Time to Obliterate Mosul?

When Truman decided that an invasion of Japan was too costly in Military lives to contemplate . He authorized the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He ended the Carnage that was the Pacific war against Imperial Japan.

Eisenhower had no compunction against the day and night fire bombing of major German cities during the closing months of WWII. The raids killed tens of thousands of women and children, but it helped to stop the war against Nazi Germany.

Now we are faced with an enemy that has taken refuge in Iraq in the city of Mosul. The military authorities have declared Mosul as a hot bed of Al Qaeda activity, and yesterday they proved their control of that city by killing the driver and two guards of the Archbishop of Mosul, Cardinal Paulos Faraj Rahho. They kidnapped him, and there is a good possibility he will end up beheaded as have many other civilian and military captives of al Qaeda over the past four years.

It is time to seriously consider wiping Mosul from the face of the Iraqi map.

Carpet bombing the city will get rid of the strong hold that grips Mosul. It will also kill innocent civilians, but in this case the end justifies the means!

We are fighting a war of attrition at home as well as in Iraq, and this justifies the carpet bombing of Mosul! It could be the fatal blow that destroys the resolve of alQaeda.

I know this will offend and incense the "peaceniks" and leftist anti-war zealots, but who gives a damn. Are we in this war to win or just kill more American soldiers? If Bush and the Generals fighting the war want to win they must take drastic measures. Obama would withdraw and leave the Iraqis to fight off the bloodbath that follows. I believe he is wrong!

With Russian bombers flying within 5 miles of the USS Nimitz before being chased away by two F-8 fighter jets. It indicates that Russia's dictator(aka President), former KGB colonel Putin, and his 6,000 KGB associates who are involved in Russian federal and regional government, are deadly serious about making Russia's military might known.

Two Soviet Era bombers also buzzed the Nimitz in the Sea of Japan last month, before they were chased away by Navy fighters, and the Chinese Communists have launched missiles in the area of the sea off Formosa.

Now is not the time to become a duplicate of the miserable military decline that we have seen happen in Great Britain. There are too many enemies "in the weeds" to show a lack of strength and resolve.

Remember you can't bargain with the Devil! And we have enemies that would love to see us elect a person, as President, who shows no support for the military.

We Are At A Crossroad In Iindividual Freedom

Not since the war for Independence has this Country faced a threat to individual liberties as we find ourselves today. No, it did not happen overnight. It has been a gradual erosion of the quality of education, the shift to the extreme left of the print and television media, the embrace of multiculturalism and political correctness over the past twenty years. But today we are at a crossroads in the great experiment Our founding fathers called Liberty and Freedom.
In November we will determine whether The United States of America remains a Land of Individuals free to determine the fate of their lives within the laws of the land. Or we will elect a President who has the goal of making the USA into a Utopian type of Socialist State! A country where the government not only provides you what it believes is best for you from cradle to grave, but tells you what you can and cannot say!

We are some 230 years after the formation of the greatest, most productive, prosperous, powerful and generous free nation on earth, possibly voting ourselves back into tyranny in the name of a greater common good. Far too many people have stopped asking the question about what limited role in society our government should fulfill ( as did Our Founders), but have hopped aboard the "gravy train to paradise", never suspecting it to be the graveyard express to the ideological gulag, and the loss of individual freedoms.

We no longer respect or protect the first fundamental unalienable American right, Life. Over a million abortions are performed per year since Roe/Wade. The second, the right to individual Liberty has been replaced with the group rights of the community, and our right to individually define and pursue (earn) happiness has been traded for the right of the group to both define and re-distribute happiness at the federal level. People are now asking government to meet the needs that were once obligations of individuals themselves, family and neighbors, the public charity, church organizations, and Almighty God. A clear recipe for tyranny in exchange for laziness.

Our federal government has indeed become destructive of the very values and principles every American is called to uphold and defend in Our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and unless we change our government by changing our voting patterns, we will soon have no choice but to abolish them and start anew.

Democrats today stand fully opposed to all founding American principles and values. But Republicans get no free pass here either. The party which once stood up to Democratic Socialists in defense of the real American Dream, has in recent years joined the Left in an only slightly slower march into Democratic Socialism. As a result, all elected members of the federal government enjoy the lowest approval ratings in U.S. history. Lower than the President!

Today’s Democrats call themselves “the Party of the Working Class, the poor, the downtrodden.” They promise to rob from “the rich” for the betterment of the poor. In other words, they are selling exactly what Marx, Lenin and Stalin and many other Communists have sold over the years, “From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.”

Same Change – New Name
Socialized medicine is being sold as “universal health care” – government ownership or control of the nation’s vast natural resources is being sold as “environmentalism” – Freedom of Religion is now being sold as “freedom from religion,” in accordance with the Marx view that “The first requirement for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.” Today’s federal charade called government, may march toward Socialism before you will realize what has been done?

We are seeing the emergence of a false "messianic" state. In order to incorporate an essential religious theme into their campaign message, liberal candidates and political commentators have presented a socialist reinterpretation of The Sermon on the Mount as the true biblical model, and Obama uses the reference freely.


Our problem is not whether we are ready for the first minority president, or the first women president. The question is whether America's good is best served, in either case, by a potential leader that will lurch us further toward socialism than George McGovern would have in 1972.



Hillary Clinton recently stated it quite clearly, “We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.” Nikita Khrushchev said it this way, “Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all” and apparently, today’s Democrat Party is united in this belief system. Remember Joseph Stalin once said:" We do not have to defeat America in war. We will destroy it from within".
source: New Media Journal/JB Williams

LIBERAL MEDIA SHOWS IT'S DUPLICITY

The British newspaper, The Telegraph, is featuring a story of an American airlines plane that flew from Chicago to London with only five people aboard. It highlights the ecologist claims that American Airlines wasted 22,000 pounds of jet fuel for just five passengers. Never mind that it had a full load waiting in London to fly back to Chicago.


The article featured quotes from "Friends Of the Earth" spokes person who had this to say:"It was 'obscene' to waste so much fuel flying an almost empty plane". He claimed that each of the passengers Carbon foot print was 45 times what it would be if the plane were full. Not satisfied with this outrageous claim, he went on to say that Governments should not allow this to happen , but should not only tax aviation fuel, but also the emissions caused by flying the plane. A typical attitude of one who believes that government should control our lives. I believe this is called Marxism!



None the less while they are about saving the world from Big Business contribution to "Global Warming". Perhaps they should look inward and evaluate some of their fellow conspirators in their GW scam. Take Movie actors, professional athletes and politicians for example.

John Travolta is a good example of a supporter of GW who talks the talk, but fails to walk the walk. His serious aviation habit means he is hardly the best person to lecture others on the environment. But John Travolta went ahead and did it anyway.
The 53-year-old actor, a passionate pilot, encouraged his fans to "do their bit" to tackle global warming.
But although he readily admitted: "I fly jets", he failed to mention he actually owns five, along with his own private runway.
Clocking up at least 30,000 flying miles in the past 12 months means he has produced an estimated 800 tons of carbon emissions – nearly 100 times the average persons tally.
Travolta made his comments this week at the British premiere of his movie, Wild Hogs.
He spoke of the importance of helping the environment by using "alternative methods of fuel" – after driving down the red carpet on a Harley Davidson. Source: "The Evening Standard"

Other Hollywood movie stars use private jets as well. Angelina Jolie, recently flew to Hanoi, Vietnam to pick up her new adopted baby son. A round trip of 14,000 miles. Her mate Brad Pitt, flew in a private jet from LA to Namibia to film a movie.This trip alone was 9,4000 miles and 11,000 pounds of jet fuel was used one way.

Activist actor George Clooney recently flew to Tokyo from La .A distance of 5,500 miles that used 7,000 gallons of fuel.

Tiger Woods, Ernie Els and Greg Norman are but a few of the golf professionals who have their own private jets.
Tiger Woods flies around in a G550 (NetJets), the "Google" boys and Paul Allen use 757’s as their private jets. None of those planes were big enough for Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal. Nope, the Prince has ordered the double-decker, brand new Airbus A380.

We never read or hear about Environmentalists carping about these people. It is too easy to attack "Big business" the villain
of all Socialists!

Travolta, a Scientologist, claimed the solution to global warming could be found in outer space and blamed his hefty flying mileage on the nature of the movie business.
But his appointment as a "serving ambassador" for the Australian airline Qantas doesn't seem to have much to do with the movies. Nor does a recent, two-month round-the-world flying trip.
"It [global warming] is a very valid issue," Travolta declared. "I'm wondering if we need to think about other planets and dome cities.
"Everyone can do their bit. But I don't know if it's not too late already. We have to think about alternative methods of fuel.
"I use them(jets) as a business tool though, as others do. I think it's part of this industry – otherwise I couldn't be here doing this and I wouldn't be here now."
Travolta's five private planes – a customised £2million Boeing 707, three Gulfstream jets and a Lear jet – are kept at the bottom of his garden in the US next to a private runway.
Five years ago he piloted his own Boeing 707 on a 13- city "Spirit of Friendship Tour" for Qantas, taking in Los Angeles, Auckland, Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo, London, Paris and New York and amassing over 35,000 flying miles.
More recently, a gruelling promotional schedule for his two latest projects, Hairspray and Wild Hogs, has seen him fly extensively over the past year.
This includes a country-wide tour of the US and a visit to Canada as well as this week's appearance in Leicester Square.
Such prolific mileage means that, over the past 12 months, he has accumulated around 800 tonnes of carbon emissions.
According to a recent study by the government-funded Carbon Trust, this means he boasts a carbon "footprint" nearly 100 times that of the average person. Travolta is responsible for 10.92 tons of Co2, from his flights alone.
Source: The Evening Standard

And then we have the "Messiah" of Global Warming, Al Gore, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Utility records show the Gore family paid an average monthly electric bill of about $1,200 last year for its 10,000-square-foot home.
The Gores used about 191,000 kilowatt hours in 2006, according to bills reviewed by The Associated Press spanning the period from Feb. 3, 2006, to Jan. 5. That is far more than the typical Nashville household, which uses about 15,600 kilowatt-hours per year.
His Nashville home is more than four times larger than the average new American home built last year.Armed with Gore's utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours!
So much for do as I do not as I say!

FAREWELL TO A WARRIOR

Today a real life hero decided he had done all he could do in the sport he loved so much. So he passes into history as the best all around quarterback in history of the NFL. This blog is a thank you for the effort and memories you leave us.

After a dismal season in 2006, Favre and the Packers rebounded to a 13-and-3 record in 2007. They lost to the eventual NFL champion New York Giants in the NFC title game. Favre extended his quarterback-record streak of consecutive regular-season starts to 253 games. Add in the playoffs and Favre 's streak stands at 275 games.
He retires with 61,655 yards passing and 442 touchdowns.

With an enlightened attitude toward his future as an NFL player he said this was the reason he decided to retire. The stress of living up to his high standards had become too much.
"I know I can still play but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally," the 38-year-old told ESPN television on Tuesday.
"Physically I feel okay but the stress of studying (game film) every week has gotten too much and the more stressful it got, well I'm always trying to top what I'd done the previous week."

source:Reuters News

The 38-year-old warrior secured a record haul of three NFL Most Valuable Player awards and a Super Bowl championship, but it is his remarkable durability and boyish enthusiasm that will remain in the memory of long time Packer fans like me.

Despite the fact that he led the Packers to 11 playoff appearances, seven divisional titles and two trips to the Super Bowl, winning the championship in 1997. He will be remembered by me, because he enjoyed the game and showed It win or lose. He was a fan who loved being on the field playing a mans game as though he was a boy.

Professional football has lost another good human being and great athlete just as we did when Reggie White died in 2004.

Reggie was the best defensive end the Packers will ever had and Brett will never be replaced. Thanks for the thrills and memories, Brett!

WE MUST WAKE UP TO THE MUSLIM INVASION

While both Democrats and Republicans appear to be aware of International terrorism in the World, to varying degrees. There is no mention on the political "stump" or in the Main Stream Press of the growing threat posed by radical Muslims inside the United States.

CAIR and the liberal left have been vigilant in seeing that no negative news is published or seen on the TV about the growing internal threat of the Muslim followers in America.

European Countries such as England and Holland are already confronted with the threat to impose Sharia law into their established legal system, because of the mass migration of Muslims into their Country. This excerpt from the Militant Islam Monitor: "There is the additional problem of the growing impact militant Islam is making on Europe. This does not refer to most ordinary Muslim voters(what is an ordinary Muslim?) but to a minority of very vocal militants who have an agenda of their own. There is some similarity between today's militant Muslims and the Nazis who came into power more than seventy years ago. Both are inspired by the same kind of anti-Semitism, they adore obscure conspiring theories like ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' describing secret plans for the creation of a world government controlled by Jews. Islam is by no means the same as National Socialism, yet the growing number of extremist Muslims nowadays may pose a threat to us, especially if they receive the backing of a State. This applies to many militant or extremist Muslims".

There is a growing radicalism among Muslim communities. According to the ICM poll, ‘twenty percent of the British Muslims feel sympathy with the July 7 bombers' feelings and motives, seventy five percent, however, do not. One percent feels the attacks were ‘right.'

There are moderate Muslim rulers like King Mohamed VI of Morocco, King Abdullah of Jordan and Sultan Qaboos of Oman who have a pro-Western orientation. They are responsible for the introduction of important political and social reforms. Militant and extremist Muslims demand that these reforms be replaced by the traditional and radical ‘Sharia' law.

For men, radical Islam means a ban on listening to music, watching movies, television or videos. There would be a ban on celebrating any non-Muslim holiday. All people with non-Islamic names would be required to adopt an Islamic name. All men and boys would be required to have traditional haircuts and when able, they must grow beards. Prayers at mosques must be attended five times daily. They are banned from having birds and dogs. No kite flying is allowed. Anyone found with objectionable literature can be executed. No hand clapping is allowed at sporting events. The use of the Internet is banned accept by government permission. Non-Muslims must where distinctive identifying badges. Reminds me of what Hitler did to the Jews!

For women, all of the above apply, except for beards. In addition women are banned from working outside the home, except for selected female doctors. Women cannot leave the home unless accompanied by a male relative or husband. They cannot drive a car or deal with shopkeepers. Male doctors cannot treat them. Women must where undecorated clothing that covers them from head to foot.

A woman can be whipped if her ankles show in public. She is banned from shaking hands, laughing loudly, wearing high heeled shoes, playing sports, speaking on radio or TV, riding a bicycle or motorcycle and must not wear perfume. The woman’s clothing cannot resemble a man’s clothes. Their shoes cannot make a sound when they walk. They cannot talk to men other than family and when they do talk it must be in a very low voice. They must not look at strangers. CAIR will quickly tell you that this is the extremist interpretation of Sharia law, but I have seen no print news or TV item that declares this is wrong by any "moderate" Muslim.

Undercover counter terrorism agents, who speak Arabic and understand the culture, have conducted reconnaissance at some 2,300 mosques and centers in every state of the U.S.. Also a recent Freedom House study concluded that “the vast majority are inciting insurrection and jihad through sermons by Saudi-trained imams and anti-Western literature, videos and textbooks.”

However, when members of the media, or political candidates bring up the subject of this growing threat, they are branded as practicing racial profiling, anti-Muslim or unpatriotic. Government officials keep telling everyone that the Muslim world is friendly, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. The majority in Congress force the nation into Arab oil servitude, by refusing to allow serious drilling in our own country and spending more time trying to make the enemy out of “Big Oil”, instead of Middle Eastern threats. This while Communist China is making deals to import more crude oil by the day!

All of this will continue to unfold, from the American advancement of Islam to the flow of more Middle Eastern money to advance terrorism...and all because Americans spend their time being angry at our own politicians and have little or no concern about an every increasing threat being imported from abroad.

All Americans should pay more attention to what is happening in Europe, as it can happen here, and will if we don't change our attitude toward this internal threat.

Muslim extremists suspected of links to terrorism have been on trial in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy. In all these trials there was a common pattern of denials or lame excuses by most terrorist suspects. They usually claim it is not they who are on trial but their Islamic beliefs. It is simply a question of religious freedom. source: Emerson Vermaat ,Front Page Magazine.

In 1960 we had 20 mosques in the United States. By 1994 that number had grown to 962 and in 2000 there were 1,209. Today an estimated 2,300 mosques, plus storefronts, meeting rooms and student centers are spread across the country. These mosques and centers are used as a form of political and social mobilization, under the cloak of religion.

More than 90% of Muslim leaders say they should be involved in the political process and it should be noted they are increasingly assuming positions within the public arena.
For some strange reason, when viewing the growth of Islam in the United States, Americans are about as complacent as they are relative to most political activities.

Though reported on in 2002 that: “Every time you fill up your tank you may be helping to finance an Islamic mosque in America” and that “Some of the largest mosques and Islamic Centers in America are funded by the royal government of Saudi Arabia, which gets most of its revenue from oil exports”, we have still continued to ignore the fact that we are facing a serious problem.

Our government keeps telling us that Saudi Arabia is our friend. This flies in the face of undisputed facts including that 15 of the 19 hijackers who crashed aircraft into New York and Washington DC were Saudi citizens. It also ignores the fact that the Saudi government continues to finance the advancement of “Wahhabism”, one of the most violent and fundamentalist strains of Islam and that most Saudi citizens adhere to this anti-American sect.

In the past 33 years the Saudi government has poured more than $87 billion into expanding the Muslim faith in America. There are an estimated 6 million Muslims in the United States today and many of them were converts from Christianity or had no prior religious preference. It is estimated that up to 90% of the converts are African-American.

While 64% of Saudis have an unfavorable view of the United States, 57% of the black Muslims in America look upon this country as an immoral society, including Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obama's recently retired pastor!

A full 70% of our “American” black Muslims believe the United States brought about the attacks of 9/11.Source:The New Media Journal

Obama's Position Ignores the Cost to Tax Payers

Barack Obama gave a seech yesterday at Hocking College in Ohio, during which he staked out his position on same sex marriage, abortion and the home mortgage crisis. For this his plan is to use $10 billion to establish a home mortgage fund, and the tax payers tab keeps mounting every time he speaks

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His position on troop withdrawal has not changed since he voted in the U.S. Senate against the original bill authorizing the invasion of Iraq. Nor has his position on same sex marriage and his position on abortion. He is for all three!

He is viewed by many as the political equivalent of the Messiah who will change everything that is perceived as wrong in Washington and the Country.

The act he is playing has denigrated to using selected partial quotations from the Bible to support his positions.

Sunday he used a portion of the Sermon On The Mount by Jesus to make his point that we should recognize same sex marriages. He left out the parts that condemn sexual acts outside of marriage conveniently.

The Sermon, recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, includes the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, an endorsement of scriptural moral commandments ("anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven"), and condemnations of murder, divorce and adultery. It also includes a warning: "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves."

When questioned about his same sex marriage position being contrary to Saint Paul's epistle St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Obama dismissed it as "obscure."

The Epistle discusses people who knew God but turned against him."They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised," wrote St. Paul. "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."

If you are an agnostic, nihilist or an atheist the biblical quotes mean nothing to you. However, in this speech Obama was proclaiming himself as a long time practicing Christian.
When a member of the Illinois legislature he repeatedly opposed a bill that would have defined as a "person" a baby who had survived an induced-labor abortion and was born alive.

On the topic of abortion, Obama said his support for keeping it legal does not trespass on his Christian faith."I think that the bottom line is that in the end, I think women, in consultation with their pastors, and their doctors, and their family, are in a better position to make these decisions than some bureaucrat in Washington". He conveniently ignores God's fifth Commandment, "tho Shall Not Kill".

In the end these matters are for the voters to decide if they want him to be President, an for his own conscience. But there is the large matter of tax payers dollars being given in the form of grants to abortion supporting and performing organisations.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has spent tens of millions of U.S. tax dollars to promote so-called "reproductive rights" programs in Third World countries.
In 2006 USAID spent $371,249,000.00 - all of it tax dollars - for "reproductive health" programs. That's code for abortion, sterilization, contraception and other population control programs.
Making this situation even more desperate, USAID has joined forces with the world's foremost proponent of abortion, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
And Planned Parenthood's own "research" organization, the Guttmacher Institute, confirms the fact that it is your tax dollars that are funding the world's "population control" movement. source:CNSnews.com

Israel Has It's Own Fifth Column Within!

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday that by allowing militants to continue firing rockets against innocent Israelis, Hamas has left the Israel Defense Forces with no choice but to operate in the Gaza Strip. "The time has come for action. The military operations are continuing and Hamas bears the responsibility," Barak said, during a meeting with various defense officials including IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin. "We pulled out of Gaza, we tore Israelis from their homes, just for quiet in the communities in the Gaza envelope. These were painful concessions that we made for quiet, and Hamas has continued its fire without reason," he said at the opening of the meeting. source: Haaretz.com
"They are firing on innocent civilians and have left us no choice. We will operate with force to change the situation, and we will change it," the defense minister vowed.
Since Wednesday (27 Feb), 180 rockets have been fired at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip - 20 of them long-range 122 mm Iranian GRAD rockets which struck Ashkelon, a city with a population of 120,000. Most of the rockets were fired by Hamas.

Despite the evidenceobtainede from rocket parts that shows "We are talking about regular Iranian-made rockets," an intelligence official is quoted as saying.

The 122-millimetre rockets have a range of about 20 kilometres (12.5 miles) and carry a large payload which caused heavy damage to buildings in the southern coastal town of Ashkelon, which bore the brunt of the Grad rocket fire. These rockets are now being fired daily into Israel from Hamas occupied territory.

Yet, there are those , not unlike here in the USA, who publicly proclaim human rights abuses occured in Israel's air attacks to neutralize rocket sites in Hamas occupied Gaza.

The blame game is played by the group called B'Tselem. This group claims it is a human rights watcher in the Mid East. In fact it is a collection of leftist secular radicals who, as you will read, are nothing but Marxist radicals within Israel who are advocates for the Palestinians.

This group has no direct affiliation with those groups in the United States who are advocates for the Palestinians. But they are ideologically the same. Leftist anti-military "peace nicks" who demonstrate and write articles advocating principles that are pro secularist Marxism.

B'Tselem's statistics have also been criticised for defining as "civilian" Palestinians killed while engaged in attacks on Israelis. In response to B'Tselem's 2004 summary of casualties, the Independent Media Review and Analysis (IMRA), an Israeli digest, argued that "the figures reported by B'Tselem about noncombatant minors includes children shielding combatants as they prepare and launch Qassam rockets or shielding gunmen as they engage in battle against Israeli forces." This was in response to a clarification by B'Tselem that the term "did not participate in hostilities" may include bystanders.

Caroline B. Glick, deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, in an editorial for this journal asserts that B'Tselem is a radical leftist organization with a documented history of falsifying and distorting data, not unlike the main stream media in the U.S.!

The Movement for Civil Rights and Peace was formed in 1973 by Shulamit Aloni, a former Member of the Knesset.. As a member of the Israeli peace camp she opposed the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip and called for a peace settlement with the Palestine Liberation Organization from its birth. The party advocated secularism, the separation of religion and state, and civil rights, most notably women's rights, a topic that was very close to Aloni.

There are two other leftist groups participating in this pro-Palestinian movement. The first is Mapam, that was a descendant of the left wing of the Poale Zion (Workers of Zion) movement. It merged with HaShomer HaTzair ("Youth Guard") and, in 1948, Labour Unity; the latter included some of the right wing of Poale Zion, who had joined David Ben Gurion's Mapai but then broken back away. The party was originally Marxist-Zionist in its outlook, with a strong Stalinist policy, and represented the left-wing Kibbutz Artzi ("Nationwide Kibbutz") movement.

The other is Meretz-Yachad, that defines itself as a Zionist Green left wing social democratic party. It has inherited Meretz's membership in the Socialist International.
It sees itself as the political representative of the Israeli Peace movement, in the Knesset - as well as municipal councils and other local political bodies.

It's basic stated principles are anything but principles for the benefit of Israel.
It emphasises the following principles (not necessarily in order of importance):
Peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, based on a two state solution as laid out in the Geneva Accord.
Dismantling most of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Human rights issues:
Struggle for the protection of Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
Rights of the minorities in Israel (such as Israeli Arabs and foreign workers), fight against their discrimination, and support of affirmative action.
Women's rights and feminism.
Gay rights.
Struggle for social justice:
Making Israel a Social Democratic Welfare state.
Protecting workers' rights and fighting against their exploitation (especially, though not exclusively, in the case of foreign workers and immigrants), Separation of religion and state, and religious freedom, Liberal secular education and
Environmentalism.