Donít forget the 1948 assassination of Swedish humanitarian activist Count Folke Bernadotte by the Stern Gang. Thereís no question that Israel shares some of the blame. However, it is the intense anti-Semitism and self pitying victimhood nonsense of the Palestinians which is mostly responsible for the continuation of the horror.

It finally dawned on me what is the central difference between the George W. Bush Republicans and the national Democrats: the Republicans essentially believe that Israel is only 20% guilty while the Democrats foolishly contend that a 50% figure would be more accurate. This latter attitude inevitably leads to a moral equivalent perspective—and policies guaranteed to encourage more violence.

Now who should I believe? Roger’s sources or AP-fed AOL?

Roger wins. The fact they had to extend hours not to accomodate all the masses, but to get more people to show up is a good sign the people saw this as “same old, same old.”

Also, Yitzhak Shamir was a member of not only the Irgun but the even more extreme Stern Gang.

Interestingly, they both became prime ministers and Israel, under them, was not a terrorist state.

So perhaps this is a slight bit of hope. But more, I suspect it is due to the unique nature of Israel, its people, and their traditions and culture.

Old Jimmy has upheld election fraud in leftist, anti American countries, and has remained mute when a dictatorship actually committed fraud against pro-American candidates.

But then, Jimmy was the first U.S. President to embrace the murderous thug Arafat as a ’statesman’.