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Here I say it. I don't like Jews. In fact, I hate them. What is there not to hate about them?! They represent everything that is wrong with mankind. They are hypocritical. They are a fraud. They lie. They cheat. They rape. They exploit. They are genocidal manic-depressed psychopaths. They are scum.

Most fellow anti-Zionists are so obsessed with fending off the label of anti-Semitism that they embrace any Jew that criticises Israel. See, see, they say, the Jews say it themselves. Fools they are. They are like doctors trying to heal cancer with pain killers. Zionism is not the disease we need to eradicate. Zionism is only a symptom of a much more deadly threat: Jewishness.

Like so many of you, I start each day with coffee and a little prayer  of thanks that my eyelids have unglued themselves from each other yet  another day. Gratitude is the key to everything, and you'd be  surprised how many troubles it makes go away.

I'm no different than most of you, except I've learned a few tricks  along the way. In fact, I've learned some new tricks at age 65 that I  dearly would have loved to learn at 16, but life doesn't work that  way, does it? I don't rue too long, because regret is nothing more  than a quick lesson to be learned, a quickened pain to be got rid of  as fast as possible with the eternal hope that we're all smart enough  to not make the same mistake twice.

Names have always been political. Throughout history different regimes have used naming as a means of racial or religious identification. In Nazi Germany a 1938 law obliged Jews to add Sara or Israel to their names so as to eliminate ethnic confusion. And in my own country, Northern Ireland, even without a law, a name could determine one's success in life.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said he is wagering that sectarian violence will not surge after a massive reduction of U.S. combat troops next month. Ahead of that withdrawal, the violence continues. At least 34 Iraqis were killed and 60 more were wounded across the country. Security forces were targeted in several cities.

In the latest news about the political impasse preventing the creation of the new government, Ayad Allawi said he is willing to step aside and allow another member of his Iraqiya party to take over as prime minister if it will settle the impasse. Not to be outdone in the headlines, a member of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law party insisted that Maliki’s return to the office would allay both U.S. and Iranian fears. Indeed, Iran may be demanding that Maliki continue in his role. Meanwhile, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said he is embarrassed over his government’s paralysis. He even admitted to avoiding foreign visits over the issue.

Zachary Adam Chesser, better known by his Internet sobriquet of "Abu Talhah al-Amrikee," is the 20-year-old Virginia man who was indicted this month for supporting a Somalia-based al Qaeda affiliate, al-Shabab. Most Americans learned of him in April 2010, when Chesser's media stunt wishing death upon the creators of the South Park cartoon thrust him into the national spotlight. I came to know him in a different, more personal way and believe that as frightening as the "American Jihadi" headlines surrounding him have been, the portrait that has emerged of Chesser in recent months is still a caricature that unfortunately obscures the very reason "Abu Talhah" was so dangerous.

Thousands of faithful assiduously listened as I outlined the challenges facing Palestine and its people. Cries of ‘Allahu Akbar’ – God is Great – occasionally resounded from a corner of the giant South African mosque. Many whimpered as I described the tragedy that had befallen Gaza as a result of the Israeli siege. They cheered, smiled and nodded as I emphasized how the will of the Palestinian people would not be defeated. A few older people at the front simply wept throughout my talk, which preceded a Friday sermon in Durban a few months ago.

A menacing convoy of bulldozers was heading back to Be'er Sheva as I drove towards al-Arakib, a Bedouin village located not more than 10 minutes from the city. Once I entered the dirt road leading to the village I saw scores of vans with heavily armed policemen getting ready to leave. Their mission, it seems, had been accomplished.

Tony Blair's term as envoy of the Quartet (US, UK, Russia, UN) has been marked by many photo opportunities but few, if any, accomplishments. Indeed, research shows that Blair's relationship with one of the world's richest men poses a clear and significant conflict of interest with his duties as Quartet envoy.

Except for a very brief moment at the start of Defamation , a smart, mordant, and incisive documentary which examines the tendency of forces within contemporary Judaism to exploit the Holocaust for political ends, we never see the man behind the camera, Israeli Jew Yoav Shamir. One imagines, however, that this fellow had his poker face honed to perfection, because he was able to pull off a terrifically effective undercover job.

Clearly no fan of the Anti-Defamation League and like organizations, Shamir during the making of this movie managed to sell himself as a sympathizer, and somehow won the confidence of Abraham Foxman and other high-level figures within the ADL, who in turn seemed totally unaware that they were ultimately going to receive a cinematic drubbing at his hands. Indeed, one even almost sympathizes with Foxman and Co. for opening themselves up to the soft-spoken filmmaker from Tel Aviv with such touching, open-hearted naiveté; they must have figured that Shamir’s Jewish background and professed interest in exploring “anti-Semitism” must have meant that he could be trusted not to break from the party line.

Anyone who has ever served in the military would confirm that to become a general in the armed forces of the United States requires highly developed political skills.  One must be politically astute to guide large military forces while at the same time answering to largely ignorant constituencies in Congress, the White House, and the media.  Many generals tire of the exercise after a certain point and retire to well paid sinecures on the boards of defense contractors.  Others stage their own forms of rebellion, speaking the truth and walking the plank as a reward.  Admiral William Fallon insisted in 2008 that there would be no war with Iran on his watch.  He was forced to retire soon after.  More recently, General Stanley McChrystal voiced his displeasure with the White House’s management of the Afghan war to a journalist and likewise was forced into early retirement.