This is not a link to an article. It is just my stream of consciousness, which was triggered by the death the other day of Florida teenager Danny Wultz as the result of the most recent Palestinian homicide bombing.

I never met Danny Wultz. I don't know anyone who ever met him. Yet, his death touched me and made me angrier than I have been in a long, long time about what is going on in Israel. I am simply fed up with the bulls--t, false moral equivalency that the morally bankrupt, biased MSM has established with respect to Israel and the Arabs. If I hear one more smug, ill-informed, ignorant talking head (Hello, Chris Matthews! How are YOU today, Pat Buchanan?) drone on about the non-existent "Cycle of Violence", I swear that my head will explode. What "Cycle of Violence"? The Palestinians send homicide bombers to blow up restaurants and Passover Seders, and the Israelis then go after the "people" (I use that term in its most loose sense) who planned the operation. One side has declared war, and the other is fighting back. THAT'S a "Cycle of Violence"? Bull.

Let's do a little math. Over 1000 Israelis have died in terrorist attacks (and yes, BBC, CNN, Agence France Presse, CBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Reuters, Associated Press, these ARE terrorist attacks, even if it was only some of those racist, misogynist, Nazi, colonialist, fascist, imperialist, apartheid--insert your favourite adjective here--Israelis who died) since the second PLANNED Intifadah began in August of 2000. Israel is a nation of about 6,000,000 people, of whom roughly 5,000,000 are Jewish. In the U.S., there are about 300,000,000 people. 2,800 (a rounded-up number) died in the 9-11 terrorist attacks, and we saw how the U.S. rightfully reacted. If my calculations are right, Israel has suffered, proportionately, the equivalent of 60,000 dead. Hmmm. How do YOU suppose that the U.S. government would react to a death toll like that? Remember, on 9-11, LESS than 2,800 people died. Do you think that anyone here would be heeding calls for "restraint", and "dialogue", after a carnage like 60,000 dead? Danny Wultz is the human face of this, but the numbers speak for themselves.

Here's a fact: The PLO was founded BEFORE the Six Day War. There were NO "Occupied Territories" at that time. Even the term "Occupied Territories" is a misnomer, and it begs the question of why Israel is being asked--no, cancel that, TOLD--to give up the territories. I don't see Poland being asked to return East Prussia to Germany. I don't see Russia being asked to repatriate the descendants of the Volga Germans. I don't see Hungary sending terrorists into Romania to force the return of Transylvania. I don't see Mexico bringing U.N. Securit Council resolutions which ask the U.S. to return California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Texas, nor are there Mexicans strapping bombs onto their waists and blowing up pedestrians riding the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. Yet, the MSM would have you believe that Palestinian terrorism began almost exclusively as a result of the Israeli "occupation" of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which is a lie, plain and simple. Here's another fact: About 600,000 Arabs were displaced as the result of the 1948 Israeli War for Independence (War for Survival would be a better description, of course). About the SAME number of Jews who were living in Arab countries were summarily turfed out of their countries of origin. Israel took them all in. Amazingly, NONE were forced to live in refugee camps! What a shocker! And yet, 58 years later, there are still countless Palestinians in refugee camps in Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, etc. Gee, I wonder why THAT is?

Despite the above, I watch with growing pessimism (and yes, anger too) as Israel is turned into the new South Africa. I watch as on college campuses, divestment campaigns get started. I watch as supposedly educated college professors, who are shaping the minds of the generation to come, teach their students that Israel has no right to exist, and that any terrorist attack on Israel is justified. I watch as supposedly mainstream church groups treat Israel as if it truly were a Nazi Apartheid state. I watch as Western professional associations advocate boycotts of all things Israeli, including academics. I watch as the collection of thugs and tyrants that is the U.N. censures Israel on a regular basis while ignoring the horrors of Darfur, Rwanda, Tibet, North Korea, just to name a few examples (and there are many more). I watch as disingenuous, smirking representatives of the CAIR go on network tv and refuse to call terrorism by its proper name, and in fact, go out of their way to avoid condemning any attack on Israel (or the U.S., for that matter). I watch as our supposedly objective mainstream media, led by the disgraceful New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, etc., etc., refuses to call terrorism what it is, and in fact, goes out of its way to portray one side (Israel) as an aggressor. Frankly, these people should be forced to give up their journalism degrees.

As I said, I am in a BAD mood this morning...