The Thomas Chronicles

In a European poll, 44% believe that Jews have too much say in international markets. 58% of the Polish people believe that it’s “probably true” that “Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust”. The poll was done in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland, and overall, those countries averaged at 47% in agreement to that last question that Jews talked too much about the Holocaust…

Even as Anti-Semitism is rising worldwide to unprecedented levels, a shadow of war looms over the embattled state of Israel. Aside from the near-daily rocket fire they absorb from the Palestinian Gaza Strip, Syria is also reported to be conducting a quiet arms build up. According to the chief of the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, for the moment Syria’s military is in a defensive posture.

This, however, doesn’t inspire me to warm fuzzy feelings. The fact is these countries are close enough to smell each other’s bad breath in the morning. They’ve only to roll over and look at each other. The further fact that Syria is cavorting with hardened terrorists should give both Israel and us pause. We should trust them just about as far as we can sling a piano— without the use of hydraulics and a crane, of course.

And I’m pretty sure Speaker Pelosi’s shenanigans with Syria didn’t help matters much. The fact that a member of the US House of Representative behaved like a direct Presidential legate to a foreign power without the authority a Presidential legate can only be described as muddling the waters at best. Treasonous at worse.

I do note, however, the sequence of events following Pelosi’s visit. She visits Syria’s Assad. She comes home and rams through the bill calling for the withdrawal of American troops despite Bush’s assured veto. Iran declares that there will be no peace with the United States unless we repent of our “Satanic” ways. (This, of course, echoes al Qaeda’s terms for peace, which is to either kill all our Jews or to hand over all our Jews to them for them to kill.)

The Iraqi government goes on recess in the middle of our troop surge and leaves their entire agenda dangling. (Who wants to stick around? Aren’t we handing them over to terrorists like we handed the Kurds over to Saddam?)

Our domestic Muslims demand ceremonial foot basins at airports. They can’t use the same ones as the infidels apparently. Our domestic Muslims are also demanding separate schools, separate restrooms, separate everything… like they already received from Europe. They wouldn’t have dared to issue demands for fear of our reaction just a few months ago, and now they are doing it wholesale. Islamophobia, indeed. Then, there’s that attack on Fort Dix…

All this followed within just a MONTH of Pelosi’s trip to the Mideast and our increasing calls for retreat… draw from these events what you will. Her statement when she was in Syria, that “The road to Damascus is a road to peace,” is becoming more ridiculous by the day.

Then, there is Israel’s problem with Syria…

Here is what Mossad chief Meir Dagan said:

“Anyone who thinks that our talking with Syria would sever them from Hezbollah is mistaken,” Mossad chief Meir Dagan told a closed forum last week. However, he added, “I do believe Syrian President Bashar Assad could agree to expel Hamas and Islamic Jihad from Damascus and stop supporting them.”

Nevertheless, Dagan issued a clear warning about the dangers of talks with Syria: “If we enter negotiations with Assad and they fail, the danger of war will be greater than if there were no negotiations at all,” he said.

In the discussion, Dagan laid out his views on the Syrian issue in detail. Yet sources who were present at the meeting said that his bottom-line position remained unclear, and at times, he even contradicted himself. This may have been related to his belief, as he put it, that “the decision on whether to resume negotiations with Syria should not be the business of the intelligence agencies.”

“I’m not a politician,” he said. “I’m an intelligence person, and it’s not my job to say whether we need to negotiate with Syria; that is the job and the decision of the prime minister and the government. My job is to present assessments and risks.”

Nevertheless, these sources said, their general impression was that Dagan, one of the most dominant figures in the security establishment, believes that talks with Syria would do more harm than good.

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