Russia called on Israel and the Palestinians to end the latest wave of violence to give peace a chance. What? Has Putin been listening to John Lennon records? Not likely.

“Moscow once again voices its categorical condemnation of the rocket attacks on Israeli territory,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “They must stop immediately.”

Sounds like Russia just wants everybody to just get along, right?

Moscow also said it could not accept that “shells and bombs are falling on the heads of peaceful (Palestinian) women and children, under the pretext of fighting these acts of terror”.

The pretext? You mean that Israel is deliberately bombing and killing women and children? That’s untrue in the extreme and the world knows it.

“Given the tough blockade of the Gaza Strip, the permanent humanitarian catastrophe, such acts by Israel only give extra arguments to those not willing that Israel and a future Palestinian state should live in peace and harmony,” the statement said.

Ahhh, now we come to the truth of it. The bleat about condemning the terrorist attacks on Israel was only to preface another verbal assault on Israel for defending itself. The plain truth is that the Russians care nothing about the Palestinians, what they care about is appeasing Arabs, and making speeches condemning Israel goes to that end.

Russia has never been a safe haven for Jews, who have suffered pogrom after pogrom at the hands of the Russians throughout history, so this should surprise no one.

Anyone reading the reports on Israels counter-attacks can’t help noting that children are always listed as among the Palestinian dead. Those statements are taken entirely from Hamas and are very likely false, although it is true that the terrorists do like to fire rockets where children are in the hope that some of the kids will be killed if there’s a response from Israel. Then they can hold up little dead bodies and blame Israel. So take the reports of dead children with a huge grain of salt. The Israelis try very hard to target only the terrorists.

It needs to be remembered that the Palestinians are not the victims of Israel. They’re the victims of a doctrine they’re born into that teaches them to hate Jews. All they need to do to have peace and prosperity is to stop murdering people who mean them no harm.

The latest in a series of Israeli airstrikes left at least 20 Palestinians dead Thursday, as Israel considers a new invasion of Gaza to confront Hamas. Israel’s deadly attacks on Gaza came the same day that Palestinian militants launched a barrage of long-range rockets at the city of Ashkelon.

The BBC reports that Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai went so far as to warn Palestinians that continued rocket attacks would bring about a “bigger holocaust”, a word seldom used in Israel outside discussions of the Nazi genocide during World War II.

We may soon see a full-on invasion of Gaza once again.

Israel is a strange nation, populated by people who would love to just be happy, complacent sheep but are forced to be fighting rams instead by the malevolent forces that surround them. They stand as proof for the rest of us that, even when ringed by enemies, a determined people can hold them at bay. Considering the rise of anti-American feeling in the world, their example may be of real value to us in the future.

That’s because we’re in the process once again of selecting our leader for the next four no doubt very eventful years, and as usual we don’t seem to be choosing very carefully.

One of the Democratic candidates has been a member for 20 years of an all black, very Afro-centric and racist, “unashamedly black” church that openly supports anti-semitism and honors Americas worst Jew-hater, muslim Louis Farrakhan. While he says he denounces his pastors close ties with this muslim fanatic, he continues to maintain his membership in this church and refers to Farrakhan as “Minister Farrakhan” instead of saying it like it is.

You can’t judge a book by it’s cover, and a bold title can mask a bad narrative.

I think Barack Hussein Obama is a wolf in sheeps clothing. If he’d left that church and really spoken out about its practices long before being prodded to say something, it would have been believable. Not now, it’s too late. Ahh, but sheep don’t think. That’s why they’re sheep.