Showing posts with label england. Show all posts
Showing posts with label england. Show all posts

Saturday, January 2, 2016

ANOTHER YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY NY TO TEL AVIV - JANUARY 3, 2016

It’s the same threat all over coming from the same savages requiring the same roadblocks.

Published: Sunday, January 03, 2016 6:06 AM

This is how civilizations begin to disintegrate, by accepting the most outrageous acts as being normal.


Around the world, people frolicked to welcome a New Year as if it’s only natural to be caged in against the threat of terrorism.


The correct term is Islamic terrorism but authorities, certainly the media, would rather keep it simple to keep us in the dark.


In many places around the world police, soldiers and other security personnel nearly outnumbered the revelers. People were herded into zones; roped in and boxed in for safety. Everyone had to submit to being frisked.

Some countries simply banned New Year’s and warned citizens to keep clear of crowds.


Nowadays we call that normal. People barely notice that because of Islamic terrorism, everything has changed.


We’ve grown accustomed to being frightened…even Jewish people for whom there is nothing new about this New Year. We’ve already had Rosh Hashanah.


Here in New York, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton came on the air to tell us to go, have fun, enjoy. Don’t worry. Be happy. The police have us covered.


True. The cops were everywhere. Bless them. Extra units were deployed. For Times Square you practically needed a passport to get in.


Checkpoints everywhere and everyone a suspect and thank you Islam for taking the safety and joy out of our lives. Of the millions around the world who had to pass through checkpoints, possibly no one realized that the entire world is in the same boat with Israel. It’s the same threat all over coming from the same savages requiring the same roadblocks.



If it takes an army to let us celebrate ourselves, we lost.
We were ordered to be fearless because if we show fear they win, we lose.

Well, we lost. If it takes an army to let us celebrate ourselves, we lost.

If we have to be fenced in to sing, dance and make merry, we’re whistling past the graveyard. We are frightened.


What used to be strange and unthinkable -- entire continents jittery about the next trick from Islamic extremists -- is now routine.


We expect the worst and that is why Munich had to be partly shut down and go dark for the New Year festivities. There were threats that a bombing may be imminent anywhere throughout Germany and this too has become normal ever since Merkel began redressing the Holocaust by importing six million replacement Muslims.


Germany, Sweden, Denmark, France, Spain, England, all Europe had the quivers about a New Year’s gathering, or any gathering that might tempt Bad Islam, -- as opposed to the other Islam, which we are assured is good and noble and peace loving if and when we ever get the luxury to tell them apart.


Most times, like Paris, San Bernardino and Friday in Tel Aviv, it’s too late.


As of this writing two Israelis were killed by an Arab terrorist and more wounded. This happened at a cafĂ© in Dizengoff Street – and it keeps on happening throughout the Jewish State, a trend of Palestinian Arab barbarity that is beginning to disgust even the American news media.


The Tel Aviv killer was indistinguishable from any other customer until he began to shoot.


But even as we cannot tell the one from the other, we in the West keep bringing them in wholesale. In Allah we trust.


Trudeau wants them. Obama can’t get enough of them. We are given no choice when our leadership toss the dice and gamble with our lives.


Let’s not be puzzled about how we came to accept as normal a world turned upside down through savagery, butchery and mindless brutishness.


It began in Israel when nobody cared so long as “only Jews” were getting killed, so why bother making a fuss? It’s normal.


Let the Jews die, said the world. We are safe. Can’t happen to us. We are not Israelis. They deserve what’s coming. Radical Islam is their problem.


Sorry to rub it in, Dear World, but now who’s got the problem – a problem that could have been stopped if people had cared?


But the world cared nothing when, back on March 2002, Israel suffered its own 9/11. Palestinian Arab Islamist gunmen invaded a Passover Seder in Netanya. They fired helter-skelter until they had 30 Jewish worshippers slaughtered. Israel wept. The world shrugged.


The news media gave it scant coverage, and conditionally so, naming it about a regional dispute and the “Palestinian struggle for independence.”


So they said, and said so again when weeks later another group of Arab terrorists “struggled for independence” by rampaging a Jewish family in Adura, murdering four, including a five-year-old. This was Danielle Shefi whose memory, and how she died, still haunts Israel and those who love Israel and decency.


Witnessing the horror, the child ran to her bedroom, clutched her favorite doll for dear life and hid under the covers – and we’d rather not imagine what happened next. No, we cannot process such cruelty as we watch Danielle sinking herself deeper into her bed as she hears footsteps drawing closer.

Daneille Shefi INN:YS


From around the world, mostly silence. Too bad, said The New York Times. That’s the way it goes, said CNN. Tough luck, said the BBC.


No concern of ours, said the world. Not our business.


But now who’s cowering under the covers?

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Chayefsky Rebukes Obama

By Jack Engelhard

Dramatist and novelist Paddy Chayefsky (who died in 1981) wrote some terrific plays and novels. He wrote the screenplay for the (underrated) movie “The Americanization of Emily,” from the novel by William Bradford Huie. It’s here that Chayefsky’s brilliance as a writer shines brightly – in his defense of America.

America needs defending, now more than ever, during this, the Europeanization of our president, Barack Obama.

There’s no need to unravel the entire plot of “The Americanization of Emily” except to note that it takes plan in London at the onset of D-Day. James Garner plays Lt. Cmdr. Charles Edward Madison. He falls in love with British war widow Emily Barham, played by Julie Andrews. This is what he says:

“You America haters bore me to tears, Miss Barham. I’ve dealt with Europeans all my life. I know all about us parvenus from the States who come over here and race around your old Cathedral towns with our cameras and Coca-cola bottles…Brawl in your pubs, paw at your women, and act like we own the world.

“We over-tip, we talk too loud, we think we can buy anything with a Hershey bar. I’ve had Germans and Italians tell me how politically ingenuous we are – and perhaps so.

“But we haven’t managed a Hitler or a Mussolini yet.

“I’ve had Frenchmen call me a savage because I took half an hour for lunch. Hell, Miss Barham, the only reason the French take two hours for lunch is because the service is lousy. The most tedious lot are you British. We crass Americans didn’t introduce war to your little Island.

“This war, Miss, Barham, to which we Americans are so insensitive, is the result of 2,000 years of European greed, barbarism, superstition, and stupidity.

“Don’t blame it on our Coca-cola bottles. Europe was going brothel long before we came to town.”

Someone may want to deliver these words to the White House – from a movie released in 1964.

Novelist Jack Engelhard is the author of “Indecent Proposal” and “The Bathsheba Deadline.” His latest novel “The Girls of Cincinnati” is available in paperback on Amazon. He can be reached at his website www.jackengelhard.com