THE DIOGENES REPORT
The Wit, Wisdom & Wituperation of Emanuel L. Strunin
“a few steps ahead of the curve”
May 2004, VOL. IV, # 16
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THE ZIONISTS WIN ROUND ONE

The resounding defeat delivered by the Likud rank and file against Sharon’s retreat plan from Gaza and the “West Bank” is the best news in a long time from Israel. The results are a good example of “you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Israeli politicians are adept at fooling most of the people most of the time. Israelis want peace so much that every hare-brained scheme for making peace with the Arabs dreamed up by left-wing politicians or left-wing politicians masquerading as right-wingers wins hundreds of thousands of voters.

Sharon’s disengagement plant was just another one of these hare-brained schemes, as was Oslo and the Geneva Accord. But the Zionists in Israel should be fully aware that the battle has just started. Sharon will pick himself up and continue to hit the Zionists below the belt just like he did in the week before the referendum. And knowing the record of the lying bastard, he will come up with additional dirty tricks to impose his will together with the will of the U.S. State Department on the Israeli people.

Right after the results were in, he said that he was not elected to sit on his hands, to do nothing. We know some of the things he did which were worse than doing nothing. He warned the Palestinian Authority when one of its police barracks was going to be hit in an air attack so that they could evacuate their personnel. These are the same personnel that have carried out many successful attacks against Israeli civilians killing and wounding hundreds. This is in addition to the many attacks that were thwarted.

We know that he sent the IDF into Jenin to search for terrorists house to house resulting in many unnecessary casualties instead of taking down a block or a neighborhood. Despite his “politically correct” approach, Israel was blamed for genocide by the world. It is Sharon’s policy of tit for tat that encourages Arab terror. Perhaps if he tried smash for tat, the Arabs might have started to get the message. He had the IDF surround Arafat in Ramallah, but he refuses to cut off his communications or the stream of visitors that allow Arafat to function.

It also was Sharon who traded the bodies of three soldiers and the drug-dealing son-in-law of one of his old friends for 400 Arab terrorists who are now free to continue their trade in the streets of Israel. True, Sharon was not elected to do no nothing, but I do not believe that people voted for him to do the things I have listed.

The people who voted against the Sharon disengagement and their potential supporters must roll up their sleeves and get ready for Round 2. The Israeli Government has already sounded the bell for the second round.



POLL FINDS CONCERNS THAT THE TERRORISTS MIGHT BE WINNING

I was going to use the above headline in my Headlines And Comments Section with the following comments: The poll is right. Think about it. Almost every country is fighting terrorism in one way or another. The terrorists have no national base and no national treasury and yet are spreading their activities all across the globe. We need different strategies and tactics, Think about it!

Upon further thought, I realized that my comments were flawed. While the terrorists have no real national base, they have the support of the largest or second largest religious group in the world—Islam. It is a support group that can provide unbelievable numbers of believers in terrorism and funds which are much greater than most nations have at their disposal.

New war strategies are necessary

However, I know that I am correct in stating that we need different strategies and tactics in fighting the scourge of Islamic terrorism, First, we have to recognize that the war against this terrorism is truly a culture/religious war. This is very difficult for nations being overrun by Muslims, left wing ideologues and democratic countries to admit publicly. Two countries which pay lip service to the rights and value of Muslims but do not hesitate to kill them when they demand rights are Russia and China. The European nations play the same gutless role toward their aggressive Muslim populations as they did to the rise of the Nazis. While the U.S. has made a few strong moves, in terms of policy it keeps slipping on an oil slick. 

Before the West can develop a policy to wage the necessary total war against Islam/terrorism it must recognize the nature of the problem. The problem is that there is a religious /culture war between Islam and the West. And it did not start with the Muslim Brotherhood as some of the experts claim. It started with Muhammad. Even a quick reading of history is convincing that the Arabs spread terror throughout the world in their process of conquest and conversion. Eventually they were stopped by force in France and India and later in Spain. The Muslim Ottoman Turks spreading conquest and conversion from central Asia, were eventually stopped by force in central and eastern Europe.

We’re in a religious/culture war

With the collapse of European colonialism which kept aggressive Islam in check for a couple of hundred years, the Muslims have returned with their goal of conquest and conversion. As they sense weakness in the West, they have become more aggressive and, at the same time, using the technique of “peaceful invasions.” Muslims have become political factors in western Europe and even in the United States.

There are several things that the West—including the U.S.—can do to start winning the war against Islam/terrorism. These techniques are all politically and economically incorrect but necessary for victory. First, stop providing Islamic nations with weaponry. This means Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, Jordan, Syria. Saudi Arabia, Libya, the Gulf States, Indonesia, Sudan and probably several others. These arms only will be used by the recipients or the country to which they are transferred to cause large scale mischief. The “defense contractors” will have to find new businesses. As far as Russia, China, North Korea and recalcitrant European and other countries are concerned, their unwillingness to end this arms trade should result choking economic boycotts enforced by the U.S. and friends. This is war!

Next, the United States should maintain continuous monitoring, via satellite and drones, of weapons development and military or terrorist activities in Muslim lands in order to maintain a preemptive strike capability. That may not be the American way in peace, but this is war!

Cut off the money

Thirdly, with America leading the way, the West must turn off the spigot of money that is funding Islamic terrorism. Until now, banks found laundering or transmitting suspicious funds have escaped with minimal fines that did not come close to the profits they made on these transactions. Funding is so critical to the terrorist enterprise that the harshest steps must be taken to stop this flow of funds. Because the profits from handling suspect funds are so high, bank managements are willing to take great risks in continuing this business. The immediate way to halt these practices is to impose hard time on any bank employee involved in these types of transactions. The hard time must extend to bank officers.

Foreign banks with U.S. operations that continue to be involved in terrorist funding transactions should be closed down. Foreign banks that only operate overseas that participate in these activities should be denied any relationships with U.S. businesses or financial institutions. This is sure to upset the banking and business communities around the world, but we are at war!

Control the oil when necessary 

A major difficulty in fighting Islam and the terrorism it spawns is that Muslim countries sit on so much of the world’s oil supplies. No nation can exist without oil, but it is the oil wealth that funds much of the terrorism and the trainig of future terrorists. If the U.S. handles Iraq correctly, it can serve as a warning to all oil states that they had better toe the mark in the war against terrorism. As I have advocated since the start of the Iraq War, the U. S. should control the oil facilities for its own benefit to pay for the cost of both Gulf Wars. U.S. armed forces should only be deployed to protect the oil fields, pipelines and oil ports. The Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites should be permitted to fight it out for the rest of the country. If they can live in peace, fine, if they can’t that will be their problem.

This Iraq policy will send a powerful message to the other oil producing nations that the U.S. is capable of running their oil facilities, as well-- so do not provoke us. It does not require much imagination to see that we may have to do the same in Saudi Arabia in the not too distant future. Remember, we are at war!

Population transfers may be in order

Now, we come to one of the biggest problems that must be overcome if the West is to win the war against Islam and terrorism. Sizeable Muslim populations live in the West but are not psychologically, emotionally or intellectually attached to the West. The overwhelming number of these adherents of Islam did not migrate to the West to enjoy the benefits of democracy or freedom, they came for economic gain. Their hearts and minds and loyalties are not with the West or even with their countries of origin but they are closely connected with Islam, the core of the problem that the West is facing.

In France, in Italy, in Holland, in Spain, in Denmark, in Germany and to a much lesser degree in the U.S., the Muslim population influences policies vis-a-vis Islamic terrorism. Porous borders are allowing thousands more Muslim immigrant to enter Europe each month. In addition to their high birthrate, they are converting non- Muslims to Islam who seem to internalize the same anti-Western, anti-democratic attitudes. There are numerous examples of successful and aborted terrorist operations participated in by this population. From their mosques and schools come a continuous tirade of hatred for the West, which many Muslims feel obligated to act out.

Equally troublesome is that the Muslims in the West are major sources and conduits of “charitable” funds that finance terrorist organizations. As these Muslims prosper from the benign economic conditions in the West as contrasted to their original homelands, this flow of funds is destined to increase even with government crackdowns.

To deal with this problem, I propose the transfer of certain Muslims from the West back to their or their parents point of origin. This would be carried out against any individuals and their immediate families who belong to a terrorist organization, who have aided and abetted a terrorist organization, who have provided funds for a terrorist organization and who incite hatred and violence against the western countries in which they live. Any Muslim who has carried out acts of violence would be added to this list. Native born Muslims who fit into any of these categories also would be deported to an Islamic country. These deportees would be less of a danger to the West if they were returned to an Islamic country. This flies in the face of a lot of our past history, but we are engaged in an unusual war, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the original Muslim conquest although the intensity of the Muslim hatreds reflect the religious hatreds of the Crusades and the Thirty Years War and the hatreds of the Nazis..

Likely, additional unpopular strategies will be required before victory is achieved, but this can be a start.



SELECTIVE OUTRAGE

I sent the following letter to The Stamford Advocate on May 7.

To the Editor:

The cries of mea culpa in response to Muslim “outrage” that are flooding our airwaves and newspaper editorials about the "humiliations” in Iraq require some perspective on the war on terrorism that is being waged throughout the world.

The Muslims are only outraged when they think an outrage has been perpetrated against them. Where was Muslim outrage—and, I mean public outrage by a single mullah, imam, sheikh, mufti, muezzin, scholar, political leader or the “Arab street”—anywhere in the Islamic world when truly outrageous events took place? Try to recall the voices of Muslim outrage at the fact that their brothers carried out the following atrocities: the murder and desecration of the bodies of four Americans in Fallujah; the murder and desecration of the bodies of two Israeli reservists who wandered into Ramallah; the murders of hundreds of Israeli men women and children; the murder of thousands of American civilians in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on civilian airliners; the first bombing of the World Trade Center which injured over 1,000 Americans; the murder of a couple of hundred people in the bombing of a Bali nightclub; the murder and maiming of thousands of civilians in the bombing of two American embassies in Africa; the murder of dozens of tourists in Tunisia and Egypt; the 30 years of murder of millions of Iraqis by Saddam Hussein; the murder of 20,000 Syrians in Homa by Assad; and the use of poison gas by Saddam against the Kurds and by Egypt in Yemen. And, just today there was news of a prison run by an Afghan warlord where prisoners were tortured and murdered—not humiliated—but there were no cries of outrage.

The list can go on and on. And I’m not describing “humiliation.” I’m talking about murder, dismemberment and torture on monstrous scales. But there was never a cry of outrage either when these atrocities were carried out against “infidels” or against their own “brothers.”

So let’s not be so quick to beat our breasts and wail mea culpa. They do not appreciate confessions of guilt. Humiliation is one thing the Muslims seem to understand. Let the “Arab street” be aware that a lot more of their terrorist “brothers” will be wearing panties and bras if that’s what it takes to get information that can save American lives.



MOVIE REVIEW FROM A READER

Warning to all Jews! Stay away from this movie.

It got rave revues. It has Omar Sharif in a sensitive, well-acted role. Level One, it is a heart-warming story about a boy in living in a red-light district of Paris (Rue Bleu…the movie is not subtle) who has a jerk for a father and is adopted by a friendly store-keeper. Nice story!

Except! The boy’s jerk father is a Jew who invents a fictitious elder brother (named Paul…shades of Christianity) who is so much better than the son he doesn’t know how to father. The father first abandons his son and then ends his life under a train.

No French cliché movie about coming of age would be complete without a bevy of good-hearted prostitutes who happily initiate him into his manhood.

So far, the movie is a warm-hearted cliché. So what could possibly be offensive? The Omar Sharif character, who supplies good-hearted wisdom with his occasional bromides, is a Turkish Moslem who loves his Koran, the book which supplies all the wisdom he needs. At the end of the movie, Sharif dies, bequeathing all his worldly goods to his adopted, formerly Jewish, son, who becomes the new “Arab” storekeeper, dispensing bromides to a new generation of shoplifting Jewish children patronizing his store.

Yech! The French have a lot of nerve, depicting uncivilized Jews and civilized Moslems! Delivering a cliché ridden film which manages the conversion of the Jews. But with the brother, named Paul, conversion to what?

Europe, especially France, is truly Eurabia.

Avoid this diatribe, concealed as a coming of age, son seeking father, movie. It is a wolf in sheep’s’ clothing.



HEADLINES AND COMMENTS
Headlines from the world’s press. Comments by Diogenes.

Celebrations Of A New, Expanded Europe Are Clouded Over By Old Fears Of Immigration
It used to be that Christianity and ant-Semitism was what bound the European countries together. Now they have added economics and politics.

Bishops’ Leader Resists Releasing Priest’s Records In His Own Diocese
Do you think he is bucking for cardinal?


State, Prison Inmates Reach Agreement Over Book Royalties 
If I get convicted will that get me a publisher?

Man Bites Part Of Officer’s Ear
1. Mike Tyson gets around.
2. The perp’s father says it wasn't his son's fault. Did the cop bite off his own ear?
3. The family is rolling out today’s favorite defense: the perp is bipolar.

Rowland’s Top Aide Steps Down
He claims it’s for “personal reasons. Diogenes asks: “are the Feds and the state investigators getting too personal?”

University Named For Reagan Is Planned
We already have one, it’s called Actors Studio.

Court Rules John Demjanjuk Was Nazi Guard.
If you want to overturn this verdict, send the case to Israel’s Supreme Court.

Catholic Priest Who Aids Church Sexual Abuse Victims Loses Job
He had nerve going against church policy.

Michael Jackson Pleads Not Guilty To New Molestation Indictment
Now that he is indicted will they make him an honorary Catholic priest?

Arabs Outraged By Images Of U.S. Troops Humiliating Iraqi Prisoners
Everything outrages them except their own outrages.

We Help People Live Longer, Healthier, Happier Lives (sign in CVS Pharmacy)
It only seems longer when you’re waiting to pick up a prescription and definitely not happier when you pay for it.

No Transcript of Bush 9/11 Commission Testimony
Good idea. How many times would you want answers like “duh?”, “duh?”, “duh?”

Justice Souter Is Attacked While Jogging
Seems like a bunch of toughs got to him before he was mugged by Justice Scalia.

U.S. Ambassador Tells Americans In Saudi Arabia: ‘We Cannot Protect You’
Is that a good way to win the war on terrorism—cut and run.

ZOA To Bush: The Quartet Is Severely Biased Against Israel And Should Be Disbanded
How about an Israeli soloist instead of an off-key quartette? 

Bush Calls Prisoner Abuse ‘Abhorrent’
He can call it anything he wants, but he can’t spell it.

Bush Won’t Be At Yale As Daughter Graduates
I hope they gave her a better education than her father.

Osama Tape Offers Rewards For Killing U.S., U.N. Officials
He’s more generous than the other gangsta rappers, they don’t offer rewards. If his tape sells will he make a CD next?



QUOTES I LIKE
Diogenes considers them clever, not that he necessarily agrees with them.

It is no coincidence that Israel is known as the Land of the Bible. Our
entire connection and the connection of the Jewish people to this land
begins in the verses of the Book of Books.
     - Ariel Sharon

George W. Bush: Daddy! Daddy! Is it true you were once the C.I.A. Director?
George H. W. Bush: Who told you that son?
George W.: The F.B.I. daddy.
George H. W.: Son, I don’t want you talking to those people anymore! Not ever! We never, never talk to those people! Understood? They are just not our type.
George W.: Yes daddy.
George H, W.: I wonder how they found out. I certainly never told them.
    - Pat Oliphant (editorial cartoon)

Get all the fools on your side, and you can be elected to anything.
    - Frank Dane

Ordinarily, he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
    - Heinrich Heine

Re his spineless stand on the withdrawal from Gaza: Netanyahu only reminded the rank and file of his perennial orthopedic problem. 
    - Aaron Lerner

If I am not who I say I am, then you are not who you think you are?
    - James Baldwin

Intelligent life: that which is being sought on other planets, which is understandable in light of its short supply on this one,
   - Edmund H. Volkart

Re Woodrow Wilson: Mr. Wilson bores me with his Fourteen Points; why God Almighty has only ten.
    - Arthur Link

One can live in this world on soothsaying, but not on truthsaying.
     - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
    - Erica Jong

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
     - Gustave Flaubert

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
     - Muriel Rukeyser

He who would know the world, seek first within his being’s depths; he who would truly know himself, develop interest in the world.
     - Rudolf Steiner



READERS’ COMMENTS

I like the fact that you are much smarter than the Shrub (not quite a bush) but you choose to use the same simplistic and misleading reasoning



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