The Anne Boleyn thing is really over the top and further proof that Peggy Noonan is a clueless horse's ass.

Contemporary accounts of the execution of Anne Boleyn all said that they were impressed by the fact that she was still praying, after she had been beheaded. Still praying. Lips moving in prayer.

What an idiot Peggy Noonan is. She serves no purpose but to remind us of the inanity of her former boss, also an idiot.

Most of what you are saying makes as much sense as this:

"The fundamental teaching of Judaism—that only Jews are human.
Because the rest of us are not human, the Torah teaches that we are owed no debt of morality—not honesty (Baba Kamma 113a), not property [Baba Mezia 24a], not even life! — “The best of the Gentiles should all be killed” Soferim 15, 10
“You are adam ["man"], but goyim [gentiles] are not called adam ["man"].” Kerithoth 6b
“The seed of the goyim is like an animal.” Sanhedrin 74b
“All Gentile children are animals.” Yebamoth 98a
“Who is funding the rabbis who endorse killing Gentile babies?” By Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz, 11/17/09
“…For example, [Israel’s] government ministries regularly transfer support and funding to a yeshiva whose rabbi determined that it is permissible to kill gentile babies “because their presence assists murder, and there is reason to harm children if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us … it is permissible to harm the children of a leader in order to stop him from acting evilly … we have seen in the Halakha that even babies of gentiles who do not violate the seven Noahide laws, there is cause to kill them because of the future threat that will be caused if they are raised to be wicked people like their parents….”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128767.html
The Complete Guide to Killing Non-Jews
Ma’ariv 09.11.09 (p. 2) by Roi Sharon
Here is a full translation of an article in the Maariv newspaper of Israel
http://didiremez.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/settler-rabbi-publishes-the-complete-guide-to-killing-non-jews/
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Please check your source.

According to the CIA, Iran's GDP is $331.8 billion, according to the World Bank its $385.1 billion, and according to the IMF its $335.2 billion.

North Carolina, meanwhile, at least according to North Carolina, has a "GDP" of a little over $400 billion.

Iran isnt even 1/50th of the US economy. California alone is eight times as big as Iran. Texas about the same.

Their whole economy is much less than a third of what we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. Less than half of one years stimulus bill spending. Less than one years defense spending. They pose no threat to us.

Arabs are semites too. And it isnt antisemitism to criticize Israel when Israel does bad things.

The root cause of radicalism anywhere is injustice. The use of violence anywhere is a result of injustice. Dhimmitude is another made up word, like islamofascism, designed to keep you and your friends in the dark about what the possibilities are. Its a false choice between the end of Israel and its present unjust policies. Iran is a small poor country with a percapita gdp of what Israels was at the start of the GWOT.

Wouldnt it be fair and just to revert to the 1947 partition boundaries and to let the Palestinians have their land back? Why is it reasonable to imagine that there will ever be peace when Israel occupies so much land by force?

Its not antisemitism to criticize irael and its policies, but it is shortsighted to consider every criticism as an existential threat. There are many people in the world who wold be good friends to a peaceful israel.

Islamofascism is just a nonsense word coined to scare you into believing that islam poses a threat to you equal to that formerly posed by the Nazis. We have been fighting "terror" or "islam" or "islamofascism" longer and for far more money than we spent beating Hitler. The present threat is tiny, but nobody dates to say that.

Consider that Irans economy is smaller than that of North Carolina. Would you be afeered of North Carolina if they were planning a nuke? Would you even consider it possible?

Wake up and free yourselves from the chains of bigotry. Islam is revealed Christianity, just as Christianity is revealed Judaism. Its just a religion. A religion with a great deal in common with our Judeo Christian traditions. Not a threat.

Islam certainly has nothing to do with corporatist socialism which is the hallmark of fascism.

Apartheid is a good and fair description of the israeli policy toward the palestinians-"apart-ness". As to a distinct Palestinian type of Arab: there is a Palestinian dialect of Arabic which was spoken throughout what is now Israel, and there are cultural differences between the Palestinians and other Shams people, notably different foods, and different surnames. There isnt merely one type of Palestinian however: there are differences in religion (many Palestinians are orthodox Christians), and differences in education and incomes. If you think Palestinians are just like other Arabs (whatever that means) just ask an Arab if they are Palestinian.

As to the historic landownership: most of the land acquired by zionists prior to Balfour was bought for cash from landowners living in what is now Lebanon. Most of the land acquired after independence was taken by force from the locals ie Palestinians. And unlike Jews, Palestinians have no right of return.

Apartheid was in fact kinder to the Africans than Israel is to the Palestinians.

Two points:

1. Please check your ORIGINAL sources before you pass along information. Dubai Police stated that IN AUGUST 2009 they believed that two of the passports later used in the Mabhouh operation had been used to enter and exit Dubai, and that the exit appeared to be by boat. The boat was on record as heading for Iran--which could mean anything including a leisurely passage up the Red Sea to Aqaba. Iran wasnt an out for the assassination team in January 2010.

2. There is nothing keystone cops about this operation. 26 plus people and in country support staff, in and out of a hostile country with no snags. A successful mission accomplished-target eliminated and team extracted. Only eight countries in the world could have pulled that off, and none of them is Arabic.