Europeans owe these people lifelong healthcare.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - An Israeli foundation that provides health care help to elderly Holocaust survivors said Tuesday it will have to cut services to thousands of people on Jan. 15 because of lack of money.

Because the cost of care is increasing but donations remain the same, officials said the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel can no longer afford to provide in-home nursing care and money for glasses and hearing aids.

Dubby Arbel, the foundation’s chief executive, said 20,000 people received short-term services last year, and 15,000 others are on a waiting list.

“I don’t know who will help the Holocaust survivors. I do know that something was torn from my heart today and from the hearts of the Jewish people,” he told a news conference. He said the group needs an additional $10 million to restore the services.

The foundation’s main service, long-term nursing for about 10,000 survivors, will not be disrupted, he said.

Six million Jews were killed by German Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. After the war, many survivors came to Israel. Today about 280,000 live here.

A study this year showed that 40 percent of them live below or just above the poverty line, defined by the government as $400 month per person.

The foundation receives almost all of its budget from the Claims Conference, an international body that distributes German and Austrian reparations to Holocaust survivors. Arbel urged the Claims Conference and the Israeli government to increase funding.

The EU sends the palestinians hundreds of millions, if not billions, to kill Jews, but they won’t pay the full support of the people whose bodies were ruined by their parents’ and grandparents’ actions.

They stole their property and money, came close to killing them all, refused to give them back their property or money–the Swiss are still sitting on a pile of gold stolen from Holocaust victims–and they boycott Israel while they send tons of money to the people who did not suffer in concentration camps or labor camps or in the hundred other ways these people suffered during the years of the Holocaust.

Ten million dollars is chump change compared with the funds they’ve been supplying to the Jew-killers in the PA.

Send the bill to the EU. And tell the EU to pay up and shut up.

They owe these people. The Nazis and their collaborators throughout Europe ruined their lives and health.

Looks like Kate Burton didn’t have such a lovely time being kidnapped as we were first led to believe.

In her first detailed account of the 58-hour ordeal to three British newspapers, including The Independent, she said: “The situation was starting to get very tense. Maybe they felt they hadn’t achieved what they wanted. They began getting nervous and started shouting at me.

“One of the two main guys said: ‘I can’t believe you have been so disrespectful - we have given you blankets, we have given you food, we have treated you so well’.

“I got really mad and said: ‘I can’t believe you’re doing this. Do you want me to get down on my knees and say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you?’ I was exhausted and started crying. I said: ‘I came here to work with the Palestinian people and now I feel I have been stabbed in the back.’”

And she feels really, really bad that she brought her parents into Gaza.

Ms Burton expressed her own guilt at having taken her parents to Gaza, despite Foreign Office travel advice not to make such a visit. “I feel really, really guilty,” she said. “I feel irresponsible. I’m the one who lives there and should have known better. I wanted them to see it was safe and feel a bit calmer about where I lived. But I’ve given them their worst Christmas and their worst holiday ever.

“They were curious and they’d been aware of the risks. That’s why we’d kept it to a day at the end. But the last thing they said was, ‘We’re never coming back’.”

Good for them. Too bad their daughter isn’t nearly as bright.

I bought an electric toothbrush a few months ago. I changed the heads yesterday.

You do not want to see what is inside the handle underneath the heads.

I need a toothbrush to clean my electric toothbrush.

And may I say: Ew.

Buried deep in an article about the upcoming terrorist elections is this interesting fact:

Abbas, meanwhile, is touring Gulf states, trying to raise money to make up a serious budget shortfall. The appeal to the Arab nations followed a decision by Western donors to freeze funding until the Palestinians carry out promised reforms.

“We are in desperate need of Arab aid,” said Salam Fayyad, who recently stepped down as finance minister in order to run for parliament.

Fayyad said international aid has helped cover about one-third of a $1 billion deficit in the 2005 budget, but Arab states have not fulfilled their pledges.

In other words, screw the reforms, we’ll find money elsewhere.

How long is the world going to pretend not to see the writing on the wall? The PA is part and parcel of the terrorist war against Israel. The elections are a sham, the negotiations are a sham, the crap about a separate state living side by side with Israel is a sham.

You can see by the ongoing chaos in Gaza that the palestinians are not interested in government. They are interested in one thing only: The destruction of Israel, and its replacement with an Islamic state. If they kill or drive off most of the Jews, so much the better in their eyes.

Looks like the terrorists formerly known as Gazans are as dumb as they look: They’ve got the Dimona nuclear plant on their lists of “things to blow up.”

Cleared for publication: Ramzi Salah, a 22-year-old Gaza Strip resident, planned to detonate himself with other suicide bombers at Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona or in other cities across the country, an indictment served Monday revealed.

Salah was captured about two weeks ago in possession of an explosive belt near an Israeli community in the western Negev. At the time
of his arrest, he was apparently planning to carry out another attack.

This is the part the bothers me:

In his infiltration attempts, Salah enlisted the assistance of Israeli and Egyptian collaborators.

Good to know the Egyptians are so eager to keep the peace.

In any case, it’s good they got him, but I’m not very worried about a terror attack on Dimona. It’s one of the best-guarded places in the country.

Far more worrying is Iran’s attempt to make nuclear weapons.

Israeli intelligence services expects 2006 to be bloodier than 2005.

A senior official in Military Intelligence has warned that 2006 will see a number of escalations on all of the fronts, and has delivered a pessimistic forecast.

“The coming period won’t be stable, and escalation is expected in the north, due to Hizbullah operations, from mistaken judgments of Bashar Assad, or maybe from the global Islamic Jihad operations; on the Iranian front, we could be heading for a crisis in March after Iran will renew its enrichment program; and on the Palestinian front – formally at least, the calm in the territories ended yesterday. From this point, some of the restraints are being lifted, and others may be lifted after the (Palestinian) elections,” the source said.

And Al Qaeda is setting its sights on Israel. Apparently, those katyushas were launched by Al Qaeda.

The Intelligence source said that “Nasrallah is under heavy pressure over the identity of the Hizbullah as a fighting organization. His tendency to take risks is increasing, but in his view these are calculated risks. Nasrallah wants a ‘controlled escalation,’ and he sees the northern front as a controlled front in which Israel will not ‘go mad.’”

The recent Katyusha attack on northern Israel, which was claimed by a jihad group identifying itself with al-Qaeda, presents another gloomy picture.

“We are in the midst of a fundamental change, as the international jihad heads in the direction of the countries of the Levant, and especially Israel,” said the source.

And the pals are letting tons of weapons in via the Rafah crossing. The war is coming.

An Israeli Arab Muslim wants to join the IAF.

Exclusive: An 18-year-old youth from northern Israel is an outstanding student who completed his high school diploma with top grades. He is also a gifted civilian pilot. His dream is to become a pilot in the Israeli air force, but one thing may stand in his way: He is an Arab Muslim.

[...] As Michael noted, his young student is bound to face the question of where his loyalties lie.

“I sincerely told him that there is the problem of loyalty. I told him that it would be hard to send an Arab to bombard other Arabs, whether in Gaza or in Lebanon,” Michael said.

“But he said, ‘I belong to the state of Israel, just try me and you’ll see. I live in this country, and am willing to do what is required of me,’” Michael recalled.

The youth explained in his letter that his wish to enlist stems from true patriotism to the state.

“Although I am not obligated to join the IDF… I want to serve like any other citizen in the country. I was raised on the values of loving Israel, and the moral commitment to contribute to the state,” he wrote.

All I can say is: I’m glad I’m not the one who had to make this decision. I’m still looking at the treasonous acts of the Arab Israeli Members of the Knesset.

I would err on the side of caution, frankly. Sorry. There is far too much damage the kid could do if he’s a mole.