Osama bin Laden is calling for jihad.

Osama bin Laden is calling for jihad. In an audio tape released on several militant websites today the author of 911 is calling a jihad for all Muslims against the State of Israel.

Calling for jihad is nothing new for bin Laden as we all know, but this audio tape is running over pictures. Strange as seems people in-the-know say it sounds like bin Laden. I suppose!

Gaza is still under attack and cities all over the world are hosting demonstrations for the Palestinian or the Israelis sometimes getting quite nasty. It seems they both hate each other and who knows what will end it. 

So the headline is: Bin Laden Calls for Jihad Against Israel for Gaza Offensive (Audio).

So here is my question: Do you believe Osama bin Laden is dead or alive?

It hardly makes a difference. He can still incite militant Islamists against the whole world.

Hey! What's up with that Stuff?

Hillary Clinton before Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Senator Hillary Clinton, soon to be Secretary of State, is before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee today and says the United States has to address Israel's security needs and the Palestinians' aspirations for a state of their own.

Is the Senate Foreign Relations Committee going to actually scrutinize Senator Clinton for this post or is it a done deal?

Take a wild guess... DONE DEAL!

As for the Gaza situation there is very little Foreign Relations taking place.

Meanwhile the bombs keep falling, the bullets keep flying, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee can sit around rubber stamping the good Senator from New York State that was almost President of the United States of America.

In any event, the statement is as innocuous as can be. Yes, why not just state the obvious and have everyone in Senate Foreign Relations Committee  do absolutely nothing to try and rectify the situation.

Sounds like Business as Usual to me! Someone needs to do something about the situation NOW. Not in a week or a month. 

So here's my question: What will the incoming US President DO about the Palestinians and the Israelis or is that a question everyone will continue to evade?

Hey! What's up with that Stuff?

Oil is up! War in Gaza!

The Israeli air strikes that are pounding the Gaza Strip
is causing the price of crude oil to rise.
Well now! Isn't that just a big surprise!

Crude oil rose above $40 a barrel today for

fear of instability in the region.

The oil producing nations in the Middle East

surely didn't want the price of oil to go up.

Statements in defense of the barrage of air strikes in Gaza

from Israels' Defense Minister Ehud Barak

 said Israel is fighting a “war to the death”.

Just what the whole world needs!

It is amazing how things are linked!

War, Hatred, and Oil.

You talk about a slippery slope!

As the world looks on, I am
reminded of a Roger Waters lyric...

God wants goodness

God wants light

God wants mayhem

God wants a clean fight

What God wants God gets

All I can say is the whole affair is CRAZY!

My Question: What does God Really want?

Hey! What's up with that stuff?

Gaza Strip is a Battleground Again!

So the Gaza Strip is being pounded by Israeli rockets. This, according to the Israelis, is in retaliation to the recent mortar and rocket attacks by Hamas.

So all I can say is: Here we go again!

I don't know if it's just me, but all this violence is beyond reason, on both sides. These two groups continue to kill innocent people, and for what - a strip of land that both groups have been fighting over for centuries? Are these people not neighbors?

The international community is picking sides and issuing statements in support of one or the other when the only rational response is that the whole affair is ridiculous and should STOP NOW!

Leaders on both sides should be arrested and thrown in jail for mass murder.
Yeah Right! Oh! I guess this is a war so they're not really criminals! Whatever!

As far as I'm concerned, the violence in the Middle East isn't about Land... it's about Hate!

If there is a God, and that's a question for another day, and God sees what is happening in the Gaza Strip, he must be pissed!

Maybe he'll flood the whole area so there'll be no land to bomb each other over. How many people would be spared the death and mayhem these tribes are raining down upon each other. Give me a break.

There isn't one good reason for any of the violence to continue.

And Yes, I've got a question:

Why in Gods' Name can't we just get along with each other?

Hey! What's up with THAT STUFF?