THE DIOGENES REPORT
The Wit, Wisdom & Wituperation of Emanuel L. Strunin
“a few steps ahead of the curve”
September 2004, VOL. IV, # 30
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THE NEW YORK TIMES AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN

There are at least three major conflicts going on around the world. There is a presidential election campaign going on in our good old U.S. of A. There are legal, social and international relations issues dividing the American people yet despite all of these problems that are screaming for attention, The New York Times has found space on its editorial page for an issue of ‘poor taste.’ And a very minor issue at that. It’s an issue that has escaped the attention of the overwhelming majority of the American people.

However, we should recognize that this issue of ‘poor taste’ that so upsets the editors at the Times, fits right in with the Times’ agenda of Israel-bashing and Jew-bashing. The Times takes umbrage at the fact that a coin dealer is peddling collectors’ coins that he claims were minted from some silver found in the ruins of the World Trade Center. Poor taste? Perhaps. Big splash in the tidal wave of poor taste that is inundating our nation? Hardly!

So why devote an editorial to this subject? It presented the editors with an opportunity to print the name of the president of the coin company—an obviously Jewish name. Except when dealing with political leaders when was the last time anyone ever saw a name—particularly of a small-time businessman-- in a New York Times editorial? Try, never. But it is in keeping with what appears to be an editorial policy of this paper in its “news” columns. Whenever a corporate executive is involved in some type of misfeasance, and his or her name does not give away their ethnicity, the Times helps out by stating that so-and-so is a big contributor to UJA or a member of some synagogue. Yes, this is one of the Times’ agendas. By the way, it doesn’t provide this service to help identify Baptists, Methodists, Catholics or even Mormons.

Don’t even get me started on the Times agenda on Israel. 

I’ve often been asked why The New York Times is like that, considering the management’s Jewish background. My opinion is that the current management is hard-wired for the same disease that the Ochs/Sulberger family was infected with before they left Germany.



JEWS ARE EXPECTED TO LIVE AS “NEIGHBORS” WITH THESE PEOPLE

(reprinted from ARUTZ-7, Israel National News, Aug., 23. 2004)

PA HISTORIANS: ISRAEL'S BIBLICAL HISTORY IS ACTUALLY ARAB MUSLIM HISTORY

As you read the Arab comments, think of George Orwell’s words from 1984. “Who controls the past, controls the future, and who controls the present controls the past.” The Arabs understand this well and received the concept directly from the Quran.

A recent educational program on Palestinian Authority TV taught that the Jews of Biblical history and those of today have no connection, and that accepted Jewish history in the Land of Israel is essentially "Arab history."

Palestinian Media Watch, a watchdog organization monitoring PA media, reports that two senior PA historians, guests on the television program, went to great lengths to deny ancient Jewish history and erase the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel - while at the same time, describing a contrived ancient Palestinian-Arab history and creating a historical connection to the land that never existed. 

"Two central components of this Palestinian myth," PMW Director Itamar Marcus writes, "consist of turning Biblical Israel into Muslim-Arabs, while teaching that the Palestinians are the descendents of the Biblical Canaanites, who are also turned into Arabs. With both the Canaanites and Israelites becoming Arabs and the religion of ancient Israel becoming Islam, the PA takes authentic Jewish history, documented by thousands of years of continuous literature, and crosses out the word 'Jewish' and replaces it with the word 'Arab.'" 

Marcus continues, "This creative historical revisionism is not new in the PA... The PA is struggling with the challenge of creating a Palestinian national identity when no Palestinian national history exists."

PMW notes some of the main points brought out in the broadcast: 
1. The Hebrews of the Bible have no connection to the Jews today. 
2. The Hebrews of the Bible were Arabs. 
3. The Prophets of the Bible were Muslims. 
4. Biblical King Solomon was a Muslim Prophet. 
5. Solomon's Temple was not built by Israelites but by Arab Canaanites. 
6. The Canaanites are the forefathers of the Palestinians 
7. The Bible is legends based on what Jews imagined and not on history. 
8. The Jews today are descendents of a 13th Century Khazar tribe with no history in the Land of Israel.
9. The location of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is a Zionist invention. 
10. Zionism is Racism. 

The historians appearing on the program are Dr. Jarir Al-Qidwa, Head of the PA Public Library and Arafat's Advisor on Education, and Dr. Issam Sissalem, Senior Historian and Educational TV host, former head of History Dept. of PA University. To view part of the discussion, click here. The following are selections from the August 2nd discussion on PA TV, as gleaned and translated by PMW: 

Moderator Albaz: "Where did the story of Solomon's Temple come from?"

Al-Qidwa: "Solomon's Temple, I believe, was built by the Canaanites who were the neighbors of the Israelis, the Israelites... I want to state several words clearly: the Bible became an archival document, not representing what the Israelis and the first Jews were, but what they thought they were, what they imagined. The Temple is the fruit of their imagination. In any case, when our nation or our Canaanite forefathers came to Palestine, they built the Temple... a temple in Jerusalem"

Sissalem: "We, as the Palestinian nation fighting for its freedom and liberation, must not focus too much attention on these false [Biblical] legends. The history of our land continues more than ten thousand years. The land of battles and wars, [many] armies, tribes and commanders came through. I want to point out that we should not focus much on what is called the [Biblical] Hebrew tribes, who are in fact Bedouin Arab tribes. There is no connection between them and these Khazar Jews [of Israel today]. Those [Hebrew - Arab] tribes were erased and ceased to exist and no traces were left of them... That group did not have a pure religion. They claimed that Solomon, may he rest in peace, built the Temple. Does the land testify to this? Solomon was a prophet and we see him as a Muslim and part of our [Islamic] heritage... There is no historical text that proves the existence [of the temple] or that it has a real history other than the Bible, and the Bible as we have previously mentioned... was written based on ancient legends. "...The Quran came directly from the Prophet [Muhammad]... while supporting all that preceded it in the [Biblical] Prophetic inscriptions, that, as you noted, appeared in the Quran as Muslims believing in the one and only God, and these [the Hebrew prophets of the Bible] are part of our [Muslim] heritage. They have no connection to the Imperialistic Settlement Jews [Israelis] and nor to those that were destroyed."

Al-Qidwa: "The Jewish presence in Palestine and Jerusalem ended approximately in the year 70, when Titus utterly destroyed the Second Temple of Herod."

Sissalem: "When the Zionist movement started to set in motion the Imperialist Settlement plan, it tried to base itself in the biblical legends; as we said, the Bible expresses a tradition of legends, that has no connection to history."

Viewer calls studio: "We say that when the Israelites... migrated to America. But the World Zionist Movement and the Free Masons drove them, while distorting the Bible and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the newly prepared Bible, drove them to come here [Israel]... these [the Jews] are the foreign invaders that will pass as the others passed, Allah willing."

Al-Qidwa: "Allah willing."
Sissalem: "Allah willing."
Albaz: "Allah willing."

Caller continues: "And Palestine will be for them a cemetery, Allah willing..."

Al-Qidwa: "Zionism is a racist movement... that mixes or wears religious cloak, and it is false, but it mixes the nation and religion, like the mixture of the Jews. The Jews are a religion and not a race. The peculiar mixture we mentioned in the beginning is meant to follow the historical roots of the Bible, establishing a Jewish state in Palestine, and a so-called Jewish temple in the place of the [Islamic] Al Haram."

Al-Qidwa: "The issue of the temple is a Zionist innovation. No one said that the temple that was built in Jerusalem, neither the Canaanite nor Roman, no one said that it was in the place of the [Islamic] Al Haram."

Al-Qidwa: "These Jews, [after being conquered by Rome] were dispersed ... among many nations. The last, after many hundreds of years, the Khazar Jews, [are the ones] who live in Palestine [i.e., Israel] today. When these people started to write the Bible they found that it was written in a [foreign] language... when they reached Palestine they had no knowledge or culture."

Albaz: "And without any historical or other link [to the land]." 

Al-Qidwa: "And without any historical or other link... At first they were shepherds. When they needed agricultural instruments, they went to the Canaanite cities to buy metal rods and knives and other things..."

Sissalem: "...About the Jews of Khazar... they had a state [in the Kavkaz (Caucasia)] and it was destroyed by the Vladimir Family and the Mongolian attack, that invaded them in the 13th century. They dispersed in seclusion in ghettos, in what is called Russia, Ukraine, and Poland, and came to us [to Israel] in the 19th century, with false Zionist claims based on legends."



THE WEST IS EXPECTED TO LIVE AS NEIGHBORS WITH THESE PEOPLE

BRITISH MUSLIM LEADER JUSTIFIES CHECHEN SCHOOL ATTACK
(from Arutz-7, September 7, 2004)

A British Muslim group is planning a commemoration of 9/11 - and now its spiritual leader says he supports abducting British children. 

The extremist leader of Al-Muhajiroun, Omar Bakri Mohammed, said this week that holding women and children as hostages would be reasonable for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. Mohammed told The Sunday Telegraph, "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of terrorism in Iraq... As long as the Iraqi did not deliberately kill women and children, and they were killed in the crossfire, that would be okay."

Mohammed, father of seven, came to Britain after being deported from Saudi Arabia because of his membership in a banned group.

Relating to the horrific school attack in southern Russia in which close to 400 people have been reported killed, Mohammed said, "The Mujahideen [Chechen terrorists] would not have wanted to kill those people, because it is strictly forbidden as a Muslim to deliberately kill women and children. It is the fault of the Russians." 

MP Andrew Dismore was quoted as saying, "That sounds to me like incitement and I will report him to Scotland Yard." 

Al-Muhajiroun plans to hold its third annual commemoration of the 9/11 attacks with a convention in London titled, "The Choice is in Your Hands: Either You're with the Muslims or with the Infidels." Mohammed explained, "We want the world to remember this operation," Bakri said, "that lifted the head of the [Muslim] nation." Al-Muhajiroun claimed, as of last year, no fewer than 30 offices across Britain, with branches in France and throughout the Middle East. 



THREE CHEERS FOR ARAB UNITY

(from IMRA, 8/24/04)

"Jordan has a Palestinian problem, Kuwait has an Iraqi problem, Egypt has a problem with anyone who isn't Egyptian, and Lebanon has a problem of the demographic balance between the ethnic groups so that if it gives citizenship to a Sunni, it has to give citizenship to a Christian or a Shi'ite. The beautiful slogans about Arab unity smash on the rock of citizenship. The Arabic language and the religion of Islam have not been enough to produce a common identity ever since the Arab nation-states were created. The interesting thing is that it is the radical religious organizations, the ones that presumably should be supporting the elimination of the secular national and civil frameworks, that are the ones who are objecting to changing the citizenship laws. But with them, it is because of their aspiration to preserve the inferior status of women."



MORE “PUPIK” HUMOR
(the Yiddish equivalent of a belly laugh)

Doctor Bloom who was known for miraculous cures for arthritis had a waiting room full of people when a little old lady, completely bent over in half, shuffled in slowly, leaning on her cane. When her turn came, she went into the doctor's office, and, amazingly, emerged within half an hour walking completely erect with her head held high.

A woman in the waiting room who had seen all this walked up to the little old lady and said, "It's a miracle! You walked in bent in half and now you're walking erect. What did that doctor do?"

She answered, "Miracle, shmiracle . . . he gave me a longer cane."



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

Gandhi Grandson: Solidarity With Imprisoned Terrorists, Refugee Return To Israel
How does he feel about 100 million Muslims returning to India? Just asking.

Tourists Slowly Return To Connecticut
If you’ve driven on I-95 or the Merritt Parkway recently, you know it can’t be anything but slowly.

Remote-Control Explosions Pose Threat In Afghanistan
Technology is really amazing: you press a button in Saudi Arabia and the explosion goes off in Afghanistan.

Attorney General: International Court Of Justice Ruling Necessitates Adoption Of Geneva Convention
We have met the enemy and, as in most cases, he is the Jew.

North Korea Markets Taepo Dong-2 Missile
Everyone is getting into the sex toys business.

IKEA Hires More Workers, Snarls Roads
Now we know why highway department employees stand around doing nothing, if they worked they would snarl the roads. This should be a lesson for IKEA.

Norwalk Firm Helps Thwart Corruption In Mexico
Too bad they couldn’t do anything in Connecticut.

Report: Doctor Doing Autopsies Didn’t Have Proper License
He wasn’t skilled enough to work on dead bodies, only on the living.

Rell Wants To Prioritize Transportation Projects
Good idea Governor: first pave highway, then paint stripe.

Benefactors Donated Thousands For Gifts For Roland’s Home
Sure, charity begins at home, but in this case “home” was the Governor’s mansion.

Bush’s CIA Nominee Tried To Gut Key Intelligence Programs
G. W. Bush: “my advisors tell me that it’s only a problem when Democrats do it.”

One-By-One, Iraqi Cities Become No-Go Zones
Finally, the American Government is taking Diogenes’ advice, although not voluntarily.

Resolving To Fight: Russia Threatens To Strike Terrorists
They’re beginning to sound like the Israelis: threats, threats, threats, but very little action.

At The Gift Shop: Souvenirs Of Buchenwald
Shrunken heads of the Nazi guards?

Muslims Rule Major Swedish City 
Yumpin Yiminy! Award the Swedes the Nobel Prize for political correctness and stupidity.

‘Cup Of Joe’: Lieberman Talks Issues During Visit To Local Diner
One thing to his credit, he never flip flops on the proposition that he likes coffee.

Insurgents Thwart Efforts To Repair Iraqi Oil Pipelines
We’ll fix them in no time at all; insurgents are not as destructive as terrorists.

American-Islamic Group Opens First New England Chapter In New London
Right near the submarine base and the Electric Boat plant. Hmm.

Johnny Cash Guitar Sells For $131,000
Did they, at least, throw in an instruction book with Johnny’s favorite chords?

Muslim Leaders Ponder Whether To Endorse A Presidential Candidate
How about Osama?

Ex-Waterbury Mayor Giordano Seeking Reduction In His Sentence
He wouldn’t complain if they brought a couple of 9-year old girls to his cell every week.

French President Blasts Bush On Anti-Poverty Campaign
1. At least he supports us on Iraq.
2. To provide work for the Iraqis, he supports the construction of a Maginot Line to protect the Americans. 

Friends Gather In Middlebury To Support Former Governor
Was this a $1,000-a-plate dinner or a $1,000-a-plate-under-the-table-dinner? 

Suicide Bomber Was Children’s TV Show Hostess
1. And we complain about Blue’s Clues.
2. Bush said that Israel should end the daily humiliation of the Arabs. I agree, stop humiliating them and just shoot them.

At CBS, ’60 Minutes’ Probe Launched As Super Bowl Fine Hits
Gee, Dan Rather shouldn’t have exposed himself during half-time at the Super Bowl.

Kerry: President Lives In ‘Make-Believe World’
Make-believe world, real world, make-believe world, real world. Well, it’s one of those.



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

If a lady says No, she means Perhaps; if she says Perhaps, she means Yes;
If she says Yes, she’s no Lady. If a diplomat says Yes, he means Perhaps; 
if he says Perhaps, he means No; if he says No, he is no diplomat.
     - Francis Watson Dawson

Every nation is a community of both shared memory and of shared forgetting. 
Forgetting, and I would say even historical error, is an essential factor in the history of a nation.
     - Ernest Renan

We have no children but we have three cats. It’s like having children but there is no tuition involved.
    - Ronald P. Reagan

(at 77) If I knew I would live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
- Diogenes (adapted) 

Cosmo: Sorry this took so long…it’s because I’m a perfectionist.
Shoe: Oh, give me a break…you’re a slob, you always come to work late, and you never make a deadline!
Cosmo: Well…I didn’t say I was a good perfectionist!
- SHOE (cartoon strip)


Strangers are friend whom you haven’t met.
- Anonymous

Strangers are enemies whom you have yet to meet.
- Diogenes

It is the chief point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
- Erasmus

I want a deferment; I want a deferment; I want a deferment; I want a deferment: I want a deferment. It’s great when your draft board appreciates that you have other priorities—every time you ask, even if it’s five times,
- Dick Cheney

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. 
- John Locke

I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.
- Carol Channing

Those who think, fool themselves.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

OTB: A place where you can still play the race card and be politically correct.
- Diogenes

Bringing so-called democracy to Iraq is not worth the life of a single American.
- Diogenes

At Sinai, the minds of men were given the power to read the mind of God.
- Cynthia Ozick

The self-descriptive Jewish slogan: We have met the enemy and he is us!
- Diogenes

"With Repentance, Prayer and Charity we can change a bad decree"
Saying sorry is easy. Meaning it is the hard part. Prayer and 
Charity is something that we can do without much thought. The real 
challenge, is to change our ways. The Talmud tells us that changing 
a character trait is one of the hardest things one can attempt to 
do. That is our goal over Yom Kippur. 


For almost all of waking hours during that 25 hour interval, we try to gain strength and courage from the people around us to find that inspiration in our heart to flip that switch that will change our lives.

I consider myself very honored and lucky that you all will be right next to me during this time. May we all be sealed in the Book of Life.
- Rabbi Ira Ebbin

There is no darkness but ignorance.
- William Shakespeare

There was only one occasion in my life when I put myself on a strict diet and I can tell you, hand on heart, it was the most miserable afternoon I ever spent.
- Denis Norden

A woman’s word is never done.
- Anonymous

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben

I can always find plenty of women to sleep with, but the kind of woman that is really hard for me to find is a typist who can read my writing.
- Thomas Wolfe

My favorite dish is mixed greens: twenties, fifties, and hundreds.
- Eileen Mason

In order to appreciate the English language one has to have a certain contempt for logic.
- Lin Yutang



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