by Michael G. Mickey
(3-7-08)

Isn't it amazing that, even in a time when our nation is at war with terror, our government has no problem breaking its own standards concerning having relationships with governments supportive of terrorist activity?

By now most everyone in the civilized world has read of the despicable deeds that took place yesterday at a Jewish rabbinical seminary in Jerusalem, an act of terrorism to be sure as we see in a Yahoo News story.

How did our Middle Eastern partners for peace, the Palestinian people, respond to the news of this murderous tragedy? As we see in a YnetNews.com article, armed men responded by firing weapons into the air in celebration as others among the thousands gleefully dancing in the streets passed out sweets to the crowd. How morbidly festive of them, huh?

But the government of Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party? Surely it must've been in mourning at the prospect that the event would stall ongoing peace efforts in the region, right? Well, kind of. Sort of.

While Abbas himself has publicly condemned the slaughter of innocents, official Fatah-affiliated media outlets are openly praising the terrorism as 'heroic' according to a WorldNetDaily article.

Conditions today, from my perspective, are reminiscent of how they were in the days when Yasser Arafat, another gem of a partner for peace with the United States, was in charge. The 'official position' presented to the world today, much as it was during the Arafat days, is the Palestinian leadership is against terrorism, even as their official media outlets cheer the terrorists to further murderous behavior! Somehow the double standard is missed by our government, the United Nations, the mainstream media and practically everyone else.

Probably, as a direct result of this attack taking place on Israeli soil, the Israeli government will target some of its enemies who are gleefully dancing in the streets in celebration of their intentional murdering of innocent people in the coming days. Should an innocent civilian be inadvertently struck by Israeli gunfire, our terrorist allies will take to the streets in anger and we, along with the United Nations and governments all over the world, will call upon the Israelis to use restraint so the Middle East peace process - the one the Palestinians and all their terrorist buddies continue to torpedo every chance they get - won't be harmed.

Our terrorist allies? The poor, oppressed Palestinians? They so long to see peace in the Middle East...blah blah blah!

Anyone who believes that line the next time the mainstream media or our government feeds it to us is either blind to reality or as high on psychedelic drugs as an Israeli researcher obviously was when he recently suggested that Moses was drugged out of his mind on Mount Sinai when he heard God give him the Ten Commandments!

Am I joking about the Israeli researcher potentially being high himself when he suggested that Moses was drugged when God gave him the Ten Commandments? Well, sort of. There is, however, this excerpt to consider from the article on that topic:

He [Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem] mentioned his own experience when he used ayahuasca, a powerful psychotropic plant, during a religious ceremony in Brazil's Amazon forest in 1991. "I experienced visions that had
spiritual-religious connotations," Shanon said.

Up is down. Down is up. Right is left and left is right! That's the world we live in, brothers and sisters!

Call me crazy (or high on drugs like Moses supposedly was) but I have a feeling our redemption is drawing nigh.

Keep looking up!