This    month of May marks the 73 rd  anniversary of the state of Israel.   And to quote the ETHAN EDWARDS character in THE SEARCHERS:  “ Just as  sure  as the turnin' of the  earth”,  Israelis and Palestinians are killing each other. As sure as the cicadas come back, Israel bombs Gaza ( see picture below) as the mad terrorists who run Gaza, HAMAS, send a murder of rockets into Israel.  B ut this time, there is a new and explosive element, Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs are lynching each other.   This Blogger happened to be in Cairo during the first Gulf War; he was sitting in the Sheraton watching the television with a bunch of Kuwaiti exiles when some Palestinians asked to join the group. As a courtesy to this Blogger, the entire future conversation was in English; which this Blogger thought was very thoughtful.   The common dream of the Palestinians was the establishment of a secular state on the land of Israel, in wh...

This Blogger’s brother was in Paris, when Paris waited for French Foreign Legion paras to fly from Algiers to overthrow the French Republic.   That attempted coup was foiled when Charles de Gaulle went on television, in his World War II general’s uniform and summoned up the mystic chords of memory.    General Jacques Massu, the para general who had defeated the Arab revolutionary organization, the FLN, in the legendary Battle of Algiers, remained loyal to De Gaulle. France was saved, without a Civil War.   That was then; De Gaulle and Massu are both dead.    In 2021, the Generals are back, to save the French Republic, seemingly by any means necessary.   They have published what is basically a pronunciamiento,    a cri de guerre, for Civil War against Islamic migrants.  They intend to save France from the    Islamic migrant hordes, living in  banlieues, by blood and fire, by violence.   So the race is on, which republi...