Hurricane Mahmoud

Israel has no hurricanes here. But they have Iran. And that's more than enough.

The Iran of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become Israel's hurricane threat, the serial menace who orders his vassals in the West Bank to send them suicide bombers, his vassals in the Gaza Strip to send them Qassams, his vassals in Lebanon to send them Katyushas, his vassals over the next ridge from their house to try to burn us out in an arson fire.

Hurricane Mahmoud at Category 5: drawing strength from the warm waters of radical Islam and western inaction, the Iranian regime unleashes ballistic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads. 

Shadowing Israel's future is the threat that Hurricane Mahmoud has made explicit: erase Israel from this earth.

Exaggerated by isolation and accustomed threat, two elements which make the culture, the history, the very language of New Orleans - and, no less, that of Israel - unique in all the world.

But exaggerated it certainly is, because the feeling is offset, in the end, by great numbers of people of good will, without whose help, both places would long ago have been lost.

In that regard, Israel would like to take this opportunity to compliment John McCain on an entirely appropriate and morally courageous declaration which put the energy and resources of the Republican Party in the service of aiding the residents of the four-state area at the center of the storm track.

"We have to go from a party event to a call to the nation for action, action to help our fellow citizens in this time of tragedy and disaster, action in the form of volunteering, donations, reaching out our hands and our hearts and our wallets to the people who are under such great threat from this great natural disaster".