As usual, the UN continues to show itself as worthless.

Worthless when Russia invade Georgia. Worthless when Russia invaded Ukraine. Worthless when hamas slaughtered Jews, beheaded babies, executed the elderly.

Wailing and gnashing of teeth doesn't resolve anything. And all of those running around claiming the sky is falling leave out one important element:

How to permanently resolve this situation without squeezing Gaza like a grape.

NO solution that guarantees Israel's absolute security has been offered. Israel has the complete right to defend itself against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Allowing the continuation of Gaza represents an omni-present threat to Israeli security that is undeniable... and increasingly unacceptable.

NO ONE has offered a solution that would stop these attacks from hamas terrorist scum. What other alternative is there that would provide Israel the right to its own security, besides wiping Gaza out?

Middle East on ‘verge of the abyss,’ UN warns as Gaza suffers and Israel prepares for offensive

"This what running for your life looks like in Gaza" I would imagine it looked much the same when hamas slaughtered the Jews in their attack.. a minor detail left out of this report. What would the United States do if Canadians started firing missiles at us across the northern US border?

How much more terrorism do we put up with from the Southern Border?

What did the United States do when WE were attacked on 9/11? Was OUR response "proportional?"

Of course not.

So, what's the difference except for Israel's survival both as a country AND as a people? Why are governments in the West whining about the hypocrisy of a so-called "proportional response?" What level of response will eliminate the threat? No. Israel must do what Israel must do. We may not like it. The WORLD may not like it. But WE have never had a situation like this. Imagine allowing Nazi Germany to have continued to exist instead of demanding and accomplishing their complete destruction? Or a so-called "political solution" to Japan, which would have allowed them to maintain their presence in conquered lands like China, Thailand, Korea and so on. Would that be acceptable? Particularly in Japan, would we have been held to a "proportional response" standard? Imagine a "proportional response" to Nazi Germany's declaration of war? After all, where had THEY attacked US? It's easy to demand "proportionality" when it isn't your infant son beheaded. There comes a time when enough is enough. And that time clearly has arrived for Israel.

Nazi Courts still exist in Germany.

I admit it. I was a guest of the US Army for 2 tours totalling 6 years and 3 months in Germany, from 72 through 76 and from 82 through 85.

Most every Nazi symbol had been eradicated, even the dreaded "SS" symbol replaced with the capitol ß symbol... thus the word for "street" is "strasse," or this: Straße.

So, imagine my surprise when I discovered today that Nazi law is still in full force and effect and actually recognized by German courts!

Unbelieveable.

Grandson of 'Valkyrie' plot prince loses family estate bid

Anti-Nazi aristocrat forced to sign over land after being tortured by the Gestapo

By Tony Paterson in Berlin

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

A German court has rejected a demand for the return of thousands of acres of land to the family of an anti-Nazi aristocrat who was tortured by the Gestapo and stripped of all his property as punishment for taking part in the abortive Second World War plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Prince Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth was one of a handful of German aristocrats who took part in the failed attempt to blow up the Nazi leader on 20 July 1944. The Gestapo arrested him the next day and forced him to sign a legal contract formally handing over 17,300 acres of family estates and castles to Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo chief.

But a legal bid by the Prince's grandson, Prince Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth V, to have the properties returned failed yesterday. A court in the city of Potsdam rejected pleas for their restitution; arguing that the contract which led to their being relinquished to the Gestapo was legal because German law still recognised Nazi Germany as a constitutional state in which the rule of law prevailed.

The verdict provoked a furious response from members of the zu Solms-Baruth family, German legal experts and historians specialising in the Nazi-era. "The court's ruling is outrageous," Prince Friedrich V told The Independent. "My grandfather was coerced into signing away his estates to Himmler. He had to do it to save his own life and that of his family. The whole world knows that the Nazis put a veneer of legality on their criminal activities."

Antony Beevor, the British historian and Nazi-era expert, said the mere fact that the prince's grandfather signed over his estates while being held prisoner in the Gestapo's infamous Berlin headquarters rendered the signature invalid. "It is quite simply unimaginable that a document presented to a prisoner arrested in connection with the 20 July plot could be deemed to have been a contract entered into willingly and without coercion," he said.

The prince's grandfather, a renowned anti-Nazi, joined the so-called "Valkyrie" plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944. His country estates were used as meeting places for the conspirators. In the run-up to the assassination attempt, led by Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, he slept in a different room every night with a pistol under his pillow.

The prince was arrested during a Gestapo raid on his estates the day after the failed attempt to blow up Hitler at his "Wolf's Lair" headquarters in Eastern Prussia. He was taken to Gestapo HQ in Berlin where he was held in a cell for weeks and tortured.

After his release, the prince remained banished from his estates under pain of death. He left Germany for Sweden after the Second World War and emigrated to Namibia, where he started farming. As the bulk of the estates confiscated from the family lay in communist East Germany after the war, legal attempts to have them returned were only begun following Germany's reunification in 1990. Most of the family property now officially belongs to the state of Brandenburg and the town of Baruth.

The case will now be heard by Germany's federal supreme court in Leipzig.

This must be fixed. The souls of millions slaughtered in that horror demand no less.