Prior to Senator McCain's recent trip to Iraq and Israel, I was in communication with his office regarding the James Baker endorsement and earlier statements made by the Senator in praise of this blatant anti-Semite and anti-Zionist...a man who has largely enriched himself via the autocratic Arab petrodollar spigot. The response I received was detailed enough to suggest that it was not just another routine form letter.

     After sending this correspondence to the man I'd like to vote for's office (and I'm still a registered Democrat, though vote Independent), and again, prior to his trip, I then released the article, Dear Senator McCain, for wide-spread publication...including in the Middle East.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7816

     More recently, I've learned about the Senator's latest comments regarding James Baker during an interview in Los Angeles on March 26th, some two weeks after McCain's visit to the Middle East and our initial correspondence http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=708

     Perhaps I'm reading a bit between the lines, but I do believe that the Senator now has his eyes open a bit more about Baker--a man whom earlier he was considering as point man for the Middle East. Lots of other informed and caring Jews and non-Jews alike must have also made contact with his office.

     And for the  good.

     John McCain, flawed like us all, is still--no doubt--the best all around  candidate in the upcoming presidential election. And he appears to be very electable, if he doesn't let such things like Baker set him back.

     So, what's "like Baker," you ask?

     Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made no secret that she'd love to be McCain's Vice President.

     Putting it bluntly...this would be like anointing James Baker III, in a skirt, to the second most powerful position in the world.

     While not openly embracing the crude anti-Semitism of Baker, Condi indeed personifies the typical State Department (and also petrodollar-greased) animus towards the Jew of the Nations http://radicalacademy.com/studentrefpolitics22gah150.htm .

     And she displays the same oil-tainted blinders over her eyes as Baker (of The Iraq Study Group, etc.) when it comes to the plight of over thirty million truly stateless Kurds in the region as well...all while demanding that Arabs have their state #22. 

    While pursuing a war against Islamic extremism is supposedly on her agenda, she nonetheless insists on shoving it down Israel's throat anyway. When real truth proves inconvenient, make up your own...typical State Department policy when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

     The Foggy Folks have whitewashed their so-called Fatah Arab good cops for decades, hiding Abbas's colleague and predecessor, Arafat's, direct connections to Black September, al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the murder of American officials, and so forth. And they've repeatedly covered and made excuses for their darling, Abbas, and the rest of his still murderous crew as well.

     The actions of Condi--the Secretary of State, not the oil tanker named after her--are cut from the same mold, a pea in the same pod, as former Secretary of State, f_ _ k the Jews, they don't vote for us anyway, James Baker, whose law firm represents Saudi and other Arab interests on a huge ($$$$) scale.

     She insists that Israel itself arm --and watch America arm and train--those whose prime target will be/have been Jews and Israel itself. No doubt about this. Any argument Fatah has with Hamas is not about accepting a permanent Jewish neighbor...and they're both honest about this while Condi & Co. play deaf, dumb, and blind. Again, invent your own when the real truths are inconvenient.

     Recent polls conducted by Abbas folks themselves show 85% of "moderate" P.A. (not Hamas) Arabs supporting the wanton slaughter of Jewish students in a Jerusalem yeshiva by an Arab armed with one of those weapons Condi insisted upon. And most still reject an Israel's--of any size--right to exist.

     Like most of her earlier Foggy predecessors, Condi is intent on forcing Israel to return to its 9-mile wide, 1949 armistice line--not border--existence...something Presidents, like Reagan and Johnson, and Secretary of State George Shultz (a rare exception to the Foggy mold) swore would never happen in the wake of the '67 Six Day War.  

     Secure and Recognized borders--a la UNSC Resolution 242--were to replace those Auschwitz lines, and any withdrawal was to take place in the context of real peace treaties, not hudna ceasefires, designed only to strengthen Arabs for the ultimate kill. Arafat called this "the Peace of the Quraysh," akin to the lull before Muhammad delivered the final blow to his Meccan enemies in the 7th century C.E.

     Abbas and his Fatahniks are simply Arafatians in suits, sweet-talking an all-too-cooperative and gullible West while openly still endorsing the vilification and destruction of Jews and Israel among their own folks.

     Arafat's Swiss bank accounts, largely filled with pusillanimous dhimmi Western cash, are indeed legendary. Billions of similar dollars are now, or soon will be, at stake. And, as in Gaza, what Fatah gets now in Judea and Samaria (aka the "West Bank"), Hamas will likely get later anyway.

     Subsequently, if Condi's Crew get their way, the Jews will be left holding the bag--with an American trained and armed rejectionist enemy within a stone's throw of all of Israel's main population centers.

     Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem will become the next Sderots, and nothing will be able to stop that independent new, sovereign, Arab state from setting up whatever it wants on its side of the American-imposed border. Think Iranian supplied missiles or whatever. And Israel will once again be left, thanks to Condi, President Bush, and so forth, a mere 9-16 miles wide (where most of its population lives), with the Mediterranean Sea to its back.

     Despite the weak leaders it now has, Israel needs to resist this unreasonable pressure with all of its strength and hope a more sane, less nasty American administration will soon be on the world stage. Don't expect this to happen with a Clinton or Obama victory, so.

     As I discussed in my original correspondence with Senator McCain, as a military man who fought for America's national interests thousands of miles away from home, and who calls for an adequate response to a militant Islam intent on furthering the Dar ul-Islam vs. the Dar al-Harb all over the world, it's hard to imagine him not understanding what a miniscule Israel--on the very front lines of this fight--is facing.

     How dare the Arab's dhimmi kilab yahud--Jew dogs--demand in one state what Arabs insist they must have two dozen of--at mostly non-Arab Kurd, Amazigh/Berber, black African, Copt, native, pre-Arab Lebanese, and others' expense.

     As can't be pointed out too often, the desires of any 22nd Arab state--and second, not first, in the original 1920 borders of post World War I Mandatory Palestine--must not come at the expense of the basic needs, security, and national interests of the sole Jewish State, one half of whose Jews are refugees from the so-called Arab/Islamic world.

     Senator McCain will need to grasp these points and set himself apart from the powerful, over half-century old, Condi and Baker petrodollarly-connected, anti-Israel click. Many will be watching his choices very closely...including a good portion of the seventy million Evangelicals in this country.

     There's a lot of talent out there to choose from regarding such choices.

     Some of McCain's former fellow Republican contestants  come to mind, as do others such as Senator Joseph Lieberman, Newt Gingrich, Alan Keyes, academics like Thomas Sowell, and so forth...many of whom are also good conservatives, backing McCain's own credentials as well.

     And talk about an attractive Independent to grab the Independent vote--whom McCain also appeals to--think of the Lieberman connection--taking on his own fellow Democrats big time...assuming America can get over the Jew thing as it largely has the black thing with so many folks now endorsing Obama.

     I'm convinced that John McCain deserves to be our next President. He needs to surround himself with others who truly deserve his endorsement.

     The likes of Baker and Rice don't.

Copyright by Gerald A. Honigman (honigman6@msn.com)