What’s a Jew worth these days?
According to Hamas, a Jew is worth one thousand Palestinians.
Israeli Cabinet ministers debate whether to trade 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for lone soldier
By AMY TEIBEL , Associated Press
Last update: December 21, 2009 – 2:44 PMJERUSALEM – Negotiations for an Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange entered a crucial stage Monday, with Israeli Cabinet ministers huddling to decide whether to accept Islamic militants’ demand to swap 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for a lone Israeli serviceman.
A decision to pay that lopsided price for 23-year-old Sgt. Gilad Schalit could reshuffle Mideast politics in unpredictable ways and possibly ease a punishing blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu and six Cabinet ministers convened again after nightfall Monday, the latest in a series of sessions over the past two days in a frenzy of activity that suggested a deal could be close. The group was divided, however, with some ministers opposed freeing Palestinians convicted in fatal attacks, arguing they could kill again.
It seemed likely the prime minister would bring the final decision to a vote in his full Cabinet. As the Monday evening meeting began, Netanyahu’s office issued a statement saying, “The prime minister will continue to protect Israel’s security and the lives of its citizens as the most important factor” in a decision over the soldier, a possible hint that he was leaning against approval of the deal.
A Palestinian close to the negotiations said a German mediator carrying a proposal approved by Hamas has set a Wednesday deadline for Israeli action. The Palestinian, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said there would be no further negotiations. […]
That’s not very good for Palestinians, to be worth only one-one thousandth of a Jew.
I mean, it’s not just sub-human, it’s sub sub-human.
I suppose if they are willing to officially acknowledge this, then I should, too.
I also suppose it could forge a new understanding in Israeli-Arab relations: for every single Jew killed, one thousand Arabs should die to balance the scales.
It is beyond a moral crime that Palestinians have so little regard for the value of their own lives that they send their children out to blow themselves up to murder other lives.
Human beings and legitimate governments value the lives of their citizens. That’s why Israel would even consider this crazy and frankly evil one-sided trade. And it’s why a loathsome and vile terrorist state would issue such immoral demands recognizing the total lack of value for their own people.
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Start Thinking Right 
December 22, 2009 at 10:28 am
Technically, each one of these Hamas roaches has less intrinsic value than a Mexican Peso.
December 22, 2009 at 6:34 pm
On my own view, Palestinians – and even Hamas terrorists – were created in the image of God.
But they have rejected that. And they end up living and acting like insects rather than human beings.
Your Peso analogy made me chuckle, though!
December 27, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Actually a zionist jew is worthless as they worship satan. Right now you don’t know the truth, but let me allow myself to show you it.
The truth shall set you free.
December 29, 2009 at 8:30 pm
I won’t allow you to “show” that Jews are “worthless.” I’m sure every hater of Jews knows where to go to reinforce their irrational hatred of Jews. And I won’t have such links on my site.
I don’t put this up to debate you. You can’t debate hate.
I merely put it up to allow people to see that hatred of Jews just for being Jewish is alive and well.
January 1, 2010 at 8:22 am
Mike ( the anti-semitic one ), your idiocy is worthy of my contempt.
And to the other Mike ( the sane one ), you are quite correct…you cannot debate hate. Especially when it is shrouded in complete ignorance. Good on you for putting low-lives like this in their place.
January 1, 2010 at 4:11 pm
And than you for recognizing sane Mikes from insane ones.
I stand by the state of Israel. I stand by them as both a Christian, as an American, and as a student of history. As a Christian, because they are the people of God, and God has a great plan for Israel. As an American, because they are as strong an ally as we will ever have, and because they are a democracy surrounded by totalitarian despots. And as a student of history, because I recognize in the INSANE Mike’s rant the same hatred and the same worldview that Hitler had – and no morally intelligent human being would ever go back there again.
I’m less than happy with the Islamic world, and with our own liberals. But my anger is directed at them for what they do; not for what they are. To hate Jews just because they are Jews is to voyage into the darkest depths of evil.
June 7, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Where Did the Bernard Madoff Money Go?
In a word: Israel. The money was funneled to the Israeli Nuclear Department and military forces to fend off radical factions in the region.
Israel is the smallest nuclear armed country in the world. It is roughly the size of New Jersey with an annual reported GDP of $129 billion. Even with international aid, Israel has no oil reserves like its Arab neighbors and could not afford nuclear weapons on its own. However, with the help of Bernie Madoff and others like him, Israel became a dominant power in the region. The nuclear materials were purchased in France where Madoff maintained many business contacts and a home on the French Riviera. While Madoff was sending reports of profitable trades to his French counterparts from his investment firm in New York, his well-connected French point men set up purchases of enriched uranium. The enriched uranium might then have been put on board Madoff’s boat, nicknamed Bull, and shipped 1600 nautical miles from Antibes, France to Haifa, Israel. Unfortunately for investigators, all records of these trips have been conveniently lost. Only a Geiger counter could reveal the cargo that boarded that yacht.
Other large quantities of Madoff money was found at the Banque Jacob Safra in Gibraltar. According to the IMF, Gibraltar is a well-known terrorist financier and money laundering center for Israel. Since Israel has had no laws against money laundering since its inception, any money that flows into the country is clean on arrival. This rule was enacted to aid Jews displaced by WWII who had hidden money from the German troops.
Many Palestinian charities were labeled “terrorist organizations” by the US government after they were found to be laundering money to fund terrorist operations. In these cases, money that was donated to the charities was then funneled to the terrorists. However, in the Madoff case, money that was donated to Jewish charities was “invested” with Madoff. It was through this seemingly legitimate intermediary that Jewish charities escaped the accusations of funding a war in the Middle East. Without this money and heavy political influence in the US, the country of Israel would have been invaded a long time ago. World governments have been slow to label any of the Jewish charities that have been funding this conflict in the region.
It should be noted that initially all of the Jewish charities were up in arms about the scandal as they were forced to shut down their operations. But after a closed meeting arranged by a known Israeli supporter, not another word was heard from this group. It is very possible that the group was told that their money has been defending the Jewish cause for at least four decades. At the time of this meeting in January 2009, Israel had just launched a major offensive in the Gaza Strip which crippled Hamas.
Two mysterious deaths occurred during the unwinding of the Madoff case. The first was a French aristocrat, Rene de la Villehuchet, who lost more than $1 billion in client’s money in the scam. The death was ruled a suicide. Maybe it was a suicide but it leaves a dead end in what could have been an important French connection. Another man, Jeffry Picower, was found dead on the bottom of his swimming pool. These two men may have had vital information that could have blown this money laundering nuclear scandal wide open. All there is to be said about these suspicious deaths is that “dead men tell no tales.”
Two other individuals have vital information that they are not sharing. The only problem in getting that information is that they both plead guilty to their crimes. When a defendant pleads guilty and receives a sentence longer than their expected life, they are not obligated to answer any additional questions. These men are of course, Bernie Madoff and his CFO Frank DiPiscali. It is remarkable how these two thieves were able to sell this fraud as a Ponzi Scheme and the media bought it like a fund of funds manager going after consistent high returns.
The Madoff trustee, Irving Picard, has a conflict of interest. So far, he has uncovered only the very obvious stashes of Madoff money. He has already received exorbitant payouts from the victims fund to himself and his law firm, Baker & Hostetler LLP. He is also setting himself up to be a friend of the SEC and Mary Shapiro by doing a great job of limiting the amount of money that actually gets paid back to the Madoff victims. He calls this sadistic maneuver a clawback. He is trying to rewrite the SIPA laws that require SIPC to use the amount on the victims November 30, 2008 statement when determining the account value. This would be done to the delight of the big Wall Street firms that would otherwise be the largest contributors to replenish the SIPC funds. Maybe the SEC will repay this favor by hiring his firm the next time they drop the ball as well. Picard seems more likely to be involved with the cover-up than with following the money trail and holding Israel responsible.
But Picard is not the only one involved in a cover up. It seems peculiar that the FBI and the SEC have been investigating this fraud for over a year but the public still knows nothing more about where the money went than they did three days after Madoff turned himself in to the authorities. The ramifications of Israel’s involvement in accepting money from a Jewish financier would ring loud in the Arab world. Israel may even be held to account by the victims. As long as Israel has control of its printing press and there is an exchange rate between the dollar and the shekel, Israel may be liable to pay back the victims from its own coffers.
Denial is the other option. This approach was used when Israel was accused of harvesting organs from Palestinian prisoners. However, it backfired on them when Dr. Yehuda Hiss, blew the whistle and admitted that the forensic institute he formerly headed did just that. It would be irresponsible for Israel to deny that their military was largely funded with the Madoff funds. But after all, aren’t there are still people that continue to deny the holocaust?
Yours truly,
D.B. Cooper
P.S.: Because of fear of redress from the governments or any of their agencies, no other information is available at this time.
June 8, 2010 at 5:22 am
Well, let’s not forget that Bernie Madoff was also seen on the grassy knoll immediately before the Kennedy assassination, right? I’d provide the proof that Bernie Madoff was involved in the plot, but you know, the CIA monitors my brainwaves unless I wear my tin hat at all times and all that. It’s hard to keep my tin hat on while I’m sleeping, so I built a strap for it that goes around my chin.
So you’ve managed to turn Bernie Madoff into a valiant freedom fighter for Israel, as opposed to an incredibly self-centered slimeball, huh?
A problem with your theory is that Israel has been an undeclared nuclear power since 1979 – long before Madoff was filtering billions of Ponzi money around. Another thing to remember is that WE needed Jews (such as Albert Einstein) to develop OUR nuclear bomb. I think Israel had plenty of brilliant people helping them on their own program.
Israel has been one of America’s most devoted allies since 1948. That alliance has sustained through Democrat AND Republican administrations, and the support in Congress has been bipartisan. At least until the age of Obama, when he does everything wrong, and everything evil.
Many military strategists have basically pointed out that, were it not for the presence of the state of Israel, a democracy and an ally, the United States would have to constantly maintain an additional two US fleets in the Mediterranean at a far higher cost than the aid we give them.
A rather entertaining conspiracy theory, though.