Wish Them a Merry Christmas Anyway

I work under the auspices of a typical PC school district in a large city in the US.  The kids I have to deal with have issues about telling their friends Merry Christmas, as they leave for a 2 week break.  "No! You have to say 'happy holidays'!", I hear them saying, sotto voce.

This is the very same school district that had no qualms whatsoever about taking half a day off and spending tens of thousands of dollars of tax money to bus the entire 5th to 12th grade population to see the Dalai Lama last year.  Some of those kids still wear the souvenir shirts of that event to school.

Imagine the uproar if it had been the Pope!  I knew at least one parent who was upset about this, and I'm sure there were many more.  Did the ACLU step in and challenge this pro-Lamaist use of state funds?  Hell no!  No more than they did to stop Orthodox Jews from stripping the streets of public bicycle paths in Brooklyn.

So I decided to be subversive.  As the kids left, I wished them a Merry Christmas.

It turned out that the more I said it, the more the kids felt it was OK to say to each other.  What they have been told, apparently, is that it's impolite or somehow "offensive" to wish someone Merry Christmas. By saying it to them, repeatedly, I was in essence, telling them it was allright.  They've never been given that message by an adult in their school system.

I lived in Japan for close to a decade.  Japanese celebrate Christmas - not as a religious holiday, but as a seasonal one.  They just happen to like it.  And most Japanese describe themselves as non-religious, or not understanding religion. The Thai have downtown Bangkok dressed up in Christmas decor in December, and most of them are Buddhist.

You cannot offend a Japanese or a Thai by wishing them a Merry Christmas, but for crying out loud, don't ever try that on your local Rebbe.  The next thing you know, you'll get arrested for a hate crime.

Jews have been "offended" by any reference to Christ since about the year 0, when Herod was scouring Bethlehem to kill all male babies under the age of 2 years. You don't see this sense of "offense" in other cultures when it comes to Christmas, or Christmas greetings.  To some Jews, saying Merry Christmas to their face is the equivalent of a sucker punch, unless they're running Macy's, in which case it's good for business.

Not all Jews hate Christmas.  However, for a sizable number, the Christmas season is, well, just "uncomfortable".  Sarah Silverman, with her neurotic anti-Christian diatribes, is just the tip of the 'berg.

I had an Israeli-American roomate in college, who hated everything about Christmas, including seeing kids sitting on Santa's lap in the local mall.  She'd mock them as she walked by, seething with emotions that were a mixture of jealousy and contempt. The coup de grace was a "Christmas" party she had, with one of her boyfriends showing up as the crucified Jesus.  I think she might have been a little pissed that the Jewish psych major she was after was infatuated with a blond shiksa who lived on our floor.

A Jewish Communications major at my university hosted the Christmas show on the school's radio station.  He'd play songs that would mock Jesus (for example, the tune "Jesus is Easy", by another Jew, Martin Mull), and then snicker afterwards as he set up the next selection from the anti-Christ playlist. This university is funded by the state.  This idiot's radio show was run on state funds.  ACLU, where were you then?

It is this type of neurotic hatred has tainted the Christmas season.  In a country where Gentiles outnumber Jews almost 100 to 1, and where Christianity is still the majority faith, how did we allow this simple little phrase of caring to be hijacked and turned into an "offense"?

Christmas has been historically a season of love, of sharing, of caring for your neighbor.  And it needs to be kept that way.  Show your neighbor your love this season.  Wish them a Merry Christmas.  Everyone.

No Sale of Palestine - Is This Another Reason Czar Nicholas II and His Family Were Murdered? (Updated)

Above - A small article from the St. Paul (Minnesota) Globe, November 10, 1902. 

The link to this old newspaper page can be found here. 

The 1902 article states that a Rabbi Rypins of the Mount Zion Temple, Minnesota synagogue was shown a cablegram stating that France and Russia have blocked the sale of Palestine by the Sultan of Turkey.  Czar Nicholas II was ruler of Russia from 1894 until his abdication in 1917.  He and his family were murdered in 1918.  The Balfour Declaration was hatched in 1917.

The article also goes over statements by Rabbi Rypins of efforts to move Jews out of New York into different sections of the US.  Rabbi Rypins states that he has been instrumental in finding homes for some of them in Minnesota.

He also states that there are Zionists who do not want Palestine as a place of return to a religious center - instead they want it "for the purpose of colonization".

The following clip from this page at The Times. (Richmond, Va.) December 21, 1902 states that the Czar's interests in Palestine have to do with maintaining control of Russian monasteries in the area which are actually forts.  According to Wikipedia, The Russian Orthodox Church is one of the largest owners of property in Israel and the West Bank, and has had a presence there for nearly two centuries.  France and Russia both had extensive property and missions in Palestine and were laying in wait hoping for the demise of the Ottoman Empire. 

After the rejected sale in 1902, Russia had a series of anti-Jewish pogroms starting in 1903: 

"This pogrom was instrumental in convincing tens of thousands of Russian Jews to leave to the West and eventually to the land of Israel.  As such, it became a rallying point for early Zionists, especially what would become Revisionist Zionism, inspiring early self-defense leagues under leaders like Vladimir Jabotinsky." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishinev_pogrom

Above clip from The San Francisco Call, June 16, 1903

The Kishinev pogrom took place in Chişinău, then the capital of the Bessarabia province of the Russian Empire. This area was located in the original "Pale of Settlement".

Pavel Aleksandrovich Krushevan, the original publisher of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (first publication 1903), is credited with being the main catalyst behind the Kishinev pogrom.

Krushevan's Russian-language anti-Semitic newspaper Бессарабец (Bessarabetz, meaning "Bessarabian") insinuated that a local Christian boy was murdered by the Jews.  The murder took place on April 6th, 1903, riots broke out on the same day, according to sources, and lasted three days. 

The Kishinev pogrom is noted as a main turning point in Jewish history.  It also captured the attention of the world community and was mentioned in the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine as an example of the type of human rights abuse which would justify United States involvement in Latin America.

Contemporary with the Kishinev pogrom was the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.  From August 26-September 3, 1903, it appeared in abbreviated form in the Russian language paper  Znamya, a Black Hundreds newspaper owned by Pavel Krushevan, as a serialized set of articles. It appeared again in 1905 as a final chapter (Chapter XII) of a second edition of Velikoe v malom i antikhrist (The Great in the Small & Antichrist), a book by Serge Nilus.  In 1905, Sergei Nilus published the "full" version as an appendix to his book Velikoe v Malom ("The Great in the Small").   In 1917, Nilus, who had already published the Protocols two more times, produced yet another edition, this time attributing them to Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the founder of modern political Zionism.

Both Czar Alexander I in November 1818 and Napoleon (somewhat earlier) had promoted Palestine as a Jewish colony. More at this link
http://www.reflectingonjudaism.com/content/napoleon-czar-alexander-1st 
(note:  copy and paste above link if it does not redirect)
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_and_the_Jews

This pro-Zionist article goes over how Jacob Branfman, a Jew, began spreading "false accusations" about the Jews in Russia in 1858 (maybe they were true?): 

At the height of Russification and conscription during the reign of Czar Nicholas I, Jacob Brafmann aspiring for advancement into the Orthodox Theological Seminary, published a series of articles in the Vilna Messenger.

After the death of Nicholas I, Brafmann sent a memorandum to his successor Czar Alexander II in 1858 with false accusations against the Jewish community. Brafmann tried to prove that the executive organ of the Jewish community had formed a 'state within a state.'

Even though Czar Alexander II continued to grant positive rights to the Jewish community, Brafmann's false accusations were published in two volumes he authored in 1869 and 1871 called, Book of the Kahal. The book was instrumental in spreading anti-Judaism in the Russian Empire.

With Brafmann's false accusations in publication, the State Council appointed a special commission of representatives in 1870 that created a ten year study group that focused on the elimination of the fabled power held by the heads of the Jewish community and on the extension of the Pale of Settlement.

As an interesting side note, the Wikipedia article goes over an eviction of nuns from a Russian Orthodox monastery (nuns?)  by the Palestine Authority in the year 2000.  This became an international incident.  It states: Further media attention became focused on the event when it was discovered that one of the nuns was Maria Stephanopoulos the sibling of George Stephanopoulos the former advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Related:

The Russian Crown Jewels and Angela Lansbury

NASA Scam to Reproduce Second Coming of Jesus

Above:  Scaring the locals with Jesus in Sharya, Russia. 

Your tax money at work.  
Hey, at least they made it look like a Russian crucifix.

This from Dr. Lorraine Day's site:

For over 15 years, NASA has had the ability to reproduce - with lasers and holograms - the Second Coming of Christ  - as most Christians believe He will come.  They have the ability to project the images into the sky in such a way that the whole world will be able to see them.  In addition, they can project the figures of the leaders of the various world religions, and everyone on earth will be able to hear them speak in their own language. 

They have already begun to produce similar phenomena in the sky.

Some of the supposed UFOs now seen are deceptively produced this way.

Now, they have projected a cross in the sky over Russia.

Soon, it is probable that a figure of "Mary" will be produced in the sky to tell all the Catholics around the world that they must join with the New World Order and support the people who are planning a One World Government.

Later, their Plan is to project images of Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, and Jesus Christ, all of whom will "tell" the world that "differences in religion are the cause of all the chaos and violence on planet earth and in order to STOP the chaos and violence - and to ‘please God’ - everyone must join together in a One World Religion."

Then, all the figures will merge into one - which will be the New Age "Christ" - NOT Jesus Christ.

And the deception will be complete.

Everyone will say, " I saw it with my own eyes!"

What they won't tell you up front is that the One World Religion of the New World Order Zionist Jews will be the religion of Freemasonry  that - at the highest levels - worships Lucifer!

When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing

By William M. Arkin Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, Feb. 1, 1999

"Gentlemen! We have called you together to inform you that we are going to overthrow the United States government." So begins a statement being delivered by Gen. Carl W. Steiner, former Commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Operations Command.

At least the voice sounds amazingly like him.

But it is not Steiner. It is the result of voice "morphing" technology developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

By taking just a 10-minute digital recording of Steiner's voice, scientist George Papcun is able, in near real time, to clone speech patterns and develop an accurate facsimile. Steiner was so impressed, he asked for a copy of the tape.

Steiner was hardly the first or last victim to be spoofed by Papcun's team members. To refine their method, they took various high quality recordings of generals and experimented with creating fake statements. One of the most memorable is Colin Powell stating "I am being treated well by my captors."

"They chose to have him say something he would never otherwise have said," chuckled one of Papcun's colleagues.

A Box of Chocolates is Like War

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Most Americans were introduced to the tricks of the digital age in the movie Forrest Gump, when the character played by Tom Hanks appeared to shake hands with President Kennedy.

For Hollywood, it is special effects. For covert operators in the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, it is a weapon of the future.

"Once you can take any kind of information and reduce it into ones and zeros, you can do some pretty interesting things," says Daniel T. Kuehl, chairman of the Information Operations department of the National Defense University in Washington, the military's school for information warfare.

PSYOPS seeks to exploit human vulnerabilities in enemy governments, militaries and populations.

Digital morphing — voice, video, and photo — has come of age, available for use in psychological operations. PSYOPS, as the military calls it, seek to exploit human vulnerabilities in enemy governments, militaries and populations to pursue national and battlefield objectives.

To some, PSYOPS is a backwater military discipline of leaflet dropping and radio propaganda. To a growing group of information war technologists, it is the nexus of fantasy and reality. Being able to manufacture convincing audio or video, they say, might be the difference in a successful military operation or coup.

Allah on the Holodeck

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Pentagon planners started to discuss digital morphing after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Covert operators kicked around the idea of creating a computer-faked videotape of Saddam Hussein crying or showing other such manly weaknesses, or in some sexually compromising situation. The nascent plan was for the tapes to be flooded into Iraq and the Arab world.

The tape war never proceeded, killed, participants say, by bureaucratic fights over jurisdiction, skepticism over the technology, and concerns raised by Arab coalition partners.

What if the U.S. projected a holographic image of Allah floating over Baghdad?

But the "strategic" PSYOPS scheming didn't die. What if the U.S. projected a holographic image of Allah floating over Baghdad urging the Iraqi people and Army to rise up against Saddam, a senior Air Force officer asked in 1990?

According to a military physicist given the task of looking into the hologram idea, the feasibility had been established of projecting large, three-dimensional objects that appeared to float in the air.

But doing so over the skies of Iraq? To project such a hologram over Baghdad on the order of several hundred feet, they calculated, would take a mirror more than a mile square in space, as well as huge projectors and power sources.

And besides, investigators came back, what does Allah look like?

The Gulf War hologram story might be dismissed were it not the case that washingtonpost.com has learned that a super secret program was established in 1994 to pursue the very technology for PSYOPS application. The "Holographic Projector" is described in a classified Air Force document as a system to "project information power from space ... for special operations deception missions."

War is Like a Box of Chocolates

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Voice-morphing? Fake video? Holographic projection? They sound more like Mission Impossible and Star Trek gimmicks than weapons. Yet for each, there are corresponding and growing research efforts as the technologies improve and offensive information warfare expands.

Whereas early voice morphing required cutting and pasting speech to put letters or words together to make a composite, Papcun's software developed at Los Alamos can far more accurately replicate the way one actually speaks. Eliminated are the robotic intonations.
The irony is that after Papcun finished his speech cloning research, there were no takers in the military. Luckily for him, Hollywood is interested: The promise of creating a virtual Clark Gable is mightier than the sword.

Video and photo manipulation has already raised profound questions of authenticity for the journalistic world. With audio joining the mix, it is not only journalists but also privacy advocates and the conspiracy-minded who will no doubt ponder the worrisome mischief that lurks in the not too distant future.

"We already know that seeing isn't necessarily believing," says Dan Kuehl, "now I guess hearing isn't either."

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William M. Arkin, author of "The U.S. Military Online," is a leading expert on national security and the Internet. He lectures and writes on nuclear weapons, military matters and information warfare. An Army intelligence analyst from 1974-1978, Arkin currently consults for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, MSNBC and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin020199.htm

Chinese, Indian Jews Move to Israel - Meanwhile, Chabad Expands in China

Lost Tribes of Jews From China, India, Make Aliyah

Chabad of China - Bringing the Jews in the Far East Closer

From China - The Lost Jew of Dali:

After being in China for a year I have to say I sorely missed Jews, especially their sarcasm and irony and a specific, sardonic type of humor seemingly nonexistent in China. And then I met Guri at Lost Angel Café in Southern China’s Yunnan Province. “You have real Yunnan coffee, right?” he asked the barista. “Not Nescafe?” And then he turned to me and asked where I’m from. I told him New York and he said, “Crown Heights?” What? “The organization I’m involved in is based in Crown Heights,” he said. “Chabad.” And he pulled a Star of David amulet out from his shirt. I was vaguely aware of Chabad, and was more than a bit taken aback to find a one of their members in this ancient small city under Cangshan Mountain.

Vice: Do you work for Chabad?

Guri Katz: No, no. I just attend their meetings, and I did once make applesauce for Hanukkah, you know, at least I think it was applesauce. Yes, it was, three years ago, Hanukkah on the Great Wall, lighting the menorah. We got a lot of press for that, two different television networks covered it, and people were telling me from around the globe that they’d seen me celebrating Hanukkah on the Great Wall. The next year they set us up in a princely palace near Houhai, and the next year at Chinese Ethnic Culture Park, with police stationed all around us. You know that joke, right? What are the two biggest lies of all time? The check’s in the mail and some of my best friends are Jews. Jews tell the best Jewish jokes, of course. I’ve got a lot of good ones from the Rabbi in Beijing, but he seems to have stopped telling any, which is too bad really.

What’s the situation with being Jewish in China?

The problem is Judaism isn’t one of the officially recognized religions in China [those would be Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Protestantism], so you can’t open a synagogue. There were three in Shanghai, dating from the early 20th century, but two were demolished, one in the 80s, and one as recently as the early 90s, if you can believe that, and the third we can’t even go into and hold services because it’s been turned into a museum that’s entirely under Chinese control. But generally we have a lot to be thankful for here, in that Jews have never been really oppressed in China and it’s been a haven.

Back to the Jews, can you tell me more about Chabad in China?

Chabad came to China seven yeas ago, and now there are seven Chabad houses, in Beijing, Shanghai, Pudong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Kowloon, and a new one is starting in some big industrial city I’d never heard of before, one of those huge unknown cities in China, Yiwu. They are based in Crown Heights, and are also called Lubavitchers.

Are they ultra-orthodox?

No, not all, they are very tolerant and accept all Jews who want to come together, at any level of observance. They are a uniting force, they accept even people who don’t go to Shul or Synagogue. Of course they’re Eastern European Jews, Ashkenazis, but they are very inclusive.

Mossad Entrenched at Vancouver Airport? "We Lost the Video of 7/7" Verint Doing Security for 2010 Olympics?

The Israeli Intel front company Verint is doing security in Calgary (YYC) and Vancouver (YVR) International airports. 

The company is famous for putting back-doors in its software, which phones home to Israel. The company is suspected with facilitating the 9/11 attacks, and the 7/7 attacks.   Verint's video system on London's subway was inoperable during the London 7/7 terror incident. 

Web page on Mossad and Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics here 

It is also interesting to note that CANUTEC, an organization set up by the Canadian government to cope with potential disasters, can be reached by dialing 666.  CANUTEC will manage the potential roadblocks in case of a pandemic or terror attack. 

In other news:  Israeli Spies at South Africa's Johannesburg International Airport  

Below some older video on Verint's contract vis a vis Montreal security: 

Ayn Rand on Israel

 

Arabs: Savages that resent the civilized Israelis.  
So sayeth the guru Ayn Rand.  
The video below shows what Palestine looked like 
before the Zionist takeover.

When Ayn Rand spoke at the Ford Hall Forum she frequently got asked about Israel – whose supporters are anything if not vociferous – during the question and answer periods, which were open to any question. 

Her reply would go along the following lines: I support Israel; though Israel is a socialist country, [2]  in that region of the world Israel is the vanguard of civilization.

In other words, the gray of Israel is white compared to the surrounding near-black of Arabia. There is something to be said for that kind of argument, but of course it fails when the gray gets dark enough. 

Did Ayn Rand know how dark Israel really was? The year she wrote her essay, 1975, was long before Israeli torture came to light in the 1993 New York Times exposé, over 20 years after her death. 1975 was long before Israel’s massacre of Beirut in 1982, the year of her death. [3] 

Ayn Rand believed that Israel was America’s ally. Did she know how treacherous Israel really was? 1975 was long before the exposure of the Pollard Affair in 1985, three years after her death. Not to mention the USS Liberty attack (though it occurred in 1967 it was not made public until 1980), and many other acts by Israel against America. [4] And long before the publication of such exposés as Victor Ostrovsky’s By Way of Deception (1990) and Ari Ben-Menashe’s Profits of War (1992).

It is far more probable that Ayn Rand was ignorant of Israel’s brutality and deceit than that she thought Israel’s brutality and deceit were comparatively unimportant.

Still, she must be held partly responsible for her ignorance. With some effort even in 1975 one could break through the cloud of propaganda thrown out by Israel and its worshippers. Her mistake was surrounding herself with people like Leonard Peikoff, and – very likely – relying on their research, or lack of it. [5]

Even if Israel were truly civilized and our ally, it would not justify forcing American citizens to pay for Israel’s support. Ayn Rand did not have John Galt say:

“I swear – by my life and my love of it – that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine ... uh ... except in the case of Israel.”

Israel is no exception, and one would like to think Ayn Rand did not make it one. She was mistaken about the nature of Israel and sincerely believed that helping the Israeli government was in our interest. A mistake preserved in amber which ARI’s (Ayn Rand Institute) supporters bring forth at every opportunity. [6]   Source:  Ayn Rand Institute Watch

Naked Zionism

A Mr. Yitzhak Epstein, visiting Palestine in 1907, admonished his fellow Zionists that “our country” (meaning Arab Palestine) was not empty and that they should disabuse themselves of the notion that Palestine was a deserted place. He told them quite candidly that Palestine had been inhabited “for centuries by another race” which had “absolutely no thought of departing the land” He further informed them that there was not “a cultivable parcel of acreage” left in Palestine”; all arable land being already worked by the Arabs.

Remember these words were written in 1907 by a Jew who had done an on-site inspection. How can these words be reconciled with the Zionist narrative that Palestine was an empty land before the coming of the Zionists? They can’t, obviously. There are literally dozens of similar statements by early Zionist scouts of Arab Palestine, 1880-1914. The Zionist Asher Ginsberg/Achad Haam, sadly commented that the incoming Zionists never took the slightest account of the Arabs of Palestine, except as an obstacle to be overcome. Herzl himself proposed that the penniless Arab population be expelled across the border at the first opportunity.

None of these comments can be reconciled with the Zionist fiction of “a land without a people for a people without a land”. The Zionists moving to Palestine after the Balfour Declaration of 1917 were at great pains to pretend that they were not going to dispossess the Arabs. They spoke in mellow, lying words about how they only wanted a “national home”, not a national state, while privately admitting that “national home” was merely a circumlocution for the real thing. Sir Herbert Samuel, the English Jew who was the first British High Commissioner of Palestine, proclaimed that the Jews, having been victims of persecution for centuries, were not about to dispossess nor expropriate the Arabs. These Jews lied, obviously. But some Jews were more honest.

Vladimir Jabotinsky wrote two famous essays in a Russian language Paris newspaper in the early 1920’s. These essays, entitled “The Iron Wall” and “The Iron Law” proclaimed that Zionism was “a colonizing adventure and that it stood or fell on the question of armed force”. It was important to “read Hebrew but it is more important to shoot”. He went on to say that the Arabs of Palestine were not savages but were deeply attached to their land. They would never voluntarily relinquish their land. They would only do so when all hope was lost to them. Thus, they must be confronted with an “iron wall of bayonets”. Agreement with the Arabs in the future was possible only if there was no agreement with them now.

Here we have the entire ugly truth about Zionism in Palestine. Hiding behind the myth of “a land without a people for a people without a land” Zionism was never anything but a naked power grab aimed at taking Palestine from the Arabs. Rather than admit this undeniable truth, the Zionists manipulate statistics, turn the truth upside down and reinvent history to pretend that pure thievery constitutes a bogus national right “to exist”.

Below - Jewish terrorists in Palestine

 
Before Zionism: The shared life of Jews and Palestinians

The Ayn Rand Cult on the Issue of Palestine and Israel

The Palestinian Victims?
Monday, April 22, 2002
By: Robert Tracinski
From the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

When a whole society lionizes terrorists and accepts them as its leaders--what right do they have to complain when their wish for blood and death is granted?

As Israel pulls out of the West Bank--a foolish move that will only allow Palestinian terrorists to regroup--the media is being flooded with piteous tales about Palestinian victims, who, we are told, are innocent civilians.

But a glance at the stories coming out of the West Bank gives us a flavor for this "innocence."

The bulk of the current news stories are coming from Jenin, a major center of Palestinian terrorism where Israeli troops encountered the fiercest resistance. A typical story is from Khadra Samara, who is quoted in at least three separate newspaper accounts. She complains that her family was forced to flee when the Israelis bulldozed her home. Her instant response: "I was so furious, I felt like committing a suicide bombing against the Israelis."  more at this link

The Moral Case for Supporting Israel
by Yaron Brook

Since its founding in 1948 Israel has been under siege--courageously fending off hostile neighbors while defending itself against Arab terrorists. In a Mideast dominated by Arab monarchies, theocracies and dictatorships--Israel is a free country standing as the lone bastion of Western civilization in that region. Yet for decades Israel has faced growing international pressure--often led by the United States--to compromise with its enemies, and act against its self-interest. In this talk, Dr. Brook argues that the United States should unequivocally support Israel's effort at self-defense; that allowing Israel to rid itself of terrorist and foreign military threats is in America's best interests. Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to do. Source:  The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights 

Funny thing, supporting a religious state (Namely Israel.  Palestine is not a religious state) does not fit in with Rand's view on religion:

PLAYBOY: "Has no religion, in your estimation, ever offered anything of constructive value to human life?"

RAND: "Qua religion, no—in the sense of blind belief, belief unsupported by, or contrary to, the facts of reality and conclusions of reason. Faith, as such, is extremely detrimental to human life: it is the negation of reason."

["Playboy's Interview with Ayn Rand," Playboy, March 1964. ]