THE DIOGENES REPORT
The Wit, Wisdom & Wituperation of Emanuel L. Strunin
“a few steps ahead of the curve”
August 2006, VOL. VI, #12
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(Items marked with an * were written by Diogenes.)

SHORT-TAKE ON SHORT-SIGHTED TACTICS*

If I hear another Israeli diplomat or general talking about Lebanon or Gaza or an American general talking about Iraq using the term “high moral ground,” Diogenes will throw up his soulvaki and Greek salad. “We don’t want to act like the enemy,” is the usual follow-up. These pompous “high-roaders” forget that their only duty and sacred obligation is to protect US against THEM, to ensure that our side has minimal casualties while inflicting maximum casualties on THEM. If it takes “acting like them” to achieve this duty, so be it. In war, those that do not understand the difference between THEM and US should not lead our troops or our nations.


ANOTHER “JENIN MASSACRE”*

Remember Jenin where the IDF massacred hundreds of “innocent Arab civilians?” This Arab hoax traveled around the world with the help of the UN, the Europeans, the so-called humanitarian (fellow travelers), and, of course, the Arab and other Islamic nations, moderate and immoderate. The lie, which exaggerated the deaths of a dozen Jihadist terrorists never did catch up with the truth.

The current Arab BIG LIE is the Kana Massacre which is designed to put a halt to the IDF’s offensive or at least keep it on the “high moral ground” to eliminate its strikes on civilian areas where Hizbullah stores its launchers and rockets. Of course, the UN, the Europeans and all other Jew haters are running with the BIG LIE which is unraveling in the face of all the anti-Israel demonstrators. We keep forgetting that the real Prophet of the Arabs is Baron Munchausen and that Muhammad was only his assistant. The following article is an update of the Kana Non-Massacre.

Evidence Mounts that Kana "Massacre" Was a Fake

By Hillel Fendel, Arutz Sheva, August 3, 2006 

The world awoke this Sunday to the news that an Israeli airstrike had killed 57 Lebanese civilians, leading Israel to stop airstrikes for 2 days - but evidence shows the "massacre" was just a fraud. 

The supposed massacre caused a major turnabout in world diplomacy. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice suddenly canceled her plans to fly to Beirut, saying "my work towards a ceasefire is really here [in Jerusalem] today." The implication was clearly that the onus was now upon Israel. French President Jacques Chirac condemned Israel's "unjustified action which demonstrates more than ever the need for an immediate ceasefire," Jordan's King Abdullah called it an "ugly crime," and other world leaders echoed these sentiments.

Though Israel emphasized that Hizbullah was to blame for waging its rocket war against Israel from within a civilian population, Foreign Ministry officials repeated their "deep regret at the loss of innocent life in the campaign against Hizbullah," and were forced to promise a "thorough and comprehensive examination."

Apparently, however, the incident was all one big fraud, staged by Arab elements for the world media in order to lead precisely to the situation described above.

The central piece of evidence leading to this conclusion is the fact, mentioned by IDF officials from the very beginning, that the building collapsed a full seven hours after the Israel Air Force bombing. Why, then, would the residents inside not have been evacuated in the meantime? As Brig.-Gen. Amir Eshel of the Israeli Air Force told reporters Sunday night, “It is difficult for me to believe that they waited eight hours to evacuate it.” Without additional evidence, Eshel merely left open the possibility that Hizbullah terrorists, or explosives they left behind, caused the explosion.

"Indeed," writes Robert Spencer for FrontPageMagazine, "it strains credulity that not only did these Lebanese civilians remain in a house that had been bombed for eight hours, but peacefully went to sleep in it after the bombing – since the victims were all apparently sleeping, despite continuing Israeli air bombardment in the area, when the building collapsed."

Gen. Eshel also said that the building was used by Hizbullah to store explosives. This was supported by a letter by Dr. Mounir Herzallah, a southern Lebanese Shiite, who wrote that Hizbullah terrorists came to his town, dug a munitions depot and then built a school and a residence directly over it.

In addition, as Reuven Koret writes for IsraelInsider, the bombing of the area occurred in three waves. The first bombs, according to CNN correspondent Brent Sadler, did not hit the building in question, but rather landed "20 or 30 meters" away. The second strike hit targets further away, and the third strike, around 7:30 in the morning, landed over 400 meters away. The first reports of a collapsed building arrived a half-hour later. 

Another CNN correspondent, Ben Wedeman, noted that there was a larger crater next to the building. He observed that the roof of the building was intact and that the building appeared not to have collapsed as a result of the Israeli strike.

Thus, the building was used to store explosives, was apparently not destroyed by the bombing, and sheltered dozens of women and children throughout a night of bombing. The identity of the victims was also not clear, except that they were not the original occupants of the building; a National Public Radio correspondent reported that they had left. "The victims were non-residents who chose to shelter in the building that night," Koret writes, and who were "'too poor' to leave the town, one resident told CNN's Wedeman. Who were these people?"

As an aside, the hospital in Tyre, Lebanon, and Human Rights Watch both reported today that 28 people were killed in the Kafr Kana bombing, and not twice that number, as originally reported. 

Other facts brought by Koret and Spencer: Sometime after dawn a call went out to journalists and rescue workers to come to the scene. Though Hizbullah has been claiming that civilians could not freely flee the scene due to Israeli destruction of bridges and roads, the journalists and rescue teams from nearby Tyre had no problem getting there.

Lebanese rescue teams did not start evacuating the building until after the camera crews came. The absence of a real rescue effort was explained by saying that equipment was lacking. There were no scenes of live or injured people being extracted.

There was little blood, CNN's Wedeman noted, concluding that the victims appeared to have died while they were sleeping - despite the thunderous Israeli air attacks. Rescue workers equipped with cameras were removing the bodies from one opening in the collapsed structure, and journalists were not allowed near it.

Rescue workers carrying the victims on stretchers occasionally flipped up the blankets so that cameras could show the faces and bodies of the dead. But, Koret noted, the ashen-gray faces of the victims gave cause to think that the bodies looked like they had been dead for days.

Photos of the rescue operation transmitted all over the world are "extremely suspicious," Spencer writes, citing work by EU Referendum showing numerous anomalies in the photos. "Most notably," he writes, "the dating of the various photos suggests that the same bodies were paraded before reporters on different occasions, each time as if they had just been pulled from the rubble. [In addition], some workers are wearing different gear in different photos, yet clearly carrying the same corpse." 

The Christian Lebanese (French-language) website LIBANOSCOPIE has charged that Hizbullah staged the entire incident in order to stimulate calls for a ceasefire, thereby staving off its destruction by Israel and Lebanese plans to rid themselves of this terrorist plague.

Spencer concludes, "Americans and Westerners are not used to dealing with carefully orchestrated and large-scale deception of this kind. It is time that it be recognized as a weapon of warfare, and an extremely potent one at that."


RESPONSIBILITY*

The Israeli Government places the blame for Lebanese civilian casualties directly on Hizbullah. If the terrorists store their weapons in civilian buildings or fire them from the midst of civilians or mingle with civilians there would be a minimum of civilian casualties. True. But, I firmly believe that as soon as hostilities are over, the Israeli leaders—political and military—should hold mirrors up to themselves and take responsibility for all of the civilian and military deaths and injuries within Israel. 

Those casualties would not have occurred if they did not pursue policies that led directly to the casualties by enabling Hizbullah and Hamas to carry out their actions. It’s not as if the events that led to all of these murders and attempted murders came as a bolt out of the blue. Every bit of past history and on-going events pointed to the results that would ensue
from giving up land and ignoring continuing aggression by Israel’s Arab “neighbors.” 

Yet the political and military leaders of Israel chose to ignore their vows and obligations to protect the people and the land of Israel. And for this they should be punished. Simply being turned out of office or forced out of the IDF is not sufficient punishment for their heinous crimes. These leaders of Israel are as much guilty of crimes against their people as Saddam Hussein, who is on trial for his life for crimes against the Iraqi people.

Preventing the IDF from demolishing buildings where there might be civilians and thus incurring Israeli casualties is criminal. These so-called civilians that the politicians and IDF generals protected were the people who gave Hizbullah fighters food and shelter, hid their weapons told them when it was safe to come out of their holes and fire at Israelis. Merely removing these politicians from office and throwing the generals out of the IDF is not sufficient punishment for their crimes against the people of Israel. 

THEY AND THEIR SUPPORTRS IN THE CABINET AND THE KNESSET—STARTING WITH OSLO--SHOULD BE TRIED FOR CAPITAL CRIMES BY A JURY OF ISRAELIS THAT WARNED THEM OF THE INSANITY OF THEIR POLICIES. HOWEVER, AN INSANITY DEFENSE SHOULD NOT GET THEM OFF THE HOOK.


SOME GOOD ADVICE FOR ISRAELS LEADERS AND VOTERS

And you shall drive out the inhabitants of the land and dwell there for I have given you the land to posses it…..But if you will not drive out the inhabitants those that remain will be as thorns in your eyes and as pricks in your sides and they will harass you where you dwell. And it shall come to pass, that as I thought to do unto them, so will I do unto you.
- Numbers, XXXIII, 53-56


First strike, victory in sight; strike back, you’re off track. 
- Diogenes

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus

Trust only movement. Life Happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. 
- Alfred Adler

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction
- Aesop

Perhaps the Israel would be better of if Ehud Olmert was eliminated 
instead of Sheikh Nasrallah.
- Diogenes



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

Family Friend: Seattle Suspect Troubled
1. What’s troubling him…that he murdered only one Jew?

2. He shouldn’t be troubled; he’ll find plenty of Muslims in the slammer to keep him company

U.S. Posts Code-Red Alert; Bans Liquids
Does this mean that pilots can’t bring booze into the cockpit?

Mel Gibson Busted For DUI
1. The jerk, he should have delivered his anti-Semitic tirade in Aramaic.

2. Did the arresting officer have a hooked nose?

3. He admitted to being a drunk, but only on sacramental wine. Has he considered having some extra wafers with the wine to absorb the alcohol?

4. He should hire a smart Jewish lawyer who will invoke The Americans With Disabilities Act to get him off.

5. Maybe he’ll volunteer to do community service at a Kiddush Club.

6. He was just venting his rage at Israel’s actions in Lebanon.

7. Did he really say that the Malibu Police Department was crucifying him?

8. Rumors have it that he was only doing research for a remake of Lost Weekend.

9. He blamed the Jews for arresting him. Next he might blame the Jews for killing Jesus.

10. He will never be invited to a seder in this town again!

11. Abe “Absolution for a Contribution” Foxman forgave Mel after he was “convinced” that Mel was contrite and said he didn’t mean his mean-spirited words. How much of a contribution to ADL did it take?

12. I’ll close with the Yiddish proverb which trumps Abe Foxman and highlights the true Mel Gibson. “Vos ez offen lung ez offen tsung.” 

13. Since the Yiddish say goodbye without leaving, I’ll add this appropriate quote by Samuel Johnson: “A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.”

14. One more, by William Butler Yates: The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

THAT’S ALL FOLKS

Evolution’s Backers In Kansas Mount A Counterattack
They’re admitting that even the creationists are a product of evolution.

A Tale Of 2 Stories About Anti-Semitism (Jew-Hate) 
One was about a drunken actor shooting his mouth off—this one got big, big play. The other was about a sober Muslim shooting his gun off, killing one Jew and wounding 5 others—this one was forgotten minutes after it happened,

Soccer Field Bombing Kills 11 Young Boys In Iraq
I didn’t notice any outrage or tears from the “Arab Street” in Beirut or Gaza or even Baghdad.

Nobel Laureate Served In SS 
He must have been drafted. You can bet that Guenter Grass was never a member of the Party and he loved Jews. In any case Abe Foxman will grant him absolution.

Anti-U.S. Feeling Leaves Arab Reformers Isolated
Shouldn’t that be singular—reformer?



QUOTES I LIKE
Diogenes considers them clever and/or informative, 
Not that he necessarily agrees with them. Not even his own.

Islam: the modern world’s most vicious infectious disease.
- Diogenes

Re comment that George W. Bush has been the best American President for Israel: It’s not always correct that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
- Roy Strunin

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Psychiatrist: You were right Mr. Prime Minister for coming to me. I believe you are now cured.
Prime Minister Olmert: Cured? Cured? Are you crazy? Six weeks ago I was Ariel Sharon I was important, today I am Ehud Olmert, a nobody.
- Adapted by Diogenes from the old “I was Napoleon” story.

Success is going from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
- Anonymous

Rich man down and poor man up—they are still not even
- Yiddish proverb

May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right.
- Gypsy curse

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Failure is the path of least persistence. 
- Chinese fortune cookie

Please, Allah check if you have enough virgins, so many of my boys are being martyred that I’m afraid you might run out.
- Hassan Nasrallah

Clever marketing ploy by the Islamic airlines: they are offering Muslims “Frequent Bomber Miles” if they fly Western airlines.
- Diogenes


I don’t believe guns kill people, husbands that come home early do.
- Larry, The Cable Guy

I never graduated from an Air force Academy or served in the military and I bought my uniform and medals in an army-navy store, but I did sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
- Gen. Dan Halutz

With all the cease-fires they’ve had in the Middle East it should be the most peaceful place in the world.
- Rush Limbaugh

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea occurs first.
- William Osler


READER’S COMMENTS

Re: Vol. VI, #11

As for "Crocodile Tears" we need to hire their PR guys. (Oops, some of them are "us" (American Press, TV) Apparently a picture is worth 1,000 words as well as Israeli lives
. 
Norm Solomon meet Mel Gibson...at least Mel needed the booze before he vomited his anti-Semitism.

Accidentally "tuned in" to past volume, August 2004,with which I agree to impose fines on the enemies of Israel to whom we've given billions. "Fine" with me.


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