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A few days ago I wrote of a problem bothering the Israeli government, viz: the Gentile population of Israel and its surrounding neighbors was swelling, rapidly gaining ground over the Jewish populace.^[1]

In an effort to combat that worrying prospect, the Israelis were marketing their nation to young Jewish people around the world, in an attempt to attract more settlers to the country.

Speaking at the 2010 Herzliya Conference in Israel recently, Martin Kramer^[2], a research fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, suggested a different approach. He called for the West to stop all aid to Palestinian refugees in Gaza as a further step towards preventing them from breeding.

Starving human beings can’t produce lots of offspring.

I jest not:

The Third Reich had a name for this; they called it eugenics. Only, they aimed to weed out of the gene pool ‘the criminal, degenerate, dissident, feeble-minded, homosexual, idle, insane, and weak’.

Kramer’s notion is to curtail the production of young Palestinian males of the age group most likely to join Hamas and other militant, anti-Israel, political organizations.

What’s so alarming about this man’s point of view is not just that he’s lost his ability to view others in the world as human beings like himself. It’s that he’s a high-ranking academic, a research fellow at one of the most prestigious universities on earth. His views are part of a larger contagion that regards the Palestinian people as a sub-species; a doctrine that has remorselessly established itself within the Israeli government since the days of Ben-Gurion.

I ended the previous post with the suggestion that Israel was rapidly becoming the new ‘Third Reich’ of the Middle East. Martin Kramer gives me no reason to doubt the validity of that statement.

^{[1] “Birthright Israel? But Only If You’re A Jew” Sparrow Chat, February 22nd 2010}

^{[2] Martin Kramer – Wikipedia}

Filed under: The face of tyranny

How would you feel if you knew that your actions had caused the layoffs of over 2,000 construction workers?

How would you feel if your actions prevented millions of your fellow citizens from obtaining much needed unemployment benefits?

How would you feel if your actions had cut the funding to doctors who treated the poor?

I guess you’d feel pretty bad, wouldn’t you? I certainly hope you would.

This man did all these things. Yet he doesn’t feel bad at all.

This man is Senator James Bunning of Kentucky, who single-handedly blocked a bill to finance all of the above.^[1]

This man’s face should be etched onto every sidewalk in the land – so Americans throughout the nation can spit on him.

This man’s face should be painted onto every public lavatory bowl in the country – so Americans can urinate and defecate on him.

This man is no American.

^{[1] “Single US senator freezes unemployment payment” BBC, March 2nd 2010}

Filed under: Politician from Hell

Coming from another country, as I did in 2002, it’s easy to discern certain factors that most Americans never stop to consider. They’re just too close to them – can’t see the wood for the trees, you might say.

I’ve had occasion to visit the local hospital recently. Nothing serious, you understand. My wife needed a minor procedure, and as one matures, general servicing has to become a little more frequent to keep everything running normally.

I was struck by the large number of elderly ladies acting as volunteers in the hospital. At first, it wasn’t something I questioned. The British NHS uses voluntary labor to assist with patient management. It helps keep the costs down.

Then it struck me. This is not an NHS hospital, it’s a private company. Admittedly, it designates itself a ‘not-for-profit’ concern, but according to figures gleaned from the internet (the only ones I could find), this particular company:

…..budgeted a total net profit of $7.4 million [in 2004], and expects to build its cash position beginning in fiscal 2005.”

Now that’s not bad for a private enterprise desperately attempting to make no profit.

The hospital has expanded enormously since 2004, opening ‘branches’ throughout the town and surrounding areas. No doubt, they would point this out as resulting from the $7.4 million, but it’s unlikely these branch clinics lose them money. Few companies in healthcare go bust from expansion.

So, while the army of elderly volunteers marching around the hospital corridors with bemused patients in tow, or registering family members waiting for news of their sick relatives welfare, are keeping themselves busy and possibly preventing the onset of senile dementia, they’re also responsible for swelling the queues of unemployed citizens waiting for benefits, or hanging round street corners all day with nothing to do.

Perhaps, these elderly volunteers should accept retirement gracefully, spend their time knitting socks for the grandkids, or assisting local charities, and force the hospital authorities to pay working people to fill those jobs that, to date, they’ve been getting done for nothing?

Filed under: No-cost labor