ISRAEL - IRAN - SYRIA - HAMAS - HEZBOLLAH - WWWIII?

Many of my Reform Judaism acquaintenances believe the way to reform the human race is to eliminate causes for envy--namely economic differences.

There's an old theory that is somewhat supported by the failures of communism. It says that the smaller the economic differences between people, the more intense becomes envy. So if that theory is correct, shrinking differences intensifies everyone's envy.

I think the best way to reduce envy is to convince individuals they are capable of developing the skills they need to emulate and surpass those who have more. That too shrinks differences with one's betters but increases differences with those who prefer to blame others for their own differences. How is this accomplished?

Provide everyone who wants it a decent education and help show them what they can accomplish with that education.

... In my mind, I relate to ... Jews on the right side of the bellcurve that understand that the liberal Jewish vision is foolish, and Jews should ... stop being alienated from those people that do not share their liberal views. And, oh yes, show some gratitude for living in such a good country.

Individualists seek government that does not interfere with them earning their own wealth.

From Times Online
April 20, 2009
Walkout at UN conference after Iran president calls Israel 'racist'
Philippe Naughton

British delegates joined a dramatic diplomatic walkout today when President Ahmadinejad of Iran told a major UN conference against racism that the state of Israel had been founded "on the pretext of Jewish suffering" during the Second World War.

Around 20 delegates, including envoys from the UK, France, and Finland stood up and left the room at what was considered an anti-Semitic remark by the Iranian leader, who has repeatedly called for Israel to be wiped off the map.

Nine Western countries including Israel and the United States had already decided to boycott the conference entirely because its draft declaration endorsed the conclusions of an anti-racism conference in South Africa eight years ago in which Islamic nations pushed through a text equating Zionism with racism.

Even before the walkout, Mr Ahmadinejad's speech had been interrupted by three protesters dressed as clowns who where quickly bundled from the vast conference room at the Palais des Nations by guards.

Later, other protesters shouted down from the balcony as the Iranian president carried on his address.

Earlier today, Israel recalled its ambassador to Switzerland in protest at a brief meeting yesterday between Mr Ahmadinejad and his Swiss counterpart, Hans-Rudolf Merz.

The conference opened as Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day - which falls this year on the 120th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth. This morning the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, told his Cabinet that while Israel commemorates the six million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis, "in Switzerland, the guest of honour is a racist and a Holocaust-denier who doesn’t conceal his intention to wipe Israel off the face of this earth".

An Israeli Government official said that Ilan Elgar, the ambassador in Berne, had been "recalled for consultations" after the start of the Durban II conference and the meeting between Mr Ahmadinejad and Mr Merz, who holds Switzerland's rotating presidency.

"This is not a break in relations, but an expression of Israel’s discontent for the lax Swiss attitude towards Iran," the official said.

The Obama administration announced at the weekend that it would boycott the meeting because its draft declaration makes reference to the text agreed in 2001 at the UN's first anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa. That document was agreed after the United States and Israel walked out over attempts to liken Zionism - the movement to establish a Jewish state in the Holy Land - to racism.

Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Poland joined the boycott.

MORE HERE:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6132972.ece

Does nobody care whether Israel takes out Iran's nukes? I posted that discussion. Crickets.

Does nobody find it interesting that so many delegates walked out of a meeting in which Israel was denounced as a racist country? I posted that too. Crickets.

What do you make of the administration's implied ultimatum that Israel must vacate the West Bank and THEN we WILL help them defuse the situation with Iran? Included in this short piece posted here:
http://able2know.org/topic/79142-397#post-3628525

Or perhaps Emmanuel was only saying that Israel must vacate the West Bank before we will talk about it?

Are there not Arab Israelis living in Israel? Then why would Jewish Israelis have to leave the West Bank, if that became part of a Palestinean state?