Wednesday, November 11, 2026

The "Recognition" of a Palestinian State and Rise of Nazism's Evil Again (resposted from 10/1/2025)

In light of the results of the recent mid-term elections and the waxing influence of the Muslim - Communist propaganda with this new green-red coalition, I thought it was important to repost this article I wrote back over a year ago on October 1st of 2025.          

I fear that too many Americans, especially among the younger Millenial and GenZ crowd, have bought into the ghoulish designs of the Palestinian myth and the excess of Islam.  We continue to believe their lies and empty promises at our own peril and the weakening of our own liberty-centric republic.

When I was a young teenager, I was given a great opportunity to travel with a school group to the Netherlands.  Of all of the various sites we saw, one that still sticks vividly with me to this day is the house where Anne Frank and her family stayed for two years along with another Jewish family, the Van Pels, in a hidden upstairs annex concealed behind a book case during World War II.  They were forced to hide there as the Nazis were rounding up Jews and sending them off to concentration camps as part of their “final solution” where six million Jews and enemies of Hitler died.  

Unfortunately, Anne and her family were eventually discovered and sent to concentration camps where they also perished.  Sadly, only her father, Otto Frank, survived. 

I have seen too much evil in my life but having seen this is one of my earlier moments in life where I intellectually discovered the extent of such evil in the world.  It is part of the reason why I am impatient and indeed sickened by indoctrinated or ignorant people carelessly or casually throwing around the term “Nazi” at political opponents.

Ironically this is a particularly common practice for the ignoramuses and useful idiots that champion the causes of the Nazi-heirs of today, “the Palestinians”. 

After World War II the state of Israel was re-created once again in the historical homeland of the Jews given to them by God in the Old Testament.  Indeed, the Israeli areas of Judea and Samaria, which the Jordanians renamed “the West Bank” after they captured the territory in one of their endless wars against Israel, now have the modern-day “Palestinians” claiming this area as their own land, despite it being rich with Jewish history. 

This land is where most of the major events recorded in Scripture took place. Indeed, some 90% of place names mentioned in the Bible are located here. It’s a land with a rich Jewish history where you’ll find these well-known biblical sites:

    Hebron - where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are buried.

    Jericho - conquered by Joshua when its walls fell down.

    Shiloh - where Israel worshipped God at the tabernacle for 369 years.

    Shechem - where Joseph is buried on land purchased by Jacob.

    Bethel - traditional site of Jacob's dream.

    Bethlehem - birthplace of Jesus Christ.

And yet the “Palestinians” deceitfully and inaccurately claim this is their historical homeland.  Indeed, they demand that Israel be cleansed of Jews “from the river to the sea” for this land to be “rightfully” returned to them. 

Did you know that Hebrew is the world’s oldest still-spoken language? Extrabiblical modern archaeology proved this point with the discovery of several artifacts, including the Geza Calendar, the Zayit Stone, and the Qeiyafa Ostracon, all found in various sites across Israel. Science has dated each of these artifacts to the 10th century before Christ (1,000-901 B.C.).  No other language still commonly spoken on this planet dates back so far.

Furthermore, these ancient artifacts also prove another important fact, separate from the Bible; each of these tablets has a reference to JHWH or Yahweh - God of the Old Testament. This makes Judaism the oldest still-practicing religion on earth.

To put this in biblical perspective, 1050-930 B.C. was the era of Kings Saul, David and Solomon. And of course, we know from Old Testament history, rabbinic Jewish tradition, and other extrabiblical historic sources that the Hebrew language and religion existed long before King Saul’s time or these ancient artifacts.

Do you know what archaeology has not found? Any reference to “Palestinians” prior to the mid-1960s.  Sure, the ancient Romans renamed Israel to insult the Jews, and the British mandate kept that name. However, even during those times, Arabs NEVER identified as or called themselves “Palestinian.” Instead, Arabs living in the Holy Land referred to themselves as either Jordanians or Syrians.  The term "Palestinian” did not arise until the Arabs re-invented the term in the mid-1960s as a political ploy to try to eradicate Jews from their own historical homeland.  Jordan lost possession and control of Judea and Samaria in 1967, after Arab nations tried and failed to seize all of Israel but, irrationally, the “West Bank” name stuck.

In 1964, the Arab League met to conspire to eliminate Israel and the Jews. Thirteen of Israel’s enemies to include the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria), Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen Arab Republic, Libya, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Kuwait, and Algeria, met for the evil goal of destroying Israel and taking the land as their own.

The Arab League formed what they called the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), renamed the Arabs living in Israel as “Palestinians,” and set about accomplishing their singular goal of taking over Israel.

Fast-forward 60 years, and anti-Semitic Arabs continue with their same tricks. They demand a “Palestinian State,” and they continue to insist that all of Israel is theirs “from the (Jordan) river to the (Mediterranean) sea.” There is no room for Jews in their genocidal plan or “their land”.

To this day, Arab children even of kindergarten age are taught that Jews are demons. School plays have children dress in suicide bomb jackets and pretend to cut Jewish throats to prepare for future “martyrdom.” The result is generations of psychopaths, and its fruit can be seen on October 7, 2023, and even in the “pro-Palestine” protests still happening across the globe, including here in our own United States colleges and Universities.

Israel has wanted only to live in peace in their historical and ancestral homeland.  They have negotiated in good faith for decades to this end.  Indeed, Israel has even already tried a prototype two-state solution.

In 2005, Israel agreed to give up its land on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea to the “Palestinians” in exchange for peace. Over a period of two months, the Israelis forced every Jew out of the Gaza Strip and turned it over to the Palestinian Authority (formerly known as the Palestine Liberation Organization, a known terrorist group). Even Jewish families who had farmed that land since time immemorial were evicted from their homes and land. The Israeli government turned the area over to the “Palestinian” Arabs, believing this two-state solution would bring peace. To this day, under Israeli law, it is illegal for a Jew to enter the territory.

Over the last two decades, the “Palestinians” in Gaza destroyed the farms and greenhouses the former Israeli residents had left behind. Instead, they built tunnels to move terrorists into Israeli territory and imprison Jewish hostages. The “Palestinian” people in Gaza continue to elect Hamas as their leadership in every election, and they educate their children to become martyrs. Those same tunnels built by “Palestinian” terrorists still hold Jewish hostages from the October 7, 2023, massacre to this day.  Every single time the “Palestinians” have been offered a permanent two-state solution they have soundly rejected the idea. They want Israel to be theirs and theirs alone.  There is no room, nor will there ever be, for compromise.

Now, on Monday September 22, 2025, the United Kingdom set off a landslide designed to all but eradicate the world’s only Jewish state of Israel. The UK in the guise of the corrupt, incompetent, and impotent United Nation world body formally recognized a “state” that has no borders, nor a single mention in all of human history, and no leaders other than scattered Hamas terrorists.  Unfortunately, when the U.K. decided to recognize the so-called “Palestinian state”, other cowardly and ignorant nations followed suit, including France, Canada, Australia, Belgium, and Portugal.  As of right now, 157 U.N. member nations (81% of the international body) now recognize a “Palestinian state”.

Right now, there are only 34 U.N. member nations, including Germany, Italy, and Japan, (ironically the old Axis Powers of WWII) that have NOT recognized this terrorists’ fairy tale of a country.  In other words, the UN has voted to support a two-state solution that defies history and logic.  Luckily as a permanent member of the UN security council, the US can and must use its veto power to stop this evil perpetration of a terrorist regime to gain its own nation. 

In the interim, the U.N. has already passed a measure declaring it is the intent of the international body to divide the land God gave Israel to “create” this state that never existed, despite the fact that Hamas continues to hold Jewish hostages in Gaza tunnels for 1 year, 11 months, and 23 days since the October 7, 2023 massacre.

This ignorant and evil accord of the U.N. and its anti-Israel member nations have taught Hamas that terror will be rewarded. All a terror organization needs to do is kill 1,200 innocent women, children, and elderly people, and the U.N. will apparently relent and give the terrorist organization what it wants. 

It is telling that the “Palestinian” people in Gaza are so barbaric and unwilling to behave as civilized, peaceful human beings that even surrounding Arab countries like Egypt and Jordan REFUSE to take these murderous people into their own countries.

The “Palestinian” people in Gaza have had 20 years to live up to their land-for-peace deal with Israel. Yet for two decades, they have refused to live up to their end of the bargain. “Palestinians” continue to hold 50 Jews hostage in the tunnels beneath Gaza, 20 of whom are still, but barely, alive.

It is these ghoulish anti-Semitic “Palestinians” and their useful idiots throughout the world that wish for and work to bring to fruition the genocide of the Jewish race. It is the indoctrination in many colleges, Universities, and the failed mainstream media that work to perpetrate these falsehoods. 

It is the “Palestinian” people and their supporters that are the true Nazi-heirs-in-ideology.  And because of this grotesque evil, 157 Nations Now “Recognize” a terrorist “Palestinian State” that has never existed in all of human history.  One can only wonder how many Anne Franks there may be in our near future yet again if this evil is allowed to continue to fester.  Now the older man I am today, like the once younger boy, shivers at the thought of this possibility.

 

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Capturing Memories of Beauty in the World

I have been very blessed in so many ways in my life.  One of these great blessings is that I have been afforded the opportunity to travel to many parts of the world and discover the beauty of these places, people, and cultures.  Ours is a truly remarkable planet.  In addition to the incredible and often indescribable beauty of God's handiwork in nature are the human endeavors to create beauty in this world also.  Below are a few of the pictures I have taken in my travels over the years that have really amazed me in their beauty, uniqueness, or humor.  I hope you find some of these pictures as beautiful or as fascinating as I did.  

St. Peter's square, Vatican City at night 

 
 
Multnomah Falls, Oregon 

 
 
The Treasury at Petra, Jordan. 

 
 
The Octopus Tree, Cape Meares, Oregon Coast 

 
The rugged beauty of the Oregon coast line 

 
 
Sunset over the Pacific Ocean, Lincoln City, Oregon


 
 
The Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park 

 
 
Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho 

 
 
Arch at City of Rocks National Monument, Idaho 

 
 
Windmill on the grounds of Kastellet (The Citadel), a military star-shaped fort built in the 1660's in Copenhagen, Denmark.  The fort is still an active military base today.
 
 
 Nordhavn Street, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness, Scotland 
 
 
Death Valley National Park, California 

 
 
Elephant Rock, Iceland 


 
 
Zion National Park, Utah 

 
 
Silver Falls State Park, Oregon 

 
 
Shoshone Falls, Twin Falls, Idaho 

 
 
Eiffel Tower, Paris, France 

 
 
The lesser known "Monastery" at Petra, Jordan 

 
 
Pharaonic tomb in Valley of the Kings, Egypt 

 
 
Inside Ramses II's temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt 

 
 
Step pyramid at Saqqara, Egypt 

 
 
The great pyramid of Cheops and the Sphinx at Giza, Egypt 
 
The pyramids of Giza, Egypt 

 
 
Canyonlands National Park, Utah 

 
 
Radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.  This has since had a catastrophic collapse of the 900 ton instrument platform in December of 2020 that destroyed the dish. 

 
 
The Pitons, Saint Lucia 

 
 
The Trevi Fountain at dusk, Rome, Italy. My wife and I would walk here each evening to sit and eat gelato in front of this beautiful fountain during the few days we were in Rome.

 
 
A fresco at the entrance of a wealthy merchant's home in the ruins of Pompeii Italy.  Evidently he had a very large... ego. 

 
 
The Parthenon, Athens, Greece 

 
 
Santorini, Greece as seen from a restaurant at which my wife and I ate lunch.

 
 
View of the port at Valletta, Malta 

 
 
Taormina, Sicily 

 
 
Michelangelo's Pieta in the Basilica of St. Peter, Vatican City.
Unfortunately some idiot tried to destroy the priceless work with a sledgehammer years ago so it is now behind plexiglass to protect it. (hence the glare on the camera picture) 

 
 
Statue of Saint Peter on the Vatican roofline

 
 
North rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona 

 
 
Massive glacier in icy fjord, Alaska 

 
 
On an air boat tour of the bayou in Franklin, Louisiana, and yes we did see gators.

 
 
An afternoon swim to cool off from the oppressive heat in a cenote near Tulum, Mexico 

 
 
The Mayan pyramid at Chichen Itza, Mexico

 
 
Devil's Tower National Monument, Wyoming. 

 
 
Mount Rushmore National Monument, South Dakota 

 
 
 Looking at the ocean from Castillo San Felipe del Morro, Puerto Rico

 
 
Wild Goose Island at St. Mary's Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana  

 
 
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah  (One of my favorite national parks!) 

 
 
Yosemite National Park, California 

 
 
View of the Grand Tetons from the altar window in the Chapel of the Transfiguration at Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming 

 
 
Wizard Island at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon 

 
 
Massive Alaskan glacier 

 
 
Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah 

 
 
The Windows, Arches National Park, Utah 

 
 
Crossing underneath the Golden Gate Bridge at sunrise, San Francisco, California