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The World Energy Council estimates Israel’s shale deposits, located some 30 miles southwest of Jerusalem, could ultimately yield as many as 250 billion barrels of oil. For purposes of comparison, Saudi Arabia has proven reserves of 260 billion barrels. The United States consumes about seven billion barrels a year.
To whom do antiquities belong? Are they the property of modern states, current proprietors of the real estate where they were created, however many centuries or millennia ago? Do they belong to the descendants of those who created them, to the extent these can be identified? Or are they somehow the heritage of “all mankind”? For Jews, these questions took on flesh in 2003 in the flooded basement of a building belonging to the Iraqi secret police. There, American soldiers searching for clues to Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction came upon an even stranger sight: a waterlogged trove that had once belonged to Iraq’s Jewish community.
The grandfather of GOP Chairman candidate Saul Anuzis ran an import/export business in the capital city of Lithuania and had extensive business dealings with Germans. This gave him opportunities to create “official” documents and various “stamps” needed to facilitate travel. His wife would bring young Jewish girls to the local convent and dress them as nannies, then take them to Lithuania’s second-largest city of Kaunas, in the center of the country. Their son Ceslovas was a customs officer for the railroad, and his wife Elena had just given birth to Saul’s oldest sister, Ausra. Each young Jewish girl was explained to neighbors as a relative from the countryside coming to help as a nanny for the new baby.
Even the dead can’t escape the ineptitude of the city’s Sanitation Department. Sanitation crews dumped tons of dirty snow from the Christmas-weekend blizzard into the city’s biggest Jewish cemetery, toppling 21 gravestones and wrecking an iron fence.
We now have the mind-numbing IRS defense for delaying (almost a year now!) pro-Israel group Z Street’s application for tax exempt status. In a signed affidavit, an IRS official explains that there is no “Israel Special Policy,” instead it is a Terrorism Special Policy, and that Israel is included. That’s right, Israel is a terrorist state because terrorism happens there. True, Israel is the victim, but why quibble with details? This brings moral equivalency to a whole new level. Every Zionist should be screaming from the rooftops.
