies about a third of the people automatically vote for the ruling party, pro-Russian in this case. Anyway, the elected president (the one convicted of violent felonies) was displaced and the pro-American one installed.

Just over a year later, the ostensibly popular pro-American president’s party got a mere 16% of the vote in the parliamentary elections. The convict’s party got the majority. The good thing is that the elections restored the balance of power, tilting it a bit away from the Ukrainian nationalists. The bad thing, the continuing downward spiral of the Ukrainian economy that survives by amortizing old Soviet industrial assets, will surely bring about a crisis, and the Jews will be right there to kill, as always happens in the Ukraine.

America destabilizes the Middle East by forcing equally silly policies on Israel.

As someone often identified to the right of Rav Kahane and certainly no leftist, I can safely argue in favor of the Palestinians.

They do not support Hamas. In a political vacuum, campaigning against an Israeli puppet or at least collaborator, Hamas got only 44%. That might seem like a lot to citizens of democracies but is very modest in the Middle East where 90% votes and above are common. Some Palestinians bought Hamas’ hints at moderation; some saw no alternative; some went along. Given the extraordinary circumstances of no opposition, a 44% vote is consistent with Hamas’ historical 15-25% support. Also, Hamas gets more votes than the polls indicate because fewer women than men show up at the polls; women are presumably less radical.

The point is, we may dislike the Palestinians, expel them, even inflict retaliatory and collateral damage on them, but do so decently, without silly lies.

The newest absurdity is prohibiting foreign ownership of critical US infrastructure.

Nobody worried about British P&O managing American ports. Nor could a prohibition be enforced, given the multitude of instruments such as trust arragements, proxy, street name holdings, and so on. Neither is a prohibition desirable: why discourage foreign investment in, for example, AT&T?

And how about domestic ownership? Could the perfectly American CAIR Foundation buy American ports? Could American Arab citizens who happen to be fervent Muslims manage port security or, for example, nuclear power plants? Could American Arabs buy P&O and retain DP World as consultants?

It makes sense to drop the political correctness and say that, yes, people are not equal, that, yes, the enemy has a face. That terrorism is Islamic and that we suspect Muslims particularly, foreign or American.

Object to the Dubai Ports-P&O deal because of security concerns? Arab managers would help fellow Muslims bring a dirty bomb into the US? That is truly ridiculous.

With over 6,000 fast-track American importers, private airports, and open borders, Arabs hardly need control five US ports to import a bomb. That is beside a gross overestimation of the dangers of dirty bombs, a pile of mildly radioactive materials that can be obtained easily from legitimate sources.

Abandon the politically correct language. Say that Americans are uncomfortable with hostile aliens managing their vital infrastructure. It’s that simple and perfectly legitimate. A very human distrust of aliens, especially those with a proven hostile record. No justification is necessary.

But we are coming back to the Iran affair almost daily. A lemming told me today that Iran is unlikely to use weapons against Israel. Got it? Unlikely! How unlikely? An eighty percent chance? Thirty?

Israel is not America or Russia. Stop applying others’ military doctrines to her uncritically. Other countries have depth; they can take chances. Israel does not. One bomb detonated in one of their cities is statistically nothing for the United States or Russia. It is everything for crowded Israel. It is the last everything.

If Iran gets nuclear weapons, Jews should get out. A 30% chance is too much. The Holocaust already destroyed two thirds of us. We must save the rest. No, the lemmings won’t.

And how silly is it to talk about chances! Who can imagine that nuclear Iran won’t have a mad ruler in, say, a century? Just one. They have already had a few. They can be in peace and charity with Israel for decades. Just one mad ruler would use the bomb. Just one. Others will be good.

Firearms were considered ungentlemanly. European, Chinese, and Japanese gentlemen condemned them. But the brutes used them, and the brutes won.

It is not a matter of probability whether Iran, Korea, and Pakistan will use their bombs. It is a matter of how fast probability accrues: in years or decades. At any rate, it accrues fast. Any nuclear bombs Muslims have will end up in Israel. No doubt.

Want a nuke? Go build one. The low-IQ president could not have made his message clearer.

India, not a signer of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, builds nuclear weapons, and the United States humbly asks to inspect her civil nuclear facilities. What about the military facilities, the most important thing? Who cares?

And the message to Iran is: go on, guys. What an NPT outlaw can do, surely NPT signatories can do.

Sanctions would not have worked? Who tried them? Who stopped selling India weapons? Who firmly isolated the nuclear aspirant with an iron curtain? It takes Sir Winston’s guts to oppose evil. It evidently doesn’t take any brains to stick your head in the sand. Push it a little deeper, the mushroom looms.

We are discussing the Iranian nuclear program again. I cannot believe people’s stupidity. Not stupidity, actually. Cowardice.

Sure, Iran is not Iraq. I understand that. The Iranian program is dispersed. But we know lots of their facilities for sure and can estimate the rest with better than 80% accuracy. Bomb them all.

What really drives me mad is ignoring the Korean nuclear program. Iran might or might not show some responsibility with nuclear weapons (I believe it would use them soon). Korea, however, is totally, utterly irresponsible—and desperate. It sells missiles and will surely sell the bomb to Muslims, to terrorists, to any bidder.

I don’t mind if Asia plunges into the nuclear arms race per se, but only inasmuch as it threatens Israel. And threaten it will. Call me apocalyptic, but I’m sure Israel is running out of time. The bomb which will be smuggled into Tel Aviv is being produced now.

Denmark is a special country for me. It is the only country that rescued its Jews during the Holocaust. Unlike in Bulgaria, Danish rescue efforts came from the people, not from a few intellectuals in power.

I rarely read newspapers and don’t enjoy comics or caricatures. I don’t see, however, anything particular obscene about the Danish caricatures of the prophet. Sure, far harsher things are drawn about Jesus.

I would, however, support the Danes even if they showed Mohammed obscenely. I just owe them that much. Kissinger writes that de Gaulle refused even to look at American photos of the Soviet missile installations in Cuba and supported the United States in the missile crisis out of gratitude for their help in WWII. I think along the same lines.

I know it’s only a legend that Danes went out in the streets wearing yellow badges. But I like that legend. We all love some legends.

Now, when the Muslims find a Danish outlet for their xenophobia, we should all wear badges and post the cartoons on every site.