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In some tests, like war, for instance, you only get one chance to do or die, but, given a second chance, it pays to learn from your mistakes…

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And that is exactly what Israel has done in dealing with repeated attempts to illegally break the Naval blockade set up to prevent arms smuggling into Gaza, flotilla or airlift…

Israels successful thwarting of “Summer Flotilla II” and the attempted “Human Airlift” of protestors to Ben Gurion Airport…

As Borat would put it, “Great Success!!”…

Also…I-Pod apps…The good, the bad and the discontinued, including some hot Israeli ideas and some not-so-hot palestinian ones…

And…Paul Simon, The Yardbirds and Ziggy Marley…in Israel soon…

Plus…Israel’s first Air Force pilot wearing a long skirt…Religiously observant AND female!…

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He has to be either ignorant and uninformed, totally naive…or totally hostile to America’s best allies in the Middle East …

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That’s the only possible explanation for the content of his policy speech at the US State Department yesterday.

How can he possibly call for the establishment of a hostile, terrorist state on Israeli land, while returning Israel to the in-defensible pre-1967 “Auschwitz” borders?

How can he expect Israel to make peace with the Hamas/Fatah/Iran terrorist entity now unified in their leadership of the Palestinian Authority…a united administration sworn to Israel’s destruction in both word and deed?

How can America pour massive sums of US taxpayer-dollars into countries like Egypt and Tunis, after causing the ouster of US-friendly leaders, soon to be replaced by Islamist, Jihadist Moslem Brotherhood governments?

How can Obama call for the downfall of Arab leader after Arab leader, but not do so for Syria’s Assad, who is murdering hundreds of his own citizens on a daily basis?

Plus…U.S Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle call for an immediate halt to American aid to the Palestinian Authority…

Islamic ThinkerTawfik Hamid

And…Former Muslim radical Tawfik Hamid writes:
“The Arab-Israeli conflict is NOT about borders, but about the EXISTENCE OF ISRAEL.”

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Thank you, America for taking the correct decision at the United Nations Security Council…

I am talking about the palestinian-sponsored resolution passed in the UN Security Council, but vetoed by the United States calling for a condemnation of Israeli home-building…one more action that will only harden the palestinian negotiating positions and bring any progress towards a peace agreement with Israel to a screeching halt, as indeed it did. Shortly thereafter, the palestinian leadership announced that there will be no more negotiations until Israel stops building…as if there were any talks talking place anyway… (the palestinians have refused all Israel requests to come to the negotiating table)

Prime Ministers response to the U.S. veto at the Security Council

Israel deeply appreciates the decision by President Obama to veto the
Security Council Resolution today.

Reprinted from IMRA

Israel remains committed to pursuing comprehensive peace with all our
neighbors, including the Palestinians.

We seek a solution that will reconcile the Palestinians’ legitimate
aspirations for statehood with Israel’s need for security and recognition.

Today’s decision by the U.S. makes it clear that the only path to such a
peace will come through direct negotiations and not through the decisions of
international bodies.

We are prepared to pursue those peace negotiations vigorously and are eager
to get on with the work of achieving a secure peace. We hope the
Palestinians will join us in that effort as soon as possible.

Where was US when protestors for democracy took to the streets in Iran in 2009 after Ahmadinejad’s rigged “democratic” elections?

Hillary’s words of support for the “people in the streets” in Iran ring very empty, indeed…

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Iranian protestors, police clash; US backs ‘people in the streets’

Security forces fire teargas to disperse thousands of opposition supporters chanting ‘Death to the dictator’ while marching toward Tehran square; dozens arrested during clashes with police in central Iran. Clinton slams ‘hypocrisy’ of Iranian government. News agency says one killed by protestors

Reprinted from YNetnews.com

Dozens of Iranian opposition supporters were arrested on Monday while taking part in a banned rally in Tehran to support popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, an Iranian opposition website said.

“Witnesses say in some parts of Tehran security forces arrested dozens of protesters,” opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi’s Kaleme website reported.

Security forces fired teargas to scatter thousands of opposition supporters marching toward a Tehran square, a witness said. There were also clashes between police and demonstrators, resulting in dozens of arrests, in Isfahan in central Iran, the country’s third largest city, another witness told Reuters.

The semi-official Fars news agency said one bystander was shot dead and several other people were wounded by protesters.

The rallies amounted to a test of strength for the reformist opposition, which had not taken to the streets since Dec. 2009, when eight people were killed.

Large numbers of police wearing riot gear and security forces were stationed around the main squares of the capital and pairs of state militiamen roamed the streets on motorbikes.

There were minor clashes at some points across the sprawling capital city of some 12 million people, witnesses said. Mobile telephone connections were down in the area of the protests.

“There are thousands of people marching … Security forces fired tear gas to disperse them near Imam Hossein square,” one witness said earlier in the day.

“Death to the dictator,” some of the protesters chanted, though in other places, demonstrators marched in silence.

The demonstrators marched towards Azadi (Freedom) Square, a traditional rallying point for protests in central Tehran dominated by a huge white marble arch. Hundreds of marchers also gathered in Isfahan and Shiraz, witnesses said.

But security forces surrounded the Tehran houses of opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi preventing them and Mousavi’s wife, Zahra Rahnavard from joining the march, their websites said.

“Mirhossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard are still trying to leave their house and join the protests… but security forces are preventing them. Security forces have even threatened Mousavi’s guards to not allow them to leave the house by any means,” the Mousavi’s Kalame website said.

Mousavi and Karroubi took advantage of official Iranian backing for the huge street protests in Egypt and Tunisia to call their own demonstrations in solidarity, but authorities refused their request.

The opposition nevertheless renewed the call for the rally. Iranian authorities have warned the opposition to avoid creating a “security crisis” by reviving protests that erupted after the vote, the biggest unrest in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia an “Islamic awakening”, akin to the 1979 revolution that overthrew the US-backed shah.

But the opposition see the unrest as being more similar to their own protests following the June 2009 election which they say was rigged in favor of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The Revolutionary Guards, fiercely loyal to Khamenei, put down the 2009 protests. Two people were hanged and scores of opposition supporters jailed.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul, on a visit to Tehran, called on Middle Eastern governments to listen to the demands of their people, although he did not refer to Iran.

“We see that sometimes when the leaders and heads of countries do not pay attention to the nations’ demands, the people themselves take action to achieve their demands,” Gul told a news conference alongside Ahmadinejad.

Any use of heavy force to stop the marches in Iran during Gul’s visit could be an embarrassment for Turkey.

However, Ankara, officially an ally of the West, was one of the first governments to congratulate Ahmadinejad on his 2009 re-election and is seeking to triple the volume of trade with its neighbour despite UN, US and EU sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic over its disputed nuclear activity.

Iranian authorities deny doctoring the 2009 election results and accuse opposition leaders of being part of a Western plot to overthrow the Islamic system.

“They are incapable of doing a damn thing,” the hardline Kayhan newspaper quoted Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi as saying, echoing words used by the late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to refer to the United States. The opposition is “guided by Iran’s enemies abroad”, Moslehi said.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed support for the tens of thousands of protesters in Iran’s capital, saying they “deserve to have the same rights that they saw being played out in Egypt and are part of their own birthright.”

Speaking to reporters after meeting House Speaker John Boehner on Monday, Clinton said she and others in Barack Obama’s administration “very clearly and directly support the aspirations of the people who are in the streets” of Tehran.

She spoke of the “hypocrisy” of the Iranian government that hailed the protests in Egypt but has tried to suppress opposition at home.

Clinto added that there “needs to be a commitment to open up the political system, to hear the voices of the opposition and civil society.”

Further proof of the uselessness of the United Nations…

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The US President Barak receives a strong message from American voters, while Israeli Labor Party Leader Barak receives a similar message from the leader of the Histadrut Labor Union…

Also…The United States subjects itself to a severe dressing down by that champion of Human rights, the United Nations, with Cuba, Iran and Libya leading the charge…

And…The United Nations’ UNESCO decides to accept the palestinian version of history and the Bible…They declare Rachel’s Tomb and the Cave of the Patriarchs officially as mosques…Where is the Christian outrage?…How about some historians speaking up?…

Plus…Pamela Anderson participates in the Israeli parliament, James Bond may be filming next in Israel…Life is good in the Holyland…

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Add another Item to the List of Failures and Weakness

The current leadership of Israel, Olmert, Peretz and Co. spelled out specific terms and conditions for removing the embargo of Lebanon…Not one of the condtitions has been met…They are lifting the embargo anyway…DeJa Vu all over again, no?…There were clearly stated objectives for the war against Hizbullah…Israel’s leadership agreed to a cease-fire agreement without achieving those objectives, even though Israel was WINNING the war!…What is the message being communicated to the enemies of Israel here?…

Plus…Speaking of the UN, how is it that Iran’s president Ahmadinejad will be allowed to attend next week’s General Assembly meeting in NY?…

And…Will president Bush answer Ahmadinejad’s call to engage in a public debate at Manhattan headquarters?…Maybe after George W. converts to Islam…Also…A video to the Americans and other Christians…”Convert to Islam NOW, or suffer the consequences”…Freedom of speech, or treason?…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

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Double Standard…
Jewish Refugees Receive Virtually NO Attention From the World Media or International Aid Organizations
And Where is the International Jewish Community???

Double Standard

Why is it always applicable when it comes to Israel???

Why does the world see Jews as somehow “different” from other human beings???

Where’s the compassion???

Where’s the human heart of the world???

Jewish Refugees

The tent city of Jewish refugees in Tel Aviv…

Virtually ignored by the world…

Ignored by the press…

Ignored by international aid organizations…

Where’s the UN, the Red Cross, B’Tzelem, Peace Now, UNWRA, UNICEF, and on and on….

And where are the Jews of the world???

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We are taking losses, but nobody said it would be easy

The intense ground fighting in Southern Lebanon brings back nightmarish memories of similar scenes from Viet Nam of the sixties…Underground bunkers, tunnel networks, booby traps, downed helicopters, body bags…

How and why did multiple Israeli governments let it happen right under our noses?

These are serious questions for Barak, Sharon and Mofaz…Questions that must and WILL be answered after the dust and unity of war subside…

Plus…Nasrallah, leader of Hizbullah, speaks…He is begging forgiveness for the deaths of the Israeli Arab children at his hands…the “shahidim” (martyrs) of Nazareth…He says he didn’t mean to kill them…After all, they were NOT even Jewish…

And…UN leader, Kofi Anan, calls upon Israel to stop fighting her enemies…Where has HE and his UNIFIL UN army been for the past six years?…New heights of “chutzpah”…

All this and MORE…

So far, no luck in ridding the world of this evil menace…

We WILL succeed, but, the problem is…

It is most likely that another, just as evil, if not more so, will arise to take his place…

The battle continues…

Sometimes it is better to keep one’s mouth shut…

The height of “chutzpah” for him to speak out against Israel’s right to defeat the enemy that HE and his organization, the UN, allowed to grow, develop, arm itself and repeatedly attack Israel…

Isn’t UNIFIL, the UN force that has been stationed on the border between Israel and Lebanon for untold years, supposed to be keeping the peace?…

What the heck have they been doing there, anyway? (other than ASSISTING rather than stopping Hizbullah in its attacks on Israel)

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An update from Lebanon and Northern Israel

The latest news, insights and commentary from Israel…Military activity in Israel and Lebanon…

Plus…What’s happening on the diplomatic front?…Condoleeza Rice brings her ideas to Jerusalem and Beirut…France proposes an immediate cease-fire in the UN Security Council…

Also…Are things ready to spin out of control on the Syrian front?…Marty shares his concerns…

And…The Rain of rockets continues…All this and MORE…

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Look to the Heavens!!!

Synagogue Bombing in Toronto

Without a doubt, anti-semitism is increasing throughout the world…synagogue torchings are becoming routine, Jews in Germany are advised not show signs of their Jewishness in public…France witnesses anti-semitic acts on a daily basis.

Synagogue Arson in
Sasketoon

What does this all mean? Why is this happening? Is there a message to be gleaned from these seemingly random acts of hatred and violence?

Is there any chance that maybe The Creator is trying to tell us something? Marty thinks that this is, indeed, a DISTINCT possibility, and explains why in this show.

Also…another scathing reprimand for United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan (and others, as well!) for their reprehensible behavior in recent days.

Find out where and why from Marty Roberts….

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The UN is an organization that has LONG outlived its usefulness

Kofi Annan is visiting the Middle East in his role as “referee” for that horrible cease-fire resolution between Israel and Hizbullah…The farce that is UN resolution 1701…How much damage can one man and one organization do to this world?…And at what an incredible cost!…

Also…The “new and improved” UNIFIL II…You have GOT to be kidding…

Plus…What about the Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hizbullah?…Does anybody remember them?…How are we going to get them back home?…Certainly NOT by engaging the services of Jesse Jackson!…

And…Jimmy Carter is at it again…This time, rolling out the U.S. welcome mat to Iranian leaders…

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Are we approaching the end of the war?…What will it look like?…Talk of further military action, talk of ceasefire…Which will it be?…Also…They cry “No place to run, no place to hide left in Gaza”…Just why is that so?…And how about humanitarian aid…Where is IT going?…More…What about that UN school that the Israeli Army shelled?…What was REALLY going on there…Plus…More up-close-and-personal coverage of Israel’s Channukah War against Hamas in Gaza…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…Listen to the show below…

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They are building bunkers, placing missile launchers, laying roadside charges and proudly flying their flags

Where is UNIFIL?…Where is the Lebanese Army?…Where is the ISRAELI Army?…Don’t ask the Israeli government…

Also…Skiing in Israel…The beautiful Golan Heights…

And…Weird TV appearances approved for Israeli parliament members…

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Maybe if we just wish hard enough, the imminent war looming in Israel’s future will just go away

What is the United Nations, anyway?…The General Assembly is certainly a useless body…

Also…Palestinian human rings…They protect terrorists with their “innocent” bodies…And it’s all covered “live” on palesetinian TV!…Talk about a “win-win” situation…

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Maybe the people they are serving don’t really deserve it?…Is that possible?…You be it is!

But let Israel try something like denying help to their enemies because of concern for Israel’s OWN safety…No way…UN commissions…International condemnation…Double standard, par-excellence…

Also, some sports tidbits…Victory and violence for Israeli soccer fans in France…Kosher hockey in Quebec…

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