jyi # 45A Women Rule The World

jewsyonkersislam# 45A Women Rule The World

jyi # 45A Women Rule The World

The feminine (x), through the collective feminine (all the x-es in women [xx] and men [xy]), rules the world. But the feminine, woman, does so through men. When men are not being men, but -like today- ever-lazier, irresponsible, effeminate and emasculated, you can bet that the collective feminine is at work. Both reacting against such and causing it to worsen -by making women try to become men and making more men and women "become" gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders and worse- for its own purposes.. The GLAAD... group (along with ALL men and women, to a greater or lesser degree) can well be termed -in today's politically correct terms- sexual-identity challenged.
Below is a continuation of a sub-series on my blog (jewsyonkersislamiii-tc. blogspot.com)
subtitled : Israel losing war of ideas (the chosen people choose to stick their heads in the sand on th3e most important issues today() ; China to Moon...
Further below are comments on today's news and some articles, AS I HAVE EDITED THEM , including some excerpts from my journal, my blog or my musings of more than a few years ago. And a critique of today's news
Israel losing war of ideas (as a group, perhaps the smartest people in the world ; and as yet they have not gotten behind the idea that we need to get rid of oil, gas, coal...as fuel and use solar...power or, far more important, that we need new planet earths for the ever-expanding human population to move to) ; China to Moon - AND "QUIET" MILITARY PROGRAM
1-10-12
I DO NOT "BELIEVE" IN ANY GOVERNMENT OR RELIGION... BUT GOVERNMENT, RELIGION... ARE NECESSARY, NECESSARY TO SAVE THE HUMAN RACE FROM ONRUSHING EXTINCTION. ONLY SUCH INSTITUTIONS CAN IMPRESS PEOPLE THAT MEN MUST BE MEN AND NOT -WHETHER OR NOT WE REALIZE IT- THE EVER-LAZIER, IRRESPONSIBLE, EFFEMINATE AND EMASCULATED MORONS WE ARE TODAY, ALL A RESULT OF FEMINIST-FAGGOT FILTH AND NONSENSE OF ALL KINDS. AND THAT IS WHY FEMINIST-FAGGOT ROT MUST BE TOTALLY DESTROYED AND FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET BOWL.
New York Times (NYT), A1, A6, B5 France and Germany realize that the Euro zone is doomed. China is slowing down more every day.. Italy's Prime Minister talks about fostering growth. But who will buy ? US rallies ahead of "earnings season" ? There could well be little or no "earnings" and our moronic consumerist and materialistic businesses and industries had better realize that.
Journal News (JN), 1A, 9A NYS is lagging in school reform ? Nothing worthwhile can be done unless and until we destroy the nonsense that boys and girls, men and women are "equal". Teachers unions -including Yonkers- rally against federal aid cuts. But the unions are pure garbage, only ever-increasing the same old sexual "equality" bullshit that has brought us so low (all feminist-faggot civil rights excess, garbage...). Women should be disgusted by this sexual "equality" bullshit and should be working to kill every bit of it.
NYT, A1, JN, 6A "Egypt's women find power still hinges on men" and that is not wrong. Women, cyclical and unlimited, are the past and the future in the present -they provide the stability our world needs to keep going. Men, oppositional and limited, are the present with a long-term view in the present. So men should be leaders, not women. Unless, of course, men are EVER-LAZIER, IRRESPONSIBLE, EFFEMINATE AND EMASCULATED MORONS SUCH AS WE ARE TODAY.
NYT, A4, A16, A23, JN, 13A "More monks (Tibetan Buddhists - religious) die by fire (self-immolation, not unlike Islamic suicide bombers) in protest of Beijing", in Tibet and central China, Sichuan and Qinghai. (China is going down economically, politically...). "Recession holding back" unneeded medical proceedures, "hospital care, doctors visits and prescription drug purchases".-and I think its a very good idea. NYS Gov. Andrew Cuomo is right about solar energy - but wrong about fracking.
"Key Republicans deny climate change science" ? Utter morons. But what about heart and lung disease, cancer, genetic damage... caused by breathing polluted air, drinking polluted water, eating polluted food...all caused by the use of oil, gas, coal, chemicals...
"Where are our liberals ?" What does it mean to be a "liberal" ? Our current liberals -feminist-faggot filth all- are poor examples.
The US government today is drowning under the weight of all sorts of "liberal" interest groups, left, right and center - all with their hands out for freebies. Yes, I know the "world is unfair", but what does "unfair" mean ? And for whom ?

MY JOURNAL/BLOG : TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI), MIND, BRAIN...
NYT, ST1, 7-11-10 "Dream analysi"s by groups of women ..."vivid yet cryptic" dreams. These women have no adequate common goals.
NYT, D7, 11-9-10 "As life alters genes, illness may emerge (all a result of pollution from the use of oil, gas, coal, chemicals...)... (and) mental disorders...(can also be traced) to chemical signatures"
JN, B1, 10-24-10 A Doctor discusses his "bouts with mental illness", hearing voices...schizophrenia.. He notes that one "gains humility by (being) repeatedly humiliated...(and that) 'none of us is entirely well and none of us is irredeemably sick".
NYT, 10-6-10, D1 "How nonsense sharpens intellect...(Such) primes brain to sense patterns it would otherwise miss...(Our) meaning systems (are our own and we cherish them - for they are our identity...(We have) an urge to order...(and much) knowledge is gained... (outside of our) awareness".
JN, 2-14-08, 14B An Iraqi Psychiatric Hospital Chief supplied suicide bombers to terrorists.
NYT Bk. Rev., 3-12-05, p.11 "Creativity (is similar to an)...art form...(It is about) the ability to draw 'fluid analogies...(Poetry is the ability to) express truths deeper than words' " and scientific discovery is all about creative analogies and meaningful coincidences in which serendipity often plays a big role.






China’s Quiet Military Space Program
January 3, 2012 | From theTrumpet.com
Control of space is essential for a modern military. That is what China’s latest space paper is all about. By Richard Palmer

China’s latest five-year plan on space exploration talks a lot about peace..... “but in fact the concrete details given all point toward a primary emphasis on strategic advantage for China here on Earth.”
The talk of peace is just a distraction. China’s space program is run by the military.
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China... doesn’t want America to start racing. It wants America to keep standing still, or even stumbling backward in its space program, while it quietly catches up.
Hence its new five-year plan—a military plan for space, but a quiet one.
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Only America owns its own satellite navigation system, but Russia, China and the EU are all building one.
While America’s space program flounders, the rest of the world is intent on catching up.
America may have a big lead, but it’s squandering it, while other nations are doggedly catching up. “nasa’s direction tends to shift with every change of presidency,” write Edward Wong and Kenneth Chang in the New York Times. “President George W. Bush called on nasa to return to the moon by 2020. President Obama cancelled that program and now wants the agency to send astronauts to an asteroid.”
How different to nasa’s long-term planning toward one objective that meant it reached the moon in 1969. Today’s vacillating means nasa wastes billions while China produces dedicated and consistent five-year plans, and then follows through on those plans.
America’s lead in space is being eroded, which means it is losing its military edge over other powers. •



China to the Moon

Nobody gets to the moon by accident...................
But the U.S. has not been thinking much about manned space travel lately.........................

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The U.S. can’t rouse itself to do a lot of it anymore and, like it or not, China can.
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The follow-through, of course, is a wee bit harder than the choice, and in recent years, that’s where the U.S. has performed abysmally. We choose to go to Mars! the first President Bush declared in 1989, until his budget team crunched the numbers and put the likely price tag at $500 billion, whereupon the grand idea was quietly shelved. We choose to go back to the moon! the second President Bush announced in 2004 — until the plan ran over budget and over deadline, which is true of virtually any successful space program that’s even been attempted, but was more than enough justification for the Obama administration to cancel the plan. (THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS AN ABYSMAL FAILURE - AT JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ; IT DOES NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL)
NASA......................... We were building a rocket — something we’re very, very good at doing. (BUT OBAMA AND HIS DIRTBAG ADMINISTRATION CANCELED IT ALL)
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America’s bi-annual electoral shake-ups — not to mention the current pre-K atmosphere in Washington — provides no such predictability (AS CHINA'S WITH ITS ONE PARTY SYSTEM). And yet the same system was in place in the Apollo era. From Sputnik, in 1957, to the last moon landing, in 1972, the U.S. had four presidents and eight different Congresses, and while the battles over the space budget could be pitched, the goal — going to the moon — remained unshakable. That bipartisan constancy is absent in the present-day political sandbox. (ALL OUR "LEADERS" ARE MORONS)
None of this is to say it would be worth trading a Constitutional democracy for a one-party dictatorship.
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Our World: Is Israeli society unraveling?
By CAROLINE B. GLICK (IF IT IS IT IS BECAUSE OF WORLDWIDE -WESTERN-STYLE- FEMINIST-FAGGOT ROT AND BULLSHIT ABOUT SEXUAL 'EQUALITY" AGAINST COMMUNAL FORCES WITHIN WESTERN SOCIETY)

01/02/2012 22:09

We have far more that unites us than separates us. If we focus on this, there is no force either within or without our society that can defeat us.
On balance, Israeli society is extremely healthy. (BUT VERY FOOLISH)

Unemployment is at record lows. At a time of global recession, the Israeli economy is growing steadily.

Israeli Jewish women have the highest fertility rate in the Western world with an average of three children per woman. Education levels have risen dramatically across the board over the past decade with dozens of private colleges opening their doors to more and more sectors of the population.

Israel’s diverse Jewish population is becoming more integrated. Sephardic and Ashkenazi intermarriage has long been a norm. Secular Jews are becoming more religious. A new educational trend that received significant media attention in recent months involves secular parents who send their children to national religious schools to ensure that they receive strong educational grounding in Judaism.

And as secular Jews become more religious, both the national religious and ultra-Orthodox sectors are becoming increasingly integrated in nonreligious neighborhoods and institutions. Ultra-Orthodox conscription rates have increased seven-fold in the past four years. In 2010, 50 percent of ultra-Orthodox male highschool graduates were conscripted.

The IDF assesses that by 2015, the rate of conscription will rise to 65%.

While this is still below the general conscription rate of 75% among male 18-year-olds, the rapid rise in ultra- Orthodox military service is a revolutionary development for the sector.

With military service comes entrée to the job market. The trend towards employment integration was blazed by ultra-Orthodox women. Over the past decade, ultra-Orthodox women have matriculated en masse in vocational schools that have trained them in hi-tech and other marketable professions and so enabled them to raise their families out of poverty.

These ultra-Orthodox women, who are now being followed by their IDF veteran husbands, are part of a general trend that has seen women fully integrated in almost every sector of society and the economy (OF COURSE, SUCH IS WRONG). The fact that women make up the senior leadership echelons in both business and government is not a fluke. Rather it is a product of the largely egalitarian nature of Israeli society.

True, as is the case everywhere, Israeli women suffer from male chauvinism. (SEXISM, MYSOGNY AND HOMOPHOBIA ARE EVOLUTIONARY TRAITS SELECTED FOR)

And like the rest of the world, Israel has its share of sexual abusers, rapists, and criminal and social misogynists. But imperfection does not detract from the fact that women in Israel are free, educated, empowered and advancing on all fronts (ALL WRONG).

As for the national religious community, its youth remain committed to serving as pioneers in strengthening Israel as a Jewish democracy. Not content to limit themselves to national religious communities in Judea and Samaria, more and more young national religious families are moving to poor towns and communities from Dimona to Ramle to Kiryat Shmona to strengthen their educational, economic and social underpinnings.

Modern Orthodox women are taking on expanded roles in religious councils, synagogues, religious courts and other bodies. Soldiers from the national religious sector remain overrepresented in all IDF combat units and in the officer corps.

Israel’s growing social cohesion and prosperity (BUT IT CAN NOT CONTINUE VERY LONG) is all the more notable as we witness neighboring states aflame with rebellion and revolution, extremist Islamist forces voted to power from Morocco to Egypt and economic forecasts promising mass privation.

And in the Age of Obama, with cleavages between liberals and conservatives growing ever wider in America, and with the future of the European Union hanging in the balance as the euro zone teeters on the edge of an abyss, the fact that Israeli society is becoming increasingly fortified is simply extraordinary.

In light of these integrationist trends, the media circus in recent weeks that has portrayed Israeli society as frayed through and through has been startling. With women in Israel presented as underprivileged victims, national religious youth presented as terrorists and the ultra-Orthodox community presented as a gang of misogynist, violent crazies set to transform Israel – in the words of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – into another Iran, an average news consumer can be forgiven for wondering how he missed his country’s demise.

What explains this sudden flood of gloom and doom stories? Certainly it is true that in a highly competitive news environment, media coverage tends to over represent marginal social forces. Sensational stories make for banner headlines. And it is at the margins of society that a reporter is most likely to find sensational stories.

So it is that when reporters wish to push a socialist agenda (REVOLTING), they descend on urban slums and talk to people hanging out on the street doing nothing. As a rule, these stories will not feature visits to vocational training schools that are educating poor people out of poverty.

Just as poor, uneducated single mothers in Lod can be depended on to blame their troubles on an insensitive government, so groups of ultra- Orthodox extremists in Beit Shemesh, whose own communities decry them, can be trusted to treat nonreligious women poorly.
(THE FEMINIST-FAGGOT MEDIA IS DESPICABLE ANYWHERE IT EXISTS)
None of this is to say that we should stand by and allow poor single moms and their children to go hungry or that we should accept abuse of women by ultra-Orthodox bullies. The former is an issue for social services. The latter is an issue for law enforcement bodies. And to the extent that these institutions are failing in their missions, they should be required to improve their performance (BULLSHIT ; THESE AGENCIES ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN CONTINUING THEIR DO-NOTHING JOBS).

But just the majority of single mothers, who are not impoverished, don’t deserve to be placed in the victim column, so, too, the majority of ultra-Orthodox Israelis do not deserve to have their reputation besmirched because of the bad behavior of a small, vocal and easily provoked minority.

ALL OF this brings us to the issue at hand. Stories highlighting the deviant behaviors of marginal social forces tend to be simplistic and misleading, and to serve identifiable political forces. And so, with our national discourse suddenly dominated by stories describing the demise of Israeli democracy, women’s rights and the rule of law at the hands of modern and ultra- Orthodox Jews, we need to consider who benefits from the stories. (ONLY THE FEMINISTS AND FAGGOTS WHOSE DO-NOTHING JOBS DEPEND ON THE CONTINUATION AND ENLARGEMENT OF SUCH SELFISH, SHALLOW IMMORAL AND AMORAL NONSENSE)

It is notable that the seam lines being opened by all of the stories, which are again, about deviations from the norm of Israel’s social cohesion, all fall within the governing coalition. Stories of “Jewish terrorists” set the security hawks against the ideological hawks. They set the likes of Defense Minister Ehud Barak and his supporters against the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and their representatives in the Likud, Israel Beiteinu, Habayit Hayehudi and other coalition parties.

Stories about ultra-Orthodox misogynists make it politically costly for the Likud and Israel Beiteinu to sit in the same government as ultra- Orthodox parties such as Shas and United Torah Judaism. They also serve to weaken Shas among its nonultra- Orthodox voters. The fact that the ultra-Orthodox bus lines were inaugurated with the support of the Kadima government in 2007 is beside the point. It is the Likud that is now being blamed for their existence.

The current (FEMINIST-FAGGOT) media-supported outcries against the national religious and ultra-Orthodox sectors follow the pattern of last summer’s social justice (RICH FEMINIST AND FAGGOT MORONS) protests in Tel Aviv. The purpose of those protests was to discredit the government in the eyes of working class voters and young people.

The current protests also follow in the footsteps of the protests of 1998 and 1999 that brought down Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s first government. Those protests pitted his Russian immigrant coalition members against Shas. They pitted secular Israelis against his ultra-Orthodox coalition members. They alienated young voters from his leadership.

They set his socialist partners against his capitalist partners.

The cleavages wrought in Netanyahu’s coalition made members of his own party as well as his coalition partners fear the electoral cost of maintaining their membership in his government. And so one by one, they bolted his government until it finally fell.

Notably, many of the same forces – from the New Israel Fund to various political consultants who work for the Israeli Left to European NGOs – who were active in the protests in 1999 and in the social justice protests last summer are also playing a role in the current protests. The New Israel Fund raised NIS 200,000 in “emergency funds” to pay for buses to transport protesters to Beit Shemesh last week.

It also paid for two rallies in Jerusalem attacking religious bans on female vocalists earlier last month.

Last summer, Israel’s New Left movement led by leftist political consultant Eldad Yaniv took credit for organizing the anti-free market protests. Yaniv and his colleagues were assisted in conceptualizing the protests by US Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who was also the architect of the social protests in 1998-99. (THE FEMINIST-FAGGOT "LEFT" MUST BE ABOLISHED TODAY)

Indications of how the political Left has been impacted by the current wave of demonstrations are mixed. A Shvakim Panorama poll from last week, which posited the existence of a new anti-religious party led by popular television personality Yair Lapid and a new anti-capitalist Sephardic party led by former Shas leader Arye Deri, indicated that the Left as a whole has been strengthened against the Right. While Kadima would lose most of its Knesset seats to Lapid’s party, it is Deri who would be the undoing of the Right.

The poll claimed that Deri, who since his release from prison has strengthened his bonafides as a secular- friendly political dove, would win seven mandates. Shas would drop from its current 11 seats to five. Deri’s rise would decrease the political Right in all its various forms from its current 67-seat majority in the 120 seat Knesset to a minority of 57.

The media have trumpeted this poll as the first harbinger of spring for Israel’s political Left. And certainly it provides some reason for celebration among leftist political forces. Like the protests in the late 1990s, and like last summer’s anti-capitalist protests, the current batch of anti-religious campaigns serves to turn Israeli against Israeli by feeding on and inflaming sectoral envies and insecurities. And given their success, we can certainly expect them to continue.

For the benefit of society as a whole, we must hope that the basic health and cohesion of Israeli society that has grown so miraculously over the past decade will prevail in the current contest. We have far more that unites us than separates us. If we focus on this, there is no force either within or without our society that can defeat us.

But if we give in to the forces of contention and chaos, we risk endangering everything we hold dear.


Candidly Speaking: Israel losing war of ideas
(STUPIDLY, THE CHOSEN PEOPLE ARE NOT GETTING ON THE REAL TRAIN, THE ONE THAT SUPPORTS SOLAR... POWER, THAT DOES AWAY WITH THE USE OF OIL, GAS, COAL..., AND SUPPORTS THE EXPANSION OF THE HUMAN RACE TO NEW PLANET EARTHS)
By ISI LEIBLER
12/28/2011 21:45

Our adversaries attract sympathy as underdogs, yet carry enormous economic and political clout.
In the war of ideas, we operate under huge handicaps. Our adversaries attract sympathy as underdogs, yet carry enormous economic and political clout and effectively control international institutions like the UN. In addition, they have hijacked NGOs purportedly promoting human rights, yet are at the forefront of racist campaigns to demonize and delegitimize us. It is disgraceful that many western journalists collaborate with them.

Australia has consistently maintained a staunch bipartisan friendship with the Jewish state since its creation. Under the current Labor government headed by Julia Gillard, it remains, like the United States and Canada, one of the few countries where Israel still gets a fair hearing.

On November 26, John Lyons, the accredited Jerusalem reporter for The Australian, the leading national daily, wrote a 3,000 word feature lambasting alleged inhumane Israeli treatment of Palestinian children.

Although The Australian has a consistent record of being fair and open-minded in relation to Israel, this was a classic compendium of anti-Israeli vilification, reminiscent of the wildest distortions and fabrications contained in the Goldstone report.

The sources attributed were the usual Israeli demonizers – B’Tselem, Public Committee against Torture in Israel, Yesh Din, and in particular the organization Defense for Children International (DCI), represented by Australian lawyer Gerald Horton. Lyons also interviewed a spokesman for “Breaking the Silence,” the discredited group which paved the way and actively collaborated with the Goldstone Committee, providing “evidence” which, after investigation, proved to be largely unsubstantiated and was even significantly repudiated by Goldstone himself. (HOW AND WHY CAN THESE UNINFORMED PEOPLE DO WHAT THEY DO ? BECAUSE THEY KNOW NEITHER THE REAL TRUTH NOR THE PERSONAL BENEFITS IF THEY GOT ON THE RIGHT TRAIN)

Lyons, who the IDF provided with unfettered access to closed courts, portrayed youngsters in shackles and weeping mothers observing swift justice by “brutal” Israeli military authorities. He described IDF courts as a “Guantanamo Bay for kids.”

He quoted at length from DCI’s Horton, who referred to “385 sworn affidavits” alleging the worst imaginable atrocities, including beatings, torture, intimidating children with savage dogs, electric shock treatment and every conceivable horror. He even referred to an “interrogator from Gush Etzion” who specialized in threatening children with rape.

If only a tiny proportion of these allegations contained a kernel of truth, we would have good reason to be concerned. But as in previous horror stories, I have every confidence that the evidence is based on testimony which will once again prove to be overwhelmingly false. We need only refer to the Muhammad Dura fraud, the Jenin “massacre,” the Goldstone allegations of “deliberate” targeting of civilians in Gaza and other charges leveled against us, that months later, were shown to have been outright lies.

Not surprisingly, the marathon feature by Lyons created a considerable stir in Australia.

Australian Jewish leaders and pro-Israel activists promptly requested the Israeli embassy respond with information for rebuttals from the Army, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Prime Minister’s Office. Direct representations were also made to Jerusalem. For weeks, they were told that the authorities were reviewing the matter but no reply was forthcoming. One unofficial response idiotically suggested that the best approach to such a hostile article was to ignore it and it would blow over.

On December 17, the failure to respond resulted in a second article by Lyons, regurgitating what he had written previously, informing readers that Australia’s Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd was deeply concerned over the report and had instructed Australia’s diplomatic representatives to initiate a formal inquiry with the Israeli authorities. It is common knowledge that Rudd is personally keen to distance Australia from Israel in order to curry Arab votes for Australia’s candidacy for a UN Security Council seat. But he would not have had credible grounds for initiating such an inquiry had the Israeli authorities provided a meaningful response.

Only following the Australian decision to investigate the matter did the IDF spokesperson belatedly issue a bland legal statement, outlining the reasons why in this context the custody of minors did not violate international law.

It may be difficult for those living in Western countries to comprehend the concept of jailing children for throwing stones. However, stone throwing has emerged as a staple component of terrorism and to some extent a wretched form of identity (**********) for Palestinian youth. (WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE KIDS -AND KIDS WORLDWIDE ? A LACK OF ADEQUATE COMMON GOALS, A LACK OF AN ADEQUATE FUTURE-POINTING IDENTITY)

It should also be appreciated that stones are hurled equally at innocent Israeli civilians and at soldiers, and in addition to maiming and scarring, have proven to be lethal. Only recently, Asher Palmer and his one-yearold son died after a stone smashed the windshield of his car.

Yet despite this, the reality is that as a deterrent, only a tiny proportion of stone throwers are being prosecuted. Otherwise, the Israeli jails would be overflowing with them.

The issue is additionally complicated because children in Israel are not tried under the same laws that apply to territories over the green line which, not having been annexed to Israel, operate under Jordanian and British mandatory laws.

Any Israeli official with a modicum of political sensitivity should have stressed that child terrorism represents one of the most reprehensible aspects of the Palestinian culture of death and criminality.

From kindergarten, Palestinian children are brainwashed into becoming martyrs by killing Jews in order to fulfill their Islamic obligation to expunge Jewish sovereignty from the region (PURE LUNACY ; EVEN IF THEY DID GET RID OF THE JEWS, NOTHING WOULD CHANGE - BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO ADEQUATE COMMON GOALS, NO HOPES FOR THE FUTURE). Aside from continuously being employed as human shields, they are frequently exploited as suicide bombers.

The monstrous massacre of the Fogel family in March, which included the beheading of an infant, was perpetrated by a Palestinian family group which included a minor.

But what is both incomprehensible and disgraceful is that as of yet the IDF response has still failed to repudiate the real source of concern – the outrageous lies and defamations concerning the torture of minors.

The response to the libels contained in Lyons’ article should have pointed out that many of the NGOs (FEMINIST-FAGGOT MONSTROSITIES WITH THEIR HEADS -OR THEIR PRICKS- UP THEIR ASSES OR THOSE OF THE MAN OR WOMAN IN FRONT OF THEM) demonizing Israel are the same ones which provided “testimonies” about Israeli atrocities and war crimes to the Goldstone Committee which were subsequently demonstrated to be fabrications.

They should also have asked why Lyons did not query the failure of the defamers to raise these accusations in the appropriate Israeli tribunals such as the Supreme Court which even has a controversial record among Israelis for intervening in IDF-related matters.

What is wrong with the IDF, Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister’s Office? Do they really believe that they can ignore such vile accusations in the mainstream media of a friendly country? Their deafening silence even led to an editorial in the local Jewish weekly, the Australian Jewish News, foolishly asking whether “God forbid,” the “country we cherish” enabled “the torture of children.”

If this is how our senior military and government offices deal with such issues, it is high time to demand accountability.

It is the Prime Minister’s Office which carries the ultimate responsibility for ensuring that such matters are efficiently handled. Binyamin Netanyahu, more than most politicians, has a genuine grasp of the crucial importance of the war of ideas. If his office is not fulfilling its obligations in this area, he must, as a matter of urgency, personally intervene to guarantee that government information offices are staffed by personnel who are sufficiently competent to confront such issues in a skilled and professional manner.

The writer’s website can be viewed at www.wordfromjerusalem.com. He can be reached at ileibler@netvision.net.il