comMITTed to Romney!

What Jimmuh Carter does best is “listen.” What Barack Obama does best is “talk.” What conservatives do best is “work.” I’ll take the workers over the listeners and the talkers every time.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526228,00.html

NEVE DANIEL, West Bank — Former President Jimmy Carter, an outspoken critic of Israeli settlements, met Sunday with West Bank settlers in what he described as a chance to “listen” and make his views known.

Carter met with settler leader Shaul Goldstein and others at the pastoral settlement of Neve Daniel, south of Jerusalem. Carter said he was “here to listen” to the settlers, and that he hoped to “make sure they understand my own attitude toward Israel and the Jewish population in the world and toward the Jewish settlers.”

Later, Carter sat in Goldstein’s living room, positioned under five books of the Hebrew Bible on a bookshelf.

“This is our homeland, but we recognize there are other people living next to us,” Goldstein told him, referring to the Palestinians, who view the West Bank as part of a future state.

Jewish settlement in the West Bank is one of the key points of dispute among Israelis and Palestinians. Much of the international community views settlements as an obstacle to a peace deal.
Settlers, and many Israelis, see the West Bank as the Jewish people’s Biblical heartland and say Israel should not cede it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under pressure from President Barack Obama to halt settlement construction, but has so far refused to do so.

Carter, 85, brokered the historic peace deal between Israel and Egypt in 1979. In a controversial 2007 book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” Carter argued that Israel has to choose between ceding the West Bank to the Palestinians in a peace deal or maintaining a system of ethnic inequality similar to that of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Views like that have made Carter unpopular among settlers and their supporters. A group of local settlers circulated an open letter titled, “Jimmy Carter go home,” saying the former president was an “anti-Semite” and “not welcome here.”

“Mr. Carter is an advocate for those seeking to destroy Israel, and the fact that he contributes to that agenda under the guise of a man of good will seeking peace only makes him more dangerous and his efforts more dishonest,” the letter said.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487106,00.html

BY: AP

JERUSALEM — A long-range Grad rocket from Gaza landed in the Israeli city of Ashkelon on Tuesday as delegates of the militant Islamic Hamas organization met in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials striving to mediate a long-term truce with Israel.

The rocket was the first of its kind to be fired at the city of 122,000 since informal cease-fires were declared separately by Israel and Hamas two weeks ago at the end of Israel’s bruising three-week-long offensive in Gaza.

No one was injured in Tuesday’s attack, police said.

Israel launched its “Operation Cast Lead” offensive on Dec. 27 to halt near-daily rocket fire from Gaza at Israel targets. Sporadic rocket and mortar fire from Gaza has continued, however, prompting tough warnings of reprisal from Israeli leaders.

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This is an excerpt from an article written by a young Israeli soldier who saw action during the recent fighting in Gaza. It’s the second account I have read that talks about miracles that were witnessed by the soldiers during the incursion.

DRUDGE REPORT

“I saw cowardice. We listened with concern when Hamas threatened to use snipers and bombs on us, to fight us every step of the way with their fifteen thousand man army, and we watched videos of full brigades parading, waving their weapons and threatening Israel. But as we invaded, they fled. They would attack in small groups, hit us with missiles and sniper fire, and then flee. The ‘warriors’ of Hamas were brave when their rockets fell unanswered on the schools of children and the homes of elderly, but they did not stand when the enemy called them up to answer for their crimes.

I saw miracles. Rockets that blazed past our houses, bullets that scarred the outside of windows we were watching from. A unit near ours that was walking in to Gaza had RPGs pass straight between their ranks without hitting a single soldier. Mines that didn’t explode, mortar rounds that landed next to friends that didn’t explode. RPGs that blazed into the earthen barrier directly in front of our APC, detonating before penetration. The night walk through a neighborhood that wasn’t on the map, that was full of snipers and mines according to reports, that we walked through unawares, by accident, without harm or incident. And that was just what we knew.”

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John Mark Reynolds is awesome.

He recently wrote an article called “Give ‘Em Scorpions” Politics: Avoiding Rehoboam’s Folly. You need to read the whole thing. It talks about Solomon’s son Rehoboam who is largely to blame for the division between the tribe of Judah, and the rest of Israel.

Rehoboam broke the coalition between Israel and Judah, much the way the Huckabee’s campaign manager wants to break the house that Reagan built. It wasn’t enough for him to give us Bill Clinton, by running Ross Perot, but I digress.

Click here to read the whole thing.

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If the old Reagan coalition is dissolved, then it will not be those who do the deed who suffer first, but millions more unborn children who might have been saved.

As I vote, and I will vote, let me vote for a person who can keep a coalition together and not break it up on its fault lines.

As I vote, pray God, let me be patient and accept slow change that the people can accept and not demand everything that will cost me everything.

As I vote, let me listen to older and wiser heads without becoming cynical and dropping out.

Let me avoid Rehoboam’s folly in the ballot box this year.

If you have no idea what he is talking about, read this article!

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