Just what should I make of the current rather grim-looking situation in Israel?

A quasi-defeat for Israel’s military at the hands of Hizbullah…Ongoing terrorism from the palestinians…Imminent war with Syria…A soon-to-be nuclear Iran…Israel is being led by non-believing nincompoops…And Condoleeza Rice is in the region again…Reason enough to cry?…Just ask Rabbi Akiva why HE was laughing amid the ruins of the Holy Jewish Temple Mount, while his friends and colleagues were wailing inconsolably…Or, just listen to Marty…He’ll fill you in…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

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More Likely Than Not, say Israeli Military Sources

And Don’t Forget About Syria, Lebanon and Hizbullah…

All this and MORE…

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Israel’s Nothern Border: Lebanon

Still no peace agreement…

10,000+ hostile Hizbullah missiles aimed at Israel’s heart…

Flare-ups on the rise this week…

Israel’s Northern Border: Syria

Israel and Syria are still at war…

Assad is both stubborn AND weak…

Which could be a VERY dangerous combination for the region…

Sign of Things to Come???

So far, this week alone, three cross border attacks on Israel…

What happened to Israel’s “Red Lines”???

Where is the powerful military response promised by Israel after she retreated from Lebanon???

Stay tuned…THIS story promises to be a HOT One!!!…

Listen to what this American Leader has to say about Israel, Jews and America…

And…Is the UN a Partner In Hizbullah Attacks on Israel?…

You may be surprised at the answer to THAT question…

Plus…The Chief Rabbi of Moscow is banned from entering Russia
and more visitors to Israel:
Eminem, Depeche Mode, 1.6 million humans and 500,000 birds…
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David Duke

Former Grand Wizard of the
Klu Klux Klan (KKK)…

Syrian parliament member Habash,”He has given us a very positive view of the average American”…

Some More “Average Americans”…

Getting together for a lovely Sunday bar-b-que in the park…

The “Main Course”

After all the weenies are roasted,

The marshmallows toasted…

The “Grand Finale” of a KKK get-together…

Some old-fashioned, “Good-Time Religion”, Klan-style…

Coming soon to Israel…

(looks a bit like David Duke, though, doesn’t he?

It happened to the Children of Israel in the desert, after the Exodus, with tragic results…The “Galus Mentality”, living in exile too long…Judaism without Israel cannot continue to exist…They are inseparable…Marty discusses how and why…This phenomenon continues to be so dangerously manifested in the press covering the present war..Plus…A special call to prayer and Torah study from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef…We need to cry out to G-d in these dangerous days for the Jewish people…All this and MORE…

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Marty explains what that is all about, as the Chief Rabbis of Israel call for special prayers for the release of Jonathon Pollard from American Federal Prison…

And…Ariel Sharon’s New Political Party Shares More Than Just a Name With Mussolini’s!…

Maybe a Freudian slip?, or…

Plus…American David Duke in Syria, Armed children try to breach security checkpoints, non-existent PA policeman on the payrolls, the official failure of “Land For Peace”, and calls to conquer Jerusalem…

All this and MORE…

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Strange Happenings in the Middle East: Terrorist Policemen and Syria-Iran Alliances

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From Syria openly allying with Iran to wanted terrorists donning police uniforms, current events here, in the Middle East, can only be described as “surreal”!

How else can you explain the hiring, by the Palestinian Authority, of fugitive terrorists to work as uniformed, armed policemen. And, of course, who is pay rolling the salaries? The United States and the European Union!! And NO ONE is even blinking an eye!!! (except me, maybe)

Also…high-level meetings and statements of unity in Tehran. Syria and Iran are forming a new strategic alliance of mutual defense against, who else? The United States and Israel!!!

Marty Roberts attempts to make SOME sense out of these and other Middle East oddities in this 25 minute edition of “The Marty Roberts Show”.

Russian Missile Sale to Syria: Just WHO Will These Weapons Be Used Against??? (Duhhhh!!!)

Also…The Preparations for Passover 2005 Continue…Where, Oh Where have all the Chametz (Leaven) (and the Jews, too) Gone???

All this and MORE…

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Who Are the Proud Owners of All of Israel’s Bread Today???

The traditional sale of Israel’s chametz (leaven) to Husan Ismael Jibar of Abu Gosh is a done deal. “Boy, do I have a deal for you!!!…”

Is This What Swords Beaten into Plowshares Look Like???…Putin’s Front Door

Russia is selling Israel’s neighbor, Syria, SA-18 anti-aircraft missiles. Whose civilian airliner will be the first to be brought down (G-d forbid)??? U.s.??? Israel??? England???…however…Russian presidential security…courtesy of, who else???…Israeli technology!!!

Did We, or Didn’t We???

In spite of Syria’s public denials, the Israeli Navy DID, indeed, (and continues to) assist in the rescue of Syrian and Egyptian seamen from the Syrian ship that went down this week off the coast of Israel

The Rain Turned Red: Modern-Day Plague, or Paint-Factory Pollution???

Are the “red rains” that are falling in Russia the Divine answer to Middle East weapons sales to Israel’s enemies? What about the blood-red drinking water appearing in Israel???

The Safest Beaches in the World???…Well, Sure…Now that the pollution and the sharks have been dealt with!!!

Leaving Egypt

Why do so many Israeli Jews want to go back there for Passover, even in the face of terror warnings??? G-d SAID that we were a stiff-necked people, didn’t He???…

Happy Passover, a Happy and Kosher Pesach to You and Yours, from Marty Roberts and Israel News Radio!!!

It seems so apparent…Why doesn’t the world see it?…

The world is worried about an imminent humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas…Hamas, who was elected by the Palestinians to run the Palestinian Authority, refuses to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist…They continue to wage a daily terror war against the Jewish State…This has lead to a cutoff of some of the international funding for the terrorist organization…

What to do?…Seems obvious to Marty…

And then there’s Iran…Making the time pass with more and more yapping, in order to get the last bit of work done on their nuclear weapons…Blah, blah, blah…Let’s talk some more…
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Hmmm…Should We Buy Bread or a New AK-47 Rifle?

Looks like we have the makings of a real humanitarian crisis here…

How do we even find the time to BUY bread and medicines?

We’re just TOO busy training for terror attacks and shopping for weapons and explosives…

Not to mention the cash-flow problem…

HELP!!!!

Their “Leader” – Ismail Haniyeh

He is asking for his people to pick their terror attack locations carefully…

Oh, and he continues to announce his intention to eliminate Israel from the Middle East…

He says that the financial crisis will be good for his people…

No, really…

James Wolfensohn

Even the former World Bank president doesn’t have a clue what to do…

That’s why he quit his job as the Quartet’s envoy to the Palestinian Authority…

How about, “Just stop the terror!”?

Is THIS What All of the Talking is About?

Maybe if we just talk long enough, Iran will decide that they DON’T want to nuke Israel and the Western World…

Naaah…Dont’ think so…

So why don’t we stop talking?

Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu is Off to Meet US President Obama…

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Bibi can expect to be fed a lot of dangling carrots on sticks, instead of answers about stopping Iran’s nuclear ambitions…

Obama will most likely continue Arafat’s game of slicing Israel’s salami, feeding it, piece by piece to the palestinians, unless Netanyahu does something to stop him…

I guess eating a bunch of baloney for dinner is better for Bibi than sitting in the US prez’s office while Obama dines alone with his family…

And, BTW, what is that bright, shiny new Iranian bought Syrian radar installation doing sitting on a mountaintop in Lebanon, peering into all of israel and protecting the skies of Iran from attack?


Also…Is Pope Benedict REALLY dumb enough to schedule his address to the British parliament on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar…Yom Kippur?

And…Talk about chutzpah…The GERMAN parliament is telling the Jewish State how to conduct its affairs???…What next?

Finally…”Gowngate” in Jordan…”Made in Israel” tags cause the devil to break loose at a Jordanian university graduation…

All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

Especially with some serious clouds of war hanging over the Middle East…

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Massive efforts to bring Barbara Streisand to Israel, but Elton John delivers the goods…BIG time…

Then there’s Jon Voight…supporter of Israel extraordinaire…

Plus…The Prophet Ezekiel foretells massive oil spills in the oceans preceding the Messiah…First, America’s East Coast…Now, Egypt is being “slimed out” by oil spills”…

And…The threat of war looms over Israel from all sides…North, South, East and West…Reports of Israeli military in Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan ..American, Israeli and German warships move through the Suez Canal on their way to the Persian Gulf, as Iran declares “state of war” on its northwestern border…

All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

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Lovers of Peace…Be Careful What You Wish For!!…

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Israel’s Arab neighbors are indifferent to the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran, right? WRONG!!…And they are ready to help arch-enemy ISRAEL stop the mullahs,,,
The palestinians are united in their desire for a new homeland…of course!!…Wrong again…Listen to the facts and the historical reasons why…
All of the nations of the Middle East (except Israel, of course) are united in their desire to support the palestinians and have them achieve their goal of an independent state…Well, right…except that NONE of them want it to happen!!!…Listen to understand why the Middle East countries would like nothing better that to NEVER see the creation of a palestinian state, Islamist or otherwise (with the possible exception of Syria, who simply could not care less one way or the other)
Finally, everyone would agree that the blockade on Gaza MUST be removed…Gaza MUST be opened up, correct?…Well, yes, everybody, that is, except for the countries in the MIddle East, like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and, oh yeah, don’t forget the ruling palestinian Fatah Party themselves.

So, if you really want peace, if you really hate war…better be careful about your campaign to open up Gaza…Better be careful about allowing the current delicate balance of power in the Middle East to be upset…In short…Pray for Israel’s strength…

All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

It would seem that Syria is slowly, inexorably pushing Israel towards military confrontation…another war from Israel’s north. This, in the face of empty talk of peace by Syrian President Assad. Assad, another Arab leader claiming he wants nothing but peace with Israel, but with the caveat that it be peace, only if he is given everything that he demands…Unacceptable, of course, to side #2 in this “peace”, Israel.

Syria has transferred more missiles to the Hizbullah terrorist organization in Lebanon…this time, much longer-ranged Scud missiles, capable of reaching most of Israel. Hizbullah is openly dedicated to destroying the Jewish State of Israel.

Both Israel AND the US have warned Syria about the danger of supplying Hizbullah with weapons, so far, to no avail.

Israeli Army bulldozers were filmed building embankments north of the security fence with Lebanon, an apparent preparation for war on that rapidly boiling front. More likely would be strikes by the Israeli Air Force on selected Syrian and Lebanese targets threatening Israel.

The scent of war is strong in the Middle East today…

Barak: Syria-Lebanon arms transfer violates UN resolutions

The transfer of advanced Syrian weapons to Lebanon destabilizes the region and is a blatant violation of United Nations resolutions, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday in response to media reports that Syria recently transferred Scud missiles to Hizbullah.

Reprinted from JPost.com Yaakov Katz

On Monday, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai reported that Damascus had transferred the missiles to Hizbullah and that in response, Israel had threatened to bomb Syrian and Lebanese targets.

Barak said Tuesday that the IDF was closely following what was happening in Lebanon.

“We have no offensive intentions with regard to Lebanon,” he said during a tour of the IDF’s Tel Hashomer Base. “We recommend that everyone work to retain the quiet.”

Earlier in the day, Barak visited the Ramat David Air Force Base with Deputy Chief of General Staff Maj.-Gen. Benny Gantz and said the IDF was prepared for all of the challenges it currently faced.

At the same time, though, Barak said Israel needed to make efforts to achieve peace with its neighbors.

It’s a part of life here, in Israel. You don’t really think about what it means, until you think about what it means! Looking at your kids or grandkids, not to mention your wife, trying on a gas mask is bizarre and scary…Welcome to Israel…

IDF to distribute gas masks today

Amid growing tensions, Home Front Command begins pilot program in Or Yehuda

Jerusalem Post online Yaakov Katz

Amid growing tension in the north, the IDF Home Front Command will begin a pilot program to redistribute gas masks in Or Yehuda on Sunday.

Under the plan – drawn up by Col. Yossi Sagiv, head of the Home Front Command’s Gas Mask and Protection Kits Department – the masks will be returned to private homes by the Israel Postal Company, which beat out seven other companies in a Defense Ministry-issued tender in late 2009. Gas masks were collected from private homes starting in 2007 by a private delivery company.

The distribution is slated to take three years. Officials said that after the distribution is completed in Or Yehuda, the IDF will review the operation, implement corrections and improvements and then start distributing the kits in other parts of the country, based on operational considerations of which area is under a more immediate threat.

The public will receive the same rubber gas mask that it had in the past with an improved filter – more effective against chemical and biological threats Israel faces – but without the syringe of Atropine that was in past kits.

Under the plan, Postal Company representatives will contact homeowners and schedule a time to visit and deliver the gas masks required by the family. Each family will be asked to pay a nominal sum of less than NIS 20. The courier will also help fit the gas masks to the family members and explain how to use them. People that prefer not to pay the fee can travel to a distribution center, that will be located in each city, to pick up their gas masks.

Are we playing a hi-stakes game of chicken here? Who will blink first? Syria? Iran? The United States? I hope that it is NOT Israel…The times, they just keep on getting interestinger and interestinger…


Iranian President Ahmadinejad

Iran in the cross-hairs

MESS Report–Middle East Security Survey

Amos Harel & Avi issacharoff

If anyone still had doubts about an imminent conflict with Iran, it was removed this week by the arrival of the U.S. army chief in Israel and the threats from the Iranian president and Hezbollah secretary-general.

Something sinister is in the air.

If the international community’s collision course with Tehran leads to harsh sanctions meant to halt its nuclear program, the spring and summer months will be especially sensitive. It would be impossible to rule out a scenario in which the increasing tension leads to all-out open war. Tehran and Jerusalem regularly exchange threatening messages via various channels, but with Beirut, Gaza and Damascus in the middle, the situation is liable to get out of control.

At a time when Iran is deliberately inflaming the situation, the U.S. is seeking to cool things down. Interestingly and strangely enough, the two rivals seem to have a similar read on Israel’s current role in the drama. Both believe Israel could lose patience and implement its policy of “a leadership gone mad” that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took great pride in during the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. This belief serves as the backdrop for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks implying that Israel is readying for war (which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steadfastly denied) and for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s threats to attack strategic infrastructure in Israel.

The possibility of unleashing Israel’s “bull in a china shop” approach is also behind the recent flurry of visits from senior American officials, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who arrives next week. The visits are intended to explain to the Netanyahu government why an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities is unwanted at the moment ? and also to clarify what Israel seeks in return for sitting quietly and allowing the Obama administration to build an international coalition to impose sanctions on Iran.

Mullen landed here at the beginning of the week – on the hottest day of Israel’s winter – with an unambiguous warning. His visit opened with a brief press conference at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, to which journalists were summoned on short notice, and that was characterized by something of a culture clash. Some of the Israeli journalists showed up in T-shirts, and Mullen seemed a bit surprised by the casual atmosphere and by the strident tone of the questions.

Despite this, he stuck to the message he was sent here to convey: that he is concerned by the “unexpected consequences” of an Israeli attack on Iran. Mullen’s remarks, made in public even before his first meeting with his Israeli hosts, immediately dictated the tone of Israeli media would adopt to cover his visit.

In recent weeks, especially since its announcement that it has begun production of 20-percent-enriched uranium, Iran has not even bothered to claim its nuclear program is intended for peaceful means, as it had in the past. Iran’s true intentions are clear to everyone from Washington to London to Beijing. China, however, is more concerned about its oil supply than the Iranian threat, and sees its refusal to impose sanctions as an effective means of challenging U.S. power.

It’s possible the concern over an Israeli strike has come too soon. Israel will only attack as a last resort. But if Iran continues its enrichment and the U.S. fails to consolidate sanctions, or if the sanctions are ineffective down the line, the military option becomes more relevant. In this case, Israel also has more legitimacy to act in self-defense and cannot be blamed for the failure of diplomacy.

This week, Nasrallah broadcast another message from his bunker and, for the first time, mentioned the “axis of evil.” He warned of a four-pronged attack against Israel by Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas ? which those parties have avoided outlining explicitly until now in an effort to maintain the appearance of independence. At the same time, Nasrallah presented Hezbollah’s planned response to Israel’s “Dahiya doctrine” (a term used to describe a conventional army targeting civilian infrastructure used by terrorists) by saying his group would destroy Ben-Gurion International Airport and attack Tel Aviv.

Has AIPAC crossed the line?…Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has enough problems dealing with the Obama administration and the Iranian nuclear threat…The last thing he needs is an American-Israel lobby supporting positions contrary to the current Israeli government…Are there rough waters ahead for US/Israel relations?…Official American policy statements by Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton and others are sending up warning flags…Will Washington wake up in time?…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…