The American media bought the trick hook, line and sinker, describing the whole mess as a great embarrassment to her. Ha! A crazed Zionist would hardly want a staunch anti-Iraq-war guy like Murtha in power, even though Americans clearly voted for an anti-war position. Who cares what the voters want, if Israel wants something different? In one of the most bizarre instances in modern American political skullduggery, Murtha was disqualified because he was swiftboated as an alleged bribe recipient, on the basis of a videotape showing him refusing a bribe. In all the confusion Hoyer slid in, and nobody noticed the feint.

Now we're seeing the same game played with respect to the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. The obvious choice is Jane Harman, another rabid Zionist, but Pelosi has to keep her distance. The mainstream media is again cooperating, by inventing some kind of dissent between Harman and Pelosi, although no one quite seems to be able to put their finger on it. Of course, the topper is that Harman is under investigation for conspiring with AIPAC to have wealthy donors 'encourage' Pelosi to have Harman reappointed as the top Democrat on the committee, the position that now gives her dibs on the chairmanship! The idea that these two are enemies, instead of joined-at-the-hip Zionists, is some kind of joke. To further the joke, Pelosi is reportedly considering Alcee Hastings for the job, a guy who was offered and accepted a bribe while he was a judge! The joke alternative will fall away, and Harman will end up in place, as was always intended. The conspirators are taking all possible efforts to appoint Harman while making it seem that Pelosi had nothing to do with it.

Don't forget Rahm Emanuel, and Hillary and Schumer in the Senate, and the key Senate swing vote held by ultra-Zionist Lieberman. How interested do you think (Jewish) Henry Waxman will be in investigating the causes of a war for Israel? The ZOG is being installed piece by piece, and the United States is doomed to sink with Israel.

Hagee's sermon capped an evening of Israeli-American patriotic and religious music and speeches from the pulpit during a "Night to Honor Israel" at New Life Christian Fellowship.

The fundraising event drew about 3,500 cheering, Bible-waving supporters of Israel and criticism from a leading Palestinian-American in Jacksonville.

"We must act out against Iran before it becomes a nuclear Holocaust," Hagee said to roaring applause, "and I hope and pray there's enough courage in Washington to do the job."

He repeatedly quoted biblical passages, including a verse in which God says he will bless those who support Israel and curse those who oppose it.

"If a line has to be drawn in America, draw it around Christians and Jews because we are one," Hagee said.

The gathering was a fundraiser designed to generate aid for an Israeli town that has suffered recent rocket attacks. At least $65,000 was raised in the collection, church spokeswoman Melodee Nobles said.

That concern for an Israeli town, coupled with a lack of concern for communities in Palestine or Lebanon, is upsetting to many from the region, said Sam Farhat, a Palestinian Christian and Jacksonville businessman.

Hagee and his followers aren't true Christians because their hearts go out only to Israel, said Farhat, former president of the local Ramallah-American Club and National Federation of Ramallah, Palestine.

"They have no empathy for the humanity of others," Farhat told the Times-Union by telephone.

Hagee is the founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio. His television and radio programs are broadcast around the world.

Earlier this year he launched Christians United For Israel, an interdenominational organization focused on providing financial and political support to Israel.

Hagee is a leader in the American Christian Zionist movement that sees Israel's continued existence as the fulfilment of biblical prophecy and central to the unfolding of Christian End Times theology.

He was joined on the program by a number of First Coast religious leaders, including a Ponte Vedra Beach rabbi and the cantor of a Mandarin Jewish temple.

Yitschak Ben Gad, consul general of Israel to Florida and Puerto Rico, also spoke.

"When I see this wonderful crowd ... I know that Israel is not alone," he said.

In his resignation letter, Mr. Zelikow cited "some truly riveting obligations to college bursars" for his children's tuition and said he would remain available to help the administration where he could. While Mr. Zelikow, in an interview, maintained that he was not leaving his post because of any disgruntlement, one administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the subject publicly noted that Mr. Zelikow had been frustrated with the pace of the administration's diplomatic efforts on the Middle East, Iran and North Korea.

Whatever the reason for Mr. Zelikow's departure, in losing him Ms. Rice is losing not only one of her most trusted advisers, but also one of the few people in the State Department willing to speak with candor during closed-door meetings on American diplomatic efforts.

Some of his ideas have become policy; he had called for closing down secret prisons run by the Central Intelligence Agency a year before the Supreme Court decision that prodded the Bush administration to empty them. The United States offered North Korea a chance to negotiate a permanent peace treaty, as Mr. Zelikow had advised, and he, along with Ms. Rice, was one of the backers of the Iran initiative, in which President Bush offered to reverse three decades of American policy against direct talks with Iran if it suspended uranium enrichment. Neither North Korea nor Iran has responded positively to the initiatives, but America's allies applauded them.

"I appreciate Philip's dedicated service in this time of historic change and we will miss his counsel at the State Department," Ms. Rice said in a statement.

Mr. Zelikow and Ms. Rice are co-authors of a book about Germany's reunification, "Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft" (Harvard University Press, 1995). The book is a study in realpolitik, examining - and admiring - the tempered, carefully managed American response to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In the interview on Monday, Mr. Zelikow disputed suggestions that he was more of a political realist than an ideologue, calling it a "false dichotomy."

"I think the issue of ideals is important, but ideals that are not practically attainable" end up hurting more than helping, he said. "You don't end up strengthening your ideals when you fail to attain them."

Gregory Gardner of Luminous Velocity Releasing, a company involved in distributing the film in the United States, said that the Turkish producer, Pana Films, had withdrawn the movie without explanation.

Attempts to obtain further information from American or Turkish sources were unsuccessful, but a protest filed by the Anti-Defamation League may have played a role in the cancellation.

In an October 19 letter to Nabi Sensoy, Turkey's ambassador to the US, ADL leaders expressed concern at "the incendiary anti-Jewish and anti-American themes and characters in the film" and pointed to previous inquiries about the wide availability of anti-Semitic publications in Turkey.

The letter was signed by ADL national chair Barbara B. Balser and national director Abraham Foxman, who did not receive a reply from the ambassador.

The movie's Busey character, listed in the credits only as "The Doctor" but clearly identified as Jewish, isn't even the chief villain. That distinction goes to another American actor, Billy Zane, who plays a rogue American officer and self-professed "peacekeeper sent by God."

In one scene, he and his men shoot up an Iraqi wedding party, killing the groom in the presence of the bride and a little boy in front of his mother.

Valley of the Wolves was shown at the Berlin Film Festival and has played in theaters in Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Bosnia. The film and its Jewish doctor sparked some controversy in Germany.

According to one Turkish diplomat, who spoke unofficially and requested anonymity, the film became a hit in Turkey because it is a spinoff from the country's top-rated TV series of the same title, though the television show's villains are local mafiosos and militant ultra-nationalists.

The movie is also seen by Turks as payback for the 1978 film Midnight Express, in which some Americans and Britons are caught trying to leave Turkey with a stash of hashish, thrown into a hellish prison and viciously mistreated.

One Turkish newspaper wrote, Valley of the Wolves is our revenge for Midnight Express.