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Chilling: Children in Jenin play at holding a hostage during the Eid al-Adha holiday

A chilling echo of violence as Palestinian children play among rubble with toy guns Daily Mail hat tip Wolf

Playing a harmless game of soldiers these Palestinian boys, who have daubed their faces with war paint and carry toy guns, provide a chilling echo of the violence that surrounds them.

And for these children living in a West Bank refugee camp their game could also be a glimpse of a bloody future that all too easily may lie ahead for them.

Jenin is a hotbed of terrorists, according to the Israelis who regularly raid the town and raze the homes of suspected gunmen to the ground.

And in recent years its residents have certainly carried out hundreds of horrific suicide bomb attacks beyond the wall that encircles the West Bank.

Anger and despair are everywhere in Jenin and these children enjoying the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Adha today will not be immune to the feelings many people share.

The West has just gifted 7.4 billion dollars to this "terror state".  I just don't get it. The inculcation of the children is relentless.

On Hamas TV Children's Program: Host Saraa Barhoum Sings "We Will Meet Our Death with No Hesitation... Award Your Victory to Those Who Sacrifice Themselves, This is Your Wedding, Oh Martyr..." MEMRI here

Below are excerpts from a song performed by child TV host Saraa Barhoum, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on December 20, 2007. Following that are excerpts from the children's show hosted by Saraa Barhoum, "Pioneers of Tomorrow," which also aired on Al-Aqsa TV on December 20, 2007.

Past episodes of "Pioneers of Tomorrow" featured Mickey Mouse-lookalike character Farfour, who was "martyred" on the show in June 2007 and was replaced by Nahoul the bee. 

Watch the disgusting video from "Pioneers of Tomorrow,"  here

Watch Nazi youth  Saraa Barhoum perform the song, go here

To view the MEMRI TV page on Al-Aqsa TV, go here

To view the MEMRI TV page on indoctrination of children, go here.
Saraa Sings: "Oh Gaza... Let Your Lighthouse Illuminate the Sea Of Blood"

Saraa Barhoum: "We liberated Gaza by force, not by Oslo or by Taba – 
   but with my steadfast people, and with its blazing fire.
   We liberated Gaza by force, not by Oslo or by Taba –
   but with my steadfast people, and with its blazing fire.
   Rafah sings, and the Kalashnikov replies.
   Rafah sings, and the Kalashnikov replies.
   We, who know no fear, are the lions of the jungle.
   Look how beautiful our Gaza is. We crowned it with a laurel wreath.
   We have proven that with our will, we can defeat the colonialist army.
   Look how beautiful our Gaza is. We crowned it with a laurel wreath.
   We have proven that with our will, we can defeat the colonialist army.
   We have regained our freedom through bloodshed and the wrath of fire.
   We came out on the day of liberations to celebrate our pride – hurrah!
   We came out on the day of liberations to celebrate our pride – hurrah!"[...]
   Oh Gaza, the first stone [of the Intifada], where we celebrated our victory –
   raise your sail for the sailors, and let your lighthouse illuminate the sea of blood.
   Oh Gaza, the first stone [of the Intifada], where we celebrated our victory –
   raise your sail for the sailors, and let your lighthouse illuminate the sea of blood.
   If we receive good tidings, we will meet our death with no hesitation.
   We are the swords of Allah, we are the victorious armies.
   We are the swords of Allah, we are the victorious armies."[...]
   May all the martyrs be resurrected, and we will celebrate this day."

"Award Your Victory to Those Who Sacrifice Themselves, This is Your Wedding, Oh Martyr"

UPDATE: Carl points this out;

The picture of the Pali boys playing war is posed.  Look closely at the adult arm covered in a green jacket behind the two boys in the doorway.  It is pushing the smaller of the two out the door.  The adult arm is to your right of the kids at shoulder height of the younger one.

How freakin sick is that?

 

Arab Terror, first last and always

My dear friend and clear thinker, Eli Hertz, has a must read OpEd in Israel National News. Eli E. Hertz is the president of Myths and Facts and  does us a great service in his relentless pursuit of historical accuracy in a media age that  perpetuates Arab myths and lies. 

ARAB TERROR IN THE CITY OF PEACE Eli Hertz, Israel National News

Unfortunately, Arab leaders often turn to violence to gain what they were unable to achieve at the negotiating table. When talks broke down at Camp David in 2000, Palestinian Arab leaders unleashed the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which has amounted to a full-blown guerrilla war against Israel. >

Christmas in Bethlehem? /NOT!

Where in heaven's name is the outrage?

€œSilent fright: Birthplace of Jesus hijacked by Muslims€- the Qumsiyeh Cousins, again.

by Jerry Gordon, American Congress for Truth blog

How coincidental for Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily to report on the dwindling Christian population in Bethlehem (less than 13.5%) at this Christmas in 2007. Doubly so, because he interviewed, Samir Qumsiyeh, cousin of the notorious , Mazin Qumsiyeh -US naturalized citizen and self-proclaimed Palestinian nationalist who routinely calls Israelis “Zionazis.”. I wrote about both Qumsiyehs in a FrontPageMagzine article two years ago entitled “A Tale of two Palestinians”. I had confronted Samir’s cousin Mazin at a gathering of left radical and Palestinian advocate in a liberal Connecticut Protestant church engaging in anti-Israel and anti-war protests. Mazin Qimsiyeh had just been denied tenure as genetics lab director at Yale University’s Medical School because, in part, he had been embroiled in abuse of the email system in a campaign to reveal the names of pro-Israeli student advocates. I asked Mazin why his cousin and others in Bethlehem were being intimated, killed, their lives threatened and property seized in the Bethlehem district by Islamist thugs.

I noted in my FrontPageArticle that:

Samir Qumsiyeh calls the “Islamic Fundamentalist mafia who are taking our lands.” He isn’t blaming the Jews. Samir has a dossier of 93 incidents of anti-Christian abuse and more than 140 illegal land grabs by the “Islamic mafia gangs.” Samir Qumsiyeh has tried to get the attention of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas about this but to no avail.

The latest incident reported by the Associated Press about such persecution is bizarre: A star crossed love affair between a 30 year-old Muslim woman and a Christian man from the village of Taybeh near Ramallah ended in the unfortunate young woman’s family murdering her by forced poisoning in an “honor killing,” followed by Muslims rampaging through the Christian village and burning 14 homes, including that of the alleged Christian lover.

In response to these comments from his cousin Samir, Mazin Qumsiyeh lamely said that Samir was simply trying to save his local Christian TV station in desperation because of the high unemployment occasioned, he said, by Israeli occupation, the usual bugaboo. I asked him why he a lapsed Lutheran could argue such nonsense in the face of his cousin’s truths. He was silent.

Prior to this confrontation with Mazin Qumsiyeh in Connecticut, in the spring of 2005, a new Christian Mayor of Bethlehem had been elected, a dual US citizen and eye surgeon, a Roman Catholic, and a former activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Dr. Victor Betarseh. Betarseh ran on a Hamas ticket becoming the ultimate dhimmi for these Islamists. Betarseh toured the US taking time out that fall after his ‘triumph’ to to visit his children who live near Sacramento and spread the same lies as Samir’s cousin Mazin. Betarseh is still Mayor of Bethlehem, despite the Hamas coup in Gaza and the routing of local representatives by Fatah-PLO. A Christian must be teh Mayor of Bethlehem by law.

As cousin Samir Qumsiyeh says in this WorldNetDaily report:

The way things are, soon there will not be a single Christian living in the land of Jesus.

UPDATE: Tundra Tabloids has a great post here;

Palestinian Church leaders based in Jerusalem, who represent world wide Christian denominations, such as, Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, Archbishop Swerios Malki Mourad of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate, Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal of the Episcopal Church and Bishop Munib Younan (pictured) of the Lutheran Church, should be viewed in much the same way as the leaders of the "official" Russian state church during the Soviet era. (More here)

UPDATE: Of course, the Jew haters will blame the Jews. Certain things you can always count on. This from CAMERA;

This year is no different, with Israel-bashing Christmas columns appearing in an array of newspapers and magazines. One of the most disturbing, perhaps, is the muddled and distorted Dec. 24th Op-Ed by Kenneth Woodward, a contributing editor at Newsweek and formerly the magazine’s religion editor, which was published on the generally well-vetted Op-Ed page of the Wall Street Journal. “The Plight of Bethlehem,” is so filled with falsehoods and far-fetched claims, one wonders whether the regular Op-Ed editors were on vacation.

Woodward, who admits in his column that he hasn’t actually been to Bethlehem in seven years, begins by claiming Israel’s security measures “make it impossible” for Christians to visit their holy shrines. But this is clearly false according to Lt.-Col. Kamil Wahabee, commander of the IDF’s Bethlehem District Coordinating Office. The Israeli government lifted a general prohibition on Israeli civilians visiting the West Bank without a permit in order to allow Israeli Arabs to visit family in the West Bank over the holiday season. And eight thousand Christians from Bethlehem alone have been granted travel permits, while Israel will allow 500 Christians from the Gaza Strip to enter Israel and the West Bank for up to one month during the Christmas season. (AP, “Israel Eases Bethlehem Christmas Travel ,” Dec. 18, 2007)

Honest Philistines

A Fatah 43rd anniversary poster depicts a map of Israel that is entirely draped with a Palestinian keffiyeh next to a rifle signifying armed struggle.

In Fatah map all of Israel is Palestine

Despite all the protestations by Condhimmi, State department Arabists, and the Euro/Arab axis to the contrary, the Philistines have always ,ade their intentions known. The annihilation of the Jews and all of eretz Yisroel.

Designed specifically for the occasion by Abdel Mun'em Ibrahim, the poster features a map of Israel that is entirely draped with a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf.

It also carries a drawing of a rifle as a symbol of the "armed struggle" against Israel.

The poster, which has been endorsed by the Fatah leadership, has already been posted on a number of Fatah-affiliated Web sites.

The underlying message of the poster is that Fatah, like Hamas, does not recognize Israel's existence.

The emblem is in violation of Fatah's declared policy, which envisions an independent Palestinian state alongside, and not instead of, Israel.

By including a rifle in the poster, Fatah is sending a message to the Palestinian public that it has not abandoned the option of "armed resistance," despite current peace talks with Israel.

EXPOSE BERNARD LEWIS!

Dithering in his old age, Bernard Lewis has done more to mislead the West (and the White House) about the true intent of Islam than any other single group or entity.  Considered the world's leading scholar on Islam, his position and his power to influence western leaders is incalcuable.  It is critical to the fight on the war on Islamic jihad that his arguments be shown to be fallacious and historically inaccurate. He has been an apologist for Islam throughout his illustrious career and while he may have been trying to be productive, he was in fact aiding and abetting.

Whether Bernard Lewis is the greatest scholar of Islam of all time, he is without question the most influential such scholar in our time, particularly when it comes to the American foreign policy establishment's understanding of the Muslim world.

This is why it is so disturbing to hear sweepingly, jarringly inaccurate statements from this pre-eminent historian about Islam on core historical facts. Andrew Bostom, American Thinker

It's pretty clear if Bernard Lewis had not excused Islamic antisemitism with the wave of a hand, the Pali Arabs would not be receiving a7.4 billion dollar jiyza

 

What about the Record? Diana West, Washington Times

As it happens, I began the calendar year thinking about this subject — exonerating Islam — while discussing a PBS documentary on anti-semitism in the Islamic world. The show's conclusion: What isn't Israel's fault is that of the West.

Well, you can't expect much more from (lefty) PBS. What was startling about the message, however, was one of the messenger's: none other than the eminent historian Bernard Lewis. He declared that anti-semitism didn't even exist in the Middle East until European Christian colonizers brought it. You don't need to be a scholar of Mr. Lewis' stature to know that European colonization of the Middle East didn't begin until some 1,100 years after Islamic anti-semitism got going in the Koran, the canonical commentaries on the Koran and in a long and painful (for Christians also) historical record.

West explains;

But first, a digression: Christmas, obviously, doesn't come to the PA, even if Western billions do. Despite a tiny (and decreasing) number of Christians, the PA is a land of Islam-Dar al-IslamThat makes Israel, the object of the PA's destructive animus, Dar al-Harb, land of war, right?

Right. But not according to the PC script of the "international community." We never, ever discuss the Islamic context of "Arab-Israeli" conflicts. But how else can we hope to understand them? Jihad ideology inspires the Arab struggle against Israel. It also explains it. As the only non-Muslim country amid Middle Eastern Dar-al Islam, as the only "dhimmi" nation to reclaim its land once conquered by Islam, Israel's very existence is a religious offense to the "umma," or Islamic community. In this same context, what we call "foreign aid" to the PA may be understood as a form of "jizya," the protection money paid to Muslims by non-Muslims.

But the non-Muslim world prefers not to think like that. We avert our collective eye from the goals of jihad, from the history and teachings of Islam. Instead, we see ourselves as villains — Israel for its existence, and Israel's supporters for, well, their support for Israel's existence.

In so doing, we create a sinkhole of Western guilt and responsibility for suffering Muslims, in this case in the PA. They suffer not as a consequence of their religio-political bloodlust to destroy the Jews in Israel (the nearest infidels), but because there are Jews in Israel. In other words, it's everyone else's fault but their own. Islam — particularly, jihadist ideology — is not to blame. Throw more money down the hole.

Read it all.

Bernard Lewis Gets It Wrong. "why is Lewis making statements contradicted by the historical record? To be sure, if it were true that Europe were the source of Islamic evil-- in this case,  Anti-Semitism and authoritarianism--that would let Islam off the hook and put the blame on the West. Whether that is Lewis' point, it is certainly Lewis' effect. " Andrew Bostom

Blood Libel against Jews:Inculcating Jew Killers

Check out how the girl is in the back by Israeli soldiers. She is immediately delivered to "Paradise", where "she joins other Maidens wearing identical long white gowns, all joyously dancing, waiting to marry their Shahid."

A music video depicting a Shahid (Martyr for Allah) being greeted in Paradise by the Dark Eyed Maidens (Virgins) has returned to Palestinian Authority (PA) television. The return of this of Shahada (Death for Allah) promotion comes at a time the PA leadership may be interested in increasing the motivation of its fighters. PMW has the full story here 

1 - Mothers who celebrate terrorist sons' deaths as weddings

2 - Woman says her planned suicide terror would have made her one of the Maidens who would marry a Martyr

3 - Suicide terrorists who anticipate the Maidens as reward in farewell videos

4 - Mother explaining that her son's motivation to terror was his inability to find a bride so he chose to be a Martyr to marry the Maidens of Paradise

5 - PA religious leaders teach that the 72 Dark Eyed Virgins is reward of Martyr

The response of the Pali Arabs to PMW exposing their violent incitement to kill? The Arab Media Monitoring PMW

NUTS!

UPDATED 12/20: Hal has constructed a graphic for you to use showing the nearly linear relationship between billions of dollars of foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority 1999-2006 (on the horizontal axis) and the number of thousands of homicides committed one year later by Palestinian Arabs 2000-2007 (on the vertical axis).  The information is based on graphs developed by Steven Stotsky for CAMERA, and is cited in a current article by Dr. Daniel Pipes.  The best fit line is drawn in red.  In the upper right corner is a projection of the possible consequences of the $7.4 billion in aid promised to the Palestinian Authority.  This graphic is meant to illustrate the points discussed in my previous message.

The more money you give to the Pali Arabs, the higher the death rate. Steve Stotsky over at CAMERA has correlated "Palestinian" aid and homicides 2000 -2007 here. "Statistics on Palestinian homicides and foreign aid to Gaza and the West Bank reveal that as aid increased to the Palestinian government, so too did the numbers of people (both Israeli and Palestinian)  killed by Palestinian militants. At the same time there was an inverse correlation between an increase in foreign aid and Palestinian economic growth"

Hal sent that along and directed my attention to the fascinating graphs in these articles,

"....which showed the apparent lock-step connection between the level of funding to the Palestinian Authority (1999-2006) and the number of homicides of Jews or Arabs committed by Palestinian-Arabs one year later (2000-2007).  The article goes on to quantify the price per head; they say approximately $1.25 million, and my much less complete information, based on estimating from the graphs, is approximately $1.6 million per homicide.

However, there is one crucial missing ingredient in their analysis, and that is the correlation coefficient, known as r.  One can run linear regressions on any two data sets with the same number of points, such as the average temperature each day in Lhasa, Tibet, versus the daily close of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and there would be a linear relationship; only the relationship would be so weak as to be statistically insignificant.  That would be indicated by r close to 0.  On the other hand, as the linear relationship gets stronger, r approaches 1 or -1 (depending on whether the relation is direct or inverse).

While I don’t have access to the original data, I estimated it from the graph and ran the numbers.  In this case, r is roughly 0.88.  That is a very strong correlation.  How strong?  The chances are less than 1 out of 200 that such a correlation would be observed among randomly chosen data.  Put another way, r^2 represents the proportion of the variation in homicide rates that can be attributed to variation in foreign aid – in this case about 77%.

One must be cautious, as the authors are, and explain that correlation – even perfect correlation – does not imply causation.  One must present a plausible explanation that could justify the claim of causation, and I have one.  Most of the ignoramuses who opine or make policy regarding the Middle East and jihadists worldwide, believe that poverty causes war, just as poverty causes crime at home, and that terrorists must be given hope to stop their deadly rampage.  However, we know that quite the opposite is true: poor people can choose to study hard, work hard, and lift themselves and their communities gradually out of poverty; crime causes poverty; terrorism causes poverty; and terrorists are given hope by the craven appeasement of the empty-headed Western intellectuals and politicians who come to bargain for their lives – at others’ expense, of course.  My theory is justified, I believe, by the strong relationship between foreign aid and homicides that occur one year later."

Evidence suggests that both higher education and standard of living are positively associated with participation in Hamas or PIJ and with becoming a suicide bomber. (Study results here)

And here the State department can't stop showing off what suckers they are.

U.S. Commitment to the Palestinian People Office of the Spokesman, State Department

As President George W. Bush noted in his November 27 speech at Annapolis , the United States is firmly committed to supporting the Israelis and Palestinians with the resources and resolve of the American government as they work to realize peace. Indeed, the United States is the largest single contributor to the Palestinian people. Working with international donors and Quartet Representative Tony Blair, the United States is strengthening our support for the Palestinian Authority (PA) Government led by President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. Together we will help the Palestinians build the economic and institutional capacity that will serve as the foundation for a stable and prosperous Palestinian state.

In support of the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan (PRDP) and with the approval of Congress, the United States intends to provide over $550 million to the Palestinian people and the PA in FY 2008, including $150 million in budget support for the Palestinian Authority. Our contribution also includes assistance for development projects and for security sector reform activities to bolster security in the West Bank as outlined in the PRDP. The United States will also ensure that the needs of the most vulnerable in Palestinian society are met by continuing our humanitarian assistance through the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and other international organizations.

Mujaheedin in Gazastan

GIVE 'EM A BLOODY STATE!

Exclusive: Fresh Threat to Israel - Mujaheedin Brigades [Gaza] Israeli soldiers will be killed en masse if the Israel Defense Forces launches a major invasion of the Gaza Strip, is the warning issued by the Mujaheedin Brigades (MB) during its first-ever on-camera interview, conducted exclusively by The Media Line. Additional Videos A Prelude to Peace Talks Israelis in Mecca?   > Get the Windows Media Player HAT TIP wolf Go to MEDIA LINE HOMEPAGE

"Flagrant Interference" in our Jew Killing

After  Euroweenie  donors pledged $7.4 billion in Palestinian aid and the American Rice  dhimmi delegation  pledged 550 million dollars to Palestinians;

Hamas has rejected the idea of President Sarkozy, presented at the Donors Conference, to send an international force to help bolster the Palestinian security services. "It is a flagrant interference", the terrorist organization's spokesman said. (Guysen)

That's all the Jews would need, some nancy boy fwench soldiers standing in between Israel and Islamic jihad. That way when one of their retarded soldiers gets in the way of a bullet, the world can rain hell upon the Jews. I'm surprised Hamas wouldn't take advantage of such an opportunity - kill some members of the international force, then blame the Joooooos.

1908, The Last Time we Had Intelligent US Consular Leadership in Historical Palestine

A century ago, former US Consul to historical Palestine (1893-1898), Edwin Sherman Wallace (Jerusalem the Holy, New York, 1908, p. 344) provided this seemingly timeless insight regarding Palestinian Muslims, written in 1908, almost a decade prior to the Balfour Declaration: hat tip Andrew Bostom    

Their religion [Islam] is intolerant. It has little sympathy for the adherents of other faiths. It once advocated an extermination of the infidels. Perhaps it would continue in that advocacy did its leaders dare.

CONDHIMMI: 550 MILLION TO ISLAMIC JIHAD

YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT WORK! It's enough to make you sick. Buying the finest knives money can buy to slit our own throats.

US to pledge 550 million dollars to Palestinians: Rice delegation AFP

PARIS (AFP) - The United States will pledge 550 million dollars (382 million euros) to the Palestinians in 2008 as part of international efforts to help them build a viable state, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's delegation said Sunday.

Rice will announce the pledge Monday in Paris at a conference aimed at raising billions of dollars for the emergence of a Palestinian state and giving political impetus to the newly relaunched peace process with Israel.

Photo: The annihilationists parade

UPDATE: Lemmings off a cliff. Daryl sent this, "nothing like financing Swiss Chateaus and Bahamian Beach houses for pirates. Good thing the European peasantry is too servile to complain that the politicians don't ask for their opinion."

EU Co-Chairs Palestinian Donors Conference, Pledges $650 Million in Aid

European External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner has unveiled a pledge of $650 million to the Palestinian people for 2008 at the Paris Donors Conference. The Conference is co-chaired by France, the European Commission, Norway and Quartet Special Representative Tony Blair. Also attending this meeting are Palestinian President Abbas, Prime Minister Fayyad, Israeli Foreign Minister Livni and representatives of all international donors to the Palestinians. Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner also announces the launching in February 2008 of PEGASE, a new financial mechanism to provide assistance to the Palestinians that cooperates closely with the Palestinian Authority and contributes to the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan. Furthermore, Benita Ferrero-Waldner also participates in the first mideast Quartet (EU, US, UN & Russia) meeting after the Annapolis Conference.

UPDATE: $7.4 Billion Buys Lots of Bombs, Bullets and Rockets

According to the latest reports...the Palestinian Aid Conference raised 7.4 BILLION Dollars in Aid for the the terrorist Fatah. History tells us that this WILL Result in the Deaths of innocent Israelis and Palestinians through out the Holy Land. Since everyone is tripping over their underwear to give the Palestinians money, CAMERA has decided to look at how many people have been killed by Palestinians each year (both Israeli and Palestinian) to seek a correlation between the aid and the deaths The year after the terrorists get aid the number of deaths increase

 

Muslim Bomber Plotting to Blow Up US Planes Escapes in Pakistan

Perhaps the Paki translation of "escape" is "release" because I am not buying this line of taqiya. They let him go. For sure.

British terrorist suspect escapes custody in Pakistan Asia Pacific News  hat tip Daryl

ISLAMABAD: A British man suspected of plotting to blow up US-bound trans-Atlantic airliners has escaped from police custody in Pakistan, officials said early Sunday.

"Rashid Rauf escaped from police custody and we are making every possible effort to re-arrest him," interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema told AFP.

Rauf was arrested in central Pakistan in August 2006 and had been behind bars since then.

The twenty-five-year-old was brought before a judge at a court in Islamabad for an extradition hearing when he escaped Saturday afternoon.

The police chief of Islamabad, Shahid Nadeem Baluch, told AFP early Sunday: "The hunt is on to track him down. We have conducted some raids but so far there hasn't been any breakthrough."

No breakthroughs? Shocka.

The British government had requested Pakistan extradite Rauf to London where he is wanted by police in connection with the murder of his uncle in 2002.

RELATED:  Terror Watch: The Suspects Who Got Away

"Jews..... we have already dug graves for you" Give 'em a Terror State!

The annihilationists parade. Their bloodlust is palpable. Hamas: "We'll never recognize Israel". Me? I would have carpet bombed the place.

Celebrating anniversary, Hamas warns of Intifada Reuters

GAZA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Hamas threatened to launch a new uprising against Israel on Saturday when hundreds of thousands of Islamist supporters rallied in Gaza City to mark the group's 20th anniversary.

"Our people are capable of launching a third and a fourth intifada until the dawn of victory rises up," said Khaled Meshaal, the group's exiled leader, in a speech recorded on Friday at his base in Damascus.

The central square in Gaza City was awash with green flags and dozens of armed, masked men from the group's military wing patrolled in a crowd estimated at between 300,000 and 500,000.

Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said the movement was growing more popular because of its stance against the United States and Israel.

"Today is the day of Jihad, resistance and uprising," Haniyeh said.

"Those who remain committed to the constant rights of their people, those who make an enemy of America and the Zionist occupation (Israel) gain popularity. This is Hamas."

[...]

Meshaal said Abbas, whose administration is backed by the West, lacked the support of the Palestinian people.

"Whoever thinks his legitimacy comes from the international backing is under an illusion, the legitimacy is the people," Meshaal said.

In other words, "f**k off, just send money!"

Alluding to last month's Israeli-Palestinian talks in Annapolis, Maryland, Haniyeh said conferences "will achieve nothing".

"We will never cede our land ... The choice of resistance and Jihad is the shortest way to liberate Palestine and return Jerusalem," Haniyeh said.

GRAVES ALREADY PREPARED

In another speech to the rally, senior Hamas official Mushir al-Masri warned Israel to expect many casualties if troops invade the coastal territory in an attempt to stop almost daily rocket firing by militants into Israel.

"Jews, go back, because we have already dug graves for you," Masri said. Israel carries out regular raids on Gaza and has killed dozens of militants in the past month.

[...]

"The soldier Gilad Shalit will never see freedom before our prisoners are freed," Muzaini said.

Hmmmm........Shalit. Remember how they said they had nothing to do with his abduction? Over at the IRIS blog;

Strange how they are able to harm Gilad Schalit after claiming they had nothing to do with kidnapping him. Remember, a senior Fatah figure, Mohammed Dahlan, said there is little difference between Fatah and Hamas:

Hamas has threatened to harm kidnapped soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit if the IDF carries out a large-scale operation in the Gaza Strip, Army Radio reported on Friday.

Quoting Saudi newspaper Al-Jarida, the report cites Hamas's Syrian-based leader Khaled Mashaal, saying that he made an agreement with Iranian partners to increase violence against Israel which includes a threat to harm Schalit.

In a bid to bolster Abbas, Israel has released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in recent months, almost all of whom are aligned with his Fatah movement. Israel still holds about 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in its jails. (Writing by Ori Lewis and Nidal al-Mughrabi

Here is a new video of Palestinian children ranting about how they "will wipe out the people of Zion, and will not leave a single one of them." (IRIS)

UPDATE: US FUNDED HAMAS "UNIVERSITY"  WND hat tip Rut (Hamas University, it hurts the mouth to even say it.)

North Korea Aids the Hezbos

Evil makes for some strange bedfellows.It hardly seems a stretch when we know that the NORKS have been providing nuclear technology to Syria and Syria provides support, munitions to hezbollah so if A =B and B =C then A= C blah blah blah. Nobody gives a rats ass. Carolyn adds, "no matter.Condi will think.It's only Israel. If it could really harm the Saudis, well, that would be a different story-don't you know."

Oh and BTW, we are rewarding these nuclear proliferators with 100,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil? They don't even have the facilities to house such an enormous amount of heavy fuel so we, and our "partners," are going to BUILD THEM. More here

North Korea may have aided Hizbullah, US report says Ynet via Reuters hat tip Carolyn

Congressional Research Service quotes 'reputable sources' as saying Pyongyang may have armed, trained members of Lebanese terror group.

French publication says training 'significantly improved Hizbullah's ability to fight the Israelis during the 2006 war'

North Korea may have given arms to Lebanon's Hizbullah and Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, according to a report compiled for Congress that could complicate US plans to drop Pyongyang from its terrorism blacklist.

The report obtained on Wednesday by Reuters was written by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which provides independent analysis to Congress, and cited "reputable sources" as saying Pyongyang had given arms and possibly training to the militant groups, which Washington regards as "terrorist" organizations.

As part of a deal to get Pyongyang to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons, Washington has dangled the possibility of removing North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism if it fully discloses its nuclear programs.

North Korea, which conducted a nuclear test in 2006, has agreed to provide a "complete and correct" declaration of these programs by the end of the year, although analysts say there is considerable uncertainty whether it will meet the deadline.

Hamas Kids TV: "Wipe Out" Zionists to the Last One

Your taxpayer dollars at work! Americans have no clue annihilationists are being showered with their hard earned dollars. Perfidy! Stomach churning. Morally ill.

Where is the Presidential candidate that speaks unbowed against our mortal enemies? Who will vow to defund the UN, dismantle the State department and fight the jihad with every breath in his body. Where is that man?

Over at IRIS blog,

More evidence that the United States is utterly unserious about fighting terror, and that the 'see no evil' approach to Palestinian depravity is the Achilles' Heel of the War on Terror:

Audit Finds U.S.-Funded Palestinian University Linked to Terrorism

U.S. government officials authorized giving nearly $1 million in foreign aid to the Islamic University in Gaza, a Palestinian university with links to the terrorist group Hamas, according to a government audit. Hamas' prime minister sits on the Islamic University's board of trustees.

Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) asked USAID's inspector general to conduct the audit after a Washington Times report detailed some of the aid payments to Islamic University earlier this year.

And just what are they teaching. Here's a Pali life lesson;

Children on Hamas TV Children's Show: "Liberate" Al-Aqsa by Force,
"Wipe Out" Zionists to the Last One MEMRI (link here)

The following are excerpts from a children's show which aired on Hamas Al-Aqsa TV on December 3, 2007.

To view the clip, visit: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1625.htm. To view the MEMRI TV page devoted to Al-Aqsa TV clips, view here

Boy: "My beloved brothers, as you know, today the Al-Aqsa Mosque is crying out: 'Where are the people of the frontline, the Palestinian people?' Yes, my dear brothers, that is the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The subject of our lesson today is Jerusalem, to where your Prophet made his nocturnal journey – the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

"Yes, my beloved brothers, as you know today, and as you knew yesterday and the day before, the Al-Aqsa Mosque has fallen into oppressing and malicious hands, the hands of those who know nothing but injustice. But let me tell you how the Al-Aqsa Mosque will be returned, how we shall rescue it from the shackles of the occupation, from the shackles of the Zionist entity.

"Will it be through conferences? No, not through conferences, but by means of force, because the Zionist entity, your enemy, the enemy of Allah, the enemy of Islam, knows nothing but injustice and the killing of Palestinians, the persevering people on the frontline. Indeed, the [mosque] will be returned only by means of force.

"In 1917, the Balfour Declaration was issued. Balfour decided on the cleansing of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. But look what the Zionist enemy has done, look what Israel and America have done. Look what the allies of Israel and America have done. They have dug tunnels underneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque, but the sheikhs and mujahideen of the Al-Aqsa Mosque have exposed these tunnels and called upon the Palestinian people: 'Look what has happened, look what has happened.'

"These calls have gone unheeded, my beloved brothers. But is it too late? No, it is not too late. If we all unite, the Al-Aqsa Mosque will not remain in the hands of the Zionist enemy, it will not remain in the hands of your enemy, despite all their conspiracies against the Palestinian people."

Palis Blackmail France Under Seige

This is extortion.

Paris to Host PLO Fundraiser Just Days After Riots INN

(IsraelNN.com) PLO representatives will try to raise $7.1 billion (4.8 billion euros) in hand-outs at an upcoming meeting of donors in Paris, according to the PLO economy minister on Saturday. The meeting will be hosted in the French capital, just days after sweeping riots connected to Arab, Muslim, and other immigrants were quelled by a massive police crackdown.

The Arab organization says the funds will be used to boost the local Arab economy and to increase the 2008 to 2010 budget.  Included in the plan will be to pay salaries and fund armed forces.

"Boost the Arab econony" deathspeak for rearming.

Disappearing Christians in Gazastan Muslim Ethnic Cleansing of Hindus

Why is this OK?  Why are the Muslims given a blank check to kill, torture, mutilate without law, without judgment, without penalty? Is the perception that they are wild animals and that nothing more can be expected from such savages ? Hmmmmmmmm, this high minded, enlightened leftard claptrap sounds prejudicial to me. Perhaps Condi is not a Christian after all.

Expert: 'Christian groups in PA to disappear'

The ever-dwindling Christian communities living in Palestinian-run territories in the West Bank and Gaza are likely to dissipate completely within the next 15 years as a result of increasing Muslim persecution and maltreatment, an Israeli scholar said Monday.

"The systematic persecution of Christian Arabs living in Palestinian areas is being met with nearly total silence by the international community, human rights activists, the media and NGOs," said Justus Reid Weiner, an international human rights lawyer in an address at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, where he serves as a scholar in residence.

"Christian leaders are being forced to abandon their followers to the forces of radical Islam," Weiner said.

[...]

The Palestinian Christian population has dipped to 1.5 percent of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, down from at least 15% a half century ago, according to some estimates.

And around the corner in Malaysia:

Muslim-majority Malaysia continues ethnic cleansing of Indian Hindus – 31 innocent Hindus charged with murder

This woman is sick, morally ill

Two Palestinain police men, National Security Force officers and an accomplice murdered Jewish father,  Ido Zoldan. And Condi the coward ups the aid. WTF is Bush hiding.?We didn't elect him to carry Condi's water.

US aims to up Palestinian economic aid to 400 mln dollars: Rice

The United States plans to boost its economic development aid to the Palestinians in this year's budget to around 400 million dollars, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday.

Banner week for the Pali Arab coffers: Pali Blackmail: Demand 5.5 Billion More

And if that were't enough, the Palestinian "authority" demanded the release of Pali Arab terrorists.

In light of the publication on Sunday that the terrorists who murdered Shavei Shomron resident Ido Zoldan, 29, last week are members of the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority security forces, the Independent Media Review & Analysis (IMRA) organization has distributed an interview it conducted on November 27, 2007, with Saleh Nazal, Director of the PA Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs. In the brief interview, Nazal clarified, in English, that all Arabs who commit anti-Jewish acts of terrorism, even during the period of PA-Israel negotiations following the Annapolis Summit, must be released from jail before an any agreement is signed. 

Pali Blackmail: Demand 5.5 Billion More

Dracula wants his ransom. But he refuses to recognize the Jewish state. More blood money, give him. I love when they talk about reforming their security forces. Did you see this security force action? Palestinian police behind last week's terror attack.

Palestinian Authority to request $5.5 billion in aid Swiss Info.ch

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Abbas's government will ask donors in Paris this month to provide $5.5 billion in aid to strengthen the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority, Palestinian officials said on Sunday.

The aid, to be used for budgetary support and development, is meant to strengthen Abbas against Hamas Islamists and revive the Palestinian economy after the president launched formal peace talks with Israel last week.

But but they are working together.

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will ask donors at the Paris conference, scheduled for December 17, to provide $5.5 billion in aid over three years. The request is based on an economic plan for 2007 to 2010, a senior Palestinian official told Reuters.

The Parisians have their own intifada they have to support.

The conference is the first forum for international donor states to make pledges to the Palestinian Authority since 1996, officials said.

"The government desperately needs the aid because by the end of the year it will not have funds to pay its outstanding private sector debts and salaries to the government employees, which amount to more than $500 million and other expenses," another official said.

Perhaps if they stopped buying guns, teaching their children genocide, and stopped pissing away billions on Islamic jihad and instead  created a livable, human society these degenerates wouldn't have to live off the hard earned money of free men.

"Twenty-six percent of the plan's budget will go to reforms, such as reforming the security services, judicial system and other governance sectors. Twenty-one percent is allocated for the economic sector and 23 percent for the infrastructure," a senior official said.

Reforms? Guess that means different artillery

Analysts say Abbas's credibility will be undermined if his government does not manage to revive an economy damaged badly by violence and sanctions.

Did they say "credibility"?

"If the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza don't feel an improvement in their daily lives, Abbas' peace policies will be weakened," Palestinian analyst Abdel-majid Sweilem said.

Blackmail.

On an official visit to Saudi Arabia, the PA president, Mahmoud Abbas, repeated his refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

Give 'em a State! Billions! Munitions! Respect!

FYI – Direct from “Palestinian” areas – the pictures CCN and NBC won’t show. Check out the size of what the world likes to call stones  !    In others you will see Arabs posing for photographers of the world press – and don’t miss the education of the young photo hat tip Dr History

Stones!

Human shields

Pali higher education

Pulitzer nominee for Photographic oxymoron ....... isn't she lovely?

UPDATE: Dr Nancy's .02 cents

It shows it could always happen wherever you have a favored group whose threat is underestimated as a function of political correctness or perhaps a huge power-who's gonna stop 'em? A moral underpinning is essential and I'm referring to a JudeoChristian one because the Islamic one doesn't seem to work. I mean today Germany is a place where intolerance is constantly fussed over due to their history and it's not perfect, but in the Middle East it's unadulterated hatred and the world seems to turn a blind eye like they're sand n-----s so we can't expect more from them, leave the cute primitives alone. Yeah? well look out, they're burning down the neighborhood and they're coming this way cuz I think I heard a drumbeat in the distance...

We Support the Troops Jihad

You will not believe what Brian spotted on the streets in  Terrorland.  In the midst of Al Aqsa's little shin-dig, one of the  "militants" set his rifle up against the wall, and one of our trusty  little propagandists snapped a picture of it. Brian says,  IT LOOKS LIKE AN AMERICAN M-16 RIFLE with  ONE HELL OF A SCOPE. And yes Brian, the State department is insane.

Let's give a look at what those lovely moderate Fatah members are doing with American supplied arms. Brian has the while thing and then some here.

FLYING PIG MOMENT: Media Condemns Palis

Not doing an Alan Johnson;

The Foreign Press Association condemns the disgraceful and brutal treatment of journalists at the hands of Palestinian security forces during demonstrations across the West Bank on Tuesday November 27. The beatings, arrests and seizure of equipment which targetted journalists carrying out their normal professional duties were shocking in their wanton disregard for basic press freedoms. The FPA calls on the Palestinian Authority to thoroughly investigate the causes behind these outrageous attacks and hold those responsible to account. We also urge strong action from those responsible to reinforce the PA's commitment to the basic principles of a free press which allow for our members to conduct their professional duties without fear of attack or arrest.

The Board of The Foreign Press Association
29th November, 2007

But it's ok when they do it to Jews, right

Palis: "Palestine is Arab Islamic land, from the river to the sea, including Jerusalem... there is no room in it for the Jews."

Hamas the spokesman for what the world is really thinking. At least they are honest. This is what it has always been about.  George W. Bush, what have you wrought? Elections in Hamastan? Liberty first. then democracy. Elections at last, not at first.

Hamas demands UN rescind '47 partition

Hamas on Thursday called on the UN to rescind the 1947 decision to partition Palestine into two states, one for Jews and one for Arabs.

The group said in a statement, released on the 60th anniversary of the UN vote, that "Palestine is Arab Islamic land, from the river to the sea, including Jerusalem... there is no room in it for the Jews."

Regarding the partition decision, Hamas said that "correcting mistakes is nothing to be ashamed of, but prolonging it is exploitation."

Meanwhile, President Shimon Peres told Army Radio that recognition of the 1967 borders began with the Oslo accords.

Peres, STFU. You do not speak for the Jews. Oslo. Another Israeli suicide attempt. Peres clings to Oslo the way the Palis cling to o-c-c-u-p-a-t-i-o-n.

Oh, and one more thing. OCCUPATION NOW!

UPDATE: Hamas ... Fatah , what's the difference?

  Exclusive: 'Fatah, Hamas will join ranks if IDF raids Gaza'

OT but related: CAIR REFUSES TO CONDEMN HAMAS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO SILENCE MICHAEL SAVAGE

Bin Laden Blames the Joooooos

You knew this was coming. Galvanize the world against the poor, beleaguered Jew. The Arabs, the Islamists don't give a rat's about the Palestinians. It's all a marketing tool to advance hatred of  Israel, America, the West. The Arabs have that oil wealth, all those petrol dollars, trillions for decades and they gave them nothing. They left them to live in squalid camps for decades. The Israelis have been responsible for the Pali economy. The US and Israel give the aid, the jobs, any economic activity. Bin Laden in league with the devil himself. He's a rich Saudi, what has he ever given to the Palis?

I can see billions rubbing their hooves in glee with this latest fatwa declared by Bin Laden

'9\11 revenge for Palestinians, Lebanon' J Post

The September 11 terror attacks in the US were carried out as revenge for treatment of the Palestinians and actions in Lebanon, al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden said in excerpts of a new audiotape aired Thursday on Al-Jazeera television.

He also called on the Europeans to stop helping the United States in the war in Afghanistan, saying America is "ebbing."

"The American tide is ebbing, so it is best for you to press your leaders to change their policies," bin Laden said, addressing Europeans and referring to their countries' military contributions in Afghanistan.

Bin Laden said he was the "only one responsible" for the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, arguing that it was unjust for the Americans to have invaded Afghanistan.

"The events of Manhattan were retaliation against the American-Israeli alliance's aggression against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, and I am the only one responsible for it. The Afghan people and government knew nothing about it. America knows that," he said.

"Europe went along with it (the US invasion of Afghanistan) because they had no other alternative, only to be a follower," he said.

He addressed Europeans, saying "the American tide is ebbing, with God's help, and they will leave back to their countries."

"Therefore it is better for you to stand against your leaders who are dropping in on the White House, and to work seriously to lift the injustice against the believers," he said, accusing US forces and their allies of intentionally killing women and children in Afghanistan.

U.S. Gives Terrorists Anti-Terror Training Courses

File this under willful stupidity or you cant make this shit up. "Yousuf said his American training was instrumental in attacks on Israelis"

U.S. to give terrorists anti-terror training courses Dhimmiwatch hat tip Michael

"Terror group told to prepare for U.S. training," from WorldNetDaily. com (thanks to Doug):

Much of the senior leadership of the most active Palestinian terrorist organization in the West Bank recently received orders to prepare to enter U.S.-run security training courses, according to the author of a new book.

The courses, meant to train forces to fight terrorism, are to be reportedly stepped up following this week's Annapolis summit.

WND's Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein, author of the recently released ""Schmoozing with Terrorists," said yesterday he received information much of the senior leadership of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group were told they will be entering U.S. anti-terror training courses for security forces associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah forces.

The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's declared military wing, took credit along with the Islamic Jihad terror group for every suicide bombing in Israel between 2005 and 2006. The Brigades is responsible for more terrorism from the West Bank than any other Palestinian Arab organization, carrying out thousands of shootings and grenade attacks.

Many members of the Brigades serve openly on Fatah's security forces, including the Force 17 presidential guards and Fatah's Preventative Security Services, which function as Palestinian police forces. Abbas last June appointed senior Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader Mahmoud Damra as commander of Force 17. Damra, who was arrested by Israel last November, was on the Jewish state's most-wanted list of terrorists.

The U.S. has been running bases in Jericho to train Fatah militias since the late 1990s. Over the years, the U.S. also has provided Fatah militias with arms, reportedly including thousands of high-powered assault rifles during the past year alone.

[...]

The U.S. training programs include courses in the use of weapons. They are being partially funded with a $86.5 million grant approved by Congress in April and are slated to be infused with more funds from a $400 million grant President Bush asked Congress to approve last month ahead of this week's U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian summit in Annapolis, Md.

The training courses are to be stepped up following the Annapolis summit to prepare Abbas' forces for their stated role in fighting terror in West Bank.

[...]

"It's scandalous that in the midst of the war on terror, our tax dollars are used to fund, train and arm the most active Palestinian West Bank jihad group," said Klein.

"It took no investigative reporting whatsoever on my part to discover members of U.S.-backed, trained and armed Fatah militias are also members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group," writes Klein. "I simply went around the West Bank and asked Fatah militia members, who walk around with American-provided high-power assault rifles, whether they are also in the Brigades."

[...]

Speaking to Klein through a translator, Yousuf said his American training was instrumental in attacks on Israelis.

"All the methods and techniques that we studied in these trainings, we applied them against the Israelis," he said.

GRAPHIC VIDEO: Pali ExecutionsGive 'em a State

This is our partner in peace. Now close your eyes, think lovely thoughts and imagine a state based on Islamic  savagery in the belly of Israel. S adds, "a sovereign country can make diplomatic ,economic and military agreements with any other country. That means a Palestinian state could conceivably make a deal with Iran and in return for oil , investments could allow Iran to have military bases on Israel's border- with all its implications. There are a lot of naive people around-        and some even belong to the Kool Aid gang."
*****GRAPHIC VIDEO**** WARNING******GRAPHIC*****

HAMAS EXECUTING FATAH MEMBERS IN THE PAST 48 HOURS. h/t wolf.

Remember, Hamas won the elections. Bush: We are all Terrorists now

Iran's Ahmadinejad: Israel will not last AFP
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday predicted that Israel would not survive, as he lashed out at the US-hosted conference seeking to relaunch the Middle East peace process.

 

Al-Fajr Media:: We’ll do it again: Annapolis shall not rescue their Metropolis

This short text was written by a Mujaahid. An English Abridged version, which was translated by the Kuffaar of NEFA, can be downloaded here. In summary, this Mujaahid discusses the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and the various plots used by the Jews. He also refutes the argument that some Muslims bring up, “Since the Muslims attacked America, America now has a reason to attack us.” The Mujaahid goes on to discuss the modern phenomena of the “Metropolis” and how it molded itself into a center of Taaghooti control, and in this case (with 9/11), the center of the Taaghooti control throughout the entire world. He then finishes his discussion with thoughts and remarks about Dubai. 

Palibarbarians, peace in our time?

I think not. Here's their plan for peace from the Palestine website Alqassam. One man's peace is another "man's" hudna.

Qassam rockets will be deadlier to the Zionists at the time of aggression against Palestinian civilians              

Hamas can make the rockets it fires at Israel much deadlier by packing them with more explosives, a senior Hamas official said in a statement Saturday.

"They can be developed in a short period to create sufficient terror and fear and make the Israelis live in pain no less than what our people live through because of the repeated incursions into our villages and cities in the West Bank and Gaza," wrote Yousef, a senior Hamas leader said.

Yousef also said Israel has rejected repeated truce offers by Hamas, as Hamas is ready to make calm in the region and the ball is in the Zionist playground.

HAMAS'S LATEST COMMUNIQUE

Why, oh why, don't we listen?  This is Hamas' latest:

Military Communiqué

Weapons to Abbas militia is an authorization to fight resistance and Zionist gift to Ramallah Gang

 

In this framework, the Zionist agreeing to supply Abbas militia in the West Bank with armored vehicles and hundreds of thousands of bullets, is a clear-cut steps. It is known that these weapons will not be directed to the occupation. It will be directed to the sons of the Palestinian people. This step came after Abbas give his strategic ally, "Olmert", the oblations against the Palestinian people!!

In anywhere in the world, the land occupier provide military aids, arms and armored vehicles to the occupied people, unless among the occupied people a traitors, who give their loyalty to their enemy.

Al-Qassam Brigades are confirming on the following:

We consider that Abbas services in the West Bank are part of the "Shabak" and traitors. We call our people to deal with them on this basis, and taking all the necessary security prudence.

 

We are confirming that this round will fail. The Zionist enemy and its allies in Ramallah will regret.

We call the resistance to escalate its actions against the occupation to dispel enemy dreams of security and stability under the protection of his loyal friends in the Ramallah

Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades

Cyber jihad: Hezbollah's New Site

Hezballah has a brand spankin' new website. All the better to beat you with, my dear. You gotta love what the savages do with Western technology, particularly all those Jewish tech inventions.
Oh and this is rich, yes, it's in German and the ISP server is also located in Germany. Shocka! Hat tip wolf. This is the main page

enter here boys and girls uh boys .........

Forum anyone. Looking for bomb plans or jihad juice?

Guns, photos inaccessible to the "unregistered" - could not get into the gallery of photos. I bet that's a real eye opener

Losing Lebanon

It's gone. Israel should have eradicated Lebanon of Hezballah in the summer of 2006. That was one of those historical moments when the direction of the world changed .......... for the worse. Annapolis is a distraction from the real problems in the Islamic take over of all of the Middle East

Crisis in Lebanon: will the Syria-Iran- Hezbollah Axis elect a President or will the Lebanese!

While the US prepares for the Annapolis Middle East Peace Conference next week to orchestrate a farcical deal between what’s left of the Palestinian Authority and the State of Israel, a more ominous crisis is about to erupt in Lebanon. For the fourth time a Presidential election has been deferred. It is now scheduled for Friday, November 23rd.

Lebanon appears on the brink of being railroaded by the Syria-Iran-Hezbollah Axis to opt for a President like General Michel Aoun who has become a cat’s paw for Hezbollah. Walid Phares of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy has suggested that Aoun and other Christian allies are simply the modern equivalent of “janissaries for Iran”.

Tom Harb, Secretary General of the World Council of the Cedars Revolution in a statement issued today said:

“The Aoun suggestion is a Hezbollah trap to crumble the majority and defeat the Cedars Revolution. If an ally of Hezbollah, the Aoun bloc, will name the next President the UN resolutions will be killed. And if a new Government will include Hezbollah, the Parliamentary majority will be paralyzed.”

Harb went on further to say:

“The international community produced resolution [UNSCR 1559] so that the Lebanese people elect democratically a new President, not to have politicians allied with Terror groups name the next President. The idea is simply unacceptable and will be opposed by the Lebanese Diaspora.”

Things are so grave that French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has visited Beirut several times to try and broker a compromise Presidential candidate between opposing political factions. Traditionally, the post of President is held by a member of the Christian community.

Phares has even suggested that the U.S. send a naval task force to Beirut to send a message to the Axis to let the Lebanese elect a President to replace Syrian ally current President Lahoud.

As Ken Timmerman has noted, the US Harry S. Truman CVA battle group is currently steaming out of its base in Naples, Italy “a literal hop, skip and jump from Lebanon”.

Phares views the US naval task force as a means of forcing a fair election, but not aimed at dislodging Hezbollah, part of a “chess game”.

In an interview on France 24 cable TV news, Phares noted the “Axis” spin was usd to confuse the situation:

1. The United States and the UN will not confront the terror threat if a President is elected by a majority in Parliament, which is wrong.

2. That France wanted to impose a “Hezbollah-blessed” President, which is wrong.

3. That some deal with Syria was cut with the Arab countries on the eve of the Annapolis conference, which is not accurate

There's more. Read it all.

UPDATE, Jerry Gordon sent this  BBC news report on the failure to vote on a President
"Are we moving to a crisis that the US should address and defer the ridiculous Annapolis Conference. It looks like Syria, Iran and Hezbollah are trying to pull off a 'coup' while the US has its attention span elsewhere engaged in the 'legacy project"?'

Lebanese Fail to Elect a President BBC
Lebanese MPs have failed to convene to elect a new president as the term of the incumbent, Emile Lahoud, expires.

Members of the Western-backed majority had hoped to hold a vote, but the pro-Syrian opposition did not allow the session to achieve the quorum needed.

The crisis has raised fears of civil strife, including the possibility of rival administrations, as happened during the 15-year civil war.

Parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri said the vote would be held on 30 November.

Repeated attempts to elect a new president over the past two months have been scuppered by rivalry between the factions.

"If he chooses to stay... it will be a crime against the constitution which is sanctioned by law," deputy speaker of parliament, Farid Makari, said, reading a statement from the ruling majority.

The tension was palpable on the streets as the crisis over electing the president came to a head, with the army deployed in force and schools closed, BBC Beirut correspondent Kim Ghattas says.

Check points have also been set up and the ministry of interior has suspended all firearm permits until further notice.

No compromise

The election of a president requires a two-thirds majority, which means that the pro-Western ruling bloc - with its slim majority - could not force its preferred candidate through parliament.

According to Article 62 of the Lebanese constitution, if no candidate is elected before Mr Lahoud's mandate expires, his powers are automatically transferred to the anti-Syrian government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

However, President Lahoud has vowed not to hand over power to Mr Siniora, and said he would name army chief General Michel Suleiman as his provisional successor instead

UPDATE:

• Lebanon Enters a New Crisis - Anthony Shadid
  Lebanon's worst crisis since the 1975-90 civil war builds to a climax at midnight Friday, when the term of President Emile Lahoud ends. Despite weeks of French-led mediation, Lebanon's factions appeared unlikely to reach a consensus on Lahoud's replacement by the deadline, plunging the country into a constitutional limbo. Unlike Lebanon's civil war, often characterized as a Christian-Muslim conflict, this crisis has mobilized the country's Sunni and Shiite Muslim communities against each other, with Christians divided between the two camps. (Washington Post)
      See also Syria Is Accused of Blocking a Deal on a New Lebanon President
  The U.S. and Lebanon's main anti-Syrian Christian leader on Wednesday accused Syria of blocking a deal on a new Lebanese president. Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces group, said the Syrian-backed opposition was threatening chaos if its preferred consensus candidate did not replace the pro-Syrian president, Emile Lahoud. "It really ought to be decided without foreign interference, and certainly without any foreign intimidation," Secretary of State Rice said. "Those messages have been very clearly sent." (Reuters/New York Times)
      See also Lebanon President Deadline Looms (BBC News)
• Arab League: Israel Won't Get "Normalization for Free"

 

OLMURDERER! King of the Jewicides

Yesterday I pointed out Olmert's complicity and direct involvement of the murder of Jews, here he provides the munitions. Two million bullets.  MK Eitam: Every Arab Bullet Has Jewish Target.  Their ought to be a Nuremberg trial for this murderer.

And anyway, didn't Hamas walk away with all of Ftah's munitions and intel from their last bullshit "war" fraud?

DEBKAfile Reports: Overriding IDF and Shin Bet objections, Olmert approves arming Palestinian West Bank forces with 50 Russian APCs, 1000 rifles and 2 million bullets

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the armored personnel carriers which can carry 10 fighters were promised Mahmoud Abbas by Russian president Vladimir Putin. Whichever of the models supplied - the BTR-60PB, BTR-70 or BTR-80 – these combat vehicles are armed with turret heavy machine gun mounts designed to hit ground and low-flying air targets. The 14.5-mm large caliber KPVT machine guns and coaxial 7.62-mm PKT machine gun, with a traverse of 360 degrees, mounted on each turret, make this APC a highly mobile anti-air unit for attacking low-flying targets at a range of up to 2,000 meters.

DEBKAfile reports the IDF and security service fear their presence will seriously hamper Israel’s regular counter-terror activities with helicopter support, which have kept the country relatively secure in recent years by thwarting Palestinian suicide incursions and attacks.

Olmert approves supply of 25 armored vehicles to PA  YNet

Despite IDF, Shin Bet's warning that equipment could reach terror organizations, prime minister agrees to hand over to Palestinians armored vehicles from Russia, 2 million bullets as goodwill gesture to Palestinian President Abbas ahead of Annapolis summit

UPDATE: Go over to One Jerusalem.org

US TRAINING PALI TERRORISTS

You can't make this stuff up;

Claim: U.S. training known terror leader WND Daily hat tip David
Author says 9 other senior jihadists currently in American course

A known terrorist leader and nine senior members of a major terror organization are enrolled in two U.S.-run military training courses underway in the Middle East, according to the author of a new book.

 

WND's Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein, author of the recently released "Schmoozing with Terrorists," said yesterday he discovered the known terrorists are enrolled at a U.S. course in the West Bank city of Jericho that is training about 300 members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah security forces. Another course began earlier this month in Ramallah.

The U.S. has been running bases in Jericho to train Fatah militias since the late 1990s. Over the years, the U.S. also has provided Fatah militias with arms, reportedly including thousands of high-powered assault rifles during the past year alone.

In August, the State Department announced the U.S. will begin new training courses for Fatah militias in an effort to bolster Abbas against Hamas, which took over the Gaza Strip in June when the terror group easily defeated American-backed Fatah forces in the territory.

SHE DROVE ALONE!

Give 'em a state! And self determination except women, children, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, monks, dogs, pigs, one eyed snakes...........

AS ORDER SLIDES, PALESTINIAN WOMEN FACE HONOR KILLINGS Yahoo

Condi baby, look out mama!

She had changed the way she dressed in the past year to a less conservative style and she sometimes went out for a drive without saying where she was going.... suspicion alone can be enough to get a woman killed by distant relatives looking to "cleanse" the family honor when there is talk of an illicit relationship.

Particularly galling to many here is the fact that a man who admits to murdering a female relative for reasons of honor can be sentenced to as little as six months in jail. Palestinians say that policy is based on an old Jordanian law, which still holds in the West Bank: Article 341 considers murder a legitimate act of defense when the killer acts "in defense of his life or his honor." ---

Just another day in the West Bank, so sayeth mdd.

Hillary Presidential Endorsement: Hamas

This says it all. They know us better than we do. And they certainly know where Hillary's sympathies lie. Good on sHrillary, she's locked up the terror vote.

Hamas: Hillary ticket to Palestinian victory WND

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., speaking during recent Democratic presidential candidate debate in Philadelphia Hamas believes Sen. Hillary Clinton, if elected president in 2008, will end President Bush's "unlimited military and diplomatic support for Israel" and adapt a more "evenhanded" approach toward the Palestinians, says the group's top political adviser.

Speaking yesterday with WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein, Ahmed Yousuf, the top adviser to the Hamas leader in Gaza and to the deposed prime minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, said in recorded comments the group heard from "many Americans" that if the Democrats take the White House next year they will implement "drastic changes" to U.S. foreign policy and relations with the Palestinians.

UPDATE: Interesting read: 7 Things To Know About the Clintons by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. Check it the whole article for more details, but here is the overview: hat tip Loretta

1. Every Clinton scandal of the 1990s had a precedent in the Clinton governorship of the 1980s in Arkansas.
2. For years, the Clintons have bullied the press, political opponents, prosecutors and those women who caught Bill's eye. 3. Rumors of Sen. John McCain's temper have haunted his campaign. Hillary's temper is even more widely documented, by disaffected Secret Service agents, military aides, Arkansas state troopers and others.
4. Hillary is given to what the historian Richard Hofstadter termed "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." 5. The Clintons have, to use the words of President Harry Truman -- who, while president, scrupulously insulated the White House from fundraising and, in retirement, refused speaker's fees -- "commercialized the presidency."
6. Very little of this has escaped the notice of journalists and of Democratic leaders. Yet after every scandal, they forget their public denunciations of the Clintons.
7. The media have been lax in reporting the Clintons' unprecedented record of ethical failings and outright corruption.

Islam Website Calls for Bush Assassination: Cut off His Head

An Islamist website (not a leftard website - I know, I know it's their MO but really what's the diff?) has called for Bush 's beheading. I don't know WTF Islamazis are whining about, he is more of a friend to these fascists, then any President in prior history. Billions to the Palis, Iran, Egypt blah blah blah.

Apparently Israel's head is not the only head on the chopping block at Annapolis.

New From The MEMRI Islamist Websites Monitor Project Website:
A Call to Assassinate U.S. President George Bush

On November 15, 2007, the Islamist website http://www.alhesbah.net/v (hosted by NOC4, Inc., in Tampa, Florida, USA) posted a message by a contributor calling himself Abu Osama Al-Hazin, titled "This Saturday, Bush Will Be in Riyadh; Lions of the Peninsula, [Get Ready] to Cut Off His Head." It should be noted that an OPEC summit is slated to take place in Riyadh on Saturday, November 17, 2007, but there have been no reports that Bush intends to attend.

Following are excerpts from the posting:

"[This is] a message to the Lions [i.e. jihad fighters] of the Arabian Peninsula… This Saturday [November 17, 2007], the Arabian Peninsula, home of the Prophet Muhammad, will be trodden upon by the Crusader dog, the foolish leader of the worldwide heresy and evil, [George] Bush. He will attend a summit, which will, to the best of my knowledge, be dedicated to world trade.

"Oh young [followers] of Muhammad! Hasten to assassinate this leader of heresy! [In reward], may Allah promote you to the highest spheres of Paradise. Oh brigades of martyrs, go forth with Allah's blessing and lie in wait for this scoundrel everywhere, just as the Al-Qaeda fighters have been ambushing his soldiers in Iraq."

To view on The MEMRI Islamist Websites Monitor Project Website, Click Here.

Gaming the West

The ass Condi can't kiss hard enough, deep enough long enough. Yech.

Gaming: Tactical Advantage NY Sun

Special Force 2" updates the 2002 video game with scenarios based on last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah: players kidnap Israeli soldiers, fire missiles at an Israeli gunboat, and launch Katyusha rockets into Israel. When the game was released a Hezbollah press official, Sheikh Ali Dahir, described it as a recruiting tool stating, "The Lebanese child has the right to know what happened in the south so as to imitate the jihadist action and the act of liberating the land."

Mr. Dahir also showed Hezbollah's sophisticated understanding of communications when he described "Special Force" as "an alternative to the Western patterns that are presented to us in names, language, and tones that are sometimes devoid of content and at other times for not so innocent aims."

Hezbollah is not the only organization using video games as a strategic communications tool. There is a growing movement to develop video games to educate the public on various issues. The U.S. military has long used electronic simulations for training. In 2005, the Army released an online game, "America's Army," as a recruiting tool. But this understanding of the power of video games has not penetrated American efforts to reach out to moderate Muslims.

True, Hezbollah's game designers have the easier task. Hezbollah's anti-Israel message resonates throughout the greater Middle East and last summer's war provides a ready-made narrative. Games that are blatantly pro-American will only come off as ham-handed propaganda.

The point of waging a war of ideas is not to make America more popular. It is to foster attitudes and ideas that marginalize extremists. Increasingly sophisticated and supporting complex narratives, video games could be an ideal platform for the subtle transmission of values and an essential component in the war of ideas.

CANCEL JEW HATING CONFERENCE

Fuck off.

Erekat: We won't accept Jewish Israel J Post hat tip wolf

Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Monday rejected Israel's demand that the Palestinians acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state.

"There is no country in the world where religious and national identities are intertwined," Erekat told Radio Palestine.

Say what? NO?   Just every Islamic country. SHARIA is Islamic law. They lie like we breathe.

Additionally, Erekat said, when agreements are signed, the Palestinians would demand that Israel make a commitment in writing to releasing all Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

Of course, who wouldn't spring assassins and killers so that they can complete their mission to achieve 72 raisins.

UPDATE: YidwithLid has posted 6 good examples proving what a liar Erekat is including the Palestinian Draft Constitiution.

Fat Bastard belches

Throw another porkburger into his sty. The savage is bored.

No power can disarm Hezbollah: Nasrallah AFP

BEIRUT (AFP) — Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday no power could disarm his pro-Syrian Shiite militant group and that it was ready for a new conflict with Israel after last year's war.

Itchin to kill Jews.

"No one in the world can disarm Hezbollah," Nasrallah said in a speech broadcast on Hezbollah's Al-Manar television.

"The entire world is not capable of implementing the clause concerning the disarmament of the resistance in (UN Security Council) Resolution 1559," he said.

The 2004 resolution called for the dismantling and disarmament of all foreign or local militias operating in Lebanon, including Hezbollah which says it is a legitimate resistance group against Israel.

"The resistance in Lebanon has determination, will, manpower and sufficient weapons" to face Israel in a new conflict, Nasrallah said.

"The resistance is ready, day and night, to defend south Lebanon (a bastion of Hezbollah) as well as all of Lebanon... to achieve a historic victory that will change the face of the region."

Uh not to split hairs or anything, but who is protecting Southern Lebanon from the Hezbos?

Thw War Against Israel: What's Old is New Again

The more things chnage the more they same the same. Uh, I take that back. It never changes. The war to annihilate the Jews, to drive Israel into the sea, to destroy the Jewish people never changes. The narrative gets fine tuned. The media inject the Arab lies like a strung out methadone junkie but the bottom line is - Israel's enemies never change and their objective is always clear, no matter how matter hundreds of billions America throws at the savages.

America has juiced Egypt with aid and armaments and planes -we have supplied them with roughly 150+ F-16's, apaches and M-1's. In fact Eygpt has just about the same number of US built warplanes as does Israel. And this is the end result. The House of Representativesdefeated a proposal to reduce by $100 million aid for Egypt. The US has provided Egypt with $1.3 billion a year in military aid since 1979, and an average of $815 million a year in economic assistance. All told, Egypt has received over $50 billion in US largesse since 1975.  Al-jizz reported the United States has freed 300 million dollars in aid to Egypt earlier this month. Thats alot of jizya. (More here.)

HAMAS AND EGYPT J Post

In a letter responding to a request from US senators, MK Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Knesset Subcommittee on Defense Readiness and Combating Terrorism, has done his nation a service by outlining Egypt's complicity in Hamas's weapons and training buildup in Gaza. We are watching the folly of Hizbullah's pre-war build-up in Lebanon repeat itself, this time under the blind eye of a neighboring state that claims to be committed to the peace process.

Steinitz's letter to the senators reveals that, according to Israeli intelligence, Gaza's Hamas overlords are "absorbing, on an annual basis, approximately: 20,000 rifles, 6,000 antitank missiles (mainly RPG's), 100 tons of explosives, and several dozens of Katyusha rockets, as well as shoulder-held anti-aircraft missiles."

Since Hamas's violent expulsion of Fatah from Gaza five months ago, Hamas has been sending "large groups of operatives" for military training in Iran. Steinitz reports further that "in late September, a group of 100 operatives who completed their exercises in Iran was permitted to cross the border back into Gaza, despite strong Israeli protests."

While Egypt makes a show of finding a smuggling tunnel from time to time, this is "an insult to the intelligence," he states. If Egypt really wanted to stop the smuggling, it would "erect a number of roadblocks along the very few roads that run from mainland Egypt to the Gaza region, in order to intercept heavily loaded trucks carrying hundreds of rifles and missiles from reaching the border," Steinitz writes. "Alternatively, they can declare the border area a closed military zone, with a depth of 2-3 miles into the interior of Sinai, and prevent any movement in it. Since the entire length of the Egyptian-Gaza border is less then 9 miles, the area affected will be equivalent in size to a military air base.

Freaking Sick Lies: ABBAS REMOVES MASK

In a short speech, Abbas called for the "president and martyr Yasser Arafat to be buried in Jerusalem, which he loved, and where he was born, and which our entire people is determined will be the capital of a Palestinian state."

Now we see what Abbas is. A lying tool of Islamic jihad (as if this is news).  Arafat was born in CAIRO. Arafat's original full name was Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini.

If Arafat is ever buried in Jerusalem, bury me in Mecca. Naked with bright red lipstick on and a ginormous Star of David on my neck.

"Palestinian" is Arafat's  marketing term conceived to deceive. Palestinian: the mask, the cloak  in which the Jews are annihilated and expelled from the Middle East.

Arafat should be buried in Jerusalem? Yes of course. As celebration of victory over the West, over the Jews. Have you been to Jerusalem? GO. Go and see what the Jews have done to restore it and then go see the Arab parts. GO.

You can't have a "partner in peace" if the enemy wants to drive you into the sea. From day one.

Songindough over at Lock and Load;

Palestinians unveil Arafat shrine
Absolutely sickening. This shows “moderate” Abbas’ true intentions. Palestinians cannot be trusted.

FROM GULFNEWS.COM: Palestinians unveil Arafat shrine

Ramallah: A ceremony was held in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday as Palestinians unveiled a stone mausoleum for Yasser Arafat.

The building, made of glass and beige Jerusalem stone, is surrounded on three sides by water, and a piece of train track was entombed under Arafat's grave.

Jerusalem stone? Now that's really rich.

The water and the track symbolise the mausoleum is temporary and that Arafat, who died in 2004, has not reached his final resting place.

Your Taxpayer Dollars at Work!

Oops! They pressed the wrong button again. -- Carl in Jerusalem

'Palestinian Authority' pays Hamas salaries again

Blood money folks. So remember, when you can't afford that private school you need, or that college tuition ............. remember where your hard earned money goes. Great.

Thousands of Palis Apply for Israeli Citizenship

"I just want a better future."

Tread lightly my friends:

Three Arab residents of East Jerusalem were recently indicted for planning terrorist attacks for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

 

Was that Obama or Osama?

Who said that? Yeah, asshat, more carrots for building nuclear weaponry. That'll work - like it didn't for the past 30 years.

Obama says US must try talking to Iran AP
Sen. Barack Obama said Friday that as president he would personally negotiate with Iran, offering economic incentives and a chance for peaceful relations if Iranian leaders would forgo pursuit of nuclear weapons and support of terrorists.

"Our neglect of the Middle East peace process has spurred despair and fueled terrorism.”

Ed Lasky opines (and no Ed, you are not wrong);

I may be mistaken, but isn't Obama blaming the lack of a "peace process" between Israel and the Palestinians for terrorism-ognoring the fact that there has veeb a peace process for many years-resulting in the empowerment of terrorism, that Bush was the first President to support the establishment of a Palestinian state, tha Israel left Gaza and has given the Palestinians swaths of land in the West Bank, and that terrorism exists across the world that has absolutely nothign to do with israel: Muslim violence in India against Sikhs, Hindus; Muslim violence in the Balkans and Russia, Muslim violence in Europe, Muslim violence against Christians in Afrcia, Muslim on muslim violence in North Africa and throughout the Middle East (including Lebanon).

Obama and Moral Courage

Senator Barack Hussein Obama, Governor Bill Richardson, Senator Hillary Clinton and Ruth Harkin stand during the national anthem. He doesn't cover his heart or say the pledge? 

An ABC News video, however, shows that Senator Obama did not salute at any time during the anthem and that everybody else on the platform did. -- Source: TRUTHORFICTION.COM

UPDATE 11/3/07: That this half a man if a contender says a lot of the low state of the world;

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama has missed the most votes of any Democratic presidential hopeful in the Senate over the last two months, including a vote on an Iran resolution he has blasted Sen. Hillary Clinton for supporting.

PaliSavages Fire Rockets from Boys School

View IDF footage GIVE 'EM A STATE! BILLIONS! RESPECT!

The depravity is bottomless because in the international communitay there is no good and evil. Just imperialist zionist aggressors!

Terrorists fire mortars from boys' school in Gaza IMFA hat tip Tundra

The footage taken by IDF aircraft on Monday, October 29, 2007 at approximately 9:00 am, shows a terrorist cell launching mortar shells from an elementary school for boys in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. The film shows three terrorists preparing and then launching the shells from the school, which they used for cover immediately afterwards.

cynically use the uninvolved Palestinian civilians and children as human shields, as seen in the released footage. This puts uninvolved Palestinians in danger. The responsibility lies with the terrorist organizations alone.

TRIAD OF EVIL MEETS, PLANS

STOP FUNDING THE JIHAD, OUR MORTAL ENEMY!

Triad of Terror: PA Terrorists Meet With Iranian FM in Damascus INN

(IsraelNN.com) Officials from Palestinian Authority terrorist factions met in Damascus Monday with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Motaki to discuss the situation in Gaza and the upcoming U.S.-sponsored Mideast summit.

According to a member of the Iranian delegation who spoke on condition of anonymity, Motaki met with Hamas deputy politburo head Moussa Abu Marzouk, Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, and PA officials.

Sing it Loud! KILL THE JEWS!

I like my music video better :)

Remember guys, these are the "moderates" terrorists. Sort of like a chaste whore.

Such a lovely cul-cha!

Fatah-Controlled TV Promises Elimination of Israel INN

IsraelNN.com) A new music video appearing regularly on Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority television over the past week promises the elimination of Israel and the restoration of the "Arab identity" of cities throughout the Jewish State. The propaganda clip stands in stark contrast to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's recent declarations in support of The propaganda clip stands in stark contrast to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's recent declarations. reconciliation with Israel, issued ahead of the upcoming multinational Middle East peace conference organized by the United States.

As explained by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook of Palestinian Media Watch, "While the Palestinian Authority announces in English its demand for a two-state solution, to its own people in Arabic it continues to define all of Israel as 'Palestine,' and to promise Israel's destruction. A new video clip, broadcast numerous times daily since it first appeared on Fatah-controlled TV last week, passionately promises 'Mother' that every Israeli city will be 'liberated' because its 'identity is Arab' and 'Palestinian.'"

The Blind Leading the DeafRice Looks to Carter

What is scariest about this dangerous fool, is that this dangerous fool is seeking his advice. Bad. Very bad.

RICE TAPS CARTER FOR MIDDLE EAST ADVICE  al -Reuters

Anxious not to repeat mistakes of past Middle East peace-making, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has turned to former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for tips ahead of her own conference this year. ADVERTISEMENT Rice invited Carter, a vocal critic of Bush administration policies, to the State Department on Wednesday where the two discussed his Arab-Israeli peacemaking efforts in the 1970s, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Friday

Colin Powell on Condi in John Bolton's explosive new book, "Surrender is Not an Option" (seems to me, for Condi, it's the only option.):

"I can't figure Condi out anymore," Powell complained, citing several examples of her indeciveness. "She's always positioning herself."

Not good folks, in a war time Secretary of State.

ABC News: Carter: Iran No Threat to Israel Now
Carter said unease between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank is a far greater threat to Israel's security than Iran. He criticized the Bush administration for not doing enough to broker peace in the region.

Actually, Dhimma Carter, on the Palibarbarian payroll, is a far great threat.

UPDATE: More lunatic bedfellows

UPDATE: Yid with Lid has a great post on this here;

No Wonder why Condi Rice is working so hard to screw Israel in this supposed peace process---why she thinks the Palestinian People are like the Blacks fighting for civil rights in the 60's and compares the terrorist Palestinian President Abbas to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She has been consulting with James " F**K the Jew's they didn't vote for us anyway" Baker, James Earl "Israel is Apartheid" Carter and Bill "Yassir is a Constant Visitor in the White House" Clinton. Three more reasons why Israel needs to end this SHAM of of a Peace conference right now.........

Read it all.

UPDATE: The cabal against the Jews.

In other Unbelievable News

Back in psych ward 43:

Bush seeks large aid increase to PA Jerusalem Post

Legislators are promising strict scrutiny of some $400 million the Bush administration is requesting in new aid for the Palestinians, but Congress is expected to give the proposal a warmer reception than previous such requests.

Strict scrutiny? 100 million for guns, 100 million for munitions, 50 million for TVs to broadcast their bool libels and Jew hatred, blah blah blah.

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad and PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

Rice: Two-state solution in jeopardy

You promise?

The administration has put forward the significant hike in Palestinian aid largely to bolster Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayad.

Congress seems less wary of funding for Palestinians now that Hamas is no longer in the Fatah-controlled PA government, even though much smaller sums have been stalled in the past.

The request comes ahead of the US-sponsored Annapolis meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, for which the administration has been trying to recruit support from the greater Arab world and the Palestinians themselves, who have threatened to boycott the parley.

In announcing the conference over the summer, US President George W. Bush suggested Palestinians should get more funding, but has offered none until now.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday justified the timing of the conference, as well as the new funding proposal, as a means to help PA moderates.

PA moderates -  the very definition of oxymoron, morons.

Congress seems less wary of funding for Palestinians now that Hamas is no longer in the Fatah-controlled PA government, even though much smaller sums have been stalled in the past.

Ah Congress - the brain trust has arrived.

The request comes ahead of the US-sponsored Annapolis meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, for which the administration has been trying to recruit support from the greater Arab world and the Palestinians themselves, who have threatened to boycott the parley.

Condi and co. - butt of all jokes Islamic.

A Palestinian state is not good for US interest. CANCEL THE SUMMIT. SIGN THE PETITION.

PALI on PALI VIOLENCE: MSM YAWNS

Ever notice when Amnesty International issues any condemnation of Israel the media is all over like flies to ............. haven't heard about this scathing indictment of Pali on Plai violence.

Occupied Palestinian Territories: Palestinian factional strife fuelling abuses

Interfactional fighting between Hamas and Fatah forces in the Gaza Strip earlier this year left 350 Palestinians dead and has been followed by further serious abuses in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.

The 57-page report, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Torn apart by factional strife, accuses Hamas of resorting increasingly to arbitrary detentions and torture since it took power last June in the Gaza Strip, and of allowing its forces to attack and assault peaceful demonstrators as well as journalists reporting on their protests. In the West Bank, the report blames security forces loyal to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas of arbitrarily detaining hundreds of Hamas supporters but of failing to take action against Fatah militants responsible for abductions, arson and other attacks.

"The leaders of both the PA and Hamas must take immediate steps to break the cycle of impunity that continues to fuel abuses, including arbitrary detentions, abductions, torture and ill-treatment by their forces," said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's Middle East Programme Director. "The ongoing factional struggle between Fatah and Hamas is having a dire effect on the lives of Palestinians, especially in the Gaza Strip, compounding and exacerbating the human rights and humanitarian crisis caused by Israeli military campaigns and blockades."

Hamas to Fatah: JUST SAY NO! And they did ....

From the land of unicorns and moonbeams. By their fruits we shall know them and so we know them. Blah blah blah. As if there is anything new to this.

Hamas calls on Abbas to stop negotiations with Israel hat tip wolf

GAZA, (PIC)-- In the light of the continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people the latest of which was in Nablus and surrounding villages Hamas has called on Abbas to stop negotiating with Israel.

Ha!

Hamas called the Arab and Islamic states to break their silence and take practical steps against the Israeli occupation, which still insists on Judaizing Jerusalem and threatening the Aqsa Mosque, by breaking the siege imposed on the Palestinians and halting all forms of normalisation of relations with the occupation.

Occupation now!

The movement also called on Palestinian resistance factions, through its spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, to unite all over Palestine and defend the people, the land and holy places with the aim of achieving freedom from the occupation and sovereignty over Palestinian lands and holy places.

There's more garbage here.

Apparently Abbas is right there with them. Hamas, Hezb'Allah, Islamic Jihad it's all the same animal.

Palestinians won't attend Annapolis J Post hat tip Yid with Lid

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday told visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the Palestinians won't go to the Annapolis conference at any price.

His comments came as senior PA officials said it was almost certain that the conference would be postponed because of the failure of Israeli and Palestinian negotiators to achieve progress on any of the fundamental issues such as Jerusalem, the borders and refugees.

One official described Rice's current shuttle in the Middle East as a failure, pointing out that she had failed to persuade Israel to change its "tough" position regarding Palestinian demands.

Israel is the problem???????????? The Jews have  nothing left to give to the ginormous Arab lands thast surround them. The one teeny tiny democracy in the whole Islamic Middle East .....

Condirasha, wishing ain't gonna make it so. Stop already. To put it bluntly, she buys this Palestinian narrative, the historical lies. So of course she's going to pressure Israel since she wants to remain intentionally ignorant about the facts. Well, that's the corrupt Arabist State Department for you....

Got Condi's Email Addy?

If so, please forward. Much thanks. From the indispensible Palestinian Media Watch:

Palestinian Authority TV visualizes a world without Israel:
Shows map of Israel covered by Palestinian flag

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

As preparations for the American peace conference continue, the leaders of the Palestinian Authority have announced their demands for a future Palestinian state with an area of 6205 square kilometers. This would include the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. However, the message they have conveyed to their people for years, and continue to convey on the eve of the conference, is that "Palestine" exists and it replaces all of Israel.

A clip broadcast by Fatah-controlled Palestinian television this week shows a map in which Israel is painted in the colors of the Palestinian flag, symbolizing Israel turned into a Palestinian state.

The description of all the state of Israel as "Palestine" is not coincidental and is part of a formal educational approach throughout the Palestinian Authority. This uniform message of a world without Israel is repeated in school books, children's programs, crossword puzzles, video clips, formal symbols, school and street names, etc. The picture painted for the Palestinian population, both verbally and visually, is of a world without Israel.

Ha!

All the flying monkeys in Condiland will be most unhappy today. Ayatollah to Muslims: Boycott  Annapolis

Iranian spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on all Arab countries planning to attend a US-sponsored Middle East peace conference slated to be held in Annapolis in November, to cancel their participation because it would hurt the Palestinians.

Rice arrives to push forward Annapolis conference. My money is on Condi, maybe she'll offer them part of lower Manhattan.

More asshattery.

Jewish Boys Kidnapped by Israeli Arab Lynch Mob! Media Yawns

Read every bloody word of this act of savagery. Think about this act of savagery. Then weep. Because nobody gives a shit. They are throwing Israel under the bus again. Israel should throw out any Israeli Arab that doesn't sign a loyalty oath. What in G-d's name have we reduced ourselves to?

Jewish Youths Rescued After Kidnapping by Arab Driver INNews

(IsraelNN.com) Three Jewish boys from Jerusalem were kidnapped by an Arab driver and surrounded by a lynch-mob just before police rescued them Friday.

The three boys entered a car - a cab according to some accounts - at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem and asked to be brought to the town of Beit El, north of the capital.

The driver, an Israeli-Arab, drove into the Arab neighborhood of Shuafat instead, home to a radical neighborhood considered a refugee camp for the past 60 years. There, two other men joined him, demanding the youths’ money and cell phones.

The driver and his accomplices threw the boys out of the cab in the middle of the camp, where an angry mob began surrounding them.

One of the boys managed to call 100, Israel’s version of 911, before his phone was taken away and Police arrived just as the mob was preparing to attack the youths.

This is their MO. Check this out:

Arabs Who Killed Girl Planned Yom Kippur Rampage
Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com)
The state prosecution has charged two Israeli-Arabs who ran down and killed a nine year old girl on Yom Kippur with manslaughter. Asad Nasim Shibli (20) and Muhammad Mamon Shibli (21), from the village of Arab a-Shibli, entered neighboring Kfar Tavor as Yom Kippur began, driving an ATV (all-terrain vehicle) at high speed. They drove through a crowd that had gathered outside the synagogue and ran over  Tal Zino, a nine year old girl, killing her.

They deserve the guillotine.

The charge sheet shows that the two planned their action in advance. In early September, two or three weeks before Yom Kippur, the driver drove his ATV wildly near the Kfar Tavor gas station. When a uniformed Border Police volunteer castigated him for this, he answered: "Wait and see what we'll do to you on Yom Kippur." He then made a rude gesture at the volunteer and drove off wildly.

Kissing the ass of the jihad. WTF?

Blowing Wide Open

New York Times reluctantly reports with their deluded spin;

Analysts Find Israel Struck a Nuclear Project Inside Syria

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 — Israel’s air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, according to American and foreign officials with access to the intelligence reports.

The description of the target addresses one of the central mysteries surrounding the Sept. 6 attack, and suggests that Israel carried out the raid to demonstrate its determination to snuff out even a nascent nuclear project in a neighboring state. The Bush administration was divided at the time about the wisdom of Israel’s strike, American officials said, and some senior policy makers still regard the attack as premature.

The attack on the reactor project has echoes of an Israeli raid more than a quarter century ago, in 1981, when Israel destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq shortly before it was to have begun operating. That attack was officially condemned by the Reagan administration, though Israelis consider it among their military’s finest moments. In the weeks before the Iraq war, Bush administration officials said they believed that the attack set back Iraq’s nuclear ambitions by many years.

Pali Islamic Jihad DemandsThe Western Wall

The holiest of holys. Islamis jihad in Jerusalem is a thought to vile to contemplate. They went the wall, and after that? It will not stop at Israel, I assure you, for those who are looking forward to throwing the Jews under the bus. Everyone will pay in the worst possible wat.

Fundamentally Freund blog - October 11, 2007
Palestinians Now Demand the Western Wall!!
In an interview with the website of the Israeli newspaper Maariv, an adviser to Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has now issued a new demand: the Palestinians want control over the Kotel, the Western Wall!

Here is what Adnan al-Husseini said: "We are talking about the city of Jerusalem, which is the capital of the Palestinian state, and we are talking about full and not partial sovereignty...we are referring to east Jerusalem, which consists of 9 square kilometers and which includes the Old City and the holy sites."

They hate the piety of the Jews. They hate the goodness of the Jews.

When the Maariv reporter asked al-Husseini specifically about the Kotel, Abbas' adviser said: "The Wailing Wall is a fence of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. It is a sacred Islamic trust and there is no place for making concessions over it." You can find the article - in Hebrew - here.

Al Dura: Karsenty Press Conference

**UPDATED: NEW VIDEO: SEE BELOW**

What if you exposed a great lie, a lie so big that it set off a war - and you held a press conference to expose that lie and no one came? The worst blood libel of this young century.

Welcome to the 21st century.

The incitement for the violent second intifada and The justification of the cold blooded beheading of Daniel Pearl, the explosive allegations and detailed evidence blows the Pali ruse right out of the water.

The left wing jihad loving media covered the lie, perpetrated the charade - incited the jihad but scurry like rats when called to account.

And so today, Phillip Karsenty ,the journalist sued by France 2 for revealing their complicity, held a press conference and practically no one show. Yann Battefort , PR for the French Embassy showed (but of course,  France 2 is owned by the state.) Damage control - or at least a mole to check out the outing of state manipulated news.

Photo: Karsenty and Battefort

I arrived, with much difficulty.  Security in the area was excruciating. The Columbus Day parade was marching down Fifth Avenue and law enforcement was not allowing anyone onto 5th unless you had paperwork, press creds, or a really good story (yeah, my category.) But hey - no worries, right?

We waited for some media to show. CBS and FOX 5 sent video guys but no journalists. Clearly, this is not a story the media wants to cover - their complicity to incite war - but in that, there is a story.

A pretty French journalist was there from a French online site (not sure if it was Le Monde) and me.

Despite all this,  Karsenty's remarks are wildly compelling. Watch the video. And yes that's me asking all the questions, covering the real news the media chooses to deliberately hide. Power without accountability.

What's a camera without a journalist?

CAMERA: France 2 vs. Philippe Karsenty: The Appeal

Al Dura:Judge Rules Turn over the Tape

Atlas Shrugs: SHOCKER! Judgement against Al Dura Journalist Karsentyt

Atlas Shrugs: Sharansky on Al Dura Blood Libel

Atlas Shrugs: It's Official: Al Dura Staged

(more on The Dreyfus Affair here.
 
So much more here.

UPDATE: Carl in Jerusalem has a great post on this here.

UPDATE: EXPLAINING THE EVIDENCE

UPDATE: OT but related: The Top 101 Media Frauds

More Peace Rockets into Israel

GIVE 'EM A STATE!  At some point the Palis will have missiles that reach America. Iran is working on it so it wont be long now.

Palestinians Fire Longer-Range Rocket Deeper into Israel - Steven Erlanger
Palestinians fired a Katyusha rocket into Israel east of Gaza on Sunday that landed in Netivot, 6.8 miles east of Gaza. The Katyusha, a factory-manufactured missile with a longer range than the Kassam, better accuracy and a warhead of some 11 pounds, must be smuggled into Gaza rather than made there. The Israeli Army said four Katyushas were fired from Gaza before - one was fired at the city of Ashkelon a year ago. The Katyusha has a range of 7.4 to 12.4 miles, as opposed to the Kassam's range of 5 to 7.4 miles. The Katyusha was used extensively by Hizbullah in southern Lebanon against Israel in the August 2006 war. (New York Times)
    See also Palestinians in Gaza Fire Katyusha Rocket at Israel - Yonat Atlas
Palestinians in Gaza fired a Katyusha rocket, three Kassam rockets, and eight mortar shells at Israel on Sunday. The mortars hit Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, striking a house and causing a fire. The Grad-type Katyusha rocket landed in Netivot. Netivot is 11 kilometers east of Gaza, while Sderot, the target of frequent attacks, is less than one

Hamas to Hold JIhad Summit

As if the US sponsored international "peace" meet was jihad enough;

Hamas, Jihad call conference to rival US peace meet AFP hat tip Wolf

GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Islamist Hamas movement ruling Gaza on Sunday said it would attend a conference to be held in Syria in November to rival a US-sponsored international Middle East peace meet.

"Hamas and (its political supremo) Khaled Meshaal will participate in this conference in Damascus," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP.

Zuhri said the aim of the rival meeting "is to reaffirm our rights, including Jerusalem and refugees, and to reject any attempts to strip us of any of our rights, especially the attempt to do so at the international conference."

The rival Islamic Jihad group said it would organise the conference on November 7 in the Syrian capital, ahead of the US meeting expected to take place in Annapolis, Maryland.

ISLAM ATTACKS! Palestinian Christians

GIVE 'EM A STATE! These savages get away with the most barbaric crimes and the world looks away. And Bush can't wait to give them a state, a country of their own. You can't make this stuff up.

Menawhile, Christians are fair game in Islamic lands. The religion of peace murders the non believers.

Palestinian Christian found dead in Gaza J Post

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

The body of a Christian official who was kidnapped over the weekend was discovered in Gaza City early Sunday, Palestinian sources said.

The man was identified as Rami Ayyad, 31, director of The Teacher's Bookshop, which is operated by the Palestinian Bible Society.

Although no group claimed responsibility for the murder, a number of Christians in Gaza City told The Jerusalem Post that Ayyad had received several death threats in the past from radical Muslims who accused him of conducting missionary activities.

His bookshop and the Palestinian Bible Society had been the target of repeated attacks over the past two years.

They noted that attacks on members of the 2,500-strong Christian community in the Gaza Strip had increased in recent months, especially since Hamas took full control over the area.

Two weeks ago, an elderly Christian woman living in Gaza City was beaten and robbed by a masked man who accused her of being an "infidel."

In Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority police are investigating last week's stabbing of a 27-year-old Christian man, who was seriously injured.

Shortly after the Hamas takeover, a local Christian school and a monastery were looted and set on fire.

STOP THE MARCH OF DEATH: ANNIHILATIONISTS & EXTERMINATIONISTS

With the new hellish rioting by Muslims going on in France, do the French really need this? Do the Jews? Remember Ilan Halimi!

Of course the irony of all this is the Europeans  bound, gag, arrest free peoples that wish to stand with freedom. They think nothing of banning an anti-Islamists rally. Oh, the humanity.

Jewish organization calls on French Minister to ban pro-Palestinian march EJ Press

The head of a Jewish organization has called on France’s Interior Minister to ban a planned pro-Palestinian demonstration Saturday in a Paris suburb because of the risk of violence against Jewish worshippers.

In a letter to French Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie, Shimon Samuels, director for international relations of the Paris-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre, warned of the "danger of a a mass demonstration Saturday, 6 October 2007, at 2 pm, in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil under the slogan 'For the Liberation of Jerusalem and against its Judaization - Yom Al Qods’ (Jerusalem Day)."

The demonstration is organized by the party of Muslims in France as part of the 'World Jerusalem Day' initiated by Iran’s former spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Shimon Samuel, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Paris:"Among the organizers are those who clearly seek a provocation which must be stopped to ensure public order."

Samuels said: ‘This march, organized, inter alia, by extreme left and Islamist groups - and advertised on their websites - is to pass a synagogue on the final Sabbath of the Tabernacles Holy Days."

The Centre urged that, "due to the risk of violence to the many Jewish worshippers and to the general public, the Minister should ban this demonstration.

There's more. Read it.

Photo:Iranian protestors burn an effigy draped in Israeli and US flags after special Friday prayers at Tehran University 5 October 2007, to mark "Quds" (Jerusalem) Day -- Iran's annual day of mass protest marches in solidarity with the Palestinians. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a new tirade against Israel amid growing tensions with the West, vowing to work to abolish the Jewish state and questioning the scale of the Holocaust.

2/3 PALIS FLUNK UN EDJEWCATION

A little more math, a little less jihad perhaps? Your taxpayer dollars at work! (video hat tip songdongnigh)

High number of students in Gaza UN-run schools fail math, Arabic tests
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel

Large numbers of students in United Nations-run schools in Gaza have flunked achievement tests in math and Arabic, the agency said Thursday, attributing the poor showing to violence, overcrowding and poverty.

More than two-thirds of students in grades four through nine failed math, and more than one-third did poorly in Arabic, said the UN Relief and Works Agency, which runs schools for more than half a million children of Palestinian refugees across the Arab world. Ninety percent of Gaza sixth-graders failed the math test, UNRWA said.

Someone Wake the President

More from those peace loving murderers. But Bush sees no evil: I strongly support the creaion of a Palestinian State *spit*

Hamas, Fatah unite in rejecting US conference  [ 02/10/2007 - 12:07 AM ] 

CAIRO, (PIC)-- High-ranking Palestinian and Arab official sources have affirmed Monday that Palestinian and Arab forces and parties were exerting tremendous and incessant efforts to block the US-sponsered "peace conference" scheduled for this coming autumn.

The sources that spoke to the Quds press agency on condition of anonymity also affirmed that Hamas Movement was one and essential partners in that Palestinian-Arab alliance to foil the conference.

The conference was called for by the USA and blessed by the Israeli occupation government; yet, Palestinian political analysts opined that the conference was purposely planned with the aim to marginalize the Palestinian issue and to gradually liquidate it.

"We are calling for such essential gathering in order to tell the entire world that Palestinian and Arab people are united in rejecting the autumn conference that aims at hitting the Palestinian issue in the heart", the sources added.

The sources also revealed that senior Fatah and Hamas political leaders were regularly meeting over the issue with the aim to deliver a clear and sound message to the entire world that the Palestinian people won't accept any compromises as far as the Palestinian legal rights and constants are concerned. PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and a number of Arab leaders were reportedly preparing to attend the conference in spite of the overwhelming Palestinian and Arab popular rejection to that "dubious" gathering.

Resheq: Going to the autumn conference is a grave mistake  Palestine Info UK hat tip wolf

UPDATE: Action Alert: Contact your Senators to oppose Senate Resolution 321. The solution pushes “two state solution” that divides Land of Israel and threatens its people. Contact your senators here.

Pali leader:"Muslims are masters of the world, its leaders and teachers"

Can someone forward this post about Bush's partner in "peace" to the President and State department Arabist (or as Hamas like to call her "the Black Snake") Condarasha. Billions in aid and munitions to those that are determined to conquer us. WTF?

Abbas appointee: "Muslims are masters of the world, its leaders and teachers, even if the West rejects this."  Palestinian Media Watch

They are masters alright. Masters of blood lust, murder, subjugation and the murder of the human heart.

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

One of the defining principles of Hamas and the Islamic Brotherhood is their insistence that the only truth is Islam and that the world is destined to be enlightened only when ruled by Islam. A similar Islamic supremacist ideology was expressed recently in an article by a Palestinian Authority religious leader who was appointed last year by Mahmoud Abbas as member of the Supreme Fatwa Council: "Muslims are masters of the world, its leaders and teachers, even if the West rejects this."

"The Muslims and their societies are more advanced and more sublime than the West and its societies… are more perfect in value system and humanity. The fact that there are those who believe that these are Western values – it is a delusion and false, since the Muslims are masters of the world, its leaders and teachers, even if the West rejects this."

Read the disgusting diatribe here.

A RADICAL IDEA:Lebanon for Lebanese

Daring truth teller Yousseff Ibrahim proposes Lebanese rule Lebanon. A bold and untried initiative! Seriously though, why rebuild those "refugee" camps? Why continue to allow the Arab world to exploit the Palestinian myth? Why not resettle these people into real homes, real communities. The "camps" are a nefarious marketing tool to destroy Israel. Transparent for decades and yet the world buys into the lie. How about the petrol rich actually help the Pali Arabs to build new communities instead of keeping them enslaved in "camps?" How about that?

Israel is the Pali's economic partner. Ever notice that?  Ever notice how it's Israel who is responsible for creating a Pali Arab economy?  The Arabs have never lifted a finger to raise these people up. But they worked feverishly to keep them in a sewer to perpetrate the Arab lie. Lovely folks.

Read all of Ibrahim's piece .............

Let Lebanese, Not Palestinians, Rule Lebanon
By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM

The Palestinian Arab refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared in northern Lebanon that was destroyed during four months of fighting between Palestinian jihadists and the Lebanese army would cost $385 million to rebuild. Alternatively, beginning to reinstitute the rights of a much-abused Lebanon would cost nothing.

Instead of rebuilding the house these Palestinians destroyed — as the United Nations is already agitating to do — another choice is to raze what's left to the ground, return the land to its rightful Lebanese owners as compensation, and, most important, begin rolling back an appalling transgression on the sovereignty of Lebanon that, with the conniving of the world community, has gone on far too long.

Under a bizarre agreement worked out by the League of Arab States, for nearly three decades hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arab refugees have lived in camps inside Lebanon where, by law, neither the Lebanese army nor the Lebanese state have jurisdiction of any kind. These "guests of Lebanon," as Arabs so fondly call them, are free to come and go with weapons, to train as guerrillas, and to use their dwellings as sanctuary for legal or illegal acts — no questions asked.

No other Arab country has ever agreed to such terms of shelter. Certainly not Jordan, which has nearly 1 million Palestinian Arab refugees, nor Syria, which is harboring tens of thousands. The secret police mandate runs wide and deep for Palestinian Arab encampments in those two countries. Indeed, back in September 1970, the late King Hussein of Jordan spent nearly a year disarming the camps in his country by burning them down— and won universal Arab applause for doing so.

The late, unlamented Yasser Arafat was undeterred when he fled to Lebanon, from which he once used the camps to stock arms, indoctrinate his people in terrorism, and, eventually, wage war on Lebanon and Israel — until he was kicked out and forced to move to Tunisia.

Yet in the face of such Palestinian Arab irresponsibility — and of a 15-year Lebanese civil war largely provoked by its Palestinians — the rest of the Arab world has insisted that Lebanon remains an exception to the rule of sovereignty.

Read it all here.

UPDATE: More from the barbarians at MEMRI:

Lebanese Researcher and Former Convicted Terrorist Anis Al-Naqqash: The American Empire Must Die. It Is in Our Interest to Get the U.S. Mixed Up in Endless Wars

Following is an interview with Lebanese researcher Anis Al-Naqqash, which aired on Al-Manar TV on September 14, 2007. To view this clip go here.

 

Anis Al-Naqqash: I say straightforwardly that the U.S. is the enemy of the Arabs, the Muslims, and all of humanity. This empire must die. What means or methods should be employed, or where and how you should deal it a blow - that is up to the fighters and the mujahideen,and up to the resistance throughout the world.

Whoever says that we are the ones who started it, or that we were the ones who attacked them, giving them a reason to attack us, as if [the U.S.] were as harmless as Santa Claus and has never done anything to the world, does not need any oil, does not support Israel… It is as if [the U.S.] did not perpetrate all these crimes throughout the world, and as if it was the 19 [terrorists] who changed the strategy of the world, when they attacked New York.

[...]

The strategy that serves our interests is to get the U.S. embroiled in endless wars, which it cannot win. Wasn't it in their interest to get the USSR mixed up in a war it could not win, in order to get rid of it? Weren't they right to do so? We would read about this and say: "They are smart, they have research institutes and intelligence agencies." What are we - donkeys? It is in our interests for the U.S. to get mixed up in every possible crisis and fail. This does not constitute an attack against peaceful people, but against those who attacked us. This attack does not target those who epitomize justice and humanity on earth, but those who epitomize crime on earth - beginning with the Kyoto Agreement and air pollution, and culminating with all the wars and military coups carried out by the U.S.

[...]

I say: Let's go to war. We need to reach the desired outcome, which is to put an end to American control [in the region].

INTERVIEW WITH CONDI'S "PEACE" PARTNER

In the seventh anniversary of Al-Aqsa Intifada: Abu Obiada gives details about stages of resistance and making weapons Ezzedeen  Alqassam Brigades hat tip wolf

Abu Obiada , the spokesman of Ezzdeen Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed that Al-Qassam Brigades still stand on the right way after seven years of sacrifice when the Brigades has its best leaders and soldiers to be martyrs ,injures and detainees. Al-Qassam still keep the fulfillment to be in the playground of resistance and Jihad till expelling the occupier from Palestine.

Abu Obiada added that only something will stop resistance which is vanishing the occupation from all our land. Since the occupation occupied any place from our land , we will keep day and night on resistance. This is the whole interview with Abu Obiada:

CONDI's MENTAL ILLNESS: Hardwired for Delusion

Abbas: 92 percent of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip for a Palestinian state extended at Camp David in 2000 would not be enough

Wolf sent this incredibly stupid (and depressing) piece of news. Condarasha and her path to Israel's destruction. What are they thinking! This isn't rocket science, but 'common sense' 101...

Israel must throw that schmuck Adu Dana ol Merde out. Is the Jewish people capable of defending itself properly? It appears they are unworthy of their ancestors.
 

Rice says talks 'gaining momentum' J Post

The dialogue between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has gained momentum, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview to CBS. Rice said that during the last round of trilateral talks, in February, Olmert and Abbas had "barely [agreed] to speak to each other, let alone speak about anything of importance."

'Deal possible 6 months after ME parley'

The secretary of state also said that support in the Arab world for Abbas was critical and pointed out that Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair's mission had also "helped people focus on the institutions of statehood, the building of capacity to govern."

Turning to the situation in the Gaza Strip, Rice said that Gaza was not separate from the Palestinian Authority. There aren't two Palestinian [Authorities], Rice said. Rather, she asserted, there was the West Bank and Gaza, and there was going to be a Palestinian state under the leadership of Abbas and PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayad.

She's right - they are part of Islamic jihad intent on destroying Israel.

At some point, Rice said, Hamas will have to make a choice: "is it prepared to be outside that consensus or not; is it prepared to be outside the Arab consensus or not?"

Meanwhile, Abbas told the Washington Post, in an interview published Sunday, that an offer similar to the 92 percent of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip for a Palestinian state extended at Camp David in 2000 would not be enough.

"We will be flexible," said Abbas. "But before 1947, we had 95% of Palestine. In 1937, the partition plan gave the Israelis only part of Palestine. And they were very happy at that time. [David] Ben-Gurion was very happy with it. It didn't work. After that [came] the 1947 partition plan - we rejected this, so we lost... Now, we accept [the pre-'67 borders]."

He added that like Arafat, he too would have rejected the offer Bill Clinton made at Camp David in 2000.

"Ninety-two [percent] is unacceptable to us," Abbas said.

Flexible indeed. Give 'em a state! And billons in aid and munitions!

 

Pali Morality Police in Gay Orgies, Child Sex, Gay Sex in front of their Wives

Hard not to laugh (or cry.) Read  this first but keep on going .............

Abbas Sets Up Morality Police to Enforce Ramadan Observance - Dalia Nammari
A new squad of morality police has begun detaining Palestinians in the West Bank who eat or drink in public during Ramadan. The 12-member squad appears to be an attempt by Mahmoud Abbas' government to challenge the monopoly on religious righteousness claimed by Hamas, the rival ruler of Gaza. The sudden deployment of Ramadan police was unexpected in Ramallah, the most cosmopolitan and well-to-do of the Palestinian cities.
    Morality police Lt. Murad Qendah got a radio call telling him a suspect had been spotted in the street imbibing a soft drink. He ordered his six-man squad to seize the man's identity papers pending investigation. Police spokesman Adnan al-Damari said police have arrested at least 50 alleged public morality offenders in Ramallah since the start of Ramadan on Sep. 13. Hamas has imposed no Ramadan patrol of its own in Gaza, where the population is overwhelmingly conservative and social pressure alone is enough to stop public violations of the fast. (AP)

Got that? Now read this;

Allegations fly in Fatah-Hamas conflict Jerusalem Post

The Hamas-Fatah power struggle has descended into the gutter over the past few days, with both parties trading allegations about the involvement of their members in homosexual relations and adultery.

The alleged "sex scandals" are said to have occurred in the Gaza Strip, which fell into Hamas's hands in June.

Shortly after the Islamist movement wrested control of the Strip, Hamas officials began talking about "embarrassing" and "damning" documents and films that were seized inside Palestinian Authority security headquarters formerly controlled by Fatah.

According to the officials, the Fatah men had been spying on several senior PA officials, some of whom were caught on tape having homosexual intercourse.

A DVD distributed among a limited number of Hamas representatives features a former PA official having sex with another man. The disc, according to a Palestinian journalist in Gaza City, is being sold on the black market for NIS 20.

Hamas says the PA's Preventive Security Force played a major role in collecting the evidence against the senior PA officials. In some cases, Hamas said, the documents and tapes were used to extort large sums of money from the PA officials.

[...]

According to one document, entitled "A Large Number of Homosexuals," a number of wealthy and influential figures in the Gaza Strip had formed a "gang" for practicing homosexual intercourse.

"Some of them were summoned for questioning and they admitted to having sexual intercourse with boys and adult males," the document, dated May 12, 2005, stated.

"Some of them had individual sex, while others preferred group sex. Some of them paid money for sex, while others performed sexual intercourse with males in front of their wives."

The sex allegedly took place in hotels, clinics and private homes - in some cases with a picture of Yasser Arafat hanging overhead.

The document described the homosexuals as a "very dangerous group" and warned that the phenomenon might spread to other parts of the Gaza Strip, adding that rival political factions could exploit the case to defame Fatah and "create chaos and confusion."

The second document is a follow-up to the first.

Entitled "Results of Questioning," it names four homosexuals who allegedly had sexual relations with senior Fatah officials in the Strip.

The four supposedly blackmailed the officials after filming them during sexual intercourse. "Since we are talking about top Fatah figures, there is a need to summon them and talk to them," the document, dated May 19, 2005, concluded.

A Hamas official in the Gaza Strip said the documents were the "tip of the iceberg" and that his movement was planning to reveal more evidence about Fatah's "moral corruption."

Tip of the what?

The official said Hamas had already posted a short video on the YouTube Web site showing used condoms that were found inside the offices of senior Fatah security commanders and political figures.

Another Hamas official said his men had uncovered three brothels that had been frequented by top Fatah officials in the Gaza Strip.

In a bid to counter the Hamas campaign, Fatah members have published details about "sex scandals" involving Hamas activists.

According to Fatah, a Hamas imam was recently caught having sex with a male minor in a mosque basement.

In another incident, according to Fatah, a senior member of Hamas's armed wing, Izaddin Kassam, was expelled from his refugee camp after he was caught having sex with a male colleague in a vehicle. And according to a report on a Fatah-controlled Web site, a Hamas man was caught naked together with his neighbor's wife in her bedroom.

"These Hamas people are very immoral and corrupt," said a senior Fatah official. "They use Islam as a cover-up for their crimes. But our people know very well who they are dealing with. We have a lot of information about the moral corruption of many Hamas officials and we will make them public at the right time."

Kamikaze=Jihadi

Jeff says this, "Hamas is well entrenched in Judea/Samaria and is growing stronger by the day in this region. Fatah, the weak sister, is on her last legs. If Bush, Olmert, Livni, Peres and Rice are successful, they will create a Gaza like community in Judea and Samaria - with Jerusalem as a split Capital between Israel and Nazi Palestine. Does this sound like Kosovo?.......with, perhaps much worse implications? Israel is the modern day Czechoslovakia. As for ANSA, the Italian news service, they are a typical pusillanimous outfit."

Hamas: We have 400 jihad martyrdom attackers ready

"Kamikaze," says the ANSA headline. "We have 400 Kamikaze Ready, Hamas Warns." Really? Kamikaze? _•—? Hamas has 400 men ready to die for the Japanese Empire? 400 men ready to kill themselves and others for the divine emperor?

ANSA, an Italian news service, uses -- three times -- a word out of another conflict and another aid, probably so as to avoid having to refer to these attackers by any term that is remotely Islamic. They'd rather pretend it's 1943 and Gaza is an outpost of Imperial Nippon than say anything about jihad martyrdom, or the blessing promised to those who "kill and are killed for Allah" in Qur'an 9:111.

"Gaza: We Have 400 Kamikaze Ready, Hamas Warrns," from ANSAmed (thanks to Insubria):

(ANSAmed) - GAZA, SEPTEMBER 28 - If Israel decided to return to occupy the Gaza Strip, it would find 400 kamikaze in expectation ready to die for their cause, and 50,000 combatants: Hamas member Nizar Rayan issued the threat to Arab journalists today. Rayan said that "the most surprising thing" is that among the 400 kamikaze ready to self-explode "against the armed tanks of Israel" there are 200 women. Already in the past Hamas had utilised women to commit suicide attacks, but until now there had been no confirmation that others had been trained to act....

Hamas: "In Black Bags, Chunks of Flesh of Jews"

A Hamas TV Music Video, here,  in Hebrew Sings: "In Black Bags, Chunks of Flesh of Jews." Death TV? Yeah DTV.  And the world yawns.

Following is a music video in Hebrew entitled "Hamas – The Apple of My Eye," which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on September 19, 2007:

Hamas, Hamas, Hamas the apple of my eye – Hamas

They destroyed the Merkava [tank]

the apple of my eye – Hamas

Repeated eight times

A bombing every minute

Soldiers are afraid

A bombing every minute

Soldiers are afraid

In black bags

Chunks of flesh of Jews

repeated five times

In retaliation for Yassin we want Sharon's head

We want Sharon's head

we want Sharon's head!

Hamas, Hamas, Hamas the apple of my eye – Hamas

CONDI & CO: Say NO to Funding Islamic Barbarism

Just say no. The life or limb you save may be your own (or someone you care deeply about.)

World Bank: Palestinians Need $1.6 Billion to Overcome Deficit

Meanwhile, as Condi kisses Islamic ass :Hamas Al-Aqsa TV: Rice "Black Snake" (MEMRI blog)

On September 18, Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV labeled U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a "black snake." The phrase is circled in the above image.

Rice: U.S. 'Will Not Abandon Innocent Palestinians in Gaza'

JERUSALEM  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the United States "will not abandon the innocent Palestinians in Gaza," shortly after Israel declared the territory to be an enemy entity in order to cut off power and fuel supplies to the coastal strip.

At the same time, Rice said Gaza, ruled by the Islamic militant Hamas group, "is a hostile entity to us as well."

So says the "black snake."

A new report by the World Bank says the Palestinian Authority needs international donations amounting to $1.62 billion in order to close its budget gap. The report says the Palestinian GDP is one-third lower now ($1,129) than it was in 1999. The report, prepared for a donors' meeting to be held next month and obtained by the French news agency AFP, says, "Investment has fallen to exceedingly low levels, leaving little productive base for a self-sustaining economy." The deficit has been exacerbated by the Palestinian government's policy of absorbing workers into the public sector as a means of fighting joblessness and poverty. During the first half of 2007, the monthly deficit was $100 million.

Give 'em a state!

Hamas Maneuver Photos

E-jihad: Lots os sick Hamas maneuver photos here. hat tip Wolf.

Commenter: "Very beautiful pictures of brave Mujahideen training."

 

Pali Arab 9/11 Celebrations: Your Taxpayer Dollars at Work!

We are pathetic. Really pathetic.

Palestinian Authority celebrates 9-11 terror attacks PMW

The Palestinian Authority continues a long tradition of celebrating the 2001 World Trade Center terror attacks by publishing cartoons in its official daily that glorify Osama Bin Laden and the attacks, or mock the suffering of the U.S. This year's cartoon shows Bin Laden smiling while making the “V” for victory sign with two fingers in the shape of the burning Twin Towers. The PA daily that published the cartoon, Al Hayat Al Jadida, is owned by the PA and controlled by the office of Mahmoud Abbas. The only text on this cartoon is "Exclusive to Al Hayat Al Jadida," which means it was prepared specifically for the official Palestinian Authority daily.

See Palestinian Media Watch for the back story on the following foul toons. (Scroll PMW  for past visual examples of the way the PA has used cartoon images of the 9-11 terror attacks, published around the anniversary of the event, to celebrate the attacks, mock the U.S., and portray Arabs and Muslims as the true victims of the attack.)

Text on wall: "September", Twin Towers form "11" over dead bodies Text on left tower': "Rights of Nations" Text on right tower': "American Hegemony" [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, September 11, 2002]

(Palestinians see Twin Tower victims as Iraqis and Palestinians.) Text on left tower: Palestine Text on right tower: Iraq [PA official daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept 12, 2003]

Text: "September" followed by legs that form "11" [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, September 11, 2002, reprinted from Al-Wattan of Kuwait]

Text: "September 11 - the day of the greatest conspiracy against the Arabs and Muslims." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida September 13, 2002]

Al Dura: UNCUT VERSION NOW!

Al Dura - the catalyst for the second intifada. Al Dura - the blood libel Pali marketing tool used  for incitement to murder. Al Dura - resulting in countless deaths of Jews. Innocent civilians. Phillip Karsenty was tried and found guilty in France eerily echoing the  Dreyfus affair -- found guilty by a Jew hating kangaroo French court. Guilty for revealing, exposing  the truth - the staging of Al Dura. So much innocent blood on the hands of the French, a culpable,  Jew hating world press and Islamazis (well, no surprise there, they live and die for it) and of course the handmaidens of Islamic jihad, The New York Crimes Times.

I met Phillip Karentsy at AIPAC 2005 when he approached me to implore me,  even a newbie blogger (at the time Atlas was not even one month old),  to view his incrimination presentation of the facts of Al Dura. Here's what I wrote back in March 2005;

Next up as I was departing for a breather, Philippe Karsenty grabbed my ear. Karsenty is the President of Premeier Agence de Notation des Medias (Media-Ratings_. A French Jew --Hooha!. Mr. Karsenty was responsible for exposing the hoax of the Al Dura. The depth and breadth of the scandal of Al Dura is frightening. He gave me all the paperwork and then ran upstairs to get the DVD to actually show me how the whole shooting of the the Pali father and the son by the Israeli soldiers were staged and manufactured. It was sickening. Maybe someone will be able to instruct me as to how throw this DVD online once I get back to New York. YOU MUST SEE THIS TO UNDERSTAND HOW FAR THE ENEMY WILL GO TO ADVANCE THEIR JEW HATING AGENDA.  It is beyond.
Mr Karsenty's story needs to be told...............on the front pages of world newspapers.

Image: Tunisian stamp, which says in French and Arabic "The Palestinian Martyr Child, Mahamed Doura."

You remember Pallywood? If you haven't seen it - go now and click on Pallywood in the post. Al Dura and its enduring icon of hatred.

Apparently and finally the IDF is calling for the truth. All I can say is, what took so long?

IDF demands uncut al-Dura tape: Army cites claims that the 2000 shooting was staged

The IDF has abandoned its official silence in a seven-year-old case that has been characterized as a "blood libel" against the IDF and the State of Israel.

On September 10, the deputy commander of the IDF's Spokesman's Office, Col. Shlomi Am-Shalom, submitted a letter to the France 2 television network's permanent correspondent in Israel, Charles Enderlin, regarding Enderlin's story from September 30, 2000, in which he televised 55 seconds of edited footage from the Netzarim junction in the central Gaza Strip purporting to show IDF forces shooting and killing 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura.

After its exclusive broadcast that day, France 2 offered the edited film free of charge to all media outlets. The footage, and the story of the purported IDF killing of al-Dura, was quickly rebroadcast around the world.

Within days, al-Dura became a symbol of the Palestinian war against Israel. His name has been repeatedly invoked by terrorists and their supporters as a justification for killing Israelis, Jews and their Western supporters. 

In his letter, Am-Shalom asked for the entire unedited 27-minute film that was shot by France 2's Palestinian cameraman Talal Abu-Rahma that day, as well as the footage filmed by Abu-Rahma on October 1, 2000. Am-Shalom requested that the broadcast-quality films be sent to his office no later than September 15. France 2 has yet to hand over the requested film.

The IDF's move came against the backdrop of French media watchdog Philippe Karsenty's legal battle with France 2 regarding the network's coverage of the al-Dura affair.

Last year, France 2 and Enderlin sued Karsenty, who runs the Internet media watchdog Web site Media Ratings, for defamation for a letter he sent out in 2004 accusing France 2 of staging the al-Dura story.

Read it all.

UPDATE: Soccer Dad  reminds us that a few years ago James Fallows, writing in the Atlantic, pointed out many of the inconsistencies with the accepted narrative

He  emphasizes the following paragraph:

What is known about the rest of the day is fragmentary and additionally confusing. A report from a nearby hospital says that a dead boy was admitted on September 30, with two gun wounds to the left side of his torso. But according to the photocopy I saw, the report also says that the boy was admitted at 1:00 P.M.; the tape shows that Mohammed was shot later in the afternoon. The doctor's report also notes, without further explanation, that the dead boy had a cut down his belly about eight inches long. A boy's body, wrapped in a Palestinian flag but with his face exposed, was later carried through the streets to a burial site (the exact timing is in dispute). The face looks very much like Mohammed's in the video footage. Thousands of mourners lined the route. A BBC TV report on the funeral began, "A Palestinian boy has been martyred." Many of the major U.S. news organizations reported that the funeral was held on the evening of September 30, a few hours after the shooting. Oddly, on film the procession appears to take place in full sunlight, with shadows indicative of midday.

Fallows seizes on a number of time discrepancies. Given that only 55 seconds was made available, it's clear (especially with the above observations) that the exact narrative can't be known until the complete footage is viewed.

UPDATE: Sign the "Free The (al Durah) Rushes Petition"

This Israeli letter is a critical break that Richard Landes and Yaacov have been working on. we need Maximize the impact with signatures!

The Little "Brilliant" Savages: Born to Die

Frankly, I haven't a clue as to what it is going to take to wake up the fat West and wage war against our assassins. But one thing is very clear, the enenmy knows exactly what they are doing and we pay them to do it. Not to mention how the "internationals" protect Islamic terorists (video here.)

From the Intelligence and Terrorism Center

Indoctrination for the coming school year: the TV show “Brilliant Children,” broadcast by Hamas‘ Al-Aqsa TV, featured a child whose special field was jihad (holy war). 

1. Every Monday afternoon Al-Aqsa TV, the most important medium in Hamas' media empire, broadcasts a children's program called “ Brilliant Children ,” on which child experts in various fields are interviewed. The September 3 episode, a special for the beginning of the school year , featured a child named “Ahmad” (a name symbolizing all Palestinian children), whose field of expertise was defined as jihad  (holy war).

2. The “brilliant child,” a jihad warrior, was seen in a short movie wearing a camouflage suit, holding a rifle and miming military actions. In the background comments could be heard such as “The homeland is dear to us,” “… with our bravery and steadfastness…” and “We will restore it with our strength, with our childhood.”

3. Such programs are meant to indoctrinate the younger generation of Palestinians with Hamas' radical Islamic ideology, at the core of which is jihad . Such ideology is indoctrinated through Hamas' educational system (kindergartens, schools and universities) and other means as well. It is all part of Hamas' long-term strategy to train new generations of brainwashed Hamas operatives who will participate in the violent campaign to destroy Israel and wipe it off the map. 1

Go, read it all.

Jew Bashing in Brussels while Bashing Jews in Sderot

Rocket attacks in Sderot. Video hat tip Lit.

With the UN planning the second holocaust in Brussels and blaming the Jooooooooooos for nonexistent global warming (more on that swindle here) the rockets rain on the people, the babies of Israel. When I was In Israel last summer the rockets were raining then. Go here for my live coverage. Listen to the most courageous man in Israel, mayor Eli Moyal here Download sderot_mayor_moyal.mp3.

Its the second day of school in Sderot, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Education Minister Yuli Tamir promised that it would be safe for Israeli schoolchildren to go to school.

They should rot in hell.

This morning on their way to school, the "Color Red" missile warning system blared, sending children scampering to safety in the school building. The Palestinian Qassam rocket landed only 100 yards from the entrance to the school.

More on the video here.

Hamas: Islamic Savages Kill their own

In the democratically elected paradise of Hamastan, shooting into the crown. Expect not a peep from the international communitay. GIVE 'EM A STATE.

Hamas Forces Shoot Own Supporters at Rally; One Dead - Isabel Kershner
Shots from Hamas security forces hit the group's own supporters in Gaza on Saturday during a rally near the Egyptian border. Muhammad Qdaih, 17, was killed and several other demonstrators were wounded at the rally, called by Hamas to protest the closing of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Members of the Hamas police force fired into the air to disperse protesters who were trying to dash into Egypt, witnesses said.

Since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, it has intensified its activities to impose an Islamic social code.

EXCLUSIVE: EU HOLDS SURRENDER TALKS WITH ISLAMIC JIHAD

Surrender asshats.

Exclusive: European Union officials hold secret talks with Hamas Jerusalem  Post hat tip wolf
PA officials say officials belonged to EU intelligence services; Sources: Hamas urged EU to work to end boycott and to open Rafah crossing.

EU security officials have been conducting secret talks with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks, Palestinian Authority officials told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

The PA officials did not reveal the identity of the visitors, except to say that they belonged to three EU intelligence services

The Europeans are said to have met with top Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar, as well as Ahmed Yusef, political adviser to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.

Sources close to Hamas confirmed that EU officials had visited the Gaza Strip recently for talks focusing on security-related issues.

The only ones with security related issues are the Jews. WTF?

BUSH PUSH: Give em a CALIPHSTATE!

“The Caliphate…one nation…one state…one ruler…” From hizb-ut-tahrir 

The Islamic Liberation Party recently held mass rallies in Al-Bireh and other cities in the Palestinian Authority. It has no military wing, but, its radical Islamic ideology and global deployment make it a source for the potential recruitment for Islamic terrorist organizations in the PA-administered territories and around the world.  More here

Islamic Liberation Party (HuT1) rallies in the PA-administered territories and around the world.

1. On August 10 and 11, 2007, the Islamic Liberation Party (Hibz ut-Tahrir in Arabic) held a series of mass rallies in Al-Bireh, Hebron , Tulkarm and Gaza City . The rallies are held annually by the HuT during the first half of August throughout the Arab-Muslim world. 2

2. The largest and most impressive rally in the PA-administered territories was held in Al-Bireh. Chartered buses brought 10,000 people from all over Judea and Samaria and even some Israeli Arabs . During the rally in Tulkarm the HuT announced that it was beginning a youth movement in Judea and Samaria called Ashbal al- Khilafah (“Lion Cubs of the Caliphate”) 3. According to the media, the HuT also held a book fair (possibly also in Al-Bireh) at which the party's ideological material was distributed.

3. The slogan of the rally in Al-Bireh on August 10 was “ The Caliphate is the rising force .” Telephone speeches given by party leaders in several countries (including Turkey and Pakistan ) were relayed by loudspeaker. A recorded speech was also broadcast, given by Ata' Khalil Abu al-Rushtah , the party's leader (“Amir”), currently in Lebanon after having been released from a Jordanian prison. Abu al-Rashta is Jordanian but his family came from Hebron . In 2003, when party leader Abd al-Kadim Zallum died, Abu al-Rashta replaced him. Zallum was also from Hebron and was one of the party's founders.

Caroline Glick calls those hardwired for self denial "fantasists." in her latest must read column. I call them pathetic, dangerous and deadly.

the fantasists ignored completely Osama bin Laden's declarations that his goal is to conquer the world in the name of Islam. They disregarded the political and cultural milieus marked by inexhaustible envy towards the West and the US that gave rise to al-Qaida and its sister organizations. Rather than acknowledge the reality of real war with real enemies, both camps of fantasists argued that instead of slaying these twin dragons, the US should appease them by serving them Israel for lunch.

[...]

A BRIEF look at recent statements by Iran's leaders and its terrorist vassals suffice to show how cut off these views are from reality. Last Saturday, Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei said, "America and its followers are stuck in a whirlpool and they sink deeper as time passes. A dangerous future is predicted for them." Wednesday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signaled that Iran will share its nuclear know-how with others saying, "If nuclear energy is something good, all nations should enjoy it on the basis of law."

In an interview with Britain's Independent, Iraqi Shiite terror boss Muqtada al Sadr admitted that his group trains with Hizbullah. Sadr said, "We have formal links with Hizbullah…. We copy Hizbullah in the way they fight and their tactics, we teach each other and we are getting better through this."

On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of last year's war against Israel, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah told Iranian television that Hizbullah acts at Teheran's pleasure. "I am a lowly soldier of the Imam Khamenei. Hizbullah youths acted on behalf of the Imam Khomeini… and sent their blessings to the Iranian people," Nasrallah said.

On August 6, Osama Hamdan, Hamas's representative in Lebanon, told al-Kawthar television that Hamas is preparing for war not because expects it Israel to attack, "but because the final goal of the resistance is to wipe this entity [Israel] off the face of the Earth. This goal necessitates the development of the capabilities of the resistance, until this entity is wiped out."

Glick kindly cautions;

FANTASIES ARE alluring. Peddling them can even get you elected. But the majority of Americans who reject fantasy as a basis for making real world decisions should take heed of Israel's example.

That example shows that despite the fantasists' fervent efforts to smother it, reality never goes away. Sooner or later, it mugs you. Sometimes, all it does is pick your pocket. But the longer you ignore it, the more dangerous it becomes.

"Mugs"? I say nukes.

Iran vows to use 'smart' bomb on enemies

......Looks like Gaza

Doug Ross cites Jonathan Schanzer, writing in The National Review,  that Gaza looks like Somalia. I say, Gaza looks like Gaza. The brutality and barbary of Isalmic jihad looks remarkable the same everywhere. That's the truth about Islam. Ross has it all here.

The Hamas terror organization that gained power through a violent coup in the Gaza Strip in June is now signaling that it will maintain its rule through a combination of violence, authoritarianism, and Islamism: Forced Conversions. According to Fatah officials, ...a [Christian] teacher at Palestine University... was kidnapped two weeks ago by Hamas and forced to convert to Islam against her will... Other Christians now fear for their lives, and are making plans to flee. Muzzling the Media. ...Hamas’s Executive Force (EF) prevented the distribution of three Fatah newspapers... [and] even took some of the newspapers’ circulation officials into custody... According to... Al-Jazeera, Hamas attacked two cameramen from the Abu Dhabi satellite television channel, and stormed the Gaza bureau of Al-Arabiya satellite channel... The EF has closed a pro-Fatah television station and radio station. In fact, Hamas now controls all electronic media in Gaza... Beating Demonstrators. ...al-Jazeera... reports that the Hamas EF beat Fatah demonstrators on Monday when protestors chanted, “What is happening in Gaza is not acceptable,” and “What has happened to security and human rights?” ...Hamas has now banned unlicensed demonstrations... Disintegration of Law. The armed wing of Hamas... reportedly seized legal documents from a lawyer that documented the confiscation of a car by Hamas. The militiamen took the lawyer’s affidavit at gunpoint... Similarly, when the EF recently stormed the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions headquarters... and “nationalized” it, the Federation could do nothing. Rule of law continues to deteriorate. Killing Political Rivals. Hamas has attacked its rivals with utter brutality... some 160 Palestinians were killed, including 45 civilians, and 800 were wounded. Fatah accounted for most of the casualties in grisly violence that included summary executions, kneecapping, and throwing handcuffed prisoners from tall buildings... Islamizing the Police. ...Hamas... has been beating demonstrators and banning free press held a teach-in two weeks ago on being a Muslim policeman... [the] notion of religious police smacks of the Taliban’s Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which punished Afghanis for straying from sharia law. Al Qaeda Links? In 2006, Hamas Interior Minister Said Sayyam stated that he would not order the arrests of operatives who carried out attacks against Israel. This was tantamount to an invitation for al-Qaeda and other jihadi groups to join Hamas... ...[Palestinian officials claim] that al-Qaeda maintains a presence in the West Bank and Gaza. ...under Hamas, as one New York Times reporter notes, “Gaza looks like Somalia: broken and ravenous.” ...This is the beginning of the Talibanization of Gaza, and the end of hope for the rule of law.

One almost pities the Palestinian citizenry. The lesson learned is a simple one: if you vote an autocratic group of Islamist thugs into office, don't expect your right to free elections to last any longer than a breath mint.

All that's missing from Gaza is a barren soccer field used for 'disciplinary justice'.

EUREKA! Giuliani Says NO to PLO State!

Woo-tay Ru-day!

Seeing the NY Sun headline, written by the best Middle East reporter on the scene today, Eli Lake, made my day. I have my reservations about Giuliani but he is so right on this issue. Unafraid to stand with the civilized man - in the war against the savages. I am in awe. He gets it!

There is hope. As the violence unfolds and Islamic jihad becomes bolder, more violent and merciless, America will see then evil confronting her. Of this I am sure

Finally, a light at the end of the tunnel. Someone is talking reason. Perhaps Giuliani has been so right on the war on Islamists because he not only saw 9/11 up close (damn near died in that elevator) but he also was privy to intel. He gets it. And the relentless fight against the barbaric political idealogy of Islam is going to take a man of great courage.

Rice is a useless tool for Islamic jihad and Bush checked out a year ago.

Gd bless Rudy. Ol Merde, don't let the door hit you in the ass.

Giuliani Warns on PLO State Eli Lake New York

Giuliani Warns on PLO State Stance Puts Daylight Between Him and Rice

WASHINGTON Â-- In a sweeping repudiation of the conventional wisdom that America's war on terrorism must address Palestinian Arab national grievances, the leading Republican contender for the presidency is warning of the dangers of pressing too soon for Palestinian statehood and is asserting that Israeli security is a "permanent feature of our foreign policy."

"Too much emphasis has been placed on brokering negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians Â-- negotiations that bring up the same issues again and again," Mayor Giuliani writes in an essay published yesterday in Foreign Affairs. "It is not in the interest of the United States, at a time when it is being threatened by Islamist terrorists, to assist the creation of another state that will support terrorism."

In some of the boldest language on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict used thus far by any presidential candidate, Mr. Giuliani writes: "Palestinian statehood will have to be earned through sustained good governance, a clear commitment to fighting terrorism, and a willingness to live in peace with Israel."

That language appears to be a direct shot at President Bush and Secretary of State Rice, who are making just such a push for final status negotiations between President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert in September, despite Hamas's takeover of Gaza in June.

Finally, a voice of reason

The former mayor's vision for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is also a repudiation of the approach of the Baker-Hamilton Commission, a panel on which Mr. Giuliani served briefly. In its final recommendations on Iraq policy in December 2006, the commission urged America not only to re-engage in the peace process, but also to explore ways for Israel to cede the Golan Heights to Syria.

Mr. Giuliani's senior foreign policy adviser, Charles Hill, said yesterday that the Bush administration's current push to forge a peace deal between the Palestinian Authority president and the Israeli prime minister may be "risking too much."

Here's what empowering Islamic terror wroughts

Hezbollah has sophisticated anti-Aircraft weapons now. Much thanks to 1701.

Tunnels from Gaza into Israel hat tip Jan

How much bloody proof do you need?

Two Years after Disengagement, Iran-Backed Terror Group Converts Gaza into Hamastan

Click for Timeline of Post-Disengagement Violence and Attacks against Israel
(July 2006-August 2007)

Gaza U.N. Pre-and Post-Disengagement Map

Click for enlarged PDF of map

UPDATE: Official who worked with U.S. planned suicide attack

Palestinian lawmaker, intelligence official also served as terror group chief

HIV Arafatbastard Gave Plenty of Blood after 9/11

Chris Hitchens w/ Tucker Carlson, late '04. Hitch's Trotskyism is on full display, but the following excerpt, even if innuendo, is unminstakable and valuable  hat tip jeremayakovka

TC: Post 9/11, I mean, aren't we in an age where we have to draw clear distinctions between legitimate political resistance and terrorism.

CH: Well, that's why, I think, the Chariman's first>act -- Chairman Arafat's first act -- widely photographed, you may remember, it was to be photographed giving blood for all the victims of 9/11. He wanted as clearly as he could to try and take advantage of that distinction, but he never>could do it convincingly. By the way, I don't know who got that blood, but I hope they threw it away.

Carlson: [laughter] Excellent point.

Arafatbastard's doctor confirmed he was HIV infected. What a lovely savage.

Baby Killers: Give 'em a State"

A campaign of murder of Jewish children and babies. You can't make peace with savages who want war. And their children? Hamas TV's child star says she's ready for martyrdom.

Over at Daled;

The 123 Israeli Children Killed by Palestinian Terrorists

The following is an HTML rendering of the Power Point presentation viewable online at Mystical Paths with the names of the murdered children. (hat tip: Smooth Stone)
And a very special thanks to Baleboosteh (the blog for pictures of life--and war--in Israel), who spent hours reworking the images to make the HTML version a worth commemoration of the loss of our murdered brothers and sisters.

Please take a few minutes...
To know and remember the ones...
Our beautiful children and youth...
Who were slain by the Arab terrorists...

In October 2000, the Palestinian Arabs in Israel started a new war of terror against the Israeli nations. Terror attacks against Israeli civilians occured in every possible place in Israel.

Go there's much more.

Dore Gold, Run for Prime Minister

Gold is reallywhat Israel needs. Now. From FDD;

HOW AL-QAEDA SET UP SHOP IN GAZA: Dore Gold argues that too many diplomats still don't understand what motivates such terrorist groups as al-Qaeda. He observes:

The gasoline fueling al Qaeda has been its sense of victory, not political grievances. Its recruits have responded to Web clips of U.S. armored vehicles in Iraq exploding, or the beheading of Russian soldiers in Chechnya. Indeed, al Qaeda was established in 1989, after the Soviet Union was defeated in Afghanistan. It was then that Osama bin Laden and his followers said to themselves that they had just beaten a superpower and were replicating the great victories of the early armies of Islam that crushed the Byzantine and Persian Empires.

It should be remembered that in the 1990s, the U.S. and its allies addressed many political grievances of the Islamic world in Kuwait, Somalia and especially in Bosnia. In the Arab-Israeli sector, the Clinton administration devoted more time to Arab-Israeli diplomacy than most of its predecessors, with the 1993 Oslo Accords, the 1994 Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty, the 1997 Hebron Agreement, the 1998 Wye Agreement, and finally the attempt to reach a permanent-status agreement at Camp David in 2000. But al Qaeda only grew in strength. There were attacks in Saudi Arabia in 1995, East Africa in 1998, Yemen in 2000 and finally 9/11.

In other words, there was no correlation between U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to ameliorate the grievances voiced by radical Islamic groups and the appeal of al Qaeda.

What the Gaza pullout showed, however, was that mishandling the Israeli-Palestinian issue can exacerbate the threat of radical Islam, especially if it deepens the sense in radical Islamic circles that their military efforts have paid off.

More here.

Religion of Peace Teaches Kids to Torture Animals

Mickey Farfur Mouse has been replaced. Indoctrination of children to depravity.

Hamas TV show abuses animals to teach kids lesson
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

The latest episode of a popular Hamas children’s TV show features its main character cruelly swinging cats by their tails and throwing stones at caged lions in the Gaza zoo.

The episode of Tomorrow’s Pioneers features a costumed adult playing Nahool the Bee at the zoo, tormenting domestic cats and lions. The lions become so enraged by the abuse that one of them repeatedly tries to attack Nahool.

 

Every time Nahool swings a cat by the tail, an act that can cause permanent physical and behavior problems for the animal, children can be heard bursting into laughter.

Ironically, the decision to terrorize and inflict physical pain on real animals in the episode is an attempt to teach children not to abuse animals. When the program returns to the studio, the children in the audience criticize Nahool for his behavior, and he is told never to do it again.

NOTE: Nahool is the character that replaced Farfur, the Mickey Mouse clone that was killed off in response to widespread international outrage that a knockoff of the lovable Walt Disney character was teaching children about hatred and world Islamic domination.

Related:

Atlas Shrugs: Mickey Shaheed Mouse

 Atlas Shrugs: Speaking of Mothers Day: Murderous Mickey HaMouse  

Atlas Shrugs: The Mouse That War-ed

Israel/Islamic War: 1 Year later Resolution 1701

It's been one year since the acceptance of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the second Lebanon war and I discussed it at length with the UN Ambassador John Bolton.

Download BoltonAtlasCeasefireInterview.wav

A year later and how quickly the world turned. For the worse. As for the UN,  that suit is no Bolton.

Here is a must read interim report. The soldiers are still held hostage. Hezbollah has rearmed.

Resolution 1701 has been only partially implemented, and the most essential provisions have been left unattended :

1) South Lebanon was not demilitarized and Hezbollah and the other terrorist organizations remained and were not disarmed;

2) Iran and Syria continue replenishing Hezbollah's arsenal and rehabilitating its military force;

3) The arms embargo has not been effectively enforced and weapons are steadily smuggled into Lebanon from Syria ;

4) No significant progress has been made in the issue of the abducted IDF soldiers.

2. The Resolution's achievements can be eroded and may not preserve quiet or provide for long-term stability in Lebanon in general and south Lebanon in particular .

• Hizbullah Buys Frontier Land to Attack Israel - Charles Levinson
  Hizbullah is buying up large tracts of land owned by Christians and other non-Shias in southern Lebanon as the militant group rebuilds its defenses in preparation for a new war with Israel. The forested wadis, or valleys, north of the Litani River make ideal terrain for Hizbullah's brand of guerrilla warfare and, just 10 miles from the border, are within rocket range of Israeli cities. "Christians and Druze are selling land and moving out, while the Shia are moving in. There is an extraordinary demographic shift taking place," said Edmund Rizk, a former Christian MP for the area. Wealthy Shia businessman Ali Tajeddine, who made his fortune trading diamonds in Sierra Leone, is said to be using Iranian funds to buy land from destitute villagers at up to four times the going rate.
      Critics fear a grand scheme to create a strip of Shia-controlled land connecting southern Lebanon to Hizbullah's other power center in the Bekaa Valley. "It is part of Hizbullah's plan to create a state within a state," said Walid Jumblatt, a Druze leader. He also pointed to the four-lane road being built to connect the Hizbullah stronghold of Nabatiye in the south to the western Bekaa. Banners openly proclaim the source of the road's funding: "510 km of new roads paid for by the Iranian Organization for Sharing in the Building of Lebanon." (Sunday Telegraph-UK)
• British Lawmakers Say Country Should Talk to Hamas, Hizbullah, Muslim Brotherhood - Raphael G. Satter
  Britain should begin talking directly with three of the Middle East's most prominent radical Islamic groups - Hamas, Hizbullah and the Muslim Brotherhood - a committee of lawmakers said in a report released Monday. British diplomats should speak with moderate elements from such groups and continue engaging Iran and Syria because their influence can no longer be discounted, Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee said. "The Muslim Brotherhood is strong in Egypt, and Hamas and Hizbullah cannot be ignored," the report said. The lawmakers urged former Prime Minister Tony Blair, the new envoy for the Quartet, to negotiate directly with the militant Islamic organization Hamas. (AP/Washington Post)

RELATED: Springtime for Osama and Nasrallah: the banality of evil and ordinary people

Arab Israeli "murdered for nothing?" MORE ISLAMIC LIES

Watch the video and open your eyes to the Muslim lies you are fed everyday. "Don't believe your eyes, believe their Muslim lies."

Surveillance video of Jerusalem shooting  YNET hat tip Romy

(Video) Tapes of Friday gunfire in Old City clearly show Arab-Israeli man grabbing guard's gun and firing it repeatedly, disproving claims that he had been innocent and was 'murdered for nothing'

Surveillance videos clearly show Ahmad Mahmoud Khatib - perpetrator of the Friday shooting in the Old City of Jerusalem - stealing a gun from a security guard and shooting him, despite claims to the contrary by his family. Jerusalem police authorized the publication of the surveillance tapes on Sunday.

Khatib grabbed a weapon from a guard of the Ateret Kohanim yeshiva and then set off through the Old City's street shooting back wildly at another yeshiva guard who pursued him. Ten bystanders and one of the guards were injured in the crossfire before the shooter was killed.

When the incident was first broadcast, some witnesses claimed that the guard had shot and killed Khatib once he was already down. This allegation was later repeated by Arab Knesset member Ahmed Tibi, but as can be seen, is not evident from the video.

"Arab Knesset member:"-- now that's rich.

Hamas Builds Naval force with whose dough?

While the US cuts freedom fighting,  lif saving aid to Israel, Hamas is building a naval force to defeat the forces of good. A Naval force. Yeah, you read that right.

Hamas army: Of course they are smiling. Barbarism has triumphed and the Western media, the leftists, the State department driven Bush administration, the Ol Merde "government," and the Islamic UN has surrendered in installments.

Hamas establishes naval defense force in Gaza Ynet

Group officials tell Ynet newly built force will secure Strip's coast, fight off IDF vessels and drug dealers and prevent fishermen's collaboration with Israeli ships. Force does not own ships, but has heavy machine guns, mortars

Hamas has established a new naval defense force, headed by one of the group's senior commanders Jamil al-Dahashan, that will be entrusted with guarding the Gaza Strip coast, Ynet has recently learned.

The asshat speaks!

Islam attacks! Fire Rockets into Israel

Crickets chirping (in Ol Merde's empty skull);

Palestinian Rocket Attack on Sderot Injures Israeli Woman - Shmulik Hadad
Two Kassam rockets fired by Palestinians in Gaza slammed into a home and a warehouse in Sderot Thursday evening. A woman sustained shrapnel injuries, while a number of other residents suffered from shock. The home was severely damaged. A total of six rockets landed in Israeli territory throughout the day, as did a few mortar shells, which landed near the border fence with Gaza and near the community of Nativ Ha'asara. (Ynet News)

More, more, more ................. always more.

Honor KIllings in Hamastan: 3 Young Virgins

The skin crawls. The mind reels. The world supports........... these savages.
Not to worry though, "the Palestinian judiciary does not take "honor crimes" seriously." I am sure the mainstream media will give this a ton of front page coverage. /not

Three Sisters Stabbed to Death in Gaza 'Honor Killing' IRIS

In the terror regime that is Hamas' Gaza, journalists are too frightened to report the truth. Here is a rare exception:

Three sisters were found stabbed to death in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising suspicion they were killed by relatives because of suspected immoral behavior, a human rights organization said.

The three sisters, 16-year-old Nahed Hija and her sisters, 19-year-old Suha and 22-year-old Lina, were found dead from multiple stab wounds, buried in a shallow grave in the central Gaza Strip early Sunday morning, said Hamdi Shakkour of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.

Shakkour said they suspected the women were victims of "honor crimes," in which women are murdered by male relatives because of suspected intimate relations - not necessarily sex - outside of marriage....

Honor killings are practiced throughout the Arab world. At least 12 women were killed for honor crimes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip last year, but this is the first time three sisters were murdered together.

In February, three unrelated woman were killed within a 24-hour period in the Gaza Strip....

The Palestinian judiciary does not take "honor crimes" seriously, Shakkour said. Perpetrators of "honor crimes" are often given light sentences of a few years, while others convicted of murder under other circumstances are sentenced to death.

The International Community's Love of Savagery

Blood libels on Hamas TV
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

The promotion of hatred of Jews through their depiction as cold-blooded murderers is a recurring theme on Hamas TV. Over the weekend at least 2 broadcasts presented these images.

One was during the latest episode of the children's program with Nahool the Hamas Bee, in which Nahool twice reminds the children that the Jews are guilty of murder.

Click to view video on YouTube or PMW website

The following are excepts:

Nahool: “You and we will liberate the sad Al-Aqsa that is waiting for us. Yes, we will liberate Al-Aqsa from the filth of the criminal Jews, who killed my grandfather, and killed Farfur, and history will bear witness to that…”

A young caller, Sabah, is asked what she wants to be when she grows up.
Sabah: “Journalist.”
Saraa', girl in studio: “Wow, journalist! Nahool, we need journalists.”
Nahool: "Why? So that… so that they will photograph the Jews when they are killing Farfur and the little children?
Saraa’: “Yes, Nahool.”
Another young caller says: “We will go on [the path] of Jihad when we grow up.”
Nahool: “Yes, we are all Jihad warriors.
Saraa’: “Allah willing.”
[Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), July 20, 2007]

The killing of Farfur referred to by Nahool, the bee, was from a previous episode when beloved Farfur, the Mickey Mouse look-alike, was beaten to death by an Israeli interrogator. [Click to view video on YouTube or PMW website or to see original bulletin.] In an unusual propaganda technique that could only be effective with young children, it is this beating "death" that was created on their own TV that is now being used as a reason to see Jews as murderers. In an earlier program a child called in and insisted the Jews were dogs because they killed Farfur. So the propaganda may be working.

The second murder by Jews over the weekend on Hamas owned Al-Aqsa Television [July 22, 2007] shows a child running with an adult, presumably with his father, until the adult is shot in the back. The child seems to ignore the dead father but takes the key the father was holding – implying it is the key to their home in Israel.

Previously on Tomorrow’s Pioneers, Nahool said: “We shall avenge the enemies of Allah, the murderers of the prophets [i.e., the Jews], the murderers of innocent children, until Al-Aqsa will be liberated from their filth.” [Al Aqsa TV, July 13, 2007]

Also previously on the children's program, a three year old caller went on air saying the Jews killed Farfur. The hostess of the show, Saraa’, replied: “That’s right… The Jews are criminals and enemies, we must expel them from our land.” [Al-Aqsa TV, June 27, 2007]

They'll steal anything and everything

EXODUS! Helen wrote;

Take a look at this movie logo, it's from the 1960 movie "Exodus". The hand reaching for the rifle and hand holding the rifle look a lot like a (now) Pali logo, I think hamas. More than a coincidence, isn't it? Is there anything they won't STEAL?

Unbelievable .................. Acutally it's Hezb'Allah but franky what's the difference?

BTW... Exodus is on now. Till 2am on Turner Movie Classics. Watch it ... suspend your disbelief and watch when the world was different.

UPDATE: Mark writes;

The differences between that represented by the photo for the film  Exodus, and the photo of the filthy al aksa, or PLO whatever, is  represented by the two songs,

One... for the state of Israel....

and the other.... the PLO national anthem....

Download Hatikvahcopy.zip

I defy anyone to distinguish between the Pali dirge and those Nazi chants.

GIVE 'EM A STATE!

The hate industry: Hamas uses the Internet to disseminate anti-Semitic cartoons to Russian speaking target audiences. The prominent theme of the cartoons is that Israel and the Jews are bloodthirsty monsters engaged in a holocaust of the Palestinian people. More here.

The world sits back and smiles. Decades of placating, appeasing barbarism has yielded the poison fruit of terror states and a world at war. And still we cower, beg, plead, cajole.

New York City is a city under seige. Lexington Avenue closed today, military presence at the tunnels and bridges, choppers flying ahead all day (at least the upper East Side.) Insanity.

Remember, when Bush  said, BRING IT ON! I long for that leader.

"There will no longer be a Zionist problem in Palestine this month."

Heads up! (or down as it were.) Over at the Free Republic;

Something brewing in Israel hat tip Henk 

Posted by American in Israel

Just a freeper observation, but there are strong indications that next week, during the time of the 9th of AV, that there will be a serious Arab attack on Israel.

The word on the street from the local Palestinians is to quote from a few "There will no longer be a Zionist problem in Palestine this month." Nobody is really talking, but I am getting veiled warnings from Palestinian friends. One such warning was a rather cryptic answer to a pointed question about war with Israel; "Do you know what the 9th of Av is? Every time Israel fights a war on the 9th of Av it looses"... People refuse to talk about war or answer any direct questions. This is very uncharacteristic for Palestinians; usually they are very verbally expressive. The following is what got me to finally write this note to you all. It is an excerpt from an email sent to me by a friend.

Today we had business to do in Jerusalem, so we left our home at 7 am and traveled down the east side of the Galilee, through Bet Shean and past the check point at Sede Trimot in the Jordan Valley.

Once we entered the Jordan Valley as we passed through the Arab agricultural areas we noticed the following which is most unusual;

1. There were no people visible working the in the fields. 2. There were no children along the side of the road.
3. There were no tractors or other farm vehicles anywhere to be seen.
4. All of the vegetables had been completely harvested and the fields were 100% empty.
5. No preparation of the fields was evident for the next planting...Plastic was everywhere from the prior crop.
6. The greenhouses had no plants in them..... 7. The vegetable stands that are normally filled to the brim from the harvest were completely vacant.
8. This is the peak season for growing vegetables in the Jordan Valley, yet everything had been harvested and nothing was growing waiting to be harvested or picked.

We concluded our business in Jerusalem and got back on the road again about 2:45 pm heading north up the Jordan Valley. Again, no people, no fruit stands, no crops, nothing!
Do these Arabs know something is about to happen that we do not know is coming? The 9th of Av is on July 23rd, which is the exact day both Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed hundreds of years apart...

This is just not how things are this time of year normally. The entire valley is the best land for growing crops in Israel and completly under the control of the Arabs. This land is the Palestinian food supply. For some reason they do not believe they need the food this year!

A friend of mine that is politicaly connected mentioned that he was thinking that the first attack date for the Arab League may be the 9th of AV, and the Sept/Oct period as the backup date. He does not believe that Syria will be ready by next week, so he thinks they will use the fall back date. However Hamas/Fatah have their people totally prepared for the first date. They may jump, even if Syria gives the no signal.

As a Biblical side reference, Isaiah 14 28-33, and Zephaniah 2 refer I believe to the destruction of the modern day Palestinians. Interestingly enough it says: " I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.." Zehpaniah 2 indicates that the industrial city of Ashkelon, (third largest city in Israel I believe), will be wiped out, but that a smoke cloud from its direction will go over Gaza, and I think kill most of the inhabitants there. Ashkelon is due north of Gaza and just a kassams throw away.

This is just a few various observations I am bringing together, but they ominously point to the same thing, a major Palestinian ground offensive may take place just next week.

UPDATE: Olmert utter failure

ARAFAT DIED OF AIDS

D'oh. But at least they are finally admiting to it. You gotta wonder how many little boys Arafatbastard infected. More from Memri here. 

Ahmad Jibril, Secretary-General of the PFLP General Command: I Was Told by Abu Mazen's Team that Arafat Died of AIDS hat tip Daryl

Following is an excerpt from an interview with Ahmad Jibril, Secretary-General of the PFLP General Command, which aired on Al-Manar TV on July 5, 2007:

Ahmad Jibril: When Abu Mazen came to Damascus with his team, I asked them: "What happened to the investigation into the death of Abu Ammar [Arafat]? The Israelis killed him. He was my colleague ever since 1965 and used to sleep at my home. He and I followed the same path." Is it conceivable that when Rafiq Al-Hariri was killed, all hell broke loose, even though he was just a merchant in Saudi Arabia, who later entered politics, whereas the death of Yasser Arafat, who for 40 years had been carrying his gun from one place to another, is not investigate? Is this conceivable? They were silent, and then one of them said to me: "To be honest, the French gave us the medical report, that stated that the cause of Abu Ammar's death was AIDS." I am not saying this, they did. Now they pretend that they miss Yasser Arafat, and complain that [Hamas] entered his house in [Gaza] and so on... I say to every honorable member of the Fatah movement that he should be happy that we got rid of the plague, which had been imposed upon them and upon the Palestinian people. The Fatah movement now has an opportunity to renew itself. View clip here

Hamass: WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN FOOD!

This just in from Carolyn;

This is really upsetting. 55 trucks loaded with tons of veggies and fruit from Israel have been forced to return because Hamas won't receive goods from the Jewish Israel! It'll rot away probably causing millions lost. I'm mad and hope this will come out in every paper around. Who's starving whom....and Yossi Beilin tells on the Israeli radio that his impression is that Egypt is doing all it can to stop the arms smuggling to Gaza when the smuggling is in daily full swing...

Hmmmmmmmm, doing all they can. You don't say.

Overnight, Hamas Establishes an Army IRIS Blog
According to the officer, intelligence sources believe that a real 'Hamas army' exists in the Gaza Strip and includes between 7000 and 10000 soldiers, who are being armed continuously with weapons smuggled through the Philadelphi route.
                Despite attempts by liberal newspapers to whitewash Hamas, it has only one priority: jihad:

Hamas' military industry is giving serial production numbers to the roadside charges and Qassam rockets it manufactures, a senior intelligence officer in the Southern Command told Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi during his visit to the rocket-battered town of Sderot on Monday.

According to the officer, intelligence sources believe that a real 'Hamas army' exists in the Gaza Strip and includes between 7,000 and 10,000 soldiers, who are being armed continuously with weapons smuggled through the Philadelphi route.

The officer told Prodi that Hamas and radical Islam organizations have completely taken over the Fatah headquarters in the Strip.

"Six kilometers (3.7 miles) away from here, some 800,000 people are concentrated in the Gaza Strip, where they are controlled by the Hamas army. This army's goal is to hurt innocent Israeli citizens living around the Gaza Strip," the officer said.

According to the report given to the Italian premier, about 30 tons of explosives have been smuggled over the past year into the Strip to Hamas and radical Islam organizations. Thousands of rifles and antitank missiles were also smuggled.

"As if this smuggling, which comes from Egypt, is not enough, Hamas has developed a real military industry, which operates inside buildings and private houses. The weapons manufactured there already have serial numbers, which testify to the development of this military industry," the intelligence officer said.

Senior officers described the change in Hamas in a way that was reminiscent of Hizbullah: A hierarchy, a clear division of roles, a training system, groups responsible for smuggling weapons and others in charge of preparing explosive devices, planning sophisticated terror attacks in an effort to take advantage of the IDF's weak points, etc.

In spite of the smuggling of weapons from Egypt to Gaza, the most worrying thing as far as the IDF and the Shin Bet are concerned, is the fact that representatives of the organization acquire knowledge outside the Strip, mainly in Tehran.

The return of the "students" to Gaza and the passing of knowledge to many others constitutes a key threat which cannot be fully addressed even through a wide-scale ground operation in the Strip.

Meanwhile, Israel's leaders are fixated on enhancing their personal political power through cronyism (protexia).

UPDATE July 12: Here's the story on Hamas refusing food from Israel.

Pakistan Mosque Seized UPDATE

This is how it's done boys. This is how you fight the jihad.

PAKISTANI SOLDIERS STORM MOSQUE BBC hat tip Ed Lasky

Pakistani troops have stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad after talks with hard-line Islamists inside failed. The army says up to 50 militants and eight soldiers were killed, and about 50 women and children rescued.

Military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said militants were firing rockets from the minarets but troops controlled most of the complex.

Students at the mosque and its attached religious schools have waged a campaign for months pressing for Sharia law.

  This is naked aggression. My martyrdom is certain now

Deputy mosque leader Abdul Rashid Ghazi

Public anger in the capital mounted after they kidnapped policemen as well as people they considered to be involved in immoral, un-Islamic activities.

Security forces began a full-scale siege of the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) last week, not long after mosque students abducted seven Chinese workers they accused of running a brothel.

RED MOSQUE STAND-OFF 3 July: Clashes erupt at mosque, 16 killed, after long student campaign for Islamic Sharia law 4 July: About 700 students leave mosque, now besieged by security forces; mosque leader caught trying to flee wearing woman's burka 5 July: More than 1,000 students surrender to security forces 6 July: Women are allowed to leave the mosque; students' deputy leader says he would rather die than surrender 8 July: Ministers say wanted militants are holding women and children inside the mosque 9 July: Negotiators talk to mosque leader via loudspeaker without progress; three Chinese workers are killed in Peshawar over siege 10 July: Pakistani troops storm mosque after failure of talks

Go here for all Atlas Pakistan coverage

Let's hope Spiegel is wrong in their article:  Musharaff is losing his grip on Pakistan. On bullet away from a jihad nuke.

UPDATE: Musharaff wasn't kidding when he said "surrender or die":

Up to 50 [Islamazis] militants dead as Pakistani military storms mosque  International Herald Trib hat tip Pim

"militants" my ass

ISLAMABAD: Loud explosions rocked the Pakistani capital today as security forces fought intensely with militants holed up in a sprawling mosque compound in the heart of the capital. After 10 hours of fighting, 8 security forces and roughly 50 presumed militants were dead, according to the military. Roughly two dozen children, whom the army said were being held hostage, escaped.

Another 29 troops and special forces were injured, the military spokesman, Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad, told reporters at a press briefing near the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque. The spokesman said 50 men and 27 women had been captured, including 13 who were wounded in the battles. Among them were the wife and daughter of one of the main leaders of the mosque.

The assault on the mosque began before daybreak, around 4:30 am, just hours after talks broke down to end the eight day siege of the mosque. A series of deafening explosions were followed by a black plume of smoke rising to the sky. Throughout the day, explosions were followed by the rattle of small arms fire and by early afternoon, heavy bursts of machine gun fire. General Arshad said the militants' arsenal includes rocket launchers, grenades, landmines, and booby traps to foil troops trying to enter the compound. The militants, whom government officials described as being led by known radical Islamist groups, were using the minarets of the mosque to fire at the security forces.

"There is intense engagement," the spokesman said at a midday briefing. "There is a lot of resistance. They are well-armed, well-trained terrorists."

HAMAS KIDS TV: KILL JEWS, BRING RESURRECTION

What's is going to take? Why hasn't the world ostracized Hamas and froze them out. Believe me, you're next.

Hamas Kids TV:
Fight the Jews and bring Resurrection PMW

Farfur may be dead, but his message continues. A week after the children’s program Tomorrow’s Pioneers showed the Mickey Mouse lookalike being beaten to death by an actor portraying an Israeli interrogator, the show was back on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV. The squeaky-voiced mouse was gone, but Friday’s program continued to preach hatred and praise Shahada – death as a martyr for Allah.

This week’s messages came from the young viewers, who phoned into the show, expressed their views to the child host, Saraa’ and demonstrated how well they have absorbed the violent lessons of the show and possibly children’s programming.

One young caller proclaimed:
"Awake oh children, awake to action, your destiny is one, and it is to become a Shahid [Martyr] for Allah.”

Later in the show, a nine-year old girl paraphrased the Hadith (Islamic tradition attributed to Muhammad) that has been broadcast numerous times by Fatah and Hamas religious and educational leaders – that the Hour (of resurrection) is dependent on Muslims’ fighting and killing the Jews.

Click to view video on YouTube or PMW website

Shahad, 9 years old, on the phone:
Saraa’: What would you like to share with us?
Shahad: The Noble Hadith.
Saraa’: Go on.
Shahad: The Prophet [Muhammad] said: The Hour [Resurrection] will not

take place until you fight the Jews, they will be east of the river and you to the west, and the rock and the tree will say: Oh, Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and fight him!
Saraa’: Thank you very much, Shahad.
[Al Aqsa TV (Hamas), July 6, 2007]

Jihad presents: Collaborator arrested

GITMO!But on real abuse,  the world is silent. The world is complicit. How long before this man is taken into the street and shot like a dog? It's the jihad, it's what they do. BTW< I do not belie a word of this story as if a 'collaborator' would change clothes (anIDF uniform no less)  in the open.

VIDEO - The Islamic Jihad arrested a Palestinian who, according to the organization, collaborated with the IDF and was involved in the assassination of group members.

In a video obtained by Ynet on Thursday, the man is seen taking off his IDF uniform and entering the Gaza Strip.

Jihad presents collaborator's arrest

F, 37, from the central Strip, got off an IDF jeep in the Israeli side of the border, changed into civil clothes, and climbed the fence on his way back into the Strip. Islamic Jihad officials said that immediately after he entered the Palestinian territory, he was arrested by members of the al-Quds Brigades, the organization's military wing, who had been watching him.

The double standard. One for good, for for evil.

Oops! Strike that from the Arab Narrative

Not that it matters or anything. It was never about the lie, it was about the elimination of Israel. From Israelly Cool here;

Mahmoud Abbas' Erkel Moment Aussie Dave hat tip Rona

In his attempts to rip Hamas a new one, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has basically admitted that the palestinians are not the indigenous people of the land of Israel.

Oops.

The putschists attacked the headquarters of the National Security [Forces], General Intelligence, the Preventive Security [apparatus], and the Presidential Guard, and perpetrated horrors that are totally alien to our [Palestinian] heritage and tradition - murdering, executing people on the street, throwing fighters from tall buildings, and looting security headquarters, public facilities and Christian houses of worship.

"[Indeed,] even the churches were not spared. One of the oldest churches in Palestine, which stood long before our arrival [in the region], was looted and set on fire. There are Christians among us, and they are our brothers, and now we discover that [according to Hamas] they are enemies and must leave [Palestine]?!... This is a mark of shame on the Palestinian people, on those who perpetrated these [crimes], on the putschists and murderers. [They attacked] the homes of hundreds of Palestinian Authority civil servants, [who are] peaceful citizens as well as symbols of our national sovereignty like the presidential headquarters, which was taken over by hooligans who destroyed and looted it..."

As Carl correctly notes, the church dates to the 4th century CE. The Jewish presence in Gaza predates this.

US Forcing Terror State On the World

Is this the Anti-Bush doctrine? I am cannot begin to understand the insistence of giving the Islamic jihadi savages their own state. I just don't get it. Don't the Kurds deserve their own state? The savages mean to destroy democratic free nations. WTF? And what of Israel? Have they handed over their sovereignty, their will, to James Baker and co. This is a nightmare.

Report: U.S. To Deploy International Force Of 20,000 In Judea, Samaria

Jerusalem - While it is commonly assumed throughout Israel that the plans for an international force would only apply to Gaza, the Jordanian newspaper A-Doustour reported on Sunday that the United States plans to deploy an international force in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, in addition to Gaza, in order to "keep the peace and build the Palestinian state." The paper said it has all the details of the American plan.

Israel-Funded Fatah Rocket Terrorist Wounded in Gaza IRIS

There are three things wrong with this story:

We heard that there was a "war" between Fatah and Hamas, leaving Hamas in control of Gaza. Why, then, would Hamas allow a Fatah rocket-launcher to operate in its territory?

This Fatah terrorist is employed by Abbas, which is in the process of receiving $400 million from Israel. Why, then, would he bite the hand that feeds him? Why would Israel continue funding Fatah?

Why would a "moderate" Fatah man operate together with an "extremist" Islamic Jihad? Aren't extremists anathema to moderates?

 

Jews Kill Mickey Mouse brought to by Islam

How out of control is Islamic anti-semitism?

Farfour Mouse dies in last episode Jerusalem Post

Hamas TV on Friday broadcast what it said was the last episode of a weekly children's show featuring "Farfour," a Mickey Mouse look-alike who had made worldwide headlines for preaching Islamic domination and armed struggle to youngsters.

In the final skit, Farfour was beaten to death by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land. At one point, Farfour called the Israeli a "terrorist."

"Farfour was martyred while defending his land," said Sara, the teen presenter. He was killed "by the killers of children," she added.

The weekly show, featuring a giant black-and-white rodent with a high-pitched voice, had attracted worldwide attention because the character urged Palestinian children to fight Israel. It was broadcast on Hamas-affiliated Al-Aksa TV.

Israeli officials have denounced the program, "Tomorrow's Pioneers," as incendiary and outrageous. The program was also opposed by the state-run Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, which is controlled by Fatah.

UPDATE: Here's the video (hat tip Josef)

 

 

The Sinister Spin Stops Here

Ted Belman over at Israpundit: IMRA offers these painful, glaring, examples of spin;

1. Spin after Hamas exploited decision of Sharon and Olmert administrations to ignore reality and avoid addressing the smuggling from Egypt to Gaza Strip: “fall of Gaza to Hamas is an opportunity”
 
2. Spin after Fatah terrorists exploit proposed timeout to murder Israelis “now that Fatah has regained the respect of the Palestinian street by murdering Israelis they will be strong enough to make peace”
 
3. Spin after the next shipment of weapons America supplies are turned against Israel “now the world appreciates the sacrifices Israel made to try to bolster Mahmoud Abbas”
 
4. Spin after successful mega attack murders thousands of Israelis “this opens a window of opportunity for the IDF to act without concern for bad press”.]
 
Now Aluf Benn reports Cabinet approves transfer of withheld tax revenues
 
<BLOCKQUOTE> The prime minister added that at Monday’s summit in Sharm el-Sheikh he will present “our expectations as well as our demand for a fight against terror.”
 
  “At the same time, we will declare our intention to assist the new government.”
 
  Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told the cabinet that any diplomatic progress would be dependant on the actions of the Palestinian emergency government.
 
  Livni slammed Russia as well as some Arab states for refusing to give their full support to Fayad’s cabinet, accusing them of trying to revive the unity government between Fatah and Hamas and thus thwart any chance of diplomatic progress. </BLOCKQUOTE>
  The spin is that Israel must offer “gestures” or “confidence building measures” to support the Abbas government. I can’t think of one instance where such gestures have resulted in increased support for Arafat or Abbas, or for that matter a benefit for Israel.
 
On the other hand it may be argued that making gestures increased support for their policies of intransigence and violence. Such gestures merely reward intransigence.
The Government of Israel must explain how gestures will rsult in Arab compromises for peace. The latter must be a precondition for the former.
Furthermore it is not enough to say Abbas is moderate or willing to compromise for peace. Such willingness must first be demonstrated by his words to his own constituency and then by action.
Rather than hold the Arab feet to the fire by demanding compromise we say what they want because they won’t say it and because they don’t want it. Similarly we call Islam a religion of peace so Muslims don’t have to take a stand on the issue.
What we say is spin and it doesn’t accord with reality. Abbas has yet to indicate his willingness for substantial compromise. If he is not willing to compromise, why are we sucking up to him. INSS just published a paper First We Take the West Bank…? byAnat Kurz

[..] The common aspiration of Israel and Fatah to prevent the fall to the Islamist camp of the West Bank, as well, does not constitute a basis for agreement on permanent status. Fatah’s main concern now is to block the rise of Hamas power in the West Bank and to regain control in Gaza. Preparing for agreement with Israel – which entails historical concessions – is not on its agenda.
<>In any case, it could not impose any agreement it might negotiate. And Israel’s security and ideological reservations about territorial concessions in the West Bank will continue to complicate the task of reaching a compromise with Fatah – just as they did in the years preceding Hamas’ electoral gains.

Moreover, the current political break between the West Bank and Gaza does not relieve Fatah leaders of their obligations to Gaza residents or signal the end of Hamas’ intention to expand its presence in the West Bank. With the revival of a political process, the West Bank and Gaza will be on the negotiating table as a single entity. And any Palestinian delegation – religious, secular, or mixed – will insist on maintaining that link. Israel will not be able to ignore demands in that spirit, however much they may complicate matters.

A Pali Mama's Love: Grooming for Death

PA journalist:
"A mother brushes her young son's hair at 7:00, so that he will be killed at 7:30." PMW - read the whole ugly truth here.

A Palestinian journalist has expressed despair about the society of death worship in Gaza. In so doing, he has corroborated PMW findings documenting the death culture promoted in Palestinian Authority education.

The journalist wrote:

“We knew that they would do it, especially in Gaza, where a mother brushes her young son's hair at 7:00, so that he will be killed at 7:30, and where the children learn that death is preferable to life! We knew that they would do this, it was clear to us: with language overflowing with the rhetoric of death and the norms of killing, in the religious rulings [Fatwas] and in Friday and holiday sermons.”
[Ghassan Zaqtan, Al-Ayyam, June18, 2007]

The journalist's critical mistake is that he seems to attribute the death culture only to Hamas, whereas it has been the Fatah leadership and education that initiated and still actively teach that death is preferable to life.

For example, a Palestinian Authority schoolbook written by Fatah educators teaches 13- and 14-year-olds literally to prefer death over life, while it is the "enemies" who cherish life:

“O heroes, Allah has promised you victory ... Do not talk yourselves into flight…Your enemies seek life while you seek death. They seek spoils to fill their empty stomachs while you seek a Garden [Paradise] as wide as are the heavens and the earth. Do not be anxious to meet them [enemies], for death is not bitter in the mouth of the believers. These drops of blood that gush from your bodies will be transformed tomorrow into blazing red meteors that will fall down upon the heads of your enemies." [Reading and Texts Part II, Grade 8 (2002), p. 16]

The words introducing this poem are: "Read and enjoy." There's  more so read it all.

KAPO OLmert to Unleash 250 Islamic terrorists on the World

If 250 Fatah terrorists are to be freed, then Olmert ought to be locked up. Seriously.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that Israel would release 250 Fatah prisoners “without blood on their hands” with a promise that they would not take part in terror activity.
Addressing family members of the Palestinian prisoners, Olmert said, “I understand how much you miss your loved ones. It is just as important to us to bring our boys home as it is for you to bring your boys home. We won’t give up or let go until we get them back.” (Ynetnews)

Hey Abu Dana, kish meir en tuchas.

Olmert Gov't OKs $562 Million Transfer to Fatah Terrorists

ISRAEL BRACES FOR JULY WAR WITH UP TO FIVE ENEMIES
 

KAPO OLMERT $IGNS OFF ON NATIONAL SUICIDE, FUNDS ISLAMIC JIHAD, GENOCIDE

After Abbass  signs off on the transfer of American and Israeli weaponry, intel and munitions to Hamas, Abu Dana Olmert has transferred fresh funds to rearm the jihad. That little charade they played, that war fraud between Hamas and Fatah (same difference) fooled no one but the fools. Olmert ought to be brought on on charges. Moderate muderer vs extreme murderer? What kind of a sick mind fuck is that?

ISRAEL OK FUNDS TO BOOS ABBAS Cnn hat tip Pim's Ghost

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the release of frozen tax funds to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, officials said, in a step to bolster the moderate Palestinian leader in his standoff against the Islamic militant group Hamas.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked the Cabinet to release the funds as part of a package of moves in support of Abbas. The vote came a day ahead of Olmert's meeting in Egypt Monday with Abbas, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah II of Jordan.

The summit is designed as a high-profile display of support for the Palestinian president against his Hamas rivals, who seized control of Gaza in a brutal rout of Abbas' Fatah movement earlier this month. The infighting has left the Palestinians with two governments -- Abbas' new government in the West Bank, and the Hamas rulers in Gaza.

The main proposal at Sunday's Cabinet meeting was the release of some $550 million tax money that Israel has withheld from the Palestinians since Hamas swept Palestinian parliamentary elections in January 2006.

Israel considers Hamas a terrorist group. But after Abbas expelled the Islamic group from the Palestinian government, Olmert had signaled he would unfreeze the money.

Olmert's spokeswoman, Miri Eisin, said Sunday's vote was a "decision in principle" to release the funds. "The exact amount, the way will be decided in discussion with the Palestinian president in [Egypt] and afterward with the government," she said.

Who's the Palestinian president? (05/15/05)
Yasser Abbas (12/22/05)
The problem with Mahmoud Abbas (01/09/05
Abbas, Terror and Lies (03/04/05)
Abbas-linked group involved in suicide blast (01/03/06)
Abbas Talks, Jews Die (03/10/03)
Abbas Approves Monthly Grant To Families of Suicide Bombers (12/11/05)
Abbas Endorses Hezbollah (08/11/06)
Settling for an Image (06/21/06)

HAMAS: THANK YOU AMERICA

There is no doubt, no doubt, in my mind that Fatah took a dive so that Hamas could get their hands on all that American intel, weaponry, munitions  and moolah. They are working in tandem. This is exemplar of America's willful stupidity in dealing with morally bankrupt barbarians.

Hamas Goon Brags About US Aid Money 'Turned Into Weapons'  via LGF

SPIEGEL ONLINE: What will improve for people in Gaza now that Hamas is in control?

Zahar: The good thing is that we can now collect information about our enemies and informants from foreign powers. We will look for Israel’s spies.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Last week there were street battles in the West Bank between Fatah and Hamas militias. Fatah maintained the upper hand. How will Hamas loyalists defend themselves in the event of any new fighting?

Zahar: Let me ask you: How have we defended ourselves so far against the Israeli occupation?

SPIEGEL ONLINE: With bombs and attacks?

Zahar: Exactly. But you said that, not me. ...

SPIEGEL ONLINE: The militant wings of Fatah and Hamas have been fully armed over the last few months. Are these weapons still in circulation?

Zahar: There are naturally very many weapons around now. Two years ago, one bullet in Gaza cost around €3.50 — now it would cost 35 cents. The American aid money has been translated into weapons. Thank you, America!

HAMAS MURDERS UN WORKERS

Chickens coming home to roost;

Peace Activists, UN Workers Killed by Hamas
Israel Today
During the final hours of Hamas' military conquest of the Gaza Strip last Thursday, two peace activists and a pair of UN aid workers were gunned down by members of the terror group. The first incident occurred when some 1,000 unarmed Palestinian demonstrators marched in Gaza City demanding that Hamas end its murderous rampage, reported Ha'aretz. As the protesters approached a Hamas position, militants opened fire, killing two people and sending the rest scattering in fear. Shortly after, two employees of the UN refugee relief agency operating in Gaza were shot dead by Hamas gumen, prompting the world body to suspend its aid work in the blood-soaked coastal strip. Neither slaying of innocent, unarmed civilians by Gaza's new Islamic overlords was deemed headline news by the mainstream international press. Commentators noted that had the victims been killed by Israeli soldiers, their deaths would have been front page news for days, as well as triggering a special session of every relevant UN council.
[read article]

KAPO OLMERT GIVING $400 MILLION TO ISLAMAZIS

What's next Abu Dana Olmert? Are going to hand over every Jewish first born son? Because that is in effect what you are doing. hat tip EJO via LGF

Israel to transfer $400 million to PA YNET News

Withheld tax funds may be transferred to emergency Palestinian government following end to international embargo on PA. Transfer to be monitored, ensuring no funds reach terror groups

Israel is expected to release withheld tax funds to the Palestinian Authority just in time for a four-way Middle East summit in Sharm el-Sheikh next Monday.

UPDATE: Al-Fatah Gunmen on Rampage in West Bank Los Angeles Times

For much of the last week, Fatah gunmen in black masks have ruled the streets here, abducting rivals, looting or burning their property, and intimidating elected officials inside the Hamas-run City Hall. Demoralized by Hamas' military defeat of their comrades in the Gaza Strip, the gunmen are sowing retribution across the West Bank. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, of Fatah, said Wednesday that the lawlessness was the most pressing problem facing the emergency government he appointed Sunday in the West Bank. "We have seen chaos here before, but this is different. The police have lost control," said Hafez Shaheen, a Hamas municipal legislator who has abandoned his City Hall office in Nablus, the largest West Bank city and epicenter of the violence. "People are afraid for their lives." US and Israeli officials, stung by the Islamic movement's takeover in Gaza, have begun to treat the two Palestinian territories as separate entities. They are squeezing Gaza, and have pledged to spend money and diplomatic effort on the West Bank, in hope of turning it into a model new Palestine that can make peace with Israel. The violence here reflects a complex reality posing more troublesome scenarios.

More Proof Fatah-Hamas War Fraud

The IRIS blog covers more deeply the alleged charade I pointed to in my post, "was Fatah ordered to take a dive?" Stranger still is the calls for quick aid to Fatah (more here.) In a dramatic shift, Bush is backing waiving preconditions for the funds.

FATAH-HAMAS WAR WAS A FRAUD IRIS hat tip Dr Jeff

No mainstream news source has reported the clear truth about the Fatah-Hamas 'war'--there wasn't any. Fatah never fought.

It has been common knowledge that journalists in Palestinian areas do not report on stories that gunmen do not want publicized, either because of intimidation or ideological affinity. However, one brave blogger wrote up his interviews with Fatah gunmen who were given orders not to fight at all.

Whether the cause was conspiracy or not, two facts are certain:

1) The enormous resources provided to Fatah to resist the Hamas takeover of Gaza were essentially unused and are now in the hands of Hamas to attack Israel.

2) Enormous resources are now being provided to Fatah to fight Hamas in the West Bank.

We left Gaza yesterday with a Red Cross aid convoy, but I want to post some thoughts on Fatah’s collapse. We spoke with nearly a dozen Fatah fighters and soldiers from the various branches of the security services, all of whom were around in the president’s compound, the intelligence headquarters, the Preventative Security headquarters and even in Khan Younis until the final hours of the battle. We came with a pretty damning indictment of the political and military leadership.

Fatah never fought. Gaza was essentially handed over to Hamas. Soldier after soldier said they felt betrayed and abandoned by their leadership. There was a seemingly willful lack of decision making by the senior most political leadership. Up and down the Gaza Strip from the first moments of fighting, the military leadership disintegrated while the political leadership remained eerily silent.

Ousted Fatah loyalists in Gaza widely suspect a political decision was made early on in Ramallah to surrender the Gaza Strip to Hamas in order to extricate Abbas, Israel and the US from the seeming intractable pickle they were facing as infighting spiraled, living conditions worsened, and the peace process seemed hopelessly stuck. With the Palestinian territories now split, the US, Israel and Abbas suddenly have way forward, without compromising to Hamas.

I don’t mean to sound conspiratorial, and I think the likeliest scenario is that all the parties involved simply accepted what was essentially a fait accompli some time in the course of the fighting and set about finding whatever silver lining could be salvaged.

There are of course a dozen reasons why Fatah was so ineffective. Fatah was unpopular and the vast majority of the security forces were not really Fatah loyalists. They were merely after a steady salary, not some messianic belief in Fatah or the rightness of the Palestinian Authority. They were doing it because it was their job and they hadn’t been paid more than a fraction of their salaries in 18 months. Fatah was also divided into disparate bickering factions.

All that being said, the total surrender of the security forces is striking. Keep reading.

Arab Despair over Pali Barbarism (yawn)

I have a difficult time sympathizing with their despair. When Pali brutality is unleashed on the Jews no one so much as bats an eye. But when directed at each other, the world is moribund.

Arabs Losing Faith in ‘the Cause’ Youssef Ibrahim

Why is America trying to pour new money and more weapons into Palestinian Arab hands barely days after the Gaza debacle? It is an ill-considered policy, both premature and useless. The only sure result will be that warring gangs in the West Bank will use every new weapon to continue the mayhem and that the millions paid out won’t buy as much as a bottle of milk for Palestinian Arab civilians. Instead, the money will end up in the pockets and bank accounts of the same crooks who lost Gaza.

    Indeed, why try to recreate a world that has just crumbled? America and Israel may want to wait for what may turn out to be a changing of the guard: Arab voices, both expert and popular, are rising in vociferous denunciations of the once sacrosanct Palestinian Arabs.

    “It is idle to think that Gaza could be written off as a Hamas dominion while Fatah held its own in the towns of the West Bank,” Fouad Ajami of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies noted in a sobering analysis published Tuesday in the New York Times. “The abdication and the anarchy have damaged both Palestinian realms. Nablus in the West Bank is no more amenable to reason than is Gaza; the writ of the pitiless preachers and gunmen is the norm in both places.”

    While Mr. Ajami’s commentary is poised, there is no such thing:

    “Palestinians today need to be left without a shred of a doubt” as to what other Arabs think of them, a widely read opinion commentator for the Saudi daily Asharq Al Awsat, Mamoun Fandy, thundered on Monday. “We need to tell them the only thing they have proven over 50 years is that they are adolescents who cannot and should not be trusted to run institutions of state or any other important matters.”     While it could be argued that the overwhelming public outrage in Saudi Arabia reflects resentment over the collapse of the much vaunted reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah — which was personally brokered by King Abdullah earlier this year in Mecca — the anger expressed across the Muslim Arab world reflects deep embarrassment at the discredit Hamas has brought, in the name of Islam, through its savagery against Fatah.

    For its part, the Egyptian press has become unhinged, spewing vile denunciations of what is universally known as “the cause” — support for the Palestinian Arabs — and describing it as dead. Egypt’s government pulled its embassy out of Gaza on Tuesday.

    Kuwaitis, who have harbored contempt for Palestinian Arabs ever since they allied themselves with Saddam Hussein’s occupation in 1990–91, also dropped all restraint. “Palestinians are neither a modernized nor a civilized people,” Ahmad Al Bughdadi wrote Monday in Al Siyassah, an influential Kuwaiti daily. “They are not statesmen. If what happened in Gaza is what they do without a state, what then shall they do when they get one?”

    If there could be an editorial coup de grace, it surely was delivered by no less than Abdelbari Atwan, undoubtedly the Palestinian Arabs most influential and respected journalist and a familiar face on both Western and Arab television.

    Writing in the London-based Al Quds International, his painfully felt commentary, “Yes, We Have Lost the World’s Respect,” argued that “the cause” may have lost its legitimacy: “Many, myself among them, find it difficult to speak of Israeli crimes against our people in view of what we have now done,” Mr. Atwan wrote. “I never thought the day would come when we would see Palestinians throwing other Palestinians from the tops of buildings to their death, Palestinians attacking other Palestinians to tear their bodies with knives, Palestinians stripping others naked to drag them through the streets.”

    All of which suggests letting this Arab storm run its course: It may be a purging of the Arab mindset that creates new realities and opportunities.

Read it all.

 

Our friends the Saudis .......fund Hamas

Ugh. Over at JihadWatch. Hatred of the Jews make strange bedfellows.  hat tip EJO

SAUDIS FUNDING HAMAS

Friend and Ally Update. "Millions of shekels transferred from Saudi to Hamas: Charity associations in Jerusalem receive millions of shekels to fund Hamas hostilities," by Aviram Zino for Ynet News (thanks to IG):

According to two indectments served Monday, millions of shekels have been transferred from a Saudi organization to Hamas operatives in Jerusalem. The money was received as charity although, in reality, it was earmarked for terrorist activities. Following a request from the Jerusalem prosecutor's office, details of the affair were released for publication Monday after the Shin Bet and Police investigation was concluded.

Two indictments were served on members of the organizations involved for breaking the law that prohibits funding terrorism.

CONDI: Hardwired for Self Deception

Unbelievable. Just finished watching KKKondi hold a press conference at State saying she will be resuming all aid to Abbas/Fatah.  She looked forward to the stupidly incompetent Olmert and the bloody Abbas work toward peace. This is a mental illness.

Dr. Jeff wrote me earlier, "Fatah and Hamas will continue to work together to achieve their shared goal of annihilating and destroying Israel and murdering Jews. Despite the recent bloodletting in Gaza and Judea/Samaria, these Islamelites will continue to play the west: ie, they will even feign irrevocable differences in order to consolidate power, finances and arms. Israel and the U.S. are therefore facilitating Israel's demise by dealing with Fatah as if Fatah were to be trusted."

I agree. Nothing short of an all out war will end the proposed genocide of the Jews and their state. Olmert is in DC begging for more aid (here.) This is terrible. Wrong for Israel.

A few months ago, Israel submitted a request to raise the annual sum by 25 percent over 10 years, from $2.4 billion to $3b. If implemented, this would reverse the course initiated by prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu 10 years ago, which gradually reduced annual assistance by 20%, from $3b to $2.4b. Doing so would be a mistake.

Save the country you asshat! He is trading aid for survival. Can you be a kosher pig?

Dr. Jeff adds: This lionization of Fatah and Abbas by the U.S. and Israeli mainstream media is not only mendacious, it is repulsive and repugnant. Fatah is every bit as dangerous and lethal as Hamas regarding Israel's security and well-being. Perhaps, even more so given the fact that the MSM and political elites speak of Fatah and Abbas in glowing terms - effectively negating past and present history.

The term 'moderate' being used to describe Fatah and Abbas is absolute bullshit!

Fatah continues to lie, deceive and mislead. They are experts in the field of taqqiya. They are backed by the world's best PR firms and have created this false image of moderation when in fact they are vicious and brutal murderers and savages. Lest we forget that since the Oslo 'death process' commenced in '93, Fatah and its branches have murdered, maimed and injured more innocent Israelis and Jews than Hamas has. Olmert, Bush and their subservient lackeys need to be taken to task.

THIS IS THE REAL ABBAS -read it and weep.

Give 'em a state!

UPDATE: Ted Belman says it straight;

Abbas is not worthy of support because

- he is a holocaust denier
- he was the architect of the Munich Massacre.
- he was Arafat’s partner in Terror for 40 years
- he has never abided by his commitments to end incitement and terror
- he continues to educate Arab children to hate and kill Jews and seek martyrdom
- he finances the terror division of Fatah named al Aksa Martyrs Brigade.
- he has never indicated a willingness to compromise
- he never provided good government or curtailed terror.

This is the short list.
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ISLAM ATTACKS NORTH ISRAEL!

EXPLOSIONS IN NORTHERN ISRAEL (CBS reporting)
Israel is being attacked  on it's northern border (speculation Katyushas) Rockets fired from Lebanon, Iranian foreign legion Hezb'Allah must be behind it.

UNCONFIRMED: FIRED BY HEZB'ALLAH "MILITANTS" (translations: depraved murderers)

UPDATE: It was Pali Arabs not Hezb'Allah. What's the difference? I mean really.

'Palestinians, Not Hizbullah, Fired at Kiryat Shemona' INN

IsraelNN.com) IBA Radio Reshet Bet reported that the attack on Kiryat Shemona Sunday afternoon was probably carried out by Palestinians living in Lebanon, and not by the Shiite Hizbullah terrorist group.

Two explosions occurred in Kiryat Shemona: one, in a residential area, caused no damage, and another, in the town's industrial area, caused some damage. No one was hurt in the attacks.

IBA TV (Channel 11) reported that there may have been additional explosions in the Kiryat Shemona area.

This is part of Iran's three pronged attack on Israel I described here last week.. Time to go into Iran. Long overdue.

John Bolton last week: Interview With John Bolton on Gaza, Iran:

COLMES: And if Israel is drawn in militarily, what does that say for the United States?

BOLTON: Well, I think we will obviously be supplying Israel, but I don't think that implies any military participation by the United States. The real question is whether the violence can be contained just on the West Bank or whether, for example, Hezbollah and Lebanon takes action there, as well.

COLMES: Hamas has said they have no interest in staying. They just want to ward off a coup, which they say is favored by a faction within Fatah that is not letting them govern as they say they were duly elected to do.

BOLTON: Well, if you watched what happened in Gaza over the past several days, this was a very systematic, sustained, well-thought-out campaign. I think this is a coup d'etat. I think Mahmoud Abbas is right about that, and I think it will continue. The real issue is, did Hamas decide to do this on its own or did some outside force, like Iran, have something to do with it?

COLMES: And we got into that -- a couple of nights ago, you were on the show. We talked about that. You believe Iran is complicit here. And what evidence, if you believe that, do you have of that?

BOLTON: There's no doubt that Iran funds and supply Hamas with weapons. The issue -- and I put it in the form of a question -- is whether Iran has something more in mind, whether they're responsible here, and whether Iran might fire up Hezbollah to try and overthrow the government in Lebanon.

COLMES: All right. If you believe that is true, and if you believe this will spread to Israel, and we don't actually fight but supply Israel, and Iran is supplying Hamas, are we then in a de facto war with Iran as a result of going -- well, you just a few moments ago said where you think this could go?

BOLTON: As I said to the other night, I think we're in a de facto war with Iran now in Iraq, because of the actions they're taking against our coalition forces there. But I think what this shows is that Iran is on a roll in the region. They're pushing out. They're not getting any pushback. If Hamas succeeds in taking over all of the West Bank and Gaza, and if Hezbollah moves in Lebanon, then I think you're going to see an Iran with more influence in the region than ever before.

COLMES: You say no push back, and I got the sense -- we've talked a number of times about this. You favor pushback. You want the United States to get involved with Iran militarily, or you think it's inevitable. And I don't see how we do that. I don't know where the personnel comes from. I don't where the money comes from. We're mired in Iraq. We have people repeating tour after tour after tour. How do we do that?

Monster boy will be hiding behind my skirts when the proverbial shit hits the fans. What a putz.

BOLTON: Well, I think, with respect to the nuclear program, that the military option is an important one. I think, with respect to the support for terrorism around the region, that there are a number of steps we can take well short of military force, but would show Iran that we're simply not going to tolerate this. For example, in the case of Lebanon, a dramatic increase in support for the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Siniora.

SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Ambassador, welcome back to the program. I want to stay on the issue of Iran, if I can here. It was also revealed that they are supplying weaponry on the Taliban. We know they're supplying weaponry to the insurgency in Iraq. They're funding Hezbollah to the tune of $100 million a year. You confirm this supporting and funding Hamas here. We know the IAEA says they may have a nuclear weapon in three years. It almost seems imperative that we act at some point or we will regret that we missed this opportunity.

[...]

HANNITY: Well, we see more than that. We see the pursuit of nuclear weapons escalating more and more every day. The incendiary rhetoric continues towards Israel in particular. As we're watching these events unfold here, my great fear is Israel will be drawn in, and that could end up being Israel versus Iran by proxy in some way. Is that possible?

BOLTON: Well, I think it is Israel versus Iran by proxy already with respect to Hamas. It was last summer with respect to Hezbollah. The question is whether there is a grand plan here by Iran or these are simply local conflicts that have gotten out of control. I don't think we have the evidence one way or the other at this point.

HANNITY: This, though, has the potential of really getting out of control, no?

BOLTON: Well, if it escalates in several different places at the same time. But I think on Iran's mind is the fact they've pushed against the United States. We have not pushed back. They took British hostages, and they got a softly, softly response from Britain.

HANNITY: Let me ask this last question. If Israel is drawn into this conflict, we have to support Israel, do we not?

BOLTON: There's no doubt about it. And if Israeli settlers on the West Bank are threatened by a Hamas-Fatah civil war, there's no doubt the Israelis will take strong action to defend their own citizens.

HANNITY: Stop saying you're going to wipe Israel off the map.

BOLTON: I think that they went well beyond that over a period of decades by supporting Hezbollah and Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Condi Rice calls them the world's central banker of terrorism.

Read the whole damn interview now.

UPDATE: Up to 4 Katyusha rockets fired at northern Israel; none hurt J Post 

Four Katyusha rockets struck the town of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel Sunday afternoon, causing damage but no injuries.

Two or three rockets landed in Kiryat Shmona while one hit Lebanese territory.

In response, one government official who was traveling with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in New York said that Israel would show restraint in its response to a rocket attack.

"This is an attempt to provoke Israel into a response," the official said. "Israel will not succumb to this provocation but will monitor the situation carefully." The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

 

 

In Violation of the BUSH DOCTRINE

FM Livni said: "Israel is closely following the situation in the Gaza Strip. The recent pictures from Gaza provide clear testimony to the true nature of Hamas, which certainly is not serving Palestinian interests. Hamas has created a separate reality in Gaza, different from Judea and Samaria, turning Gaza into a trap for the Palestinian people. Israel is waiting to see whether the Palestinian moderates will create a better political reality." Hat tip Josef via MFA

WTF is she smoking? The testimony the pictures from Gaza clearly give is that there is no dealing with savages.  " Palestinian moderates ?"The barbaric catastrophe bears witness to the absence of "moderates." What makes Fatah more attractive than Hamas? That they lost to Hamas? Or that they wear suits? Seriously. Wishing is not a strategy for survival.

World leaders push support for Fatah over Hamas.

Get your facts straight here. Worse yet the  U.S. clearly intends to use Hamas Upheaval To Squeeze Israel for Concessions IRIS blog here;

Despite the many reports that Israel's previous $100 million and arms for Fatah to fight Hamas has ended up in Hamas' hands:

American President George W. Bush will press visiting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert next week to fork over to the Palestinian Authority (PA) hundreds of millions of dollars in tax money to prop up the standing of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Israel collects the money from taxes on Arabs working in Israel and other tariffs.

"We want to get back to the situation where the Palestinians can get something that they've been robbed of too many times, which is peace in their streets, democracy in their government, and the ability to move toward what everybody in the region ought to hope for, which is two nations, sovereign, living peacefully and side by side," White House press secretary Tony Snow told reporters Thursday....

The Hamas coup in Gaza buried the ruins of the dreams of the administration of former American President Bill Clinton for a "New Middle East"," which literally blew up with the outbreak of the Oslo War in 2000.

Atlas correspondent Jeff writes;

You recently met Itamar Marcus during his recent visit to the states.

During that visit, Itamar testified before Congress detailing (by showing footage of Palestinian programing) how the Palestinian media (Fatah/Abbas controlled) indoctrinates Palestinian society incessantly with anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli and anti-American propaganda.

Many members of Congress were apparently flabergastered by the rank, vile nature of the footage. I am very bothered by the fact that the mainstream media, the President and the State Dept. continue to label Abbas and Fatah as moderate.

I am more than bothered. It is suicidal and in complete violation of the Bush Doctrine. Initial formulation: No distinction between terrorists and those who harbor them. Supporting and propping violent Islamic terror regimes is how we got to 9/11 in the first place.

Calling Abbas moderate is like calling Rosie O'Donnell thin.

If I recall correctly, just after the Twin Towers came crashing down on 9/11/01, there was footage aired - by FOX NEWS - of Fatah supporters in Judea/Samaria (West Bank) rejoicing and celebrating. Moreover, these Fatah supporters were handing out candy to children. Palestinians frequently hand out candy to celebrate and commemorate joyous occasions.

For example, candy is distributed following:
- the birth of a child - weddings
- suicide/homicide operations which result in the murder of innocent Israelis and Jews - the murder of American soldiers, etc.

Fatah has a long a bloody track record since its inception in 1964.

It was an egregious mistake, made by the Reagan administration, to prevent Israel from finishing off the PLO and Fatah in 1983 following the PLO defeat in Lebanon. It was a grievious error not assassinate Arafat (IDF snipers had him in their cross-hairs), his lieutenants (including Abbas) and the hierarchy of Fatah when they were holed up in Tripoli.

Following the PLO banishment to Tunis, Arafat and his scum were on the verge of becoming irrelevant. Subsequently, in the late 80's and very early 90's there was a push to resusitate the ailing PLO. First came the Madrid talks ( Peres and Beilin began negotiating illegally with the PLO), then came the Oslo Peace Talks, etc.  After the ill-fated handshake between Rabin and Arafat on 9/13/93), the PLO was recast as the PA. Arafat and his henchmen were then allowed to return from exile in Tunis to Gaza and Judea/Samaria. Terrorism began to rise and innocent Jews and Israelis began to die in droves. The Wye River peace talks followed - this is when Netanyahu turned over Hebron to the savages. Next came the failed Camp David peace talks where Barak offered Arafat and his Nazis 95% of Judea/Samaria and East Jerusalem. The 2nd intifada then began. This was followed by wave after wave of suicide/homicide bombings and maimings. Fatah, Hamas and PIJ worked together to kill Israelis and Jews. Subsequently,  Bush made his famous speech and announced his support for a 'Two State Solution.' He is the first U.S. President to advocate such a position.

Then came the roadmap to hell.

Statistics don't lie. Since the Oslo Death Process commenced in '93, Fatah has murdered and maimed more Israelis than Hamas has.

Yet, because Abbas and Fatah wear expensive suits and usually camoflauge their intentions, they are considered moderate and reasonable. These savages employ some of the finest PR firms in the U.S. and Europe to cultivate a false image.

The U.S. and Israel know the score yet they continue to promote this idiotic and failed notion of negotiating with Palestinian Nazis and ceding land for a false peace.

Keep in mind, we are just talking about Fatah here. To this day, the U.S. is funding and training Fatah fighters (terrorists) - many in the U.S. In addition, Israel is funding and supplying arms to these same Fatah terrorists.

What gives?

The only conclusion that I come to is that Israel is being sacrificed by the evil whores in D.C. and the evil whores in the Knesset.

No one wants to make the tough decsions. They must be killed. The entire culture of death must be crushed. Destroyed. No one will make that call. Instead they delude themselves with the salve of "peace."

UPDATE: Bush met with Jewish Leadership? WHERE THEY JEWICIDALS?

BUSH MET WITH JEWISH LEADERS Washington Post hat tip Jerry

CRAWFORD, Tex., June 16 -- As he prepared for a visit this week from Israel's prime minister, President Bush held an unannounced meeting with the top leadership of the United States' Jewish community to discuss the dramatic events in the Middle East and other foreign policy issues.

Bush meets with smaller groups of Jewish leaders from time to time, but the gathering Thursday was the first time he had met with the entire leadership community, about 50 heads of Jewish advocacy, service and religious organizations of different political orientations

The White House did not disclose the private session on the president's schedule, and officials asked participants to treat Bush's remarks as off the record. Present for the session were the president's most senior aides, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley, White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and political adviser Karl Rove.

There's more.

UPDATE:

CUANAS sent me valuable researched links to Fatah's bloody past and intentions. These are bloodlusty killers with no capacity for humanity, peace or negotiation. The evil of Islamic jihad  must be eliminated and with it Fatah, Hamas, Hezb'Allah, Islamic Jihad, Al Aksa, Fatah al-Islam, and Iran of course. CUANAS writes;

Your article about Fatah being birthed out of the al-Husseini movement is important.  

Yasser Arafat's original name was also al-Husseini, and many people believe that he was the Grand Mufti's nephew. Go here. 

In fact, there, Time Magazine directly said it; Arafat was related to the Grand Mufti.

Additionally, Arafat said that the Grand Mufti was his inspiration here.

And finally, the PLO Charter, which is listed on the official website of the United Nations, clearly calls for the destruction of Israel here. 

Here are some key phrases:

 

Poetic Justice

Now this is gorgeous.

That Nobel was worthless, criminal really, awarding "the prize" to such a vile murderer. It is where it belongs. Like I said gorgeous. Oh the ironicness.......

Hamas looters steal Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize Jihadwatch

This couldn't have been plotted better by a scriptwriter. In an action heavy with symbolism, looters affiliated with Hamas have broken into Arafat's home, trashed the place, and stolen everything they could...including his Nobel Peace Prize. Since Arafat was dedicated to the destruction of Israel no less than they were, but was just cleverer about concealing it (witness the fact that he received the Prize at all), and readily used the rhetoric of jihad especially in his Arabic-language speeches, this is fitting: Hamas is the natural outcome of his life's work, and thus the most fitting inheritor of this great commendation of that work.

Bush & Co: Empowering our Executioners

Abbas  is the great white hope now? Eretz sent me a series of articles on Abbas that he  collected a couple years ago here. Propping up this terrorist alleging he is less savage than the other terrorist is morally ill. It is sick. Bush and co. ought to take heed. They are empowering their executioners.

In any compromise between good and evil, evil profits. What better example of this truism Islamism overrunning the planet. We should have crushed the terrorists 20 tears ago after Munich, after the Achille Lauro, after the first airplane hijacking, instead we made them rock stars. Sick.

Dr Jeff writes;

This is what happens when you trust Fatah Nationalist Nazis (many of whom are Islamist as well) with valuable intelligence assets. This is what happens when you share privy information with corrupt, predominantly Muslim murderers. This is what happens when you ignore reality and history.

The birth of Fatah wass directly linked to Haj Amin al Husseini's version of Palestinian nationalism. Those who are honest with themselves know that Hamas and Fatah, while differing in tactics and timetables, aspire to achieve the same goal - THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL AND THE ANNIHILATION OF JEWS! This coming week, Bush and Olmert - and their obsequeous, subservient, lackeys - will preach the following mantra:  We  pledge our support to President Abbas and the Palestinian People. We cannot let the terrorists win.

Just yesterday,  President Bush, actually stated (regarding the Hamas purge of Fatah in Gaza), "...we cannot let the terrorists win..." so why hand the the keys to the kingdom? That is evil.

The Israelis who preach the same or similar mantra are evil as well. THE TRUTH ABOUT FATAH AND ABBAS MUST BE TOLD!

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Hamas – and its Syrian and Iranian sponsors - capture priceless Palestinian Authority intelligence archives in Gaza putsch      

The Fatah-led general intelligence and security services caved in too fast to shred, wipe or burn documents, computer disks and archives. The entire collection fell into Hamas’ hands when they seized Palestinian Preventive Intelligence HQ at Tel Awa (henceforth Tel al-Islam) and the Palestinian General Intelligence center near Gaza port.

DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources say: Never before has a bonanza of Western intelligence secrets on this scale ever reached an implacably hostile Islamist terrorist gang. The US, British and Israeli intelligence services may have suffered their greatest debacle in the war on Islamist terror. It will take them many years to recover.

Hamas has taken possession of hundreds of thousands of documents cataloguing the clandestine operations of Western intelligence services in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and the oil emirates. It is now the owner of complete archives of Palestinian undercover links with foreign intelligence services going back decades, with names of spies, political collaborators and double agents. The documentation covers the secret ties Palestinian intelligence maintained from the 1970s, when Yasser Arafat was based in Lebanon, with the Americans, the British, the French, the Israelis and many others.

Most intelligence experts say Israel should have bombed the two buildings and destroyed their contents rather than letting them fall into the hands of an organization and country dedicated to its eclipse. For Hamas, this booty is priceless – and not only as the repository of bombs for planting under Mahmoud Abbas and his cohorts. The Palestinian group’s Syrian and Iranian sponsors will pay a king’s ransom for this unique collection of explosive secrets hidden by many a Western intelligence agency and government.

Damascus and Tehran will be hugely empowered with the means to stay a jump ahead of American moves in the region and tools to sabotage US policies at any time. They will have a store of national secrets and compromising information to hold over the heads of Western leaders and officials, lists of undercover agents, and records of covert operations carried out by the Israeli Mossad, Shin Bet and Military Intelligence, CIA, British MI6 and other Western agencies. Iran, Syria and Hamas will know the names of politicians, including Israelis, who worked secretly with Palestinians and their shady deals.

One intelligence expert said that the Gaza hoard left in enemy hands by Abbas and Mohammed Dahlan are the crown jewels compared with the Saddam Hussein’s intelligence archives.

In the Palestinian security service building, Hamas found computer hard disks covering years of undercover activity and a complete set of sophisticated wiretapping and surveillance equipment and sensors which the CIA and MI6 gave Mahmoud Abbas and his forces. It was all in perfect condition ready to switch on. After the Nazi regime was defeated at the end of World War II and Eastern Germany fell in the 1990s, there were officials willing to make a desperate effort to destroy or hide their intelligence treasure. Palestinian intelligence officers did not burn a single page.

UPDATE: What I said. Arafat's Children WSJ Hat tip David

But leave aside the fact that Mr. Bush did not simply call for an election: Is it wise to negotiate with a group that kills its fellow Palestinians almost as freely as it does Israelis? And what would there be to negotiate about? The best-case scenario--a suspension of hostilities in exchange for renewed international funding--would simply give Hamas time and money to consolidate its rule and rebuild an arsenal for future terror assaults. Then, too, the last thing the Palestinians need is yet further validation from the wider world that the violence they now inflict so indiscriminately works.

The deeper lesson here is that a society that has spent the last decade celebrating suicide bombing would inevitably become a victim of its own nihilistic impulses. This is not the result of Mr. Bush's call for democratic responsibility; it is the bitter fruit of the decades of dictatorship and terrorism as statecraft that Yasser Arafat instilled among Palestinians.

UPDATE: Jewish Odysseus has the background on this video here;

Jew-Free by the Sea

Podhoretz in today's New York Post. Yeah, read it all. Here.

Self Rule? Try Mob Rule

This isn't a civil war - it's a gang war. And thousands of Palestinian bystanders are going to get shot while these two gangs go to the mattresses.

Ah, the joys of self-rule.

Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister who conceived the disengagement plan, had a brilliant insight: Why not let them have it? They want it? It's theirs.

After all, over the course of Israel's 38 years of occupation, fewer than 10,000 Jews actually sought to live in Gaza - and their settlements required tens of thousands of other Israelis to risk their lives protecting them.

The Palestinians spent decades professing their detestation of Israeli occupation and demanding self-rule . . . so Israel gave them their heart's desire.

Gaza is Judenrein - emptied of all Jews, just as Hitler dreamed Germany would be. No Jews live in Gaza. No Jews patrol Gaza. It's Jew-Free-by-the-Sea, with a charming Mediterranean coast worth billions of dollars in tourism and trade.

So what's the problem?

The problem is that the Jews weren't the problem.

The problem is that the Palestinians are the problem: They are drenched in an ideology of blood and murder and suicide.

UPDATE: Meanwhile where do the Palis run for sanctuary?

Palestinians Flee To Israel (LGF)

Now that's rich.

The Three State Solution: Iran's War

There is something to be said for the Hamas victory. Little. Little  good anyway except that Hamas is and always has been straight about their objectives. Destroy Israel, kill the Jews,  as their mothership so succinctly put it - "wipe Israel off the map." So jerking Israel off with "moderate" terrorist vs. "extreme" terrorist, a thoroughly intellectually insulting premise, btw - no longer plays. Israel can and must destroy her mortal enemy. Hamasazis live by the sword and must die by the sword.

Fatah is another story. Abbas will continue to play the "moderate" terrorist card so that Abbas can  establish Fatahland in Judea/Samaria (aka the West Bank.) The US, EU and even Israel will fund this fantasy long enough for the Pali Arabs to wrest  control of the West Bank away from Israel and set up a terror state on Israel's Western border.

This is obvious. It is also frightening and the worst possible strategy for Israel's continued existence.

People speculate that Abbas will view June 14 as his day of independence. That the geographic separation and the serious blood now spilled between them does indeed create an opportunity.  I don't see it. Abbas has always said what the west wanted to hear to keep the flow of money coming into his coffers. Money for munitions, arm, war.
Hamas, OTOH, has a different paymaster - Iran and so has no such motive. That deception is unnecessary.

Ben wrote,

Before, there was never a geographic distinction between the "moderates" and "extremists". Moderates could talk peace, extremists could shoot, then moderates would shrug and say "look, Israel broke the ceasefire- but if we fired first, it's really Israel's fault anyway, and you can't really expect us to control the extremist while the Israels still occupy blah blah blah." The moderates couldn't really call the extremists out, because they feared exactly what has already happened. Now, no more fear. It's a done deal, there are really three sides in the fight. Now, with geography and some serious blood between them, this changes. Hamas can be made the palestinian scapegoat, and give mental cover to reconcilliation by the rest.

And while it is true that the moderates have not really been moderate, the fact is that they COULD have been moderate, and if they can accept past moderate status as the truth and blame Hamas for being the bees in the bonnet, who really cares who said what when? History is a mess at it is.*

I don't agree. The geography that is relevant is the the land of Israel. Ut's the geography Islam cares about. It's what the Arabs want. Have always wanted. The only ones that have been literally dying for peace are the Jews.

Moderate, my ass. It was only a tact to buy time, get money, and arm the jihad until it was strong enough to defeat Israel. Caroline Glick writesin todays J Post here;

For their part, the Palestinians held open and free elections in January 2006. They chose to deny parliamentary representation to non-terrorists, and placed Hamas at the head of the Palestinian Authority. They turned newly Jew-free Gush Katif, which Israel surrendered unconditionally, into terror training camps. They turned the ruins of the communities of northern Gaza into launch pads for missile and rocket attacks against Ashkelon and Sderot. They turned the abandoned international border between Gaza and the Sinai into a global jihadist highway through which terrorists from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hizbullah, Hamas and al-Qaida, as well as massive quantities of armaments have flooded into Gaza.

For the residents of Gaza, who overwhelmingly support Hamas, the situation has become particularly dire. Since foreign correspondents have abandoned the area, no one seems to notice or care about the fact that in Gaza today, children are murdered in front of their parents, passengers are removed from cars and shot in the streets, and doctors are murdered in hospitals as patients are violently removed from life support systems and taken out of operating rooms. No one bats a lash as jihadists bomb pubs and Internet cafes. No one hears as Gazans pray for a return of the so-called "occupation."

Jeff wrote me in an email and I quite agree;

As the U.S. State Dept. runs to support the terrorist entity, Fatah, and President Abbas, we must be diligent in disseminating the truth about Fatah and all of her vile branches. We must also make noise by contacting our Congressman and Senators and discourage them from supporting Fatah and Abbas. As you know, this mendacious label of moderate given to Fatah and Abbas is contrived propaganda. Lest we forget, Fatah has been culpable for the murder and maiming of more innocent Israelis and Jews - than Hamas - since the inception of the "Oslo" death process. We are all aware of Fatah's track record - dating back to the mid-60's.

Unfortunately, our elitist leaders in the U.S. and the elitist leaders in Israel spout this mendacity about Fatah and Abbas being moderate, etc.

Believe you me that next week, when the evil and feckless Olmert meets the evil and feckless Bush, Bush and his minions will press Israel - hard - to make multiple concessions to Fatah and Abbas. These murderous bastards, whose hands are stained with the blood of innocent Jews and Israelis, are being depicted in the media (even FOX NEWS) in sympathetic and empathic terms. I find this beguiling, inaccurate and nauseating. It would be most instructive if Bush, Condi, Olmert and Peres could sit together in a dark room and view reel after reel of MEMRI film documenting the PA's moderate positions.

Obviously this will never happen.

Also, just watch the number of leftist, liberal American Jews who jump on the bandwagon to support and prop up Fatah and fetid mouthed Abbas.

The real geography at play here is Hamas to the left of Israel, Fatah on the right and the recent Arab media reports of Syria making preparations for war with Israel A Qatari newspaper has confirmed reports that Syria is preparing for a summer war with Israel. More here.

Iran is behind it all.

UPDATE: Robert Tracinski makes my point in TIA DAILY;

 

Iran's New Summer Offensive

Gaza is the First Stage of a New Iranian Offensive Against the West

Most commentators on the Hamas takeover of Gaza are missing the real story. They miss it for the same reason that they have missed the real story in Iraq. They miss it because they think they are looking at a civil war—Sunnis versus Shiites in Iraq, Hamas versus Fatah in Gaza—when the real story is a regional war, with Iran at its center.

The Islamist takeover of Gaza is really the first stage in Iran's new summer offensive against the West.

The Hamas takeover was not factional rivalry that spun out of control. It was clearly a deliberate, planned military campaign. In the Gaza town of Khan Yunis, for example, Hamas fighters destroyed the headquarters of the Fatah-controlled security forces by detonating a one-ton bomb buried in a tunnel under the building. This is more than a civil war: it is a carefully planned, well-executed revolutionary putsch against the Palestinian Authority.

What happened after the Hamas military victory is even more telling. Stories have been filtering out about Fatah supporters being rounded up into prison camps, of Fatah fighters being bound and thrown off of high-rise rooftops or subject to summary executions in the street. Having taken power by brute force, Hamas is making it clear that it intends to rule by fear. Summing up all of these events, a spokesman for Hamas declared, "The era of justice and Islamic rule have arrived."

This should all be familiar. The same kind of "justice" and Islamic rule arrived in Iran in 1979—and now Iran has finally managed to export its Islamic Revolution into the Sunni Arab world. Gaza is now an outpost of Iranian-inspired totalitarian Islamic rule.

And there is a good possibility that this won't stop in Gaza. Fatah is a leftover of the old era of the quasi-secular nationalist Arab "strongman." But Fatah's strongman Yasser Arafat is dead, both literally and metaphorically: his type is losing out, in the Muslim world, to the revived Islamist movement represented by Hamas. One side in this conflict is tired and dispirited—while the other is fanatically devoted and believes that it has the forces of history on its side.

And there is a good possibility that this won't stop in Gaza. Fatah is a leftover of the old era of the quasi-secular nationalist Arab "strongman." But Fatah's strongman Yasser Arafat is dead, both literally and metaphorically: his type is losing out, in the Muslim world, to the revived Islamist movement represented by Hamas. One side in this conflict is tired and dispirited—while the other is fanatically devoted and believes that it has the forces of history on its side.

While jubilant Hamas fighters stormed the last remaining Fatah redoubts in Gaza, Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas responded by calling for new elections. The overall sense coming from Fatah spokesmen is not one of defiance or resolve, but a sense of resignation and despair. "There is no future for us," one Fatah supporter told the New York Times, while a Palestinian Authority official concluded, “We Palestinians are writing the final chapters of our national enterprise.” It should be no surprise to hear that hundreds of Fatah officials have already fled to Egypt. Fatah is a sinking ship, and the rats who make up its crew are deserting it. At this rate, Fatah will ultimately lose, not only Gaza, but the West Bank as well.

Seeing Fatah thugs dragged into the streets and shot by a rival gang of terrorists may not cause us to shed any tears—it couldn't happen to a more deserving group of people—but we shouldn't be deceived into thinking of this as a purely internal, factional struggle. During the first Palestinian intifada, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, most of the people killed by Palestinian terrorists were other Palestinians—those who were considered "collaborators" or advocates of peace with Israel. It was necessary for Arafat to eliminate all Palestinian opposition, so that he could take over the Palestinian territories (with our help, alas) and use them as a base from which to attack Israel.

This time, it is Iran—the main financial, military, and ideological sponsor of Hamas—that is seeking to take over. So, too, in Lebanon, where Iran's satellite, Syria, is also using factional fighting as an excuse to liquidate opposition—as in the latest assassination of an anti-Syrian politician. Syria seeks to break Lebanon between a new Sunni Islamist uprising in the north and the Shiite Islamist Hezbollah militia in the south—all with the goal of reasserting Syrian and Iranian control.

Add to this the continuing Iranian support for insurgents in Iraq and new evidence that Iran is providing weapons and training to the Taliban in Afghanistan—an act of war against the United States, not to mention the entire NATO alliance—and we can see the whole regional picture. In Lebanon, Iran has used Hezbollah to establish a base against Israel on the north, which is now matched by Gaza as a base against Israel on the South. Iraq is under siege from both sides, with Syrian and Iranian support pouring in to both Sunni and Shiite terrorist gangs—while Iran has now begun to strike out eastward against the US and NATO in Afghanistan.

In short, Iran is bent on regional domination, and it is advancing on all fronts.

This is exactly the picture that emerged during Iran's last summer offensive: Hezbollah's rocket war against Israel in July and August of last year. The only thing that has changed in our strategic position since then is that things have gotten worse: Iran has been emboldened to make further advances, while a Democratic victory in the US election has reassured Iran and Syria that America will eventually retreat and abandon the region to their control.

If we're not going to surrender to this Iranian onslaught—if we're not going to forget the lessons of September 11 and allow terrorist-sponsoring Islamist regimes to metastasize across the Middle East—we need to start fighting back immediately.

Tired, discredited, and possibly broken by his failures in Iraq, President Bush seems to have given up on providing any leadership against the Iranian threat. Fortunately, we still have Joe Lieberman, who has established himself as the only political figure willing to lead in this crisis by declaring that we should start an air war against Iran in retaliation for its acts of war against US troops in Iraq. What is really new in Lieberman's declaration is that he has proposed the use of military force against Iran, not as potential future measure to pre-empt Iran's nuclear weapons program, but as an immediate act of retaliation in response to the war Iran is already waging against us.

Our enemy in that war is already on the offensive in the farthest-flung corners of its would-be empire, from the Mediterranean to the Himalayas—but it is vulnerable at the center. There is still time for an air war against Iran itself, targeting terrorist training camps, nuclear facilities, assets of the Iranian Revolution Guard, and the gasoline supply lines that keep the Iranian economy moving, all with the aim of bringing down the regime.

It's that—or surrender the greater Middle East to a nuclear-armed Islamist empire headed by Iran.

I had to run it all. PAID only.

UPDATE: This is what Israel faces everyday while the world kisses its ass.

UPDATE: This is a special mental illness.

U.S. contemplating more weapons to Palestinians

GAZA: May Both Sides Completely Win

TIA Daily describes Gaza's night of the long knives this way, "Iran makes its move to consolidate power in the Palestinian territories as Hamas launches a war of extermination against the rival terrorist faction Fatah."

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Thousands of Palestinian security officers loyal to Fatah are under Hamas siege at their last bastion – Gaza City's presidential compound

I hope Israel stays out of it. Enough Jews have been sacrificed to the nonsensical platitudes of the Israeli left, global dhimmitude and appeasement. I hope Israel stays out of it and lets them kill each other to the last savage. I hope Condi stays out of it and remains locked in her walled off delusion of a two state fantasyland "living side by side in peace."

Gaza is a terror state. That is what appeasement wrought. The left in Israel ought to be tried and convicted of murder, but it is only it's innocent Jews that suffer the brutal, deadly consequences of Israel's impossible leftist foreign policy.

Israel ought not send in one man. Lose not one Jew. Drop MOAB's - but not a single Jew.

Islam: Religion of Flying Human FleshLebanon MP Assassinated again

I received this email from Charles, Lebanon blogger here earlier;

This one was too close.  I was 50m away.  Human flesh landed in our cafe next to Luna Park.

We felt the heat of the flames, and the smoke surrounded us.

The Army, Amn a Dakhle, and Amn al Aam were incredible.  They were there immediately, secured the scene, and got the cars out of the parking lot.

I was initially horrified that they targeted children's play areas: Luna Park, the Nejmeh Club, and the surrounding beaches.  Then I found out that they targeted Eido because they knew that his son swims at one of the beaches near there every day.

I'm still shaking.

He adds later, "I'm a bit traumatized right now.  My internet connection is too slow to post the pictures."

You just know Hezbollah aka Syria aka IRAN is pulling the Islamic strings. They murder Lebanese cabinet ministers and journalists. It's what they do.

Lebanon MP Murdered by Islamists Lebanon Daily Star

BEIRUT, June 13, 2007 - A loud explosion was heard on Wednesday afternoon in Beirut's Manara district, residents said.

The blast between the Long Beach and Sporting Club swimming facilities in the area demolished a car and wounded an undisclosed number of people.

A car was in flames and black smoke was seen rising from a narrow street off the main waterfront in Manara. The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. TV station said the explosion came from a bomb-rigged car, a method that has been used to assassinate opponents of Syria over the past two years.

MP Walid Eido, his eldest son and four other people were killed in a seafront blast in the Lebanese capital on Wednesday, his party's television station said.

Eido, the chairman of parliament's defence committee, his eldest son Khaled, his two bodyguards and two civilians were killed, said Future Television.

Read it all.

UPDATE: Bill Warner sent the Video (here)  of massive Beirut explosion in Manara on June 13, 2007. More at Yab Libnan

I'd be Suicidal too

I'd be suicidal too if I had to live under sharia, marry and shtup one of those barbarians (one of many wives, I might add), give birth to multitudinous savages - doing it all while wearing Omar's tent in the heat of the middle eastern desert.

This ideology must be crushed.

Two women would-be suicide bombers caught on way to attack  Haarertz hat tip EJO

The Shin Bet said they had arrested two women from the Gaza Strip, who were slated to carry out the attacks.

The two women, both mothers to young children, were arrested at the Erez crossing from Gaza into Israel on May 20 as they were trying to enter Israel.

Fatma Yunes Hassan Zak, 39, a resident of Gaza, mother of eight children and pregnant with her ninth, had been responsible for an Islamic Jihad Gaza women's labor office for four years. She had been in contact with Islamic Jihad terrorists and coordinated contacts on their behalf with women who had volunteered to be suicide bombers.

Approximately three months ago, her niece, Ruda Ibrahim Yunes Haviv, 30, a resident of Gaza and mother of four children, sought her assistance in perpetrating a suicide attack. Zak, who decided to participate in the attack as well, contacted her Islamic Jihad liaison, who aided the two women in putting their plan into operation.

MOABs and birth control pills.

From Gaza with Love

This is an email from an evangelist Christian reader Jan met in Gaza.  The anonymous writer is obviously a Muslim convert to Christianity.  UPDATED: Jan received this from Pavel who knows the author.
Names removed for obvious reasons.

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

Please pray for us. The situation is very bad in Gaza. As I shared yesterday, the nephew of one of the 'lambs" was killed. The brother of another believer was kidnapped. We feared he was killed but he was only beaten and released. He is badly bruised but praise God, he is fine.

      But last night a part of a missile entered the home of a brother and injured him in the back. It was, Praise God, a very small wound. He is fine. But his house was damaged in the crossfire.

      Today, I awoke to friends calling me telling me not to go to Gaza City as I often do but to stay in Khan Younis where I live because the situation in Gaza City is so bad. There was an attempted assasination of the prime minister which unleashed a huge backlash.

       Some friends of mine tried to come to be with me in my upstairs apartment but were turned away by soldiers who don't want any civilians to be in high places where they fear they might spy on them.

       I am in my apartment now and there is much shooting, guns, rifles and canons. I am writing this from the inner bathroom in my apartment as I want to get as far away from the windows as possible.

       The home of another brother was breached in the Northern Gaza Strip. He climbed into the water tank on the ceiling and hid until the intruders left. But he asked me for a favor. He said that if he died, he wanted me to make sure he was given a Christian funeral since his family is not Christian. I told him the funeral makes no difference. If the Father choses to take us home than we will be with him regardless of which cemetary we're buried in.

       The situation is very perilous. But we serve a God of miracles.

       We need much prayer. No one dares go out of their homes.

HAMASTAN!

Putting the crat before the horse. Elections should have come at last, not at first. Eradicating Islamic jihad should have been the objective not a missed step.

Hamas captures Fatah security headquarters, claims control of northern Gaza Jihadwatch

Someone should propose a "two-state solution" -- not with Israel, but between Hamas and Fatah. It would be instructively absurd, demonstrating that "sharing" land they feel absolutely entitled to will never be enough. If they can't share "Palestinian" land among themselves, how would they share with Israel in a two-state solution?

"Hamas captures Fatah security HQ," from the Jerusalem Post:

Hamas forces captured the headquarters of the Fatah-allied security forces in northern Gaza, seizing control of a key prize in the bloody power struggle between the sides, Hamas and Fatah officials said.

Hamas attacked the compound with mortars and automatic gunfire, and after several hours of battle, seized control, said Hamas commander Wael al-Shakra.

A Fatah security official confirmed the building had been lost. He said at least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded.

The attack was part of a full-scale assault launched by Hamas earlier Tuesday afternoon against Fatah security bases and positions in Gaza.

Hamas-affiliated television said that the organization overtook the entire northern section of the Gaza Strip. After airing the report, the station was attacked by PA security forces and forced to play pro-Fatah songs.

GIVE THOSE SAVAGES A STATE!

A Fatah-Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist squad infiltrated Israel near the Kissufim Crossing to attack an IDF force. The terrorists, who used a jeep camouflaged as a TV vehicle, may have planned to abduct an IDF soldier, if the opportunity arose.

In the early afternoon on June 9 a terrorist squad attacked an IDF patrol and post near the Kissufim Crossing in the central region of the Gaza Strip. The four-man terrorist squad may have planned to abduct an IDF soldier, should the opportunity present itself. The terrorists arrived in a jeep camouflaged as a media vehicle, broke through the gate and entered Israeli territory. They then attempted to attack an IDF post near the fence; the post was unmanned at the time. IDF forces arrived and exchanged fire with the terrorists, one of whom was killed, while the others escaped. More here at IICC. hat tip Bill Warner.

Hmmmmmmm.... I wonder if the New York Times was driving.

 

 

Bullets Miss Hamas Prime Minister

Gunmen fire on office of Palestinian Prime Minister of Hamas.

Hamas-Fatah fighting rages on
Jerusalem Newswire, Israel -
Gunmen Monday opened fire on the offices of a Hamas minister in the Palestinian Authority, causing damage but injuring  no-one, according to reports. ...

MAY BOTH SIDES WIN. Amen.

What Israel Really Needs

Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal recently said, "I'm remaining here, even if it's just me, the yeshiva people and the under-privileged who can't afford to leave."

 

I met Eli Moyal, Mayor of the city under siege, Sderot when I went to Israel last summer to cover the war. He is a fearless leader. Moyal is the kind of leader that should be at the helm of Israeli government. Thanks to Rick Richman of Jewish Current Issues who sent me this interview, enabled me to meet Moyal and told me to run the pic :)

ONE OF ONE: "WE ARE STILL FIGHTING THE 1948 WAR OF INDEPENENDENCE J Post

Is it true that you threatened to resign?

I didn't threaten; I announced that I would be leaving at the end of my term in October 2008. But this has nothing to do with the Kassams. Ten years is enough.

What will you do?

I've been a lawyer for 30 years. I was a good lawyer before I became mayor, so I'm not worried. Maybe I'll be involved in politics in another capacity.

In the Knesset?

Could be. Most likely. Or some other public function.

In the past, you said that you were elected to "collect the garbage," not deal with Kassam missiles.

That's right. I'm not responsible for the security and defense of the residents of Sderot. I was elected mayor to deal with education, welfare, sports, to collect the garbage on time, to provide clean parks and streets. But suddenly, history placed me at the center of the world. And everybody's asking me what the solution is. I tell them that I'm the victim, and that instead of asking the victim for the solution, they should be asking the prime minister, the defense minister, the chief of General Staff and the foreign minister. What's it got to do with me? But they are turning to me, because the others are giving them either no answers or ones that insult the intelligence. The government doesn't understand that what's going on in Sderot is a national problem of the highest order, not a local issue. It doesn't understand that this is a war on a city inside the Green Line.

What makes you think they don't understand this?

The members of the government are preoccupied with their own political and existential problems. With the Winograd Committee report hovering over them, their attentions are focused elsewhere, at the expense of the country's burning issues.

But the withdrawal from Gaza, from where the Kassams are being launched, took place way before Winograd.

I don't think the previous prime minister was any different from the current one. He was also preoccupied with his own problems.

Are you saying that disengagement was his way of deflecting attention from his personal problems?

I can't prove anything; I can only tell you what my sense of it is. I was among the most ardent and outspoken opponents of disengagement. I was the only mayor in the country who stood up against Arik Sharon. No other mayor from the Likud dared do so. And Sharon - in private conversations with his close advisers that were leaked to me - said that I was the one who ruined his famous referendum. [He is referring to the referendum in the Likud, which Sharon said he would honor, but when the party members voted against disengagement, he reneged on his commitment.] This is because it was due to the development towns joining the settlements in opposing the plan. Before that, it had been Sharon vs the settlers. And the polls had shown that even with all the settlements opposing him, he would still win the referendum. It was when the development towns, led by me, joined in the opposition, that he lost.

Sharon was living in a historical moment which he didn't understand. This precedent of a people burning its own synagogues, destroying its own houses and absconding like thieves in the night from its land was beyond belief. I thought that Sharon had lost his mind.

Is that how you view Israel's pullout from Lebanon in May 2000 - "absconding like thieves in the night"?

It was just as bad as disengagement. But at least it accomplished one thing: There were six years of quiet in the North. Here, we didn't have a minute of quiet. On the night of the evacuation of Gaza, they were firing Kassams at us.

Do you feel that the rest of the country is indifferent to what's going on in Sderot?

One mustn't confuse the people with the leadership. We have the best people in the world. Governments come and go, but the state and people will always remain.

So, you harbor no feelings of resentment toward other parts of the country these days?

Not in the least. I suffer here so that the Tel Avivians can sit at cafes in peace and quiet, just as the people of Kiryat Shmona suffered so that people could sit at cafes in Jerusalem, and just as Jerusalemites suffered so that people in Sderot could sit at cafes. This is the people of Israel. This is our part in history. We shouldn't complain. It's not easy living here. We didn't ask for this situation, but we'll survive it.

You've fought in several of Israel's wars...

I was a lot less afraid during those wars than I am now. At least then I was armed; here I've got nothing. I'm just a sitting duck.

If so, why are you against Sderot residents leaving the city temporarily?

If someone chooses to leave, I completely respect his choice. But my role today is to stress that the people of Israel must not abscond from their cities at any cost. Because if we do, we'll lose the war. It's as simple as that.

If we run away from Sderot, we'll run away from Tzahala, and we'll run away from Savyon, and we'll run away from Tel Aviv. Just because we have a failed government doesn't mean that we have to help it continue to fail.

Still, we're talking about innocent civilians under fire.

I understand them completely. But a leader has to speak his mind. If a leader stammers, the public stammers even more. I can't identify which of the population is influenced by what I say, but some of them are listening. It's not for nothing that I got elected.

How does this jibe with what you said about not having been elected to deal with issues of state?

But history summoned me, so I have no choice.

Like former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani on 9/11?

That's right. He thought he was going to be tackling crime - that was his task - and suddenly he had to become a national hero. That's what happened to me here.

Do you think that you have risen to the occasion, and given the residents of Sderot the sense that you are taking care of them?

I don't know. History will be the judge of that. We're still in the middle of the story.

You not only oppose people leaving the city; you also oppose reinforcing their houses. Why?

Every nation, army or concept that is defensive has a subtext. When you say, "I'm going to reinforce Sderot," the subtext of what you are saying is: "I accept terrorism as part of my life." I don't think the concept of the state should be that we accept terrorism as part of life. Even if it's true, you have to reject it. Even if the facts indicate that terrorism is going to be part of life here for another 20 years, you have to say, "There will be no terrorism here." Otherwise, it will be around for a million years. And how did we get to reinforcement? By capitulating to terrorism.

Can't you do both - fight terrorism and reinforce houses - simultaneously?

Governments are cynical by nature. The war against terrorism in Gaza is what I call a "waiting war." The more the government reinforces homes, the longer it will take it to take real action in Gaza.

Furthermore, no one here has ever been critically wounded or killed inside a house or a store. This is almost a Kafkaesque issue, because you can't reinforce the street, so you reinforce the houses in which nobody is killed anyway.

his is part of the general concept of the government to treat the symptoms and not the illness. The infection is over there [in Gaza], and they're busy trying to lower the fever over here. I told the government that we've got to cause the people in Gaza to want to reinforce their houses. But, because we are so failed in our thinking, in Gaza they're not reinforcing houses, but in Sderot we are. And in Ashkelon we will reinforce houses, and in Netivot. In the end, the entire budget won't suffice. Meanwhile, reinforcement is useless.

Even to the extent that it makes residents under fire feel safer?

It's true that reinforcement calms the residents of Sderot down somewhat, but I'm telling you it won't protect them.

Look, let's say we reinforce all the houses with two-meter-thick walls. We still have to go outside. We still have to drive in our cars. We have to go to school. We have to go grocery shopping. You can't turn a city into a fortress. The whole concept is mistaken.

As for the residents: Of course they don't care whether the state spends millions on reinforcing their houses, so that at night they can feel at least partly protected. I don't have a problem with them. Whatever they want they should have under these impossible conditions.

But, the fact that the government is reinforcing houses doesn't make it the right thing to do. And I have to say what I think.

I remember sitting in a meeting with members of the defense establishment four or five years ago and saying exactly what I'm saying to you now. They nevertheless decided to go for reinforcement: beginning with the kindergartens, then elementary schools, then public buildings - such as community centers and the Cinematheque - and finally the houses. So, I said, "But you're going to reinforce these structures against Kassams as we know them today. The battlefield is progressing. In three or four years, the Kassam will be developed, and that reinforcement won't be worth anything.

"Furthermore, according to your own assessments, the Gazans already have Katyushas, and this reinforcement certainly won't protect against them."

Their answer was, "That's our budget." In other words, "It's the economy, stupid," as they say.

I told them that they would eventually have to redo the whole thing. Which is exactly what's happening today. This reinforcement is worth nothing. The Gazans already have six-kilo Kassams. This means that the schools we've already reinforced are not reinforced. Now, they'll spend several more millions to add another layer. Then they will discover that the buildings won't hold up to the extra weight, and either the foundations will have to be strengthened or the buildings rebuilt. It's Chelm.

What you're saying sounds a bit like the discourse following the first Gulf War in 1991, when it turned out that the sealed rooms and gas masks would not have protected us in the event of a chemical attack. And that's when Yitzhak Shamir was prime minister, not Olmert or Sharon.

Let me tell you something. Israel is not prepared for any ballistic threat. Armies are always prepared for the last war, never for the next one. Which is why we were surprised last July. Nobody had prepared the home front for a ballistic attack. Yet, if you read newspapers as far back as five and six years ago, you discover that we knew Hizbullah had all the missiles in the world. Still, we weren't prepared for a ballistic war, because we needed to have a ballistic war in order to prepare for the next ballistic war. But, of course, the next ballistic war will be more sophisticated, and we won't be prepared for it. There's nobody determining how the next battlefield will look.

Is it even possible to anticipate how the next battlefield will look?

Of course. But nobody wants to take responsibility. Winograd is good and bad. It's good because it's telling the public what happened last summer. It's bad because it is paralyzing the decision-makers.

What about the Iranian threat? Are we prepared for that?

The Israeli government won't do anything about the Iranian threat. I know this with certainty, from the cacophony it's making. I suggest the government take its cue from Menachem Begin. Begin didn't open his mouth. Nobody knew what he was up to in 1981 before he bombed the Iraqi reactor. That's leadership. A whole different concept of responsibility. Today, the concept is not to think ahead, but to worry about the headlines in tomorrow's paper. A leader has to put his fate on the line. If the attack on the Iraqi reactor had failed, Begin would have gone home. That's leadership, not populism - not asking advisers to assess what kind of inquiry commissions will be formed in the event of failure. Leading Israel requires the dedication of mind, body, heart and soul. If you don't have it, you shouldn't be a leader. The problem with leaders today is that they don't want to make any decisions.

Is this why Gilad Schalit is still in captivity?

That's right. When Schalit was abducted, the government didn't go out on a rescue mission; it went to the media.

This is the country that executed the Entebbe raid in 1976. When did the shift occur?

Toward the end of the Rabin era. Until Rabin, all our prime ministers ended their terms in a three-room apartment with a mortgage. From Rabin on, we began to see Americanization setting in. It's a new generation of leaders - which may be good for Europe and America, but not for Israel.

What difference does it make if a leader has money? You sound like Ehud Barak's critics, who are now accusing him of being rich, as though it were some kind of crime.

Ehud Barak is a personal friend of mine. I think of him as someone with a lot of credit in this country. I'm talking about phenomena, not about specific people. Something happened to Israel. We lost something.

What did we lose?

Our way. We forgot that we're right.

How did we forget that?

Israel bases its existence today on the economy. That's the biggest holocaust we'll ever have. This state never was based on economics. It existed on solidarity; it existed on dedication and pioneer spirit. All for one and one for all. Today, it's the Dow Jones.

Don't forget, this is a country still at war! The War of Independence didn't end in 1948; it only just began. When you live in a place whose borders are not accepted by its neighbors, you haven't achieved independence. If your borders have changed five or six times in 59 years, you're not exactly independent. If you're still being fired on - and vilified in the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian press - you're still fighting your war of independence. Yet Israelis are behaving as though they already have a state.

Speaking of economics, what's your opinion of Arkadi Gaydamak?

I'll talk not about Gaydamak the person, but about Gaydamak the phenomenon. I have nothing against the man. I'm not a psychologist; I don't want to analyze his internal motives. At the end of the day, I know he has helped people. But the Gaydamak phenomenon is dangerous. It put a mirror in front of the country, showing that we've forgotten our solidarity and mutual assistance. Everybody sees Sderot under fire, yet only a single Jew has managed to come to its aid.

Isn't being forced to look in the mirror a good thing?

From that point of view, it is good. But it's bad, because Gaydamak is telling us that we never left the Diaspora. He is saying, "I'm the king. If I want, I'll become mayor of Jerusalem. If I want, I'll buy this newspaper or that one, and you will bow down before me." He's humiliating the country. Bringing us to our knees. I can't like someone who hurts my country. I'm a Zionist - perhaps one of the remaining few. If I weren't, I wouldn't be here. Zionism is the only thing that keeps any of us here. We've been elsewhere. We've been in the pogroms and the ghettos and the Holocaust.

We established a Zionist state, and now we're ashamed of the word "Zionism." It's become old-fashioned to use it. When we begin to return Zionism to our lives, the rest will resolve itself.

Is Binyamin Netanyahu the answer?

I estimate that by the end of this year there will be elections, and it's clear Bibi is going to be the next prime minister. I support him. I'm in his party and in his camp. But as for whether he is going to provide the answers, I wish I could say yes. When I say I support him, it doesn't mean I'm a blind follower. I'm no one's disciple. I'm a man of ideas. And you can't choose utopia. Among all the possible candidates today, Bibi seems to be the one best equipped to lead Israel through this crisis. If he doesn't do the job properly, we'll have to find someone else.

Do you think he has learned any lessons since the last time he was prime minister?

Since I am very close to him and meet with him frequently, I think so. Otherwise I wouldn't be supporting him.

If he were prime minister today, would he be doing things differently vis-a-vis Gaza?

The bloody guy would be in the Gaza Strip so fast, it would make their heads spin.

Still, I understand that no matter what action we take, we won't totally eliminate the Kassams. But we are human. And the most inhuman thing to do is not to respond. Even if the response isn't effective. The government is pulling the wool over our eyes. They talk about our ability or inability to eliminate every last Kassam, but what they're not saying is that this isn't an issue of getting rid of all the missiles. The point is to create a situation in which it doesn't pay for the Palestinians to fire them. The point is to respond so harshly every time they fire a missile that, even if they have 200,000, they won't dare fire one. That is how to solve the problem.

Even though the Palestinians don't mind committing suicide for Allah?

That's bullshit, believe me. They talk to me on the phone.

Who? Members of Fatah?

Yes. And they're not afraid of us. They're afraid of Hamas.

Are you saying that Fatah is better than Hamas?

I don't know. Anyone who fires Kassams is bad. But the citizens - the farmers - hate both Fatah and Hamas.

But they elected Hamas.

First of all, the vote was split approximately half and half. Secondly, Beit Hanun is not a democracy; it's ruled by terrorism. I asked one Beit Hanun resident why he doesn't write what he's been telling me in the newspaper. I told him I would call a reporter from Channel 2 and he could say anything he wanted on the air. He said, "Are you crazy? If I do that, tomorrow I'm dead."

People think we are at war with the Palestinians, but we aren't. We are at war with international terrorist organizations. The Gazans have nothing more to ask of us. We gave them the entire Gaza Strip, which they never in their wildest wet dreams expected to get. And they got it on a silver platter! The problem is that it isn't the Gazans fighting us - it's al-Qaida, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades and Hizbullah. Without those groups there, we could have an agreement, and everybody could come and go - just as it used to be. But our leaders and the media are confusing all the issues.

Read it all here. Moyal is one of the few whose words resonate with truth, who must be learned from and  above all, must be listened to.

Pali Arabs Will slit Condi's Throat too

Who can forget Condi's "they only want to live in peace"   or the unforgettable “I believe there could be no greater legacy to America than to help to bring into being a Palestinian state for a people who have suffered too long, who have been humiliated too long, who have not reached their potential for too long, and who have so much to give to the international community and to all of us.” Right up there with Chamberlain's "peace in time" after his agreement with Hitler.

Cover Up or Die, Palestinian Arab TV Women Are Told
BY CAROLYNNE WHEELER - The Daily Telegraph
JERUSALEM — Women working in Palestinian Arab television in Gaza have been ordered to avoid walking alone in the street after radical Islamists threatened to slit their throats if they do not dress in religious garb while on air.

Condi 2/29/07: The Palestinian people recognize that a normal life would be a life in which there are two states living side by side in freedom and in peace. I am convinced that the great majority of Palestinians .........

MEDIA IGNORING MURDERED JEWS

Here is another Kassam missile victim, completely ignored by the news media. Targeting disabled children no less. The world is completely without morality and conscience. Israel must take back her sovereignty and defend her people, her nation. The Palestinian Arab savagery must be destroyed before it all goes nuclear. 11th Israeli has been killed by missiles from Gaza.

Thirteen-year-old Chai Shalom suffered from cerebral palsy, and was deaf, mute, and confined in a wheel-chair. He was hospitalized after a rocket landed next to a bus transporting him and three other disabled children.

According to the report, all four children were wounded by the force of the blast. The driver of the bus fainted and Shalom's caretaker alerted his father.

The boy died last week in Soroka Hospital after his condition worsened.

His father asked that Shalom be recognized as a terror victim and was denied because his particular incident had not been reported.

Update: Anne has this insane development

Idyllic Palestinian Arab ChildhoodScenes from Kindergarten Graduation

Condi honey, explain the part again to me about how the Palis want to "live in peace."
Watch the VIDEO HERE.

Graduation Ceremony at the Islamic Association in Gaza on Hamas TV

Host: "We will now take a short break to present the Palestinian childhood, and some scenes from the celebration in the kindergartens of the Islamic Association."

"We followed this ceremony of the graduation of the 29th class of the Islamic Association's kindergartens. Let's watch the report, and then we'll be back to complete the discussion."

Girls’ Show

[...]

Host: "All the best. Stay with us to watch this performance by the children of Palestine.

Boys’ Show.

Boys: "Allah Akbar. Praise be to Allah."

"Allah Akbar. Praise be to Allah."

"Allah Akbar. Praise be to Allah."

"Allah Akbar. Praise be to Allah."

"Who is your role model? The Prophet."

"Who is your role model? The Prophet."

"What is your path? Jihad."

"What is your path? Jihad."

"What is your most lofty aspiration? Death for the sake of Allah."

"What is your most lofty aspiration? Death for the sake of Allah. "

FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE

Theater of the Absurd Run! You're on Pali Candid Camera

Do you believe this? I sure don't. Go over to My Pet Jawa -- they've got all of the photos and all the fauxtography. Why can't these folks pretend to be human?

Seattle Times ran this as their "photo of the day".  What's wrong with this picture? (Click for bigger pic)

Here is the caption from the Seattle Times:

Palestinians run as a rocket falls at them during an Israeli air strike on the Hamas Executive Force building in Nusseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza strip, Friday. Warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip for a ninth day as Palestinians continued to fire rockets into Israel despite a call from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas for a truce.

Er, pardon my skepticism here....but how fast does a "missile" travel anyway?  Because, unless you're both really lucky and have an ultra-fast shutter speed, I'm guessing you're not going to be able to click off a picture of a "missile" miliseconds before it impacts. 

I'm also guessing that the guy in the green soccer shirt wouldn't be able to follow said "missile" with his eyes. Notice how he appears to be looking right at the incoming "missile".

So, is this a case of a "doctored photo"?

Here's a close up of the "missile" from the largest version of the photo I could find, and which I've only blown up to about triple the original size.

There's much more. Go.

Pali Arab Promotion of Child Homicide Bombers

YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT WORK!

Vomiting. Watch this and sob. This is what the world respects, exalts shows mercy upon. And the Bible said, woe to those that good evil and evul good. Well, it's safe to say we got plenty of woe coming down. Certainly we can thank Condi and co. for funding this barbarsim (Aid flows to Palestinian account after US shift - Reuters). This whole culture of death, murder, misogyny, honor killings, slavery, beheadings must be crushed. KILLED before it gets it hands on the nuclear weapons the terror master mothership  is perfecting. That is the truth about Islam.

Palestinian promotion of child martyrdom  PMW

Part 1- Hamas TV continues promotion of Shahada (martyrdom) for children
Part 2- Overview of the history of promotion of children's Shahada – Martyrdom

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

Hamas TV continues active promotion of Shahada (martyrdom) directed at children. The new video clip, broadcast Sunday, follows the growth of a young Palestinian boy from a child into a Hamas Shahid – Martyr for Allah. The video shows the young child going to the mosque, praying and reading from the Quran, and then holding an automatic rifle together with the Quran as he envisions future participation in violent acts.

Click to view video on YouTube or PMW website

[See part 2 below for an overview of the history of this phenomenon including links to numerous videos encouraging children to be Shahid - Martyrs]

Along these same evil lines, LGF has this video. Absolutely monstrous.

Carpet Bomb Gaza Already

**TOP THREAD**SCROLL FOR NEW POSTS**Rocket attack fires in Israel

Iran has set about igniting the short fuse in the Middle East by sicing their Iranian foreign legions on the Israeli citizenry. The non stop barrage of rockets into Sderot is a brazen declaration of war.

I do not expect Israel to even entertain the ludicrous position of the State department that says Hamas are the bad terrorists but Fatah are the good terrorists. Sean McCormack's remarks are incredibly ridiculous in the face of all the bloodshed Abbas has commanded. If he is a partner in anything, it is in terror and Jew killing.

State Department praises Abbas for doing everything he can, warns Israel of consequences of defending itself   IMRA

MR. MCCORMACK: Well, the -- certainly, violence perpetrated by Hamas, as we have seen recently, doesn't further the cause of peace. What is does is -- resulted in the deaths of innocent civilians and it also underscores the importance of reaching those political accommodations on the Israeli-Palestinian track among those individuals who are committed to peace like Prime Minister Olmert, like President Abbas, and the people around him and that work directly for him.

What the mother fuck?

MR. MCCORMACK: Well, President Abbas is committed to ending violence. He has never -- he has always been somebody that has shunned the use of terror. He has counseled against it. He is somebody who has actively worked for peace. He is somebody who has actively advocated for negotiations as opposed to the use of violence to realize a Palestinian state. We are urging all parties to exercise restraint. We understand the Israeli Government has a right to defend itself and they have explained that their actions, just over the past day or so, have been in reaction to stopping -- trying to stop further rocket launches into Israeli territory, rocket launches that have injured Israeli citizens.

Insanity. And dishonesty. Condi refuses to be wrong. Refuses to acknowledge the cold brutal truth that Islamic Jihad intends to destroy Israel, Europe, the US ........... all of it and it must be destroyed. Who are we to tell a nation she cannot defend herself against a mortal enemy? What has happened to America? Common sense dictates that in any war between the civilized man and the savage, you always side with the civilized man.

Israel cannot pussyfoot around again. Einstein said insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The Pali/Syrian/Jordanian Arabs intend to kill every Jew in Israel. FACT. Israel must accept that Oslo was an abysmal failure and no amount of wishing and hoping and praying for a "partner in peace" will ever make that happen. Their objective is wipe Israel off the map. They cannot be a partner in peace.

This relentless pursuit of a fallacious peace has brought Israel to this terribly vulnerable crossroad in her history. It was not until last summer that the people of Israel where shaken out of their delusion of "peace."

And while Israel may congratulate herself on her "polite" warfare - only targeting this murderer or that beheader -- it is essentially ineffective. You cannot tit for tat. You must destroy the enemy, an enemy that teaches their children to die killing Jews, Christians, non believers using Mickey Mouse, school texts, and music videos. The enemy that elected Hamas, brutal coldblooded murderers, as their elected government.

Carpet bombing. All is fair in love and war and these barbarians mean to kill us all. WTF are we waiting for? A nuclear Iran? Sure the world will go nuts on Israel, but so what?  They go nuts anyway, already they are crying over today's action and the 10 Hamas dead. CNN, who couldn't give a rat's ass about attacks on Israel is reporting the death of Hamas "legislators"  (yeah legislators) this way Israeli strikes kill 10 in Gaza, Palestinians say. The only time the conflict makes news is when Israel defends herself. Here are some headline samples;

Missiles Hit Home Of Hamas Lawmaker Washington Post

Israeli warplanes pound Gaza Strip Taipei Times

Israeli Strike On Hamas Dwelling Kills 8  Guardian

Eight die in air raid on Hamas politician's home The Age, Australia

Forbes, OTOH, calls this "legislator", "politician" a commander, "Israel Strikes Hamas Commander's Home.

The mainstream media lives for these Israeli acts of self defense. The news wires are all full of Israel's retaliation. Little is heard from the haters of Israel of the relentless firing of qassams into Israel over the past several days, weeks, months years. Little is heard of the insane, suicidal  restraint Israel has shown while putting her citizens at great risk.

In the words of the magnificent Ronald Reagan, carpet bombing begins in 5 minutes. This declaration of war must be met with overwhelming force if Israel hopes to survive.

UPDATE: Oliver North on  “the threat of Syrian military units joining Iranian-supported Hizbollah fighters from Lebanon in a major offensive against Israel.” hat tip krank

Photo: A fire started by a Kassam rocket burns on Saturday in Kibbut Nir Am's wheat field.

UPDATE: Why might Syria wish to sow chaos in Lebanon now? GLORIA

Hamas Increasing Terror Capabilities; Al Qaeda Joining Fray INN hat tip Bill

Qaeda and the Palestinians

Hamas: Jews Must Run From Ashkelon Like From Sderot

Hamas leader says Ashkelon and Sderot must be emptied of Jews.

Nizar Riyan, a Hamas leader in Gaza, says his organization is determined to have Israel wiped off the map and be replaced by a state of Palestine.

Speaking with the Hamas television station, Riyan called upon the PA Arab factions in Gaza to keep fighting the Jews "even if the Arabs and Abu Mazen do not agree, until the last Jew leaves Palestine."

 

Palis SHOOT 15 Human Shields Mainstream media crickets chirping

This is how you can determine just how antisemitic and jihad loving the media really is. Can you imagine if a Jew killed a human shield (even accidentally - can you say Rachel Corrie?) But the blood lusty barbarians are given every courtesy. Hell in a hand basket, folks, hell in a hand basket.

Palestinians Shoot 15 Human Shields IRIS Blog

200 Gaza residents decided their "human shield" tactics worked so well against the Israelis, they would try it to stop the shooting between rival terrorists in Gaza:

"Just as we used to protect you from the occupation by acting as human shields, we have come to protect you from yourselves," one protester shouted at gunmen, referring to instances when Palestinian civilians positioned themselves between militants and Israeli forces.

The gunmen used it as an opportunity to refine their technical skills, injuring approximately 15 of them.

See also: Gaza City: "A City of Corpses and Ghosts"

"Even during the Israeli occupation the situation wasn't this terrible," says Um Mohammed, praying for an end to the lethal Palestinian infighting raging outside her Gaza City home. Fear reigns throughout the city, deserted but for prowling groups of armed men, loyal to rivals Hamas or Fatah, living on a daily diet of ambushes, kidnappings and assassinations. Dozens of snipers on the rooftops of the tallest buildings open fire seemingly on anything that moves. "We can't go near the window, let alone on the balcony. We have all become targets," says Um Mohammed. "This is a city of corpses and ghosts."

See also: AP Reporter in Gaza: "This Is the Worst It's Been"

On Wednesday, I saw several people shot in front of my building, I heard the screams of terrified women and children in a burning building, and I argued with gunmen who tried to take over my home. I have seen a lot in my years as a journalist in Gaza, but this is the worst it's been.

It's War: Relentless Rockets in Sderot

Why is the US aiding the savages? Why is the US taxpayer funding pure evil? This is SICK and morally bankrupt.

Last update - 20:53 17/05/2007
U.S. approves aid channel to Palestinian finance minister hat tip Jeff
By Reuters The United States has told the European Union that funds can be channeled to Palestinians through an account run by Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayad but that restrictions against the Hamas-led government remain in place. U.S. assurances about financial transactions with a Palestine Liberation Organization account under the control of Fayad were conveyed in a series of letters between Washington and Brussels, dated May 14.

hat tip haruv 93. Someone explain how Olmert gets away with a complete failure in leadership. Caroline Glick explains here: The master politician and us. Nobody is saying it but war has begun in the Middle East.

UPDATE: "Scenes from Sderot Yesterday"

Synagogues have been hit today. Residents flee Palestinian Rocket Barrage

SDEROT, 18 May 2007 (IRIN) - Thousands of Israelis have been evacuated from the town of Sderot near the Gaza Strip after a barrage of Qassam rocket fire from Palestinian militants.

"We are afraid. This morning at 7am a Qassam landed three metres from my kitchen, where I was. There was a whistling sound then a huge boom. I fainted. The government has to help us," said 17-year-old schoolgirl Yamit Da'an as she boarded one of 10 buses taking terrified families from the town on Thursday. Some 800 residents were evacuated, in addition to 1,600 the previous day who were given hotel rooms in the southern resort of Eilat paid for by an Israeli tycoon. Sderot mayor Eli Moyal said almost half the town's 20,000 residents had fled of their own accord after waves of Qassams were launched at the town this week.

Olmert Visits Israeli Town Where Residents Flee Rocket Fire -

U.S. Credits Israel with "Great Restraint" in the Face of Attacks

Kassam Hits Sderot Synagogue after Olmert Visit

Barrage Continues: 9 Rockets Hit West Negev

At Least 11 Hamas Operatives Killed as Gaza Strike Continues

 

ISLAM ATTACKS FROM GAZA

Summary of events in the Gaza Strip today  

Following continuous launchings of rockets into Israel and other terrorist activities executed by Hamas and other terror organizations, the IDF carried out during the day four aerial attacks against terrorists in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip:

• ·        A Hamas terrorist headquarters
• ·        A vehicle carrying a Hamas terrorist cell responsible for manufacturing and delivering weaponry
• ·        A structure used by Hamas terrorists
• ·        A Palestinian terrorist, immediately after launching rockets into Israel

Additionally, the IDF carried out an aerial attack against a rocket launching cell after it fired rockets from the southern Gaza Strip into the western Negev.  

More than 80 Qassam rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel over the past three days.

The IDF will continue to operate against the terror organizations in order to ensure the security and safety of all the citizens of Israel.

ISLAM ATTACKS! Pray for Sderot

One Jerusalem.org has exclusive video on the Pali Arab attacks launched from Gaza on besieged Sderot. When I was there last summer it was a city under siege, under constant attack. The world does not give a shit about dying Jews. This is now a well established fact.  Go here for the complete story and more exclusive video;

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE:: Semi-protected Schools, Damaged Homes and Kassam Rockets: A Day in the Life of Sderot

Yesterday I had the privilege of visiting the city of Sderot. Sdert is a city of 20,000 people located directly east of Northern Gaza. In the last seven years, thousands of Kassam rockets have been fired from Palestinian homes, fields and schools onto Sderot. Residents of Sderot live in constant fear of falling rockets with only 15 seconds notice.

For more on life in Sderot read Rick Richman.

It is hard to fully appreciate the toll this bambardment actually takes on a city like Sderot. Here is a clip showing some of the rockets collected at the police department. Keep in mind these are only the ockets that fell recently and have not been discarded yet:

Here are some clips of schools that are only partially protected. As my guide, Noam Bedein from Sderot Media pointed out, the funding tends to run out after only part of the secure barrier is built. Keep in mind, the children in thee schools have only fifteen seconds to run into a protectd part of the building when the siren goes off.

More video here

Faster please!

Who said there is no good news coming out of the Middle East?

Hamas Kills 8 in Gaza Border Clash AP hat tip CW

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Hamas gunmen on Tuesday ambushed rival Fatah forces near a key crossing along the Israeli border, killing eight people in the deadliest battle yet in three days of factional fighting.

The incident briefly drew Israeli gunfire, threatening to drag Israel into the conflict.

At least 18 people have died in the infighting, bringing life in Gaza to a standstill and pushing the fragile Palestinian unity government closer to collapse. Hamas and Fatah formed the union in March with the aim of ending months of violence.

Monday's fighting erupted when Hamas gunmen approached a training base used by Fatah forces that guard the crossing, officials said. The base was set up in part by an American security team sent to train Palestinians on how to check cargo and baggage at crossings.

The Hamas force attacked the base with rockets, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, said Ahmed al-Kaisi, spokesman for the pro-Fatah Presidential Guard, which guards the crossing under an agreement with Israel. "We consider this a serious provocation and a crime committed in cold blood," al-Kaisi said.

Cold blood? Do they any other kind of murder?

UPDATE: 9 dead.

UPDATE: It is a day of mourning for Pali Arabs, but not for what you might think. Go here.

Speaking of Mothers Day: Murderous Mickey HaMouse

They teach their children well. Over Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin - here: Updated version of the PMW bulletin from Friday, May 11th, featuring more extensive translations and a video link. Hamas Mouse: Blame the Jews (by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook)

The Mickey Mouse clone named Farfur who’s been preaching hatred and Islamic domination to Palestinian kids was back on the air and blaming the Jews for his woes on Friday, despite public statements by Palestinian Authority Minister of Information Mustafa Barghouti that the show would be taken off the Hamas TV network until it could be reviewed.

Farfur, star of the Al Aqsa TV children’s show Tomorrow’s Pioneers, was joined on the broadcast by his regular co-host, a little girl named Saraa. The program also featured an adult, Hazim, who delivered most of the show’s messages about Islamic supremacy.

PMW reported last week that the Hamas Mickey Mouse character was teaching world Islamic domination, violence and hatred. The ensuing worldwide outrage over the use of this character, dubbed “Terror Mouse” by the New York Daily News and described by Walt Disney’s daughter as “pure evil,” prompted the PA to announce that it was suspending the program until further review.

But the show is still on the air, with no change in content except for a somewhat smaller role for the squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse knockoff. The more inflammatory comments are delivered by the soft-spoken adult character.

It appears from the latest broadcast that the Hamas or PA officials who oversaw the show were concerned only with neutralizing Farfur’s dialogue, and not with moderating the show’s content. It is as if they decided that the show’s messages, which also promote hatred of Israel and the US, are completely acceptable -- as long as the more controversial comments are not coming from a corrupted version of Disney’s beloved mouse.

Even though Farfur's role in Friday’s program was minimized, however, it was definitely not benign. When chastised for cheating by copying another student’s work, he blamed "the Jews" for destroying his home, which prevented him from finding his own notebook.

Meanwhile, the adult Hazim told the child viewers that Islam will spread all over the world, including Spain, and that the spread of Islam is for the world’s benefit. He said the “massacres” in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine will be replaced by “love and justice” under Islamic rule.

In a debate with PMW director Itamar Marcus on FOX TV today, Barghouti again acknowledged that children shouldn't be exposed to this type of television. He said that the program would be taken off, or have its content changed, by next week.

Click here to see the Hamas Mouse on the PMW site

Click here to see the Hamas Mouse on YouTube

 

The following is some of the dialogue:

Hazem: "Why did you cheat?"

Farfur: "It was against my will, uncle Hazem, because the Jews destroyed our home, and when the Jews destroyed our home I couldn’t find my notebooks."

Hazem: "By Allah's will, we will promote through Islam good, love and justice. Ask history, and ask the Jews, did they ever live in a time period better than the one they live under Islam. And ask the Christians how their security was assured in the churches and monasteries...Once we were! Do you remember Andalus [Spain and Portugal]? This dear Andalus will return one day.

Sara: We remind you dear kids, that the glory and the civilization of the [Islamic] nation, you shall restore!

Hamas: Jihad Mickey Mouse Stays!

Just like the Nazis contended they were doing the world a favor in eliminating the Jew -- so does Hamas.  Just like the Nazis said "we were just taking orders." Hamas too is saying don't blame us, "we are following the Lord's orders."

Suicide terror is  not an act of desperation it is an aspiration.

They will not bow to moral outrage and indignation. The Ham mouse stays and teaches the Pali children to kill the Jews, the Christians, the infidels. Allah Akbar!

Hamas TV Insists on Continuing Inciting Children TV Show View clip here

To view a transcript go here

The following are excerpts from a report on the Al-Aqsa TV children's show "The Pioneers of Tomorrow," with the addition of excerpts from the May 11, 2007 show.

Reporter: The Al-Aqsa Satellite TV Channel denounced the vicious campaign that is being waged against it, and against its children’s show, "The Pioneers of Tomorrow," which airs every Friday. [Al-Aqsa TV] emphasized its noble message, which aims to produce a believing generation that will bear the noble values and strive to spread goodness and justice in Palestine and the world. Al-Aqsa TV stressed to its viewers that the airing of the show would continue, and announced that the show airs at 4 p.m. Occupied Jerusalem Time every Friday. Al-Aqsa TV talked over the phone with Fathi Hammad, director of the Al-Aqsa media network.

Carpet bombing is too good for these savages.

More here: CNN SPINS HEINOUS HAMOUSE HATE
The Mouse That War-ed
Mickey Shaheed Mouse
Lunch with Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch

The Mouse That War-ed

A government shuts down "Mickey Mouse" clone as PMW report "sent shockwaves abroad"

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

Sunday's PMW bulletin, reporting that Hamas TV had stolen the "Mickey Mouse image to teach hate and Islamic supremacy," has "sent shockwaves abroad" according to the official PA daily Al Hayat-Al Jadida. This worldwide outrage has forced the Palestinian Authority government to shut down the Hamas children's program on which the Mickey Mouse clone named "Farfur" taught Islamic supremacy and hate messages.

The PMW report triggered a massive media campaign against this Palestinian use of the American icon. FOX News was the first to give wide coverage, and within 48 hours the story had been covered by the entire American media and much of the world media.

Click here to see the FOX news report on May 6.

Eric Shawn, FOX news: "It looks like Mickey Mouse, it sounds like Mickey Mouse, but do you think Mickey Mouse would ever tell kids to fight Americans and the Jews?"

Diane Disney Miller, Walt Disney's daughter: "What we're dealing with here is pure evil and you can't ignore that."

The New York Daily News front page headline screamed: "Terror Mouse," and called the Hamas TV program "perverse."

PMW director Itamar Marcus was quoted in the Daily News: "It's a brilliant way of getting the most horrific messages into the consciousness of young children... It's fun. You laugh at Farfur. You don't realize you are being poisoned."

Three days after PMW posted the Mickey Mouse video on YouTube, it has received more than 150,000 viewings in addition to the viewings on the PMW website. BTW, dhimmitube has since taken them down!

PA daily Al Hayat-Al Jadida summarized the events: "Following complaints by Israeli watchdog group [PMW], which sent shockwaves abroad, Information Minister Mustafa Barghuthi said that he instructed to stop the broadcasting of the program 'Tomorrow's Pioneers' until its programs are examined... 'I demanded that Hamas suspend the program and they have withdrawn it, because it was wrong to use a program directed at children to convey political messages.'"

Queen Condi's Colossal Cave

While Condi Albright relies on the kindness of barbarians, the people of Israel revolt but may not have much say in their undecided fate. Glick today in the Jpost, this is an important column. Read it all. Twice.

The Fruits of Hizbollah's Victory Caroline Glick J Post

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice strikes an eerie resemblance to her predecessor Madeleine Albright these days. Rice's visit to Egypt, where she jumped at the chance to meet with her Syrian counterpart and spoke dreamily of her desire to meet with an Iranian official with direct ties to Iran's dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called to mind Albright's boogie-woogie with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il in the waning days of the Clinton administration.

In Sharm e-Sheikh, Rice is clearly looking for a way to forge a US surrender of Iraq to its nemeses Iran and Syria. So it is that American commanders in Iraq are barred from noting publicly that the Iranian and Syrian governments are directing the war and killing their soldiers.

Rice's embrace of surrender extends to her position on Iran's nuclear weapons program. Rice and her State Department colleagues oppose both striking Iran's nuclear installations and providing assistance to regime opponents inside Iran who seek to overthrow the regime in order to prevent the mullahs from acquiring nuclear weapons. All they want to do is negotiate with the ayatollahs. They have no other policy.

So too, in recent months the US has embraced the Palestinians. Although the speaker of the Palestinian legislature Ahmad Bahar just made a televised appeal to Allah to kill every Jew and American on earth, Rice insists on transferring $59 million in US taxpayer money to the Palestinian security forces. So too, last week the State Department dictated a list of security concessions that Israel must make to the Palestinians over the next eight months regardless of whether the Palestinians themselves cease their attacks on Israel, or for that matter, regardless of whether the Palestinians maintain their commitment to annihilating the Israel and the US.

Rice's shepherding of the US to strategic defeat against the jihadists in the Middle East extends to Africa as well. In Somalia, the US now supports the unity government in spite of the fact that the Al-Qaida-backed Islamic Courts Union is a member of the government.

So too, Rice's embrace of failure extends to Asia where she accepted a nuclear armed North Korea and even agreed to give Pyongyang money.

Rice's uncontested control of US foreign policy is one of the ancillary results of the Second Lebanon War last summer.

Israel was not the only loser in that war. Its stalwart allies in Washington, who battled Rice and her State Department colleagues in support of an Israeli victory, also lost. Those supporters, commonly referred to as the neoconservatives, were led by their chief, President George W. Bush.

The Second Lebanon War placed the true nature of the global jihad in stark relief. By waging a proxy war with Israel through Hizbullah and the Palestinians simultaneously, Iran and Syria demonstrated clearly that the war against Israel is not a unique war, but rather a key battleground of the global jihad whose forces are fighting the US and its allies in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the world. More than any war before, the Second Lebanon War demonstrated Israel's vital importance as a US ally. And Israel's decision not to fight that war to victory played a key role in the neoconservatives' defeat by Rice and the Washington establishment.

BINGO!

Now what for Israel?

Lunch with Itamar MarcusPalestinian Media Watch

LIVEBLOGGING: The Middle East Forum put together a small lunch with Itamar Marcus, counter terrorism analyst and the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, which studies Palestinian society from a broad range of perspectives by monitoring and analyzing the Palestinian Authority through its media and schoolbooks. The PMW exposes the death culture in Palestinian "society."

Photographer: Ted Belman, Israpundit

What separates Marcus from other Middle Eastern Arabic translating organizations (ie MEMRI) is  Palestinian society is all they do. What is going on in Palestinian society and only Palestinian society. They were the first to report that Yasser Arafat was saying one thing to English speaking audiences and a completely different thing to the Arab world.

It began in a quest to learn what the Palestinians were saying to their people and more specifically, their children. The Palestinian media is PMW's window to the Palestinian society because it is state controlled so you can determine what the objective is by the propaganda being

Its many reports and studies on summer camps, poetry, schoolbooks, crossword puzzles, religious ideology, women and mothers, children's video clips, and inciting children to 'Shahada" -Martyrdom', have brought the world's attention to many aspects of Palestinian society hidden from the non-Arabic speaking world.d conferences world wide.

In the case of a crossword puzzle, a clue would be  "sea port in Palestine" --  Haifa. The implication that all of Israel is occupied.

Schools reflect a religious battle, an Islamic battle - a battle that will go  on forever

The subject of Marcus's talk was

FROM THE PLO TO HAMAS: IS PALESTINIAN SOCIETY BECOMING ISLAMIST?

In reading the HAMAS CHARTER - it is an Islamic covenant. The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is a Palestine (waft) land. Hamas in its own words.

They see blowing Jews up, killing the Jews as a service to humanity.

The differences between Hamas and Fatah could not be more clear.

The Hamas charter has 105 references to  Allah, Fatah none

The Hamas charter has 33 references to the Koran, Fatah none

The Hamas charter has 7 references to Koran , Fatah none

The Hamas charter has 33 quotews from the Koran , Fatah none.

Check out the Palestinian schoolbook. Check out the Palestinian narrative.

Marcus is now showing  video of Abbas saying one to the Palestinian people (we do not and will not recognize Israel) and saying the complete opposite to the English media the same day - with Condi Rice in the region.

Marcus  is showing Palestinian video of their version on official  Palestinian televison that the Jews "created the ovens of the Holocaust." That the Jews "baked the humans. The Jews had blood on his hands."

This package of "killing the Jews" is the same package that Hitler put forth in Mein Kamp.

Hitler packaged it as self defense. Creating a situation that it is self defense to kill Jews.

This exact message of Hitler was put forth today in the  Hamas newspaper "The extermination is good for the benefit of all mankind. Don't blame us - it's our Lord."

Like the Nazis said "we were just taking orders." Hamas too is saying don't blame us, "we are following the Lord's orders."

Suicide terror is  not an act of desperation it is an aspiration.

They still use the blood libel of Al Dura to seduce their children. They have a music video of the small boy running, laughing, going on ferris wheels (there are no ferris wheels in Pali territories) and he is shouting happily, waving to the children calling to them, "I am waving at you not to say goodbye but to follow me."

The Palestinian media run music videos for years , every day glorifying death, and glowingly depicting 72 virgins in white, dancing and prancing in the water waiting for the shaheed.

We, in America, tend to separate Hams and Fatah but they overlap. They are a global Islamic force. They are calling for death to America, death to Israel on both Hamas and Fatah Israel, more here. Marcus said the biggest the west makes is separating Hamas and Fatah. Their goals are the same and they work together. The Islamic brotherhood.

There is a new program on they have starting showing  :mickey Mouse type character to pass on these messages of hate. They use poetry readings to chant death, "Oh Jerusalem we are coming.. "This is a new program - FOX News will be showing portions of it on Sunday, May 6th.

Gotta run to liveblog a UN conference, do me a favor and send PMW a donation now.

UPDATE: From today's PMW:

Hamas: “The extermination of the Jews is good for the inhabitants of the worlds.”
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - May 3, 2007

The extermination of Jews is Allah’s will and is for the benefit of all humanity, according to an article in the Hamas paper, Al-Risalah. The author of the article, Kan'an Ubayd, explains that the suicide operations carried out by Hamas are being committed solely to fulfill Allah’s wishes. Furthermore, Allah demanded this action, because “the extermination of the Jews is good for the inhabitants of the worlds.”

The killing of innocent Jews by terrorist attacks is portrayed as Allah’s plan for the benefit of humanity.

It should be noted that Hamas’s justification for the extermination of Jews, both as God's will and for the benefit of humanity, echoes Hitler's words in Mein Kampf:

“In this case the only salvation remaining was war… If the Jew with the help of his Marxist creed is victorious over the peoples of this world, then his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity… Thus I believe today that I am acting according to the will of the almighty Creator: when I defend myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.” (Mein Kampf)

In another parallel to the Nazi genocide of Jews, the writer says he wants to be sure that “everyone will know” that these murderous actions are “not of [Hamas’s] own accord” – an echo of the Nazi war criminals’ repeated justification of their actions with the defense that they were only following orders.

The fact that these orders are said to be divine in nature makes Hamas’s justification for the murder of Jews even more ominous.

Following is the excerpt from the Hamas article:

"We find more than once condemnation and denunciation to the resistance operations and bombings [suicide attacks], carried out by Hamas and the Palestinian resistance branches. There is no other choice but to use restraint regarding the condemnation, the attaching of the label of terror [to "resistance"], and the assembling of conferences [for] condemnation [of the attacks]. [This] so that everyone will know, that we did this only because our lord commanded so, “I did it not of my own accord” [*] and so that people will know that the extermination of Jews is good for the inhabitants of the worlds on a land, to which Allah gave his blessing for the sake of the inhabitants of the worlds.”
[Al-Risalah, April 23, 2007]

[*] Translation of Quranic verse taken from USC Compendium of Muslim Texts.

THIS MUST BE CRUSHED

PA Leader calls for killing all Jews and Americans

Your taxpayer dollars at work! Here and  here and here and here and here and here!  hat tip video Magnus
The following is the transcript:

Dr. Ahmad Bahar (acting Speaker, Palestinian Legislative Council):
“This is Islam, that was ahead of its time with regards to human rights in the treatment of prisoners, but our people was afflicted by the cancerous lump, that is the Jews, in the heart of the Arab nation… Be certain that America is on its way to disappear, America is wallowing [in blood] today in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is defeated and Israel is defeated, and was defeated in Lebanon and Palestine… Make us victorious over the infidel people… Allah, take hold of the Jews and their allies, Allah, take hold of the Americans and their allies… Allah, count them and kill them to the last one and don’t leave even one.”
[PA TV, April 20, 2007]

Cue Nancy Peloshia, the dhimmicrats and the leftards, "they don't really mean it."

Gaza Women: "We will be Human Bombs"Give 'em a State!

This entire culture must be destroyed. There is no two state solution. You can not gift savages bases in which to murder. DROP THE TWO STATE SOLUTION. It's a fable.

Fatah Women in Gaza Announce: "We Will Be Human Bombs" (Maan News-PA)
    The Al-Aqsa Protectors, the Missiles Brigade, the Martyr Hassan Al-Madhoun Brigade, and the Homeland Strike Force, which are all part of the Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Brigades, announced the formation of a joint operations room to respond to an expected Israeli invasion of Gaza in a coordinated and forceful fashion.
    Many female members of the Al-Aqsa Brigades also declared their readiness to die for the Palestinian cause.
    "We will be human bombs and we will explode in the face of the occupation," they warned.

Mainstream Caliphate Confessions a comment by Jerry Gordon

Andy Bostom author of ‘The Legacy of Islam’ and a forthcoming companion volume, ‘The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism’ has an interested ‘nugget’ of analysis he’s come up with from a survey of the Muslim world by a credible group and significant represenative sample. To wit:

‘Polling data just released (April 24, 2007) in a rigorously conducted face-to-face University of Maryland/ WorldPublicOpinion.org interview survey of 4384 Muslims conducted between December 9, 2006 and February 15, 2007—1000 Moroccans, 1000 Egyptians, 1243 Pakistanis, and 1141 Indonesians—reveal that 65.2% of those interviewed—almost 2/3, hardly a “fringe minority”—desired this outcome (i.e., “To unify all Islamic countries into a single Islamic state or Caliphate”), including 49% of “moderate” Indonesian Muslims. The internal validity of these data about the present longing for a Caliphate is strongly suggested by a concordant result: 65.5% of this Muslim sample approved the proposition “To require a strict [emphasis added] application of Shari’a law in every Islamic country.”

What these survey data results that Bostom has analyzed tell us is that a clear majority of the Muslim ummah favor a caliphate and strict application of sharia law.

Tells me that ‘assumptions’ about moderate Muslims being in the majority of the ummah is a veritable misnomer. But then Muslim advocacy groups have bought into the Religion of Peace ‘branding’ to dissaude us with their soothing taqiyyah. They have even duped politicians at the highest levels in our government and a fair number of media pundits who believe that extremists are a ‘thin’ minority.

by Andrew Bostom, FrontPageMagazine.com, April 27, 2007

Writing in 1916, C. Snouck Hurgronje, the great Dutch Orientalist, underscored how the jihad doctrine of world conquest, and the re-creation of a supranational Islamic Caliphate remained a potent force among the Muslim masses:

…it would be a gross mistake to imagine that the idea of universal conquest may be considered as obliterated…the canonists and the vulgar still live in the illusion of the days of Islam’s greatness. The legists continue to ground their appreciation of every actual political condition on the law of the holy war, which war ought never be allowed to cease entirely until all mankind is reduced to the authority of Islam—the heathen by conversion, the adherents of acknowledged Scripture [i.e., Jews and Christians] by submission.

Hurgronje further noted that although the Muslim rank and file might acknowledge the improbability of that goal “at present” (circa 1916), they were,

…comforted and encouraged by the recollection of the lengthy period of humiliation that the Prophet himself had to suffer before Allah bestowed victory upon his arms…

Thus even at the nadir of Islam’s political power, during the World War I era final disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, Hurgronje observed how

…the common people are willingly taught by the canonists and feed their hope of better days upon the innumerable legends of the olden time and the equally innumerable apocalyptic prophecies about the future. The political blows that fall upon Islam make less impression…than the senseless stories about the power of the Sultan of Stambul [Istanbul], that would instantly be revealed if he were not surrounded by treacherous servants, and the fantastic tidings of the miracles that Allah works in the Holy Cities of Arabia which are inaccessible to the unfaithful. The conception of the Khalifate [Caliphate] still exercises a fascinating influence, regarded in the light of a central point of union against the unfaithful (i.e., non-Muslims). [emphasis added] CONTINUE

 

Hamas Iraq

It's all about Islamic jihad ............ it's always been the jihad. All of it, everything.

Iraqi Jihad Group Establishes New Political Framework Called "Hamas-Iraq" MEMRI

The Iraqi jihad group Kataib Thawrat Al-Ishrin – one of the Sunni organizations that have not joined the Al-Qaeda-founded Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) – recently split, for unclear reasons, into two factions called Faylaq Al-Jihad Al-Islami and Faylaq Al-Fath Al-Islami. The latter group has announced the establishment of a new political framework called "The Iraqi Resistance Movement – Hamas-Iraq," presumably in response to Al-Qaeda's establishment of the ISI.

War declared on Israel: WMD and Bioweapons?

Hamas has said today the hudna (ceasefire) is over. Hamas blasted Israeli locations around Gaza with mortars and missiles early Tuesday with the message “Message to Zionist enemy, our strikes will continue.”

DEBKAfile Exclusive: A large, high-ranking Syrian delegation of 40 generals on secret mission to Tehran April 23, 2007, 1:27 PM (GMT+02:00) Led by Maj. Gen. Yahya L. Solayman, War Planning chief at the Syrian armed forces General Staff, the delegation represents all branches of the Syrian armed forces. In Washington and Jerusalem, there is little doubt that the two allies timed the Syrian delegation’s mission to Tehran as a rejoinder to US defense secretary Robert Gates’ Middle East tour last week.  hat tip Jeff

Israel sees four causes for concern:

1. The unusually large size of the Syrian delegation and the presence of operations officers from the various army corps.

2. The elevated positions of the Iranian officials hosting the Syrians: the top men with responsibility for preparing the RGs and armed forces for armed conflict.

US and Israeli intelligence experts agreed in their talks during Gates’ two-day visit to Israel last week on the object of the Syrian mission: to tighten operational coordination at the highest level between the Syria military and Iran’s armed forces and Revolutionary Guards.

3. The installations and weapons shown the Syrian officers. The intelligence estimate is that they saw the weapons systems soon to be consigned by Iran to the Syrian army and Hizballah, as well as the types of assistance pledged for Syria in the event of a military showdown with the United States or Israel. Syrian-Iranian consultations must also be presumed to have cleared the routes by which these weapons would reach Syria and Hizballah in a military contingency.

During the 2006 Hizballah-Israel war, Iran ran an airlift to Damascus through Turkish airspace and over the Mediterranean.

4. The unusual length of the visit. Monday, April 23 the Syrian officers were still busy in Tehran after six days and showed no sign of leaving.

Even more disturbing ................

 

BIOLOGICAL WAR-FEAR
Syria ready with bio-terror if U.S. hits Iran
Damascus reportedly hiding WMD among commercial pharmaceuticals
By Jerome R. Corsi

Photo of Jill Bellamy-Dekker of European Homeland Security Association

An American biodefense analyst living in Europe says if the U.S. invades Iran to halt its nuclear ambitions, Syria is ready to respond with weapons of mass destruction – specifically biological weapons.

"Syria is positioned to launch a biological attack on Israel or Europe should the U.S. attack Iran," Jill Bellamy-Dekker told WND. "The Syrians are embedding their biological weapons program into their commercial pharmaceuticals business and their veterinary vaccine-research facilities. The intelligence service oversees Syria's 'bio-farm' program and the Ministry of Defense is well interfaced into the effort."

Bellamy-Decker currently directs the Public Health Preparedness program for the European Homeland Security Association under the French High Committee for Civil Defense.

She anticipates a variation of smallpox is the biological agent Syria would utilize.

"The Syrians are also working on orthopox viruses that are related to smallpox," Bellamy-Decker said, "and it's a good way to get around international treaties against offensive biological weapons development. They work on camelpox as a cover for smallpox."

According to the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota, camelpox is a virus closely related to smallpox, that causes a "severe and economically important disease in camels," but rarely, if ever, causes the disease in humans.

Bellamy-Decker also told WND the North Koreans were working closely with the Syrians on their biological weapons program.

"The Syrians have made some recent acquisitions in regard to their smallpox program from the DPRK," she explained. "Right before the recent Lebanon war, the Syrians had a crash program in cryptosporidium."
[...]
"I believe they are testing biological weapons right now, in Sudan, in the conflict in Darfur," she answered. "There is credible information about flyover activity in Darfur, where little parachutes have been dropped down on the population. This is consistent with dispersal methods in bioweapons attacks. I've also seen evidence of bodies that have been recovered from Darfur that look as if they had been exposed to biological weapons."
"A terrorist bio-attack could go global," she noted. "A good biological hit will spread rapidly with international travel. Smallpox is a better weapon than anthrax. Smallpox has been field-tested, it is highly stable, and highly communicable, especially if you look at some of the strains the Russians manipulated. Syria probably retained some of [its] smallpox strains from the last outbreak back in 1972."

Another risk is the possibility Syria's military might give bioweapons to terrorists.

"We are close to seeing a breakthrough where Syria could provide biological weapons to some of the terrorist groups they work with, like Hezbollah in Lebanon," Bellamy-Decker argued. "The Syrians believe they can vaccinate themselves and they are working within the Syrian military. They're certainly not worried about releasing these biological weapons in a military setting, or even if civilians were infected as well, as long as they are vaccinated. I think it is a real threat."

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'Syria preps for summer war'

Pali Arabs Bomb American School Give 'em a State

Bomb Damages School in Gaza with U.S. Ties - Isabel Kershner
A dozen masked Palestinians bombed and set fire to the American International School in Beit Lahiya, north of Gaza City, before dawn on Saturday, causing extensive damage. Palestinian officials said that the attackers, believed to be Islamic extremists subscribing to the ideology of al-Qaeda, placed several explosive devices at the school. Two night guards said the militants tied their hands. One of the guards, Atef al-Beheisi, said the masked men told him, "We are the organization of Al-Qaeda in Palestine, and our swords will be directed at the throats of the infidels." The second guard said the intruders identified themselves to him as being part of the "Army of Islam." The school received $160,000 this year from the State Department to finance scholarships. (New York Times)

"Our jihad-fighting Palestinian people salutes its brother, Sudan."

The media never tells you  the genocide in the Sudan is an Islamic jihad. How long are we going to allow this to go on? How long are we going to fund terrorists? What is it going to take to take down our mortal enemies?The following is an open Letter to UN Secretary-General & HCHR- ongoing PA's TV "public incitement to commit genocide";

WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM
ASSOCIATION FOR WORLD EDUCATION

  Palais des Nations, Geneva, Monday, 23 April 2007 (10:00a.m.)

Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour On PA’s ongoing "direct and public incitement to commit genocide" (1948 Genocide Convention: Article IIIc)

On 13 April 2007, at a mosque in Sudan, the Acting Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Sheikh Ahmad Bahr of Hamas brought greetings: "Our jihad-fighting Palestinian people salutes its brother, Sudan."

He ended his sermon to a packed mosque audience with a "direct and public incitement to commit genocide": "Oh Allah, vanquish the Jews and their supporters. Oh Allah, vanquish the Americans and their supporters. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them all, down to the very last one [sic]. Oh Allah, show them a day of darkness. Oh Allah, who sent down His Book [The Koran], the mover of the clouds who defeated the enemies of the Prophet – defeat the Jews and the Americans, and bring us victory over them."

Read the whole thing - here's the file. Download WUPJ-AWE-UN-23April2007.doc

Hamas Calls for more Kidnapping Because this is what they do

Savages. The world aids and abets. I will never understand. It's what the Pope said when he quoted the Byzantine Emperor (the quote that that caused the Papal jihad),  ‘Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.’

Over at PMW Here;

Hamas calls for kidnapping more Israeli soldiers as hostages to achieve release of 10,000 terrorist prisoners

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - April 22, 2007

The Prisoners’ Committee of the Palestinian Legislative Council presented 10 suggestions for action “and the most prominent was the call for further kidnappings of Zionist soldiers as a solution to end the prisoners’ suffering,” according to a report by Hamas's Al-Aqsa Television.

The Hamas statements indicate that they see the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who is still being held hostage, as effective policy, since Israel has already offered to release Palestinian terrorists from Israeli jails. However, due to Israel's insistence on releasing only a limited number of terrorists in exchange for the single soldier, Hamas believes that kidnapping more Israeli soldiers is necessary to release the thousands of imprisoned Palestinian terrorists. As Sa’id Siam, former interior minister, explained: “There were suggestions to repeat the kidnapping operations of other Israeli soldiers… the capture of the [single] soldier will not be [enough] cause for the release of over 10,000 prisoners.”

Click here to see Hamas calls to kidnap more Israeli soldiers

The following are the transcripts of the calls to kidnap more Israeli soldiers:

Member of the Legislative Council Um-Nasser Farachat:
“With no connection to my being a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and my involvement in the leadership, as a Palestinian citizen, by God, I don’t believe in any solution other than one: kidnapping Zionist soldiers.”

The newscaster:
"The kidnapping of more Zionist soldiers [is required]… 10 Zionist soldiers – maybe less – will guarantee the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners."

Sa’id Siam, Former interior minister:
“There were suggestions to repeat the operations of kidnapping other Israeli soldiers, because we know that the occupation understands no other language. Second, the capture of the [single] soldier will not be enough cause for the release of [the] over 10,000 prisoners… There are many suggestions, but what’s important is what will actually be done.”

There's more. Read it all. How long before Pelosi/Hoyer are calling for dialogue with these animals? Hams, Hezbollah, Syria - Iranian foreign legions.They are one and the same.

And check out Gateway Pundit: Hamas Leader- "Allah... Please Annihilate America ... 

Iran to Hezbollah: Islamic Law Permits Jew Killing

"Do we really believe in a culture of death? Absolutely not. We believe in the culture of martyrdom. Martyrdom is valuable, sacred, respectable, and great, not something that can be used as an accusation. It is an honor for us to be accused of believing in the culture of martyrdom.

Deputy Secretary-General of Hizbullah, Sheik Naim Qassem: We Received Jurisprudent Permission to Carry Out "Martyrdom" Operations and to Fire Misilles at Israeli Civilians from Iran MEMRI Transcript here

View the Video here

Naim Qassem: As for the issue of the culture of death, the culture of martyrdom, the culture of life – with all its different names... It is no secret that the materialistic West, and the atheists in general, and all those who see that the power of Islam is on the rise, and that it is gaining influence – and especially with regard to the philosophy of martyrdom-seeking... They all take a negative position and exert pressure, in order to make the believers abandon the culture of martyrdom. What is the reason? They seek (the pleasures of) this world and compete in this world. They know that if we competed with them according to the rules of this world, they would overcome us, because they are more materialistic than us. Therefore, by materialistic criteria, they would be victorious. But if they compete with us on the issue of faith, we will overcome them, because the competitive power of faith is greater, stronger, and more influential.

So they challenger us, or provoke us, by saying that we have a culture of death. They call martyrdom "death," in order to make us renounce martyrdom. If we renounce martyrdom, we will only have the strength of our weapons and our numbers, and then they will be able to overcome us. The enemies will be able to overcome us.

[...]

"Hizbullah, when it comes to matters of jurisprudence pertaining to its general direction, as well as to its jihad direction, based itself on the decisions of the Jurisprudent. It is the Jurisprudent who permits, and it is the Jurisprudent who forbids. When the resistance of Hizbullah was launched in 1982, it was based on the jurisprudent position and decision of Imam Khomeini, who deemed fighting Israel to be an obligation, and therefore we adhered to this opinion. How Israel should be fought, what equipment you should prepare, when you should or shouldn't attack – these questions are guided by principles in Islamic religious law, and you can act in this direction, according to your abilities. Therefore, we covered our jihad position with regard to fighting Israel with the decision of the Jurisprudent. "With regard to all the other details – whenever we need jurisprudent clarifications regarding what is permitted and what is forbidden on the jihad front, we ask, receive general answers, and implement then. Even with regard to martyrdom operations – a person cannot kill himself unless he has jurisprudent permission.

UK Journalist Pimps for the Jihad

Antisemitism is a sickness, a mental (moral) illness. It infects people's minds and much  like a cancer (to quote Ismail Ax) eats away at their brain. And so we have a case in point, the trannie-looking British Nancy boy Alan Hart ("a young 65") has a theory about the BBC journalist kidnapped and murdered by Pali Arabs in Gaza. The Jooooos did it. Original, I must say. I hear Jimmy Hoffa was knocked off by the Jooooos too - he is floating in the Gaza shitstorm.  hat tip baldheaded geek and dymphna Yo Alan, what up wit the hair?

If Alan Johnston is dead, who, really, was responsible? Alan ("a young 65") Hart

On Count One, Alan was not only the BBC's man, he was the only permanent foreign correspondent in Gaza. He was, in short, the best and most informed provider of news about the Palestinian side of the story; a story which, in many of its details, is an embarrassment to Israel and those governments, most notably the Bush and Blair regimes, which support Israel's efforts to break the will of the Palestinians to continue their struggle for an acceptable minimum of justice.

On Count Two, and if he has been murdered, Alan's death, if it could be blamed on a Palestinian or a pro-Palestinian Arab and/or other Islamist group, would be a huge political setback for the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle and the present leadership of it. (The Al Qaeda franchise would not give a damn about harming the Palestinian cause).

There is a case for saying (repeat a case) that the party with most to gain from Alan Johnston's permanent disappearance was Israel.

It would not be the first time that Israeli agents had dressed as Arabs to make a hit.

Spineless Sistuh City South of Seattle

Olympia looks at Rafah for sister city 
Matt Batcheldor The Olympian

OLYMPIA — Rafah, a Gaza Strip city that could soon become a sister city to Olympia, is either a community of oppressed Palestinians who need understanding or a haven for anti-Israel terrorists, according to recent e-mails the Olympia City Council has received.

What will these assclowns think of next? Olympia Sistuh city status to a city in Gaza? Why? They victimize their people. They cannot provide the most basic human services, money only for arms and Jew killing. Their cesspool collapsed due to sand bag thievery, flooding city streets in a sea of shit killing 5 people including two babies. They murdered the  sympathetic to the Pali Arab BBC Gaza reporter while Radical Islamic groups growing in Gaza. The left loves ideas (in this case the ide of Jew hating, hates people.)

Olympia considers proposal to make Gaza Strip city a sister city SeattlePi.com via AP

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The Olympia City Council will hold a public hearing Tuesday to consider whether to adopt a Gaza Strip city as its second sister city.

Because of the controversy surrounding the Middle East conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, council members say it won't be an easy decision

Your taxpayer dollars at work (in Seattle anyway.)

The council has already heard via e-mail from about 100 people who have strong opinions about the proposal. That's more e-mail than any other issue has attracted in recent memory, said Councilman Joe Hyer.

The Rafah proposal comes from a local group called the Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project, which has pursued the sister-city affiliation for four years. It would cost the city nothing; the organization would continue and would pay for all sister-city activities.

Proponents of the sister-city relationship say it would result in cultural exchanges and friendships.

Opponents say choosing Rafah as a sister city amounts to taking the Palestinian side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

One can only imagine where all this money has gone. No world citizen came near the Palis in aid per perosn (go here now.) Amid deterioration of security, rubbish threats Gaza environment;

Flames of fire and columns of smoke went up in several parts of Gaza City in a scene that became familiar for Palestinian residents fed up with lack of security, factional fighting and clan rivalries.

Columns of smoke used to be caused by Israeli strikes on Palestinian militants buildings or vehicles, but this time, smoke was a result of burning heaps of rubbish in every corner in the city.

Meanwhile, thousands of public servants in all sectors, including municipal workers in Gaza municipality, were on strike to demand salaries which have been overdue since early last year due to Western aid embargo imposed on then Hamas-led Palestinian government.

The aid cutoff also targeted several municipalities that became under Hamas control after municipal elections held two years ago. Hamas says it controls more than half of municipal councils in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Money for sucide bombers, kassams, guns but nothing else. They don't want a state. They don't want to pick up garbage, deliver mail, buld roads --- they Philistines want only to kill.

The garbage collectors used to clean the streets regularly from the early morning to the late evening, until they decided to go on an open-ended strike five days ago.

"The yellow bins were full of garbage and people have had to throw the waste round the trashes," says Ahmed Ibraheem, 45, who was setting fire to the rubbish along with his neighbors in Remal neighborhood in the city.

Alaa Abu Sulaiman, 25, an unemployed university graduate, expressed fear that increasing heaps of rubbish may lead to "a dangerous environmental disaster."

"Aren't the deteriorated economical situation and the security anarchy enough? We have also heaps of rubbish that would worsen the situation," he wonders.

"I graduated two years ago and haven't found any single job opportunity...I can see no hope, the solution may be to leave Gaza or to die here of hunger and illnesses," the young man said.

A man in his forties, identified himself as Abu Muhammad, said life in Gaza has become "disgusting," adding "what do they want us to do? To leave Gaza, but where to go?"

Mayor of Gaza City Majed Abu Ramadan has appealed for Arab, Islamic and international sides to intervene immediately to save the municipalities, especially Gaza's, from potential collapse. More here

So their people are allegedly starving, but PA refuses Israeli medicines, demands cash, and they have been busted  with 111 truckloads of TVs but no money for food and basic supplies. And Olympia wants to encourage this with sister city status. Loverly.

 

Pali Arabs Kill UK JournalistUK Journalists Boycott Israel

It goes beyond comprehension, it's willful stupidity and suicide. Just yesterday I reported here that UK journalists voted to boycott Israel right? Now this............ the Pali savges are emboldened. The British reaction to the taken of the 15 marines spoke volumes. British timidity is deadly. The Palis know the Brits will do nothing.

We killed BBC reporter', Palestinian group says:
Palestinian Jihad and Tawheed Brigades say Alan Johnston has been executed, blame British, Palestinian governments

Yaakov Lappin Israel News  hat tip Haruv

BBC reporter Alan Johnston has been killed by an al-Qaeda affilated Palestinian organization, according to an internet statement obtained by Ynetnews.

The statement was signed by the Palestinian Jihad and Tawheed Brigades, an organization named after an Iraqi al-Qaeda group.

Responding to the statement, the BBC said it is "aware of these reports -- but we have no independent verification of them. We are deeply concerned about what we are hearing -- but we stress, at this stage, it is rumour with no independent verification."

In the message, the group said the British and Palestinian governments were responsible for Johnston's killing, and vowed to release a video of the execution.

"The whole world knows of our just cause in demanding the release of our prisoners, who are waiting under the fire of the occupation," the statement began. "Our demand was that all of those who are responsible for the journalist... release our prisoners who are being held in the prisons of the occupation," it continued.

Read it all. Of course they blame the Jooooooooooos.

Give 'em a state!

Hamas Spokesman:
Genocide of Jews remains Hamas goal PMW

They love the bloodshed. They love death. They love killing Jews. No matter what kind of happy face the UN tries to put on it.

Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan delivered a hate-filled sermon calling for the “liberation of Palestine” through terrorism rather than through inter-Arab and international conferences.

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at Israel Intelligence' Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)

Hamas TV Prepares For Intifada III

Palestinians Release Kidnap Training Video

America, the World Is Watching You
BY YOUSSEF IBRAHIM
Americans peek overseas in snippets, paying attention when something spectacular happens but forgetting that most of the time, the world is watching America. 

Sucking up to Savages

Hamas demanded that an Abbas advisor be prosecuted for treason after he advocated security coordination with Israel. Mohammad Yaghi has more here.

HAMAS PASSOVER MASSACRE AVERTED

I am waiting for world condemnation, waiting for UN security council resolutions, waiting for all funding to the military coffers of these savages to stop. There was obviously the start of the next war.

Pesach Massacre Averted: Hamas Mass Murder Car was in Tel Aviv

Hamas' terror cell in Kalkilye - which carried out Dolphinarium massacre - has been rebuilt with the help of Iran and Syria. (IsraelNN.com) For as yet unknown reasons, a massive Hamas terror attack intended to take place in the Tel Aviv area during the Passover Seder was averted. A similar attack five years ago killed 30 people in Netanya and triggered the IDF's Operation Defensive Shield.

The General Security Service (Shabak) released the news of the near-attack while announcing that it had arrested 19 Hamas terrorists in Kalkilye who were involved with this and other planned attacks

UPDATE: Hamas Planned Tel Aviv Passover Bombing hat tip Janet

The would-be suicide bomber managed to enter Israel because he holds an Israeli identity card. He is married to an Israeli Arab from Taibeh and received residency status as part of the program of reuniting families. The vehicle he was driving had Israeli license plates.

 

JUST SAY NO!

Israel given prisoner exchange list Deutsche Welle
The Palestinian militant group Hamas has handed over to Egyptian mediators the names of prisoners it wants Israel to release in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier. The list is said to contain over 1,000 names, including that of Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.

These deals only make sense to the left. The only consolation conservatives here in America have is  the left in Israel is worse!

Let 1,000 murderers, criminals loose to wage jihad on the general population in exchange for ....................... what? WHAT? Do not negotiate with savages.

Palestinians want 1,000 freed in return for one Israeli soldier SCOTSMAN hat tip Eyesea
BEN LYNFIELD, Jerusalem

A LIST of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners wanted in exchange for long-term hostage Corporal Gilad Shalit has been presented to the Israeli government in the biggest sign of progress towards securing his release for nearly a year.

The continued captivity of Cpl Shalit, who was seized in a cross-border raid from Gaza in June last year by militants allied to the Hamas faction, has added further acrimony to the poisoned Israeli-Palestinian relationship.

Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, has accused the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, of failing to deliver on a pledge to secure the soldier's release before last month's formation of the new Palestinian national unity government of both the Fatah and Hamas factions

UPDATE: Read Caroline Glick's latest:  THE NEXT GRAND BARGAIN

Arabs face DEATH: Sold Home to Jews

The Religion of Peace continues to surprise us. What will they think of next? Any word from the United Nations Human Rights Council? From the EU? From.........fuggedaboutddit. Carl in Jerusalem has the 411 here;

Hebron Arabs face death penalty for selling building to Jews

A building on the "path of blood" between Hebron and Kiryat Arba that Jews moved into last week was apparently sold to the Jews by two Arabs who now face the death penalty.

The Beit HaShalom, Peace House, located amongst Arab buildings between the Jewish enclave in Hebron and the neighboring large Jewish neighborhood of Kiryat Arba, was purchased two weeks for the sum of $700,000.

Immediately following the announcement of the transaction, Israeli police launched an investigation into the legality of the sale, and the Defense Ministry under the auspices of left-leaning Labor Chairman Amir Peretz began searching for grounds to expel the new Jewish residents of the building.

Pali Arab Kidnap: Day 17 for BBC journie

THE BBC correspondent Alan Johnston spent his 17th day in captivity yesterday, meaning he has now been held for longer than any other journalist abducted in the Gaza Strip.  This after all the taqiya and jiyza the BBC has happily paid.  BBC pays £200,000 to 'cover up report on anti-Israel bias'. Now that's rich. 

Wildly Stupid is as Wildy Stupid Does

Or should that be, sucicidal is as suicidal does? With or without Israel, they are coming to  for America. We know what the Pali Arabs do with out taxpayer dollars, Ma Nishtanah Halila Hazeh ?

US aid will be used to 'hit the Zionists' Aaron Klein Y Net hat tip Haruv

Fatah members also vow suicide bombings, rocket attacks Aaron Klein, WND

Israel News The declared "military wing" of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party took credit for two of seven rockets fired into Israel on Tuesday, vowed to break a Gaza ceasefire and told WND that US financial aid pledged for Fatah security forces will be used to "attack the Zionists."

 

"Even if the American money and weapons reach only members of Fatah who are not involved in the resistance, it will find its way to the Palestinian resistance and be utilized for attacks against the Zionists," said Abu Ahmed, the northern Gaza commander of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group.

 

Abu Ahmed was referring to $59 million the Bush administration announced Tuesday it will send to strengthen Fatah security forces.

 

"This money is an attempt to generate civil war between Hamas and Fatah and to buy off Fatah. But we will never leave the political line of Yasser Arafat, who would not give up even one inch of Palestine," charged Abu Ahmed.

Lord of the Flies warns: "Lords of War"

Photo: UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, center, shares a Jewish Joke with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh after the opening session of the "Kill the Jews" conference in Sand City. hat tip Michael

The Arab Peace Initiative got off to a bad start when Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal warned Israel that its rejection of the plan would leave its fate in the hands of the "lords of war." Rather than obtaining some flexibility, Israel was handed an ultimatum.

This was not the style of either President Anwar Sadat or King Hussein, but rather a grossly mismanaged way of launching any modus vivendi with Israel.

Moreover, if Israel thought Rice's optimistic diplomacy earlier in the week was based on some well-established US-Saudi coordination, it came as a total surprise when Jim Hoagland disclosed in The Washington Post yesterday that Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah canceled a mid-April gala dinner with President George W. Bush in the White House. More from Dore Gold here

Caroline Glick excoriates dhimmwitted Condi's embrace of jihadist 'peace'

Since Friday, Rice has shuttled between Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan, and is on her way to Saudi Arabia. She is not working to coordinate moves to check Iran's increasing bellicosity. Rather, Rice is laboring to empower Teheran's terrorist allies in Hamas, the Islamic Jihad and Fatah. This she does by promoting the so-called Arab peace plan, which demands that Israel agree to dangerous and strategically catastrophic concessions to the Palestinian terrorist government.

In behaving thus, Rice is walking in the well-worn footsteps of her predecessors. Indeed, it seems almost axiomatic that when the going gets tough for US administrations, administration officials get tough on Israel.

Today, Rice's newfound mania for peacemaking comes when local conditions negate any possibility of peace. Just last month the Saudis promised the Palestinians a billion dollars and so paved the way for the Mecca accord, where the Iranian-sponsored Fatah terror group surrendered to the Iranian-sponsored Hamas terror group. In so acting, the Saudis brought about the formation of a Palestinian government openly committed to the use of terrorism as a tool to ensure Israel's destruction.

International conditions also ensure that Rice's peacemaking will fail to make peace. Regionally, Iran ups the ante daily against the US-led coalition in Iraq. Domestically, the Democratic-controlled Congress works daily to prevent the US from fighting its enemies. Globally, states as far-flung as Russia, China and Venezuela make deals with terror governments to check US power.

The program that Rice has come to the region to advance does not even have the benefit of a peaceful facade. The Palestinians make clear every single day that they do not and will not accept Israel's right to exist in any borders, and that they will not work to combat terrorism against Israel. The Arab League, and its member states, for their part, have repeatedly announced that they will brook no change in their "peace" plan which, if implemented will bring about Israel's rapid destruction.

In behaving as she does, Rice, like Clinton before her, is aided by a politically weak and strategically incompetent Israeli government that is willing to sacrifice Israel's long-term security for the benefit of prime-time photo opportunities with bigwig American leaders and Arab potentates.

Our friends the Saudis:  Saudi king slams 'illegitimate occupation' of Iraq

Of all the men that have departed the Bush team, the one that should have  been gone long ago  remains. And remains supremely in charge.  BIG MISTAKE. Huge.

UPDATE:  Arabs decide to revive death"peace" plan: hat tip Carole

A resolution reaffirming their commitment to the Saudi-inspired peace plan was adopted by the Arab League heads of state on the first day of their annual summit in the Saudi capital, ministers said.

The blueprint offers Israel full normalisation of relations if it withdraws from all land occupied in the 1967 war and allows the creation of a Palestinian state and the return of Palestinian refugees.

No one inch. Not even a pebble. Israel's new fresh hell.

 

Thieves Caused Gaza Cesspool Collapse

Apparently the shitstorm and resulting deaths was a result of stealing;

Gaza: Sewage Disaster Caused by Palestinians Stealing Sand from Embankment
The collapse of a septic pool in a Gaza village, killing five people including two babies, has been blamed on residents stealing sand from an embankment. Gaza City Mayor Majid Abu Ramadan blamed the collapse on local people digging sand from an embankment around the structure and selling it to building contractors. (AP/The Age-Australia)
    See also Israel Sends Water Pumps to Flooded Gaza Town - Yaakov Katz
Two float water pumps supplied by Mekorot, Israel's national water company, were sent into Gaza on Wednesday to assist the Palestinians in pumping waste water that flooded a village near Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza. (Jerusalem Post)

GIVE 'EM A STATE

Looks like a shitstorm in Gazastan. They must be dying (literally) for the Israelis to take charge. Hamas Hezbollah don't want a state! Yasser Arafat didn't want a state. They don't want to pick up garbage, fix roads, educate their children, build a civilization. They want to kill you, institute Shariah and pillage your wealth. What part of barbarian don't you get dhimwit Condi?

Gaza: At least 10 dead in flooding from sewage breach J Post hat tip Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Palestinian medical officials said 10 people were killed when the wall of a large cesspool collapsed, flooding the northern Gaza village of Umm Naser with mud and sewage.

The officials said at least 30 people were missing. The rest of the village's 3,000 residents fled or were evacuated by rescue crews.

A 70-year-old woman died in the sudden flood, and another eight people were injured, including two children, rescue crews said.

Some 250 houses were affected by the sewage or damaged. The Palestinian Red Crescent was handing out tents to the displaced. The cause of the collapse was not immediately clear.

Rescue crews and gunmen from Hamas rushed to the area to search for people feared buried under the slide of sewage and mud.

Photo:Palestinian rescue workers search for bodies amongst flooded houses after a cesspool embankment collapsed in the village of Umm Naser, in the northern Gaza Strip,

HAMAS: “Islam will enter every house and will spread over the entire world”

I am not sure if the enemy could more clearly state their intentions. I am sure the lamestream media, handmaiden to the Democratic party,  will ignore this statement and continue to focus on the Democrats "BLAME AMERICA!' message.

“Islam will enter every house and will spread over the entire world,” This is the message of the "new unity" government that all the dhimmis in charge are embracing? STAND UP AMERICA AND FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

How morally ill is Europe? Europe claims Israel preparing for war. G-d forbid the people of Israel defend themselves.

Europe is incapable of standing up for itself with65 million Muslims in Europe by 2037.  So I wasn't surprised when EU officials met Hamas-led cabinet ministers. Solana is a pimp but why did the United States meet with Hamas as well?

What can be acheived by sanctioning your executioner? Hamas must be crushed.

“Islam will enter every house and will spread over the entire world,”
says Hamas leader Al-Zahar

PMW Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - March 26, 2007

While the Hamas goal of destroying Israel is well known, its aspiration for Islamic subjugation of the entire world is just as basic to Hamas dogma. Both aims appear in the Hamas Charter as God's irrepressible will, and both aims were reiterated this week by senior Hamas leader and former PA Foreign Minister Mahmoud Al-Zahar.

At a mass rally in memory of Hamas founder Ahmad Yassin, Al-Zahar said that the Quran promises the "liberation of all of Palestine," meaning the destruction of Israel. He went so far as to challenge the Islamic faith of those who deny this goal: "No one can deny it. One who denies it must check his faith and his Islam.”

Regarding the Hamas religious goal of Islamic world domination, he said: “Islam will enter every house and will spread over the entire world.”

UPDATE: MAINSTREAMING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

Baby Killers are Moderates too

This goes from bad to worse. Another enormous mistake. Frighteningly stupid and naive ......which is what we have come to expect from Condi.  Rice: PA Must Recognize the "Foundational Principles for Peace" (blah blah blah - you just know what a knee slapper this is in Gaza and Tehran and South Lebanon .....)

From Carl's blog here;

But the US and the EU have both said that they will talk to the 'non-Hamas' members of the 'Palestinian government.' That means that one of the people with whom they will be speaking is Muhammed Dahlan. And Muhammed Dahlan is a murderer. This is from a newsletter from Shurat HaDin:

Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center condemns the decision by the United States State Department and European Union governments to maintain diplomatic contacts with PLO officials in the new Palestinian Authority (PA) unity government. The newly stated policy includes the decision to meet with recently appointed PA Security Advisor Mohammed Dahlan, a high-ranking official of the Fatah terrorist organization.

Shurat HaDin accuses Dahlan, a former boss of the Gaza Preventive Security Service and his former deputy, Rashid Abu Shabak, of being the chief perpetrators of the November 20, 2000, bombing of an Israeli school bus outside of Kfar Darom.

NEW 12TH GRADE PALESTINIAN TEXTBOOKS PRESENT WORLD WITHOUT ISRAEL:

Report on Newest Palestinian Schoolbooks: "From Nationalist Battle to Religious Conflict" -

Childhood dreams: Suicide killer

America is making a mistake if we think talking to Hamas is in the interest of peace. Any compromise between good and evil, evil profits. Children today, what tomorrow? Over at PMW

Four-year-old girl vows to be suicide terrorist in Hamas TV dramatization
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

Hamas TV broadcast today a video dramatization of the four-year-old daughter of female suicide bomber Reem Riyashi singing to her dead mother and vowing to follow in her footsteps. The video clip ends as the little girl picks up sticks of explosives from her mother's drawer.

The Al Aqsa TV children's program shows a child actress playing the daughter, watching Riyashi preparing the bomb and asking her mother, "Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me? A toy or a present for me?" She later sees a TV news story about her mother's suicide mission and death, and realizes her mother had been carrying a bomb.

"Only now, I know what was more precious than us . . . " she sings of the bomb.

Although she misses her mother, she vows to follow in her footsteps. The video ends as she opens her mother's drawer and picks up the sticks of explosives her mother had left there.

Background:
Reem Riyashi killed four Israelis and wounded seven at the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel in 2004. She gained the sympathy of the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint by telling them that she had a metal plate in her leg that would trigger the metal detector. After she was taken to a room to be searched privately, she detonated the bomb hidden under her clothes.

Click here to see the video clip

The following is the text of the song that Duha, Reem's daughter, sings to her mother:

[Daughter sees mother preparing explosives sticks]

"Mommy, what are you carrying
in your arms instead of me?

[Mother turns to hide bomb]

A toy or a present for me?...
Mommy Reem!
Why did you put on your veil?
Are you going out, Mommy?...
Come back quickly, Mommy
I can't sleep without you,
unless you tell me and Ubaydah [her brother] a bedtime story.

[Daughter sees mother's picture and news story about bombing on PA TV]

UPDATE: ISI sends this al-Reuters story;

Apparently, not even intentionally blowing up children as props in a bombing qualifies you as a terrorist in the "mind" of that organization.  Unbelievable...........

Children used in Iraqi militant attack-US general

UPDATE: Magnus uploaded to youtube. Thanks (for the props too :)

Israel's Worst Nightmare

The new face of evil .............I shudder to think and the world rejoices.

"This is a great disappointment and a severe blow to peace,"Sallai Meridor, Israel's ambassador in Washington,

Syrian call BBC

The Palestinian parliament voted to approve the government on Saturday and new ministers were sworn in.
In his speech, Mr Haniya said: "The government affirms that resistance in all its forms, including popular resistance to occupation, is a legitimate right of the Palestinian people.

"Our people have the right to defend themselves from continuous Israeli aggression."
But Mr Haniya also said his Cabinet would work on maintaining a truce if Israel would stop its "occupation aggression".

It's like reading The Elders of Zion.

But the European Union said it welcomed the formation of the government, although it remained cautious about a possible resumption of aid.

Dhimmis all.

"The EU will carefully assess the platform and actions of the new government and its ministers," it said in a statement.

What losers. Kowtowing to the barbarians.

Syria expressed its full support for the government.

SHOCKA!  They all share the same master. Iranian foreign legions all.

"Damascus demands the lifting of the embargo imposed on the Palestinian people," by the West, a statement in state news agency Sana read.

The embargo was imposed after the election victory in January last year of Hamas, which has rejected international calls for it to recognise Israel.

Alone among Western nations, Norway immediately recognised the new government and announced the lifting of sanctions.

It seems Norway has capitulated to its antisemetic Islamic population. They surrendered their women and the national dialogue so how could we expect the Jews to fare better?

PHOTO: The government pairs Mr Abbas' (L) Fatah and Mr Haniya's Hamas

Hungry Islamic Alligator Eats its Own

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Winston Churchill.

You just can't make this stuff up. The Palis have attempted to kidnap their fixer on the world stage - a UN flying monkey. Now that's rich.

Gunmen try to kidnap UN refugee mission chief in Gaza  Hat tip capt digg JPost.com

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Three masked Palestinian gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying the chief of the UN refugee mission in Gaza and tried to kidnap him, the UN official said.

 

No one was hurt in the kidnap attempt in northern Gaza, said John Ging, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza.

Ging said he, a driver and a security official were traveling in an armored vehicle when the gunmen jumped out of a white Subaru and opened fire.

"They tried to force open the car, but our driver extracted himself from that situation," and sped away as the gunmen continued firing, he said. "This is a shocking development. We are still considering how to deal with this," Ging said.

They will do what the UN always does.  Blame the Jooooooooooooooooooos.

The vehicle was clearly marked with the UN insignia and a UN flag, he said. Eleven bullets pierced the car, Ging added.

Give 'em a state!

Destroying Israel

Minister for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman has called for an emergency government to be formed comprising all Zionist parties, in an effort to counter the establishment of the new Palestinian unity government  [ Don't you love how they rape words, as well as women? "Unity?" Hamas and Fatah, unified in bloodthirsty savagery - Atlas] , Army Radio reported Thursday. More on this here.

Piece by piece by piece by the Religion of Piece and their handmaidens of appeasement dismantle Israel. Hamas TV: Gaza Evacuation Shows How to Destroy Israel IRIS BLOG

 

The most frequent message being repeated this month in Hamas' new Al Aqsa Satellite TV broadcasts is a statement by Ahmad Yassin, founder and former head of Hamas, made in 2005 in response to Israel's plan to evacuate Israeli towns in Gaza.

Yassin's message was that the Palestinians had found the key to destroying Israel. Since terror was forcing Israel to leave Gaza, the Palestinians only have to keep up the terror in Israel's other cities and Israel would run from those as well

Non-Muslim minorities are fleeing every Muslim-majority area in the world. Christian populations, in particular, are in steep decline. Jews are the only exception. Unfortunately, Israel's leftist leadership has been doing the jihad's work in forcibly evicting Jews from their homes and in paying jizya (a special tax for non-Muslims in order to enact the Koran's prescription of "feeling subjugated").

China Confidential has a rational and distressing comment here;

The Saudi peace (by piece) plan will be the basis of the disastrous deal, which will involve acceptance of Hamas--a mass murdering Islamist movement that is already being presented as "moderate" compared with Al Qaeda. The latter group, which was responsible for the attacks of 9/11, has (conveniently) criticized Qaeda for joining a unity government with secular Fatah.

And Syria prepares for war. Caroline Glick has it all here;

Tuesday, US Assistant Secretary of State for Refugees Ellen Sauerbrey became the first senior US official to visit Syria since Damascus engineered former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri's assassination in February 2005.

Indeed, according to opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu, over the past year Syria has increased its military outlays by a factor of ten.

Syria is using the smokescreen of near weekly protestations of interest in negotiating with Israel to divert attention away from its clear preparations for war. Rather than see these statements for the psychological warfare antics they are, Israeli leftists have pounced on them. Led by the Haaretz newspaper, the Israeli Left is exerting massive pressure on the rudderless Olmert-Livni-Peretz government to force it to open negotiations with Damascus - negotiations that would lead to Israel's surrender of the Golan Heights in exchange for a piece of paper from Iran's Arab colony.

Due to the government's general incompetence, it is unable to formulate a coherent policy towards Syria. The Left's calls for surrender talk consequently dominate the public debate on Syria. This in turn has paralyzed the state bodies responsible for taking measures to prepare the IDF and the public for the prospect of war.

Go here and read it all.

8 Honor Killings in one family by their Menfolk

IRIS Blog asks here, "How does a culture get to a point in which eight women in one family are murdered by male family members in a period of seven years? This brave professor speaks out, risking serious increases in his life insurance premiums":

Palestinian Academic: Imams Incite to Kill Women, Beat Children

About Palestinian children
"The message to Palestinian children is that if you use violence...you can achieve influence and you can achieve rule."

"A whole generation was raised on the denial of the 'other' and erasing him completely, and to the possibility of killing him without any restraint or problem.”

About Incitement against women and others
"There are Imams who incite to killing: killing of women, beating children, killing the 'other.'"

"What happened in Palestine in the last years is speech incitement of the highest degree. Violence speech of the highest degree in mosques, and occasionally in the media, from many politicians."

"There is no denying that crime, in general, needs environmental conditions, and especially environmental conditions of violence and environmental conditions of incitement speech."

Read it all. We have rewarded this barbarism with respect, money, land and prestige. There is something seriously wrong with us.

More from the Religion of PeaceThrough Barbarism

MBM in Israel;

Six Israeli-Arabs from a Galilee village were indicted on charges of four brutal rapes over the past two years. The rapes were apparently another form of anti-Israel terrorism, as one victim told investigators that the rapists had told her that he was "avenging" IDF operations in Gaza. This was echoed by one of the Arabs during police questioning.

One of the rape victims was a 13 year-old girl.  In Arab-Muslim culture, a rape victim is stoned to death for her crime. 

BREAKING:Palis Kidnap BBC Mouthpiece

Now this is poetic justice. I mean really. Do the Palestinians have a better friend than the BBC?  I am sure it's for real and they are not in cahoots. Color me skeptical.  Carl has it all here

Breaking: 'Palestinians' kidnap BBC reporter in Gaza

Al-AP is reporting that the 'Palestinians' have kidnapped a BBC television reporter in the Gaza Strip: A BBC reporter was kidnapped Monday in Gaza City, a senior Palestinian security official said.

Palestinian security officials said four armed men in a white Subaru kidnapped a reporter who threw a business card on the street that identified him as Alan Johnston of the BBC.

The BBC bureau chief in Jerusalem, Simon Wilson, said his news network had lost contact with Johnston, but Wilson could not immediately confirm a kidnapping.

Another convert to Islam? They better call in Centanni and Wiig.

A Picture is Worth 1000 Pathetic Attempts at Appeasement

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) greets Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Tehran March 6, 2007. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAN)

EXPOLSIVES in UK/US Terror Plot Found in Lebanon Pali Camp

For those that believe that Hizb'Allah and the Palis are just Israel's problem ................... you got another thing (another really big thing) coming.

UK Airline Terror Plot Explosives Found in Lebanon
DEBKAfiles
The plot for 10 airliners to crash over US cities by detonating liquid explosives, hidden in hand luggage, disrupted British and transatlantic air traffic last August. Six months later, the Lebanese police report the confiscation of the first batch ever found anywhere of these explosive devices at the S. Lebanese Palestinian camp of Ain Hilwa, near Sidon port. DEBKAfile revealed last year that an al Qaeda network had infiltrated Ain Hilwa. British security detained 21 suspects in the mass murder conspiracy but had not laid hands on any of the liquid explosives they were to have used. A Lebanese police communiqué said each device consists of two tubes filled with blue liquid fitted on a board and connected to a time-detonator. The 31 sets confiscated included “sophisticated electro-chemical timers-detonators that can be timed to explode after 124 days.” They were described as being of East European origin.
[read article]

THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN JERUSALEM

Take a virtual tour of the Temple Mount. Thanks to OneJerusalem.Org "Don't believe your lying eyes, believe those Muslim lies."

Palestinian Murder: A New Low (is that even possible?)

Their evil knows no bounds, no limits .......the malevolent imagination staggering. No longer do I ask what if they took all this energy and "creativity" and do something positive, contribute to mankind as whole? It aint in the DNA.

Synagogues Used as Bases To Fire on Israel
AARON KLEIN, NY Sun

TEL AVIV — The ruins of two large synagogues in evacuated Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip have been transformed into military bases used by Palestinian Arab groups to fire rockets at Israeli cities, according to a senior leader of a Gaza militant group.

When Israel withdrew from the Gaza in August, 2005, it left intact 20 synagogues of the Gush Katif Jewish communities following an Israeli Cabinet decision against demolishing the structures. Immediately after the Israeli evacuation was completed, Palestinian Arabs destroyed most of the Gaza synagogues.

Speaking to The New York Sun from Gaza, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, Abu Abir, said the area in which the synagogues once stood is now used to fire rockets at Israel.

"We are proud to turn these lands, especially these parts that were for long time the symbol of occupation and injustice, like the synagogue, into a military base and source of fire against the Zionists and the Zionist entity," Mr. Abir said.

Because he was a Jew

Do you think you would have heard more about this if, say, this victim of terror was a Palestinian?

Terrorist Ambush Victim Buried in Kfar Etzion Erez Levanon of Bat Ayin, father of three, was stabbed to death Sunday evening within walking distance of his home. more

HEZBOLLAH SPITS on 1701REARMING TO THE TEETH

Latest report from the Intelligence and Terrorism Center at IICC here.

	Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah publicly admits that his organization is rearming and secretly transporting arms to south Lebanon, in blatant violation of Security Council Resolution 1701. Nasrallah sends a clear message to his opponents: Hezbollah is determined to maintain its status as “the defender of Lebanon”.
	In his speech, Nasrallah admits that Hezbollah is rearming and secretly transporting arms and ammunition to south Lebanon (Al-Manar, February 16)

Summary of Nasrallah’s speech

1. On February 16, 2007, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a belligerent, arrogant speech in a ceremony held in south Beirut (in the neighborhood of Al-Rawis) on the anniversary of the killing of two senior Hezbollah figures. In his speech, Nasrallah admitted that his organization was rearming and secretly smuggling arms and ammunition to south Lebanon , in blatant violation of Security Council Resolution 1701 (which ended the second Lebanon war).

2. Following are the highlights of Hassan Nasrallah's speech (Al-Manar Television, February 16):

a. Hezbollah is rearming: “We are being very clear and we are saying that we have arms. We are not lying and [we are] telling it to the whole world. We have arms [Nasrallah stresses the word “arms”]… of all shapes and sizes… The resistance [i.e., Hezbollah] has arms. It is saying it in public, adding that it is rearming and increasing the scope of its armament in order to get more dangerous arms…”

b. Hezbollah is secretly transporting arms to the Israeli front: “The resistance [i.e., Hezbollah] notes that it is transporting the arms to the front. We do not hide it. Doing it in secret is only natural. Could we do it openly? How?... We concealed our arms because we wanted to conceal them from our enemies… We are transporting the arms in secret because it is our right… We are transporting the arms secretly and in straw trucks so as to not embarrass you [the Lebanese government]…”

c. Confiscating a Hezbollah arms truck by the Lebanese government (February 8): “…As for the resistance [i.e., Hezbollah] and the latest incident of [confiscating] the arms truck, which, incidentally, contained ammunition—that is, Katyushas —surprisingly, we heard many people claim that it was explosive charges, guns, and rifles, that we were smuggling for the parties [that is, for Lebanese parties allied with Hezbollah]… The customs know what the truck contained… The Lebanese army, too, submitted a report about it to senior officials… The arms confiscated [by the Lebanese government] are arms taken from their rightful owners…”

A civilian truck used by Hezbollah to smuggle arms, confiscated by the Lebanese army in the Beirut neighborhood of Hazimiyah (Reuters, February 8, photo by STR News). It is our assessment that the arms were smuggled from Syria . In his speech, Hassan Nasrallah expressed his dissatisfaction with the confiscation of the truck.

d. Hezbollah as the “defender of Lebanon ”, helping the Lebanese army: “In the last confrontation [that took place] in front of Maroun al-Ras, ¹ members of the resistance [i.e., Hezbollah] were in top shape to assist the officers and soldiers of the Lebanese army if the conflict had developed. The resistance in south Lebanon [i.e., Hezbollah] is not a burden on the Lebanese army [but rather] genuine assistance for the Lebanese army. For our arms are the arms of the Lebanese army, our rockets are the rockets of the Lebanese army, our depots are the depots of the Lebanese army… Together, side by side, we will fight to defend Lebanon …”

e. Hezbollah is committed to continue terrorism in its capacity as the “defender” of Lebanon : “…We stress our commitment to the resistance [i.e., the way of violence and terrorism], to the cause of the resistance and to the project of the resistance that defends the homeland… I am saying that we will remain on the border, in Beirut , and everywhere in Lebanon . We are Lebanese, and this country is our country… Every clod of earth in the south is to us a drop of a shahid's blood. Every rock in the south is to us a shahid's body… Every olive tree in the south is to us the loving and sparkling soul of the jihad warriors of the resistance… and Hezbollah… is willing to wage jihad and persist with its struggle for justice in all areas…”

Assessment

3. In his speech, Hassan Nasrallah publicly admitted that Hezbollah is rebuilding its military arsenal, damaged in the war, and even claimed that it is well within its right to do so in its capacity (according to Nasrallah) as “the defender of Lebanon”.

4. Nasrallah's speech clearly demonstrates that Hezbollah systematically and fundamentally violates Security Council Resolution 1701 (August 12), in defiance of the Lebanese government and UNIFIL (and, in fact, the entire international community), which bear the responsibility to implement the resolution. According to Security Council Resolution 1701, Hezbollah and other terrorist elements must be disarmed as stipulated in the Taif Accord (1989) and in the relevant Security Council resolutions.

5. Contrary to Hassan Nasrallah's provocations regarding Hezbollah's rearming, he did not address the assistance his organization receives from Iran and Syria, the two countries behind Hezbollah's rehabilitation process. ³ The assistance extended by the two countries to Hezbollah is a blatant violation of Clause 15 in Security Council Resolution 1701, calling upon all countries to take the necessary measures to prevent the use of their territory or their ships and planes to provide arms, ammunition, and military equipment to unauthorized parties in Lebanon.

Comparison of several clauses from Security Council Resolution 1701
with excerpts from Hassan Nasrallah’s speech

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Big Bucks for Bullets and Bombs

In 2006 International aid to the PA increased by more than 100% with respect to the previous year. Despite the economic boycott against the Hamas government, $720 million were transferred to the Palestinians in 2006. According to the Palestinian Finance Minister, the majority of these funds reached the hands of Mahmoud Abbas. (Guysen.Israël.News)

Yeah ok, and then where did the money go?

UN Pimps for Islamazis in Attack on Jerusalem

How disgusting the United Nations is. Truly Madly Deeply. The Palestinian Arabs have committed the greatest archaeological crime in human history and the United Nations has the temerity to question the gatekeeper and caretaker to all that is holy.  Preserving the holies of the holies.  The Jews  value and respect all relgions and all that is sacred. If only her enemies shared her values. David Gelertner has a piece over at the The Weekly Standard  that examines the rewriting of history in the battle for Jerusalem. Read it all  here.

Gelertner shows how the Islamic authorities are using the "ramp" controversy for political reasons and how they have been systematically destroying irreplaceable Jewish and Christian archaeological artifacts on the Temple Mount. More here

Back in June 2006, Natan Sharansky decried the destruction of great historic artifacts here;

For a number of years already, there is the selected destruction of Christian/Jewish artifacts which is of course the center for Jewish/Christian religion. On the temple mount, King Solomon stables up to the cruaders on...........when the taliban destroyed the buddas in Afghanistan all the world was corrextly enraged. Here we see the systematic, the biggest maybe in the history of geology/archeology, destruction of the most important artifacts  for Christianity and Judaism. And the world knows nothing of this.

Nobody is permitted to go and see and watch whats happening. Excavators are working there. They are taking thousands and thousands of pounds and thousands of artifacts and simply thrown out. It is perhaps one the largest archeological catastrophes in history.

It is not accidental that Arafat said to Clinton at Camp David that the history of the Temple Mount is something made up by the Jews.

Sign the One Jerusalem petition to preserve the Temple Mount.

Now, it appears, the UN is shilling for the killers. It is not that the UN is just irrelevant, it is malevolent and gives voices to the Check out this farce;

UN ANTI-RACISM PANEL QUESTIONS ISRAELAP

A United Nations anti-racism panel has questioned Israel's policy on preserving holy sites, asking the country to explain whether it protects places considered sacred to religions other than Judaism.

Israel is expected to go later this week before the panel of 18 independent experts overseeing compliance with the United Nations' 38-year-old anti-racism treaty — a hearing that could fuel the debate over an Israeli construction project at Jerusalem's disputed hilltop compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. The project has prompted protests among Palestinians and others in the Muslim world.

Oh to be a fly on the wall when Israel verbally destroys the mocchers and the looters at the UN. Where is the UN in the Islamic fatwa to destroy relgious sites and holy shrines. *SPIT*

Yaron Frost, a spokesman for the tourism ministry, said Israel has not given the special designation to any sites — even Jewish ones — for nearly four decades. He said non-Jewish sites have "total autonomy."

"Israel doesn't interfere by making declarations about the regulation of holy sites that are not Jewish out of a sensitivity for the religions involved and a concern that declaring a site holy would be seen as interference in the oversight," he said.

Pali Unity Music: "1,000 Evil Souls"

The leftist Islamic alliance take the kindest, most gentle words and wield them like battering rams to bludgeonus into us submission. Words mean something - unity, peace, tolerance, multicultural, have all become weapons wielded to destroy the very best - the West. Watch this clip aand make sure you check out the depiction of the Jew. More over at Palestinian Watch here.

The lyrics in a new video clip broadcast on official Palestinian Authority Television refer to Jews as "evil souls, a thousand evil ones. . . in my home." The lyrics are sung to images of a religious Jew walking in Jerusalem and Jews praying at the Western Wall of the Temple.

Click here to view the clip

The following is an excerpt from the song:

“I am Palestinian, and my home is my home.
The evil souls [Visual: Jew walking in Jerusalem],
A thousand evil ones are in my home!” [Visual: Jew walking in Jerusalem]
But I am Palestinian and my home is my home,
The evil souls [Visual: Jews praying at Western Wall],
A thousand evil ones are in my home!” [Visual: Jews praying at Western Wall]
[PA TV, February 13, 2007]

The rest of the video, named “Palestinian Unity,” features a teenage boy singing about Palestinian unity, over background images of dead bodies, funerals and military parades of the rival Palestinian terror groups, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, the Popular Front and the Democratic Front. The background images also include scenes of violence against Israel, including Israeli tanks and jeeps being hit by stones and Molotov cocktails.

The lyrics include:

“We are all Palestinians in blood and identity, Fatah, Hamas, and the Jihad, the Popular [Front] and the Democratic [Front]…
We want to liberate the land through the national unity..."

Stll Chafeeing

Lincoln Chafee, always on the take for Arab $$$ payola, once again shows what a shtick dreck he really is.  If one nonperson is responsible for Bolton not getting to the floor for a vote it was Chafee (although a case can be made that he did JB an enormous favor -- but totally screwed the American people.) 

Shilling for the savages, again.I wonder what they want now? He is one of their American organ grinders monkeys.

And  Brown gave this asshat a job? A job? He's barely normal. hat tip Ed Lasky

SENATOR CRITICIZES BUSH ON ISRAEL J POST

Ousted Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee criticized President George W. Bush's handling of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, saying the president was bowing to a faction of evangelical Christians who oppose a Palestinian state.

"The religious thing is driving the foreign policy here," Chafee said following a speech at Brown University in which he questioned whether the president's past comments pushing for peace were sincere.

Chafee, who served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, lost his seat in November as Democrats swept into power in Congress. He landed a job at Brown's Watson Institute for International Studies following his loss to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse.

The Jerusalem Post titled the article "ex-Republican senator criticizes Bush on Israel." Someone ought to tell them he was never a Republican. He is the very definition of a RINO (Republican in name only.) He should be thrown out of the party.
 

The Story of My Life

This just about sums it up for me. Over at American Thinker with a huge tip of the old hat to mdd

Deadly dilly-dally (a poem)
Joseph Crowley

I cut  and I paste till I'm blue in the face,

As Chamberlain mimes repeat his mistakes.

While fiddlers fiddle and Iran makes haste,

And most politicians make nothing but waste.

Last time it was Adolf this time it's Mahmoud

The only thing different's the value of crude.

There's no way around it we have to conclude

If we don't stand firm we'll all surely be screwed

Iran Proxy Hamas Vows: We will not recognize Israel or stop violence

Why would they when violence and the promise of extermination has been so wildy successful?

Hamas: We will not recognize Israel or stop violence  PMW Org

A Hamas spokesman has reiterated that the new Hamas-led coalition government will neither recognize Israel nor stop terror. According to Hamas spokesman Mushir Al-Masri, Hamas interprets the Mecca agreement to mean that the Arab and Islamic worlds have accepted them as they are, and that "international legitimization" will follow.

The following are excerpts from the article:

Hamas movement spokesman, Mushir Al-Masri, said: “Hamas remains as it is: following its principles. It did not retreat, but advanced forward.” He confirmed that it will not recognize Israel, will not abandon the resistance [i.e. terror] and will not discard its principles.” He further said: “The Hamas [that existed] prior to the government, is Hamas of the government. Hamas prior to the unity [government] is Hamas after the unity.”

This was said during a rally organized yesterday by the Islamic University student council, as part of a series of activities of identification with the university. Thousands of university students and a group of representatives from the Legislative Council and ministers participated in the rally…Al-Masri added: “Hamas received national legitimization through the gathering of masses around it and around the option of resistance [i.e., terror] and received legislative legitimization through its victory in the Legislative Council elections. It now received Arab and Islamic legitimization and will receive international legitimization.” [Al-Ayyam, February 12, 2007]

Moe Islamic Theater in Jerusalem

UPDATE 1PM: DORE GOLD ON FOX NOW! Finally.

Lies. lies lies. This is the part of the Islamic war strategy. Lie, revise wipe out history. Listen to my interview with Ambassador DORE GOLD on my show last weekend and buy his must read book on this very thing -  The Fight For Jerusalem;

Anger over Holy Site Construction Leads to Clash

JERUSALEM (AP) - Anger over Israeli construction near a disputed Jerusalem holy site erupted into violence Friday as police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse thousands of rioting Muslims. Protests spread in the Arab world, with demonstrators accusing Israel of plotting to harm Islamic shrines.

How about that? The Jews, who go to extraordinary lengths to preserve every particle of historic, archaeological treasure are being accused by the most notorious destroyers of archaeological remains of doing what is, in the Jewish mind, unthinkable. In one of my blogger interviews with Natan Sharansky here he said;

The fatwa that has been issued to destroy religious sites. First directing us to his site, One Jerusalem. Go over there and sign the petition.

SHARANSKY: For a number of years already, there is the selected destruction of Christian/Jewish artifacts which is of course the center for Jewish/Christian religion. On the temple mount, King Solomon stables up to the cruaders on...........when the taliban destroyed the buddas in Afghanistan all the world was corrextly enraged. Here we see the systematic, the biggest maybe in the history of geology/archeology, destruction of the most important artifacts  for Christianity and Judaism. And the world knows nothing of this.

Nobody is permitted to go and see and watch whats happening. Excavators are working there. They are taking thousands and thousands of pounds and thousands of artifacts and simply thrown out. It is perhaps one the largest archaeological catastrophes in history.

It is not accidental that Arafat said to Clinton at Camp David that the history of the Temple Mount is something made up by the Jews.

UPDATE: Appease, appease, appease;

Jerusalem Mayor Halts Temple Mount Gate Work

 

Jerusalem Mayor Lupolianski was assailed for suspending construction at the Temple Mount's Rambam (Mughrabi) Gate, in the face of Muslim incitement. The archaeological dig in the area will continue.

Mayor Uri Lupolianski announced Sunday night that completion of the overhead walkway will be postponed to allow opponents - i.e., Arabs - to file formal objections to the construction work. To that end, the city planning committee will provide a complete and organized urban construction plan for the bridge and environs.

Mayor Lupolianski reached his decision to suspend bridge construction in coordination with Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, Chief Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Places. The two consulted Muslim religious leaders and Arab residents of Jerusalem to hear their views on the new Rambam Gate bridge. The mayor said he also conferred with Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, the planning authorities of the Jerusalem Municipality and the city engineer in making his decision.

Though the suspension of the work will have no immediate practical effect, as the preparatory archaelogical excavations will continue in any event for the next eight months, the mayor's widely-publicized decision was widely seen as a cave-in to Arab violence, threats and incitement.

Update: More lies. Here there and everywhere. Go here.

 

DEATH Life Insurance for Pali Suicide Bombers

You just can't make this shit up. But the families should take these savages for everything the Arab banks have.

ARAB BANK PAYS OUT BLOOD MONEY Speigel Online hat tip Daryl
Life Insurance for Palestinian Suicide Bombers 

An important bank in the Arab world offers accounts paying a type of life insurance to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. But now it could soon face a lawsuit from American lawyers representing the victims.

Jews Treat and Save Their Killers

This little cited news item (one of many such stories the media completely ignores)  is exemplar of what is really happening on the ground. The Jews think that because most of what is reported is wrong, that at the end of the day, they will prevail. Good will prevail. If only.
As af as changiing thearts and minds, why? The Jews have been doing this all along.hat tip Jon

Israeli hospital treats Palestinian fighters Washington Times

ASHKELON, Israel -- The wounded in the bitter Palestinian struggle between Hamas and Fatah fall in the dusty streets of Gaza, but it is to an Israeli hospital in this nearby coastal city that many are brought for treatment.
    Officials at Ashkelon's Barzilai Medical Center say there is no political calculation behind the decision to take in the Palestinian wounded, who were arriving at a rate of several a day before the factions struck a deal in Saudi Arabia yesterday.
    But when the father of a wounded security officer from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction tells a reporter that he wants "to say thank you to all of the people of Israel," it seems that the center's work is changing at least some hearts and minds.
    The expression of warmth toward Israel came from Abdel Hamin Odeh, father of Adel Odeh, a Fatah fighter who was brought to Barzilai suffering a critical leg wound. By this week, he was shuffling gingerly though the halls with the help of a walker.
    Mr. Odeh had first been taken to the Palestinian Al Quds Hospital in Gaza City, said the gunman's father, Abdel Hamin Odeh. "They took care of him, but not very well."
    Barzilai's chief medical director, Ron Lobel, says the Israeli hospital has treated 124 patients from the Gaza Strip in the past year.

Lebanese Troops fire on IDF

The Lebanese army opened fire on Israeli soldiers who were looking for explosive missiles along the Israeli-Lebanese border. An Israeli bulldozer had crossed the Blue Line marked by the UN and came under Lebanese fire. GUYSEN

I wonder if  this was at Nasrallah's direction. He's calling the shots in Lebanon. And UNIFIL? Ha! Their  role here is clearly compromised by the recent discovery that UNIFIL enabled Hizbullah to plant five deadly explosive devices along the border between Israel and Lebanon.  (more on that here.) Carl has the story and the updates here;

Breaking: Lebanese troops open fire on IDF units on border

This is breaking news from the Jerusalem Post's Israel Alert Service - no link yet:

Lebanese troops opened fire on IDF units along Israel's northern border (between Israel and Lebanon) this evening.

IDF Troops responded by firing two tank rounds at the Lebanese position. Several Lebanese soldiers were reportedly wounded.

He's got more, go.

Photo:  Explosive on Lebanese Border

UPDATE: : Firefight flares between Lebanese and Israel forces across their border Wednesday night

Save the Children! Except Pali kids

Save the babies. But not the Palestinian babies. Save the children, but not the Palestinian children. THE NARRATIVE IS TOO IMPORTANT! Blame the eeeevil jooos. Over at TigerHawk here;

The British chapter of "Save the Children" has gotten some pick-up of a press release that it issued decrying the recruitment of child soldiers in 13 jurisdictions.  The occasion for the release is the 10th anniversary of UNICEF's "Cape Town Principles," which (laudably) condemned the use of children for military purposes.

Bizarrely, "Save the Children" didn't mention Palestinian Arab children.  The question is, did Save the Children ignore them because Palestinian Arab children do not count, or because it supports their cause to such a degree that it is unwilling to condemn the recruitment of Palestinian children even in a press release devoted to the subject? What could be the third explanation?

Hamas Seize American Weapons

There are no accidents. And this was was no accident. Why is America arming the jihad? Think about that for a moment. It's like Einstein said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Hamas: We seized American weapons WND, Aaron Klein

Claims arms meant for Abbas forces taken by terrorists in Gaza ambush

JERUSALEM – Hamas today carried out an ambush in which it obtained an American weapons shipment transferred last night to militias in the Gaza Strip associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, top Hamas officials told WND.

Fatah at first told reporters the shipment contained medical equipment and tents and then claimed the shipment consisted of engineering equipment.

The U.S. weapons were provided to Abbas purportedly to bolster Fatah forces against Hamas, according to defense sources. The two factions have engaged in nearly two months of deadly clashes after Abbas called for new Palestinian elections in a move widely seen as an attempt to dismantle the Hamas-led PA. Palestinian officials and sources in the Israeli Defense Forces told WND four trucks filled with U.S. weapons were transported last night from Egypt through the Kerem Shalom crossing into Israel and from there delivered by an IDF convoy to Fatah security officials.

The American weapons shipment, the sources said, contained rocket-propelled grenades, more than 1 million rounds of ammunition and bullet-proof vests. Story continues here.

As far as the arms being intended for Abbas, that too is a suicidal move. Delusional.

Not One Thin Dime for Abbas
As State presses Congress for more aid, Fatah’s terror wing murders more Israelis.

By Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review Online

When will the madness end? When will the Bush administration and Condoleezza Rice’s State Department finally stop their deranged midwifery of the Palestinian terror state conceived by theClinton administration amid the mood music of two Intifadas?

On Monday, a 21-year-old suicide bomber, Muhammad Faisal al-Siksik, self-detonated at a bakery in the coastal town of Eilat on the Red Sea. Three innocents were killed: the bakery’s two Israeli owners and their Peruvian employee (whose family hails from Miami). Soon after came the claim of responsibility. The operation was carried out by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, working in conjunction with Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

FATAH’S “MODERATE” CON JOB
The Aqsa Brigades are not just any group of terrorists. They are the most ruthless, accomplished terror wing of Fatah, the organization bequeathed to us by the late Yasser Arafat. The Bush administration delusionally regards Fatah and its leader, Mahmoud Abbas (also known as “Abu Mazen”), as the “moderate” Palestinian faction. There is nothing moderate about them. Yet, the administration appears determined to play this foolish game to its inevitable end because, like its starry-eyed predecessor, it is entranced by the holy grail of Israeli/Palestinian peace.

Peace, of course, would require two sides desirous of coexistence. We’re one short. Palestinians do not seek to coexist with Israel. They seek to destroy Israel. But that may have to await their annihilation of each other, with Fatah and its fellow thug, Hamas, now locked in a struggle for control.

Read it all Twice.

 

Ambassador Dore Gold Interview: THE FIGHT FOR JERUSALEM

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AMBASSADOR DORE GOLD  The Fight For Jerusalem.

Here's the audio: Download doregold21.mp3 run time 45 minutes

Once again, the indispensible  Alan over One Jerusalem.org has put together a blogger interview withAmbassador Gold to discuss his must read  new book The Fight For Jerusalem. Joining us was Ed Lasky of American Thinker,  Pastorius from CUANAS, Omri from Mere Rhetoric, Anne from the wonderful Boker Tov Boulder,  Avi Green from Tel Chai Nation, Meryl at  Meryl Yourish.com, Bennett of Dale Damos, David from Soccer Dad (speaking of the  Soccer Dad, he provided us with links to background here and here),

Jerusalem has always been at the heart of the battle between Islam and the West.  

From the Crusades until today, expansionist Islam has understood the significance of resting control over Jerusalem. For them, taking Jerusalem is tantamount to driving a spear into the heart of Judeo-Christian civilization.  

Dore Gold's new book is a brilliant historical and contemporary analysis of The Fight For Jerusalem.

Dore has unearthed facts, quotes,and photographs that give positive proof that Jerusalem is a primary target of our enemies. This is a must read for policy makers, bloggers, elected officials, reporters, and everyone else who cares about the future of the West.

In fighting the denial of temple (an historical lie repeatedly made famous by Yassar Arafat), the first thing Gold has done  in the fight for Jerusalem is to assemble the historical data on which the Jews base their  stake in Jerusalem. He authenticates to the world that we existed in Jerusalem and even then the Jews were  a proud, self governing state.

A withdrawal from Jerusalem would empower radical Islam. "Terrorism is not based on political grievance."

Prevailing wisdom says if Israel gives land back the terrorists will stop. But just the opposite is the case. Jihadi terrorism comes from a sense of victory. The founding of al qaeda came from the perceived Jihadi victory in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union.

Withdrawal from Jerusalem would result in a terror tsunami.

I kicked off the Q&A with the perceived powerlessness of the people of Israel in the ongoing hostilities in the Islamic/Israeli was. There is an obvious unhappiness and acute frustration with the current Olmert administration - what is happening, what action will th people be taking. Why the impotence.

Ambassador Gold said after Olso, Gaza and all the land givebacks - attempts to make peace with the Palestinian Arabs - have resulted in greater bloodshed. He said he believed the people of Israel are confused. They have suffered a "period of confusion.  Now is the time for the people of Israel get back to their roots and reclaim their pioneering spirit. Stand up for Israel. This was a large part of the reason he wrote the book.

"Investment in Abbas is a wasted investment."

"Withdrawals have led to preconditions for a new war"

"Giving back Gaza created an new al qaeda sanctuary in Gaza."

In 1863, the Jews were the majority in Jerusalem. Before the British empire, before Balfour .........according to the British Foreign office, there were 15,000 residents in Jerusalem  -  8,000 wer Jews. Jerusalem was a Jewish city even then in 1863.

Gold is very smart and the audio must be listened to. His encyclopediac knowledge of Middle Eastern history gives enormous weight to his take on modern day Israel and the facts on the ground in the Islamic war on the West. It is Gold's approach that I believe should prevail in Israel (and the West.)

The Fight For Jerusalem. Buy the book now so that when I interview him on my show Tuesday you can call with questions that matter. It seems to me the fight for Jerusalem is much bigger than Jerusalem, it is the fight we are all in. The fight for the West.

PALESTINE!

And so they gave 'em a state! Glick tells all: Our World: Welcome to Palestine

In the State of Palestine, two-year-olds are killed and no one cares. Children are woken up in the middle of the night and murdered in front of their parents. Worshipers in mosques are gunned down by terrorists who attend competing mosques. And no one cares. No international human rights groups publish reports calling for an end to the slaughter. No UN body condemns anyone or sends a fact-finding mission to investigate the murders.

In the State of Palestine, women are stripped naked and forced to march in the streets to humiliate their husbands. Ambulances are stopped on the way to hospitals and wounded are shot in cold blood. Terrorists enter operating rooms in hospitals and unplug patients from life-support machines.

In the State of Palestine, people are kidnapped from their homes in broad daylight and in front of the television cameras. This is the case because the kidnappers themselves are cameramen. Indeed, their commanders often run television stations. And because terror commanders run television stations in the State of Palestine, it should not be surprising that they bomb the competition's television stations.

Read it all. NOW

PROUD PHILISTINE MAMA

Awwwww. A mama's love for her child. Such dreams for her kinder. Such love! Imagine,  proudly warming the cockles of her maternal heart.

The family of the terrorist is happy to have a ''hero'' in its midst. « We knew that he was waiting for this moment, that he wanted to become a Shahid (martyr), and he succeeded », the brothers of Mohamed Al Saksak, the suicide attacker in Eilat, proudly announced. He killed three people on Monday morning
Guysen Diaporama Cliquez-ici

"The left: "Why do they hate us?" I  am proud they hate me. I'll take that on.

Bethlehem Christians Terrorized by Muslims

Nobody cares. Bottom line. These are the real victims. hat tip David

Bethlehem Christians fear neighbors J Post

A number of Christian families have finally decided to break their silence and talk openly about what they describe as Muslim persecution of the Christian minority in this city.

The move comes as a result of increased attacks on Christians by Muslims over the past few months. The families said they wrote letters to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the Vatican, Church leaders and European governments complaining about the attacks, but their appeals have fallen on deaf ears.

According to the families, many Christians have long been afraid to complain in public about the campaign of "intimidation" for fear of retaliation by their Muslim neighbors and being branded "collaborators" with Israel.

But following an increase in attacks on Christian-owned property in the city over the past few months, some Christians are no longer afraid to talk about the ultra-sensitive issue. And they are talking openly about leaving the city.

"The situation is very dangerous," said Samir Qumsiyeh, owner of the Beit Sahur-based private Al-Mahd (Nativity) TV station. "I believe that 15 years from now there will be no Christians left in Bethlehem. Then you will need a torch to find a Christian here. This is a very sad situation."

Qumsiyeh, one of the few Christians willing to speak about the harsh conditions of their community, has been the subject of numerous death threats. His house was recently attacked with fire-bombs, but no one was hurt.

Qumsiyeh said he has documented more than 160 incidents of attacks on Christians in the area in recent years.

Pali State? Huge Mistake

Former IDF Chief Yaalon & Former CIA Director Woolsey: Creating Palestinian State Is A Mistake

 

New York — The former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief-of-Staff, Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon, and the former Director of the CIA under President Clinton, R. James Woolsey, have both spoken out arguing that creating a Palestinian state is a mistake, saying such an outcome is not the answer to Israel’s current problems with the Palestinian Arabs. Addressing the Herzliya Conference this week, both General Yaalon and Mr. Woolsey said that the Palestinian Authority (PA) was seeking Israel’s destruction, not the end of Israeli occupation of specific lands or a two-state solution, and that the conflict is rooted in Palestinian hate education. Mr. Woolsey also expanded on his views in a subsequent interview (Yediot Ahronot, January 22; Israel National News, January 24).

Remarks by General Yaalon:

• “The fact that Israel was attacked last summer from two areas it left strengthens the sense of a dead end, and proves that the root of the conflict is not the occupation of territories”
  
• “...those who talk about a road map or call for pressure on Israel to take a step to solve the problem [are suggesting something that is] irrelevant. Withdrawal will not solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or solve the jihadi threat.”
  
• “We tried to ignore the education in Palestinian society. Eventually we were surprised that (Palestinian) society, educated from kindergarten to become suicide bombers, acted as it did.”
  
• “The basis of our belief, that the other side wants two states, is false. I think there is deep understanding among the American public over this.”

Remarks by R. James Woolsey:

• “The Palestinians should not be granted the right to statehood until they start to treat Israeli Jews who settle in the West Bank as fairly as Israel treats its Muslim citizens.”
  
• “As long as Wahabis are running Palestinian education, and little boys are taught to be suicide bombers, I don’t see any reasonable prospects for settlement.”
  
• “An Arab Muslim living in Jaffa enjoys freedom of speech, religion, and expression, and can vote for his representatives in the Knesset, and doesn’t go to sleep worrying that some government element might come and kill him. I think that once the Palestinians start treating Jewish settlers with that same degree of humanity -- and they’re very, very far from doing that now -- at that point I think we have to seriously consider how they could have some degree of self-governing.
  
• “...the Palestinians must be held to the same standards as Israel regarding how they treat the other. I am sure this will be many decades from now, though, because their children are taught the Wahhabi doctrine of being suicide bombers and the like ... [if standards were the same] something in the order 500,000 Jews would be living in West Bank.”

NASRALLAH: The Terrorist Interview

Nasrallah is shooting off his bloody piehole again, click here. In an interview earlier today, the fat bastard gave to terror news agency (and jewicidal Google news source) al manar he goes about trashing the great state of Israel. Charles has the gory news here. Fatboy says he planning new war actions. Big ones. Fat bastard ones.

Claiming Israel was vanquished last summer, he said it was "the first war that Israel has lost and failed to achieve its objectives."

He said the Israeli community was going through the most serious "crisis of confidence" in its history because of its army's "defeat" in the summer war.

HEZB'ALLAH PLANNING SURGE LGF

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah promised Friday that his opposition alliance would intensify its campaign to bring down the government, pledging to mount an "effective" action in the coming days. In an interview with his group's Al-Manar television, Nasrallah said Hezbollah's consultations with its allies were drawing to a close and they would release a statement shortly that spelled out the steps to be taken.

"I believe this action will be effective, very important and very big," he said. He would not divulge the plan but urged all Lebanese to support it.

Since Dec. 1 Hezbollah and its allies have staged street protests and sit-ins, camping outside the prime minister's office, in a bid to topple the government of Fuad Saniora.

And then there is this over at MEMRI:

Sources: Lebanese Opposition Escalation Won't Be In Beirut, But Against UNIFIL

The Lebanese daily Al-Mustaqbal has published an article quoting political elements as saying that apparently the escalation that Hizbullah is threatening to carry out in the near future will not be in Beirut but in the south of the country, in the form of harassment of UNIFIL. The sources said that the opposition leaders, including Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and his deputy Na'im Qasim, had already raised doubts about the roles being played by UNIFIL, and Hizbullah had recently begun to say that they were exceeding their designated function. The article said that Hizbullah forces were closely monitoring UNIFIL to learn about their scope, location, and logistical activity; the information gleaned is to be used as incitement or as preparation for activity.

VIDEO: Armed Palestinian Gunmen Use Children as Human Shields

Watch this horror and you'll see how really full of shit the world is

In this short :16 second video, you will see how armed Palestinian gunman snatch innocent children from the streets to use as human shields. These actions alone should require the United Nations to condemn the Palestinian government and should invoke the wrath of every human rights agency on the planet. hat tip Terrorism Update

Abbas Quotes Koran in Call to Kill Jews

Nowhere in the media, nowhere, did they tell us Abbas was quoting the Koran. Give these animals a state? WTF?

Abbas urges: 'Raise rifles against Israel' WND

RAMALLAH – In a speech today commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the founding of his Fatah party, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on Palestinian factions to put an end to weeks of infighting and instead "raise rifles against the Israeli occupation."

>"Shooting at your brother is forbidden. Raising rifles against the occupation is our legitimate right, but raising guns against each other is forbidden. We should put our internal fighting aside and raise our rifles only against the Israeli occupation," said Abbas in a speech in Ramallah attended by WND.

>Abbas' call to arms was not reported by most major media outlets featuring articles on the Palestinian leader's speech.

In today's speech, Abbas went on to praise late Hamas spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by Israel in March 2004.

He also used Quranic verses to claim Jews are corrupting the world.

"The sons of Israel are mentioned as those who are corrupting humanity on earth," Abbas said during a portion of his speech in which he criticized recent Israeli anti-terror raids in the northern West Bank.

Abbas anti-Semitic remarks and his call to arms against the Jewish state were not quoted in hundreds of English-language articles reporting on today's speech or by most major Israeli dailies, which featured pieces on their websites about the Fatah commemoration ceremonies.

A widely-circulated Associated Press article, titled "Abbas calls for respect at Fatah rally," states Abbas today called for rival factions to respect each other.

The AP quotes Abbas stating, "Shooting at your brother is forbidden," but the article stops short of quoting the rest of his sentence in which he recommends Palestinians use their weapons against Israel.

The AP article was featured on such top websites at the WashingtonPost.com and CBSNews.com

Articles by other news agencies and local Israeli papers also failed to quote Abbas' anti-Israel and anti-Semitic remarks

UNRECONSTRUCTED ABBAS REVEALED 

Palestinians Killing Their Children

When Israel engages in self defense, the world is crushing in its condemnatio. The Palis kill Palestinian children, silence. It's all about hating the Jews. It always has been, and it continues to be.

When Palestinians Kill Palestinian Children - Ze'ev Schiff
In recent Hamas-Fatah clashes, children have been deliberately killed. Last month, the three small children of Fatah General Intelligence officer Baha Balusha were murdered while traveling to school in their father's car. Last week, Hamas attacked the home of a senior official in Fatah's Preventive Security Service, Mohammed Gharib. The officer begged the assailants to spare him and his young daughters; however, they killed him and four of his bodyguards, and seriously wounded his daughters.
    A few months ago, the earth shook when Palestinian civilians were killed by the IDF's misguided artillery fire on Beit Hanun. Tempers ran high in the UN, and some in Israel demanded that an international commission of inquiry be established. When Palestinians kill Palestinian children - and not by accident - no criticism is heard. Perhaps the professional critics consider such incidents too minor. (Ha'aretz)

Today's Euphemism: Gaza Militants?

Oh man, what next? Gazan militants. Thats rich. Freedom fighters, the resistance ............. never what they are -- Palestinian terrorists.  AFP, AP, al-Reuters -all doing the jihad jig. Check out "sitting in a circle in a sandy garden" kumbaya mo kumbaya.  In their sandy kumbaya circle they plan their bloodthirsty wholesale slaughter of the Jews. Isn't that quaint? The jihad media loves it. I despise them.

Gazan militants vow to continue firing rockets at Israel
AFP via Yahoo! News
Sitting in a circle in a tent in a sandy garden in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian militants have said Israel's vow to renew strikes against them was no deterrent to firing more rockets.

Meanwhile the poor beseiged victims of Sderot (here) are taking matters into their own hands.

Fifty Sderot Residents Ask Court to Declare Them Exempt From Paying Taxes if IDF is Restrained From Responding to Missiles

SDEROT SUES FOR SECURITY INN News

A District Court petition filed by 50 Sderot residents on Monday challenged the government’s right to levy taxes on a population it has not effectively defended against rocket attacks.

The petition specifically targeted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s policy of restraint, which has prevented the Israel Defense Forces from responding with military force to the constant rocket attacks on the besieged western Negev city.

The petition, filed by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the director of the Israel Law Center (Shurat HaDin), asked the court to declare Sderot residents exempt from having to pay taxes to the State. It explains this demand “in light of the government’s refusal to provide adequate military protection to their community.” More here

UPDATE: Even so, the Israelis make the desert bloom

 

The Media Worm Turns in Gaza

They call them Gazans now? Militants? Freedom fighters? Everything but what they are bloodthirsty savages.  hat tip ginku

Gazans fear radio rhetoric may cause war  AP

The fighting between Hamas and        Fatah militants hasn't played out just in the streets of the        Gaza Strip. The rivals also pummeled each other over the airwaves with such epithets as "mercenary death squads," "child killers" and "Zionists."

"If we wanted, we could burn down Gaza," said a smiling Ibrahim Daher, director of Aqsa Radio, the Gaza voice of Islamic Hamas.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, Abu Dana is flying their flag. Flying the flag of destroyers of Israel. The left is morally ill I tell you.

OLMERT FLYS PA FLAG INN News

Many in Israel and abroad were surprised when the flags of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority flew side-by-side for the first time, at the official Prime Minister’s Residence.

For the first time in the history of the State of Israel, the red, black, green and white flag of the Palestinian Authority stood next to the official state flag of Israel bearing the blue Jewish Star flanked by two stripes on its field of white, last Saturday Night.

 

Israel: Good News! Bad News!

Baruch hashem!

Israel won't free Palestinian prisoners
USA Today
Israel has rebuffed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' request to free Palestinian prisoners ahead of a major Muslim holiday, insisting that Palestinian militants first agree to release a captured Israeli soldier

Curses!

Israel confirms approval of weapons shipment to Abbas
International Herald Tribune
Israel and the United States reportedly backed the move to send weapons and ammunition to forces loyal to the Palestinian president.

One step forward, ten steps back. Olmert is such a scary putz. And please don't try to sell me on the "Fatah is really our friend and will destroy Hamas" line of twisted thinking. Those weapons will be used to murder Jews.

History Might Have Been Different

Arafat’s Orchestration of 1973 Murders Acknowledged by State Department

WorldNetDaily reported yesterday on the discovery of a State Department document released earlier this year (Here it is, converted to an HTML doc by yours truly for easy reference). State acknowledges, apparently for the first time, something that Scott at Powerline (here and here) demonstrated definitively more than three years ago from other available evidence.

The admission is that State has known for decades that the late Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the head of Fatah, plotted and supervised the 1973 murders of three diplomats: two from the United States (Cleo Noel and George Curtis), and one from Belgium (Guy Eid) who was apparently in the wrong place at the wrong time, in Khartoum, The Sudan.

Interesting post back in June at Daled Amos here (thanks to Larwyn)

According to a New York Times article back in April 1986:

Assistant Attorney General John R. Bolton told Congress today that the United States would not seek the indictment of Yasir Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in the 1973 killings of two American diplomats in the Sudan.

The department said it had insufficient evidence to prosecute Mr. Arafat in the deaths of the American Ambassador, Cleo A. Noel Jr., and the charge d'affaires, George C. Moore.

Members of Congress had asked the department to study recent evidence that the lawmakers said indicated Mr. Arafat might have taken part in the decision by Palestinian guerrillas to kill the two men.

This is the same controversial and outspoken John Bolton that  represented the US at the UN.

[...]the following was released by the Office of the Historian:

In the early evening hours of 1 March 1973, eight Black September Organization (BSO) terrorists seized the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum as a diplomatic reception honoring the departing United States Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) was ending. After slightly wounding the United States Ambassador and the Belgian Charge d'Affaires, the terrorists took these officials plus the United States DCM, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador and the Jordanian Charge d'Affaires hostage. In return for the freedom of the hostages, the captors demanded the release of various individuals, mostly Palestinian guerrillas, imprisoned in Jordan, Israel and the United States.

The Khartoum operation was planned and carried out with the full knowledge and personal approval of Yasir Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and the head of Fatah. Fatah representatives based in Khartoum participated in the attack, using a Fatah vehicle to transport the terrorists to the Saudi Arabian Embassy.

The fact that Arafat was directly involved in the assassination is not new knowledge.

Scott Johnson points out in an article in November 2003 and again in a post on Powerline  that the State Department knew that Arafat was directly involved in the assasination of the two Americans from the beginning. [see also Solomonia on the electronic intercept of Arafat's order]

While writing an article on the topic in 2002, Johnson wrote to the State Department and was informed:

Evidence clearly points to the terrorist group Black September as having committed the assassinations of Amb. Noel and George Moore, and though Black September was a part of the Fatah movement, the linkage between Arafat and this group has never been established. [emphasis added]

Johnson later acquired 27 previously classified cables through the Freedom of Information Act. According to Johnson:

The cables demonstrated that in March 1973 the State Department had promptly concluded that Black September was nothing more than a front for Fatah and that Arafat himself had directed the operation resulting in the assassination of Noel and Moore. Both points are made over and over again in the cables to and from the Secretary of State.

To take one example, in early March the U.S Mission in Vienna reported to Secretary Rogers: "The Black September Organization (BSO) is a cover term for Fatah's terrorist operations executed by Fatah's intelligence organization, Jihaz al-Rasd...For all intents and purposes no significant distinction now can be made between the BSO and Fatah...Fatah leader Yasir Arafat has now been described in recent intelligence as having given approval to the Khartoum operation prior to its inception."

It's all very well for the US to assume to attempt to broker a peace treaty between Rabin and Arafat, but if it had been common knowledge that Arafat--a world terrorist and no freedom fighter--had ordered the murder of US officials, would Clinton and the US been so ready to push Israel into the Oslo Accords? 

Soccer Dad recalls that Lady Margaret Thatcher said it best 20 years ago:

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Iranian Officers Take Charge of Pali Army

The upside (!) of being perceived as weak and appeasing is the mask of your enemies falls away. Looking less formidable certainly brings the cockroaches out into the light of day. Why hide when there is nothing left  to fear right? Which is why Iran has become increasingly brazen, threatening  and open about its sponsorship of Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Palis.

IRAN STEPS UP TRAINING OF HAMAS Middle East Newswire via RegimeChangeIran

Israeli officials said up to several hundred Hamas operatives have recently left the Gaza Strip for Iran. They said the operatives were undergoing several weeks of military training by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. "The Hamas terrorists enter [Egypt's] Sinai Peninsula and then make their way to Syria and then Iran," an official said. "We have been detecting an increase in the flow of Hamas operatives leaving for Iran over the last two months." Hamas leaders have discussed expanding cooperation with Iran. In November, Palestinian Authority Interior Minister Said Siyam said Iran agreed to bolster training and funding to security forces aligned with Hamas.

UPDATE 12/29: JPOST: A.P.: 'CAPTURED IRANIANS WERE MEMBERS OF ELITE FORCE'

Give 'em a State!

The "Troops" of Islamic Jihad - Johann Hari
I am sitting somewhere in Gaza City - I'm not allowed to know where - and opposite me is a huge beaming picture of Osama bin Laden, with the smoke from a burning World Trade Center forming a black halo around his head. He is surrounded by a gaggle of jihadi angels: some Chechen fighters, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Britain's own Tube bomber, Mohammed Sidique Khan. "Would you like to see our weapons?" a masked jihadi says cheerfully, before thrusting a grenade into my hand.
    "I want to kill and kill and kill again. I want to be a killing machine until, inshallah [God willing], I become a martyr," said Abu Ahmad, 27. He has just described how he slashed the throats of four female Israeli soldiers in 2002. "All the Jews have to be killed," he says. The Holocaust did not happen, he says, "but it should have." "I love Osama bin Laden," he said to me as we parted, slapping me on the back.

UPDATE: Stillwell's latest at Family Security Matters excellent column: HATRED OF JEWS AND ISRAEL IMPERILS US ALL

Condi's Mad Money for Murdering Mazen

Rice plans to request more funds for Palestinian president
CNN.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she would ask Congress for tens of millions of dollars to strengthen the security forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Money for murderers. Condi is so out of her league. There is no way this woman can speak softly and carry a big stick. She can handle the speaking softly. That's about it. These monies are always used to buy arms, fund murder, kill Jews. Always. And these concessions are always  seen as gestures of weakness, not of good will. Always.

NO money for terrorists. Stop the insanity.

Avigdor Lieberman has harsh words for the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Mahmoud Abbas  the longtime aide to Yasser Arafat.

"I don't think that Abu Mazen is the right partner. I think that he is the biggest obstacle," Mr. Lieberman said. " Abu Mazen, he is excellent for declaration, but when he must deliver the goods, he is incompetent."

As an alternative, Mr. Lieberman suggested that Israel work with the "new generation" of Palestinian Arabs who were educated in America and in Europe. He also said Israel should coordinate any agreements it makes concerning the West Bank with Jordan and concerning the Gaza Strip with Egypt. More here

Every news item on Condi makes me wince, squint and  peak out it from the corner of my eye, sort of how I might view a car wreck, cautiously and with great trepidation.

FDD reports: Demonstrating the close ties between the Iranian government and terrorists, Iran has offered $250 million to prop up the cash-strapped Hamas government. [Full Story]

Civil war: Savages killing Savages

Civil war in Gaza? PA on Brink of Civil War. I am with Diane West on this one, Let the Muslims fight it out  and while she is writing of Iraq and the ISG, I think it it makes for a good overall policy in dealing with Islam and that culture of death.  Meanwhile, Fatah-Hamas feud shows signs of spreading to camps in Lebanon.
 

Fatah Attempts Killing of Hamas PM Haniyeh Israel National News

An attempt on the life of Hamas Authority PM Ismail Haniyeh is headlining the escalating battles between Hamas and Fatah terrorists. Both sides are deploying armed man and preparing for battle.

Hamas leader Haniyeh has vowed revenge for a shooting attack on his entourage, which occurred when he returned from his first trip abroad as PA Prime Minister. His personal bodyguard was killed and his son took a bullet to the shoulder - one of 30 people wounded in the crossfire between Hamas gunmen and forces loyal to PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction.

"We know the party that shot directly at our cars, injuring some of the people with me,” Haniyeh said. “And we also know how to deal with this."

Friday Hamas began deploying the armed groups under its control throughout Gaza, preparing for clashes with Fatah. PA police in Ramallah declared the center of the PA-controlled town a closed military zone after Hamas and Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigades declared their intentions of following Friday prayers with armed marches through the center.

Security forces are out in force and businesses are closed in anticipation of clashes between the groups.

Earlier Thursday, Hamas-controlled terrorists took over the Gaza-Egypt border in a pitched gun battle with the Fatah-loyal PA police stationed there, after they prevented Haniyeh from smuggling a large amount of cash in with him upon his return from Egypt. European Union observers were whisked to safety, and refused to return, maintaining a closure on the Rafah crossing.

Meanwhile, Hamas terrorist detonated explosives, blowing yet another hole in the already porous border with the Sinai.

Fatah-loyal PA police arrested a Hamas man they say is responsible for the execution of the three children of a Fatah intelligence chief.

On Wednesday two Hamas men were wounded when a Fatah terrorist threw a hand-grenade into a crowd of Hamas men parading through Gaza’s Neseirat slums. Earlier that day a judge affiliated with Hamas was gunned down.

PA sources are talking about the possibility of full-blown civil war following Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas’s much-hyped statement to be delivered Saturday in which he is expected to dissolve the government and call new elections in an attempt to turn back the clock on the Hamas victory that marginalized Yassir Arafat’s Fatah movement.

Democrats Betray Israel Meet with Hamas

Jewicidal Democrats will have to answer to their lansman. They paid little heed, those leftarded, self important, enlightened Jews. Crazier still is the majority of American Jews vote Dhimmicratic. They will answer to their children. Yidwithlid has the whole disgusting story here;

Before the Election Many Right Wing Jewish Blogs [Gd knows I tried- Atlas] tried to warn against voting Democratic, the fear was that the party would abandon Israel. According to Worldnet Daily that abandonment is accelerating.They have cut the legs off the Jewish state and Abbas by meeting with the Terrorist Hamas

WND Exclusive FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Report: Hamas met delegation of Democrats
By Aaron Klein WorldNetDaily.com

JERUSALEM – Hamas met with a delegation of "important Democrats" who expressed interest in relations with the Palestinian terror group even if it doesn't recognize the right of Israel to exist, according to a report today on a Palestinian news website. Maannews quoted a source in the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority stating the terror group felt it important to meet with members of the Democratic Party since, the Hamas source said, the party will likely win 2008 presidential elections.

Maannews is an independent Palestinian news website based in Ramallah and Bethlehem. Sources close to the website told WND the site receives some funding from the governments of Denmark and the Netherlands.

According to the report, the alleged meeting with the Democrats took place in a European country following a series of preliminary meetings with representatives from the British and French governments.
The Hamas source did not name which Democrats the terror group claims to have met.

Photo: hat tip Dave

Acid Thrown On Face of Gaza Woman for Not Wearing Hijab

The Religion of Peace strikes again. My favorite Islamic lie is how "Islam empowers women propagandized by  the usual suspects and the jihad media. Carl has more on women and girls in the 'Palestinian Authority' : victims of violence here.

Acid Thrown On Face of Gaza Woman for Not Wearing Hijab IRIS

A hitherto unknown group calling itself the Just Swords of Islam issued a warning to Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip over the weekend that they must wear the hijab or face being targeted by the group's members.

The concept of the "hitherto unknown group" is tiqiya (deception prescribed by Islam in the battle against the infidels) pioneered by Yasser Arafat. There has been years of evidence that the "hitherto unknown groups" are simply Islamists with different names to confuse non-Muslims.

In pamphlets distributed in various parts of the Gaza Strip, the group also claimed responsibility for attacks on 12 Internet cafes over the past few days.

The warning was directed primarily against female students in a number of universities and colleges who do not cover their heads in line with Islamic tradition.

The group said its followers last week threw acid at the face of a young woman who was dressed "immodestly" in the center of Gaza City. They also destroyed a car belonging to a young man who was playing his radio tape too loudly.

Addressing female students, the group said: "We will have no mercy on any woman who violates the traditions of Islam and who also hang out in Internet cafes."

According to the group, its members used rocket-propelled grenades to attack 12 Internet cafes and a number of music shops in different parts of the Gaza Strip.

It said the places were targeted because they were "distracting an entire generation of Palestinians from their duty to worship [Allah] and jihad so that they could serve their Zionist masters and the Crusaders."

David and Goliath

Download this file it won't run on youtube: It's Window Power Point ht Janet

CLICK: Download The_State_of_Israel_and_the_Muslim_World1.pps
and watch this video too here.
 

What is really at play here? A struggle as old as time. The struggle between good and evil.
The traditional Jew-peaceful, studious, dedicated to procreation, family and life of worship and simplicity. He is concerned with being benevolent hence the Kosher way of killing animals-without suffering. He does not deviate from faith in God and belief that God, if he is good, will take care of him. On the other side is the trayf  - the more  likely to use physical force, have many wives, or at least does not stay with one family and may beget a few, less concern in procreation rather more concern in pleasure. Kills even for his faith or in the name of his faith. More physical than studious and much less faithful to family and religion.Inflicts pain without remorse and enjoys the disrespect for other living creatures.

Therefore for the strife between good and evil to continue and exist - the fundamental basis and core for this existence the traditional Jew must survive. If he dies the good is gone and evil takes over the world. The struggle must continue as this is the setup and fabric of this world.

The conquering of Israel is in theory. That piece of beach holds no oil, gold, or any other valuable resources. It however, holds the Jewish people. The world knows that getting the land is meaningless, it is getting the Jew that will be the victory for the forces of evil. However, if the Jew dies they die too as their survival depends on this constant struggle because without it they will lose the meaning and purpose of their existence. And so it goes, a never ending struggle which is the very essence of life as we know it."

Hamas Foreign Minister: "I Dream of a Map without Israel"
Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior Hamas leader who is the new Palestinian top diplomat, on Saturday defended Hamas' ultimate goal of destroying Israel and founding an Islamic state. "I dream of hanging a huge map of the world on the wall at my Gaza home which does not show Israel on it," he said. "Our dream [is] to have our independent state on all historic Palestine (including Israel)." "This dream will become real one day. I'm certain of this because there is no place for the State of Israel on this land," said al-Zahar. (Xinhua-China)

Here's another analysis you should  review. Augean Stables has a remarkable post here on Anti-Semitism: Medieval, Modern and Post-Modern. He has posted the final, Post-Modern.

 

 

Palestinians: Proud to be Murder Inc.

What a fucked up world, huh? Next they'll be nominating these barbarians for a Nobel Peace Prize a la Arafat. From Palestinian Media Watch here;

PLO takes pride in being the source of international terror PMW

As the world recoils from international terror, the PLO takes pride in the fact that it has been the source of world terror, and that terrorists around the world have copied their tactics and techniques.

It has already been noted by terror analysts that much of world terror was started by the Palestinian terrorists, and then copied by other terrorists in their own countries for their own purposes. Whereas the world views this with contempt, the PLO’s Fatah faction acknowledges this and even takes pride in it.

The Secretary of Fatah in Gaza, Ahmed Hales Abu Maher, expressed pride on Palestinian TV that the Fatah "gives daily examples" that the world has "imitated," from the participation of children in combat to the widespread use of suicide terror, all of which started with the Fatah-PLO.

The following is the statement on PA TV:

Ahmed Hales Abu Maher, Secretary of Fatah in Gaza

“Oh warrior brothers, this is a nation that will never be broken, it is a revolution that will never be defeated. This is a nation that gives an example every day that is imitated across the world. We gave the world the children of the RPG [Rocket Propelled Grenades], we gave the world the children stone [-throwers], and we gave the world the male and female Martyrdom-Seekers [suicide bombers]."

[Palestinian Authority TV, November 14, 2006]

UPDATE: Read Eli Hertz here at Myths and Facts:

 

Who Needs a New Peace Plan?

Palestinian Arabs - a Genuine Danger to World Peace

Do Not Forget the Kidnapped

WTF happened to resolution 1701 and the return of the kidnapped soldiers .................. why aren't the Fwenchies demanding the Jews be released instead of threatening to shoot down Israeli aircraft?
Good on Brussels (for a change.)

Thousands Rally for Kidnapped Israeli Soldiers in Brussels - Yossi Lempkowicz and Sarah Williams
3,500 people joined a rally in Brussels Wednesday in front of the European Commission and the European Council of Ministers headquarters on the day the European Parliament opened its monthly session, to show solidarity and support for the families of the three Israeli soldiers abducted this summer. "Europe has a particular responsibility to make that UN Security Council Resolution 1701 be applied," said Roger Pinto, head of the French Siona organization. The resolution calls for the immediate and unconditional release of the three soldiers.
    Speakers criticized the fact that the International Red Cross was unable to give the families any information about their sons. Roger Cukierman, head of the French umbrella group CRIF, denounced the use of European money to help "bloodthirsty people for whom the human being is a bargaining chip."  (European Jewish Press)

Jihad Media Loves Terrorists

Sick. The moral equivalence is blinding. Brian over at Snapped Shot has the story here, Cheerleading for Terrorists; (hat tip Larwyn)

The media, in all of its glory, wholeheartedly participating in the celebration of a new weapon designed to kill Jews:

Masked Palestinian militants of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' brigades display weapons to the media in the West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday Nov. 28, 2006. The millitants displayed in a news conference what they claim to be a new homemade rocket named in Arabic 'Jondallah 1', means 'Soldiers of God'. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Caroline Glick wries of Yaacov Yaacobov, who was hard at work at the poultry processing plant in Sderot on  when Palestinian Islamic terrorists murdered him with a Kassam rocket.

Wednesday an Arutz 7 reporter spoke to his young son, Hanan. The reporter asked the boy whether he wanted to move away from his hometown to get away from the rocket bombardment. Hanan said no, he wanted to stay.

When the reporter asked him why he wanted to stay, the orphaned child with moonbeam eyes replied, "I love Sderot very much, and I won't leave it because I love the State of Israel. If I leave Sderot, if all of Sderot were evacuated, then the country would fall apart. The Palestinians will see that they are succeeding in Sderot, and then they'll shoot Kassams at Ashkelon and Ashdod too, and do the same in the whole country until nothing is left."

Read it all here and ask yourself why Abu Dana Olmert has instituted a jewicidal ceasefire that only he is adhering to.

Hanan Yaacobov, who no longer has his father to guide him through childhood, has some very mature guidance for Israel's leaders, who may think it preferable to be applauded by foreigners than to defend their countrymen from our enemies.

"I, Yaacobov's son, am turning to you. Resign your positions! Resign. The defense minister and Olmert should admit that they can't do this, and vacate their places in the government to Bibi Netanyahu and to [Avigdor] Lieberman. If they can [defend us] I want to see their answer. If not, they should vacate their seats, quickly."  

Human Rights Advocates See No evil

A Deadly Toy: An IDF sapper examines a stuffed monkey rigged with explosives, which was found at a Nablus bomb factory on Friday. hat tip Michael

Another Bullshit Hudna

Ceasefire? HUDNA! Can we stop the mental masturbation? BASTA! How many Jews have to die until the world is satiated? (Don't answer that.)

Today's irony:  Palestinians learn emergency medicine in Israel (altogether now, hurl)

´Ceasefire´ in Gaza: Terrorists Fire Five Kassams Arutz Sheva 

The Prime Minister's Office announced late last night that PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas had informed[Abu Dana - Atlas] Olmert that all the Palestinian terrorist factions had agreed to stop all hostile Gaza-based activities against Israel. These included, Abbas said, tunnel-digging, suicide bombers, and Kassam rockets. Israel agreed in return to remove all its forces from Gaza.

Did they sell the Olmert government the Brooklyn Bridge as well? ugh

All IDF forces were withdrawn from Gaza in the course of the night - and shortly afterwards, two terrorist groups announced they were not parties to the ceasefire agreement. Islamic Jihad and the Abu Rish Brigades of Fatah declared this morning that they would continue firing rockets at Israeli citizens.

In the meanwhile, three rockets hit the besieged city of Sderot and environs around 8 AM, and another Kassam was fired at the Eshkol region of the Negev. Sderot residents, whose great hopes of rocket-less tranquility to which they awoke were dashed with the crash of the rockets, took to the streets once again today. They burned tires and shouted angry epithets against Prime Minister Olmert and his government.

Shortly before 10 AM, a fifth rocket slammed into the town, but causing no physical damage.

Not for lack of trying.

GREAT NEWS: Pali Tunnel Collapses

One of those murder enableing tunnels collapsed  in Gaza. And I am glad. NO moral equivalence for me folks. These tunnels are used for kidnapping Jews, rearming the jihad,  and resupplying terrorists. hat tip Michael

Tunnel under Gaza-Egypt border collapses YNET News

A tunnel under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt collapsed on Saturday, but Palestinian security officials weren't immediately able to say whether it served to smuggle contraband or weapons to Palestinian gunmen.

Oh puhleeze.

Palestinian rescue officials pull one body out of rubble as search continues for undetermined number of others.

A Palestinian security official said one man was dug out from the rubble and an undetermined number of others were trapped in the debris.

The official, Col. Hussein Abu Omar, said the tunnel was dug from inside a Gaza house some 100 meters from the border with Egypt. It was not clear how far it extended into Egypt.

Abu Omar had no details about the owner of the house or further information about the tunnel.

"An innocent civilian" no doubt.

Jihad G-ma, Ma of 9, Homicide Bomber

I guess Grandma is another "innocent civilian."

"She had an army of grandchildren," he said.

How can it be that the West does not categorically condemn this savage madness?  The moral equivalence the UN and the West proselytize pushes the envelop, pushes the boundaries of depravity further into the abyss. Any civilization that can make excuses for such barbarism is anything but civilized.

Grandmother in first Hamas suicide attack in two years Breitbart hat tip Jon            

A Palestinian grandmother blew herself up in the Gaza Strip, lightly wounding three Israeli soldiers, in the first suicide attack claimed by Hamas in almost two years. The mother of nine and grandmother of 41 became the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber at the age of 57, approaching troops operating to curb daily rocket attacks, the army said.

"Troops saw a woman approaching them in a suspicious manner and identified her carrying an explosive device," a spokeswoman said of the incident in the northern town of Jabaliya.

"They then threw a stun grenade in her direction but she managed to blow herself up," the spokeswoman said, adding that three soldiers were lightly hurt.

Within minutes the armed wing of the Hamas claimed the bombing. This was the Islamist group's first suicide attack since January 2005, when a bomber wounded seven Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

"The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades claims the martyr operation carried out by Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Najar, aged 57, in the middle of a group of Zionist soldiers," an online statement said.

The bloody operation came two weeks after the radical faction threatened to resume suicide bombings in response to a botched Israeli shelling in the Gaza town of Beit Hanun that left 19 Palestinians, mostly women and children, dead.

Fuck France

What nerve. These onerous little frogs are threatening Israel?  These  two bit, two faced duplicitous snakes are playing with Jewish lives? Dogs. They can't contain their own population. There is a low grade civil war in France and they are busying themselves with aiding in the annihilation of the Jews. The Vichy g'ment redux.

Hezballah never disarmed and UNIFIL has given the savages free reign.
I hope Israel fires back,  hard.

France authorizes troops to fire at IAF jets over Lebanon

French soldiers in Lebanon who feel threatened by aggressive Israeli overflights are permitted to shoot at IAF fighter jets, a high-ranking French military officer told The Jerusalem Post.

Wednesday, several days after meeting with an IDF general in Paris to discuss what he said was a "blatant violation of the cease-fire."

The second Lebanon war: JPost.com special report

Last weekend, Maj.-Gen. Ido Nehushtan, head of the IDF Planning Directorate, traveled to Paris and met with military officials to explain why the IAF flies over Lebanon despite the UN-brokered cease-fire.

Nehushtan, new to his post and previously deputy commander of the air force, told his French counterparts that Israel was conducting the flights to collect intelligence on Hizbullah positions in southern Lebanon.

According to the French officer, Nehushtan apologized for an incident on October 31 when an IAF fighter carried out a mock bombing run over a French UNIFIL position in southern Lebanon, almost prompting troops to fire anti-aircraft missiles.

"There was a reality on the ground and it was important for us to reaffirm what we had seen and explain clearly what are the orders of the French soldiers to protect themselves," the French officer said.

The French told Nehushtan they would view further aggressive flyovers as a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

"No assurances were made to us that they [the IAF] would stop [the flights]," the French officer said. "The orders that the [French] soldiers have is that their weapons are for self-defense and if a commander will feel threatened, as it was about to happen on the 31st of October, he would have the right to use force."

"Throw the Jew Down The Well"

Apparently Borat is on to something here. This latest is a stomach churner. We are going to deal with Syria? Assassin of Hariri and pro-western  journalists, puppet to terror master Iran, and Hezbollah patron. Why hasn't the "world community" held Syria to account for those assassinations?

Is there anyone in DC that really believes that Syria will keep its word on anything? Jim over at Gateway Pundit has the whole story here

Syria Wants Golan Heights For Helping US in Iraq
Syria wants the Golan Heights.

The Iraq Study Group has already met several times with the Syrian Ambassador, Imad Moustapha.

James Baker III, co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group, has met several times and asked the Syrians what it would take for the Assad regime to cooperate on Iraq.

The New York Times reported:

James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state who is now Republican co-chairman of a bipartisan group examining strategic options in Iraq, has met several times with Syrian officials to discuss how they might cooperate with the United States, the Syrian ambassador here said Friday.

“What would it take Syria to help on Iraq?” the Syrian ambassador, Imad Moustapha, recalled Mr. Baker asking Syria’s foreign minister, Walid Muallem, during a meeting in New York at the Waldorf-Astoria in September. Mr. Moustapha described the session as “very promising.”

It's not clear if this was already discussed in the latest talks between members of the Iraq Study Group and Syria but the Times is now reporting that Syria wants the Golan:

SYRIA is to demand American help in securing the return of the Golan Heights from Israel as the price of co-operation over Iraq. With the White House under pressure to talk to its adversary, President Bashar al-Assad has resolved that his assistance will not be cheap.

Assad has been considering how to respond to an American overture following reports that the Iraq Study Group will recommend that the United States engage Syria and Iran in talks on Iraq, a position backed by Tony Blair last week.

The Syrian president wants America and Britain to use their influence with Israel to raise the return of the Golan Heights, seized by the Israelis in the 1967 war. “It will be the top demand,” said Ayman Abdel Nour, a leading reformer in the ruling Ba’ath party.

Assad also said that Syrian help will only come with guarantees that US troops will withdraw from the region.

Nidra Poller: Rancid French Fries II

Nidra Poller is all over the duplicitous French and their anti aircraft missiles in Lebanon. I wondered why they would need any anti-aircraft weaponry in Lebanon.............Hezb'Allah has aircraft?

Nidra Poller, Paris November 18th
Rancid French-fried incident.

You can't believe it. MAM is manning the guns again. Claiming the F15s overflied with such what shall I say such arrogance, they didn't dare to swoop and simulate, they knew she wouldn't allow any more of that, but there was something in the tilt of their noses, well, there you go, the French UNIFILs ripped off the cellophane from their anti-aircraft guns and... 

...well, you know the rest. They were two fingers from firing. Since the Ministress of Defense still wants to pick a fight, let us go back to the highly informative article by Jean Tsadik  [Paris brûle ! (info # 021511/6) [Analyse]  (the technical information is from J Tsadik, the sassiness is from yours truly). Where we learn that F15s are fighter planes designed to attack enemy aircraft in the air. They do not fire at targets on the ground, they are not equipped with guns that could if they would fire at French (why French and only French) UNIFIL troops who are equipped with sang froid. Only one version of the F15 is designed to attack targets on the ground, the F15 E. But it is not looking for small fry, with sang froid or chaud. The F15 E could attack some extremely high interest target like, for example, says JT, an Iranian nuclear installation. In which case it would be armed with missiles or smart bombs. And it attacks from way way way up in the air, where no UNIFIL big guns could even dream of reaching it. Furthermore, our well-informed informer assures us that any Isareli pilot dumb enough to harass French UNIFILniks and risk losing his life and a 35 million dollar plane would have been grounded after the first swoop.

And that's not the half of it. Did you know--I certainly didn't, but that's excusable, since I am not going around accusing the Israelis of creating an international incident every two days but the dozens of journalists who pick these stories up and rubber stamp them for ignorant readers should know, shouldn't they?--did you know that  the French contingent is operating with DCAs with a maximum reach of 8,000 feet while the reconnaissance F-15s that are in fact and undenibaly and unashamedly overflying Lebanon-Hizubbuland are soaring at an altitude of  50 to 70,000 feet. In other words, if the Frenchies fired, it would be like throwing a wad of gum at a sleek high fliyin' F15.

How long is this going to go on? I've updated the update and I will keep on updating as long as MAM keeps on tall tailing.

I find the Metula News Agency information convincing. But even if you are not convinced, if you write for the NYTimes, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and what all, how can you dare to report on these incidents without knowing anything about F15s, without informing readers that something might be fishy in Lebanese skies? Not to mention Hizbullah snuggling back into its tunnels, not to mention Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, kdinapped, held incommunicado for four months, not to mention the Siniora government two fingers from falling into Nasrallah's turban...

One more luscious detail I apparently forgot to mention in the last update. Defense Minister Alliot-Marie was asked by ace journalist Christine Ockrent: now that the Democrats have won control of the Congress, the war in Iraq will be less ideological (yes, I'm quoting); won't it be more difficult for European countries to refuse to help the Americans in Iraq?

She replied: We have 14,000 troops deployed in various war theaters...Lebanon, Afghanistan, Côte d'Ivoire, RDC...   We do not have any troops available for other missions.

Maybe she should pull them out of UNIFIL where they are so scared of F15s and send them to Iraq where they can face real live IEDS?

Read Nidra's previous French fried posts here and here.

Above graphic ripped from Kokopundit

IRAN TERROR BANKER

Note the word aid. It's not aid, it is money for killing, money for arms, money for homicide bombers in the name of Islamic jihad.. Meanwhile the Iranian people are starving.

Iran increases Palestinian aid to 120 million dollars AFP

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has stepped up its aid to the Palestinians by donating some 120 million dollars to the Hamas-led government and is ready to give more, the Palestinian foreign minister said.

"Iran has handed out until now over 120 million dollars and will supply more aid. Its support is very important for us," Mahmud Zahar said following talks with Iran's top national security official Ali Larijani.

"Iran is a major actor in the region and if we can obtain the support of Arab and Islamic countries we will have the assurance that there will be no step backwards on the Palestinian issue," he added.

The sum of 120 million is more than double the pledge of 50 million dollars made by Iran in April after the suspension of funding by the United States and European Union following Hamas's election victory.

The Islamist Hamas, which is now engaged in talks over a national unity government with the secular Fatah, stands by its refusal to recognise Israel despite the aid freeze and international pressure.

Can't Kill The Jews? Disarm Them

This is one to watch in Londonistan. Relentless. The enemy is relentless.

Military sales to Israel challenged  The Guardian

The government is being taken to court today over the sale of military equipment to Israel including parts for Apache helicopter gunships, laser range finders, and communications equipment.

Saleh Hasan, a Palestinian who lives in Bethlehem, argues that the sales are in breach of the government's guidelines covering arms exports and are unlawful. The guidelines say exports should be blocked when there is a "clear risk" they "might be used for internal repression".

How about self preservation? How about that?

Michael Fordham QC says in his court challenge on behalf of Mr Saleh that there is also clear evidence of human rights abuses by Israeli forces.

Coming from a Palestinian, that's rich.

ISRAEL: Pali Arab Rocket Attacks Kill Jews

Echo, echo echo echo. Rocket attacks on Sderot kill and yet I haven't heard so much as a word in the lamestream media. Nothing. You could hear a damn pin drop.

Israel Radio just reported that one of the wounded has died and that the 'military wings' of Hamas and Islamic Jihad have accepted responsibility for the Kassams fired this morning.

According to an Israel Radio report, ten people have been wounded - two of them critically - in a barrage of six Kassam rockets that landed on Sderot and other towns in the western Negev a short while ago (The army no longer gives precise landing spots because the 'Palestinians' have been improving their aim. We do know that two of the rockets landed in Sderot). The rockets were shot from Beit Hanoun, which was the area in which the IDF was operating last week.
The person who was killed in this morning's Kassam attack is a 57-year old mother. The person who was seriously wounded was a 24-year old bodyguard for Defense Minister Amir Comrade Peretz. Sounds like they were shooting at Peretz's house again

When  Israel retaliates against unprovoked attacks on their civilians, radar guided artillery strike directly at the desired target -- rocket launchers, missile launchers, weaponry intend on killing innocent Jews. But the portrayal of this self defense is depicted in the media as blood thirsty Israeli aggression.

When the Pali Arabs launch their Qasams, OTOH, they are pure objects of terror. Hundreds of rockets aimed at cities,towns, civilian targets without rhyme or reason. Random raining rockets of indiscriminate death. The media largely ignores it.

You never get the distinction from the jihad loving media.

TODAY MORE KILLINGS IN ISRAEL. IN SDEROT, where there have been over 5,000 rocket attacks in six years. Larwyn writes me;

Verbal Caricature has posted an excellent article, in which he challenges the spineless wire services to present as many photographs of the latest grisly deaths in Sderot as they did of the completely preventable Beit Hanoun "massacre" in the Palestinian region.

Consider me to be waiting as well.

As I've documented in the past, the press is never interested in covering the suffering of Israelis, as it doesn't jibe with their pre-canned, completely idiotic "David vs. Goliath" storyline. Their simplistic presentation of the Arab/Israeli conflict doesn't contribute anything to resolving the issues between the two parties (not that I think it can be resolved peacefully at this point), but rather only contributes to inflaming the more radically violent elements in Arab societies.

Rusty is waiting, too. Any other bloggers out there waiting for impartial coverage? I do love his analysis, though:

It's only as you read the story that you realize that:
a) two terror organizations claim the attack
b) the attack deliberately targetted civilians, no apologies
c) one of the organizations is part of the ruling party of Palestine

When the Israelis hit civilians

a) it is usually on accident
b) sometimes it is because those civilians really aren't civilians, or they are acting as human shields for terrorists
c) in either case, the Israelis apologize

Equivocation.

Consider me waiting as well
Artwork of grade school students in Sderot

The onslaught of rocket attacks is called Red Dawn. Red Dawn breaks this child's heart

 

Germany: SEIG HEIL JOOOOOOOS

More German love for da Juden. This is an obvious trend. German neo-Nazis wearing Palestinian scarves hat tip

Jewish Graves Swastika-ed

Memorials to Jewish persecuted by the Nazis were vandalised in eastern Germany overnight, police said on Tuesday, amid renewed concern about a neo-Nazi resurgence.

A swastika was painted on a Jewish memorial plague and another on a stone set in the sidewalk in memory of a deported Jew, police in the eastern city of Cottbus said.

Five similar stones around downtown were stolen.

Police said they had no leads on who was responsible.

Cottbus is in the eastern state where suspected neo-Nazis on Friday attacked a memorial to a synagogue burned down on kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish pogrom of 1938.

The group scattered candles and tore up floral wreaths placed at the site of the former synagogue in Frankfort on the 68th anniversary of kristallnacht.

Bolton Foils Evil, again and again

Is this what the left hates? Is this what the Demoncrats find unacceptable? It is incomprehensible to me that Ambassador Bolton would not receive a unanimous vote for confirmation. Why doesn't the UN address the barrage of rockets raining into Israel from Gaza on civilian cities and towns.

UN resolution veto condemning Israel CTV

A UN Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israel's military campaign in the Gaza Strip was vetoed by the U.S. on Saturday.

The draft resolution would have also demanded Israel pull out of the territory.

The veto came one day ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's scheduled visit to Washington on

Notice too that it comes on Shabbat when the people of Israel do not work (including those that the UN.) They always pull that.

The draft, which was backed by Arab nations, was biased and politically motivated, said John Bolton, the American ambassador to the UN.

"This resolution does not display an evenhanded characterization of the recent events in Gaza, nor does it advance the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace to which we aspire and for which we are working assiduously," he told the Security Council.

The move marks the second time this year the U.S. has blocked a draft resolution concerning Israel's activity in Gaza.

Four nations abstained from voting on the contentious resolution, including Denmark, Britain, Japan and Slovakia. Security Council resolutions require unanimous consent from the five permanent members: China, France, Russia, the U.K. and U.S.

Ten nations voted in favour of the resolution, which was brought forward by Qatar.

Denmark abstained, according to Ambassador Ellen Margrethe Loj, because the draft didn't address all the issue,

The draft was adjusted in the last few days to increase the likelihood that it would pass. A section was added in demanding that the Palestinian Authority take immediate action to end the barrage of rockets, and called for a UN fact finding probe into Wednesday's attack.

Photo: Palestinian youths chant slogans during a protest in the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 10, 2006.(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

UPDATE: Charles over at LGF nails it here;

The United Nations was thwarted today in another attempt to demonize a country trying to protect itself from organized, genocidal terrorist gangs.

By John Bolton, acting for the United States: U.S. vetoes condemnation of Gaza strikes.

We’re all going to be in big trouble if the Dems succeed in their coming push to remove Bolton.

The New York Times and Jews: More Blood Libel

The New York Slimes, still on the cutting edge of evil. Leading propaganda tool of the Jihad. How could they accept such a disgusting ad full of Jew hate and lies? It speaks volumes to the NYT's true agenda. Hey Judenrat, keep reading the Times. You fools.

The Pali Arabs have no moneybut can run ginormous, wildly expensive,  New York Crimes advertising spreads, no money for food for their people though. Got it. (Click on photo to enlarge and read all of this incitement to kill.)

Epaminandos points out;

This is Walt - Mearsheimer's protocols of zion light baloney smear they are standing on.

They say in their summaries:

1)"The bottom line is that AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress." (page 19)

2) That power derives in part from the influence Jewish voters have on presidential elections. Despite their small numbers in the population (less than 3 percent), they make large campaign donations to candidates from both parties. The Washington Post once estimated that Democratic presidential candidates "depend on Jewish supporters to supply as much as 60 percent of the money."76 (page 19)

3) On the media. they just take a section in order to assert jews are successful ..Manipulating the Media (page 21)

And let's not forget Jimmah's new book on - Israel The Apartheid State

Such a Jew hater is dhimma Jimma. Keep voting-- Democrat Jews!

It is critical that the American people connnect " progressive forces with the anti liberty, anti freedom of these murderous racists until the public makes them all the one piece of reality they truly have become."

The left now = the new racism (among other stupidities)

We must relentlessly point out that behind these claims are the inner racist beliefs that Jews act against the USA for Israel's benefit in a conspiracy. That is where the left is going, and some of them are there. That is the message the public has to understand.

When in fact Israel shares the same Judeo-Christian ethic that America has. Our goals, our values, are one in the same. Ttruth, Justice.............. live free or die.

UPDATE: America and the Jews. My favorite Jewish contribution to the birth of our great nation is that of Haim Solomon here;

Interesting Facts about Haim Salomon and a Dollar Bill

A couple of years ago, at the West Point Jewish Chapel, there was a display about Haim Salomon and the Revolutionary War. He died penniless, having used all his resources to aid the newly formed and poorly supplied American "army".

This is a wonderful story sent to me by a friend: A Story about: George Washington and the first Jews in America. General Washington's financial advisor and assistant was a Jewish man by the name of Haim Salomon.

During the cold winter of Valley Forge when American soldiers were freezing and running out of food, it was Hyam who marshalled all the Jews in America and Europe to provide money in relief aid to these stranded American troops and turned the course of history.

Without this help, our "Army" would have perished before they could have defeated the British.

If you take a one dollar bill out of your pocket and look at the back at the Eagle, the stars above the Eagle's head are in the six point Star of David to honor Jews. If you turn the Eagle upside down you will see a configuration in the likeness of a Menorah....both at the insistence of George Washington who said we should never forget the Jewish people and what they have done in the interest of America.

UPDATE: From New Media Journal here. Animals and savages. Period.

Hamas Used Women, Children to Shield Gunmen
CNS News
At least a dozen Palestinian gunmen eluded Israeli capture in the Gaza Strip on Friday, first by taking refuge in a mosque and then by calling on women and children to shield them so they could escape. Palestinians reported at least one women killed and a second was in critical condition after they were shot during the fray. The Israeli Army said its soldiers had fired only at armed gunmen, who were firing at them from within the crowd. The standoff began on Thursday evening when some three dozen Palestinian gunmen -- fleeing Israeli forces -- took refuge in a mosque in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun. Gunmen and Israeli troops exchanged fire during the night and part of the mosque's roof collapsed. On Friday morning, Hamas radio put out a call for women and children to come to the mosque - to form a human shield around the gunmen so they could escape. The Israeli Army said Hamas knows that Israeli troops would not shoot at women and children. About 3,000 protestors, most of them women, turned out to protect the gunmen -- and the ploy worked. When soldiers searched the mosque later, it was empty, the army said. This is not the first time that Palestinian gunmen have taken cover in religious buildings to escape Israeli forces. Four years ago, 200 armed Palestinians spent more than a month holed up in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. Israel has long accused Palestinian terrorist organizations of exploiting the civilian population by hiding weapons and launching rockets from within that population -- using women and children as shields, essentially.

Condi's Rancid Fruit

Nidra Poller sent me this article in the Jordan Times concerning the ramifications of Condi's speech at the ATFP gala........"it's a case of one foot washing the other...and the feet belong to centipedes."

US- Key to Solving the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

The words we use and the statements we make define who we are, what we believe. The more accurate our pronouncements are, the closer we are to the truth and to understanding each other. The better the understanding, the more engaged we become when the opportunity avails itself.

In her keynote address to the American Task Force on Palestine in Washington, DC on October 11, 2006, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brought much understanding to the question of Palestine and to the American role in resolving it. She promised her personal commitment to bringing about a Palestinian state because: “I believe there could be no greater legacy to America than to help to bring into being a Palestinian state for a people who have suffered too long, who have been humiliated too long, who have not reached their potential for too long, and who have so much to give to the international community and to all of us.”

Ugh ........... sinking feeling. Read it all........

 Related:
Atlas Shrugs: ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: Nidra Poller on Condi's Conversion
Atlas Shrugs: Will Condi Rice Take the Veil?

 

War in Gaza

Things spiraling out of control quickly in Gaza as predicted. The Pali Arabs have been firing missiles over the border even before disengagement. But recently, it has been relentless. They have no life but to kill Jews.

Heavy Battles in Gaza, Four Kassam Rockets, One Soldier Dead

Givati Infantry Brigade forces, accompanied by tanks, armored vehicles and aerial support, have engaged terrorists in heavy battle in northern Gaza; ten terrorists and one soldier have been killed.

The stepped-up military offensive is part of ongoing efforts to bring an end to daily Kassam rocket attacks from the Beit Hanoun area of northern Gaza towards the western Negev and Sderot areas. Army Radio (Galei Tzahal) reports it is Israel's largest military operation in Gaza since the abduction of Corp. Gilad Shalit more than four months ago.

At least 30 Arabs have been wounded and six killed; Israeli sources report ten dead. Among the dead are terrorists of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and others. The Hamas Authority government convened for an emergency situation, calling upon Israel to stop its "slaughter."

Islamic Jihad invoking the word slaughter. Now that's really rich.  Slaughter - their reason for living and dying.

Gazan terrorists fired four Kassam rockets at Sderot this afternoon (Wednesday), in two separet volleys. Two women were sent to the hospital with shrapnel wounds that were later termed "light," and several people were treated for shock. One rocket caused damage to a factory in the city's industrial zone.

If you are unfamiliar with the constant fire Sderot has been under, go here now. When I was there covering the war this past summer, the mayor of Sderot, Eli Moyal, spoke. Here are his remarks. Download sderot_mayor_moyal.mp3.

Sderot living under constnt rocket fire, some 4,000,  since 2000.

The onslaught of rocket attacks is called Red Dawn. Here Red Dawn breaks this child's heart

The bomb shelter at the school

The school behind bars............

Sderot, a lovely town that has kindergartens with bomb shelters, elementary schools with steel gates, steel fences and according to a study from the Hebrew University, over 80%  Sderotian kids ,an entire generation of children, are suffering post trauma syndrome. Children are afraid to go out, are returning to their parents' beds, unable to concentrate, wetting their beds, using a lot of pills to sleep, to behave……their drawings reflect death, rockets, dead people.

IDF: Hamas Building an Army in Gaza - Joshua Brilliant
The Israeli defense establishment maintains Hamas is building an army in Gaza, partly to fight Israel and partly for a showdown with Fatah. Hamas already has thousands of armed men whose uniforms and conduct demonstrate "elements characteristic of an army," a military source said. The head of the IDF Southern Command, Maj.-Gen. Yoav Gallant, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday that Hamas is building battalion and brigade formations. It smuggles into Gaza two to three tons of explosives a month and is engaged in serial production of weapons. Unless checked, Israel could find itself facing a force "in the scale of a division [10,000 soldiers - similar to the size of Hizballah]."
    A military source said Palestinians have smuggled large quantities of anti-tank missiles, and over the past year hundreds of thousands of guns, mostly through tunnels. Israel "must not let Hamas and (other) terror organizations build a terrorist infrastructure similar to the one Hizballah built in Lebanon," Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Tuesday. (UPI)

Look how the AP (Always Palestinian) reports the story. Bias, what bias? hat tip Clyde

Headline: Israeli Strike Kills 7 Palestinians

Israeli forces backed by tanks killed seven Palestinians including five militants on Wednesday and one soldier was also killed in one of the heaviest Israeli raids into the Gaza Strip in months.

WTF  is "militants"? Murderers. Militants, my ass.

UPDATE: Carl writes of the government of dhimmis here. The people of Israel must act.

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UPDATE: Dodging Death in a Sderot Playground - Josh Brannon

The Kassam rocket just cleared the apartment block before slamming into the Sderot playground, less than 15 meters from the jungle gym. A child was wounded and another four individuals were treated for shock in Tuesday afternoon's rocket attack. "You see how we live? I don't need an alarm clock, because almost every day the Red Dawn (warning system) wakes me up," said Ura Meshayilov, 22. "No one should have to live like this." Robert Pessako, also 22, said, "We are playing by two separate rules. They launch rockets indiscriminately into our neighborhoods, and then we put our own soldiers at risk, sending them in there and telling them not to shoot if they think they may hit a civilian, while the terrorists shoot from behind them."

 

The Coming War in Gaza

Egypt has reinforced its troops on the Israeli border. On Saturday night Cairo reported 5000 soldiers along the Philadelphi corridor. The Egyptians fear a massive bombardment along the corridor in the south of the Gaza Strip where there are tunnels used for arms smuggling. Guysen

The hudna is coming to an end. It is only a matter of how soon. The next war will be in Gaza.

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Jewish Couple Nearly Lynched While Soldiers Stood By

Hundreds Demand Military Action as Kassams Continue to Fall

UPDATE: All signs point to impending Jew killing;

Hamas Has Taken Over Gaza -
Two weeks ago, PA Chairman Abbas' office asked Israel to permit the transfer of the Badr Brigade, an armed Palestine Liberation Organization brigade based in Jordan, to the northern Gaza Strip to bolster Fatah against Hamas in Gaza. Israel turned down a number of Palestinian requests to deploy the brigade in the West Bank during the past two years and it appears the chances that the proposal will be accepted are very slim. Senior military sources said Sunday that "Hamas has already taken over the Gaza Strip in practice. Fatah in the Gaza Strip looks quite pathetic. It is clear which one of the two sides is more powerful here."  (Ha'aretz)   

LIVE DEATH FROM GAZA! It's Hamas TV!

Clifford May, right there in the pantheon of Atlas heros, warns of the dangerous propaganda arsenal that a Hamas TV station would wield.  Cliff posits;

Why is Hamas doing this now? One strong possibility is that Hamas expects soon to be at war -- with Israel, certainly, but also possibly with Fatah, the Palestinian organization it defeated at the polls early this year.

During the recent war in Lebanon, Al Manar proved an effective weapon for Hezbollah. Through its broadcasts -- and with the help of its Saudi and Egyptian satellite providers -- Hezbollah was able to drive its messages to the Arab world, into Europe and beyond.

Clifford D. May: Beware of Hamas' new satellite TV station

Hamas may not have funds to pay the salaries of civil servants and improve social services for Palestinians. But resources to fund its propaganda efforts? That, evidently, is not a problem. This month, the terrorist organization that governs Gaza and the West Bank launched a satellite television station.

The new station will be broadcast by Arabsat, majority-owned by the Saudi government. Arabsat, along with Nilesat, owned by the Egyptian government, already distribute the programming of Al Manar, the television station of Hezbollah.

Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Manar have all been officially designated by the U.S. government as terrorist entities. Meanwhile, the Saudi government runs commercials in the United States claiming to be America's "ally" in the war on terrorism. And the Egyptian government presents itself as our moderate Arab friend -- in exchange for billions of dollars in American aid.

The Hamas television station is called "The Light of Al Aqsa." Thanks to the Saudi government, its broadcasts will be available throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Europe as well. A senior Hamas official, Fathi Hammad, was candid enough to say that its mission would be to challenge "the Western culture that has invaded our territory."

If the model for Al Aqsa is Al Manar, it will feature a steady drumbeat of vilification and dehumanization of Americans, Israelis and Jews. It also will glorify suicide bombing, help recruit terrorists, raise funds for terrorist operations and directly incite terrorism.

Why is Hamas doing this now? One strong possibility is that Hamas expects soon to be at war -- with Israel, certainly, but also possibly with Fatah, the Palestinian organization it defeated at the polls early this year.

Hamas: "We will never recognize Israel"

Condi can you hear me? Snap out of it!

Hamas minister: Move Israel to Europe

GAZA, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The foreign minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine Palestinians will never recognize the state of Israel.

In an interview, Mahmoud al-Zahar acknowledged there were differences within Hamas on the issue of recognizing Israeli sovereignty, "But the big majority supports the resistance" to a two-state solution.

"We will never recognize Israel," Zahar said. "The Zionists have occupied our land like the Nazis did with France during the Second World War. Israel is a foreign element in the Middle East. Why don't the Jews establish their state in Europe?"

Asked by the magazine about Palestinian Prime Minister Nasser al-Shaer's views that an indirect recognition of Israel is possible, Zahar was instantly dismissive.

"That is his personal opinion and not the position of the government," Zahar said.

They don't recognize America either, but the "little Satan" first, then the "middle Satan" (Europe), and then the  "great Satan". Bwahahahahahahahahha.......

Hey Condi! Give 'Em a State!

The barbarians are at it again, doing what they do best - killing. This week- it's each other. Many of my readers write and admonish me for blaming Condi for this dhimmi foreign policy when it is Bush I should be assailing but I beg to differ. Condi is Secretary of State, this is her baby. She advises the President,  this  appeasement and capitualting to terror is pure Condi, IMAO. She has no spine.

Condoleeza Rice’s voice went soft and velvety as she concluded in “I have a dream” mode, invoking the Founding Fathers, her own miraculous rise from segregated Birmingham to the State Department, and her belief “that there could be no greater legacy for America than to help to bring into being a Palestinian state for a people who have suffered too long, who have been humiliated too long, who have not reached their potential for too long, and who have so much to give to the international community and to all of us.”

This just in from the Wall Street Journal;

GAZA "PROTEST" TURNS VIOLENT [quotes mine]

GAZA CITY -- A protest by unpaid Palestinian security personnel erupted into an armed battle with members of Hamas' private militia, killing one person and wounding three others in a new round of political violence, witnesses and hospital officials said Sunday.

The fighting occurred near the Bureij and Nusseirat refugee camps in central Gaza after the security personnel began demonstrating to demand salaries on the eve of a major Muslim holiday. Battered by international sanctions, the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority has been largely unable to pay salaries to government workers since taking office in March.

Hamas militia members tried to quell the protest by the security men, who support the rival Fatah movement, witnesses said. A Hamas member was stabbed and moderately wounded, sparking several hours of gunbattles.

The fighting was continuing throughout the night, with gunmen from the rival sides posted on rooftops.

Let we not forget these are the same barbarians that celebrated on 9/11 as shown in this video of  MSNBC footage shot on 9/11/01 which was only aired on that day....(hat tip LGF)

What the hell is Condi doing?

Talk about the tail wagging the dog. Rice has become a tool for State and worse, a mouthpiece for the Islamism, and arms supplier for the jihad. Bad enough, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice delivered the keynote address at the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP, check out their site  here.) It was more humiliating to see the Secretary of State infer that the presence of Jews in Judea and Samaria is humiliating  and say that Palestinian Arabs deserve a state of their own  here when they have made no secret of the fact that they want all of Israel.
Now this............unfathomable.

Secretary of State Rice Offers To Arm Palestinians

Now it can be confirmed that Rice not only met with and encouraged Fatah, which continues to operate the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade, but she offered to arm the Fatah.
The New York Times reported that the U.S. proposed expanding Abbas' Force 17 from 3,500 men to 6,000 as part of a $26-million plan to strengthen the Palestinian leader , while the Associated Press and Yediot Ahronot, Israel's leading daily newspaper, also reported that new training facilities for Force 17 are slated to be set up in the West Bank town of Jericho and in Gaza, at a cost of $2 million each, according to the U.S. proposal.

Abu Yousuf, an officer in the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade, said in an interview with journalist Aaron Klein, the bureau chief of the on World Net Daily online news service, that the U.S. is planning to transfer weapons and aid to Force 17, which protects Abbas and also serves as a special security force on behalf of the Fatah party, adding that "There is a chance that Israel will attack the Palestinian territories, and in this case, these weapons and others provided (by the U.S. to Force 17) will be directed towards the (Israeli) occupation."

Condi is buying into this? History proves the exact opposite.

Continued Abu Yousuf, "They (Americans) hope that these arms will be used against our brothers in Hamas, but we ask Allah that our brothers are also aware of this issue and will not play into the hands of the Americans and the Israelis.... These weapons will not be used in an internal war but against Israelis," he said. "Force 17 is proud that we were the first to lead the Palestinian people during tough times such as resistance operations. We will also be the first to lead the Palestinians in the current struggle against Israeli occupation."

Senior Palestinian officials also told Klein that "The U.S. is planning to transfer ammunition and new assault rifles to Force 17 within days and has pledged to procure about $28 million in aid to Abbas," saying that "the U.S. would help train Force 17 members in the operation of the new weapons and in advanced combat techniques in facilities already in use in Jericho."

Together with the Islamic Jihad terror group, the Al Aksa Brigades also took responsibility suicide bombings inside Israel the past two years, including an attack in Tel Aviv in April that killed American teenager Daniel Wultz and nine Israeli citizens.

Condi may think that in appeasing the Palis she is buying a troubled  peace and mollifying the jihadis, she is dead wrong. Salman Rushdie said here today, "“if tomorrow the Israel/Palestine issue was resolved to the total happiness of all parties, it would not diminish the amount of terrorism coming out of al-Qa’ida by one jot. It’s not what they’re after”

Arabs Fake Terror Attacks to Earn Diplomas in Israel Jails

This is pathetic. Is the irony lost on anyone out there?

Arabs Faking Attacks to Earn Matriculation Diplomas  

(IsraelNN.com) Arab residents of Judea and Samaria are faking terror attacks, carrying knives or other weapons at IDF checkpoints in the hope of getting arrested.

Doing so permits them an opportunity to spend time in an Israeli jail, where they can quietly study for a high school matriculation diploma, at no cost.

According to a report filed by correspondent Haggai Huberman, sitting in jail a number of weeks or months is a small price to pay considering the gain and the prestige of becoming a "freed terrorist".

"Raise Your Son to be a Terrorist"

I put Frank Sinatra on for two seconds yesterday and the NORKS drop a nuke, Iran blames Bush, hellzapoppin in Eurabia and Hamas vows never to recognize Israel (well no surprise there.)
Over at MEMRI,  How to Raise Your Son to Be a Terrorist

On Sunday, October 8, 2006, an Islamic website posted a series of images produced by the Izz al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, titled "How to make his [sic] son terrorist." [1]

The images show various methods which are supposedly effective in imbuing children with terrorist aspirations. The first image is a montage showing an infant in the center, with a picture of Osama bin Laden on the right, and the image of Yahya Ayyash, the legendary Hamas explosives engineer, on the left. The infant is wearing a green Kata'ib Al-Qassam (Al-Qassam Brigades) ribbon on his forehead. Below that is a picture of three horsemen and a caption saying "The horses' backs were our cradles, and on them we followed our ancestors [in Jihad]."

Two other pictures (see below) show an infant placed in front of a computer screen displaying scenes of jihad

Condi Taking Tea with Terror Chief

In any compromise between good and evil, evil profits. What a bad message the West sends when it meets with murderers and terrorists.

Secretary Rice is going to meet with a terror chief responsible for suicide attacks and the death and injury of hundreds, including US citizens.  Naomi Ragen suggests we forward the following press release to our congressmen, and to local newspapers. It's a disgrace.

"Instead of meeting with a-Sheikh in the American consulate", stated attorney Darshan-Leitner, "Condoleezza Rice should be making arrangements to indict al-Sheikh for the wounding of innocent American civilians. The State Department's tireless efforts to find "moderate" Palestinians for a dialogue, leads its officials to shake the bloody hands of ruthless terrorists, involved in attacks against Americans and Israelis".

Shurat HaDin alleges that Secretary of State is scheduled to meet  Fatah Tanzim chief  al-Sheikh who financed Jerusalem attacks which seriously injured American nationals.

Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center is protesting today's meeting between the American Secretary of State and a Palestinian terrorist leader, Hussein al-Sheikh, who  was responsible for organizing and financing several Jerusalem suicide bombings. The terror attacks killed several Israelis and injured hundreds of others including numerous American citizens. Secretary Rice is due to meet the Fatah Tanzim leader at the American Consulate in East Jerusalem today as part of her week-long visit of  Middle Eastern states.

Shurat HaDin has written to the Israeli police demanding that they arrest al-Sheihk if he enters Jerusalem to attend the meeting. The letter notes that  information detailing al-Sheihk's involvement in the terror attack came from the confessions of other Fatah Tanzim terrorists who were convicted of carrying out the bombings and shootings. In once instance,  the letter states that the involvement of al-Sheihk in a deadly Jerusalem suicide bombing in March 2002 which killed three Israelis and injured more than 85 others was included in a military court indictment for which several terrorists have been convicted.   

According to the indictment, on March 20, 2002 two members of  Fatah Tanzim meet with al-Sheikh at this office in Ramallah and received hand-grenades and cash to carry out an attack. The pair rented a car and bought clothes for the suicide bomber to wear. The next day, March 21st, the pair drove the bomber to a checkpoint where he switched cars and proceeded to down town Jerusalem. At 4:20 pm the suicide bomber blew himself on King George Street killing 3 Israelis.  Shortly thereafter, the pair returned again to al-Sheikh who assisted them in preparing a press-release in which Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

Two of those seriously injured in the al-Sheihk financed attack where American citizens, Dr. Alan Bauer and his young son Jonathan. They were walking nearby the terrorist on King George Street when the bomb exploded.

The military court indictment states that:  "On that day (on which the terror attack occurred) the defendant (Karim Rateb Yunes Awis), together with Nasser Shawish and Mohammad Khsheika (the suicide bomber), met with Hussein al-Sheikh, the secretary-general of Fatah in the area, in his office. al-Sheikh supplied the defendant with money and a couple of hand-grenades for the purpose of carrying out the attack.

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Palestinian Sunday Bloody Sunday

Twelve Palestinians Killed in Fatah-Hamas Clashes, Fatah Gunmen Threaten to Kill Hamas Leaders - Nidal al-Mughrabi
Fatah gunmen threatened on Tuesday to kill leaders of the governing Hamas group after twelve Palestinians were killed and more than 100 wounded in two days of fighting between Fatah and Hamas. (Reuters)

Hamas has lost the war for Palestinian public opinion, so where will they go from here? It seems fairly obvious given their history. They must provoke Israel, make war (see Lebanon). If  Hamas can redirect the civil unrest towards a common "enemy" (the Joooooooos)and away from the abject failure of their foreign policy, the bloody clashes that took place between supporters of Hamas and Fatah in Gaza on Sunday might not lead to the  civil war that has been looming for months.

HAMAS WEIGHING LARGE SCALE CONFLICT WITH ISRAEL

Hamas has succeeded in smuggling "hundreds of tons" of weapons from Egypt into the Gaza Strip and is preparing for the possibility of launching a large-scale conflict with Israel, according to a report by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party.

The report, drafted by Fatah's General Security Services and obtained by WND, stated Hamas has smuggled from the Egyptian Sinai desert between several hundred and 1,300 tons of advanced rockets; anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles; rocket propelled grenades; raw explosives; rifles; ammunition; and other heavy weaponry. Hat tip Geoff

Pali Arabs Violent [Now Fatal] Wilding Give 'em a State!

They are going berserk. Fatah party "militants" (aka animals) ransack the Palestinian cabinet building setting it on fire as we speak. The jihad media speaks little of it, if at all. Waiting for them to blame the Jooooooooooooooos.

The barbarians have been going wild for days. Charles notes;

Notice how AFP uses the passive voice for their headline on this story of Palestinian-on-Palestinian violence: Five Palestinians wounded by grenade at Gaza demo.

Very little coverage in the mainstream jihad enabling media.

Photo: A Palestinian Fatah militiaman gestures as he stands guard near temporary road blocks during a protest against the Hamas government in the West Bank city of Nablus October 1, 2006. Rival Palestinian security forces clashed across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing six and injuring 50 others, in the biggest outbreak of internal fighting in months over unpaid wages and stalled unity government talks. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK)

UPDATE: GAZA ERUPTS.  FOUR DEAD, 70 INJURED

More Than 70 Injured in Gaza Strip Demonstrations

Washington Post JERUSALEM, Oct. 1 -- The Palestinian security service controlled by Hamas moved forcefully in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to disperse demonstrators loyal to the rival Fatah movement who were demanding months of back pay from a nearly bankrupt government. At least four civilians were killed, including..

David Aaronovitch:British Socialists Support Islamofascists

Harry's place does us a great service by running this video;

David Aaronovitch: No Excuses For Terror. Who is really responsible for the suicide bombers that target us? Is it the fault of George Bush or Tony Blair? Are we all somehow to blame? David Aaronovitch, journalist and commentator, has had enough of this argument. He asks how we've got to the point where British Socialists support Islamofascist Terrorism. Aaronovitch explains where the left have gone wrong on Israel, Palestine, the War in Iraq and the War on Terror

This is part one of four. You can view the additional parts by clicking on this on this page.

Islamic Chief: Jerusalem Will Be Caliphate Capital

The Islamic world is consistent in its message. They are very clear unlike us.

Islamic Movement head: Jerusalem destined capital of caliphate

Israeli Arab Muslim cleric Sheik Ra'ad Salah declared that Jerusalem will soon become the capital of an Islamic nation at a rally in the northern town of Umm al-Fahm, Israel Radio reported on Friday.

The leader of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement Salah, told a crowd of 50,000 gatherers that Israel's occupation of the Temple Mount was nearing its end.

Salah also responded to Pope Benedict XVI's remarks on Mohammed, saying he hoped they were an accidental slip of tongue.

That or they'll slit his tongue eh?

On the issue of abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, Salah urged Hamas not to agree to a prisoner exchange with the Israeli government which will not include the release of jailed Israeli Arabs.

Earth to Israel. Snap out of it! Abu Dana must go.

Al Durah: The Dreyfus Affaire Redux

Rich the editor of Augean Stables flew out of New York last night (we rendezvoused at the dinner at the  Hudson Institute last night). He is winging it to France to testify in the lawsuit  against three innocent truth tellers in the Al Durah affair, the most shameful of all stains.

The French don't change. Spineless, Jew hating demagogues. Exposing the staging of Al Durah will have its day in court. The staged media event that kicked off the second intifada. So much blood on French hands.

France2, Charles Enderlin and Arlette Chabot (head of France2) are suing private individuals like me (not journalists) who used their websites to criticize France2.

This trial will be the moment of truth in the blood libel against Israel. It will expose French media for the jihad tool that it is.

The third trial, and the very first to reach the court  concerns an article written by Philippe Karsenty at his Media watchdog site, Media Ratings, in which he argues explicitly that the al Durah footage was staged.

I met Phillipe, one of the journalists being sued, a couple of years ago in DC. He was earnest and relentless in his pursuit of the truth. He showed me frame by frame the impossibility of the French claim of Israeli culpability in the death of the boy and/or the father.

Al Durah aka Pallywood became the template for Pali/Arab media stagings shown to best effect during the Israeli/Islamic war this past summer (Qanar, staged photos etc.)

Rich over at Augean Stables has been tireless in exposing the lies in this terrible lie and his posts chronicle the whole sordid affair. Here is his guide to recent Al Durah posts.

For those coming here to get background on the Al Durah Affair and the upcoming trials, I offer a quick survey of the material I’ve posted:

The full dossier on both Pallywood and Al Durah can be found at The Second Draft.

For those who have yet to see either of the two “video essays” we’ve done on Pallywood and Al Durah: The Making of an Icon, go to Pallywood and Al Durah Up at YouTube for the easiest links. There is a French version of Pallywood, and of Al Durah: The Making of an Icon, and a Spanish version of Pallywood.

For a general introduction to the upcoming trials and the larger stakes involved, see The Al Durah Trials: Portrait of French Culture at the Beginning of the 21st Century.

For a discussion of the raw footage shot by Talal abu Rahmeh, the France2 cameraman who alone caught the “Al Durah footage,” see Al Durah Affair I: France2 Rushes by Talal Abu Rahmeh. It was viewing these rushes that inspired the term Pallywood.

For a discussion of some of the evidence surrounding the most curious thing about footage depicting a child killed by a bullet to the stomach who bled for twenty minutes in front of the cameraman — the absence of blood — see Blood? We’ve Got Some.

For a discussion of the remarkable resistance to even imagining, much less accepting the “staged” hypothesis, see Al Durah as Staged: The Resistance.

For a discussion of the “five scenarios” and James Fallows current position on the matter, see Fallows on al Durah: What is your Position?

For a long meditation (response to Zombietime) on what’s wrong with the media that such cheap fakes get by so consistently, see Meditations on Reutersgate: What’s Going on in the MSM?.

For a discussion of the toxic effect of al Durah on French (and by extension, European) society in the early 21st century (including the advent of the Arab/Muslim “street” in Europe, see: On the hidden costs of Media Error: Muhamed al Durah and the French Intifada, and now en français au site d’Alain Jean-Mairet: Les coûts cachés des erreurs des médias: Mohammed al Dura et l’intifada française.

More to come. For those who want to read farther, go to the Introductory Essays section at the Second Draft or the exhaustive linked bibliography at Menahem Macina’s Debriefing.org.

UPDATE: Score one for the good guys. Richard Landes over in France testifying at the Al Durah trials writes;

Great day! The decision of the judges is oct 19, but the procureur (an impartial court advisor) came down entirely on philip's side and recommended dropping charges.  Wonderful.

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ARAB AND IRAN REACTION TO 9/11 - 5 YEARS LATER

hat tip MEMRI

US FUNDING HEZB'ALLAH

Altogether now, HURL!  If Americans come to understand that their taxdollars are going to fund the very people calling for their destruction, blood lusting to behead them they will VOTE FOR PEOPLE THAT UNDERSTAND THE ENEMY AND ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO ACT. VOTE RICK SANTORUM.

From the IRIS blog,

On August 23, IRIS was probably the first blog to report that the majority of the $230 million US "reconstruction aid" for Lebanon would fund Hezbollah. Ten days later, the first mainstream newspaper has menitoned this possibility. Of course, it is one of a tiny number of non-liberal news sources, so don't expect any trend toward the restoration of sanity:

U.S. Aid to Hezbollah?

While there is much to be said for the concept of U.S. assistance to rebuild war-torn Lebanon, U.S. efforts to do so are bumping up against an unpleasant reality: It is extremely difficult to ensure that U.S. and international

GUYSEN news reports;

According to the Kuwaiti newspaper ''Al Rai al Aam'' citing high level Arab sources, the authorities in Damascus have concocted a project to bring down the Lebanese government of Fouad Siniora. It is supposed to be implemented by Hizbollah and general Michel Aoun's men. It's "final purpose is to include Lebanon in the Iranian-Syrian axis".  

NIDRA POLLER: BAKED ON THE PREMISES -- The better to eat you with my dear! EXCLUSIVE!

This is undeniably Nidra's best BAKED ON THE PREMISES column yet for Atlas. Blunt, sharp, brilliant, fearless.

Nidra serves up some diplomatic dish, white -hot (scalding in fact)  on French Duplomacy and being taken for a terrible ride..............in the guise of a grim fairy tale.

BAKED ON THE PREMISES -- The better to eat you with my dear!
Paris 5 September
Nidra Poller

Where are you going, little Red Riding Hood, with that basket full of yummy resolutions?

I’m going to visit my grandmother in that rough neighborhood the other side of the woods.

And is she ill, your grandmother, like her counterparts in the usual fairy tales?

No, she’s been attacked by Hizbullah, she’s fighting them off bravely, and I’m going just to give her moral support.  My grandma’s strong, you know.  She’ll finish them off in another week or two…

Hmmm Hmmm, of course, that grandmother!  Yes, I know, she has a reputation in the ‘hood.  You don’t mind if I go along with you.  I’ve always admired your grandmother’s disproportionate spunk.

Sure, come along.  The more the merrier.

Well, you know how it went.  Halfway through the woods le loup met some shady buddies, slipped out on Ms. Riding Hood, got to the grandmother’s pad ahead of her, jumped into bed with the sprightly old lady, and greeted Ridi with an oily smile.  Before she knew what hit her, she was in bed with le loup aussi.  Une ménage à trois.  All to the wolf’s advantage.

Two weeks later, the wolf’s battalions were landing on the shores of southern Lebanon.  The better to eat you with my dear.

Come to think of it, these much-publicized (at least in France) beach landings of European troops are a farcical replay of the famed D-Day landing that saved their hides over sixty years ago.  GIs sped to shore under a hail of fire, the sea vomited up their young red blood, casualties in numbers that would so terribly displease the NY Times taken, let us not forget, under a Democratic president. That was then and this is now.  First there were the French Foreign Legionnaires, one       hundred count them one hundred, and now gli Italiani, upping the ante with hundreds of Special Forces, soon to be followed by thousands of combat ready troops.  These Europeans land like Jean-Paul Gauthier models, coquettishly adjust their brand new pale blue berets, and swagger over to the nearest TV camera to declare their pleasure, truly great pleasure, at being here to help…the Lebanese.  The whole Lebanese, all the Lebanese, nothing but the Lebanese…we might add.  Including the “résistance.”  And you know how Europeans just love the résistance.   French TV gets the greatest man-in-the-ruins comments.  I don’t know if the anchor gals and guys have to sift through the rubble, cherry pick, or just look over their shoulders at the Hizbully observing from a close distance, but those anchors never fail to get the comment that would make Douste-Blazy’s little ears flutter with joy. 

The Italian soldiers were greeted with rapture.  As D-B’s local groupie expressed it: we are very happy to have these troops here to protect us from Israel. Grazie mille.

What explains this sudden European military enthusiasm?  You might know that my WSJE article “Seduce & Betray” (with the pull up quote, “France doesn’t have second thoughts.  Paris never planned to send a robust U.N. force.”) hit the newsstands on the morning of August 24th, and that very evening Jacques Chirac made a solemn declaration to his chères compatriotes, chers compatriots.  He didn’t mention me by name, he certainly didn’t acknowledge any of the other mocking articles published internationally that week, he simply declared what everyone should have known: la France never shirks her responsibilities, la France never intended to limit her contribution to 200 fresh UNIFIL troops, la France was just consulting with all and sundry to obtain the perfectly normal guarantees that every reasonable country demands before deploying its hard-earned troops.  I can think of some riot policemen who would like to have the same conditions next time they’re sent out to quell an outburst of “youthful enthusiasm” complete with paving stones aimed at their heads.

So, take your choice.  France never had the intention of shirking her responsibilities, and all of us carping critics have egg on our face, or France got shamed into sending troops by the combined effect of international mockery and Italian machismo.  I opt for the latter.  And I hope I’m not doing this just to save my face.

The situation is worse than it seems.  We stood at the crossroads where jihad intersects Western civilization, and our leaders fiddled while the wolves burned with exterminationist passion.  They fiddled, they diddled, they twisted their curls around their fingers, admired themselves in mirrors, munched on bonbons, looked at upside down maps, read memos in foreign tongues, dozed off in the middle of negotiations…  The French intertwined with a so-called Lebanese government that was shot through with Hizbullah bunkers leading from the president’s palace to Bint Jbeil via Nasrallah’s hole.  The Americans let the French lead them down the daisy path.  The Israelis danced a new version of the hora mixed with Ring around the Rosy, where you kick your neighbor and then kick yourself in the teeth, go around in circles, bow your head, lift your head, duck and turn and all fall down.

Our G-d bless American leadership went into a daze at the UN.  Don’t they know that the French government is like the PA?  You can’t swallow their international declarations without a big glass of the strong red wine they serve for domestic consumption.  Patriotic ex-pat that I am, I tried to warn our guys but no one was listening.  There wasn’t one good poker player on our team, no one ever called the Frenchie’s bluff.  And did they bluff! It started out as a twosome, right?  You are so byootiful, let’s snuggle.  Then suddenly two’s a bore.  I got this buddy from Lebanon, he’s got a yacht, you’ll see, it’ll be much more fun as a threesome.  Then it turned out the buddy didn’t really own the yacht, it belongs to a rich guy named Nasrallah, it would be awkward to tell him he can’t come on board, so what if he rubs your knee under the table, you’re not a prude are you?

And that’s how we end up with thousands of European soldiers prancing around in southern Lebanon, while their respective MFAs are rubbing their hands with delight.  We did it!  We pushed the Israelis out of Lebanon and the Americans out of the ME, without firing a single shot.
So clever!  When the negotiations stalled, the French upped the ante, throwing in thousands of troops like they were so many pennies.  The lady still had doubts?  What about disarming Hizbullah, isn’t that why we’re here resolving things? Mais, il n’y a pas de problème ma chèrie.  Mon copain Siniora just phoned to tell me that he would be simply delighted to send 15 thousands Lebanese troops.  Hmmm.  Yes, well OK.  So let’s talk about those Sheba’a Farms.  Another snag?  Are you sure the Lebanese soldiers are a match for Hizbullah?  We are expected to do something in that department, you know.  We sort of promised the Israelis…  Pas de problème, ma cocotte.  I’ll send five thousand of my own magnificent boys (en anglais dans le texte).  Oh really?  Well that is generous.  OK, then we were saying release five thousand Lebanese prisoners held in Israeli jails…

No sooner did they get their cessation of hostilities--like a fast talking wolf gets a chick into bed--than they started jilting. Ouh la la you expect us to send our soldiers into a war zone?  Someone might get hurt!  Next weekend?  I’d really love to ma petite chérie but I may have to spend the weekend with a very important client (ha ha, a buxom blonde you’d die of jealousy if you saw her).  Jacques had to check with his generals, Jacques had to get some clarifications from the very UN within which his own negotiators framed the US and the resolution in one single blow, Jacques had to check with his sheiks and imams and Mad Hatter president-buddies, and when all the checking was done, three thousand troops boiled down to two hundred.
The media over here in France applauded the decision with undisguised pride.  Jacques was right, and the other, that is the minor European pipsqueaks were following his lead.  Send troops to Lebanon?  Get bogged down?  Put our brave soldiers in harm’s way.  Take the risk of being seen as allies of Israel and the United States?  As enemies of Hizbullah?  As allies of the West against the Muslims?  No way!

The problem with the Europeans is they speak so many different languages.  Each one thinks his language is the best.  So the French voice of Europe was still singing that tune, two hundred soldiers to rebuild roads and bridges is more than enough, when the operatic Italian voice of Europe suddenly boomed in a resounding baritone Andiamo!  Andiamo ragazzi and while we’re at it, we’ll be the commander in chief too.  In case you forgot, Italy beat France and won the 2006 World Cup (soccer) this summer.  The final match ended not with a whimper but with a headbutt from France’s most beloved hero, Zinédine Zidane.  And now the pastasciutti think they can command the beefed up UNIFIL force?

And the New York Times was chuckling, the clowns were recycling those old French surrender jokes, and Italian generals were preparing some new profanity in the milk of your mother insults for the 90 pound weakling French contingent?  Ah non, ça non, le president de la République counted his troops and discovered he had more than a thousand to spare.  Furthermore, he let it be known that the existing, unbeefed UN force is under French command until February 2007 and after that we’ll see.  Oui mais do you know the name of the FRENCH general in question?
Pellegrini!!!!   Ho ho ho if you weren’t a brave UN soldier you could die laughing.  The French general’s name is Pellegrini!

More.........

UN NOT INVESTIGATING THE SAVAGES

 

 

Listen to the last line of this FOX broadcast.

Talk about the MONEY QUOTE.

PALI ARABS TO SLAUGHTER NON-MUSLIMS

The American people are being led like sheep to slaughter. WTF is with the goddamn silence from the media on this story?  They've jumped the shark and went from dhimmitude to surrender. It is not enough tat the blogs and Islamic scholars are all over this, the media must not be silent.  Andrew Bostom sent this to me;

"Nothing but Islam gave their blood sanctity and prevented their slaughter," the group said. It added, "We are not the sort of people who are fooled ... but only God knows intentions." Before their release, a video was released in which Wiig delivered an anti-Western speech, his face expressionless and his tone halting.

Palestinian group to target non-Muslims

Palestinian militants who held two Fox News journalists hostage for nearly two weeks threatened in a statement posted online Saturday to abduct non-Muslims visiting the Palestinian territories and kill them unless their demands were met.

The statement, posted in the name of the Holy Jihad Brigades on a Web site frequently used by militants, said the group would kill any hostages it takes unless they converted to Islam, paid a ransom or Muslim prisoners were exchanged for their release.

"Any infidel blood will have no sanctity," the group said in the statement.

It was not possible to verify the authenticity of the statement, which was dated August 27 — the day militants released American journalist Steve Centanni, 60, and New Zealand cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36. They were seized Aug. 14 in Gaza City.

The militant group had demanded the release of Muslim prisoners held by the United States in exchange for freeing the journalists.

During their captivity, the journalists were forced at gunpoint to declare that they had converted to Islam, Centanni told Fox News after he was released. The group said in its statement that the journalists' declaration saved their lives.

"Nothing but Islam gave their blood sanctity and prevented their slaughter," the group said.

It added, "We are not the sort of people who are fooled ... but only God knows intentions."

Before their release, a video was released in which Wiig delivered an anti-Western speech, his face expressionless and his tone halting.

Palestinian security officials said the name of the group was a front for local militants. They said they had tracked down the kidnappers — whom they would not identify — through third parties, but did not say whether the journalists' were freed under a deal.

Several Muslim clerics have issued edicts in the past stating that a visa issued by an Islamic country to a non-Muslim person carries an implicit guarantee of the holder's safety.

One of the most recent fatwas, issued in August by an Egyptian cleric, asserted that the guarantee applies to visiting Israelis in spite of popular anger over Israeli military action in Gaza and Lebanon.

Gilad Shalit Trade: Seems Fair to me

It has been reported that the Hamas kidnappers of Corp. Gilad Shalit demand 1,000 Arab terrorist prisoners - including some involved in murdering Israelis - in return for his freedom. The offer has been submitted to the Israeli government...More here

Sounds about right......dont'cha think?

ASSESSMENTS: FACT VS. FICTION

MEMRI: ARAB ASSESSMENTS OF THE WAR IN LEBANON

CAROLINE GLICK: JEWISH ASSESSMENTS OF THE WAR IN LEBANON

Rockets Burst Into Sderot, Negev, Again

The savages could not keep still. The rain of rockets has begun again. In Sderot and Negev.  I was in Sderot during the war a couple of weeks ago. A cultural enclave, this bucolic hamlet has suffered 3,500 rocket attacks in six years.

According to a study from the Hebrew University over 80% Sderotian kids are suffering entire generation of children suffering in post trauma syndrome. Children are afraid to go out, return to the parents beds, unable to concentration, wetting their beds, losing a lot of pills to sleep, to behave……their drawings reflect death, rockets, dead people.

BURST OF KASSAMS AT SDEROT AND NEGEV

A wave of Kassam rockets was fired at Sderot and environs this morning (Thursday), causing a fire and sending two people into shock.

After two weeks of nearly complete Kassam quiet, and over a month of relative quiet, the Red Dawn early-warning system alarm sounded throughout the city of Sderot and nearby areas this morning. Three rockets smashed into the city streets shortly after 8 AM, damaging several buildings. One Kassam landed not far from a school in Kibbutz Shaar HaNegev.

It had been reported earlier today that Hamas Authority Chairman Ismail Haniye had ordered an end to all Kassam rockets against Israel. So said leading Palestinian Authority figure Jibril Rajoub.

Kassams were fired on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week as well, landing in open areas.

Outside of the office of the Mayor Os sderot, Ellie Moyal is a display, a memorial to the citizens of Sederot who have been killed by Palestinian rockets.

 

 

While I was in Sderot, I saw the psychological effects this rain of rockets had on the children of Sderot here.

The onslaught of rocket attacks is called Red Dawn. Here Red Dawn breaks this child's heart

The bomb shelter at the school

 

Hezb'Allah's Hitler Youth

Egyptian Weekly on Hizbullah's Armed Children's Militias: Over 2,000 Children Aged 10-15 Serving  from MEMRI

In its August 18, 2006 edition, the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Yusuf featured an investigative article by Mirfat Al-Hakim titled "Hizbullah's Children's Militias." The article reveals that Hizbullah has recruited over 2,000 children aged 10-15 to serve in armed militias, and that the Hizbullah-affiliated Mahdi Scouts youth organization is training them to become martyrs.

The following are excerpts from the article:

Hizbullah Recruits Children Barely 10 Years Old

According to Roz Al-Yusuf, "Hizbullah has recruited over 2,000 innocent children aged 10-15 to form armed militias. Before the recent war with Israel, these children appeared only in the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations, and were referred to as the 'December 14 Units,' but today they are called istishhadiyun ['martyrs']...

"Hizbullah has customarily recruited youths and children and trained them to fight from a very early age. These are children barely 10 years old, who wear camouflage uniforms, cover their faces with black [camouflage] paint, swear to wage jihad, and join the Mahdi Scouts [youth organization]...

"The children are selected by Hizbullah recruitment [officers] based on one criterion only: They must be willing to become martyrs."       

The Children Train to Become Martyrs

"The children are educated from an early age to become martyrs in their youth, like their fathers, and their training is carried out by the Mahdi Scouts youth organization... [This organization], which is affiliated with Hizbullah, teaches the children the basic principles of Shi'ite ideology and of Hizbullah's ideology... The first lesson that the children are taught by Hizbullah is 'The Disappearance of Israel,' and it is always an important part of the [training] program...

BISHOP ATTACKS CHRISTIANS

I will never understand this. Here a Bishop attacks Christians who love Israel. Speaking not for (and clearly not that dhimmi Bishop who is inches away from decapitation, allah akbar), I FREAKING LOVE THOSE CHRISTIANS;

The Bishop in Jerusalem, Riah Abu Al-Assal has joined other Arab Christian leaders in releasing a statement denouncing “Christian Zionism” and the “contemporary alliance of Christian Zionist leaders and organizations” with Israel. “Christian Zionism” has justified “colonization, apartheid and empire-building” by Israel, Bishop Riah, wrote on August 22.

Bishop Riah’s concerns were highlighted in an August 23 report by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which found that approximately 42 percent of Americans believe “Israel was given to the Jewish people by God,” while a third of Americans (35%) stated they believed the state of Israel was “part of the fulfillment of biblical prophecy about the second coming of Jesus.”

“Beliefs about the Bible are closely related to views about the state of Israel,” Pew found. “Large majorities of those who view the Bible as the literal word of God say that Israel was given by God to the Jews and that Israel is the fulfillment of prophecy (70% and 62%, respectively). These figures are much lower among those who do not believe the Bible is the actual word of God.”

Support for Israel was highest in the American South, where 56% believed the land of Israel was given to the Jews by God, while 45% say the state of Israel fulfilled biblical prophecy, while the comparable figures for the Northeast were 24% and 22%.  The Church of England Newspaper

RELATED: ARAB CHRISTIANS VILIFY ISRAEL

 

Not one Word-Sanitizing Islamic Jihad

Did anyone else sit through that bullshit hour of Greta Van Sustern? OMG, one full hour of Centanni and Wiigs without mentioning the 800lb savage in the room - Islamic Jihad.

These men were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint - a good deed according to the Quran - and not one word of it mentioned? What were they thinking then? Are they Muslims now?

Not one bloody word on the subject. That was a classic moment in American dhimmitude.

Bostom: ”Forced conversions in Islamic history are not exceptional—they have been the norm, across three continents—Asia, Africa, and Europe—for over 13 centuries.

What should be gleaned from this harrowing Gazan spectacle of non-Muslim journalists being kidnapped, imprisoned for nearly two weeks, and coerced at gunpoint into converting to Islam, while condemning their own societies? We must avoid indulging fantasies (such as those already expressed by the kidnapped Fox reporters upon their release) triggered by understandable Stockholm Syndrome reactions, or learned, fearful dhimmitude. Unsettling realities of the historical continuum of forced conversion to Islam must be discussed. The living Islamic fanaticism of the past cannot be allowed to poison the present (and future), unchallenged by Muslims themselves.

But it wasn't discussed. Nothing of import was discussed. Complete Sanitization. The ugliness of the track suits provided them was discussed. Yes, the unattractiveness of their garb. Some of the pain inflicted, some of the head shoved in the sand .................. but it was like old home week at FOX. Like some long lost episode of the Brady Bunch (more like the Poseidon Adventure.)

RoPMA

The Forced Conversion Video. And the world stands silent. And one can expect they will remain silent. Expect these kidnappings and other threats to further intimidate the media  and influence their coverage concerning Islam. Here are Andrew Bostom's thoughts in Front Page mag, read it;

Within moments of making these effusively conciliatory statements—despite having been held captive and forcibly converted to Islam—the freed kidnapping victims were whisked off to Israel. Notwithstanding their pious ecumenical pronouncements, Centanni and the Wiigs failed to linger and socialize with the “very beautiful and kind hearted” local Muslim residents of Gaza, even those Gazan women who had shown them such “solidarity.”Forced conversions in Islamic history are not exceptional—they have been the norm, across three continents—Asia, Africa, and Europe—for over 13 centuries. Orders for conversion were decreed under all the early Islamic dynasties—Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, and Mamluks. Additional extensive examples of forced conversion were recorded under both Seljuk and Ottoman Turkish rule (the latter until its collapse in the 20^th century), the Shi’ite Safavid and Qajar dynasties of Persia/Iran, and during the jihad ravages on the Indian subcontinent, beginning with the early 11^th century campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazni, and recurring under the Delhi Sultanate, and Moghul dynasty until the collapse of Muslim suzerainty in the 18^th century following the British conquest of India.

Moreover, during jihad—even the jihad campaigns of the 20^th century [i.e., the jihad genocide of the Armenians during World War I, the Moplah jihad in Southern India [1921], the jihad against the Assyrians of Iraq [early 1930s], the jihads against the Chinese of Indonesia and the Christian Ibo of southern Nigeria in the 1960s, and the jihad against the Christians and Animists of the southern Sudan from 1983 to 2001], the (dubious) concept of “no compulsion” (Koran 2:256; which was cited with tragic irony during the Fox reporters “confessional”!), has always been meaningless. A consistent practice was to enslave populations taken from outside the boundaries of the “Dar al Islam”, where Islamic rule (and Law) prevailed. Inevitably fresh non-Muslim slaves, including children, were Islamized within a generation, their ethnic and linguistic origins erased. Two enduring and important mechanisms for this conversion were concubinage and the slave militias—practices still evident in the contemporary jihad waged by the Arab Muslim Khartoum government against the southern Sudanese Christians and Animists. And Julia Duin reported in early 2002 that murderous jihad terror campaigns—including, prominently, forced conversions to Islam>—continued to be waged against the Christians of Indonesia’s MoluccanIslands

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"Please President Bush and please Tony Blair. open your minds to Islam and bring peace to all people around the world."Steve Centenni conversion video.

Malkin has it all. Caroline Glick gives the story no one will touch;

Sunday afternoon released hostages and Fox News journalists Steven Centanni and Olaf Wiig spoke before the cameras. The fact of their release and their statements were reported by more than 1,000 news organizations throughout the world.

At the press conference, Centanni and Wiig, who were forced by their Palestinian captors to convert to Islam, praised the Palestinians. Centanni said, "I just hope this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover this story because the Palestinian people are a very beautiful, kind-hearted and caring people that the world need[s] to know more about." Wiig similarly praised the Palestinians.

While their remarks were covered extensively, no one seemed to think that the fact that their first post-release statements were made at a Palestinian Authority sponsored media extravaganza in Gaza was significant. No one noted that the men were flanked by Palestinian "security forces," and stood next to Hamas terrorist leader and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.

No mention was made of the fact that the two were initially kidnapped by just such PA "security officials," or that Haniyeh is one of the leaders of one of the most fanatical jihadist organizations in the world, an organization that the majority of the "beautiful, kind-hearted and caring" Palestinians voted into office last January.

That is, no mention was made of the fact that until the two men left Gaza, they remained unfree. No one asked whether they had been given the option of not giving a press conference in Gaza. And now that they have spoken, there can be little doubt that a second press conference by the two men, in Israel or the US where no one will force them to convert to Judaism or Christianity or threaten to kill them, will draw far less media interest. After their press conference, the two men became yesterday's news.

If  Pali leadership could manage to free these journalists, why no the kidnapped soldier? Why didn't that happen?

More from Bostom;

Given this enduring (and ignoble) historical legacy, it remains to be seen whether contemporary Muslim religious authorities—particularly those within Palestinian society, and affiliated with Hamas or Fatah—will condemn publicly the forced conversions of the kidnapped Fox reporters. Moreover, will they be joined by a chorus of authoritative voices representing the entire Muslim clerical hierarchy—Sunni and Shi’ite alike—from Mecca and Cairo, Qom and Najaf, to the Muslim advocacy groups in the West (such as CAIR in the United States, and the Muslim Council of Britain in England)—unanimous in their condemnation of this hideous practice, and formalized by a fatwa stating as much? Will such Muslim authorities at least recognize the acute predicament of Centanni and Wiig by issuing a fatwa stating that their “conversion”, being under duress, was not bona fide, condemning in advance any Muslim who might now attack these journalists for “apostasy” from Islam?

What should be gleaned from this harrowing Gazan spectacle of non-Muslim journalists being kidnapped, imprisoned for nearly two weeks, and coerced at gunpoint into converting to Islam, while condemning their own societies? We must avoid indulging fantasies (such as those already expressed by the kidnapped Fox reporters upon their release) triggered by understandable Stockholm Syndrome reactions, or learned, fearful dhimmitude. Unsettling realities of the historical continuum of forced conversion to Islam must be discussed. The living Islamic fanaticism of the past cannot be allowed to poison the present (and future), unchallenged by Muslims themselves.

Kofi Grovels to Serve the Islamic Jihad Booed, Heckled Anyway

In an extraordinary show of complete moral bankruptcy and moral equivalence, dhimmi Kofi Annan tied the freeing of kidnapped soldiers to releasing terrorists held by Israel. Kofi has sold his soul to the devil and they own him outright. In today's Sun;

In a departure from language used by the U.N.Security Council, Secretary-General Annan yesterday linked the issue of releasing Israeli soldiers to freeing Lebanese terrorists held by Israel. Hezbollah demanded a prisoner swap when it kidnapped the two soldiers on July 12, launching a monthlong war.

Mr. Annan, speaking to the press in Beirut,retreated from several demands the Security Council made on Hezbollah and went as far as to equate the conduct of Israeli army soldiers with that of terrorists serving the Taliban regime.

“You have to talk with those with the guns to stop shooting, whether they are Israelis or whether they are Taliban or anybody else,” he said, referring to the United Nations’s need to deliver assistance to victims at times of war.

Can you imagine anyone of right mind saying such a thing?

Despite those gestures toward Lebanese Hezbollah supporters — and though he met with the Shiite speaker of Lebanon’s parliament, Nabih Berri, and with Hezbollah’s Cabinet minister, Muhammed Fneish, as well as Prime Minister Siniora — a Shiite crowd booed the U.N. chief as he visited a hard-hit Beirut neighborhood.

Surrounded by armed guards, Mr. Annan was forced to retreat to his car after a crowd in the Hezbollah-controlled southern Beirut neighborhood booed and heckled him

Now that's rich.

He then dropped a key provision in Security Council resolution 1701 that called for the immediate release of the two Israelis — whose kidnapping was the cause for the monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah — without reference to an immediate release of any other prisoners.    

At America’s insistence, under the terms of the resolution, the release must be “unconditional.” The document also deals with the fates of the two Israelis and the prisoners in Israeli jails separately. More here

And Chuck the Schmuck wants to build them opulent new digs. The UN is useless and dangerous to freedom loving peoples the world over.  ChuckEE would throw his country and his people over for political gain.

UPDATE: The Counterterrorism Blog has excellent coverage of the organizaton of demonstrations during Anna's visit to Beirut.

UPDATE: Kofi pimps for the terrorists hat tip geoff;

Annan: Israel guilty of truce violations

UN secretary-general meets with Defense Minister Peretz, slams Israel for violating southern Lebanon ceasefire. Annan also calls on Israel to lift aerial, naval blockade imposed on Lebanon since beginning of war Israel is responsible for most ceasefire violations in southern Lebanon , according to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan

 

GLICK: News or Theah-Tuh? And BLOGS

What are we seeing when we watch events from the Middle East on our television screens? Is it news or is it terrorist theater?

Caroline Glick writes in her column today "Our World: Terrorist theater tricks" here:

As each day passes, the governments, formal and informal legal apparatuses, and media of free societies show themselves to be less and less capable of contending with the information operations conducted against their societies by subversive forces seeking their destruction.

The blogosphere, and particularly Little Green Footballs, Powerline, Zombietime, Michelle Malkin, and EU Referendum, have relentlessly exposed the systematic staging of news events, fabrication of attacks against relief workers, and doctoring of photographic images by Hizbullah with the active assistance of international organizations and the global media.
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As each day passes it becomes clear that the responsibility of protecting our nations and societies from internal disintegration has passed to the hands of individuals, often working alone, who refuse to accept the degradation of their societies and so fight with the innovative tools of liberty to protect our way of life. The vigilance of just a handful of bloggers brought us the knowledge of the corruption of our media and the network of global NGOs that we have come to rely on to tell us the "objective" truth.

It is up to all citizens of the free world, who value our freedom to recognize this corruption, applaud the bloggers and join them in refusing to allow these corrupt institutions to cloud our commitment to freedom

Glick describes the media as jihad tool;

AS IS the case with the Palestinian war against Israel, one of the most notable aspects of Hizbullah's latest campaign against Israel has been the active collaboration of news organizations and international NGO's in Hizbullah's information war against Israel. Like their rogue state sponsors, subversive sub-national groups like Hizbullah, Fatah and Hamas, see information operations as an integral part of their war for the annihilation of Israel and defeat of the West. And their information operations are more advanced than any the world has seen. As becomes more evident with each passing day, they have successfully corrupted both the world media and the community of NGOs that purportedly operate in a neutral manner in war zones READ IT ALL HERE

LGF roundup:

Fauxtography Scandal updates:
EU Referendum: The Corruption of the Media
About Those Israeli 'Chemical Weapons...'
All Your Fakes Are Belong To Us
Zombie: The Red Cross Ambulance Incident
BBC Admits Engaging in Staged Photos
Perlmutter: Photojournalism in Crisis
Green Helmet Admits Staging Photos
Still More Photo Staging Identified
Lebanese Autos Miraculously Survive Airstrikes
Photographer Alleges Unearthing of Bodies
LA Times: Take a Closer Look
CAIR's Fauxtography Scandal
AP Stands Behind Green Helmet Guy
LGF Exclusive: How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News?
Multi-Use Buildings
Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut?

FOX JOURNIES FORCED TO CONVERT TO ISLAM

Steve Centanni stated that he and Olaf Wiig "were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint." Article here

No mention of it in the jihad media.

"...the Palestinian people are very beautiful and kind hearted," Centanni told reporters.

Beautiful indeed. Happy 20th Bithday Gilad!

UPDATE August 28: Mark Steyn in today's NY Sun;

Our Thought For The Day comes from Steve Centanni, the Fox News reporter freed over the weekend by his captors in Gaza: “We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint. Don’t get me wrong here. I have the highest respect for Islam, and I learned a lot of good things about it.”

    Before their release, Mr Centanni and his cameraman,Olaf Wiig,had appeared on camera in Islamic robes, sitting cross-legged, and had read from scripts announcing that they had become observant Muslims and asking Bush and Blair to do likewise. “Islam is not just meant for some people. It is the true religion for all people at all times,” said Mr Centanni. “I changed my name to Khaled. I have embraced Islam and say the word Allah.”

    Earlier, his captors released a statement saying the two men had been offered a choice between a) conversion to Islam; b) the jizya (the tax paid by non-Muslims to their Muslim masters); or c) war. There was no none-of-the-above box. “They chose Islam,” said the spokesperson for the group,“and that is a gift God gives whom He chooses” — even if circumstances occasionally oblige Him to give it to you down the barrel of a gun.

PALIS USE UN AMBULANCE AS ROCKET LAUNCHER TO KILL JEWS

And we are to expect UNIFIL to "keep the peace?" This just makes the civilized, rational man cry out in horror.

The video shows PLO terrorists used UN ambulance to launch rocket against Israel. hat tip tOm P

What did you do in the war, UNIFIL?
You broadcast Israeli troop movements.
by Lori Lowenthal Marcus, Weekly Standard

DURING THE RECENT month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, U.N. "peacekeeping" forces made a startling contribution: They openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hezbollah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon.

UNIFIL--the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a nearly 2,000-man blue-helmet contingent that has been present on the Lebanon-Israel border since 1978--is officially neutral. Yet, throughout the recent war, it posted on its website for all to see precise information about the movements of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers and the nature of their weaponry and materiel, even specifying the placement of IDF safety structures within hours of their construction. New information was sometimes only 30 minutes old when it was posted, and never more than 24 hours old.

Meanwhile, UNIFIL posted not a single item of specific intelligence regarding Hezbollah forces. Statements on the order of Hezbollah "fired rockets in large numbers from various locations" and Hezbollah's rockets "were fired in significantly larger numbers from various locations" are as precise as its coverage of the other side ever got.

Prisoner Exchange? Altogether Now: HURL!

Mere Rhetoric is reporting a prisoner exchange is imminent. How many hundreds (thousands?) of murderers will Israel release for one or two Jews? This encourages kidnappings. What happened to - we won't negotitate with terrorists? WTF did Olmert go to war for if at the end of the day he would agree to a prisoner exchange? What was the point of the spent blood and treasure and the resulting diminished perception of  Israel's military'strength to the world?

BREAKING: Comprehensive Prisoner Exchange Deal Imminent?

About 20 minutes ago, Walla (Hebrew) passed on a report from the newspaper Ma'ariv. We can't find this report on Ma'arive's website, so we assume that they're talking about the print edition which just hit newsstands. Apparently, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, quoting reliable sources, says that German mediators have worked out a prisoner exchange deal. This deal is not finalized, but the expectation is that within 2 to 3 weeks Israel will release a still unspecified number of prisoners in exchange for the three soldiers kidnapped by Hamas and Hezbollah. More updates as we get them.

Update: More news at Haaretz here hat tip Jack;

The Egyptian state-run daily Al-Ahram reports that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to terms on a prisoner exchange for the release of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, Israel Radio reported on Sunday.

According to the report, senior Egyptian officials have told the paper that the exchange is to take place in two to three weeks' time, and is mediated by Germany.

The sources said that the parties are currently negotiating the framework of the deal, and that the main points of contention are the prisoners' order of release as well as the number and identity of the Lebanese prisoners Israel is to release.

UPDATE: It's Gilad's birthday tomorrow. He'll be 20.  Spending it with Pali terrorists, how lovely.hat tip Jal

 

Ari Flogs Jimmuh!

A letter from the excellent Ari Fleischer, former Bush White House spokesman, to Jimmy Carter, the former peanut farmer and America's most inept, most destructive President (post Nixon media coup d'etat) who never met a West hating Islamist he didn't kowtow to;

The Honorable Jimmy Carter
The Carter Center
453 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, Georgia 30307

Dear Mr. President:

I just read the transcript of your interview with the German magazine, Der Spiegel, in which you accuse Israel of launching an "unjustified attack on Lebanon."

Even after the interviewer reminded you that Israel was the first to get attacked, you charged Israel with lacking "any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon."

As someone who served in the White House as a spokesman for a President, I am reluctant to criticize another President, but in this instance my conscience compels me to do so.

Mr. President, your words are music to Hezbollah's ears and your message is a blow to long-term peace.

Just as you underestimated the threat of the Soviet Union in the 1970s, you underestimate the threat of radical Islam today.  Your condemnation of Israel, the victim, only encourages Hezbollah, the attacker, to bide its time and attack again.

Ahmed Barakat, a member of Hezbollah's central council, last week told the Qatari newspaper as-Watan that "Today Arab and Muslim society is reasonably certain that the defeat of Israel is possible and that the countdown to the disappearance of the Zionist entity in the region has begun. The triumph of the resistance is the beginning of the death of the Israeli enemy."

I was raised a Democrat but I changed parties in 1982 because I believed your policies and the nuclear freeze movement invited increased Soviet militarism and adventurism.  President Reagan's military build-up and credible threat of the use of force helped bring about the demise of Communism and brought freedom and a better life to hundreds of millions in Central and Eastern Europe.  It also secured a lasting peace.

I'm sorry to see you articulate about Hezbollah and its aggression the same weak world-view that encouraged Soviet aggression.  As Ronald Reagan showed us, peace through strength is the only formulation understood by those bent on destruction.

I understand your longing for peace and your fond hope that Hezbollah can be reasoned with.  However, when you call Israel's defense "an attack", when you call what is justified "unjustified", and when you call morality immoral, I conclude that the pro-defense, strong foreign policy lessons of the 70s and 80s remain unacceptable to you. Also, when you criticize Israel for targeting so-called "civilian" areas in Beirut and other areas where Hezbollah hides its operations, the result would be - if Israel listened to you - the creation of safe havens from which more violence and rocket attacks would be planned and launched.

Sadly, Hezbollah today is planning its next war.  For the sake of peace, Israel deserves your praise, not your condemnation.

Sincerely,

L. Ari Fleischer

Ari, come on back now, ya hear?

Islamic Caliphate in Gaza?

The West talks democracy and freedom while  failed Middle East societies wage all out war on the West. Bruce Thorton said, "with  every crisis in the war against Islamic jihad, the West displays a suicidal appeasement that heartens the enemy and lessens any chance of victory."

Islamic Caliphate May Be Declared in Gaza - Khaled Abu Toameh
On Tuesday, thousands of supporters of the radical Islamic group Hizb al-Tahrir
(Liberation Party) staged a demonstration in Gaza City to mark the anniversary of the end of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Demonstrators called for establishing an Islamic caliphate that would rule not only in the PA territories, but the entire world. Buoyed by the large turnout, the party's leaders are now considering declaring an Islamic caliphate in the Gaza Strip during Friday prayers.
    The party, which is seen as more extreme than Hamas, is said to have increased its popularity following what is perceived as a Hizballah victory over Israel. Jordanian security forces recently foiled a similar attempt by the party's followers in the kingdom and arrested most of their leaders. (Jerusalem Post)

Victor Davis Hanson speaks to the West's inability to face our enemy (hat tip md);

Despite the enormous advantages of Western militaries, there is no guarantee we can keep ahead of terrorists - especially since they are becoming more adept while we seem tired and unsure about whom, why and how we should fight.

So far, the U.S. has been able to dodge the latest terrorist bullets. So far, Afghanistan and Iraq are clinging to their newfound democracies. So far, Israel has been able to survive Hamas and Hezbollah, and these groups' state sponsors in Iran and Syria.

But unless we in the West adapt more quickly than do canny Islamic terrorists in this constantly evolving war, cease our internecine fighting and stop forgetting what we've learned about our enemies - there will be disasters to come far worse than Sept. 11.

Mideast Reality Check

hat tip Foodman
Now back to our regular scheduled whine: Blame the Jooooooos

Bolton on 1701

Ambassador Bolton attempting CPR on resolution 1701 and by extension the effectiveness of the UN. Good luck. Emphasis mine.

Statement by Ambassador John R. Bolton, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, at the Monthly Meeting on the Situation in the Middle East, in the Security Council, August 22, 2006

Mr. President,

    It has been 11 days since the passage of Resolution 1701.  We believe this Resolution is an important step forward, and when fully implemented, will help lay the foundation for a lasting peace in the region.  The United States is now actively engaged with others to turn this opportunity into a reality. 

    The United States takes seriously the imperative of fully implementing Resolution 1701, starting with its call to take immediate steps to extend financial and humanitarian assistance to the people of Lebanon.  The United States has pledged $50 million in humanitarian assistance to Lebanon, over half of which has already been distributed.  As President Bush announced yesterday, we will increase this humanitarian and reconstruction aid to more that $230 million in the weeks ahead.  The President has also announced his intention to work with Congress to extend the availability of loan guarantees to help rebuild Israeli infrastructure damaged by Hezbollah’s rockets.

    In addition to alleviating the humanitarian problems unfolding in Southern Lebanon, it is imperative that we move as quickly as possible to secure the peace by enhancing UNIFIL, and providing robust rules of engagement.  We urge potential troop contributing countries to expedite their internal decision-making processes as we strive to reach our goal of an expanded 15,000-member international force.  Delay in this case does not serve the interests of anyone except those who oppose a sovereign, free and democratic Lebanon, one which is no longer used as a base to launch terrorist attacks against Israel, killing its innocent civilians. 

    As we plan for this deployment, we should be encouraged that, broadly speaking, one of the important goals of Resolution 1701 has been achieved -- a cessation of hostilities.  We are concerned, of course, by reports of sporadic violence, but we stress that Resolution 1701 guarantees Israel's right to defend itself and its forces.  Israel has said that this past weekend's operation in the Bekaa valley was targeted against arms shipments to Hezbollah from Iran and Syria.  Such arms shipments are, of course, legally prohibited by the arms embargo established by Resolution 1701 unless specifically authorized by the Government of Lebanon.  All states must comply with their obligations observe this embargo, which, if not strictly observed, will significantly enhance the risk of further hostilities.  This burden of abiding by the arms embargo, and the world's attention, falls especially on Syria and Iran.   

Resolution 1701 is not just about a cessation of hostilities.  Resolution 1701 correctly emphasizes not only the need for an end of violence, but "the need to address urgently the causes that have given rise to the current crisis, including the unconditional release of the abducted Israeli soldiers."  It is impossible, indeed dangerous, to divorce the two issues.  If the international community applies only a temporary band-aid solution to the problem and allows Hezbollah to regroup and re-arm, then the suffering of the people of Lebanon and Israel may very well intensify in the near future.  But we must keep in mind that responsibility for this conflict rests squarely on the shoulders Hezbollah.  As President Bush stated unequivocally last week:  "It was an unprovoked attack by Hezbollah on Israel that started this conflict.  Hezbollah terrorists targeted Israeli civilians with daily rocket attacks.  Hezbollah terrorists used Lebanese civilians as human shields, sacrificing the innocent in an effort to protect themselves from Israeli response."

        If we are to achieve the goal of a lasting peace in the region, then we must put an end to Hezbollah operating as a state within a state.  To do so, of course, requires us to address the backing of Hezbollah by Damascus and Tehran.  Their continued support to Hezbollah in the form of financing, training and supply of armaments does not just perpetuate this crisis -- it sustains it.  Cutting off these supply lines, as mandated in 1701, is a matter that can no longer be ignored.  The United States calls upon Iran and Syria to comply immediately with  Resolution 1701. 

The United States remains deeply concerned with the attitude  of Syria and Iran in this crisis -- states whose leaders have both respectively called for the destruction of Israel in recent days.  We recognize, as President Bush stated last week, that:  "The conflict in Lebanon is part of a broader struggle between freedom and terror that is unfolding across the region."  We believe that full implementation of Resolution 1701 will lay the foundation to achieve a lasting peace and realize the goals outlined originally in Resolution 1559 -- a sovereign and democratically elected government in Lebanon, free from coercion by all outside governments.

The United States also remains deeply concerned by the ongoing crisis between Israel and the Palestinians, instigated by the June 25 attack by Hamas inside Israel in which two Israeli soldiers were killed, and Corporal Gilad Shalit was kidnapped.  The United States is keenly aware of the humanitarian impact of the current crisis, which has been caused by the refusal of the Hamas-led PA government to govern responsibly.  Instead, the Hamas government has made a strategic decision to reject peace and continue to embrace terrorism.  In order to ease the hardships faced by the Palestinian people due to the intransigent policies of the Hamas-led PA government, we have increased humanitarian assistance to over $270 million, including more than $50 million in response to UNRWA’s Emergency Appeal for the West Bank and Gaza. [they did what?- Atlas]We have also substantially increased our support for democracy and civil society promotion, and private sector development. 

In the days ahead, we look forward to the continued implementation of Resolution 1701.  But we cannot stress enough the urgent need to move quickly to implement fully the obligations imposed on us in accordance with Resolution 1701.  The price of failure in this case is to condemn the people of Lebanon and Israel to further violence and tragedy.

UPDATE: Reality check on 1701 from FDD;

FOOLED AGAIN: Key points regarding Resolution 1701, the cease-fire agreement for Lebanon and Israel adopted unanimously by the Security Council:

1) French President Jacques Chirac now says he will not offer thousands of troops to lead a "robust" UN force after all. Instead he is sending in 200 "combat engineers." They will be assigned to help the Lebanese army patrol the southern border and ensure that Hezbollah will no longer use the area to stage attacks against Israel. Sure they will.

2) UN officials and even Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are now saying that the French engineers and the Lebanese army will not attempt to disarm Hezbollah -- something demanded by a Security Council Resolution 1559 two years ago. Rice said: "You have to have a plan, first of all, for the disarmament of a militia, and then the hope is that some people lay down their arms voluntarily." Yeah, terrorist organizations are famous for that.

3) Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has said his terrorist organization won't voluntarily disarm. Surprise, surprise.

4) Resolution 1701 calls also for an arms embargo on Hezbollah. The Wall Street Journal noted Monday: "U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is displaying his trademark even-handedness by denouncing Israel for trying to enforce the arms embargo while staying silent on the failure of everyone else to enforce it."

The Journal adds: "Israel can and will defend itself. The person who should really be furious here is Secretary of State Rice. She midwifed this cease-fire in the name of Lebanese democracy and as a way to use diplomacy, and the U.N., to tame Hezbollah and frustrate its patrons. She also believed French promises, so it'd be good to know if she now feels she was lied to. If this U.N. exercise turns out to be as feckless as it increasingly appears, U.S. credibility will also be a loser."

More here.

FDD's Alykhan Velshi adds: "I eagerly await a press release from Kofi Annan criticizing the country that sent that [weapons] shipment [to Hezbollah], which assuredly is in violation of UNSCR 1701. It is up to Israel and her allies to rebut the perfidious Kofi Annan when he tries to pin the blame for the collapse of his UN mission on Israel."

More here.

FDD Academic Fellows Peter Pham & Michael I. Krauss predict that the war in Lebanon will resume before long. Their piece is here.

How To Negotiate With Terrorists

Wake up America

Hezb'Allah reigns in South Lebanon. It's intentions unleashed and unchecked, the world too terrified to disarm this bloodthirsty Iranian militia of Islamic barbarians. Israel is hogtied by the West hating, jihad tool, the UN and the world communitay.

ANNAN: ISRAEL RAID VIOLATES CEASE-FIRE [huh? It is nothing short of  the required response to Hizbullah's ongoing violations of the ceasefire - Atlas]

UN WANTS TERRORIST PRISONER FOR JEW(S) SWAP (not sure if it's one Jew for 600 terrorists or two)

U.S. Stopped Iranian Weapons En Route to Hizbullah [Coffee Enema has no comment - Atlas]

Did you see this from HH Blowhard? Priceless. hat tip Scott

How To Negotiate With Terrorists

This brief blog entry takes you through a series of negotiations over time between peacemakers and terrorists:

A peacemaker walks up to the left side of a line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker introduces himself. The terrorist kills him.

A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker asks, "why did you kill my friend?" The terrorist kills him and rapes his wife.

A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker says, "Stop that!" The terrorist kills him, rapes his daughter and kills his wife.

A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker says, "I'll pay you $1000 if you stop attacking us." The terrorist agrees to the deal, takes the $1000, and kills him.

A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker appeals to the United Nations. The United Nations says the peacemaker is at fault. The terrorist kills him.

A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker now has a gun, and threatens to use it. Other peacemakers start chanting the old 60's whine, "Can't we all just get along?" The peacemaker hesitates. The terrorist kills him.

A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker tries to convince his peacemaker friends that the terrorists aren't going to respond to negotiations, but they insist that if he kills the terrorist it'll just make the other terrorists mad. The peacemaker reluctantly agrees to try negotiating again. The terrorist kills him., his entire family, and his neighbor's family.

A heated debate now ensues between the peacemakers who want to be nice to the terrorists and the peacemakers who believe that there can never be peace until the terrorists are all dead. While they are debating, the terrorists kill 15 more peacemakers.

A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker asks himself, "Which is more important: being liked by everyone, or protecting my family?" The terrorist pulls a knife to kill the peacemaker, but the peacemaker pulls a gun and kills the terrorist first. The United Nations condemns the peacemaker's use of unproportional force. Many of his peacemaker friends turn against him.

A peacemaker walks up to the left side of the line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker apologizes for what his friend did to the other terrorist. The terrorist kills him, his entire family and his neighbors, and threatens to destroy the city as soon as they develop a bigger weapon.

A peacemaker refuses to meet at the line because every time a peacemaker goes to the line the terrorist kills him. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line and fires rockets into the peacemaker's town. The United Nations condemns the way the peacemaker provoked the terrorist by refusing to come to the line and meet with him.

Generations pass and not much changes until one day when the son of a peacemaker decides that the old strategy simply won't work. He walks up to the left side of the line a little early. As the terrorist approaches the right side of the line the peacemaker shoots him. Another terrorist approaches to replace the first, and the peacemaker shoots him too. This scene plays out several more times. Then a terrorist approaches carrying a white flag, but he also has weapons. The peacemaker shoots him. A terrorist next approaches with a ceasefire resolution from the U.N. The peacemaker shoots him also. A large group of terrorists approach and the peacemaker shoots them all and drops a nuclear bomb on the city they came from. The peacemaker continues killing the terrorists until the terrorists are all dead.

There is finally peace on earth and the United Nations takes the credit.

(No peacemakers or terrorists were harmed during the writing of this blog.)

 

What Have the Pali Arabs Done?

Where's Centanni? The  keffiyehed Pali Arabs kidnapped this Fox reporter and his camera man, Olaf Wiig. VIDEO:      Marked SUV ambushed 

Pali Arabs Use Children as Human Shields

As the world celebrates the Hezb'Allah victory, the victory of the savages over the civilized man, the Palestinian Arabs learn valuable lessons on how to win the war against humanity. The culture of death can triumph the culture of life.
Watch Palestinian "soldiers" using children as human shields while Kofi and his coterie rub their hands gleefully. hat tip Gras

Thwarted Palestinian terrorist organizations attempts to perpetrate suicide bombing attacks and abduct Israelis during the war in Lebanon; some of these attempts were directed by Hezbollah with the purpose of opening yet another front in Israel

From one of Naomi Ragen's list members;

Why is Nasrallah not being arrested by the U.N. and tried for the war crimes he surely and deliberately committed? Having Hezbollah fire rockets at civilian targets deliberately without any military site nearby is by definition a war crime.  Yet he is allowed to declare "victory" and appear on TV and give interviews as a "victor".  What is wrong with a world that will not address the obvious. This man is a war criminal!  Get the U.N. busy on this, ASAP!

Phillip Rockaway Townhip, NJ

Justice: Palestinian Arab Style

GIVE 'EM A STATE!

A series of pics of the body of a 25 yr-old Palestinian, executed as a "collaborator" by Fateh al-Aksa Brigade gangsters defaced by other Palestinians - and paraded for the press here.

   
Note the Palestinian woman - that shining emblem of Third World feminism - giving him the ultimate Arab insult in pic #5

UPDATE: More Pali activity: Report: Fox News Journalists Kidnapped by Palestinian Terrorists in Gaza

Palestinian terrorists have kidnapped two foreign journalists working for Fox News in Gaza, a witness said. The witness, a Palestinian who worked with the two journalists, said one of them, a producer, was an American, and the other, whose nationality he did not know, was a cameraman.

 

Hezb'Allah: Coming to Your Hometown

HUDNA?  .......... Bad idea.

hat tip Dave

HEZB'ALLAH CALLS FOR GENOCIDE

UPDATE: THE PRESIDENT:  "We certainly hope the cease-fire holds because it is step one of making sure that Lebanon's democracy is strengthened.  Lebanon can't be a strong democracy when there's a state within a state, and that's Hezbollah. 

"As I mentioned in my remarks, Hezbollah attacked Israel without any knowledge of the Siniora government.  You can't run a government, you can't have a democracy if you've got a armed faction within your country.  Hezbollah attacked Israel.  Hezbollah started the crisis, and Hezbollah suffered a defeat in this crisis.  And the reason why is, is that first, there is a new – there's going to be a new power in the south of Lebanon, and that's going to be a Lebanese force with a robust international force to help them seize control of the country, that part of the country. 

"Secondly, when people take a look-see, take a step back, and realize how this started, they'll understand this was Hezbollah's activities.  This was Hezbollah's choice to make. 

"I believe that Israel is serious about upholding the cessation of hostilities.  The reason I believe that is I talked to the Prime Minister of Israel about it.  And I know the Siniora government is anxious that the hostilities stop and the country begin to rebuild. 

"I can't speak for Hezbollah.  They're a terrorist organization.  They're not a state.  They act independently of, evidently, the Lebanese government, and they do receive help from the outside."

Beijing's View: Rice Sidelines Rumsfeld and Cheney

Condi's gross miscalculation of the French is at best --naive, at worst -- America's  complete capitulaton to socialist, commie Eurabia. An historic, missed opportunity. Does she know that the French were lying about her every step of the way?  And they hate her?  And they trash her every chance they get?  They are just one step behind the Palis in mocking her.
Yes, she wants to get along with our "allies" (echoes of John Kerry) but it's no trick to agree with our allies and pursue a failed policy, her job is to wrangle them to stand up to Islamic fascism and stand against moral inversion and equivalency. That is the skill required for her mission as SoS.

The following  is as good an overview of the current world crisis as I have seen from China Confidential;

Regarding the war against Radical Islam and the Mideast peace deal, here's the view from Beijing: (hat tip Andre)

In the United States, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has successfully sidelined Vice President Dick Cheney and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld. US President George Bush has kept them around out of loyalty, but their power and influence has been dramatically diminished. Rice has her eyes on the Nobel Peace Price. China sees her as a closet foreign policy dove, in contrast with Cheney and Rumsfeld, and a potential friend who has more or less bought into Beijing's peacefully rising party line and the State Department's ridiculous "responsible stakeholder" concept. Our prediction: like former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, she will work for the bipartisan China lobby after leaving State.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah is effectively running the show and about to take over the military, which is 70 percent Shiite. Nothing can stand in the way of Hezbollah's power grab and mainstreaming. The organization's sponsor and paymaster, Iran, has thus won its proxy war with Israel and the US, significantly strengthening Tehran's hand with respect to the nuclear impasse.

In Israel, the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is on its last legs. His handling of the war was an utter disaster, debunking the myth of Israeli invincibility and damaging Israel's deterrent capabilities to a degree few would have thought possible prior to the war.

At the United Nations, Secretary General Kofi Annan has resurrected himself--at Israel's expense. Like Hezbollah, he showed that he can "stand up" to the US and Israel.

Welcome to the Chinese Century....

Atlas Interview on EVM Radio Network

I know what you're thinking, Atlas STFU already, but hey..........I was interviewed last night by Rabbi Spivak on on the EVM Radio Network.
Rabbi Spivak  had me and Chaim Schmidt of the blog, Freedom's Cost and we discussed everything. The  truth behind the reported news, the dangerous Israeli government capitulation to a "hudna," Hezb'Allah, Ahmadinnerjacket,.......... bottom line, it's a conversation between two informed people who care desperately about the state of the free world
Listen to the interview Download chaim_pamela.mp3

WAR Blogger LIVE Interview: Natan Sharansky

Alan Roth of One Jerusalem.Org has put together another groundbreaking, no holds barred blogger interview with kep players in the sphere during this critical time in human history.

Much kudos to Alan for this and last w eek's interview with Dore Gold, LIVE IN JERUSALEM. Taking down the Jihad media one blow to the keppe at a time.
Click here: Ann, Boker tov, Boulder!

Click here: John, Gateway Pundit

Click here: Jack, TigerHawk

Click here: Rich, Jewish Current Issues (my buddy in Israel, and to whom I owe countless thanks.)

Click here: John, Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)

Click here: Allen, One Jerusalem – Blog – Help Keep Jerusalem United!

Click here: Jerry, Israpundit

Click here: Tel-Chai Nation

and my own badself.

Natan Sharansky spoke of the constant rain of rockets. Jews, Christians, and Muslims are being killed. But Nasarallah says the Muslims will die martyrs so they should not worry. Thousands fleeing from the North. Daily, daily daily......this is their life.

Download the audi file here:
Download Sharanskyinterview810.wav

Here are abrreviated snippets, but they are just a glimpse. Listen to the audio.

Allan Roth, One Jerusalem.Org asks about the mood of the people. Do the Israelis want more diplomacy.

Sharansky says he has never seen the Israelis so united. We wiill not be blackmailed, Will not be held hostage. The people understand. They are living for a month in shelters. 2 million pople are in shelters........

Rick Richman asked about the mood on the Israelis. Did they want a diplomatic solution or do they believe the military has to handle it?

Sharansky: We have a very hestitant leadership We have no choice, we have to fight. Hezbollah must beaten. We must have a clear military victory. We have no choice.

I asked him about the Iranian crisis. Had  his position on Iran had changed from our last phone call. I wanted to know if he still thought Iran should be handled diplomatically....through regime change or should it be handled militarily;

Iranian crisis:  He believes the time is not long and did Sharanskystill beleive Iran should be handled diplomatically "regime change" in the

I also asked him about Government and the IDF - Government and IDF racked by unprecedented leadership crisis

Sharansky: We have a very hestitant leadership. Excellent people were removed from important positions in the past year for political reasons. This is a problem and we are suffering for it.

Jerry Gordon, Israpundit: What is the effect of the change in military leadership?  Will that action provide some military victory and will decisive action be taken?

Sharansky: I am not a military expert and can't really speak to it.

Ann of Boker Tov. Boulder spoke of ethics and morals. The thought of these
young Jewish soldiers having to fight hezbos door to door .......... is this concern for civilian life?

Sharansky doesn't know why it took so long to undergo a ground offensive.. You can't win the war from the air.

Tigerhawk wanted to know if Sharansky's position on democracy was viable after the election of Hamas, Hezbollah ............ if it was viable in Arab countries.

Gateway Pundit asked about Saudi Arabia meeting with Turkey.

Sharansky:  Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations are afraid of this acendency of Shia power in that region.

Should Lipi be replaced;

Sharansky: Government is hesitant. Personell changes not the answer. We will discuss these questions after the war.

I asked how the Israeli people could elect Abu Dana (Olmert) a political hack with such far left familial connections after Hamas was elected and  Sharon went into a coma.  Why would voter turnout be the lowest in Israeli history? And why would they capitulate to Condi? Israel determines her future. It's Israel survival at stake, why would they relinguish control?

Sharansky: Israelis had big allusions to peace. Sharon's presence loomed large over the election.

Listen to the call, this is an abbreviation. I am traveling.

My Observation? Sharansky and the great majority of Israelis are most unhappy with the current administration's inability to act and take decisive action. The Israeli people are of one mind. Hezbollah must be beaten or Israel's future is in question.

I am blogging from the car so I will transcribe and update later. I will tell you there were excellent questions from the bloggers, better than the answers in some instances. Issues you'll never hear discussed by jihad journalists.

THE ATLAS INTERVIEW: CAROLINE GLICK

The most informative interview I conducted in Israel belonged to the brilliant writer, journalist, intellectual, Israel's national treasure, Caroline Glick.

Download CarolineGlick1.wav Part 1, Download caroline_glick_2.wav Part 2

Some of her sagacious remarks;

"All the missiles are Iranian. " [referring to the constant rain of rockets and mssile activity - Atlas]

"We have to be looking at it as the Iranian Foreign Legion . Hezb’Allah was  created by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in 1982. And  ever since, it has been an Iranian organization."

"Iran does this a lot. They outsource their war against the world. They created the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in 1988.

Hamas now is also an Iranian organization and they also receive Iranian, guidance and Iranian doctrine and Iranian weapons and Iranian money.

The Palestinian Authority itself is now being financed by Iran. Just a couple of months ago the head of Hamas  [..] together with the Hamas foreign minister went inside of Tehran and met with Ahmadinejad and met with Khameini and they were touring Revolutionary guards bases outside of Tehran and Iran pledged to them 50 million dollars on the spot and ever since them these Hamas ministers have been found in all sorts of places carrying hundreds of millions of dollars"

"What are we looking at here? And what we are looking at here is a system that is Iranian."

"And that is what is fighting Israel and of course that is what is fighting the US in Iraq. [..] Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army that’s fighting US and coalition forces and killing of thousands of innocent civilians. Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army is also a Hizb’Allah organization.

Muqtada al-Sadr is very close with Nasrallah, the head of Hezb’Allah in Lebanon. In Southern Iraq in the Shia area [...] immediately after US forces liberated the country from Saddam Hussein, Hezb’Allah set up shop in the south, in Nasariah and in other towns and started indoctrinating, inciting  and funding shite violence. Again at the direction of Iran. And so we have to be very clear about this. If, in Iraq, one of the problems with the Americans’ conceptualization of the war, when they were going in is that they were fighting against a government, a regular army………..[..] and they were wrong because they missed the terrorist component. and they were not fully cognizant of just how large the terrorist danger was going to become over time.

So when people look at the system that Israel is fighting, we look only at the terrorist aspect and we ignore the state aspect of it and the state aspect is the central aspect of it and if you want to try to conceptualize a way through this, a way to victory in all this, you have to be very clear about the centrality of Iran, and also BTW the centrality of the Lebanese government in this quite frankly."

If you listened to this Glick interview, listen to it again. If you haven’t heard it NOW NOW NOW. You will be tested.

Hamas Military Leader Says Palestinian Arab Combatants May Join Israel-Lebanon Conflict

RUSSIA HELPING IRAN WITH NUKES

Tehran is continuing its research into a uranium enrichment program with the help of Russian laser know-how, according to new allegations.

The War in Lebanon

Caroline Glick sent over this clip from Shlomo Blass on the Lebanon War.  Blass is a freelance journalist and television producer  in Israel.

Shlomo has only limited access to internet now because he's been mobilized in reserves where he serves in a paratroopers unit.

Glick thinks (as do I) that this film makes very clear the nature and seriousness of the war that Israel is now facing.

UPDATE: From FDD;

[Iran is] a great country, a great people and a great civilization which is respected and which plays a stabilizing role in the region."
(08/01/2006) Phillipe Douste-Blazy, French Foreign Minister

"There is no solution to this conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel."
(12/31/1999) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Secretary General  

We are fighting against Islamic fascists. They attacked us on September 11th because we are the greatest obstacle to their openly declared mission of subjecting the entire world to their fanatical rule. I believe that the threat of Islamic fascism is just as menacing as the threat from German Nazism and Soviet Communism. Now, as then, we face fanatics who will stop at nothing to dominate us. Now, as then, there is no way out; we will either win or lose."
(07/20/2006) Senator Rick >Santorum, (R-PA)

The only way to whip an army is to go out and fight it."
(01/01/1865) Gen. Ulysses S.

JIHAD CHILD PORN

Ellen Horowitz Nails It: Hezbollywood’s Dead Child Porn Cult over at Augean Stables.

The Lessons of Sderot and the Brilliant Man Behind them

***UPDATED WITH VIDEO*** SCROLL DOWN***

Through the rocket scarred south, we made our way to Sderot, a fabled town known for its music and  home to manyof Israel’s most popular musicians. A cultural enclave, this bucolic hamlet has suffered 3,500 rocket attacks in six years, and the Israeli government did nothing. They urged restraint. Urged restraint as the world community and Condi is urging now.

What a tactical mistake. It baited, coaxed and inevitably encouraged the barbarians. The more Israel moved the line in the sand, the bolder the enemy has become. As we see all

This lovely town has kindergartens with bomb shelters, elementary schools with steel gates, steel fences and an according to a study from the Hebrew University over 80% Sderotian kids a re suffering entire generation of children suffering in post trauma syndrome. Children are afraid to go out, return to the parents beds, unable to concentration, wetting their beds, losing a lot of pills to sleep, to behave……their drawings reflect death, rockets, dead people.

We visited with the very wise, even tempered, low key, two term  Mayor Elli Moyal. I was so struck with his wisdom and his logic, he ought to run for Prime Minister. “Our jobs as citizens as civilians is to stay in this land. Not to move. Since 2001 until today, we have the same population in Sderot. No one left Sderot , this is the strength of these people.” (despite 3,500 attacks); Here is an excerpt of his remarks

“It’s a shame that 1/3 of our state  is empty. I was Haifa, I was in Nahariah  I was in Tiberias, I was …….nobody actually stayed there.  Most of the people ran away to Tel Aviv.  Said it then and I say it now.This war is against civilians not against the army. Now the civilians part. To show their strength.

Nasrallah is a vicious killer but he’s not stupid. He didn’t call a war against the Israeliarmy, he called a war against the people of Narhariah, the people of Haifa, the people of Tiberia.  If the people ran away, well actually  he achieved what he wanted and I said it clearly in that article yesterday. And  I was the first one who said it, c’mon, we not about the run. We are a state in a war, we’ve got to stand our place. Ok take the kids out. Take the weak people out. But the rest must stay.

We stayed here for 6 years,  we never left. This is the situation,  if you ask me. Because it’s not a two state conflict. It  is a war against terror. PURE

We don’t have a conflict with the Lebanon state. We don’t have a conflict with the Lebanese. We have a conflict with the terror organization. If you are asking  me the nickname of Hezb’Allah is Bin Laden. It’s international terror. It’s not local terror taking place in the Middle East.” The same hands who did 9/11 are doing right now what they do in the North.

It’s international terror, organized by al qaeda, Iran, by Syria by those states that are supporting terror. And unfortunately we got that job to fight it straight – face to face.

We don’t have a conflict with Jordan. We don’t have a conflict with Egypt. We have a conflict with terror. This is the situation.

Now is the time of civilians to make their  statement. To stay. We don’t have a choice. It’s not, it shouldn’t be a consideration to leave our cities. This is my opinion as a citizen here is Israel.

[…] We should stay. It’s gonna be tough. It’s gonna cost. But it’s not the solution to run away to leave Haifa. It’s a shame.

[..} We should act normally in a dangerous situation. But we  should, we must act normally. That’s why I stayed here 6 years. That’s why no one has left Sderot. We never closed schools for one day in the last 6 years, we never stopped giving services, municipality services, welfare, sports, you name it, industry, commerce. It’s all open.  It was tough.  We buried people, small kids. It’s not easy.  But we continued. We couldn’t give them that joy to see us running away.

Because that’s what they are looking for. They want to see us running from our country, from our cities. That’s the voice that should be heard all over Israel. Now is the part for the citizens the civilians of Israel to be strong to stay and keep normality in an abnormal situation. I understand, it’s a war. We can not allow ourselves to run. It’s a tiny, a small country anyhow. It is smaller than Rhode Island. Look at the map once . It’s a very small country. 6 million people live here. Half of it is a desert. We don’t have that choice to leave, to hide somewhere. They will find us in Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv, in Haifa…. so we must stay.

Please listen to this man’s words. I implore you. It’s worth listening to many, many times.

Download sderot_mayor_moyal.mp3 (hat tip conversion JB)
 

Winging it to South Florida to see mama. Will load photos later.

UPDATE: Photos from the embattled town that could, Sderot.

Mayor Elli Moyal

The onslaught of rocket attacks is called Red Dawn. Here Red Dawn breaks this child's heart

The bomb shelter at the school

The children

The school behind bars............

Rabbi Wolpe receiving an honor from the school for the infinite good deeds this extraordinary man does. A shining example of righteousness.

UPDATE: Video of the children of Sderot

NIDRA POLLER; LOST IN THE TRANSLATION

Atlas readers get the best round the world coverage. While I am working on today's mind bending events read Nidra Poller, the most exquisite truth teller in France (how they must despise her and tremble in her wake.) The French are pathetic.

LOST IN TRANSLATION 

Nidra Poller

Paris 23 July 2006

French diplomacy is on the peace path!  Jacques Chirac is flexing France’s diplomatic muscles in an aggressive campaign to impose a “humanitarian cease fire” that will save Lebanon and boost French prestige on the world stage. Despite failure to impose the French solution at the recent G-8 meeting in St. Petersburg and again at the Rome Conference, the Chirac-Villepin tandem has already convinced French media of its inevitable success. 

Media complicity is automatic when it comes to placing Israel and the United States in a bad light.  By the second day of the conflict, coverage was already slanted and, within a week, it had become hysterical.  The point of view of the French newscaster today is shoulder to shoulder with the innocent civilian praising Nasrallah and shouting guttural threats to massacre Israelis as he stands by the ruins of a harmless building bombed by evil Israelis for no reason whatsoever.  The Hizbullah attack that provoked Israel’s reaction is pushed far into the background, leaving an image of the conflict as an unprovoked humanitarian crisis visited upon Lebanon. Nothing short of an immediate cease fire can deliver the—Lebanese--victims from their unjust plight. 

Above and beyond hyping the humanitarian crisis, the media are broadcasting outright falsifications that lead the public to believe the French government’s diplomatic offensive is advancing by giant steps.   Canadian PM Stephen Harper fell victim to one of these tricky operations. 

 

JIHAD CONGRESSMAN

Representative John Dingell, a Democrat (no surprise there right? ) from Michigan - no surprise here either with Hezb'Allah firmly ensconced in Dearbornistan  here and here)  appeared on a Detroit television program Sunday alongside Republican Congresswoman Candice Miller. After Dingell said he would not take sides in the current Israeli - Hezbollah conflict, the host asked “so you’re not against Hezbollah?” Rep. Dingell replied with a resounding “no.”

If the Democrats take control of the house in November, Dingell will be the Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He's one of the jihad eight (Democrats of course) that did not vote for a resolution supporting Israel.  This potential committee chairman has despicably chosen a terrorist organization over a strong American ally.

Folks please pass this on to your neighbors, co-workers, anyone. We are in the fight of our lives. and the jihad is the defining issue of our times.

The Atlas Interview: Brigitte Gabriel

EXCLUSIVE! Before I left New York I conducted this riveting interview with Brigitte Gabriel, voice of the Lebanese Diaspora. Hear her expose the horror of the jihad in Lebanon and the media's role in the decades role blood libel against Israel.

More profound is the failure of the Jewish lay leadership in America in their reluctance to reveal these painful truths to the American Jewish community (and the communtiy at large.) As I have written here repeatedly the Jewish organizations in this country have done the Jews great harm clinging to their left wing dogma and politically correct dhimmitude. Read Jewish survival, the terrible question.

Here is the link: Download pamela-podcast-7-25-06.mp3 The audio is uneven ..........

 Brigitte Gabriel , blacked out by the Jihad media, speaks truth to power. She is in the pantheon of truth tellers Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Phyllis Chesler, Melanie Phillips, Nidra Poller, Youssef Ibrahim, Walid Shoebat,   Ibn Warraq, Ali Sina, Walid Phares among other brave souls. 

COUNTDOWN KICKOUT KOFI CALENDER!

KOFI ANIMAL, Where is your shock! outrage! to this?

Kofi Annan has been stoking the flames of Jew hatred. His own blinding hate for the Jews has rendered him incapable of performing his duties in even the most basic capacity. He is a luxury a world spinning madly out of control can ill afford. He has got to go. He can not be fair or impartial. You could not have forgotten his rush to judgement to blame the Jews on the Hamas Gaza killings;

UN NOT DELIBERATELY TARGETED

Retired Canadian Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie told Canada's CBC radio last week that the Canadian officer Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, killed by IDF fire at a UN post in Lebanon last Tuesday, had complained in e-mails that Hizbullah fighters were all over his position. "They use the UN as shields knowing that they can't be punished for it," said MacKenzie

Where os Kofi' outrage? Where is Kofi's condemnation of Hezb'Allah terrorists using the UN, women. children, as shield to kill innocent Jews?

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan slammed Israel for the attack, which killed three other UNTSO observers, claiming that it had been intentional. Israel apologized asserting that UN post had been targeted accidentally.

Israel is always apologizing. Ugh.

Hess-von Kruedener observed, in e-mails to MacKenzie, his former commander in the Canadian army: "We have on a daily basis had numerous occasions where our position has come under direct or indirect fire from both artillery and aerial bombing. The closest artillery has landed within two metres of our position and the closest 1,000 [pound] aerial bomb has landed 100 metres from our patrol base.

"This has not been deliberate targeting," Kruedener said, "but has rather been due to tactical necessity."

That last line has been read to imply that Hizbullah fighters used the UN posts as cover from which to launch their rocket attacks and Israel had tried to target them.

Mackenzie noted that the IAF's strikes have resulted in an extremely low number of casualties given the amount of ammunition fired.

Kofi should be arrested. Conspiracy to murder.

Cry to those Using Babies as Sheilds
By Naomi Ragen

My son is in the army.  He is not the type at all, believe me.  Quiet, studious, a writer, a lover of Jewish history, Talmud, ethics.  He spent two years in a pre-army program in the Galilee called Karmei Chayil. He made many good friends there from all over the country, and now he and all his friends are in the army.  One of them I know well.  A bit chubby, with payot, and a great laugh.  He and my son have become like brothers.  While both of them tried out for the elite paratroopers unit, only he made it in.  He and his unit a  re the ones  in Lebanon.  They were there over a week, fighting under horrific conditions, running out of food and water.  Even though the Israeli airforce dropped tons of leaflets warning civilians to flee because they were in terrorist territory and likely to be injured, they still encountered civilians.My son spoke to his friend yesterday,and this is how he described it:

"The village looked empty, and then we heard noises coming from one of the houses,  so we opened fire.  But when we went inside, we found two women and a child huddled in the corner of the room.  We were so relieved we hadn't hurt them.  We took up base in one of the empty houses.  And then all of a sudden, we came under intense fire.  Three rockets were fired at the house we were in. Only one managed to destroy a wall, which fell on one of us, covering him in white dust, but otherwise not hurting him.  I spent the whole time feeding bullets to my friend who was shooting non-stop.  We managed to killed 26 terrorists.  Not one of us was hurt.  Our commanding officer kept walking around, touching everybody on the shoulder, smiling and encouraging us: "We're are better than they are. Don't worry."  It calmed us all down.  And really, we were much better then them.  They are a lousy army.  They only win when they hide behind baby carriages."

Please remember this when you hear about the "atrocity" of the Israeli bomb dropped on Kfar Cana, killing many civilians, a place from which Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.  Unlike previous administrations, Mr. Olmert has my respect when he says: "They were warned to leave.  It is the responsibility of Hezbollah for firing rockets amidst civilians."

Terrorists and their supporters have lost the right to complain about civilian casualties, since all they have done this entire war is target civilians. Every single one of the more than 2,500 rockets launched into Israel, is launched into populated towns filled with women and children. Just today, another suicide belt meant to kill civilians in Israel was detonated harmlessly by our forces in Nablus.  So don't cry to me about civilian casualties.  Cry to those using your babies and wives and mothers; cry to those who store weapons in mosques, ambulances, hospitals, and private homes.  Cry to those launching deadly rockets from the backyards of your kindergartens and schools.  Cry to the heartless men who love death, and however many of their troops or civilians die, consider themselves victorious as long as they can keep on firing rockets at our women and children.

Save your sympathy for the mothers and sisters and girlfriends of our young soldiers who would rather be sitting in study halls learning Torah, but have no choice but to risk their precious lives full of hope,  goodness and endless potential, to wipe out the cancerous terrorist cells that threaten their people and all mankind.   Make your choice, and save your tears. 

That terrorists have been unsuccessful in killing more of our women and children is due to our army, God and prayers, not to any lack of motivation or intention on their part. If you hide behind your baby to shoot at my baby, you are responsible for getting children killed. You and you alone.

Evil Cabal Convenes in Damascus Nasrallah, Assad, Larijani

The Axis of Islamic Jihad is gathering in their Syrian lair. hat tip Naomi Ragen

KUWAITI PAPER: NASRALLAH "TO GO TO DAMASCUS TODAY"

The Kuwaiti daily al-Seyassa this morning reports that Hizbullah leader Sheikh Nasrallah is due to travel to Damascus today for a secret meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani. (Larijani is also partly in charge of Iran's nuclear program.)

The purpose of the meeting, according to the Kuwaiti paper, is to discuss further tactics to extend their war on Israel, and to continue to supply Iranian arms and ammunition to Hizbullah through Syria.  

Nasrallah, according to the report, will travel in an armored vehicle belonging to Syrian intelligence, dressed with "regular clothes" and without his turban. He will be escorted by a Syrian Lt. General.

Earth to IDF: Bring on those heat seeking missiles.

According to the paper, the latest speech of Nasrallah delivered on al-Manar TV was also recorded in a Syrian intelligence studio.

Want to bet these animals are not talking "peace"? My money is on August 22nd the day Iran is to give the world its answer on the overly generous nuke package. Rockets Brain is reporting on Robert Spencer's:  Iran's Day of Terror?

Farid Ghadry, the president of the Reform Party of Syria, has offered a provocative explanation for this delay. He asserts that the Supreme National Security Council of Iran chose the August 22 date “for a very precise reason. August 21, 2006 (Rajab 27, 1427) is known in the Islamic calendar as the Night of the Sira’a and Miira’aj, the night Prophet Mohammed (saas) ascended to heaven from the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on a Bourak (Half animal, half man), while a great light lit-up the night sky, and visited Heaven and Hell also Beit al-Saada and Beit al-Shaqaa (House of Happiness and House of Misery) and then descended back to Mecca.…”
Read it all at JihadWatch

Meanwhile, after signing up for a Chinese satellite,  Ahmadinnerjacket wannabe Hugo Chavez has  been busy;

buying $3 billion's worth of Russian weapons, and will stop by Iran in the next few days, where 'Jad has been meeting with the Iranian guys he sent to Korea to witness the Korean missile tests, but [al-] Reuters thinks that to worry about any of this is a most fanciful conspiracy theory. Fausta has it all 

Hezb'Allah Nazis

Hezbollah's Nazi Tactics
The MEMRI Report BY STEVEN STALINSKY
"Just like Hitler fought the Jews, we are a great Islamic nation of jihad, and we too should fight the Jews and burn them." — Hisham Shamas, political science student, at a symposium hosted by Hezb'Allah's Al-Manar TV at Lebanon's largest and only...

Photo: Time magazine website  hat tip LC

Israel Doing the World's Dirtiest Work

In what was Israel's deadliest day, Hizbullah Used Civilians, Mosques in Attack on IDF

Hizbullah refused to allow civilians to leave their village and used mosques in their ambush on IDF soldiers at Bint Jbeil Wednesday. Names of the nine fallen soldiers were released. Morale is high. more

Hezb'Allah jihadis are barbarians. And while the world sits in abject judgment of Israel, tsk tsk tsking - Israel cleans up the international community's abortion. Decades of appeasement and financing of this insane Islamic Jihad movement coming home to roost.

All this polite conversation of a "multi-national peacekeeping force" (what fraking peace?)  Bottom line is no one country has volunteered any troops, not one single country.Why? Because they are scared to death. Because they saw what happened to our 241 Marines back in 1982. Because if the Israelis can't cap these jihadis,  who can? What could an international keystone cops force accomplish?

The savages use women, children  to hide behind. The animals shoot from people's homes while the family still lives there, holding them hostage. That should be the "humanitarian crisis" the U.S. Sec'y of State Condi Rice is referring to when she says, Prevent Humanitarian Crisis in Lebanon. Nonsense. And why are the leftists, Islamists, internationalists, dictating the world dialogue? Humanitarian crisis is not the real issue of the day. The real humanitarian crisis is the thousands of indiscriminately fired katuyshas into civilian cities and towns all over Israel. 

And once again Israel has thankless task of cleaning up the rot and sickness that is a pox unto the world. General Halutz is in my prayers.

Syria Warns It Will Strike Israel Deeper

PHOTO: ISRAELI CASUALTIES: Three Israeli soldiers who were wounded in Lebanon yesterday are evacuated to Rambam hospital in the city of Haifa in northern Israel. Eight soldiers were killed and 22 injured during fighting with Hezb'Allah yesterday. Photo NY Sun

KOFI'S BLOOD LIBEL EXPOSED

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FULL TEXT OF FALLEN SOLDIER"S LETTER

More on the Jew hating deceitful Kofi has been exposed in today's New York Sun. One of the four killed in the misfiring on the UN position wrote an email to his superior just days before complaining that Hezb'Allah was "all over us." Hezb'Allah is the target, no the UN he wrote;

An apparent discrepancy in the portrayal of events surrounding the deaths of four unarmed U.N. observers in Lebanon threatens to unravel Secretary-General Annan’s initial accusation that Israel “deliberately” targeted the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.

    A Canadian U.N. observer, one of four killed at a UNIFIL position near the southern Lebanese town of Khiyam on Tuesday, sent an e-mail to his former commander, a Canadian retired majorgeneral, Lewis MacKenzie, in which he wrote that Hezbollah fighters were “all over” the U.N. position, Mr. MacKenzie said. Hezbollah troops, not the United Nations, were Israel’s target, the deceased observer wrote.

    A senior U.N. peacekeeping operation official who briefed the press yesterday, however, said that on the day the deaths occurred, the only “known Hezbollah activity was 5 kilometers away.”The official’s briefing was conditioned on anonymity, but the undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, Jane Holl Lute, supplied the Security Council with similar information at an earlier briefing yesterday.     “To our knowledge, unlike the vicinity of some of our other patrol bases, Hezbollah firing was not taking place within the immediate vicinity” of the base that was hit Tuesday.

    Based on reporting by the U.N.’s peacekeeping chief, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Mr. Annan alleged in Rome Tuesday that the incident was an apparent “deliberate targeting by Israeli Defense Forces of a U.N. Observer post in southern Lebanon.” Although Mr. Annan began to backtrack yesterday, his spokeswoman, Marie Okabe, said he stood by the accusation.

    Mr. MacKenzie, who after retiring from the Canadian military became a politician, had a very different interpretation. “I happen to know” the nowdeceased Canadian U.N. observer, Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, Mr. MacKenzie told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in a radio interview yesterday.     “We’ve received e-mails from him a few days ago and he was describing the fact that he was taking fire within, in one case, three meters of his position ‘for tactical necessity — not being targeted,’” Mr. MacKenzie said he wrote.

    In one such e-mail, obtained by The New York Sun, Hess-von Kruedener wrote about heavy IDF artillery and aerial bombardment “within 2 meters of our position.” The Israeli shooting, he added, “has not been deliberate targeting, but has rather been due to tactical necessity.”

Kofi is a liar and a murderer. He killed those "peacekeepers" just as if he pulled the trigger. Kofi must go. He is a danger to the world community and freedom loving people everywherre.

Related: Jew Hater Kofi STFU
                     Kofi's Dirty Secret
                     SHOT OF THE DAY

UPDATE: The full text of the fallen Canadian soldier's letter is here hat tip mjp

(4) Team Sierra is currently observing both IDF/IAF and Hezbollah military clashes from our vantage point which has a commanding view of the IDF positions on the Golan mountains to our east and the IDF positions along the Blue Line to our south, as well as, most of the Hezbollah static positions in and around our patrol Base. It appears that the lion's share of fighting between the IDF and Hezbollah has taken place in our area. On the night of 16 July, at 2125 hrs, a large firefight broke out between the Hezbollah and the IDF near a village called Majidyye and lasted for one hour and 40 minutes.

(5) Based on the intensity and volatility of this current situation and the unpredictability of both sides (Hezbollah and Israel), and given the operational tempo of the Hezbollah and the IDF, we are not safe to venture out to conduct our normal patrol activities. We have now switched to Observation Post Duties and are observing any and all violations as they occur.

This is all the information of a non-tactical nature that I can provide you. I cannot give you any info on Hezbollah position, proximity or the amount of or types of sorties the IAF is currently flying. Suffice to say that the activity levels and operational tempo of both parties is currently very high and continuous, with short breaks or pauses. Please understand the nature of my job here is to be impartial and to report violations from both sides without bias. As an Unarmed Military Observer, this is my raison d'etre.

 

AXIS OF ISLAM

In Tehran yesterday, the axis of evil convened in a celebration of bloodlust.

Pan-Islamic unity was on display yesterday at a government-sponsored think tank, where a tinny rendition of the anthem of the Islamic Republic of Iran kicked off a panel discussion grandly billed as a search for ways to counteract what it called ``Psychological Warfare Against the Islamic Resistance."

On a single podium at the Iranian president's Center for Strategic Studies sat representatives of Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria, and Iran, the foursome that the United States and Israel portray as the culprits behind rising Islamist militancy.

The panelists, joined by the Lebanese ambassador, described their groups and countries as the last ones willing to stand up to US efforts to dominate their region. More at Bostom.com (hat tip MP)

Photo: A conference in Tehran yesterday included (from left) Hussein Safiadeen of Hezbollah, Palestinian Ambassador Salah Zavavi, Lebanese Ambassador Adnan Mansour, Syrian Ambassador Hamid Hassan, and Abu Osamah, a representative of Hamas. (Hasan Sarbakhshian/ Associated Press)

ATLAS LIVE INTERVIEW: BRIGITTE GABRIEL

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The Voice of the Lebanese Diaspora

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Brigitte Gabriel is an extraordinary truthteller, blacked out by the Jihad media - in the pantheon of truth tellers Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Phyllis Chesler, Melanie Phillips, Nidra Poller, Youssef Ibrahim, Walid Shoebat,   Ibn Warraq, Ali Sina, Walid Phares among other brave souls.
Submit your questions to me and check Brigitte out on CNN (Crescent News Network) here

It will be an extraordinary hour.

UPDATE: The 'Nightmare' Scenario for Israel, Lebanon and the U.S.

UPDATE: Brigitte was brilliant. Look for the podcast in an hour.

Marines, Brit Troops IMPORT HIZB'ALLAH

Solomonia has MUST SEE video of Hezbollah supporters protesting at the  "Defend Hizballah Rally" in Boston here.

This past Friday, the Muslim American Society held their "Justice for Palestine and Lebanon Protest" at Boston's City Hall Plaza referred to at the end of this post. at tip Dennis

The Washington Times has a telling piece about all of "those people clamoring by the thousands for international rescue";

Who are these people now clamoring by the thousands for international rescue? Press reports label many of them "dual nationals." Some, despite their British, Swiss, American or French passports, make Lebanon their home. I was quite startled to hear, in an online audio report posted by the Daily Telegraph, that British passport-holders evacuated to Cyprus were undergoing "Home Office screening" to determine whether they "might constitute a threat." The report reasoned that this made sense "because obviously we're talking about a large number of people who have lived in the Middle East most of their lives."
    This presents a bizarre spectacle: Britain's navy re-patriating what you might call extreme expatriates who potentially pose a "threat" to Britain as a partner in the so-called war on terror. This makes the following headline from the Guardian all the more inapt: "Britain's biggest sea evacuation since Dunkirk." As I recall, none of the 300,000 Dunkirk evacuees required a security screening before returning home.
    In this wide-open question of loyalties we may see the expanding emptiness of the modern nation-state, where basic identification with the nation itself is no longer at the core of citizenship. And that includes the United States, where, for example, a good stretch of Main Street follows the Israeli war on Hezbollah via Al Jazeera -- at least Main Street in Dearborn, Mich., which writer Debbie Schlussel has described as "the heart of Islamic America, and especially Shia Islam America."
    As the New York Times reported from Dearborn, "For miles along West Warren -- in hair salons, restaurants and meat markets -- shopkeepers and their relatively few customers stared at televisions tuned in to Al Jazeera." hat tip Sterverino

This piece must be read in its entirety.

Debbie Schussel has a killer piece on Hezbollah operating here in America here;

Why do the FBI, ICE, and the Justice Department continue to allow an obvious Hezbollah charity to continue to operate on our shores?

In May, I wrote--twice! (here and here)--about Hezbollah financier Talal Chahine and his contributions to Hezbollah front charity Al Mabarrat Association. I also wrote about its Dearborn, Michigan affiliate, Al Mabarat Charitable Organization. I had all the details and have reposted them below. (Yesterday, I went to an Al Mabarrat related event, yesterday, and will post about that, later.)

and make sure you read this;

Hezbollah U.S.A.: How a U.S. Attorney, the FBI, ICE & a Congressman Helped a Terror Group

[...]  But in the Detroit area--the heart of Islamic America--it's a different story. Hezbollah supporters connected to Iran are feted by top federal officials.

Take Imam Mohammed Ali Elahi, head of the shi'ite Islamic House of Wisdom--one of the largest mosques in North America. He was the spiritual leader of Ayatollah Khomeini's Navy in Iran. Despite that, Elahi--who came here in the 1990s on a visitor visa to speak to a mosque in San Francisco--is now a U.S. citizen. Elahi's ties to Iran are so strong that his former mosque, the Islamic Center of America, fired him--even though that mosque also backs Hezbollah.

UPDATE: There is more excellent intel at the Counter Terrorism blog;

Further, although Hezbollah has not utilized charitable front organizations in the U.S. to the extent that its comrade-in-arms Hamas has, there is convincing evidence that a Hezbollah-linked charity, with direct ties to the group’s spiritual leader in Lebanon, is currently operating in Dearborn, Michigan.

Founded in 1991, the Al-Mabarrat Charitable Organization-USA Inc. has changed its name repeatedly over the last fifteen years, discarding the names “Cedar Organization, Inc.”, “Cedar Charitable Organization, Inc.” and “Cedar Social Services of America, Inc.” On its website, http://www.mabarrat.org/, which is no longer active, Al-Mabarrat claimed that its purpose “is to promote the cause of…orphans by providing sponsorship that will go toward schooling, health, and general.” While acknowledging that it proffers that support by working in conjunction with the Al-Mabarrat Association in Lebanon (whose logo it shares), the website conveniently omits the fact that Al-Mabarrat-Lebanon is run by Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.

Fadlallah, labeled Hezbollah’s “chief ‘spiritual leader’” by the Department of Justice, has been designated a Specially Designated Terrorist by the U.S. Treasury Department, thus criminalizing financial transactions with him. The U.S. government has further alleged that “Fadlallah issued the fatwa authorizing” the 1983 Hezbollah bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks that killed 241 Americans. Demonstrating its awareness of Al-Mabarrat-Lebanon’s terrorist agenda, the U.S. government banned Lebanese Finance Minister Fuad Siniora (currently the Lebanese Prime Minister) from entering the United States in 2003 because of a donation he had made to the organization in 2000

Despite Al-Mabarrat-USA’s direct link to a Fadlallah-controlled organization, to date, the U.S. branch continues to operate unfettered. In fact, the organization appears to have gained a level of credibility in the U.S. as the Detroit Free Press reported earlier this month that “many Muslims in the region have donated to Al-Mabarrat.”

Read it all.

Bush Routes Hizb'Allah to Dustbin of History

Bush: Confront Hizballah and the Nations that Support It
President Bush said Saturday: "In 2004, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1559, which recognizes the sovereignty of Lebanon, calls for all foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon, and calls for the disbanding and disarmament of all militias. Hizballah defied the world's just demands by maintaining armed units in the southern region of Lebanon and attacking Israel in defiance of the democratically elected Lebanese government."
    "I've directed Secretary of State Rice to travel to the Middle East.... Secretary Rice will make it clear that resolving the crisis demands confronting the terrorist group that launched the attacks and the nations that support it. For many years, Syria has been a primary sponsor of Hizballah and it has helped provide Hizballah with shipments of Iranian-made weapons. Iran's regime has also repeatedly defied the international community with its ambition for nuclear weapons and aid to terrorist groups." (White House)

EXCLUSIVE: Nidra Poller: Lotus Eaters

EXCLUSIVE: Nidra Poller nails it (again) and eviserates The New York Crimes, WaPo, the editors all kinds of names: Leftwing traitors, deluded pacifists, jihad fellow travelers, pro-Palestinian fashion victims, whores wriggling for Arab money. In other worlds Nidra is on a roll. Tuck into it.

LOTUS EATERS
Paris 17 July 2006

Nidra Poller

We are at war.  We must fight to win.

No other description of the current state of the Western world can accommodate all pertinent concrete facts and integrate them into a coherent whole.  Then how can we explain the particular form of denial that flourishes in our nations, intensifying in rhythm with the worldwide conflict it refuses to recognize?  A telling example of this sublime irresponsibility is the recent publication in the Washington Post of an op-ed by Ismail Haniyeh, identified innocently as the Palestinian PM, in which the author compares Hamas to the patriots who fought for American independence.

It happens that Haniyeh’s apology for jihad terrorism in sheep’s clothing appeared on July 11th, just as Bombay was hit by multiple train attacks that killed over 190 civilians in an operation tragically similar to those perpetrated in Madrid and London…and coming soon to your local train station.  Haniyeh’s sinister taqqiya was published on the eve of an unprovoked Hizbullah attack on Israel’s northern border. While rockets fired from Lebanon and Gaza were wreaking havoc on civilian targets, Haniyeh was given prime space to denounce an Israeli “aggression under false pretenses.” According to the Hamas PM the June 25th Palestinian cross-border attack was in fact an Israeli ploy: “The ‘kidnapped’ Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit is only a pretext for a job scheduled months ago.”  Whereas the civilian casualties falsely attributed to Israel are proof of inhumanity: “Was Israel defending itself when it killed eight family members on a Gaza beach last month or three members of the Hajjaj family on Saturday, among them 6-year-old Rawan?” We can easily imagine what motivates a Hamas chief to twist the facts.  But what motivates Washington Post editors?  Why would they grant implicit legitimacy to dishonest arguments that justify unprovoked aggression against Israel, formulated by a leader of an organization dedicated to the extermination of Jews? 

We can call the editors all kinds of names: Leftwing traitors, deluded pacifists, jihad fellow travelers, pro-Palestinian fashion victims, whores wriggling for Arab money.  But it won’t satisfy the intellectual--and strategic—need to understand what motivates this inexcusable abuse of press freedom.  We have to understand why seemingly rational journalists could in all sincerity commit an unforgivable sin against the very foundations of our nation.

Evil's Essential Oils

What it is, or to quote Aristotle,  "A is A."

The difference..
God Bless Israel

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Cartoon Hat tip Judith . Must see video at Vital Perspective

UPDATE: Eli pojnts out two salient points;

1. Several years ago, after the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, a similar kidnapping of soldiers by hizbollah took place.the terrorists used the cover of the UN to commit this deed. they (UN "peace-keepers") even had video of the event which they refused to turn over to Israel in order to help them determine what happened. Why doesn't the media make any mention of this event?

Check out this link

2. At the end of WW2, Harry Truman rationalized dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima by saying something to the effect that "either one million Japanese civilians or one million American soldiers would have to die, and he would rather have one million Japanese die than one million American boys die".

The enemy within

Deja Vu

Buchenwald, April, 1945. The prisoner in second tier with the post to 'his' left (seventh prisoner from the left) is Elie Wiesel. hat tip Tom

Jewish children in their bunkbeds in underground bomb shelters 2006

Never again.                                                             photo: ht Stew

Hezbollah (above photo: hat ip Tyler)

Muslim Nazi soldiers at prayer to Allah mid 1940s

The Nazi Arab connection was very much a part of the WW2  theater. Nazi Jew hated did not die, it morphed.

In 1929, major Arab riots were instigated against the Jews of Palestine. They began when al-Husseini* falsely accused Jews of defiling and endangering local mosques, including al-Aqsa. The call went out to the Arab masses: "Izbah Al-Yahud!" — "Slaughter the Jews!" After the killing of Jews in Hebron, the Mufti disseminated photographs of slaughtered Jews with the claim that the dead were Arabs killed by Jews.

Syria al-Husseini aided the pro-Nazi revolt of 1941. He then spent the rest of World War II as Hitler's special guest in Berlin, advocating the extermination of Jews in radio broadcasts back to the Middle East and recruiting Balkan Muslims for infamous SS "mountain divisions" that tried to wipe out Jewish communities throughout the region.

At the Nuremberg Trials, Eichmann's deputy Dieter Wisliceny (subsequently executed as a war criminal) testified:

• The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan. ... He was one of Eichmann's best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chamber of Auschwitz.

With the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945, the Mufti moved to Egypt where he was received as a national hero. After the war al-Husseini was indicted by Yugoslavia for war crimes, but escaped prosecution. The Mufti was never tried because the Allies were afraid of the storm in the Arab world if the hero of Arab nationalism was treated as a war criminal.

*Muhammed Amin al-Husseini [many spelling variations] was born in 1893 (or 1895), the son of the Mufti of Jerusalem and member of an esteemed, aristocratic family. The Husseinis were one of the richest and most powerful of all the rivaling clans in the Ottoman province known as the Judaean part of Palestine.

There is no difference between then and now. It didn't end with World War 2, evil was sidetracked.
Hitler said he'd do it and Ahmadinejad means to do it and he says he  means to do it. The Jew is the historical litmus test.  - Atlas

UPDATE: AHMADINEJAD LOBBYING ISLAMIC NATIONS

UPDATE: The most wanted Nazi War criminal, Alois Brunner, is in Syria;

SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Alois Brunner - Eichmann's second in command - was a key figure in the planning and execution of the Final Solution, the murder of 6 million Jews during World War II. He actively participated in the mass murder and was often sent by Eichmann as a trouble shooter to areas such as France to expedite the killings.

The arrest and conviction of Alois Brunner remains the top priority of leading Nazi hunters and war investigators but Brunner has successfully eluded justice. During his many years hiding out reportedly in an apartment on Haddad Street in the Syrian capital of Damascus, he openly assisted the Syrians in establishing their own secret police.

UPDATE: From Charles at LGF back in May:

The Nazi-Arab Connection
Documents from the British National Archives show that in World War II, Nazi Germany sent weapons to the Palestinian Arabs, by way of our friends the Saudis. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A British Foreign Office report from 1939 reports of “news of a consignment of arms from Germany, sent ...

also this;

Hamas Boasts: Hitler Liked Us
The Hamas newspaper Al-Rissala proudly lists foreign leaders who have expressed support for the Palestinians—leaders such as Adolf Hitler. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Hamas newspaper this week chronicled with pride the ways in which different foreign leaders singled out the Palestinians as examples of ideal revolutionaries. The first ...

UPDATE July 23: Infidel's Blogger Alliance has must see video off German TV (with translations) on Grand Mufti and Nazis - translation and subtitles by IBA

The Innocent Civilian Meme

I am not buying into the innocent civilians meme. If by ignorance, complicity, neglect or helplessness the Lebanese wouldn't throw Hezbollah out and establish a strong government, then they must pay the price for the sins of Hizbollah. And if people put up with dictatorships, theocracies, totalitarian regimes - as they did in Nazi Germany -- they deserve what Hezbollah deserves. Our only concern should be who started the war. Hezbollah/Hamas initiated the use of force and so stepped outside the principle of rights.

NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO GIVE UP THEIR RIGHT TO SELF DEFENSE FOR FEAR OF HURTING SOMEONE ELSE GUILTY OR INNOCENT. --Ayn Rand

* The Innocent Bystander Myth * IRIS Blog

One of the most bizarre aspects of the current Lebanon crisis is the international community's unanimous insistence that the Lebanese government is an innocent party, and should therefore not be made to suffer for Hezbollah's actions.

And this presumption of Beirut's innocence has inevitably affected criticism of Israel's response to the Hezbollah attacks. Thus, for instance, the European Union's rotating president, Finland, issued a statement last week declaring that the EU "is greatly concerned about the disproportionate use of force by Israel in Lebanon in response to attacks by Hezbollah on Israel… The imposition of an air and sea blockade cannot be justified."

Hezbollah's attack was far from a rogue action committed in defiance of the government: The Lebanese government has actively supported it, in both word and deed.

In any normal country, a junior coalition member that attacked a neighboring country without its partners' consent would be swiftly disavowed and ousted from the government.

Far from repudiating Hezbollah's attacks on Israel, the Lebanese government has actively defended, facilitated and assisted them at every turn. There are thus no grounds for treating it as an innocent party in this conflict.

Photo: KIBBUTZ MERHAVYA, ISRAEL Israeli soldiers salute and cry at the grave site of Yonatan Hadassi yesterday. Hadassi was killed in an exchange of fire with Hezbollah  jihadis. NY Sun

Bostom on Hezbollah

The Might-ay, might-ay Bostom puts forth the three things Hezbollah wants.

Hezbollah's Hateful Ambitions Andrew G. Bostom, MD, MS

What prompted Hezbollah’s aggressive actions across Israel’s internationally recognized northern border with Lebanon—sporadic katyusha rocket attacks on Israeli civilian populations since last fall, and then the dramatic kidnapping of Israeli soldiers—precipitating the present conflagration?

Jihad terrorism expert Dr. Walid Phares has suggested three short-term motivations reflecting Hezbollah's own concerns, and those of its patrons, Iran and Syria:  the call for disarming Hezbollah's militias in Lebanon, and distracting attention from the looming Iranian nuclear crisis, as well as the results of the Hariri murder investigation. Phares argues that Hezbollah’s strategic solution was, not surprisingly, open resumption of the jihad  against Israel. Ultimately, however, Hezbollah's chronic, annihilationist jihad against Israel reflects a rigid adherence to both classical jihad theory, and the ugliest elements of Islamic theology regarding Jews...

In a public statement issued February 15, 1986, Hezbollah conceived of itself as a “nation” linked to Muslims worldwide by “…a strong ideological and political bond, namely Islam.” Expressed in the political language of the Koran, Hezbollah’s ideology encompasses, triumphally (as per the slogan adorning the party emblem, “The Party of Allah is Sure to Triumph”) at least three major objectives:

transforming Lebanon into an Islamic Shari’a state, in the oppressive mode of Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran destroying Israel establishing regional, followed by international Islamic hegemony, i.e., bringing the region, then the world under stultifying Shari’a law.

MUST SEE VIDEO: BRIGITTE GABRIEL ON CNN

The government of Beirut is really helpless. They can not do anything. The President is a puppet of Syria. Syria and Iran are working together against Israel, against the West, it was Syria and Iran that stopped the newly elected Lebanese  government in 1983  who wanted to negotiate a peace treaty with Israel under the President elect Bashir Gemial, President Bashir Gemial was assassinated, the peace negotiations with Israel stopped and right now those two countries are completely manipulating Lebanon and controlling Lebanon, and the Lebanese government is completely helpless and useless. And unless the world powers get involved and help the Cedar revolution which started last year and enforce UN resolution 1559, nothing is going to get done.
Brigitte Gabriel today CNN

Expose the Left has the video on Brigitte Gabriel's interview this morning on CNN, Caliphate News Network. GO THERE NOW! How dhimmi of the talking head when introducing Brigitte and describing her "surprising" take on the crisis. Surprising? Only if you've been in a cave for the last 30 years. (hat tip Andrew Bostom)

Brigitte Gabriel, originally a Lebanese citizen, now lives in the U.S. and encourages democracies in the Middle East. Gabriel, is pro-Israel and anti-Hezbollah.

Here is what she has to say about Hezbollah:

M. O’BRIEN: You wrote—it’s posted on your Web site. It’s americancongressfortruth.org. You wrote a message to Israel. I want to share some of this with people so you get an idea of what you’re talking about here.

You say this, “Thank you, Israel. We urge you to hit them hard,” of course referring to Hezbollah, “and destroy their terror infrastructure. It is not only Israel who is fed up with this situation, but the majority of silent Lebanese in Lebanon who are fed up with Hezbollah and are powerless to do anything out of fear of terror retaliation.”

When you write that, you write that with some degree of risk to yourself personally, don’t you?

GABRIEL: Absolutely. I receive death threats, but this is the time when people need to muster courage to stand up in the face of evil, and a hate ideology that now is not only affecting Lebanon and Israel, but this cancer of hatred has spread throughout the world.

UPDATE:

VIDEO – .WMV VIDEO – .MOV
If these links fail go, directly here.

This is Lebanon's tragic fate.  When they finally threw Arafatbastard out in the 80s, Iran slammed Hizbollah in there. They replace one jihad with another jihad.

UPDATE: Thought you'd dig this pic of Brigitte and I last year at the Midde East and Academic Integrity on the American campus conference. If you haven't  listened to Brigitte's interview on Chelser's site, do it now.

BBC: Bringing Bout Caliphate

Judith of HNN is traveling and writes me this missive on the coverage in Europe from the BBC:

I skıpped Ephesus today to catch up wıth the coverage of the latest Israelı war. I wrıte latest because I, along wıth many Israelıs, can no longer delude myself that ıt wıll be the last.  In other words, I am reportıng from a hotel ın Turkey where the BBC ıs the only Englısh TV news statıon I can access. You may not be surprısed to learn that BBC's storylıne ıs sımple. The Lebanese suffer and you should see ıt. A BBC sent a reporter to Damascus to show how generously the Syrıans have been wıth the fleeıng Lebanese  though not to leave the ımpressıon that fleeıng to Syrıa may provıde Lebanese wıth a way to escape the bombs, the reporter explaıned that the camp he vısıted has reached ıts lımıt.  To cover hıs tracks, the reporter admıtted ın passıng that many of the refugees are famıly members of Hızbullah terrorısts!

Reports from Israel mentıon destructıon but downplay casualtıes.  Lebanese chıldren are terrıfıed but not Israelıs.  Lebanese are evacuatıng areas Israel suggests they evacuate.   Northern Israelıs are fındıng shelter ın the South where many volunteers opened theır homes to them but that ıs not reported by the BBC.  Haıfa ıs just as much a ghost town as Beırut but you would not know ıt from the BBC coverage.   My sıster, brother ın law, her son, daughter ın law and theır chıldren - 10 year old Enav and 7 years old Lıad and Shıran have been spendıng long hours ın a 5 by 10 secure room as dıd thousands of theır neıgbors but you wıll not hear about that.  Hızbullah Katyusha rockets hıt an Arab vıllage ın the Galılee, the Arab town of Nazereth and the Arab part of Haıfa but you wıll not hear about that. 

There are whole hours when no reporter from Israel got on the aır. When one fınally dıd, ıt was to show one destroyed house and move to the questıonıng of an offıcıal about Israelı cooperatıon wıth foreıgn governments tryıng to evacuate theır natıonals.  I cannot but wonder whether they are tryıng to compete wıth Al Jazeera or are merely arm chaır romantıc terrorısts lovers.

If you wonder about whether anybody ın Lebanon blames Hızbullah for the troubles, you can fınd the answer ın a BBC artıcle ARABIC MEDIA UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT. Sorry I cannot provide the lınk. There you wıll discover that Lebanese are complaining that Al Jazeera's pro-Hızbullah coverage.  Yes, BBC, lıke any enemy publication can be most useful.   And, yes, ıt ıs an enemy outlet to anyone who opposes terror.

I think this is the link Judith is referring to.

Terror enablers gone wild: BREAKING NEWS: UN: No sufficient data to include Hizbullah in terror organizations' list (hat tip test test)

BOLTON!

 

 

The Money quote;

I want to someone to address the problem how you get a ceasefire with a terrorist organization. I'd like to know when there has been an effective ceasefire between a terrorist organization and a state in the past. This is a different kind of situation. I'm not sure old thinking, conventional thinking works in a case like this.
John Bolton, UN 10:00am

I can't wait to see what that dhimmicrats are going to do when Bolton's recess appointment comes up in December. I am telling you I will be marching on the Capital if  the peace conspirators try to take him out.

Who is coming with me?

BOYCOTT AMERICA'S TERROR LOVING COMPANIES

Ugh. I am the quintessential capitalist but if, at the end of the day, your client intends to saw your head off, I say --  stop enriching them. The Pet Jawa has the 411 here

U.S. & Canadian Companies Aiding Hezbollah
A new study of official Hezbollah websites reveals that 91% of online business services provided to the terror organization are done through U.S. and Canadian companies. Hizballah has been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department.

The study finds that American companies provide 64% of all the services that the Hezballah sites require to stay online. 27% of the required services are provided by Canadian companies. [...] hat tip tOm p

Rain of Murder, Mayhem and Terror

This is the best map (click to enlarge)I have seen so far of the terror rockets raining in on Israel. How long before one of these unguided missiles of terror will have something, anything in its tip?

More unbelievable photos over Free Republic. Hat tip CHP
How long before "Splash" Jong Ill gets his missile testing right? Is this not part of the joint venture he and Ahmadinnerjacket are working on as we speak?

BTW, anyone that wants to help can go here, but more than anything Israel needs our continued support. Write Bush, tell him. FAXES to the White House are far best. Fax: 202-456-2461

RAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER: NO PART OF ISRAEL SAFE

GILLERMAN ON O'REILLY

 

Watching a great statesman speak the truth is nothing short of riveting. WATCH IT. And kudos to O'Reilly for this show. He is doing the righteous thing. He surprised me and many other rational folks I suspect.

What happened to John Bolton? They were promoting his appearance all day and FOX didn't have the decency to say he couldn't make it?

 

Gillerman's Closing Line..........the money quote.

UPDATE: Glimpses of the war you won't get in the lamestream media (hat tip Cinnamon)

Live Blogging from Israel

It is important to be well informed and more importantly accurately informed. The terror loving mainstream media can not be trusted --- clearly this and this and this is painful proof of the enemy within - which is why it's a choi to bash The New York Crimes.

The best coverage on the web (and anywhere) is here at  J-Bloggers (Jewish bloggers). They have complied over the last 12 hours the most comprehensive list of links, news sites, home videos, images, rally locations, live Israel blogging and more.

Pajama Media is doing a kick ass job and The Truth Laid Bear has everyone, no matter how twisted.

CNN.com - Israeli warplanes hit Beirut suburb - Jul 13, 2006 Please vote.

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM

RALLY AGAINST TERROR AND SOLIDARITY WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF ISRAEL

UPDATE: Massacre of innocents ensues. (Warning: Pictures not suitable for those with weak stomachs). hat tip Tom P via Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller 

UPDATE:'Rockets that hit Haifa were Syrian'
Names of two of the eight victims released; Northern residents urged to take shelter.

Lebanon Ceasefire Terms

What it is;

Senior state official says, 'only if two goals Israel has set for itself – removing and disarming Hizbullah and returning kidnapped soldiers – are realized, there will be point to discuss Lebanese offer.' Government set to convene Sunday morning for first time since deciding on IDF's operation in Lebanon

Meanwhile, let's hope Israel achieves those two goals even if it is by their own military actions.

The Lebanese prime minister offered Saturday evening to deploy his army on Lebanon's southern border in exchange for a ceasefire, but Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert does not plan to accept his offer.

Fouad Siniora offered to deploy the forces along the international border with Israel according to UN Resolution 1559, but Israeli officials reject the offer claiming that Israel will continue its operation against the kidnappers in Lebanon until the two kidnapped soldiers are released. hat tip CHP

'Israel has a window of opportunity to hit Hizbullah'
Lebanese PM Saniora pledged earlier that his government, aided by UN would extend its control over southern Lebanon, as Israel demands.

 

Terrorists with Super Weaponry

Israeli Press is reporting that Iranian Revolutionary Guards may have been IN Lebanon, assisting in the firing of Iranian missiles that hit that ship.

The robo-bomb that hit the Israel ship bodes ill for what is in the terrorists future arsenal.

Israel yesterday destroyed the Beirut headquarters and home of Hezbollah's leader as the terror group unleashed a surprise new weapon - an unmanned, bomb-laden aircraft that struck and badly damaged an Israeli warship miles off the Lebanese coast More here

This article shows how Hezbollah successfully attacked an Israeli warship yesterday with a robot. Today robots, tomorrow bioweapons.

"The world powers are prepared to provide Iran with advanced technology and possibly even nuclear research reactors" Read Condi in Wonderland

UPDATE: First pics of the damaged Israeli navy rocket ship.It has now been reported that it WAS NOT A DRONE, BUT A MISSILE that hit that ship.  One killed, three missing. Video and more here.(hat tip ole Dave)

The Israeli ship is now making its way back to Israel.

During the incident, Israeli Navy ships identified an explosion on an Egyptian commercial ship while was sailing in international territorial waters.

It is assured that the ship was struck by a similar missile that hit the Israeli boat. The Egyptian ship drowned and its crew was rescued by another commercial ship present in the area.

The Israeli Navy will continue to enforce the naval blockade on Lebanese ports and has also attacked earlier this morning a number of Hezbollah targets around Beirut.

 

Gillerman's Latest Remarks

 

 

Watch this.FOX News 1:30ish EST. Grainy I know but so what? Listen to him. The only thing I failed to capture is when Gillerman (Israeli Ambassador to the UN) was asked about using "disproportionate force". Gillerman said yes, it is disproportionate, any other country in Israel's positions would have unleashed a world of pain (my words) in retaliation for such attacks on their nations.

G8 Leaders weigh in. Stand up gentlemen, let us see what you are made of. More here;

Bush said Israel has a right to defend itself. "The best way to stop the violence is for Hezbollah to lay down its arms and to stop attacking," he said.

Putin and other leaders criticized what they see as an overreaction by Israel that has caused dozens of civilian deaths and risked a major escalation of bloodshed in the Middle East.

"We are very concerned," said Italian Premier Romano Prodi. "We understand the right of Israel to defend itself, of course, and we understand there were provocations against Israel but we believe the use of force by Israel was disproportionate."

French President Jacques Chirac was even harsher in his comments, saying "One could ask if today there is not sort of a will to destroy Lebanon, its equipment, its roads, its communications."

What a spineless, dickless wonder. He thinks it's going to stop the Muslims in his country from rioting, rampaging , burning cars? Sadly, tragically mistaken Monsieur. You embolden your tormentors. Watch.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said he understood Israel's anger but urged against seeking "an eye for an eye."

Putin said it was unacceptable for Hezbollah to try to achieve its goals using force and abductions, but he also was critical of Israel's military response.

"The use of force should be balanced. And, in any case, bloodshed should stop as soon as possible," he said. More here

That's coming from the ex -GB head.

Gillerman on Dobbs (:-(

CAIR FRONTS HEZBOLLAH

Straight from the Muslim Brotherhood Project, CAIR bares it fangs. They are firing off CAIR alerts like this one

U.S. MUSLIMS CONDEMN ISRAELI 'MASSACRE' (CAIR email alert)

and yet they can't call the worst, the worst terrorist gang on earth Hezbollah, terrorists. Charles pointed this out yesterday. Speaking here is the Nihad Awad, Executive Direcor of CAIR on Neil Cavuto yesterday;

 

 

 

That says it all.

Why This is Our War

Clear. Concise. Truth. Bill Krystal lays it out in this week's Weekly Standard. Please read it all (hat tip Bruce);

THIS IS OUR WAR

WHY IS THIS ARAB-ISRAELI WAR different from all other Arab-Israeli wars? Because it's not an Arab-Israeli war. Most of Israel's traditional Arab enemies have checked out of the current conflict. The governments of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia are, to say the least, indifferent to the fate of Hamas and Hezbollah. The Palestine Liberation Organization (Fatah) isn't a player. The prime mover behind the terrorist groups who have started this war is a non-Arab state, Iran, which wasn't involved in any of Israel's previous wars.

What's happening in the Middle East, then, isn't just another chapter in the Arab-Israeli conflict. What's happening is an Islamist-Israeli war. You might even say this is part of the Islamist war on the West--but is India part of the West? Better to say that what's under attack is liberal democratic civilization, whose leading representative right now happens to be the United States.

[...]

Here, however, is one lesson that does seem to hold: States matter.

Regimes matter. Ideological movements become more dangerous when they become governing regimes of major nations. Communism became really dangerous when it seized control of Russia. National socialism became really dangerous when it seized control of Germany. Islamism became really dangerous when it seized control of Iran--which then became, as it has been for the last 27 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

No Islamic Republic of Iran, no Hezbollah. No Islamic Republic of Iran, no one to prop up the Assad regime in Syria. No Iranian support for Syria (a secular government that has its own reasons for needing Iranian help and for supporting Hezbollah and Hamas), little state sponsorship of Hamas and Hezbollah. And no Shiite Iranian revolution, far less of an impetus for the Saudis to finance the export of the Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam as a competitor to Khomeini's claim for leadership of militant Islam--and thus no Taliban rule in Afghanistan, and perhaps no Hamas either.

[...]

The war against radical Islamism is likely to be a long one. Radical Islamism isn't going away anytime soon. But it will make a big difference how strong the state sponsors, harborers, and financiers of radical Islamism are. Thus, our focus should be less on Hamas and Hezbollah, and more on their paymasters and real commanders--Syria and Iran. And our focus should be not only on the regional war in the Middle East, but also on the global struggle against radical Islamism.

For while Syria and Iran are enemies of Israel, they are also enemies of the United States. We have done a poor job of standing up to them and weakening them. They are now testing us more boldly than one would have thought possible a few years ago. Weakness is provocative. We have been too weak, and have allowed ourselves to be perceived as weak.

The right response is renewed strength--in supporting the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan, in standing with Israel, and in pursuing regime change in Syria and Iran. For that matter, we might consider countering this act of Iranian aggression with a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. Why wait? Does anyone think a nuclear Iran can be contained? That the current regime will negotiate in good faith? It would be easier to act sooner rather than later. Yes, there would be repercussions--and they would be healthy ones, showing a strong America that has rejected further appeasement.

But such a military strike would take a while to organize. In the meantime, perhaps President Bush can fly from the silly G8 summit in St. Petersburg--a summit that will most likely convey a message of moral confusion and political indecision--to Jerusalem, the capital of a nation that stands with us, and is willing to fight with us, against our common enemies. This is our war, too.

More here

Raining Rockets in Israel

BUSH BLAMES HEZBOLLAH FOR THE MIDDLE EAST VIOLENCE

The rain of rockets continue unabated into civilian cities and towns. While Israel targets infrastructure and military targets, the Islamists are testing and fine tuning their rocket and missile ability to take out huge (considering how many Jews there are in the world) civilian populations.

All of Northern Israel is in reach of the Islamic Hizbollah.

The rockets landed across northern Israel in the following communities: Nahariya, Safed, Hatzor, Yesod Ha'ma'ala, Bar'am, Kiryat Shmona, Mahanayim, Horfesh, Biranit, Meron, Ma'alot, Matat, near Rosh Pina, Sasa, Karmiel, Pki'in, Misgav Am, Metula, Beit Hillel, Shar Yishuv and near Kibbutz Hagoshrim and Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch.

On Friday evening, a grandmother and her 5-year-old grandson were killed in a rocket strike on the town of Meron. The child's mother and father were lightly wounded. Another child was listed in moderate to serious condition. More here

A grandma and her grandson awaiting the Shabbat meal.

Bush Blames Hezbollah, Syria for Mideast Violence Fox News
President Bush on Saturday blamed the Islamic militant group Hezbollah and a compliant Syria for the escalating violence in the Middle East, taking a sharper stance than Russian President Vladimir Putin.

G-d bless Bush. He is backing Israel unequivocally. As any rational human being should. Russia's Vladimir Putin said Israel's military response should be "balanced." Is that not the height of height of hypocrisy? This from the man just last month asked the Russian parliament for the right to send soldiers and special forces anywhere in the world to fight terrorists.
He has ordered the  capture of the Islamist insurgents be hunted down and "eliminated", after Russians were murdered in Iraq (a foreign country at war.)  The enemy entered Israel and kindapped her soldiers. Israel is fighting for her life. Quel difference!

Moscow threatened to send war planes to bomb terrorist bases worldwide after Chechen rebels took 1,300 hostages in a school in the town of Beslan in 2004. 330 people -- half of them children -- died after a three-day siege. Blanced my ass.What nerve. More here

In blaming Syria,  Bush is giving the nod to Israel to push on. And mind you Bush did this in front of Syrian patron, Russia.

Israel has given Syria Ultimatum

London-based Arabic language newspaper Al-Hayat says Israel gave Syria 72 hours to stop Hizbullah’s activity, bring about release of kidnapped IDF troops. ‘Israel will not end military activity until new situation created that will prevent Syria, Iran from using terror organizations to threaten its security,’ newspaper quotes Pentagon official as saying

The London-based Arabic language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Saturday that “Washington has information according to which Israel gave Damascus 72 hours to stop Hizbullah’s activity along the Lebanon-Israel border and bring about the release the two kidnapped IDF soldiers or it would launch an offensive with disastrous consequences.”

The report said “a senior Pentagon source warned that should the Arab world and international community fail in the efforts to convince  Syria to pressure Hizbullah into releasing the soldiers and halt the current escalation Israel may attack targets in the country.” More here (hat tip Bruce)

Any Jew that pushes the Democratic lever is not only stupid, but dangerous to Jews the world over.

The report also mentioned that President George W. Bush has repeatedly put much of the blame for the recent escalation on Syria.

“It is no coincidence that the Hizbullah operation comes at a time when the international community is working to impose sanctions on Iran due to its nuclear program and settle the score with Syria by establishing an international court to try those behind the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri,” the Pentagon source said.

UPDATE: VERY SOPHISTICATED IRANIAN MISSILES IN USE IN THE CONFLICT

UPDATE 12:51PM: HIZBOLLAH firing new barrage of rockets on the Israeli city of Tiberias. Hizbollah now contends they have missiles that can reach Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Apparently they killed a couple of Egyptian soldiers when they misfired on they Israel gunship and hit a civilian ship. That story is just over the wires and developing.

UPDATE: 12 Egpyptin soldiers were wounded when one of the Iranian provided missiles that Hizbollah was firing hit  a Cambodian ship. The damage to the Israeli Saa'r 5 corvette was done by an Iranian made missile code named "Silkworm". Here is more info on the missile (hat tip rotem)

The LA TIMES reports it as such. Militants Warn of 'Open War'  Will someone alert those thumbsucking dhimmis that these Islamic terrorists are not militants. Gaza belongs to the Palis - those are Palestinian soldiers and the Hezbollah islamists that have taken Lebanon hostage are terrorists.

What militants? They left in America is completely debased, morally inverting evil at every turn.

UPDATE: Just over the wires."The Middle East peace process is dead" so says the Head of the Arab League. How profound. What peace process? The one where Israel was withdrawing from their own land unilaterally? Good then.

UPDATE: Israeli Press is reporting that Iranian Revolutionary Guards may have been IN Lebanon, assisting in the firing of Iranian missiles that hit that ship.

Sheik Nasrallah NOT in Bombed Building

Sheik Nasrallah, Head of Hezbollah, believed to be in the building was just blown up . Nasrallah was behind the kidnapping of Shalit. I hope they got him.

UPDATE: They didn't. On an audio tape an hour after the  the bombing Nasrallah calling for all out war in Israel. Total war.

“We are ready for it — war, war on every level,”

Palis Blow a hole in the Pali/Egypt Wall

Apparently the Palestinians have blow a hole in the wall into Egypt. Hundreds of Arabs pour into Gaza to show solidarity. If they want to support the Palestinians why don't they support the Palis with money, land etc. Why have they left them in camps for decades. Why do they just use them as a tool. The Arab world is awsh in oil money. But they keep the Palis in abject povety to use them as a tool to bash the Jews. It has been Israel that was the major source of the Palestinian economy.

John Bolton Addressing the UN

**UPDATED WITH GILLERMAN'S REMARKS*** SCROLL

United States Backs Israel's Right to Defend Itself Unequivocally

Bolton saying, NO reckoning of Hizbollah. We call on Syria  for the immediate arrest of Khaled Meshaal
....no excuse to knowingly harbor a know terrorist.
Senior US offcials are in Jerusalem talking with Israel.
All governements musr retain control over their countries

It's up to Lebanon to exercise more control in dealing with Hizbollah and terror groups

Full text to come. And scroll down for Gillerman's remarks.

Here it is: USUN PRESS RELEASE # 168 (06)         
              July 14, 2006

Statement by Ambassador John R. Bolton, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, in the Special Public Session on Lebanon, in the Security Council, July 14, 2006

Mr. President, in recent days and weeks, we have seen an outbreak of violence in the Middle East, sparked by attacks and kidnappings which Hamas and Hizballah carried out against Israel.  Events continue to develop even as we speak.

Hizballah' s incursions across the Blue Line on July 12 were a deliberate and premeditated provocation intended to undermine regional stability and are contrary to the interests of both the Lebanese and Israeli people. We unequivocally condemn the kidnapping by Hizballah, a terrorist organization, of two Israeli soldiers and call for their immediate and unconditional release.

Provocations across the Blue Line by terrorist groups highlight the urgent need for full and immediate compliance by Syria and Hizballah with relevant UN Security Council resolutions, including 1559, 1583, 1655, and 1680.

The international community has made clear its desire to see the central authority of the Government of Lebanon extended throughout the country.

In this context, we underscore the importance of the Security Council President' s statement of June 18, 2000 and the Secretary-General's conclusion that as of June 16, 2000, Israel had withdrawn all its forces from Lebanon in accordance with UNSC resolution 425 and met the requirements defined in the Secretary-General's s May 22, 2000 report.

As President Bush said yesterday, we are concerned about the fragile democracy in Lebanon. While we have been working very hard with partners to strengthen the democracy in Lebanon, we are also making clear that the democratic aspirations of the Lebanese people must not be undermined by the irresponsible and destabilizing actions of Hizballah.

We have repeatedly made clear to Lebanon and Syria our serious concern about the presence of terrorist groups on their soil and the periodic attacks against Israel from groups and individuals in southern Lebanon.

All militias in Lebanon, including Hizballah, must disarm and disband immediately and the Lebanese government must extend and exercise its sole and exclusive control over all Lebanese territory.

President Bush has made clear that Syria and Iran must be held to account for supporting regional terrorism and their role in the current crisis. Syria provides safe haven to the militant wing of Hamas and provides material support to Hizballah, which also maintains an active presence in Syria. Iran's extensive sponsorship and financial and other support of Hizballah is well known and has been ongoing for decades. No reckoning with Hizballah will be adequate without a reckoning with its principal state sponsors of terror.

We call on Syria and Iran to cease their sponsorship and support of terrorist groups, in particular Hizballah and Hamas. For the third time in two weeks, we again call on Syria to arrest Hamas leader Khaled Meshal, who currently lives in Damascus.  There is no excuse for a member state of the United Nations to continue to knowingly harbor a recognized terrorist.

The Secretary General' s decision to send a senior level team to the region is a development that is welcomed by my government.

We are also engaged with the primary parties and other concerned leaders to help restore calm and achieve a resolution to this crisis. In fact, senior U.S. officials are in Jerusalem today for meetings.

All parties in the region must accept their responsibilities for maintaining security and stability.  We urge all parties to accept the principle that governments must exercise sovereign control over territory. The United States remains firmly committed to working with others not only to resolve the present situation but toward building longer-term peace and stability in the region.

Illustration: Clarity and Resolve

When Dan Gillerman, the Israeli Ambassador, addressed the UN he  made an impassioned plea to the Lebanese Ambassador to speak to truth. He said you know if you could speak freely you would thank us. He said you know that your people have been held captive by these terror groups. I am speaking for the patriotic Lebanese crying out from the abyss. A people held hostage by the finger of the bloodstained long arm of Syria and Iran. The people in Lebanon want to be free. Syria still regrads Lebanon as Southern Syria. Many of the long range missiles were Iranian and housed in Syria. Homes were people live were hosts to these missiles. Any one who sees the amount of missiles and armaments knows no terror group could have such an arsenal without state sponsorship. We are not hitting homes, were are tsking out caches of rockets.

It was a moment. I am trying to get a copy as quick as I can

GOT IT! Here are Dan Gillerman's unedited remarks to the UN. Click on link below for full text. Very powerful, read it all. Here is speaking TRUTH TO POWER:

Mr. President, there are words that speak far louder and clearer than anything I can voice today. These are voices of Lebanese -- brave, patriotic Lebanese parliamentarians and ministers who, just over the last two days, have cried out to all of us from the brink of the abyss in their beloved country. Let me quote some of these courageous statements to you.

The words of Lebanon's communications minister, Mr. Marwan Hamadeh, only yesterday saying that -- and I quote -- "Damascus gives the orders, Iran supplies the equipment, Israel reacts, and Lebanon is the victim."

Or the words of Alias Attala (sp), a Lebanese politician representing the majority of its parliamentary members, and I quote, "We welcome any Arab and international support, but strongly oppose any enforced involvement of Lebanon by regional players' considerations" -- a reference to Syria and Iran -- "that are not within the interests of the Lebanese people, for the sole attempt to achieve opportunistic benefits at the expense of the Lebanese people. The Syrian regime indulges itself in teaching Lebanon and Palestine lessons according to its own interests through these peoples. Why do those who always protect their regime express understanding of its reasons and preferences and do not express any understanding of Lebanon's reasons and preferences?"

Or the words of an unnamed Lebanese minister who said, again only yesterday, and I quote, "The Hezbollah has not only kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, it has taken the whole of Lebanon hostage," end quote.

Mr. President, with your permission I would like to make a personal appeal to my esteemed Lebanese colleague.

Your Excellency, you know deep down that if you could you would add your own brave voice to those voices of your brave compatriots and colleagues. You know deep in your heart that if you could you would be sitting here right next to me right now because you know that we are doing the right thing, and that if we succeed, Lebanon will be the beneficiary. And I believe that most members around this table, as well as many in this chamber, including our neighbors, realize this reality.

Mr. President, this council and the international community have a duty today to help the Lebanese people achieve the goal of a free, prosperous, democratic Lebanon. The sad and tormented life of this war-torn land has today entered another sad chapter in its history. It is up to every one of us to help right this chapter to ensure that this opportunity is seized not only for the benefit of the Lebanese and Israeli people, but for the sake of generations to come.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Click on this link to read it all.

The War Against The Jihad

GROUNDED Fuel tanks burn at the Beirut International Airport after it was attacked by Israeli aircraft Thursday. Israel struck Beirut airport and Hezbollah’s television station, Al Manar,  on Thursday.ADNAN  HAJJ

Hat tip Crusader18 and JJ

Aaron Klein at the Galil Report is reporting (PAID ONLY)

Kidnapped Israeli soldiers separated?
Lebanese, Egyptian sources detail state of emergency in Beirut

The fate of kidnapped Israeli soldiers, as well as Iran and Syria's role in the rapidly expanding violence in the Mideast, were discussed in an extensive conversation today between Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit and Lebanese Prime Minister Faud Sinora.

* Sinora said Lebanese security officials had information that the two soldiers kidnapped yesterday by Hezbollah – Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev – were separated and were taken somewhere in the region between Syria and Lebanon, and not in Hezbollah strongholds outside Beirut.

Israel has been focusing a good deal of its rescue and retaliation efforts in the areas surrounding Beirut. The Galil Report reveals an elite Israeli rescue team last night was dropped into the Beirut area in an effort to cut off the kidnappers.

* Gheit was told a high-level military committee was sent from Iran to serve as advisers to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus regarding any possible actions from Israel against Syria.

Sinora expressed his concerns Syria might attempt to draw Israel into a conflict along the Israeli-Syrian border by committing an act against Israel at the prompting of Iran, such as the firing of missiles into the Golan Heights, but Sinora admitted such an action was unlikely.

* Sinora told Gheit Iran continues to facilitate weapons smuggling from Syria into Lebanon to be provided to Hezbollah. He said a lot of the weapons are being flown directly to Beirut International Airport. He asked Egypt to play a role in attempting to pressure Iran to end the weapons smuggling.

Can Israel save the Arabs?

Nothing happens for decades, decades happen in a day. Yousseff Ibrahim, whose work I long admire, says the ROAD TO BEIRUT LEADS STRAIGHT TO DAMSCUS.  There is an histroical opportunity here for the West. Once again it falls to Israel's broad shoulders  but who better?
Youseff Ibrahim in today's NY Sun;

Suddenly, war is upon us in the Greater Middle East. A coalition of Arabian Muslim jihadists has set the trap.

Using Israeli soldiers as hostages, the Iranian, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, and Syrian jihadists are enveloping the region, opening a two-front war with Israel, delivering Lebanon into Hezbollah's grip, checkmating vital American interests, and bringing Iraq to the brink of civil war.

The crucial test is whether they can bag Prime Minister Olmert and his dovish defense minister, Amir Peretz, thereby eliminating the only players left who can make a difference.

Though it is hard to believe, to many Arabs Israel has emerged as a white knight that may save the day. Hobbled by fifth columns of Muslim fundamentalists within, the Arabs themselves cannot take on Syria or Iran. Neither, it seems, will the politically correct Europeans, who show more deference to their Muslim fundamentalist communities than to their liberal value system, as witnessed by the Danish cartoons incident.

America, too, has chosen eclipse, removing itself from robust policy-making in one of the world's most strategic regions, even though it has direct bearing on American energy interests. Where is the administration that once promised to stand behind democratic reforms and those seeking freedom in the Middle East? And what is it going to do about this fierce assault from the jihadists' coalition?

On Wednesday, the Washington Post quoted the White House as saying it was holding Iran and Syria responsible for the flare-up, which was "deliberately timed to exacerbate already high tensions in the region and sow further violence." Duh!

Any 10-year-old on a Beirut street could have told us that. There was no need for such a statement from the White House.

Thus, the burden now falls to Israel — for its own sake, as well as that of the Arabs. As the Israeli military analyst Zeev Schiff warned on Wednesday, if Israel fails to act now, it may in time face a third front, made up of Syria and Iran. So far, the indications have been anemic but not hopeless.

The right address for Israel's wrath was and remains Damascus. The right targets are Syria's civilian and military airports, Syria's missile system — as well as Hezbollah's missile network, supplied by Syria and Iran over the past six years — Syria's limp air force, and the summer and winter palaces of President Assad, for good measure

BTW I love this. So fabulous

CAIR, Jihad Tool, Rails Against the Jews

CAIR, the Council of American Islamic Relations, successful operational tool of The Muslim Broterhood project calls on all US Muslims to denounce Israel;

URGE CONGRESS, PRESIDENT TO CONDEMN ISRAELI ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS
Dozens of innocent people killed in 'disproportionate' attacks

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/13/06) - CAIR today called on American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact their elected representatives and urge that they condemn Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon that have left dozens of innocent civilians dead, and many more wounded.

Following incidents in which several Israeli soldiers were taken captive by militants, Israel has launched attacks that the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), France, Greece, and other nations have termed "disproportionate," "excessive" and "pointless." Dozens of Lebanese civilians, sometimes whole families, have been killed in the most recent Israeli attacks.

There's more. It's vile.

 

EXPOSING THE IRAN/HIZBOLLAH/PA CONNECTION

As Israel sustains over 700 Katyushas in current offensive, one of the more interesting outings coming out of the latest hostilities against the Jews is the alliance between the Palestinian Authority, Hizbollah and Iran.

PA sources reveal both Fatah and Hamas factions are allied with Hizbullah terrorists. IDF sources state that Iran manufactured and supplied Hizbullah with the rockets that hit Haifa and other areas.

A statement released by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades thanked Hizbullah and noted that Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorists are working together.

Israeli military sources examined a Katyusha rocket that exploded in Haifa Thursday night and said it was manufactured in Iran. Hizbullah initially denied that its terrorists fired the missile, but experts' examinations showed that it was the same kind that Hizbullah terrorists fired near Carmiel, a city several miles southeast of Haifa.

It is now being said that that Katyusha was fired by an Iranian Revolutionary Guard unit.

Iran has promised to pay for repairs resulting from Israel's bombing key targets in an effort to prevent Hizbullah terrorists from trying to hustle the kidnapped IDF soldiers to Iran.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also promised Syrian President Bashar Assad that an Israeli strike on Syria would be considered an attack on the Moslem world and would bring a "fierce response."

Israel and the United States openly have blamed Iran and Syria for the Hizbullah terrorist war on northern Israel.

"The historical ties between Iran and Hizbullah are well known, and Syria also has very close ties to Hizbullah. Again, there's a long history there and it's well known," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters this week. He added that Syria "has a very particular responsibility" for peace in the Middle East as well as for bringing about the release of two IDF soldiers kidnapped by Hizbullah terrorists Wednesday morning.

McCormack said there is a clear connection between last month's kidnapping of IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit by Hamas terrorists and the Hizbullah attack and abductions. "If you look at these actions, these are deliberate attempts to try to escalate tensions in the region," he explained. "And you look at the timing...very clearly these are individuals here that are seeking to provoke a negative reaction in the region.

Hamas is headquartered in Damascus, and the historical links between Hizbullah, Syria and Iran are will known, McCormack added. Syria is "hosting terrorist organizations in their capital...and is trying to determine for people living in the Palestinian Authority areas and the people of Lebanon what kind of future they're going to have."

He also told reporters, "You have a terrorist organization that is heading the government of the Palestinian Authority that is not a partner for peace." Full story here 

For Israelis the mantra is: Grab Your Gun, Take Shelter - Now

Israel Lays Siege to Lebanon
BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
CAIRO, Egypt — Israel appears to be attempting to cripple or dismantle Hezbollah's base in southern Lebanon, where it has operated freely since Israeli troops withdrew in 2000. In the first full day of Israel's Lebanon offensive, the Jewish state..

"You are Either With Us Or Against Us"

Remember that iconic speech Bush made after 9/11? Axis of evil. And state sponsors of terror would be just as guilty as the terrorists. "You are either with us or against us."

The impending crisis in the Middle East finally necessitates the world players remove their masks and choose. Choose between two polar opposites. 

In the struggle between good and evil, the international community is being called out of the closet and called in to identify their predilections. Isn't this fascinating? /sarc

Standing with the Civilized Man: Fighting for freedom, individual rights, liberty and justice.

The United States: Bush defends Israel, US blames Syria and Iran, demands soldier's release

Australia: Israel didn't cause latest unrest: PM

Canada Canadian PM Stephen Harper called Israel's incursion into Lebanon and strikes on Gaza "measured self-defence", according to Reuters.

Blair refuses to criticise Israel [updated]

Lebanese diaspora organizations condemn Hezbollah 

Christians United for Israel to Show Support at US Capitol  

(and I am confident Palau, Micronesia and The Grand Marshall Islands will strongly support Israel.  They always do.)

Surprise: Saudi Arabia blames and criticizes Hizbollah

Standing with the Savages: Sponsoring terror, killing innocent civilians, invading sovereign nations to  kidnap their soldiers, blood libel, subjugation of women.
 
EU, Russia condemn attacks

Qatar pushes for UN vote to condemn Israel on Gaza

France Condemn Israeli Strikes in Lebanon

FRANCE & RUSSIA CONDEMN ISRAELI ATTACK

ITALY'S PRODI: WE CONDEMN ISRAEL'S INCREASED USE OF FORCE [updated]

Belgium urges against escalation of tension in Mideast 
"I condemn the blockade of Lebanon by Israel and the massive use of violence which has already led to numerous victims, including many children," the minister ...

Norway condemns Israeli attacks on Lebanon [updated]

US Muslim coalition condemns Israeli action in Gaza

The World Peace Council, with affiliates in over 100 countries, expressed its “vehement condemnation” of “the recent barbaric and murderous bombing and invasion of Israeli military forces in the Gaza Strip”

In Greece, the Communist Party, alongside trade unions, peace groups, women’s organizations and other movements, swung into action from the very first moment of the attack. Rallies were organized in Greece’s three largest cities — Athens, Thessaloniki and Patras — demanding the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces.

The Blame Israel Crowd 
... Marc Garlasco, who was trotted out to condemn Israel in the Gaza case, is said to be a "battle damage expert" with Human Rights Watch. ...

Iranian mullah slams Western democracy .... urged international organizations to condemn Israel's military operations ..

UN Human Rights Council votes resolution condemning Israel's ...

UPDATE: Egypt, South Africa condemn Israel | Jerusalem Post
Egypt and South Africa's condemnations of Monday's suicide bombing stood out from the others that poured in from around the world because they equated the terrorist act with Israeli actions. [updated]

Arab States Continue to Pressure UN to Condemn Israel

Jordan Condemns Israeli Air Strikes in Lebanon [updated]

EU condemn attacks [updated]

Argentina [updated]

CAIR CONDEMNS ISRAELI ATTACKS

Lib Dem leader says Israel "beyond acceptable standards,"Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell Thursday became the first leader of Britain's three main political parties to condemn Israel following its latest .

UPDATE: And this one was a killer. Here I thouht the new Pope was enlightened. He walked  the walk, talked the talk. But it was not to be. When the going got tough, he got going. Reverted back to centuries of anti-semitism. Here from LGF

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Friday strongly deplored Israel’s strikes on Lebanon, saying they were “an attack” on a sovereign and free nation.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano said Pope Benedict and his aides were very worried that the developments in the Middle East risked degenerating into “a conflict with international repercussions.”

“In particular, the Holy See deplores right now the attack on Lebanon, a free and sovereign nation, and assures its closeness to these people who already have suffered so much to defend their independence,” he told Vatican Radio.

ugh ........... echoing (click the MP3 button)

The Latest Pali Blood Libel

The latest Palestinian blood libel. Let's see how SWIFT the LLL media pick it up;

GAZA, Palestine, July 13, 2006 (IPC + Agencies) [Official PA Website]- -

The Ministry of Health revealed on Monday that Israel has started recently using shells containing radioactive and poisonous chemicals that were never seen before, due to the decimation it causes to bodies that leaves little chance for the injured to heal.

MOH called on the international community and human rights group s to send a medical team in order to examine the injured and ascertain the presence of toxic material left by Israeli shells. The Ministry also demanded international organizations exert pressure on Israel to stop using these banned weapons against unarmed civilians in their homes and congregations. (hat tip reynolds)

If any substance is found you can be certain the Palis planted there. Is this why the UN is sending in a team?

US vetoes Qatar Resolution on Israel/Gaza

Statement by Ambassador John R. Bolton, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on Draft Middle East Resolution, at the Security Council, July 13, 2006

Mr. President, we are all aware of the delicate situation in the Middle East, where new and major developments are unfolding as we speak.  In light of the fluid and volatile nature of events on the ground, the United States believes this draft Resolution is not only untimely, but already outmoded.  We have just recently witnessed a major escalation by Hizballah.  On top of that, we have the announcement that the Secretary-General will be sending a team to the region to help resolve the situation.  These important new developments should be reflected in any text we consider.

Not withstanding these new developments, there were many other reasons to reject this draft.  The draft Resolution before the Council was unbalanced.  It placed demands on one side in the Middle East conflict but not the other.  This draft Resolution would have exacerbated tensions in the region and would have undermined our vision of two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side-by-side in peace and security. 

Passage would also have undermined the credibility of the Security Council, which itself must be seen by both sides as an honest broker in the Middle East conflict.  In this regard, public statements of UN officials must also accurately reflect positions agreed by member governments.

The United States worked hard with other delegations to achieve a more balanced text, one which acknowledged that Israeli military actions were in direct response to repeated rocket attacks into Southern Israel from Gaza and the June 25 abduction of Israeli Defense Force Corporal Gilad Shalit by Hamas.  Regrettably, we were not able to reach consensus.

While we remain gravely concerned about the deterioration of the situation in the West Bank and Gaza, we remain steadfast in our conviction that the best way to resolve the immediate crisis is for Hamas to secure the safe and unconditional release of Corporal Shalit.

Establishing the foundations for a lasting peace, however, will require us to focus our attention not just on Hamas, but on the state sponsors of terror who back them -- particularly Syria and Iran.  Let us be clear that without the financial and material support of Damascus and Tehran, Hamas would be severely crippled in carrying out its terrorist operations.  We call upon Syria and Iran to end their role as state sponsors of terror and unequivocally condemn the actions of Hamas, including this kidnapping.  We yet again call upon Syria to arrest the Hamas ringleader, Khaled Meshal, who currently resides in Damascus.  We stress again our condemnation of Syrian and Iranian support of Hizballah, which has claimed responsibility for the other kidnappings along the Blue Line between Israel and Lebanon.

We further call on the Palestinian Authority government to stop all acts of violence and terror and comply with the principles enunciated by the Quartet:  renounce terror, recognize Israel, and accept previous obligations and agreements, including the Roadmap.  The failure of the Palestinian Authority government to take these steps hurts the Palestinian people.   

We are obviously concerned about the duration of the present difficulties and the lack of a solution, but the issue for us is whether action by this Council makes such a solution more or less likely, not simply whether or not the Council seems to be "engaged".

The United States remains firmly committed to working with others to establish the foundations for a lasting peace in the region -- a foundation that would have been undermined had this draft Resolution passed.

 

UPDATE: Atlas readers please sign this petition to the UN. (hat tip Zall)

Time and time again Israel has been attacked and demonized by the United Nations. This time it's by the new U.N. Human Rights Council that was created to replace the discredited Human Rights Commission. We need to let Secretary-General Kofi Annan know this is unacceptable. The Commission, made up of many of the world's most repressive and autocratic regimes, was infamous for its obsessive focus on Israel - all the while ignoring massive human rights violations elsewhere in the world. Kofi Annan promised the new Council would be different...better.

The Council is one of the few U.N. reforms envisioned by Mr. Annan that actually came about, but in reality there has been no reform. It is still composed of anti-Israel human rights violators. The only thing that's different is the name.

True to form, the Council ended its very first session with a one-sided resolution condemning Israel for its military operations in Gaza, ignoring Palestinian rocket attacks against Israeli cities and the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by terrorists linked to the Hamas regime.

Just as outrageous was the Council's vote to make criticism of Israel's supposed human rights abuses a permanent item on the agenda for future sessions.

Santorum on Israeli Soldier Kidnapping;

“I condemn the taking of hostages and the brazen lawlessness carried out by Hezbollah.  The events of the other day demonstrate the nature of the threat the U.S. and its allies are facing as part of the Global War on Terror.  Hezbollah should immediately release these captured Israeli soldiers and cease all acts of violence carried out on people of the Middle East.  Hezbollah, with support from the governments of Syria and Iran, is a destructive force and I support efforts to dismantle this entity of death and destruction.”

Iran Comes Out of the Closet

Hizbullah wants soldiers moved to Iran

So the snake has come out from under the rock. They obviously want Israel to strike. Why? Have they got something in their arsenal we don't know about?

Israel Hits Al Manar

In what I consider to be the greatest piece of news coming out of the terrible developments in the Middle East;

IAF jets attacked the Al-Manar television station in Beirut belonging to the Hizbullah organization on Thursday morning. Story here

Thank Gd. The propaganda media is the most effective tool in the Palis deadly war on the Jews. Al Manar is particularly Goebbel and has earned its rightful place as a specially designated Global Terrorist Entity by the United States Treasury. The television station is an arm of Hizballah terrorist network.

It is also a sanctioned news source to Google, how sick are they? Al Jizz could use a sock and so could al-Reuters. Blood liars all.

World War 4, and the band plays on

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Iran is very much a player here. If they have the bomb they'll drop it.

The Iranian president has stated that ''the Zionist regime is beginning to melt''. In a speech held in the city of Tabriz, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted ''an explosion of anger against Israel'' within the Muslim countries in the surrounding region, and demanded that ''the corrupt western powers be held accountable'' . (Guysen.Israכl.News)

Ahmadinejad calls on Islamic nations to mobilize against Israel
"The fundamental and rooted problem of the Islamic world is the existence of the Zionist regime. The Islamic world has to mobilize its facilities to solve this problem."

According to the JPost, the IDF instructed all residents along Israel’s northern border into bomb shelters. The order was issued shortly after ten p.m. Wednesday evening. 

The Home Front Command will continue to issue orders to residents through the media.

One person was killed and 15 were wounded - one seriously - when four Hizbullah-fired Katyusha rockets landed in central Nahariya on Thursday morning. A rocket scored a direct hit on a house killing its inhabitant.

At Nahariya Hospital, patients were moved to secure rooms on lower floors, and about 60 expectant mothers were taken to underground shelters, said hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel. He said elective surgery has been halted. `We are on very high alert," Daniel told Israel Radio. "We are prepared." Full story here

Olmert declared Hizbullah attack an 'act of war' by Lebanon. So was Shalit. So were the hundreds of kassam rocket launches. All from Gaza - sovereign Gaza. An act of war (one of many) and when Olmert promises the response will be...very, very painful --  it should be.
IAF hits PA Foreign Ministry in Gaza

There's talk of Netanyahu joining Olmert's cabinet. Good idea. They need Netanyahu.

BTW, I always considered the cold war to be WW3......hence the headline.

Beirut airport closed after Israeli aircraft fire rockets at the main runway of Beirut international airport in Lebanon. BBC

Israeli aircraft have fired rockets at the runways of Beirut's international airport in Lebanon, forcing its closure and the diversion of flights.

The IDF said that the airport was targeted because it was used by Hizbullah to import weapons.

It follows the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militants.

Please note the BBC's use of the word capture. The Hizbollah jihadis went into Israel, killed 8 soldiers and kidnapped two and the BBC calls that a capture.

The attacks on Israel that left eight Israeli soldiers dead and two kidnapped came from Lebanon.

Top photo: Sgt.-Major Shani Turgeman, 24, of Beit Shean, was killed Wednesday in a Hizbullah attack on IDF forces on the northern border.

Sgt.-Major Eyal Benin, 22, of Beersheba was killed by Hizbullah operatives on Wednesday.
JPost

The names of six of the eight soldiers killed Wednesday in a Hizbullah attack on IDF forces patrolling the Lebanese border were released for publication Wednesday evening: Sgt. Nimrod Cohen, 19, from Mitzpe Shalem; Sgt.-Major Eyal Benin, 22, of Be'ersheba and Sgt.-Major Shani Turgeman, 24, of Beit Shean. All the soldiers' families have been notified.

The fourth victim was later identified as Sergeant-Major Wasim Nazel, 27, from the Druze village of Kfar Yanouch. Earlier, Nazel's family was mistakenly informed that he had been kidnapped. JPost

Meanwhile, as the world lines up shoulder to shouler with the barbarians to destroy Israel,  the Israels continue to work to save mankind;

It will soon be possible to order rain in Israel. A group of Israeli, Belgian and American researchers from Ben Gurion University in the Negev hope to transform this myth into a reality. ''The Geshem Project''  ('geshem' means rain in hebrew) could significantly reduce world hunger. (Guysen.Israכl.News)

A virtual simulation is planned for the near future in the Negev : for 80 million euro, the system put in place over a surface of 9 kilometers squared could bring rain to a region measuring 40 to 100 km2.

Insanity..........woe to those that call evil good and good evil. Give 'em plenty of woe.

UPDATE: Israel  imposes a blockade off the coast of Lebanon. Israel lays land, air, sea siege to Lebanon

Iran's Proxy Hizbollah Invades Israel

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So Rice is capitulating to the euroweenies on Iran whilst Iran continues its aggression against the West. The US and the rest of  the West may pretend not to notice but Israel has no choice. Hizbollah is Iran. Hamas is Iran. Backed, funded, owned by Iran.

More disgusting (and head scratching) was Kofi Annan's equal condemnation the Palis entering a sovereign nation and kidnapping a soldier on peaceful patrol and the Israel response to that act of war. Kofi Enema condemned Israel. We have got to get out of there. Giving our primer to the UN is sanctioning the evil. It  is no longer worthless, it is dangerous.

Hizballah Kills Seven Israeli Soldiers, Captures Two in Northern Border Attack
The militant Shiite Muslim group Hizballah said Wednesday that it had captured two Israeli soldiers along the Israel-Lebanon border, and Israeli officials said seven more soldiers were killed during military operations in response to the attack. Israeli tanks and troops entered Lebanon soon after the abduction to search for the missing soldiers. At least three soldiers were killed in a blast involving one of the tanks, Israeli officials said. Katyusha rockets were being fired from Lebanon into Israel and residents of northern border towns were urged to seek cover in underground bomb shelters.

Israel says they are going to bomb them back 20 years, I say bomb them back to the stone age .... mentally they are there already.

From Andy;

I just heard from a friend in Metula (which is the northern border with Lebanon, on the Israeli side....)

There is a HUGE aerial presence right now on the border with assault helicopters and low flying Jets.

Problem is, all night explosions were heard throughout Southern Lebanon.

It appears Hizbullah, IRAN - rigged the entire road system -- homes and entry ways to enter the country.

Roadside bombs....booby trapped cars -- homes filled with explosives were all lying i nwait for soldiers in hot pursuit of the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers.

More Pali Lies - Food, Medicine Aplenty

You won't see this in the terror loving media. But the Pali meme? The Pali blood libel, you will hear it over and over and over again.

Israel: PA Claims of Hunger are a Lie
Contrary to Palestinian Authority claims, the IDF is allowing food and medicines into Gaza, food supplies are ample, and some crossings are open. IDF: "PA terrorism is the source of the problem." The IDF opened the Erez Crossing into Gaza both yesterday and today (Tuesday), despite difficulties imposed by the Palestinian Authority itself. In addition, despite warnings of terrorist plans to commit an attack, the Karni Crossing has been opened for days at a time. Huge amounts of food supplies and medicines are being transported to Gaza.

Apparently, slanting articles in favour of the Palestinians is no longer enough for the Washington Post, so now they are publishing Op- Eds from Palestinian terrorist leaders (hat tip Isirota)

Aggression Under False Pretenses

"Innocent MOMS" Sleep With Suicide Belts

To ensure her safety she straps on a suicide belt before going to be?  These are the innocent civilians right?

WOMEN AWAIT SUICIDE CALL

IN these violent times, Um Ahmed takes steps to ensure her safety, strapping on a suicide belt before going to bed at night.

The mother-of-eight is one of a group of 20 women who, according to the local al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades commander, is prepared to die for her cause, should there be an unexpected Israeli assault on Abasa, near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis.

Ahmed, and women like her, are changing the face of terrorism by declaring their willingness to die for the cause. [Is this hour the media portrayed the Kamikazee pilots of WW2 - Atlas]

CYBER TERROR: DESTROYING PRO-ISRAEL WEBSITES

We have all seen, through the years that the Arab enemy uses any ruthless act it can in their evil war of conquest against Israel and the West. These acts include first and foremost the hijacking of their religion, the intimidation of their own men, women and children, the brainwashing in the press, the streets and schools.

Their methods include out right lies, terror against civilians, children, women, the elderly. Hijacking and kidnapping, torture of prisoners; all these methods are "holy" for them.

Since yesterday, a few select pro-Israel web sites have been HACKED, including our web site. If you are quick, you will see the hacked "homepage" at:

http://www.gamla.org.il/english/index.htm

An email was sent to our office threatening the GAMLA staff, and we are in touch with the authorities on this issue. We are currently working to return the site to it's regular activities, now running 10 years straight on the Internet.

In the letter to us, it was stated that Arab terrorists will do all they can against GAMLA.

Don't allow TERRORISTS to stop our efforts! Support for GAMLA is 100% support for a FREE Jewish Israel, and the front line defence of the West! Hat tip Robert

FREE GILAD RALLY! Heads up DC

Vital Perspectives is reporting;

Demonstration Planned at Syrian Embassy to Press for Release of Gilad Shalit

Heads up to those in the Washington, DC area. The DC Area Coalition of Synagogue Israel Support Committees and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America are organizing a protest in front of the Syrian Embassy on Monday afternoon. The Syrian government harbors the Hamas leadership which is directly responsible for the kidnapping of IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit. We hope to see you out there on Monday.

The UN Blames the Jooooooos

The Swiss of all people. The Swiss have alot to answer for.

Woe to those that call evil good and good evil.

The UN is not useless. It is dangerous and morally corrupt. Incapable of taking action on the nuclear threat of malevolent regimes of Iran and North Korea, Incapable of freeing North Koreans living in gulags, incapable of stopping the genocide is Darfur, incapable of stemming human traffficking and slavery. Instead they focus their energies on blatant Jew hate.
They blame the Jooooos over and over and over again. There's a bad moon on the rise.
By their fruits ye shall know them. And so we know them..............

Switzerland Says it is Satisfied With UN Resolution on Israel

The new Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution deploring Israel's military operations in the Palestinian territories. Although a Swiss bid to name Palestinians militants in the text failed, Swiss diplomats at the UN said their proposals had helped produce a more balanced wording.

Balanced? Militants? They are no longer militants, they are soldiers of the duly elected government of Hamas.

By a vote of 29 to 11 with five abstentions, the council approved a resolution decrying Israel's actions as a breach of international humanitarian law.

[...] Israel's ambassador Itzhak Levanon commented that it was "absolutely unacceptable" that the resolution only named Israel.

It is all so disgusting and morally corrupt.

Switzerland is the depositary state of the conventions, which set the standards for international humanitarian law.

It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.

The council agreed to send a fact-finding mission to the Palestinian territories to report back urgently on alleged rights violations by Israel.

Where is the fact finding mission to the greatest violators of human rights? Where? Darfur, Iran, North Korea? China?

The decision was taken by a majority vote at the end of a two-day special session called by the OIC. Swiss Info

UPDATE: Maybe the UN crucifies the Jews because they are the only ones that pay any attention to this bloated, corrupt international joke;

 

UN debates draft resolution calling for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza

CJ writes, "Even when a territory becomes Judenrein the Jews are STILL considered to be "occupying" it. If all the Israeli Jews moved to Brooklyn this would be the case. This is propaganda to an Orwellian exponential degree. But don't you know that Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem are also "occupied territory"? If the Jews went to the moon the muslims would demand that piece of "land" too.

Gilad, Defending Freedom Lovers Everywhere

Gilad, as a soldier of Israel, was not just defending Israel but Jews everywhere. He was kidnapped because he was a soldier defending the Jewish state and a warrior against terror and not because he was Gilad Shalit. As such, not only every Jew but every freedom-loving person should feel violated.    We must come together and do more to express our solidarity in concrete ways. Perhaps, as Esther Wachsman suggested when her son Nachshon was kidnapped, everyone around the world should light an extra Sabbath candle. Children in summer camps should hear of Gilad’s plight. The American government should receive millions of letters requesting their intervention. Vigils should be held in front of Israel’s embassy and protests outside the Syrian consulate. Avi Weiss, NY Sun

    Avi Weiss is senior rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and President of Amcha — The Coalition for Jewish Concerns.

[...]he address to free Gilad is Damascus. President Bashar al-Assad allows the leadership of Hamas free rein in Damascus and has it within his power to issue the order that would set Gilad free. Rep. Eliot Engel, a Democrat of New York, authored the “Syria Accountability Act of 2003” passed by both Houses of Congress, which calls for sanctions against Syria if they fail to stop supporting terror. President Bush has yet to fully impose these sanctions.

Defending us all, Read it all in The New York Sun.

UPDATE:Breaking News

IDF soldier killed in Gaza clashes The troop was shot in the head by Palestinian gunmen in the northern Gaza neighborhood of Atatra. The soldier was evacuated by helicopter to Soroka Hospital where he died of his wounds.

Gaza's Mad Hot Fashion Trend

What's the latest, mad ffffffashion in Gaza?

Despite the United States' reputation as an evil nation in the Gaza Strip, due to their support for Israel and their intervention in Iraq, the American army uniform has become the latest thing in Palestinian fashion. (Guysen.Israël.News)

According to Omar Bilbaysi, owner of three clothing stores in the center of Rafah, "the words US Army are not important; what counts is wearing a military uniform and the fact that the American army is powerful" .

Priorities? from LGF;

In a story about the Gaza operations, Associated Press Palestinian propagandist Ibrahim Barzak tosses off an insignificant tidbit of trivia:

In nearby Beit Lahiya, Palestinians fired at a car carrying a crew from the Arabic satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, wounding two people, said Wael Dahdouh, one of the reporters in the car. The gunmen apparently thought the reporters were Israeli undercover agents, he said.

And that’s it. Because the Al Jazeera journalists were shot by Palestinians, the world’s media could not care less. Imagine if Israel had been responsible—there would be page one screaming headlines, demands for investigations, etc.

The paragraph above has now been quietly removed from the linked story. However, it still exists in this version: Israelis Create Buffer Zone in North Gaza.

GILAD IS ALIVE!

IDF has confirmed that Shalit is still alive.

Justice Minister Haim Ramon announced Wednesday that Israel had confirmed "absolutely" that kidnapped IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit is still alive and being held captive by Hamas.(JPost)

Apparently Hamas fuhrer Hamas Khaled Mashaal is allegedly behind furious attempts to smuggle Shalit out of Gaza.

The terrorist ringleader Hamas leader, Khaled Mashaal, behind this kidnapping is hiding in Syria.  Mashaal was planning on making kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit "disappear." G2 Bulletin (PAID only) is reporting Israel is on high alert for Syrian attack.

Damascus also ordered terrorist groups to strike within 7 days

For the first time in years, Israel has received information regarding a possible Syrian attack launched from Syrian soil, the Galil Report has learned. Usually when Damascus wants to instigate conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian arena, it uses surrogates, such as Syria- and Iran-backed Hezbollah along Israel's northern border or the various Palestinian terror groups to which it funnels aid and directions through Hezbollah agents.

The Israeli Defense Forces has raised its level of alert along the Syrian border for fear President Bashar Assad may attempt to launch a direct strike, in part out of humiliation after an operation last week in which Israeli warplanes violated Syrian airspace without consequence and buzzed Assad's summer residence.

One possible scenario the IDF anticipates is that Assad may order a missile attack. Syria has a number of different short- and medium-range missiles, including several forms of the SCUD and Soviet-made SS-21. In addition, Assad recently signed a military alliance with Iran that has resulted in the transfer to Damascus of advanced missile technology.

Henry Hyde, Dhimmi Extraordinaire

Bob Novak has an extraordinary article in today's New York Post on a supreme act of dhimmitude by none other than Henry Hyde. I had to scan it as a could not find it online. I can't run it all but certainly the most salient points speak for themselves.

It would have been better to have done nothing than to back pedal and capitulate. It sends the worst kind of message imaginable.

WASHINGTON HOLY WAR  Bob D.  Novak, New York Post

On June 19, two young members of Congress ' received an extraordinary letter from Jerusalem. On behalf of Christian churches in 'the Holy Land, they were told a House resolution they were circulating blaming the Palestinian Authority for Christian decline there "is based on many false affirmations." The Very Rev. Michael H. Sellers, an Anglican priest who is coordinator of Jerusalem's Christian churches, said the real problem~ is the Israeli occupation -- especially its new security wall.

Prior to hearing this from Jerusalem, freshman Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Austin, Texas, and four-term Democ'ratic Rep. Joseph Crowley of New York City had collected 21 co-sponsors for their resolution. Two days later, Rep. Henry Hyde House International Relations committee chairman, wrote the congressmen that their claim of systematic persecution by the Palestinian Authority is "inaccurate and incomplete." '

Shame on you Mr. Hyde. It is surprising to me that Hyde nor his staffers didn't even give so much as a cursory look at the background of Reverend Sellers. Neither did Novak surprisingly.

Back in April 2004, Israellycool  reported  The Jerusalem Post referred to Mordechai Vanunu and his friends, father Michael Sellers and Anglican bishop Riau Abu El-Assl, as Fatah-Tanzim terrorists.

Reverend Seller's hatred of Zionism goes way back. Here is a quote from 1999.

It must be very confusing to God with so many Christians praying contradictory prayers for the future of the people of the Holy Land. Zionist Christians, encouraged by organisations like Christian Friends of Israel and the International Christian Embassy, pray fervently that Israel will not give up the Golan Heights, withdraw the settlements or share Jerusalem with the Palestinians. The indigenous Christians and their friends are praying for the very opposite - for a truly democratic society within Israel and an independent Palestinian State. Whether the aspirations for peace, justice and reconciliation are yet another mirage on the horizon will rest, humanly speaking on the shoulders of one man, Ehud Barak. Let us pray for him..As published in Evangelicals Now

Muslim prosecution of Christians in the Pali territories is well documented;

Persecution is having such a devastating effect on Palestinian Christians that thousands are abandoning their Christian faith and leaving their homelands. In 15 to 20 years, experts anticipate that conditions will only intensify.

"My specific interest in the plight of Christians living in Palestinian society began eight years ago when I met a Christian lay pastor who, knowing that I was a human rights lawyer, urged me to investigate the human rights abuses directed at Muslims who converted to Christianity," said Israeli attorney and author Justus Reid Weiner, referencing the background for his new book, Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society.

"I knew nothing about this, and frankly doubted that anyone would victimize the adherents of the world's largest religion. But as I began to schedule interviews, I quickly learned that most of the Christian victims were reluctant to even meet me. If they agreed to reveal what they had suffered, they insisted that I refer to them by a pseudonym," Weiner explained

as well as the desecration of Christian holy sites. Natan Sharansky has been pleading with the world to stop this horror here.

For a number of years already, there is the selected destruction of Christian/Jewish artifacts which is of course the center for Jewish/Christian religion. On the temple mount, King Solomon stables up to the cruaders on...........when the taliban destroyed the buddas in Afghanistan all the world was corrextly enraged. Here we see the systematic, the biggest maybe in the history of geology/archeology, destruction of the most important artifacts  for Christianity and Judaism. And the world knows nothing of this.

Nobody is permitted to go and see and watch whats happening. Excavators are working there. They are taking thousands and thousands of pounds and thousands of artifacts and simply thrown out. It is perhaps one the largest archaeological catastrophes in history. (Sharansky phone call 6/15)

Novak continues here;

McCaul and Crowley retreated in haste, putting their res0lution on holdl' going into the long Fourth of July recess. So apparently ends an effort by 'Israeli public relations to place full blame for the Christian exodus from the Israeli- controlled Holy Land on Muslims.

The- U.S. House of Representatives was pulled into this issue by Justus Reid Weiner, an Israei lawyer. Weiner, who long has blamed Christian misfortunes on the Palestinian Authority, contacted Ari Stein, a staffer in McCaul's congressional office. Stein. in turn brought in Crowley, a prominent Democrat, through his staffer, Gregg Shelowitz.

The result was a "Dear Colleague" letter from McCaul and Crowley blaming the  Palestinian Authority for "the systematic destruction of the oldest Christian community in the world." The staff-written letter asserted: "If we do not act now, Christians around the world risk losing control of and access to the .most ancient and holy sites in Christendom."

Their subsequent resolution spent three pages detailing alleged persecution of Christians by Arab Muslims. The McCaul-Crowley resolution immediately picked up 16 Republican co-sponsors and five Democrats. This process was slowed by the Rev. Sellers' letter. He said Christian churches in the Holy Land that he represents can take care of any problems with Muslims and "are not seeking your interference in their internal problems."
Where Congress could.help  he added, was influencing Israeli government policy: "Your support for the Christian presence in the Holy Land will best-be served by helping to remove the separation wall (which has converted all the Palestinian towns into big prisons for Christiaps and Muslims alike~ and by helping to bring occupation to an. end."

The Arabs are apoplectic over a wall that saves Jewish lives.

After his letter to McCaul and Crowley; Hyde made an appearance last Friday. at an International Relations subcommittee hearing on the plight of religious minorities. Long a supporter of Israel, Hyde testified: "I have been unable to understand how the currently routed barrier in Jerusalem - which rips asunder the existential poles of Christian belief, the, Nativity and! the Resurrection, and encloses 200,000 Palestinians on the Jerusalem side of the barrier - Will improve the security of Israel's citizens."

Huh? Hyde doesn't understand? It stops suicide murder bombers. Which have all but stopped since the erection of the wall. Is Mr. Hyde's memory so short as to not remember the daily suicide bombings. I this what he is advocating.

If I might suggest Henry Hyde and his spineless minions get thee over to the holy land and speak the very Christians whose lives he just imperiled.

Please write Rep. Hyde and tell him gently that his has been misled and a great misfortune awaits those Christians he had sought to protect.

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If you are from the 6^th District, you can even e-mail. (You can't email if you are not from his district.)

You can write McCaul and Crowley (or any of your representatives) here. In any compromise between good and evil, evil profits.

Hamas' Strategy: "The Violence Will Never Stop"

Hamas' Strategy: "The Violence Will Never Stop"
Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, second in command of the political Hamas leadership in Syria, said in an interview that the recent agreement with Fatah on the so-called Prisoners Document will "strengthen the resistance in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Aside from that, we have agreed on the goal of establishing a Palestinian state in these areas." When asked if that meant that Hamas inevitably accepts the Israeli state in the rest of the area, he replied: "The document does not say that at all." "No matter what, the violence will not stop." (Der Spiegel-Germany)

Olmert: "We Have No Intention of Capitulating to Blackmail"

Olmert rejected the kidnappers' demands.There is no other choice. Note the use of the term "Palestinian terrorist groups." when in fact it is simply Palestinians.

The three Palestinian terrorist groups that captured IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit gave Israel until 6 a.m. Tuesday to release Palestinian prisoners or \"pay the consequences.\" The statement, which was faxed to news agencies on Monday, did not say what those consequences would be.

I have a bad feeling here.

The three Palestinian terrorist groups that captured IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit gave Israel until 6 a.m. Tuesday to release Palestinian prisoners or "pay the consequences."

The statement, which was faxed to news agencies on Monday, did not say what those consequences would be.

Shalit was captured June 25 in a cross-border raid by militants linked to the Palestinians' ruling Hamas party, the Popular Resistance Committees and the Army of Islam. The last two groups have ties to Hamas.

Earlier Monday, the London-based Al Hayat reported that Egyptian representatives in the Gaza Strip confirmed that Shalit is alive. Jerusalem Post

And if the Egyptians saw Gilad alive, why didn't the Egyptan representatives do something? Clearly they didn't have the spine to take Gilad themselves, but why not call in his whereabouts to the Israelis.

And speaking of deadlines. Iran's nuclear deadline of July 5th is fast approaching.

Bolton Backs The Culture of Life

John Bolton came out strong for the culture of life, the importance of one life.  It defines the Jews. It says in the Talmud;

To save one life is to save the world entire.

John Bolton, statesman without equal, backed Israel. No equivocating. Not surprising. In a conflict between civilized man and  savage, I could not imagine Bolton responding any other way.

"The best way to end the Israeli offensive is to release the captured soldier "- America’s UN ambassador John Bolton

He was addressing a UN Security Council session called by Arab governments which ended early Saturday without a resolution condemning Israel.

The US ambassador also charged Syria and Lebanon with stoking regional tensions and demanded the Syria and Iran end their role as state sponsors of terror and condemn Hamas, including the kidnapping of Gideon Shalit.

Israel’s deputy ambassador Daniel Carmon said everything possible is being done to prevent harm to Palestinian civilians. Israel considers its pullout from Gaza, in the hope of re-engaging the peace process, was a mistake. Gaza is now a terror base supported by the elected Hamas government and Israel is under attack day in and day out.

Israel is conducting the most painstaking,  humanitarian military operation in Gaza. What patience. The elected terror government has been kidnapping and killing soldiers and citizens, while launching from Gaza hundreds of rockets into the schools and homes of Sderot. Israel had been incomprehensibly patient. But Hamas (translation terror in Hebrew) digging tunnels, burrowing underground like rats into Israel  to kidnap a young beautiful Jewish man to satiate the insatiable blood lust of the savage. Imagine if Hamas took all that energy and devoted it to building something, creating something. Only death. Death is their business. Death is what they do.

G-d bless John Bolton.

Pali Hate Protest Against Israel NYC

On an otherwise beautiful New York afternoon, erev shabbat, Fourth of July weekend (the better to insure a low Jewish counter protest)  Jew hating,  America hating, freedom hating, rabble took to the street in front of the "Zionist Consulate" on 2nd Avenue, Yitzchak Rabin Way to spew their vile propaganda in a protest against Israel called by Al-Awda New York, the New York Chapter of the National Council of Arab-Americans, ANSWER, the International Action Center, and other organizations. They were joined by socialists, communists, assorted leftists and those for the liberation of Puerto Rico.  I'd say there were, in total,  less than 100 people in attendance.

They were an ugly (figuratively, actually literally too) group that preach hate, hate, and more hate.

I stood alone in the hate crowd when a fellow looked at my Little Green Footballs tee shirt and said "you're not with them" and I said "no, I'm not" he said "are you Atlas?" I said "yeah" and so I had my counter protesting bud - a strong vocal counter protester. When you click on the VLOGs, it's CJ's voice your hearing arguing and making sense (to no avail).

CJ  tried to talk to them while they yelled and chanted - "boycott Israel," "Free Palestine,"  a woman with the most annoying piercing voice, that pitch that makes dog howl, blew out the bull horn - "from the river to the sea, no more Israel."

This guy would walk to the corner scream Jew hating screeds and return to the pack.

Get America out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, yada yada yada.

Watch the VLOG, the bald headed guy goes into apoplectic frenzy calling me a nazi because I said I loved Israel, that's CJ in the background calling him out. At the end of the tirade you'll see a gentleman in a green polo, that was CJ,who  btw was the best.

 

 

They complained to the cops about us, they said we were not allowed to be there. I think they wanted us arrested just for being there. "Do not film us!" "No pictures!"

And the cops came over and were really very sweet. They asked us not to talk to them even in low voices. The cops did not want the crowd to get out of hand (they knew what they were dealing with).

It was whack jobs on parade. Nasty, bile spewing and me? I kept insisting the Jews were lovely, lovely people. Their platform was based on lies and more lies. Blood libel. The Gaza massacres - imagine. This current Gaza operation is the most humane, humanitarian military operation in human history. No casualties. Dropping leaflets. The epitaph of child murderer was even more absurd but then the whole thing was.

All this taking place under this street sign, poetic eh?

The lies and the liars that tell them.

Walking up 2nd Avenue, from the "Zionst Consulate" to the "Zionist Embassy" - oyve.

Repulsive

 

 

So they chanted. And for our "latino brothers and sisters, Free Puerto Rico!." No I'm serious.

 

 

"Out of Iraq, out of Palestine" The jihadis want it all.

Hamas, the People's Choice - WAR

The elected government of the Palestinian people;

Hamas spokesperson and member of Palestinian parliament Mushir Al Masri confirmed that his organisation will never recognise the state of Israel, "even if we must all die in this war" . Israel Guysen

This is the Palestinian choice. What civilians are we talking about? The 4% that voted against in this poll. The 4% must leave. These people have chosen WAR.

UPDATE:Vital Perspective is reporting another kidnapping here;

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Bridgades Claims to Have Kidnapped IDF Soldier in West Bank

BREAKING NEWS: The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claims to have kidnapped a 22-year-old IDF soldier in the West Bank... the IDF is checking into the claim... al-Aqsa has made hoax claims to have kidnapped Israelis in the past... more as this develops...

Also in the West Bank, Palestinians hurled a Molotov cocktail at Israeli soldiers in Nablus about thirty minutes ago. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

UPDATE: This operaton into Gaza is the most humanitarian in human history. Think about it. Think about the extaordinary effort the Israelis are making to avoid casualties. Oh and they are dropping leaflets too.

 

 

Here's the link to one of the outrages I refer to in this blog. U.S. to pay $48 million to cover damages to Gaza power station - Haaretz - Israel News. The Israelis built that station. The Israelis gave that station to the Palestinians.  They ought to learn to start to build something. Spend their time creating something for the community so there is less time for digging under ground like rats to snatch Jewish soldiers.
 

BREAKING NEWS: The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claims to have kidnapped a 22-year-old IDF soldier in the West Bank... the IDF is checking into the claim... al-Aqsa has made hoax claims to have kidnapped Israelis in the past... more as this develops...

Also in the West Bank, Palestinians hurled a Molotov cocktail at Israeli soldiers in Nablus about thirty minutes ago. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

Youssef Ibrahim, Truth Teller

It is these voices in the Islamic world that the West has to support if reform and enlightenment is to come to the Muslim world. Youssef Ibrahim, Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan.....

With Terrorists, Let Israel Succeed
Muslim fundamentalists and rotting Arab dictators have a lot in common, most particularly their use of the tired and abused Palestinian Arab cause as the eternal vehicle to their taking and retaining power. Islamic fundamentalists with their many names - Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Islamic Republic of Iran - are again all focused on uniting the ummah of Islam around the liberation of Palestine. It is no coincidence that the commander of Hamas' military wing, Khaled Mashaal, lives under the protection and sponsorship of the Assad regime in Damascus. Nor is it a coincidence that Hamas was born, established, and intellectually weaponized by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement.
    This time, Israel should not leave Gaza until every Palestinian Arab clearly understands that the clocks will never be turned back. (New York Sun)

Palestinian Female Prisoners

Soccer Dad sent me this great link on some of those female prisoners that the Palestinians are whining about. You can not remove good and evil from the equation. unless of course you are a savage.

Since Israellycool linked here from his Operation Summer Rains liveblog, hundreds have read this posting. I have updated it with many more examples of Palestinian Arab female terrorists who are now in Israeli prisons. I did not list the women who were killed killing Jews or attempting to kill Jews.
Ahlam Tamimi, who drove the suicide bomber to the Sbarro's restaurant attack killing 15, including 11 children.

Amana Muna, who lured a 16-year old Israeli boy over the Internet to Ramallah where he was ambushed and killed.

Yusra Abdu, convicted of planning a suicide attack.

Wafa al-Bis, who tried to blow up the Israeli hospital that was treating her.

There's more -- and video too.

 

COUNTER PROTEST THE PALIS

The Palis are staging a rally at the Israeli Embassy in New York  tomorrow to protest the Israeli response to the kidnappings and murder of Jews. If you can go to counter protest, go!

COUNTER PROTEST AL-AWDA

PROTEST THE KILLING OF PALESTINIANS
DEMAND THE RELEASE OF PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS

One man's political prisoner is another man's blood thirsty savage.

Friday, June 30th
4:30 p.m.

Zionist Consulate
800 2nd Ave (btw 42nd & 43rd Sts.)
New York, NY

6:00 p.m.
March to UN
47th St. and 2nd Ave
(Join demonstrators here if arriving after 6:00 p.m.)

Demonstrators will call for an end to the invasion, an end to U.S. aid to Israel, freedom for the eight thousand Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, and the right of the world's more than six million Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, from which they were expelled in 1948. Called by Al-Awda New York, the New York Chapter of the National Council of Arab-Americans, ANSWER, the International Action Center, and other organizations.

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FREE PALESTINE www.al-awdany.org

"Martyrs dont die and if they do die, they die standing like trees " --Ghassan Kanafani

huh?

"We are Realists, We dream the Impossible"--Che

Che, the murdering realist.

"The only way to get your freedom is by letting your enemies know, you'll do anything for your freedom"--Malcolm X

"The oppressor has no rights that the oppressed are bound to respect."--Huey Newton

Who is  the oppressor?

Boy's Mother: "when you stand before God, please defend the people of Israel in all its actions."

Murdered teen's mom, Miriam: "The pain is almost too great to bear."

Thousands of people attended the funeral of Eliyahu Asheri in Jerusalem. The 18 year old was murdered after being kidnapped by Palestinians on Sunday.

Eliyahu's mother, Miriam, eulogized: "Eliyahu, our darling, you went up in a storm of the night like Elijah the prophet," she continued.

Miriam fondly recounted how the family would sit around the Shabbat table and how Eliyahu taught them, time and time again, not to judge people, "not by outward appearances nor by stigmas."

"I have one big request for you Eliyahu," Miriam said, "when you stand before God, please defend the people of Israel in all its actions." Story here

PALESTINIAN TROOPS ARE NOT MILITANTS

News reports from the biased Reuters and AP (their stringers are, after all, Palestinians) continue to refer to the acts of war perpetrated by Palestinian troops in Gaza as militants.  This is fallacious.  Gaza is now in the hands of the Palestinians. There is no occupying force.  It is their land, they elected their own government (terrorists albeit, but their choice) - these are Palestinian troops and they are committing acts of war against a sovereign nation.

Israel Faces Palestinian Militants with Expanded Arsenal - Adam Entous
Israeli troops in Gaza face Palestinian militants who are much better armed than last year, Israeli officials and analysts say. Israeli defense officials estimate militants have smuggled in hundreds of shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles, thousands of assault rifles, and tons of high explosive since Israel's Gaza "disengagement" in September 2005. Maj. Matan Gorodish told Reuters militants had only a few dozen anti-tank missiles before Israel's withdrawal. "Now they have hundreds of them," he said.
    According to Israel's internal security service, militants have brought into Gaza at least 3 million bullets, nearly 20,000 assault rifles, 430 rocket-propelled grenades, and several shoulder-fired [anti-aircraft] rocket launchers. A Western security source called these numbers "underestimates."

Oh, and check this out. He brought his baby sister with him to fire rockets at Jews?

Palestinian Rocket Explodes on Launch, Kills Two, Wounds Seven - Barak Ravid
Hamas member Kasam Masoud and his baby sister were killed, and seven Palestinians were wounded, in an explosion of a Kassam rocket as it was being

Decapitating Hamas

Israel Rounds Up Hamas Senior Leadership

Hamas government ministers, parliament members and activists arrested by Israeli forces operating in number of West Bank towns in what appears to be an attempt to ‘decapitate’ organization’s leadership; top Hamas members in Gaza go into hiding

Can you see the cockroaches dispersing?

In a swift operation carried out throughout the West Bank early Thursday Israeli forces apprehended Hamas government ministers, parliament members and activists in what appears to be an attempt to “decapitate” the organization’s leadership.

Among those arrested during the operation, which began shortly after midnight in Ramallah, Nablus, Qalqilya, Jenin and Jerusalem, are Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nasser al-Shaer, Hamas government Labor Minister Muhammad Barghouti, Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Khaled Abu Arfa and many other top officials.

Senior Hamas members Mahmoud Abu Tir and Mahmoud Atuan were apprehended in Jerusalem; most of the Palestinian Legislative Council members on Hamas’ behalf were also detained in various West Bank cities.

Palis Say They Fired Chemical Warhead

Note al-Reuters use of the word militant in the headline. They are not militants. They are TROOPS, SOLDIERS. Gaza is not "occupied territory." Gaza is theirs. They have an elected government (of terrorists) now. It's not Gaza militants, its Palestinians troops.

Palestinian troops allegedly fire a chemical tipped missile into Israel and still the  Israelis conduct the most civilized operation the world has ever known.

The Israelis have taken out the power grid leaving  two thirds of the Palestinians and their elected terror government in the dark. They knocked out their water. The Israelis have taken out three bridges, arrested the Hamas labor (labor? what labor?) cabinet minister, and six Hamas lawyers (what law school?), and rounded up Hamas senior leadership.

The Israelis have killed no one. Not one savage dead.
Their self control is frightening -- and frankly beyond my comprehension. The Palis are kidnapping Jews and killing them -

Gaza militants say fired chemical-tipped warhead

GAZA (Reuters) - A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday.

The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the claim by the spokesman from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement.

The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket.

"The al-Aqsa Brigades have fired one rocket with a chemical warhead" at southern Israel, Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the group, said in Gaza.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army had not detected that any such rocket was fired, nor was there any report of such a weapon hitting Israel.
(hat tip ab)

Eliyahu Asheri is Dead

The boy is dead, his body allegedly burned.
The Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees said early Thursday that it executed 18-year-old Eliyahu Asheri, the group has links to the ruling Hamas. Story here.

Charles at LGF;

By the way, I’d like to make something clear. When I title a post, “Palestinians Claim Hostage Murdered,” I mean it exactly that way. It’s not a “group” of “militants,” “loosely linked” to Hamas. It’s the Palestinian people. If they want to be a state, that means taking responsibility for their elected government.

And the Palestinian populace voted overwhelmingly (as CAIR is fond of telling us) for the Hamas government, knowing full well its radical nature and genocidal intent. What’s happening today is a direct result of that election.

I’m sick to my soul of this politically correct attitude of coddling savagery.

If 18-year old Eliahu Asheri really has been murdered by his kidnappers, every single Palestinian who voted for a Hamas candidate bears some of the blame.

Amen.

Time to Invade Syria

So Iran's satellite state and favored tool, Syria, is harboring the terror mastermind behind the act of war against Israel? The Hamas leader in Syria, Khaled Mashaal was responsible for the attack on an Israeli army post near Kerem Shalom crossing on Gaza-Israeli border on Sunday in which two soldiers were killed and a third kidnapped.

Khaled Mashaal, Hamas leader based in Damascus, is a target for assassination for ordering the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier, Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon said on Wednesday.

"He is definitely in our sights ... he is a target," Ramon told the Army Radio.

Mashaal was allegedly responsible for the attack on an Israeli army post near Kerem Shalom crossing on Gaza-Israeli border on Sunday in which two soldiers were killed and a third kidnapped, Ramon said.

In a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Edward Gonzales, Ramon said Mashaal was the equivalent to Osama Bin Laden and called on the international community to force Syrian President Bashar Assad to expel Mashaal from Damascus, where he has operated freely for years. Article here

And while Israel is in Syria, maybe they can give a shout out for Saddam's WMD - they are there.

UPDATE: Israeli planes buzz home of Syrian president (hoo ha)

The officials said four warplanes flew over a residence belonging to Assad in the Mediterranean port city of Latakia in northwestern Syria. Israeli television reports said Assad was home at the time.

Now that's rich...........

Excellent photos here of the Gaza operation (hat tip Jim D)

UPDATE: Dave over at Israelly Cool is liveblogging the operation here, keep checking back.

Israel: Another Kidnapping

Breaking: Fatah Group Claims to Have Kidnapped 62-Year-Old Israeli

A Fatah terror group, not to be outdone by Hamas, claims to have kidnapped a man from the Tel Aviv region. An earlier kidnapping alert was cancelled an hour after it was issued.

Another Jewish Boy Kidnapped; UPDATE:Pali Arabs vow Boy will be ""butchered in front of TV cameras"

*UPDATE* SCROLL FOR LATEST BREAKING

How can a fallacious media talk the ruse of peace when the savages are kidnapping and murdering Jews? Sickening. Condi calling for diplomacy, sickening. Embolden, empower and reward these souless animals. They love death, hate the Jews' reverence for life, and want to destroy all that is good. Diplomacy my ass. The world has descended into barbaric chaos because we equivocated on these evils for too long. Jihadi porn, the chickens coming home to roost.

After digging like rats for months to kidnap Gilad, the savages have captured a second boy, an 18-year-old student Eliyahu Asheri of Itamar last seen near Beitar, attempting to hitchhike home.

The story gets worse.The IDF was investigating the credibility of a report received on Tuesday, claiming that an Israeli body was discovered in Ramallah.

UPDATE: These evils appears to involve Egypt, Syria and of course the black hand Iran. Carl in Jerusalem is piecing it together;

Yesterday, I suggested that Israel target Hamas military leader Khaled Meshaal, who is hiding out in Damascus, and who controls the terrorists who are holding Gilad Shalit. Last night, I was pleased to see that former IDF Chief of Staff and Labor party minister Binyamin (Fuad) Ben Eliezer agrees with me. I don't know whether the Syrians read my blog (I have not seen any readers from Syria although I have seen readers from other Arab countries), but they have now moved to protect Meshaal from a potential targeted assassination.

UPDATE: Nidra Poller gives us French Radio this AM

Reports of the Gaza operation on French radio this morning (RFI, France Info, France Inter) were given from the point of view of Palestinians in Gaza.  Lamentations at the funeral of an "activist" killed in the Kerem Shalom operation (which sounds like an Israeli attack against the Palestinians), his mother who says they want to live in peace, shouts of Allah ou akhbar in the background, sound cut before we get to blood and swords.  Hardship: a resident of Gaza tells how the electricity has been cut off. 

 

As I said, the hyphen is gone, the soldier is no longer French-Israeli, just Israeli.  But the smart aleck who spoke of avenging his capture has stepped aside, the operation is now described as an attempt to liberate him.  No mention of the civilian who was kidnapped.  If they did mention him they would call  him a "colonist."

 

The big news is still France's victory over Spain in the World Cup.

UPDATE: Hamas: No Recognition of Israel (Who cares, they're animals)

UPDATE: Great statement from Chief Deputy Majority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA). He's a comer, big time.

“I am absolutely committed to stopping Hamas and its Islamic fascists from ever receiving another dime of the American taxpayers’ dollars.

“Hamas once again chooses terrorism over peace. Israel has shown remarkable patience in awaiting the safe return of its soldier and as a free nation, it has every right to secure its citizens from these Islamic fascists.

“Israel is another front in the same war for the free world that America fights against Islamic fascists. We stand steadfast with Israel, our enduring democratic ally in the Middle East, in taking the fight to the terrorists whose ideology rests on murdering innocent civilians.”

UPDATE: Confirmed.  An act of war;

Israeli Teen Kidnapped in West Bank
Abu Abir, a spokesman for the Palestinian Resistance Committees, told Al-Jazeera TV Wednesday that his group was holding Eliyahu Asheri, 18, a resident of Itamar in the West Bank, who went missing on Sunday. He later presented Asheri's identification card at a press conference in Gaza. He said Asheri, a student at the Neveh Tzuf pre-military academy, would be   "butchered in front of TV cameras" if the IDF operation in Gaza did not stop. According to Abu Abir, the PRC had formed a special unit consisting of several dozen gunmen to kidnap IDF soldiers and settlers in the West Bank. "We will continue our attacks on Israel until the leaders of Israel are brought to their knees," he said.

The Pali Arabs have as their elected officials terrorists.

A well-planned and well-executed attack on a strictly military target that was chosen long in advance - an act of war. The Palestinian organizations have wanted to kill civilians rather than soldiers because this is precisely the message they have wished to deliver - namely, that their enemy is not specifically the Israeli "occupation," nor even the Israeli army, but the entire Jewish population of Israel.

    The Palestinian Authority now has a Hamas government -

it cannot disassociate itself from the Hamas soldiers who raided the Israeli outpost on Sunday. Israel should therefore say to this government: "The charade is over....We are also declaring war on you. From now on we will treat you as any country treats another country it is at war with. We will close all our borders with you, cease providing you with all services, and consider any branch of your government, any of its members, and anyone on your side contributing to your military effort, legitimate war targets....And when you're ready to sue for peace-and-quiet, let us know."

Mohammed Abdel Al (Abu Abir), center, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, holds up a poster he said shows the Israeli identity card of Eliyahu Pinchas Asheri in Gaza, Wednesday.

EXCLUSIVE: Nidra Poller on the Kidnapped Soldier, a French Jew

*UPDATE*6:00PM;  NIDRA POLLER WRITES ME IN RESPONSE TO THE CLAIM THAT FRANCE IS WORKING "FURIOUSLY" TO SECURE GILAD'S RELEASE;

If the French are working furiously to secure the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit, it is a closely guarded secret.  They did acknowledge his double French-Israeli nationality...yesterday.  Our most unfavorite Jerusalem correspondent, Charles Enderlin, covered the French ambassador's visit to the distressed Shalit family on last night's news (and a journalist in the studio commented with a sneer that Gilad's father, whose mother made aliya, doesn't speak French).  As I understand it, the captured soldier hasn't lived in France but simply kept his French citizenship. A quick look at today's newspapers reveals that Shalit has been dehyphenated and downgraded; he is simply an Israeli soldier, there is no talk of any French involvement in efforts to find let alone liberate him.

And the big news is the historic decision of Hamas to "implicitly"  recognize Israel.  How?  By agreeing to sign on to the so-called "prisoner's document,"  which refers to a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank, thereby implying that the other part (of Palestine?) is, or might be understood to most likely and for the time being be...  Ah!  The document does not mention the name of "Israel."  You understand?  The importance of this historic event is that it makes Israel look like a really bad loser for even thinking of invading Gaza just when Hamas is ready to implicitly recognize its existence, as a (Zionist) nonenity.  And, second, the implicit recognition should do away with any further hesitation on the part of juicy EU donors.

The state-owned all-news radio station, France Info, announced this afternoon that Israel is threatening to invade Gaza "to take revenge for the kidnapping of the soldier."  Dig it?  Revenge!  Like Hamas, like your garden variety terrorist or Sicilian vendettist, the Israel army takes revenge.  That they might want to free the soldier and prevent futher incidents of the same type would not cross the empty mind of a France Info newscaster.

All of this is of little interest to the French street, which at this very moment is exploding in joy because the French beat Spain in tonight's World Cup game.  If you were a French-Israeli soldier in the hands of Jew-hating Hamas jihadis, you'd either have to count on the Israelis to work furiously for your release or be patient until the World Cup is over and the French are ready to think about small matters such as your survival.

French Ambassador in Israel S.E. Gerard Araud, went to Mitspe Hila in order to demonstrate his solidarity for the family of kidnapped soldier Guilad Shalit. Certain members of Shalit's family, it turns out, possess French citizenship (Guysen.Israël.News)

The kidnapped boy is French. Yes, dual citizen. I saw this heartbreaking letter from the boy's family;

La famille Shalit a publié une lettre à l'attention de son fils Guilad enlevé dimanche 25 juin dans le sud de la bande de Gaza.

''Mon cher Guilad, Papa, Maman, Yoel et Hadas se font beaucoup de souci pour toi. Ils aimeraient beaucoup t'entendre et espèrent que tu es en bonne santé. Nous espérons que tu pourras lire ces lignes et nous voulons que tu saches que nous faisons tous les efforts pour que tu reviennes le plus vite possible, à la maison à Hila, en Galilée, dans ta famille et dans ta chambre qui t'attend. Nous pensons à toi et prions pour que tu surmontes cette dure épreuve. Nous savons que tes ravisseurs ont aussi une famille et ont conscience de ce que nous endurons et te garderont en bonne santé. Nous t'aimons et te soutenons. Papa et Maman''

UPDATE: Translation;

Our dear and sweet Gilad: Mom, dad, Yoel and Hadas are very concerned for you and wish to hear from you. We hope that you are healthy and feeling well, as best as it is possible in your condition. We hope that you can read these lines and we want you to know that the greatest efforts are being carried out so that you can return home to Hila and the Galilee, to your family, and your room that awaits you as soon as possible.

We want you to know that we are thinking about you all the time and hope that somehow you are doing ok and surviving these moments.

We are confident that whoever is holding you also has a family and that they know what we are going through and will know to keep you healthy and safe.

Love you and support you,

Mom and dad

Apparently the French are working "furiously" with the Israelis to secure his release. 

France said on Monday it was seeking the release of an Israeli-French soldier who was reportedly captured by an armed Palestinian group at the weekend, and had made contact with all parties involved.

"We are in contact with all the concerned parties to find a solution to this situation," deputy foreign ministry spokesman Denis Simonneau told AFP.

Simonneau confirmed an announcement by Israeli army radio that the 20-year-old soldier, Gilad Shalit, had joint Israeli-French nationality and said French diplomatic services in Israel were already in touch with his family.

"Our embassy (in Tel Aviv) and our consulate general in Haifa (northern Israel) are taking action ... (and) have already made contact with his family by phone," Simmonneau said.

But Israel insists there are no "negotiations."

"This is not a matter of negotiations, this is not a matter of bargaining," Olmert said in a speech to the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. Full article here

Hamas Refuses to Turn Over Jewish Youth

IDF forces destroy roadway in Gaza

IAf aircraft blew up a bridge in Gaza City shortly before midnight on Tuesday. The army said that the operation was intended to keep Hamas from taking kidnapped soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit out of the Gaza Strip.

Apparently Hamas is trying to smuggle Gilad into Egypt. Vital Perspective is liveblogging  the Gaza operation here.

Great observation from a poster over at LGF;

This "Israeli Soldier" is a 19 year old kid. Yet somehow the AP & Reuters can't get themselves to call him a "youth", or "19 year old member of" (as they do for the Arab terrorist in this photo caption on the same day) or any other of those humanizing words they use to describe the Arab Terrorists. Nope he's not a human to the MSM...just a "soldier". On the topic of the MSM dehumanizing the Israelis: Remember that "settler" that was kidnapped by the Arab "Resistance"...that evil, blood sucking, usurper; "settler"?...that the MSM dehumanizes & can only describe as a "settler" (as opposed to the Arabs that the MSM describes as "student", "religous students", "youth", "children", "small kids on their way to the hospital", etc.) Well here is a picture of the "Evil Creature" He sure looks like an horrible/non human/evil creature to me / SARC!

The Black Hand: Iran Presses Hamas to Keep Kidnapped Jew

*UPDATED* Through the day. Scroll down

Iran, Syria press Hamas to keep Israeli soldier
Gaza invasion considered as Muslim groups threaten Mideast instability

Threatens Mideast instability? What we have now is stable? I think I prefer instability.

JERUSALEM – While the U.S., European countries and many Arab leaders have been applying international pressure on the Hamas-led Palestinian government to free an Israeli soldier kidnapped in a raid yesterday, Iran and Syria today pressured Hamas to hold on to their captive, diplomatic sources involved in the negotiations told WorldNetDaily.

Hamas officials told WND the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic opposition organization working to replace the current Egyptian regime, has offered to launch mass protests in Egypt and Jordan if Israeli ground troops enter Gaza. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, warned the protests could have a destabilizing effect on the region.

What's it going to take? These are acts of war. Declarations of war. Gaza needs to be reduced to rubble ................Iran's nukes too. 'Patience' is weakness. Patience is an act of dhimmitude.

Israel masses armored strength on its Gaza border. 
Breaking news......tune in to Israel TV here (English)

UPDATE 11:43 am: They issue demands but they won't admit to holding the Jewish hostage?

Palestinian militants issue demands over hostage Reuters June 26, 2006

GAZA, June 26 (Reuters) - Palestinian militant groups that carried out an attack in Israel in which a soldier was abducted issued a series of demands on Monday but stopped short of confirming they were holding him. Hamas's Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees and the Islamic Army said Israel would receive no information about kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit until Israel released from jail all Palestinian women prisoners and Palestinian children under the age of 18. A spokesman for the Qassam Brigades said the statement did not mean Hamas's armed wing and the other two groups were holding Shalit.

Release Pali women and children? What women and children? Media lapping it up. Eating it up like wild dogs eat raw meat.

The terrorists are the elected government.

Hamas' military wing Izz Eddeen al-Qassam Brigades, together the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), and a new terrorist group the Islamic Army - presumed to be associated with the global Islamic Jihad movement - joined efforts to strike against an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) outpost near the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip today. In recent weeks the Kerem Shalom crossing has been a conduit for substantial humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

 

The terrorist attack carried out Sunday morning by seven terrorists who infiltrated the border via a 100 meter-long tunnel that was apparently dug months before under the terminal in the Rafah area. [1] Lt. Hanan Barak, 20, from Arad, and St.-Sgt. Pavel Slotsker, 20, from Dimona [2] were killed by the attack and a third soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 19, from Mitzpeh Hila was kidnapped by the militants. Four IDF soldiers were also wounded. [3]

 

IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, speaking at a Sunday afternoon press conference on the situation, stated that "Hamas is involved in this matter from head to foot, literally ;" [4] implicating that the attack was perpetrated "under the direction and authorization of the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip." [5]

UPDATE: 3:11 PM Israel rejects demands

Israel rejects militants' demands over kidnapping

GAZA, June 26 (Reuters) - Palestinian militants on Monday demanded Israel
free Palestinian women and minors in its jails in exchange for information
on a kidnapped Israeli soldier, but Israel rejected any deal and threatened
a big offensive.
The Palestinian militant groups' demand was their first in a standoff by
three armed factions that attacked an army post in the Jewish state on
Sunday, infiltrating from the Gaza Strip.

Israel o Israel............Whatever rights the Pali Arabs ever had (and that is indeed questionable) - they have lost all rigthts to anything, not just the 'territories but to discourse. They deserve whatever any and all of yur commandos can do. And yeah I hope they do it.

Saudis Juice Hamas Butchery

[...] the Hamas campaign of violence continues unabashedly, in full swing, proving that terrorists can both “govern” and kill at the same time.

"With hearts full of faith, Hamas commends brother-fighter Abu Musab Zarqawi… who was  martyred at the hands of the savage crusade campaign which targets the Arab homeland, starting in Iraq,"

Hamas: "If We Want to, We'll Kill Abbas" - Adnan Asfor, spokesman for Hamas in the West Bank, discussed reports that Abbas' personal guard had received 3,000 new M16 rifles: "Abbas can put an F-16 plane in front of his house, but if we want to kill him, we'll kill him."

Despite the  Senate Voting to Block Aid to Palestinians last Friday and the international cut off off off funds to Hamas, their murder and terror continue unabated.Who is funding the "Firing Rockets on Israel and Trying to Intentionally Kill Civilians Is a War Crime." Michael I. Krauss & J. Peter Pham expose the duplicious dealings of our friend, the Saudis.

Our Blind Spot (NRO)

Despite its increasingly bloody record — or perhaps because of it — Hamas was elected to run the Palestinian Authority government.

How does this terrorist group continue operating despite the international boycott? An incident on June 13 involving PA Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar is telling. The Hamas leader was briefly stopped, but otherwise unhindered, as he transited through the international airport in Cairo with seven suitcases stuffed with an estimated $20 million. At the Rafah crossing-point from Sinai to Gaza, European monitors asked al-Zahar to explain the small fortune in his luggage, but did not detain him when he proved unresponsive. Then Palestinian Force 17 militiamen aligned with Fatah and President Abbas asked him to sign a guarantee that the money would be deposited in the Palestinian exchequer. Al-Zahar told them that he would think about it, then drove off. The foreign minister is the third Hamas official to enter at the Rafah crossing into Gaza carrying large amounts of cash. Last month, a Hamas lawmaker passed through with $4.5 million in banknotes. Before that, a Hamas spokesman brought in $800,000. Not a single dollar of these cash deliveries ever reached official Palestinian national coffers. Rather, Palestinian sources report that the cash covered the wages of Hamas’s militiamen and “security forces” — that is, the hired killers of “one of the deadliest terrorist organizations in the world today.”

And the provenance of this money? Ironically, given President Bush’s pledge that “those who do business with terror will do no business with the United States,” much of it comes from a country whose princes are regular guests at the Crawford Ranch.

According to Israel’s Center for Special Studies, as of 2003, up to 60 percent of Hamas’s annual budget came from Saudi Arabia, including from official sources, government-sponsored telethons, and government-run charities, as well as from Saudi individuals and organizations. The Saudi flow of money to Hamas has been so great, historically, that long before he became PA president, Mahmoud Abbas was complaining about it, as attested to by a December 2000 letter he wrote to Prince Salman, governor of Riyadh, discovered by Israeli forces during Operation Defensive Shield in April 2002. (hat tip ab)

The Pali Arabs Have Chemical WMD

Ratcheting up the horror ............. the one thing the Pali Arabs are good for.

The Aksa Martyrs Brigades group announced on Sunday that it its members have succeeded in manufacturing chemical and biological weapons to be used against Israel.

In a leaflet distributed in the Gaza Strip, the group, which belongs to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, said the weapons were the result of an effort that has lasted for three years.

The statment was a response to an Israeli Security Cabinet decision to give the IDF the green light to prepare all the forces necessary for a military operation against Gaza terror cells. As of 9:00 p.m. large amounts of Golani and Givati Brigade infantry troops were amassing on the Israeli side of the Gaza security fence.

According to the statement, the first of its kind, the group managed to manufacture and develop at least 20 different types of biological and chemical weapons. (JP)

As Olmert and Peretz sink deeper into dhimmitude the Israeli people must take action to change the course of  "conflict management." It is not working. It has empowered the savages. Israel, you must first defeat your enemy before you can negotiate a peace.

Kidnapping, Murder, Chemical Weapons in Pali Town

The world yawns when a Jew is kidnapped or killed and I am damn sick of it. I am sick of the impossible standard Israel (and America for that matter) is held to while savages and  animals execute the most barbaric acts of violence with impunity.

I am sick of Israel equiovating. I am sick of Israel supplying the guns to the Palis that murder their children.
Peretz says the Pali terrorists will pay a 'painful price,' I don't believe it will be painful enough.

Lt. Hanan Barak, 20, from Arad, will be buried at 8:00 p.m. Sunday night in Arad's military cemetery.

"Hanan is a great man, who lived to give to others, to do good for others," Barak's girlfriend said of him at the funeral.

Barak's sister, Atara, said her brother was "the greatest thing in the whole world."

Barak and St.-Sgt. Pavel Slotsker, 20, from Dimona, were killed and Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 19, from Mitzpeh Hila in the Galilee, was kidnapped on Sunday when Palestinians attacked a military post and two vehicles on the Israel-Gaza border in an operation that touched off a gunbattle with soldiers that also left four IDF troops hurt and four gunmen dead.

Naomi Ragen speaks the ugle truth;

Nothing Left to Say

As a direct result of the destruction of the communities of Gush Katif, terrorists are now free to shoot rockets, plant land mines, and dig tunnels all over Gaza. No one takes responsibility for the attacks. And if you try to fight back, you find yourself blowing up civilians because terrorists hide behind the innocent.

Today, nine terrorists infiltrated Israel with machine guns, rockets, and suicide belts.  They killed two soldiers: Chanan Barak and Pavel Slotzker, They also kidnapped Gilad Shalit and injured four other soldiers.  Some terrorists were killed. Others escaped back through the tunnels to Gaza.

Chanan, who lived in Arad,  was "the wisest, strongest man I knew," a friend said.  He would have been 21 in August. Pavel, who was planning to study medicine when he finished his tour of duty, was from Dimona.  He was "big and beautiful," his mother said. He was twenty.  Gilad Shalit, who has been in the army 11 months, is 19. His family lives in the Western Galilee.  I cannot imagine what they are going through. The horror of waiting, the search for information.  May God return him safely home.

I have been writing much less of late.  Not because nothing is happening but because there is nothing left to say. How many times can you write that Israel's leaders are weak and deluded?  And why should anyone care given their empowerment through a free and democratic election?  How many times can you say the obvious, that the Arabs have a single agenda, to wipe us off the map? No one even denies it anymore, not even the Leftists. How many times can you say: We said this would be the result of the retreat from Gaza, more murder, more mayhem, not a saving of lives, but a horrible security risk that would endanger our soldiers most of all? And who doubts it now anyway?  Like the collapse of the Oslo Accords,  which sold a bill of goods to the gullible,  no one cared, or took responsibility, or paid the price for the death of thousands of Israelis.

And so it will be this time.

Those who will pay the price will be the wise and the strong, the beautiful and the intelligent, who stand under orders at our borders while Mr.Olmert and Mr.Peretz are busy with their photo ops, smiling for the foreign press, shaking hands, and kissing whatever part of the enemy is available.

"Put not your faith in princes," the Psalmist writes. Like the Hebrews facing the sea with the Egyptians massing at their backs, we await the future hoping for miracles, even as we mourn the unbearable reality of all our present.

Naomi

Fatah threatens chemical weapons attack
Threat a response to possible IDF ground incursion to rescue kidnapped Cpl. Gilad Shalit; Security Cabinet: No one immune from response.

IDF poised for a major operation
Israel was poised for a major military operation Sunday evening after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert laid the responsibility for Sunday morning's attack near Kerem shalom squarely on Hamas and the Palestinian Authority's shoulders.

"We in Israel view the Palestinian Authority, headed by Chairman [Mahmoud] Abbas and the Palestinian government, responsible for this incident, with all that implies," Olmert said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting held under the heavy cloud of the events at Kerem Shalom.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni phoned her counterparts from around the world to help Israel secure the release of kidnapped soldier, Gilad Shalit.

(kidnapped boy)

 

Enemy Within: Burning America

In a disturbing trend, the enemy within stakes out its position and burns the flag of a dead 9/11 hero (among others) here;

Residents of a quiet neighborhood in Brooklyn awoke yesterday morning to a disturbing sight: seven American flags had been either consumed by flames or badly singed - the result, police said, of an early-morning spree of vandalism.

One of the flags belonged to the family of a firefighter killed during the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. James Coyle Jr., then 26, had been at Ladder 3 in Union Square for only 10 months when he was called down to the World Trade Center, never to return. His mother, Regina Coyle, said she had flown an American flag in front of the house ever since as a reminder of her son, and as a commitment to her country.(NY Sun)

I don't think it's "just kids," particularly in light of recent previous events.  I  reported here back in May, of homes defaced of those who flew old glory in a neighborhood not far from Mil Basin (where the above defilement took place.)     Police  charged a 12-year-old boy with the Memorial Day graffiti attack in which the acronym for the Palestinian Liberation Organization was written on the homes of some Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, residents who were displaying American flags. A police spokesman, Detective John Sweeney, described the boy only as "male, 12-years-old, Arabic."

BTW, no media in New York is talking about this save the Sun. The Memorial Day attacks were not reported for weeks (it took the Sun 2 weeks to report the story and they were the only ones.) Just thought you'd want to know.

Hamas: Islam will conquer US and Britain

Palestinian Media Watch

Hamas Video A Hamas video just released on their web site focuses on the broader Palestinian Islamic ideology, promising the eventual conquering and subjugation of Christian countries under Islam. The way Israel "ran" from Gaza after terror is presented as the prototype for future Israeli and Western behavior in the face of Islamic force.

The video is a collection of statements by Hamas terrorist leader, Yasser Ghalban, killed last week by Palestinians, in the ongoing internal fighting. To view this video, anticipating Islam's conquering of US and Britain, click here The following is the transcript of selections from the Hamas video:

"We will rule the nations, by Allah's will, the USA will be conquered, Israel will be conquered, Rome and Britain will be conquered. The Jihad for Allah... is the way of Truth and the way for Salvation and the way, which will lead us to crush the Jews and expel them from our country Palestine. Just as the Jews ran from Gaza, the Americans will run from Iraq and Afghanistan and the Russians will run from Chechnya, and the Indian will run from Kashmir, and our children will be released from Guantanamo. The prisoners will be released by Allah's will, not by peaceful means and not by agreements, but they will be released by the sword, they will be released by the gun".

The video identifies itself as from the "Al-Qassam Brigades Media Office." (hat tip Brigitte Gabriel)

Presbyterians Clerical Elite Listen to their flock, lay off the Jews

It's a situation that must be carefully monitored. It's always when the people go home and the lights are turned off that the real back door deals are made. Presbyterians are lay ing off the Jews for now;

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) national assembly on Wednesday revised a 2-year-old policy on Mideast investments that had provoked protest from grass roots churchgoers and Jewish groups.

To vigorous applause, delegates agreed to a new statement that says Presbyterian holdings pertaining to both Israel and Palestinian territory should "be invested in only peaceful pursuits."

The 2004 assembly authorized "phased selective divestment in multinational corporations operating in Israel" because of its policies toward Palestinians. Jewish organizations had criticized that action as unfairly one-sided but were content with the new wording.

David Bernstein of the American Jewish Committee's Washington office, who is observing the assembly, said the resolution "subjects Israel to the same process as every other country in the world. That's what we wanted. Singling out Israel is not the way to approach peace in the Middle East."

Mark Pelavin, director of interreligious affairs for Reform Judaism, said the revision "is a critical step toward removing an ugly stain on the church's history of fighting for peace and justice."

Presbyterians have not yet pulled any investments but talked with five corporations involved in Israel: Caterpillar, Citigroup Inc., Industries Inc., Motorola and United Technologies Corp.

Shut up and start fighting the real enemy.  An enemy that would sooner saw your head off -- in a heartbneat.

Conservatives sponsored a talk by lay Presbyterian James Woolsey, a CIA director under President Bill Clinton. He said the 2004 action put his church "clearly on the side of theocratic, totalitarian, anti-Semitic, genocidal beliefs, and nothing less."

The statement approved 483-28 also urges an end to terror against both Israelis and Palestinians. It says a sovereign state has the right to protect its borders but said the present location of Israel's security wall "illegally encroaches into the Palestinian territory."Article here

"Baked on the Premises.............pita" ATLAS EXCLUSIVE

Nidra is in Tel Aviv covering the Gaza Beach blood libel. Here is her seminal report, unedited. Only here in the Atlas sphere.

LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD
Nidra Poller
Tel Aviv June 14 2006
Eight Palestinian civilians are killed by an explosion on a Gaza beach and Israel is immediately accused, chided, chastised, rebuked …on the basis of a questionable news report from vaguely identified sources.   Outrage is intense and close to unanimous.  When, in the space of a few short days, the Israeli Defense Ministry produces the results of a serious investigation that clears Israeli troops of responsibility for the deaths, the media tamper with the evidence!  In a sham of scrupulous caution, the IDF report is picked apart as if it were necessarily shoddy, while undue credibility is given to a lone expert, Marc Galasco, working for Human Rights Watch.  Le Monde reports that the Israeli investigation is incomplete, suggesting it is half-baked, when in fact it will be voluntarily pursued to determine whether the accident was caused by buried Palestinian artillery or an unexploded Israeli shell aimed at rocket-launchers on a previous occasion.  CNN-World reported Galasco’s “findings” as if they were Pentagon brand high-tech, only revealing his HRW affiliation hours later. 
In the face of this perverse pussy-footing, a forthright reply is in order.  Israel does not target sunbathing civilians.  Israeli civilians are in fact targeted by an incessant rain of rockets fired from the recently evacuated Gaza strip.  Israel attacks launching pads, launchers, and vehicles transporting rockets.  If jihadis deliberately operate from the midst of civilian populations, what is Israel to do?  What would you want your army to do if the rockets were landing on your house?
Reliable information was available from varied sources shortly after the initial broadcast of what looks like a Hamas-produced exploitation video passed off as news. A thorough scientific investigation has now been presented, countering allegations of Israeli guilt.  To pretend that reasonable doubt subsists is simply dishonest.  To claim that the Hamas version should be given equal weight with the IDF investigation is to abandon all notion of rational analysis and, consequently, all sense of reality.  To maintain that we should give equal credence to both sides of the story is to engage in life-threatening mental contortions.
Every single Western media with a claim to integrity should not only publish a retraction of the unjust accusations thrown at Israel, they should explore their own readiness to pick up and relay these unfounded accusations.  And, further, they should admit that the death of the Galia family and the grief of the 11 year-old orphan Huda were cynically exploited. The image of Huda running across the sand, discovering the dead bodies, throwing herself around hysterically, crying, and mouthing totally inappropriate accusations should be reviewed, cleansed of the twisted emotional impact it was designed to provoke, and studied as a stunning example of blood libel. 
Nothing less than this is acceptable.  And it should be understood that Israel is not the only victim of this manipulation.  The target is much larger.  It includes the entire Western world, our values, and our future.
What has happened?  Instead of admitting the error and retracting the extravagant accusation, media and public officials have jumped on a June 13th incident in which Palestinian civilians were inadvertently killed in an aerial attack aimed at a truck transporting Katyusha rockets…to be launched against Israeli civilians.   And somehow, in this ethical swamp of public opinion, the fact that many of these Katyushas and Qassams fail to kill is chalked up to the credit of the launchers.  The Israeli attack is “murderous,” the terrorists are “militants,” and the rockets are “crude and unsophisticated”…about as harmful as spitballs.
Now Israeli officials are dancing on seven feet trying to prove that they are not evil monsters but decent people trying to protect their civilian population.  They should be standing straight and tall and demanding an apology from public opinion and those who forge it.
How can such a bald-faced lie as the Gaza Beach Massacre get away with murder?  Reliable information exists.  The IDF scrupulously records, films, monitors, times, measures every single operation, every last shot.  There is no ambiguity here.  Nothing mysterious.  No bone to gnaw on.   Public opinion does not need to mull over the details, the shrapnel extracted from the bodies of the wounded, the size of the crater, the timing, the exact whereabouts of all six shells fired by an Israeli gunboat earlier that afternoon.   The detailed report drafted by responsible officers of an honorable army serving a respectable democratic country should be accepted as given. The media should honestly explore their own guilt.  And individuals should ask themselves how they were blinded by images of a child’s grief, and unable to think rationally about the story she was illustrating. 
Falsified emotions and false accusations have seeped into the public mind, poisoning the heart, and incapacitating the logical facilities.  Every journalist with eyes to see now knows that the “news report” included a  spliced-in image of an Israeli gunboat, taken earlier that day, to give viewers the impression they were seeing the shell fired in real time, following it as it hits the beach, maims and kills, and creates a grieving orphan.  Either these procedures are common practice or they should be denounced. 
Huda has become an icon in the Arab-Muslim world, bringing to mind Mohamed al-Dura seminal icon of the jihad-intifada launched against Israel in September 2000.  There too a crude enactment of a child’s suffering served as the emotional flash that obliterates rational thinking.   The failure to come to grips with the al-Dura blood libel, despite the relentless efforts of analysts and investigators, has facilitated acceptance of the Sudaniya Beach version.
There is not a shred of evidence that Mohamed al-Dura was killed. [Myth, Fact, and al-Dura Affair, Commentary]  Ample display of bleeding bodies and bloody garments corroborate reports that Palestinians were in fact hit by an explosion on a Gaza Beach on June 9th.   Nothing indicates that they were, as France 2 Jerusalem correspondent Charles Enderlin said of Jamal and Mohamed al-Dura, “targets of fire coming from the Israeli positions.”  But we see today that no amount of scientific proof can suffice to nullify this type of accusation.  Unless and until they are recognized for what they are—blood libel.  Irrational, exterminationist hatred of Jews.  Unacceptable.

Sharansky: Give 'em Democracy

Sharansky never told us this;

Meetings at the Beaver Creek conference between Mr. Cheney and Mr. Sharansky and a Palestinian Arab democracy activist, Omar Karsou, helped influence a Rose Garden speech that President Bush gave on June 24, 2002, that called for democracy for the Palestinian Arabs. [give 'em Democracy and they'll give you Hamas - Atlas](NY SUN)

According to Moshe Katsav, the Palestinian leaders are fully responsible for the shooting of Qassam rockets towards Israel. ''Whether it be the government, the Parliament or the institutions, all must take responsibility'', maintains the Israeli president, currently visiting Sderot.  (Guysen.Israכl.News)

The Terrorist Regime Next Door - Editorial
Since Israel withdrew from Gaza last summer, more than 500 rockets have been fired at Israeli civilian targets from PA-controlled Gaza, hitting schools, kindergartens, farms, private homes, and factories. In Sderot, an Israel town several miles from the Gaza border, an estimated one-third of the children suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the near-daily rocket barrages from Gaza, where Hamas is now in charge. Security threats emanating from Gaza have been further exacerbated by the fact that weapons smuggling from Egypt has increased dramatically following Israel's pullout last year. (Washington Times)

A Palestinian arms dealer in Ramallah says that the price of an M-16 on the black market has doubled, from $5,000 to $10,000, since Hamas took power. "Hamas is buying like crazy," the dealer says.

 

3,000 M16s, 3,000.000 BULLETS

PA Plans to Weed Out "Collaborators" with Israel - Khaled Abu Toameh
The Palestinian Legislative Council's Security Affairs Committee, headed by former Fatah minister Muhammed Dahlan - who has been repeatedly accused of collaborating with Israel and the U.S. - has decided to launch a massive crackdown on "collaborators," PA officials said Monday. The PA already has about 100 suspected "collaborators" in its prisons, including six on death row. At least seven Palestinians have been killed in the past two months in the West Bank by Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades after being accused of collaboration with Israel. (Jerusalem Post)

Pali Arabs Fire on School Bus of Girls

In pursuit of their newest, terror target - young Jewish girls - the Pali Arabs fired on a school bus full of school girls. There is no outcry, there is nothing. Just last week, Pali Arabs attempted to kidnap two 9th grade girls. These are savages.

[...] a school bus carrying a group of 16-year old girls was making its way Monday afternoon to the Ofra settlement near Jerusalem when shots were fired at the bus from the direction of the neighboring Arab village of Kafr Sinjil.

[...]three girls were being treated for light wounds to the back and to their hands.
Two of the girls were being treated for shock.

Six bullet holes were discovered in the side of the bus.

Last week, two teenage girls escaped a kidnapping attempt at a hitchhiking post at the Rehalim Junction not far from the West Bank city of Nablus. The girls sustained light injuries and the three Palestinian kidnappers, from Jenin, were apprehended by security forces.

I don't understand Israeli leadership. The world doesn't give a shit how many Jews are targeted or killed. There wasn't so much as a peep when a Jewish student was kidnapped in Nablus last week . It only made the newswires when it was discovered he was an American. Then the world took notice. So why is Israel so concerned about appeasing the international communi-tay? Stop sacrificing Jews to placate Jew haters. I blame Jewish leadership, not the animals that commit these barbaric crimes. They are animals, they deserve to die. 

Indict Olmert: Accessory to Murder

3,000 M16s, 3,000.000 BULLETS

A faction of the Likud released a statement calling anyone involved in last week's transfer of weapons to the Palestinian Authority an "accessory to murder." 

Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) "sees the prime minister, the defense minister, the justices of the High Court of Justice, and any officer and soldier involved in the transfer of weapons to the murderer Abu Mazen and his gang as accessories to the murder of Jews," the movement's statement said. Furthermore, Manhigut Yehudit, headed by Moshe Feiglin, declared that it would work towards trying the aforementioned before a court of law when the movement takes over the reigns of power. Article here

The Israeli government, through the IDF, transferred 1,050 automatic rifles and one million bullets to the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday and Wednesday.

A senior member of the terrorist Force 17 aligned with the Fatah movement told WorldNetDaily that the weapons earmarked for Abbas's personal guard will be used against Israel. Terrorist Abu Yousef told WND that the weapons - some of which, he claims, were delivered to the PA earlier than last week - have already have been used in two shooting attacks, one of which resulted in the death of an Arab whose car was mistaken for that of a Jew.

By G-d, these people are lost in a sea of mendacity. They are wrong, no matter what the motivation. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
 

Fueling the Pali Meme on Gaza Beach

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The Pali meme continues. I say we disregard "accounts" aka hearsay aka lies aka as propaganda and stick solely with the facts. And knowing how effectively the Palis play the pliant and willing media I don't put much faith in their 'accounts" or their doctors identifying shrapnel. I believe the Jews - that schmuck Olmert apologized, for G-d's sake, as soon as it happened without knowing it was a Hamas shell. Victimhood: The Palestinian Disease

Hospital casts doubt on Israel's version of attack that killed seven Palestinians

Palestinian accounts of the timing of the explosion which killed seven members of the same family on a Gaza beach have cast doubt on crucial elements of the conclusion of the military investigation which absolved Israel of any responsibility.

Identification of the shell by Garalsco? Garalsco is imminently unqualified.. Jerry Gordon at Israpundit reports that not only did  the dishonorable Garlasco leave the army when the going got tough but he is untrained at the kind of evaluation he is purported to do. And why was Garalsco chosen to identify it? We need someone unbiased. Clean. Judged qualified by both sides. And the shrapnel? Where did it really come from? What was its original point of origin? There are already reports the bodies were tampered with, that any incriminating evidence was removed from the bodies. So what are we to believe? Threatswatch takes it down - line item by line item here.

Past experiences have proven that the Palestinians, all the way up to the leadership itself, do not have any scruples against using ‘human shields’ during various terror operations. And this incident appears to be within this format. (One Jerusalem)

And much like Al Dura (and we are painfully aware of its intent), the event appears to have been staged. The Palis know the chief weapon in their arsenal is a complicit, eager-to-believe-the-worst-about-the-Jew-hating media. FACT.

Charles Krauthammer sums it all up brilliantly (of course) here

Answer: This is another example of the Palestinians' classic and cowardly human-shield tactic -- attacking innocent Israeli civilians while hiding behind innocent Palestinian civilians. For Palestinian terrorists -- and the Palestinian governments (both Fatah and Hamas) that allow them to operate unmolested -- it's a win-win: If their rockets aimed into Israeli towns kill innocent Jews, no one abroad notices and it's another success in the terrorist war against Israel. And if Israel's preventive and deterrent attacks on those rocket bases inadvertently kill Palestinian civilians, the iconic "Israeli massacre" picture makes the front page of the New York Times, and the Palestinians win the propaganda war.

But there is an even larger question not asked. Whether the rocket bases are near civilian beaches or in remote areas, why are the Gazans launching any rockets at Israel in the first place -- about 1,000 in the past year?

Very interesting observations here

At the end of the day the Pali Arabs have achieved their goal -- to render Israel impotent in their response to the hundreds of Kassam rockets being launched from Gaza into Israel.

“She said the Israelis won’t send their bombs again,” a small girl said before scampering back to her sandcastle.

No, they won’t. The lies have achieved their purpose. The world will be watching Israel’s response to kassam rockets even more closely, and downplaying kassam attacks on Israel—because eight Gazans died in a beach explosion, yards away from where kassams were being launched towards Israel. More at Yourish

UPDATE: Another Pali big lie pushed by dinosaur media

UPDATE: BOYS AND THEIR MIGHTY MIGHTY BIG TOYS. JJJJJJJ posits the following. Any  good ballisticians out there to confirm this?

Several observations.—

Shrapnel, technically speaking (and as i understand it, you should check this out w/ a good military artillery type guy), is stuff that was loaded into cannons as “canister shot.”  nuts, bolts, bearing, this and that, sort of a very crude approximation of multiple projectiles, ala a shotgun shell.

I think military guys speak of the shards of a shell casing blown asunder by the explosive charge of an artillery shell, as shell fragments.

Another mechanism you should understand, is that modern high explosives generate absolutely tremendous pressures upon ignition, and these pressures are expressed by a pressure wave emanating from the explosion.  now, explosives are very tricky, and these pressure waves can be shaped, hence the phrase “shape charge.”  some plastiques, for instance, actually send the pressure wave toward the object to which the explosive is attached, and are relatively benign in the direction in which they meet little or relatively little resistance.

So, some explosives set on the bank vault door will not harm the bank robbers hiding behind the wooden desk ten feet away, while others would not do them any damn good whatsonever.  remember tom cruise in one of the mission impossible movies being “wafted” from one train to another in the tunnel on a nice billowy red cloud of explosion, over the significant portion of several seconds.

Well, sorry.

Remember the pressure wave thing above.  some pressure waves propagate at over 200,000 feet per second, if my memory of this isn’t becoming a bit befuddled.

So, if a bunch of palestinians were standing in a tight knit group on a beach, and a high explosive round from a marine artillery shell landed in their midst, it would have created considerable havor to the beach terrain, and the fragments from the shell would simply have torn through the torsos of the victims, well in a manner that has to be seen to be believed, and the pressure wave from the artillery shell would have simply shredded the people.  trust me, … , well, actually, you don’t have to trust me.

Pamela, my sweet, go to your video library.  i seem to recall that you have run several streaming videos of i.e.d.’s blowing up, either right under or around u.s. military vehicles, one in particular i seem to recall showed the terrorist fellow going to his death, and then showed the explosion behind a wall, or something like that.

Most of these i.e.d.’s, as i understand it, are nothing more than artillery shells, taken from the shell casings, with the mechanical fuses having been removed, and a remote electronic fuse set in place.  then some little weasel sits in a house in the neighborhood, and detonates it by phone.

These films demonstrate rather graphically the explosive force of an artillery shell.  if a naval artillery shell of comparable size and force explode in the midst of a bunch of soft skinned people, why the physical effect on those people would have been horrific, indeed.  when our poor guys get hit in the hummvees, their bodies are shredded and torn to pieces.  behind armor, and in armored vests, with helmets.  It is not pleasant for their friends and comrades to pick up the pieces.

One more thing, on the other end of the equation.

I hunt.  my weapon of choice is the 7mm remington magnum.  it shoots a gilding metal encased lead projectile weighing 175 grains, a little over 1/3 of an ounce, at 2,900 fps. at the muzzle.  arriving at a target, say 45-500 yards away, it will still be going roughly 18-19 hundred fps.  this is very mild velocity at the muzzle compared to a field/marine artillery piece.

This bullets destructive force is generated by the tissue of an animal resisting its path, causing upset of the bullet form, causing increasing resistance because of increased frontal area of the bullet, which works to dump the energy of the bullet inside the animals body.  a bullet traveling 2,000 fps, say, into an animal’s body which is 2 feet thick, well, the bullet does its work in less than 1/1000’s of a second.

A rifle bullet does not simply poke a hole in an animal.  this process creates a wound channel which is characterized by the radial expansion of tissues around the bullet path, and by the tissues absorption of tremendous pressure and heat generated by the bullet (which does not last long, but which happens), and the tearing and compression of flesh upon flesh.

The net result of this is what is called a wound channel, and its effects are horrendous.  first the hole.  then, the destruction to any vital organ, which may include tearing, cutting, of the effect i will next describe.  this last effect I will describe is called “jellying.”  the compression effect, called hydroscopic shock, literally turns meat and connected tissue into a jellied mass.  that’s gotta hurt.  it also shocks the animal’s central nervous system and neural receptors to an incredible degree.

There are a lot of other phenomena involved here, including one call secondary fragmentation.  Whenever sketal structure are struck by shell fragments, or by bullets, the bones are shattered, and given off fragments of their own at tremendous velocity, which have a corresponding ability to penetrate, cut and shock tissue.

Don’t want to get too grisly on the topic, but I shot an elk once, and the wound channel had jellied tissue around it about 3.5 inches in diameter, and at the terminus of the bullet path had little tiny bone fragments like the residue from a meat saw on a t-bone steak.  at other points, where leg and shoulder had been struck, the bone had shattered in radial shards, that looked like broken shards of pottery, some as long as a inch to an inch and one half long.

So, if hit by an artillery shell, the bodies of these people should have been pretty mangled.  if they stumbled upon a land mine, say laid by the Palestinian authority, my guess is the damage pathology of the wounds would be much different, because land mines simply don’t have the whompf of a good sized artillery projectile.

Can any of my military readers add to this?

There is another factor involved.

Artillery shells can also be fitted with what are called “proximity fuses,” wherein they will explode at a given height above the ground.  the projectiles in them are designed to “rain down” over a specified area.

Seems unlikely that a proximity weapon, were such a weapon involved, would hit some while “ignoring” the little girl under the blanket.

JUNE 18TH: The Germans are speaking truth to evil. Yeah, the Germans;

GERMAN PAPER DOUBTS PALESTINIAN GAZA REPORTS(hat tip Hugh G)

German newspaper casts doubt on Palestinian claims that IDF shell killed seven family members on Gaza beach. How come Hadil Ghalia was seen wearing dry clothes after the Gaza beach attack when she was reported to have been swimming?

While three major British newspapers published reports contradicting Israel's claims that its military was not responsible for the murder of seven members of the Ghalia family on a Gaza beach over a week ago, a German newspaper casts doubt on the authenticity of pictures taken soon after the bloody incident.

German daily Sued Deutsche, said pictures taken by Zakaria Abu Irbad, 36, a cameramen with the Palestinian independent news agency Ramattan, contradict Palestinian claims that an IDF shell killed the Ghalia family and point to the possibility that the event was staged to hold Israel responsible.

UPDATE: ISRAELI SURGEON: I REMOVED HAMAS SHELL FRAGMENTS

UPDATE: Human Rights Watch and Garalsco conceded Monday night for the first time since the incident that it could not contradict the IDF's exonerating findings. Story here

Latest Pali Arab Horror: Kidnap Jewish Girls

They go lower and lower. The left hears no evil, sees no evil ..... but they speak evil don't they. Such flowery platitudes for the worst barbarism.

ARMED PALESTINIAN ARABS TRIED TO KIDNAP JEWISH GIRLS

Palestinian terrorists struggled with and tried to force two Jewish girls at gunpoint into a car - but an army vehicle happened along, and the would-be kidnappers were caught near Shilo.
The incident began shortly before 3 PM. Two 9th grade girls were standing at the Rechelim junction on Highway 60, waiting for a ride from Jewish passersby towards Jerusalem. A car passed slowly by, and suddenly two armed Arabs got out and tried to force the two girls into their car. One of the girls was able to escape, watching helplessly as the Arabs tried to force her friend into their car.

9Th graders - 13 and 14 year olds - I know I got one. What they would have done a mother can not bear to think.

 

Arabic Mein Kampf: #1 With a Bullet

hat tip Black George Bush LGF from the Strategy Page
Am I crazy or did they depict Hitler here as an Arab?  Just askin'...........

In other morally bankrupt news;

$20 MILLION CASH IN PALI MINISTER'S SUITCASE

Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar, who has been seeking to raise money for the financially strapped Hamas government, returned to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday with a suitcase full of cash, Palestinians officials said.

An official said Zahar was believed to be carrying up to $20 million. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media.

The official said Zahar had declared the money at the border, which is controlled by President Mahmoud Abbas' presidential guard and monitored by European observers. It was not immediately clear whether Zahar would be permitted to keep the money. JP Full story here

Ok, so their people are allegedly starving, the PA refuses Israeli medicines, demands cashl, the are busted  with 111 truckloads of TVs but money for food and basic supplies.

Last month, a Hamas official was caught as he tried to smuggle about $800,000 into Gaza. The money was seized, but later returned to the government.

Give' em a state! And a military. And weapons, And billions in aid.

Pali Arabs Gone Wild

Get a life. Get an economy. Get a job. Build something. Create something. Do something. A society built on murder. And the 'international communi-tay' that  has got to stop enabling this sickness.

Palestinian civil servants storm parliament to demand salaries, forcing speaker to flee.

Olmert: "1967 Borders Are Indefensible"

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke before the British Parliament on Tuesday and said that Israel "would never agree to pull out of all of the West Bank to pre-1967 borders because those borders are indefensible."
He then referred to the infighting between rival Palestinian factions, and asked, "Do you think these guys...are ready in our lifetime to engage in a serious political dialogue?"

UPDATE:'Israeli journalist Carolyn Glick criticized PM Olmert’s intent to transfer land to Hamas and Al-Qaeda, and said that Israeli is unwilling to see the reality of its threatened national security in an interview.  Hat tip Robert D

CLICK HERE FOR LIVE AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH GLICK. She's brilliant.

Kofi Covers for Hamas Massacre

This guy is such a pimp, no wonder he gives UN peacekeeping rapists and human traffickers a free pass. Annan doubts IDF Gaza shelling findings. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan doubts the findings of an IDF inquiry into the Gaza beach shelling.   Just before the publication in Tel Aviv of the results of the Israeli forensic investigation — and based on no independent findings of his own — Mr. Annan said blaming the event on a Palestinian Arab planted mine sounded “odd.” And I find it rather odd that Kofi would not address the barrage of hundreds of Kassam rockets into  the town of Sderot. Homes, school, and children's bedrooms have rendered that town a ghost town. Where is Kofi's outrage? Where is Kofi's (and the world's) outrage over the kidnapping of an American Jew in Israel this past weekend (only to be released when his American status was discovered.) Nobody gave a shit when it was at first thought to be 'just' an Israeli. It got no media at all. None

Kofi spews his bile;

"The Israeli claim that the beach blast was caused by an explosive charge at the site sounds strange to me. I don't believe it is plausible that the Palestinians planted charges in a place where civilians often spend their time," Annan told the London-based Al-Hayat daily.

Civilians? C'mon Kofi, shame on you. When Kofi gets mad at America he takes it out on Israel. He sent his patsy Malloch out there with a nasty message for the American hayseeds and got his ass handed to him. The Palis won't accept medicine for their 'civilians.' Speak to that duplicitous one.

Annan said he would send a representative on his behalf to the region to investigate the Palestinian claims that an IDF shell killed the Ghalia family on the Gaza beach.

Who is he sending the UN peacekeeping rapists or his money grubbing thieves?

Palestinian legislator Saeb Erekat, a close aide to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, called for an international inquiry. He complained that Israel was trying to blame the Palestinians and warned, "this means that this crime could re-occur."

Uh oh, Hamas must be laying more mines. Warn the actors  civilians.

n Gaza, Human Rights Watch military expert Marc Garlasco inspected the shrapnel at the scene and saw the wounded. He concluded that the blast was caused by an Israeli shell. However, he held open the slim possibility that it was planted there by Palestinian militants, though fragment patterns did not back that.

Kofi Enema is relying on Garasco? Klinghoffer has the 411 on that knave here ;

Remember Mark Garlasco of HRW who rushed to judgment on Haditha?

Marc Garlasco, of Human Rights Watch, told reporters recently, "What happened at Haditha appears to be outright murder. The Haditha massacre will go down as Iraq’s My Lai."

When Garlasco appeared on Sean Hannity’s radio show to discuss his views with Hannity and retired Marine colonel Oliver North, Garlasco immediately back-pedaled, admitting under questioning that he had "no idea of the facts" in the situation. Like his fellows he steadfastly refused to allow his ignorance to prevent him from judging the Marines. As one Marine said, "killers like O.J. Simpson and Scott Peterson received more respect from the press than our fellows are getting. It’s disgraceful."

He is at it again. This time he dismisses the findings of the Israeli army investigation of the Gaza Beach incident. It concluded that Israel was not responsible for the civilian deaths based on a careful analysis of TV film of the aftermath and shrapnel taken from the injured treated in Israel. Those revealed that not only was the timing of the explosion inconsistent with Israeli shelling but

And in today's NY Sun: Annan Declares Israeli Denial 'Odd,' But Will Not Elaborate

According to the Foreign Ministry’s Web site, the quality of the shrapnel was consistent with an explosion caused “by a bomb rather than a shell.”

Photographs of the crater left on the beach were caused by “an explosion from below (a mine),not a hit from above (a shell),” according to the Web site.     In addition, Israeli intelligence officers “amassed considerable information” indicating that “Hamas has been systematically mining the northern Gaza beach in an attempt to keep Israeli commandos from landing there again,” the three-day investigation found.

Kofi. what are they paying you?

Ronnie Daniel, military correspondent for Israeli Channel 2 TV has said that an Israeli doctor managed to extract a metal shard from the body of one of the Palestinians wounded in the June 9th incident on the Gaza beach, who were taken to Israeli to be looked after. (Guysen.Israכl.News)

Palestinian doctors had tried to remove all the shards before transferring the wounded to Israel. The metal compostion of the shard does not match the metal found in Israeli artillery shells. The metal has not yet been analyzed.

Israel Says It Didn't Cause Deadly Gaza Blast

CNN Still Spreading Blood Libel

CNN: Palestinians: Israelis kill 7 on Gaza beach when in fact Probe: Hamas Bomb, Not IDF Shell, Caused Gaza Deaths

PA TV falsified Mohammed Al Dura    

Palestinian Media Watch said that ''the Palestinian Authority television has repeatedly broadcast a falsified video of the events linked to the death of seven members of a Palestinian family on a Gaza beach, the 9 June. (Guysen.News)

In order to make the Israeli Navy responsible for these deaths, this Television has interposed video images of an Israeli ship firing towards Gaza earlier in the day between scenes of the dead, creating the impression that Israel was responsible for these deaths. The scene filmed by the Palestinians on the beach rules out the hypothesis of an Israeli missile, because an Israeli missile would have made a giant crater and spread sand on the sea and the victims. There is no crater in the scenes from the Palestinian TV.

Read it all here. I reported this back on Friday. Friday, the 9th. CNN, terror tool.

UPDATE: Over at No Pasaran (yummy);

A shell, or something explodes on the beach in Gaza.
The Arabs removed all evidence of shrapnel that could prove whose shell was to blame:

Seven Arab Muslim Palestinians were killed. One dramatic picture on the cover of the NYT, page 3 of the Chicago Trib, etc. showed a beautiful young girl screaming in agony over the death of her father lying next to her. This is the lasting image and the entire story to be told. By Monday the NYT headline is: "Errant Shell Turns Girl Into Palestinian Icon".

One commentator wondered how the camera got there so fast or was the scene re-enacted?

I don’t wonder how. I don’t even wonder why. I wonder why so few are so skeptical of it.
The Arabs removed all the wounded and dead with the shrapnel in them also removed to eliminate any evidence. They refused to have the bodies examined for forensic evidence of what actually killed the seven. Two are being treated in Israeli hospitals.

Atlas VLOGS the UN, Gaza, Fat Bloggers

A quick vlog cause I have to run and someone (other than Bolton) has to set the clerk Brown straight.

Uh oh, who is going to tell Malloch this?

Great Rushhhhhhhh on Mallach

Rules? In a Knife Fight? Classic Vanderleun

The truth of the matter is that far too many Americans are becoming far too interested in our troops behaving correctly than actually supporting and sustaining them. They blather support out of one orifice while spewing disdain from the other. We hear these clapped-out flatulators daily at work, on the street, and over the tube of the boobs. I don't know about you, but for me these hyperventilating hypocrites are beginning to gripe my hindquarters big time.

The question of "should we be fighting" has long since been answered. Election or no election, Bush or AntiBush, we are in this war and we will be staying in it. If we don't go to it, it will come to us or to a Canada nearby. I hear all these psychotic babblers saying that they are only interested in finding peace through justice. The facts on the ground, as we saw in peace-promoting Canada this month, is that this war is only interested in peace through death.

But if a soldier of America has the will to pursue killers and cowards into the chaotic labyrinth of a Baghdad slum where friend, foe, and neutral are all of the same make and model, where is the will of the Americans that soldier is sworn to protect and serve when it comes to unqualified support; support without the weasel word "but?" If an American soldier can muster the will to drive down a road in Afghanistan where his comrades were killed in the last month, surely there is no excuse for an American citizen, secure for five years in his fat and happy world, to muster the will to support that soldier in deed and in word with no qualifications.

hoo ah! Oh yeah, it gets better.

UPDATE: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Ehud Olmert's daughter (after the rant on Ehud's wife on the VLOG.) You can't say I didn't warn you here:

JERUSLAEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's daughter this weekend took part in a demonstration against the Jewish state in which Israeli leaders were termed "killers" and calls were made for the Palestinian Arab intifada - or terror war - to prevail.

The demonstration took place outside the Tel Aviv house of Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff Dan Halutz following an explosion this weekend on a northern Gaza Strip beach that reportedly killed seven Palestinian Arabs and wounded more than 40.

At first, the IDF was blamed widely for the Gaza beach explosion. The army routinely fires artillery shells at empty areas in northern Gaza in response to the regular launching of Qassam rockets by terrorists from the area aimed at nearby Jewish communities. Full story here  (hat tip Dr. Nancy)

UPDATE: Lowlives anonymous.  He's "feelin' good and getting ready to get back to work." Does that mean he'll reporting to the nearest bar?

UPDATE: Speaking of Olmert's suicide disengagement plan.

Kofi Jumps the Jew hating Shark

Once again we can count on Kofi Annan to pounce on the latest Jew hating device to alienate Israel from the rest of the world while empowering savages, murderers --  in other words like-minded kindred Kofi anti-spirits. And jump on it he did, even though the ruse was exposed almost immediately.

The secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, was "deeply disturbed," he said in an official statement on Friday, at the killing of women and children picnicking on a Gaza beach, committed "reportedly by Israeli forces."

Eyeless in Gaza, Mr. Annan carelessly relies on heart-wrenching press photographs juxtaposing Israeli shelling with a child crying over her dead mother's body. Israel, meanwhile, fears inflaming the region where myths about the supposed Jewish thirst for innocent Arab blood quickly translates into a war cry for billions of Muslims around the world. More here

This story was suspect from the first. I revealed to all the malevolent, diabolical charade that the Jew killers were perpetrating back on Friday here. But let's be honest, does Kofi care if it's a lie. No way. Kofi reports to these savages. He pays the jiyza. He and his flying monkeys.

UPDATE: More ugly UN  news: ANNE BAYEFSKY: SPREADING HATE, DESTRUCTION AND TERRORISM

UPDATE: Probe: Hamas Bomb, Not IDF Shell, Caused Gaza Deaths

Palis Deface NY Homes Flying Old Glory

Homes Defaced Of Those Who Flew Old Glory
Police have charged a 12-year-old boy with a Memorial Day graffiti attack in which the acronym for the Palestinian Liberation Organization was written on the homes of some Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, residents who were displaying American flags. A police spokesman, Detective John Sweeney, described the boy only as "male, 12-years-old, Arabic."

And this shit will not stop until we take a stand and make it stop. Stop coddling and enabling this garbage.

On Memorial Day, patriotic residents of Senator Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Bay Ridge awoke to see the letters PLO painted on a garage, four trees, and a van. Only the houses on the block that displayed the American flag were attacked.

UPDATE: Yahoo points out:

On May 14, about 200 Brooklyn Palestinians marched through Bay Ridge
in an anti-Israel protest. Many held up signs denouncing America's
support of Israel and chanted "Shame, shame, U.S.A." 

Also PLO painted on properties that display American flags.Full story here

Pali Arabs Kidnap American Jewish Kid

What has to happen to wake Israel, its head clerk and Amerabia out of its self deluded kumbaya stupor? Are they nuts? Or are they still investigating the frame up - the death of the Pali family frolicking on the beach by Israelis Palestinians?

 

AMERICAN JEWISH STUDENT BENJAMIN FISHBEIN KIDNAPPED IN JERUSALEM

The Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service is checking a claim that an Israeli citizen was abducted Saturday night in Nablus. Fatah activists sent a tape to the Reuters News Agency, claiming it shows an Israeli, Benjamin Bright Fishbein, of Jerusalem. The videotape released to the international media shows Fishbein holding up his identity card and broadcasts a statement in Arabic that his kidnappers will kill him if Israel does not release jailed Arab terrorists. The terrorists said they are holding Fishbein in Shechem. Full story here

The target is deliberate. It fits perfectly with the  Jihad official: Florida teen 'ideal target'

Terror leaders rejoice in death of U.S.-born Daniel Wultz, after Tel Aviv bombing. 'He is best target combination – American and Zionist,'

UPDATE: FISHBEIN FREE! La Chaim!

The PA security forces subsequently handed the American over to the Israel Defense Forces. Defense officials believe once the militants discovered the person was indeed an American citizen, they took steps to end the matter quickly.

“Apparently, the kidnappers did not want to end up like Zarqawi,” a defense official said. (hat tip tOm P) From Haaretz via LGF.

Israel: NO MORE LAND GIVEAWAYS

Suicidal .................. road to hell paved with good intention,

But Mr. Olmert’s plan could be loaves and fishes for Palestinian terrorists. After 60,000 Israelis now living in some 60 smaller settlements are transferred to larger ones behind the 456-mile (up from 420 miles), $2.2 billion barrier, funded by U.S. soft loans, Hamas would be free to lob its Iran-supplied missiles into Israel. Jordan would come under tremendous pressure from Palestinians in the West Bank to reopen its border. Hamas would also have a hunting license to destabilize the Hashemite kingdom whose population is already 65 percent Palestinian. All in all, a bad deal for Israel and a good deal for Hamas.More here

IRAN POURS MILLIONS INTO SUPPORTING HAMAS INFRASTRUCTURE

UPDATE: Carl in Jerusalem calls Olmert and co. - a government of dhimmis here.

UPDATE: Israpundit has a fascinating post (comments are worth reading as well);

The Situation is Grave. Action Now to Defend the Jews of Israel
... As a means of mobilizing the American people for the greatest struggle in their history - to defend the Jews from Islamofascism and the EU and US (their own ...

Rockets Attacking Israel, Again:"How long can we rely on miracles?"

From Gaza, the land of the disengagement, a rain of rockets, yet again.

Palestinian Rocket Lands on Child's Bed - Shmulik Hadad
Palestinians in Gaza fired five Kassam rockets toward the Western Negev city of Sderot early Tuesday. One rocket landed near a school and a woman passing by sustained light injuries from shrapnel. Another rocket penetrated a home and landed on the bed of one of the children, who had left for school just minutes before. Damage was caused to the house and to a number of parked cars. (Ynet News)

It is endless, and ignored by world news organziations. It wont't stop at Kassam rockets. What kind of rocket is next?

Sderot residents protested this morning, after Kassam rockets smashed into a child's bedroom and near a school this morning. "How long can we rely on miracles?" they ask. Sderot municipal spokesman Yosef Cohen told Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler, "The rockets today were especially powerful, and their blast was heard clearly throughout the city. Children are frightened, people are panicking, and the IDF has no answer.

UPDATE: Is Israel losing its collective mind:

“If We Need to Cut Electricity, Cut Off Gaza First”

Referring to yesterday’s power outages, MK Eliyahu Gabbai of the NRP stated today: “If we urgently need to cut off the electricity, we should cut off Gaza first and plunge Shechem and Jenin into darkness. Israeli citizens and the country’s economy should not be harmed by a lack of electricity while the enemies of the state enjoy a steady electricity supply.”

Mr. Gabbai added, “The electricity supply in Sderot will be cut off, putting the Red Dawn early warning system in jeopardy, while in Gaza everyone continues to burn their electric lights while firing their missiles.” hat tip Grasiela
 

Andover Teacher Recruiting Kids to Support Hamas

Solomonia has a stunning expose on the Andover teacher using students to support terror;

The Andover Teacher Who Supported Hamas -- and Got His Students to Help

Andover High teacher Ron Francis is one of the prime movers in the Somerville Divestment Project – a radical anti-Israel (and guess who else) group here in the Boston area.  It appears his radical activities may finally be overlapping a little too close on his responsibility to students.

Blood Libel International

Nidra Poller wll be reporting here later in the week on the rampant horror of Jew Hatred in Francea and the continuing spinning out of control of Muslim wilding. Punk Jihad.

The following article was published two years ago in Hebrew in Makor Risho, in English on the site of Israel Hasbara Committee. The IHC version had been edited.  Badly. Nidra has restored the original version and I am running it here, unedited. This is the first time this piece has appeared in English.

BLOOD LIBEL INTERNATIONAL

Gérard Huber
Nidra Poller

How many times over how many centuries have Jews been killed by murderous mobs inflamed by the accusation of blood libel?  Christian children who had died of natural causes were held up for the crowd to see, and then the real blood flowed, Jewish blood.  The pogroms are a matter of historical fact.  And the Christian children murdered by Jews?  How many of these accusations were based on the truth?  We can fairly reply without further research: none.

Then how are we to explain the indelible quality of the Mohamed Al-Dura international blood libel accusation?  And how can we dare to underestimate its power to motivate a new type of worldwide pogrom, a new wave of jihad against the Jews?  A jihad that, if it is not stopped in its tracks, could put the Shoah to shame!  Irony of ironies, people who have taken the pains to study and analyze all available evidence and present the results of this research for public scrutiny are labeled “revisionists.”

Let us put it simply: at the dawn of the 21st century, television audiences in the entire world were convinced by a crudely concocted fictional death scene instantly transformed into the founding myth of the so-called Al Aqsa Intifada.  Global village indeed!  Global shtetl, in fact.

One is hard put to know where to begin.  An avalanche of questions hurtles down the sharp peak from myth to reality, carrying millions in its wake: they would rather be buried than face such immense doubt.  They would prefer to believe there is no way of knowing the truth than to withdraw the emotional investment provoked by their initial reaction to the scene.  They do not want to wade through the factual evidence, picking over small details, comparing conflicting testimony, discerning discrepancies; they will not dare to stand up against a mountain of belief.

The child “died in his father’s arms.”  So what if the image contradicts the belief induced by the France 2 journalist’s voice-over commentary?  He died in the arms of his father who tried frantically to shelter him.  It would seem considered heartless to point out that the image shows no such thing.  Clearly visible details contradict features discernible only to the believing eye: the blood soaked t-shirt, the fatal moment captured live, the father’s frantic appeals--in the wrong direction--to stop the shooting.  Even before examining discrepancies in testimony by people directly involved in the incident, we must admit that the emblematic image imprinted on the collective mind contradicts the myth it sustains.

The death—real or fictional—of Mohamed Al-Dura is an accusation against Israel, against the Jews.

If the truth could be chosen, if one could choose the truth in the Al-Dura affair, what would be the best truth?  That the “death scene” displayed before the eyes of the world is a fiction and the child, as seen in the film, was not shot and killed.  It doesn’t matter if we cannot find him and bring him back to take a bow on the world stage, offering catharsis, ushering in a new era of peace and harmony.  The human best truth is that this child was not killed before our eyes, was not killed at all.

If, as it would seem, the organizers of the “intifada” or more precisely the latest phase in the ongoing jihad against Israel, created and distributed the myth of the child murdered in cold blood by Israeli soldiers, that can be repaired.  If all’s fair in love and war, meaning all is unfair, peace can be pieced together.  If the child is dead, the loss is irreparable.  If he is alive, that’s good news.

Why does this possible good news provoke reactions shading from disdainful skepticism to vicious hostility?  The refined intelligence searches for truth without arbitrarily excluding potentially valid hypotheses.  Honest research is impossible when alternative hypotheses are previously hooked up to ideological poles erected at opposite extremes like goals on a football field.  The truth lies ahead on a road that cannot be traced in advance.  It isn’t a football disputed by two teams.

For what could be broadly described as the Arab/Muslim/antiZionist team the truth is undeniable: Mohamed Al-Dura was killed in cold blood by brutal Israeli soldiers.  And in fact the role of the soldier implied in the soft version distributed worldwide is made explicit in the hard version peddled to this day in the Muslim world: the image of an Israeli soldier aiming at the Palestinian boy is spliced into the Al Dura scene.  Western viewers who have never seen Palestinian propaganda films  will be surprised to discover how similar they are to the Al Dura film: same crude style, same amateur acting, same slipshod directing.  According to the football game version of the truth the position defended in Contre-expertise--the death scene is a fiction--is necessarily at the opposite extreme from the hard version--the child was killed in cold blood by Israeli soldiers.  Two extremes to be avoided by the discerning mind.

Which leaves us in the crossfire.  The child was killed by accident, by Palestinian gunmen?  If this is the truth, it’s worthless.  No one knows what really happened, there is no way of ever knowing? Again, worthless.  Mohamed Al Dura cannot be the founding myth of the “intifada” unless he was deliberately killed by Israeli soldiers.

This explains, at least partially, the ambiguity entertained by those who brought the myth into the world and those who need it to sustain a movement, which is not finished but only just begun.

We must not forget that the Al-Dura image is a Palestinian creation backed up by French credibility.  According to the news report spread around the world with the speed of light, a French cameraman filmed the incident (which he claims lasted 45 minutes) as the child was felled by Israeli bullets.  In the reportage offered free of charge to all the world’s television, the cameraman’s evidence is corroborated by a voice-over from the France2 Jerusalem correspondent Charles Enderlin speaking as if he were on the spot (he was in Ramallah).  In fact the “French” cameraman is a Palestinian stringer named Talal Abu Rahma.  His sworn testimony presented to the Palestine Human Rights Commission is still available on sites such as www.solidarité-palestine.org where his detailed account of the incident is posted under the headline “Mohammed Al-Durreh was murdered deliberately, in cold blood.”  Abu Rahma’s extensive description of the events is illustrated with the famous pictures of father & son crouched behind the concrete “barrel,” and authenticated by his credentials as an experienced journalist working for France2 and CNN.  His unambiguous assertion that the shots that killed the boy and wounded his father could only have come from the Israeli position stands as gospel truth for millions who would never believe a word that could contradict it, not even when the contradiction is written and signed by the very same Talal Abu Rahma in a fax addressed to the France2 Jerusalem news desk on 28 September 2002: “I never said to the Palestinian Human Rights organization in Gaza that the Israeli soldiers killed willfully or knowingly Mohamed Al Dura, and wounded his father….” 

As James Fallows observed in his Atlantic Monthly (June 2003) article, Who shot Mohamed Al-Dura? the same image is functioning on radically different levels in different regions of the international community.

So where does the French public stand on this continuum?  Curiously enough, this French society that prides itself on the finesse of its cinéma d’auteur while demeaning lowbrow glitzy Hollywood products has swallowed the Al Dura film with uncritical candor.  In an obvious attempt to deflect attention from the French peacenik foreign policy fiasco, America bashing took to gasps and tut tuts over the biased American media manipulated by a dictatorial warmongering government.  French media, you understand, would never stoop so low.  In a world of sordid self-interest and backroom deals France has elected itself to a permanent seat on the higher plane.  Did France not show its valor in opposing the heartless war machine of the hyperpuissance?  Does France not stand, alone if necessary, for a just solution to the Middle East crisis?

There is no Mohamed Al Dura affair in France!  It is an open and shut case.  Charles Enderlin, the journalist who brought the Mohamed Al Dura image to the world’s screens, always has the last word in the French press.  Interviewed by the lightweight weekend magazine VSD (N° 1344: 52) after he was awarded the Peabody prize for the English language version of Le Rêve brisé, Charles Enderlin was asked:

VSD: How did you feel when you were accused of misinformation on the death of Mohamed al-Dura before the cameras on 30 September 2000?

Charles Enderlin: It's defamation, propagated by extreme right organizations that pretend the scene was staged.  The Israeli army never investigated.  We suggested they contact us to get the rushes, but no request was presented to our legal service.  Since that time France2 and I have filed 4 lawsuits in Paris.

(See www.menapress.com info # 012905 for a full reply to the above)

None of the alleged lawsuits ever reached Gérard Huber or any other person involved in this investigation!

 

When the subject was raised in whispers on a television program called Campus, Libération journalist Hatzfeld shrugged it off with "nous assumons le dérapage," which freely translated means okay it was a fiction film, so what?  We might call this media libertinisme.  Everyone’s doing it so what’s the big deal? Maybe so. 

But it is legitimate to ask why the Al Dura affair is such a big deal in the United States?  David Kupelian’s in-depth investigation (Whistleblower March 2003) and the abridged version posted on WorldNetDaily circulated widely.  Fallows’ Atlantic Monthly piece has attracted attention in all quarters.  It is reasonable to expect that TV stations unwittingly involved in broadcasting the myth will come into the fray.
And, further, one can ask whether French-speaking people have been given a chance to decide for themselves, since the issue has never been openly treated in the French media and, we might add, not even in French Jewish media.  Contre-expertise, a serious, solidly documented study of the Al-Dura case, published in January 2003, has met with dismissive silence.  Total refusal to consider the evidence and respond to the arguments is coupled with a pernicious smear campaign against the author Gérard Huber--labeled “right wing extremist”--and assorted supportive individuals, associations, and news agencies bunched together in an anonymous mass and accused of being unconditional supporters of Sharon, Likud fellow travelers, dangerous members of the Betar, etc. 

There is no need for a conspiracy against those who suggest that the Al Dura story is weighted with too many discrepancies to float undisturbed in the upper atmosphere of journalistic reliability; the defensive reaction draws on ingrained attitudes and habits of thought.  The reaction of contemptuous silence is eating away at the French media culture and making serious inroads into French democracy.  Because of course the Al-Dura affair is not an isolated incident; it is an essential element in a troubling climate of antisemitism cloaked in antizionism.  The distress of French Jewry is no secret to anyone…but the French.  In the same way that the media cannot dare to ask if Mohamed Al Dura is alive and well and living somewhere, French society cannot ask what French Jews are complaining about.  And this is leading to ever more complicated contortions and variations on the theme of “don’t we have the right to criticize the government of Ariel Sharon without being accused of antisemitism?”  Of course the answer is yes.  But the corollary is not heard: if criticism supposedly directed against the Israeli government is constantly translated into acts of aggression against French Jews is this not evidence of the underlying antisemitism that motivates this “criticism”? 

The false accusation of ritual murder has led to the real murder and mutilation of thousands of victims…with no real end in sight.  Israeli children murdered in their beds, homes, streets, schools, playgrounds, cars, restaurants.  Palestinian children killed accidentally in actions aimed at terrorists embedded in the population; children foolishly throwing stones at soldiers and tanks and taking the fire directed at killers hiding behind them; children roped into blowing themselves up in terrorist bombings; a whole generation of the living dead, children with no model but suicide, no hope, no future.  Demystifying the Al Dura myth could help to roll back this culture of suicide.

Whatever provisions might be made and eventually respected in this road map or that peace process, no plan for reconciliation and peaceful coexistence between Israel and Palestine—between Jews and Muslims--can succeed if it does not include an end to the incitement to murder Jews.  Which is more degrading?  To pursue the incitement and make peace impossible, or to renounce jihad and build new relations based on mutual respect?  It takes courage to dismantle the emblematic myth of this “Intifada,” but we believe that the hope generated by such a gesture is no less crucial than the hope of political autonomy.

In today’s “we are not anti-Semitic” France, Jews are called to task from morning to night, from right to left, from a vulgar-to-sophisticated wide spectrum of commentators, and summoned to answer for a century’s hit parade of crimes attributed to the “Hebrew state”: genocide, apartheid, occupation, colonialism, crimes against humanity, war crimes.Certainly the death of Mohamed Al-Dura is in the top ten of this hit parade.  It is the knot that holds together the intricate enterprise of deligitimization of Israel, denied the right of self-defense against attacks perpetrated with the ultimate aim of extermination.  It is the beginning, or the fake beginning, of this “intifada.”  The “provocation of Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount” has already been deflated.  The Al Dura myth will not resist much longer.  This leaves the atrocious murder of two Israeli reservists in a Ramallah police station as the real first bloody horror of this conflict.

In questioning the authenticity of the claim that a Palestinian child was killed in cold blood—or by accident--by Israeli soldiers—or Palestinian gunmen--at the Netzarim crossing on 3o September 2000 we are not seeking to whitewash Israel, to save face, to cover crimes in order to have a free hand to pursue a criminal project.  We are simply showing that the image of the “death scene” does not stand up to unbiased examination.  Then why should it be left standing?

Flashback:

Dateline Gaza, 11 October 2000, 11 days after the alleged death of the Palestinian child and one day before the bloody mob murder of two Israeli reservists in Ramallah: Le Monde, France’s newspaper of record, publishes a full-page article signed Gilles Paris--Mohamad, a simple child from Gaza.  A tour de force of narrative journalism studded with endless details of local color that place the reader in the heart of the tragedy --the stairway, the metal door, chirping birds in cages, plastic chairs for condolence visitors.  The child in the article is named Mohamad El Dirah, the woman identified as his mother is known today as his stepmother, the shoulder injury sustained by her husband Jamal in the France2 news report has turned into an unspecified injury that will cause him to limp for the rest of his life.  The mother comments “I know that martyrdom is the best way to die but I doubt that it will change anything….when it comes to international negotiations.”

The Gilles Paris article, twisted with wilful bias stitched into every word and dripping in gooey pathos that curdles into anti-Israeli poison, is a stunning demonstration of the confused and contradictory gospels built up around the Al Dura legend and glibly presented as factual reporting.  Why quibble about the discrepancies when the point is that Mohamad, “the martyr of Al Aqsa….an ordinary child who loved birds…” is dead. 

But what if he isn’t dead?  If the death scene is a fiction film then where did the Le Monde journalist draw such vivid details for his human interest story?  How did he pump such convincing authenticity into these tales embroidered on a myth?

Mohamad’s older brother Iyad remembers a marvellous trip to Jaffa with their father, the only time he and Mohamad had ever left Gaza.  Compared to Gaza, Jaffa is a “paradise.”  Iyad would love go there again.  But, writes Gilles Paris, “he will never go to Tel Aviv.  ‘Because there are many Jews there and it’s the Jews who killed my brother,’ says Iyad calmly.”  And Gilles Paris adds, as if the words fell from heaven, “It’s perfectly clear.”

 

_[1]For example the “rape” scene reproduced in Pierre Rehov’s Contre-Champs video Israel and the War of Images.  Palestinians dressed as Israeli soldiers rape a Palestinian woman and slit her husband’s throat.  The scene is so grotesque that it is limited to domestic distribution.  But French journalist Sara Daniel made the no less grotesque claim in a Nouvel Observateur article that Israeli soldiers deliberately rape Palestinian women so they will fall victim to honor killings.

Eurabia Tires of Pali Vampires

Thoughts in an Oped piece in the Jerusalem Post on yesterday's release of new polls taken in Europe by a leading international pollster showing that European support for Palestinians has fallen precipitously: European support for Palestinians ‘crashes’ reported on LGF:

Europeans may be entertaining much-belated second-thoughts about the Palestinians - and in a big way. As reported in yesterday's Jerusalem Post, new polls indicate that the Palestinians are fast losing their place of honor as the darlings of Europe's "opinion elites."

Surveys conducted among those defined as such trendsetters by renowned international pollster Stanley Greenberg have produced results so unexpected that the pollster himself was incredulous and repeated some of the polls to make sure. Yet the same apparent shift in inclinations again became evident, reinforcing Greenberg's belief that this was no accidental finding.

It may be far too soon to count on the end of Europe's lack of sympathy, if not often outright antagonism towards the Jewish state. The collective experience of all citizens in all democracies has taught us time and again not to put absolute faith in opinion surveys, no matter how expertly conducted or by whom. By the same token, however, we must not succumb to the opposite extreme and dismiss out of hand what may indeed prove to be a pivotal swing in sentiment.

Europe's arrogance and animus sometimes seemed so immutable and so entrenched that Israelis essentially wrote if off. The consensus here and in much of the Jewish world abroad was that to appeal to European reason and decency was a waste of breath.

It is clearly much too premature to celebrate the end of Palestinian supremacy in the fight for European hearts and minds, but what confers particular credence on Greenberg's findings is both what they show and what they don't. Greenberg does not report a remarkable rise in sympathy towards Israel. He does report a dramatic fall in sympathy for the Palestinians.

What is striking about this shift is that it is occurring despite the fact that much of the European media remain skewed against Israel. Europeans have not been exposed to pro-Israeli coverage, and precious little that, from this perspective, appears fair-minded.

Whatever change is measured must therefore arise from Europeans' own experiences rather than from what is transmitted to them. There's been no face-lift for Israel's image. Rather, the Islamist threat in Europe, the terrorist predations there, the burgeoning of what has been dubbed Eurabia - are all apparently impressing Europeans deeply enough to begin to question the perception of Israel as an intransigent imperialist aggressor and the Palestinians as progressive freedom-fighters.

Black Hand Behind Church Divestment of Israel

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be. Ayn Rand

Video: Crusader18

There is more, much more to to the Presbyterian Church divestment of Israel here, and here and here and their alliance with Hizbollah;

Seraphic Secret Reveals Secret Divestment Tactics

Two years ago, Presbyterian Church USA leaders began a divestment of .Israel.. Today, a Google search with keywords (Presbyterian(s), Israel, and Divestment) produces 181000 hits. ... More here at Seraphic Secret

My sources inform me that, no surprise, there is a n Arab group, behind the scenes of this divestment, working furiously with the radical leftists and antiSemites in the PCUSA for the divestment program. Their goals are long range. They are quite happy that this issue has been legitimized and is "fashionable" on our elite university campuses. Their attitude is: it may not happen this year, but it will happen next year. We are strong and patient, the Zionists are and weak and do not have the strength of their convictions.

The fact that pro divestment groups have Jewish students in their ranks only serves to strengthen their convictions.

My Anonymous source is a brave person who risks a great deal by leaking this unsavory information to Seraphic Secret.

Larry Rued risks scorn and isolation with his insistence on standing by the truth, and against the forces of darkness in his church.

There are many more fine Christians who are diligently working behind the scenes aganst this wretched campaign, against the antiSemitic elements in PCUSA--the Jewish community should be aware and express deep gratitude.
Posted by: Robert Avrech at June 1, 2006

I am expressing my deepest gratitude.

UPDATE: More anti-semitism from the Episcopals - thank G-d for the righteous Gentiles fighting for the Jews. We need you to fight these haters;

  Palestinian priest to receive US Episcopal Church peace prize
Ecumenical News International  Daily News Service  19 May 2006

Jerusalem, 19 May (ENI)--A Palestinian Anglican priest, who has drawn criticism from Jewish and pro-Israeli Christian groups, has won a prestigious peace prize awarded by the Episcopal Church in the United States.   

"Canon Naim Ateek's [rabidly anti-Israel Naim Ateek -Atlas] voice is heard around the world   

Ateek will receive the Episcopal Peace Fellowship's John Nevin Sayre Award at the US church's annual convention in  Colombus, Ohio, being held from 12-21 June.   

A former priest at Jerusalem's St George's Cathedral, Ateek is the founder of Sabeel, a movement of Palestinian Christians, which works with churches in North America and Europe to host regional and international conferences, witness trips to the Holy Land, and theological education.

We know Sabeel. The worst.

Ateek has been particularly critical of pro-Israeli Christians for acting against the interests of Middle East Christians. He held a conference in Jerusalem in 2004 for 600 visiting Christian delegates entitled: "Challenging Christian Zionism".     

Sabeel institute has attracted controversy in Israel and among some Christian groups for  "being a driving force behind the campaign by mainline Protestant churches to divest from Israel," according to the U.S.-based Jewish Anti-Defamation League. 

Noam Chomsky, Terror Tool

New York Times bedmate Noam Chomsky lovefest with Hizbollah - video here

Chomsky: "The United States considers Hizbullah a terrorist organization, but the term terrorism is used by the great powers simply to refer to forms of violence of which they disapprove. So the U.S. was of course supporting the Israeli invasions and occupation of southern Lebanon. Hizbullah was instrumental in driving them out, so for that reason they are a terrorist organization."

There is no way this complete shit should be allowed back into this country.

Back here in the United States of Islam

C-SPAN PROMOTES CHOMSKY, BURIES BOSTOM

Do not get me wrong. I like and watch C-span especially in ungodly hours. No, that is not merely because I am a night owl but also because that is the time when the less conventional offerings of C-Span can be found.

Observe this week-end programming. If I want to watch for the umpteen time Noam Chomsky's anti-American pro-Hizbullah diatribe I can watch it on Saturday night on Saturday, May 27 at 7:00 pm and Monday, May 29 at 10:30 pm.

But if I want to watch Andrew Bostom lay out The Legacy of Jihad for the first time, I can only do it on Sunday, May 28 at 4:30 am or Tuesday, May 30 at 2:00 am.

ED KOCH: THE NEW YORK TIMES' ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS

Suspected Collaborators Executed in the Street by Palestinians

Where is the outrage? Where are those voices screaming out about Haditha without knowing anything but hyperventilating  to blame our soldiers (but remember the accusations of a "rush to judgement" with OJ?)

Where is The New York waste of  Times on this story?

Suspected Collaborators Executed by Palestinians

Masked Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades gunmen on Tuesday publicly executed a Palestinian man and woman they suspected of having spied for Israel.

The man was shot dead in the main street of a refugee camp, with a large crowd looking on. The woman was later shot to death by her relatives in the courtyard of the West Bank's largest hospital.

The Aksa Martyrs' Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, accused Jafal Abu Tzrur, 24, of having informed the IDF where to find three of its members. The three were killed by IDF troops during a raid on the Balata refugee camp near Nablus earlier this year.

Al Aksa gunmen interrogated Abu Tzrur, claimed he confessed and then dragged him into Balata's main street. As a large crowd looked on, the gunmen threw Abu Tzrur to the ground, witnesses said. When he tried to get up, the gunmen killed him with several shots, the witnesses said.  Read the whole article here

Hey Israel, It's About Time

Israel finally responds to numerous Katyusha rockets fired into Israel. This time? Northern border. But rocket attacks from the West Bank have been common place. Qassam rockets have been  fired from the north of the Gaza Strip  toward the northern Negev and Palestinian rockets hit an Israeli Classroom.

In other related acts of war, the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah has been smuggling instructions on the production of bombs to agents in the West Bank. In early May, a Palestinian operative of Hizbullah was arrested on charges of seeking to smuggle instructions on producing and assembling advanced bombs here.

Battles at the Northern Border

120mm Katyusha rockets were fired into Israel on Sunday, striking Mount Meron west of Tzfat (Safed) followed by more widespread fire during the day. The air force retaliated, striking PFLP bases in Lebanon.

Gunfire broke out for a second time Sunday afternoon as IDF troops and Hezbollah terrorists battled on the northern border with residents ordered into shelters and a soldier injured by sniper fire.

Foreign Ministry officials on Sunday announced Israel will turn to the United Nations Security Council with an official complaint.

Lying cowards.............

Islamic Jihad denies claim it attacked Israel Reuters
Islamic Jihad denied that it had claimed responsibility for a rocket barrage on Sunday that wounded an Israeli soldier in northern Israel.

UPDATE: But we knew this, Hzbollah, Hamas are Iran

Syria, Iran directed rocket barrage against Israel WND
The rocket attacks that targeted the Jewish state yesterday, prompting cross border clashes and Israeli Air Force retaliation, were carried out by "agents" working on behalf of Syria and Iran, Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said in an interview.

IDF: If Hizballah Wants Escalation, We'll Give It to Them
A senior commander in the Northern Command defined the most significant day of battles with Hizballah since Israel pulled out of south Lebanon six years ago as highly successful. "We awaited their attack, were ready, and the moment they made a move - they absorbed a lot of damage to infrastructure and forces." He revealed that during the battles, Hizballah sent dozens of children toward the border to throw stones, and even fired from inside a UN building. [savages -Atlas] 

UPDATE: May 30th: Vital Perspectives has the best coverage of Hezbollah's weekend operation against Israel. Maps, images, and reportage on what really happened.

 

" Our Strength is the Willingness to Sacrifice Our Blood & Children"

Hizbullah Secretary-General Sheikh Nasrallah Speech on Al-Manar TV: The Zionist Entity's Weakness is "Their Strong Adherence to This World"... Our Strength is the Willingness to Sacrifice Our Blood & Children... They Will Leave the Land

MEMRI provides the following  excerpts from a speech delivered by Hizbullah secretary-general Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, which aired on Al-Manar TV (Google news provider) on May 23, 2006.

TO VIEW THIS CLIP GO HERE

Hassan Nasrallah: "This [Zionist] entity, which has many strengths - I don't have time now to list them all - has weaknesses as well. One of its most important weaknesses is the fact that it is an extraneous entity. It is not deeply rooted.

"Another weakness of this entity is that its people came because they were promised security, peace, and a life in the land of milk and honey. But if they encounter something else, they will leave this land.

"Another weakness is that both as individuals and as a collective, they are described by Allah as 'the people who guard their lives most.' Their strong adherence to this world, with all its vanities and pleasures, constitutes a weakness.

"In contrast, our people and our nation's willingness to sacrifice their blood, souls, children, fathers, and families for the sake of the nation's honor, life, and happiness has always been one of our nation's strengths."[...]

"A year ago today I said, in Bint Jbeil, that the resistance has more than 12,000 missiles. When I say 'more than 12,000 missiles,' it doesn't mean 13,000. It doesn't mean 13,000... I acknowledge that for many years - since 1992, to be precise - the resistance has had a significant and respectable missile capability, both in quantity and quality. Therefore, I can tell you that the north of occupied Palestine is entirely within the range of the missiles of the Lebanese resistance.

"This, of course, is the minimum. As for reaching beyond the north - the less said the better. We have no reason to say whether or not we have such capabilities. Let's keep quiet about this.

"Today the north is within the range of the missiles of the resistance - their ports, their bases, their factories, everything... This creates a balance between the north of Palestine and the south of Lebanon and Lebanon in its entirety."[...]

"Today, if I appear on TV... If I am talking to you and it is aired on TV, and I say to the people of the settlements in the north of occupied Palestine: "On behalf of Hizbullah, I recommend that you go down to the bomb shelters within two hours," they would all go to Tel Aviv." More here at MEMRI

Two States? Barbaric Foreign Policy

I like Youssef Ibrahim, he understands the realities in the Middle East better than most Jews or "intellectuals" in the free world. And frankly, in any compromise between good and evil, only evil can profit. Ibrahim speaks to  biting, straight, unblinking truth in The New York Sun (Paid only)

A Two State Disaster

A new Palestinian state, carved out of Gaza and the West Bank and governed by Palestinian Arab jihadists, would be a recipe for disaster. Indeed, drawing up a two-state solution now would be tantamount to opening the gates to barbarians.

  A former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, James Woolsey, was on target when he warned that a hastened pullout would unleash a wave of Islamic fundamentalist terror on Israel as well as Arab lands, without resolving anything for Palestinian Arabs.

The notion that unilateral withdrawal by Israel from parts of the West Bank would lead to peace and Palestinian statehood constitutes “flawed logic,” Mr. Woolsey wrote in the May 23 edition of the Wall Street Journal.

Spot on. Palestinian Arabs are far from ready to run anything — let alone a country in the tinderbox that is the Middle East.

A few days ago, Egypt asserted that the perpetrators of the most recent deadly bombings of tourist resorts in the Red Sea, as well as those of two other attacks since 2004 that killed more than 100 and wounded hundreds more, were trained, equipped, and “weaponized” ideologically as well as physically by Muslim Palestinian jihadists in Gaza and the West Bank.

[...]
That is only the tip of the iceberg.    A new Palestinian Arab state, governed by Palestinian jihadists, would fling open doors to a potpourri of anarchists, assassins, and killers. It is tantamount to laying down a welcome mat for Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah pro-Iranian activists, Saudi Wahhabi preachers of darkness, Iraqi messengers of insurgency, and Muslim Sunni and Shiite fanatics, along with Muslim Brotherhood angels-of-death types, including European and Pakistani Muslims — all competing for hearts and minds in a seriously dysfunctional Palestinian and broader Arab society .

Nation-building is too serious a business to come to that. No responsible party can give such people an area of operation under the name of Palestine.Jihad is already an ideology to a lot of Muslims, indeed an obsession.There is no need to add more bats to a dark night. We already have the government of Saudi Arabia doing enough harm as it is.
Should anyone allow this, Israel will be the last to suffer from it. With superb intelligence management, technology, and informant apparatus, it will take care of itself. The question should instead be about the Arabs who live in places like Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and beyond.
[...]  Giving Muslim fundamentalists a base in Palestine from which to operate and finish off these dying regimes would be unconscionable.    A two state Palestinian-Israeli solution may be possible one day. But not today. The Palestinian Arabs, who just elected a radical, mindless, bloody Islamic fundamentalist regime, Hamas, as their first freely elected government, have not demonstrated they deserve further indulgence.

It's time the US stopped buying into the deception of double speak. If we demand the UN reform, if we claim the moral high ground,  if we adhere to the Bush doctrine, it can't suddenly stop  on the beaches of Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

Rand said the evil of the world is made possible by the sanction that you give it..........why is it we sanction Pali evil, and call it by any name except what it is?

The Palestinian Charade - Editorial
In their dealings with the Palestinians, the U.S. and Israel are engaged in a charade. The reality is that the road map has been in tatters since it was first agreed upon in 2003. In the face of unremitting hostility by Hamas to the existence of a Jewish state, Israel's prime minister has said he will attempt to negotiate with Mahmoud Abbas. But Abbas is a busted flush, unable to deliver anything. (Telegraph-UK)

 

Spain: Dumb and Dumber, Dhim Dhimmier

From the land of dhimmitude. Spain is becoming a haven for Pali terrorists, not surprising, considering the Spaniards elected a terror appeaser less than a week after Al Qaeda struck in the heart of Madrid. Spain's Retreat After The Madrid Bombings Rewards Terrorism

Spain Becoming Favored Destination for Palestinians - Luke Baker
Mohammed Zaghal and his friends have no doubt about where they would rather be: Spain. Since the Islamic group Hamas won Palestinian elections in January, the number seeking to escape has risen sharply, locals say. "Everyone in Jenin just wants to get out," says Zaghal, 24, who used to work in Israel until a Palestinian uprising began.
    Zaghal's brother Fida, 26, is already in Spain. Earlier this year, he traveled first to Jordan and then boarded a flight to Cuba, for which he did not need a visa. When the plane landed for a brief stopover in Madrid, he got off and requested political asylum. He is now getting financial support and receiving Spanish lessons. Some have told Spanish authorities that they are supporters of Fatah, Hamas' rival, and that they need asylum to escape Hamas threats. (Reuters)

Palestinians Behind Sinai Bombing

Terrorists are the government in the Pali territories. These savages must be taken out. It's no wonder the world doesn't want Israel to leave the territories. The descent into violent madness would be occur with frightening speed.

Rand said "the spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." We have been compromising our principles for far too many decades to deleterious effect.

Egypt: Palestinians aided Sinai bombings

Palestinian extremists [is there any other kind ?- Atlas] helped finance and train members of the militant Egyptian group that carried out deadly attacks at Sinai resorts, Egypt said Tuesday, making a direct connection for the first time between militants on either side of the Egypt-Gaza border.

The accusations could add to the troubles of the Islamic militant group Hamas, which leads the Palestinian government and is struggling with international isolation.

The Egyptian claim made no mention of either al-Qaida or Hamas and did not say whether the Palestinians who helped the Egyptian militants belonged to any organization.

Egypt's accusation also could fuel Israeli and Palestinian claims that al-Qaida militants have infiltrated the Palestinian territories.

Some analysts say the Egyptian group that carried out the bombings that killed 21 people last month at the Sinai resort of Dahab were al-Qaida-inspired. It took the name Monotheism and Jihad, which has been used by groups linked to al-Qaida.

The Interior Ministry said Palestinians helped the Egyptian group. It said three brothers who belong to the Egyptian group and helped plan the suicide attacks "made contacts with some fundamentalist Palestinian elements" before the attack and two of them - Ayman and Yousri Muhareb - went to the Palestinian territories.

UPDATE: Pastorius from CUANAS and the brilliant alliance, Infidel Bloggers Alliance sent this intel over to me;

Egypt as a New Front for al-Qaida

Egypt is the cradle of Sunni Islamist radicalism, but since the Luxor terrorist attack in 1997, there has been no significant jihadist activity there. Now that appears to be changing. Is Egypt becoming a New Front for al-Qaida?

 

Atlas Goes to Washington

Posting will be sporadic as I make my way to the nation's capital to cover Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's speech to the Joint session of Congress. Woot! I am going as press, ain't that a kick in the head.
Despite all ink and punditry I do not believe for one second they are talking convergence I don't think theWest Bank is the top of Olmert's U.S. Agenda Uh uh, they are war gaming Iran, IMAO.

There is considerable concern that an American attempt to blow up Iran's nuclear reactors - like Israel's destruction of Saddam Hussein's reactor in 1981 - would be answered by Iranian reprisals against Israel.

"Israel should know in advance if the United States is planning military action," the newspaper wrote.

Olmert arrived in Washington on Sunday and was set for a working dinner last night with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He is scheduled to see Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld this morning and Bush in the afternoon. New York Post

Evil is made possible by the sanction you give it. Hats off to Congress for withdrawing their sanction
House of Representatives Set to Pass Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act

 

Stop Giving Territory to Terrorists

The Center for Security Policy today began a television advertising campaign concerning Israel's proposed surrender of most of the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem to terrorists like al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The ad [VIDEO HERE] recalls the consequences for Israel and for U.S. interests of previous Israeli retreats from southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, and urges Americans' representatives in Washington to oppose further territorial concessions to our enemies.

The Center's ad campaign is timed to coincide with the visit to Washington next week by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Mr. Olmert will be pitching his so-called "Convergence Plan" for the West Bank to President Bush in an Oval Office meeting on Tuesday. Among other activities during his U.S. visit, he will also be holding meetings at the Pentagon on Monday and addressing a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.

The ad draws on an analysis of the convergence plan authored by the Center's Senior Mideast Fellow, Caroline Glick. A summary of its main findings can be found by clicking here. Ms. Glick is also the Deputy Managing Editor of and a columnist for the Jerusalem Post.

IRAN: "The Student Fund for Demolishing Israel"

Cartoons here

Iranian students set up fund dedicated to Israel's destruction.

Encouraged by regime, students call fund 'symbolic move' in support of Palestinians Associated Press

A group of Iranian students announced Sunday at an event attended by a high-ranking member of the elite Revolutionary Guard that they were setting up a fund to destroy Israel.

Although the initiative's name - "The Student Fund for Demolishing Israel" - brings to mind President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call last year to destroy the Jewish state, an organizer said its goal was to support the cash-strapped Palestinian government.

Some 300 students attended the event hosted by a group calling itself the Movement of Justice-seeking Students at the University of Tehran.

"This is a symbolic move to attract public attention to the Palestinian cause at a time when Western countries have halted financial support to the Hamas-led government," Javad Miri, the group's spokesman, told The Associated Press.

Miri said the group was collecting money that it will send it to the Hamas-led Palestinian government. "When an elected government is in power in Palestine and Israel is pressuring it, everybody should help the Palestinians."

'We are ready to support Palestinians by any means' (hat tip Geoff)

Bring it on

UPDATE: Olmert: Iran Close to Atomic Bomb Know-How
Iran is just a few months away from acquiring the technological know-how that will allow it to build an atomic bomb, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told CNN on Sunday. "This technological threshold is nearer than we anticipated before. This is because they are already engaged very seriously in enrichment," Olmert said. "The technological threshold is very close. It can be measured in months rather than years," he said.

'Al-Qaeda in Palestine' claims attack

It's always been about Islam. It's always been about religion. it's not about land. That piece of beach holds no oil, gold, or any other valuable resources. It however, holds the Jewish people. The world knows that getting the land is meaningless, it is getting the Jew that will be the victory for the forces of evil.

'Al-Qaeda in Palestine' claims attack on intelligence chief

PARIS (AFP) - A group calling itself Al-Qaeda in Palestine said it carried out a bombing against the Palestinian intelligence chief and threatened more attacks in a statement posted on the Internet.

T "We declare our full responsibility for this operation," the group said in the statement, whose authenticity could not be independently verified. "Your mujahedeen brothers managed to place a bomb in the special lift used by the apostate Tareq Abu Rajab ... but were hasty in detonating the device which should have been triggered once the lift door was closed."

There is that word again - apostate.

Abu Rajab, overall head of the Palestinian intelligence services, was seriously wounded and his bodyguard killed in Saturday's blast in a lift at the services' Gaza headquarters.

The Internet statement also threatened other "apostate" Palestinian officials Sunday, including moderate     Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas and the longtime Gaza strongman of his mainstream     Fatah movement, Mohammed Dahlan.

A large bomb was discovered Sunday next to the Gaza City home of Rashid Abu Shbak, the overall head of the Palestinian security services, security sources said.

A group proclaiming its loyalty to the Al-Qaeda network of     Osama bin Laden announced its formation in the Palestinian territories in a statement received by AFP on May 8.

In March, the Israeli authorities announced that they had detained two Palestinians from the     West Bank city of Nablus late last year on suspicion of working for Al-Qaeda in the first such arrests by     Israel.

Pali Savages Firing Rockets at Classrooms

Give' em a State

2-3 Gaza-fired rockets hit the Negev city of Sderot this morning. One hit an empty classroom while the students were praying in a different room, and another caused two women to go into shock.

The first rocket was fired by Palestinian terrorists from northern Gaza shortly after 7:30 AM, landing at the Gevim Junction just south of Sderot. Two women were treated at the site for shock.

Give 'em Jerusalem, shell zahov.

The madness of financial support to a hostile Hamas

From Thorton at Hanson's Private Papers

Fig Leaf Diplomacy
The drama being played out between Hamas and the West grows stranger by the minute, exposing the cultural toxins that are weakening our resolve in the fight against jihad. The murderous aims of Hamas are clear, as their spokesmen and sympathizers do not hesitate to remind us. Nor is their commitment to jihad against Israel and the West a minority obsession of a lunatic fringe. Just recently the religious leaders of several Muslim countries issued a statement of support for the goal of Hamas to drive Israel into the sea: “The right to historical Palestine is an eternal right, and no soul can relinquish it, neither in an agreement, a document or a promise.” They added that nobody can ban “jihad for the liberation of Palestine” or “damn the jihadists.”

And contradicting those Westerners who still believe the whole crisis is about Palestinian nationalist aspirations, a Sudanese cleric said, “Palestine is a religious issue, not just a political one, and affects all Muslims.” A representative for Hamas agreed: “This meeting has reverted the Palestinian issue to its rightful depth as an Arab and Islamic issue.” The upshot of the declaration is that there will be no “land for peace,” no recognition of Israel’s right to exist, no signing on to “roadmaps” or other desperate Western attempts to avoid facing one simple fact: Israel is the beleaguered Western salient in the frontlines of the war against jihad.

Yet even as Hamas and the religious leadership of Muslim nations tell us their intentions, we Westerners refuse to listen. Instead of facing the existential threat to our way of life, we continue to wring our hands over the hardships of the Palestinian people, with the result that our refusal to allow Western money into the hands of murderers gets ever more wobbly. Despite the fact that Hamas was democratically elected, which means that a critical mass of Palestinian Arabs agree with Hamas’ aims, we seem to think the Palestinians are somehow being held hostage by some alien ruling clique. Having created the myth of large numbers of Palestinians willing to accept Israel and merely wanting a state of their own, we ignore the mountains of evidence — the Palestinians dancing in the streets after 9/11, the ubiquitous posters idolizing homicide bombers, the preschool pageants replete with three-year-olds wrapped in toy explosive belts — suggesting that such moderates are few. Nor will we accept that years of support for the corrupt thug Arafat, and now for the terrorist faction Hamas, reveal a widespread willingness on the part of many Palestinians to endure political, economic, and social dysfunction as an acceptable price to pay for holding on to their bitter hatred of Israel.

The most absurd response to the cut-off of funds to these terrorists, who want to destroy not just Israel but us as well, is that we are “punishing” the Palestinians for their democratic choice. We forget that the flip side to democratic choice is responsibility for that choice. During our own Civil War, Southerners made a democratic choice to secede from the Union and test their right to do so by force of arms. The Confederate soldiers in the field were sustained in their fight by the moral and material support of their families back home, who wrote them letters of encouragement, held public rallies and celebrations honoring them, and worked on farms and factories providing them with food and weapons.

General Sherman understood this dynamic between soldier and civilian, and conceived his March to the Sea as a psychological as well as military action: “I propose to demonstrate the vulnerability of the South and make its inhabitants feel that war and individual ruin are synonymous terms,” he wrote. So too in a letter to the mayor of Atlanta: “Now that war comes home to you, you feel very different. You deprecate its horrors, but did not feel them when you sent carloads of soldiers and ammunition, and molded shells and shot, to carry war into Kentucky and Tennessee, to desolate the homes of hundreds and thousands of good people who only asked to live in peace at their old homes, and under the Government of their inheritance.”

As hard as life has been for some Palestinians because of their support for terrorists, continuing Western aid over the years, and continuing Western restraint of Israel at the expense of her citizens, have both propped up Palestinian society just enough to keep Palestinians from feeling the full consequences of their stubborn hatred of Israel and refusal to acknowledge with deeds rather than mere words Israel’s right to exist. So too has the West’s willingness to accept empty declarations and carefully hedged “condemnations” of terrorism on the part of so-called moderates like the terrorist Mahmoud Abbas. After Oslo was followed by the intifada, after the great refusal at Camp David, only the most deluded or naïve could fail to see the duplicity of these protestations routinely contradicted whenever Arafat spoke in Arabic. Agreements and summits and road maps were all mere tactical feints that had nothing to do with the permanent long-term strategic goal of destroying Israel.

Yet here we go again, demanding that a terrorist organization make insincere, tactical statements so we can hang on to our pretense that a Palestinian state will solve the whole crisis, and that Israel’s refusal to sacrifice its citizens and its existence is the prime mover of Muslim discontent with the West. Apparently we didn’t learn our lesson from Arafat and the P.L.O., who did precisely what we are demanding Hamas do: pretend to accept Israel’s right to exist and to abjure terrorism, all the while that the strategic goal of Israel’s destruction continues to be pursued, with terrorism when tactically necessary. So far Hamas refuses to play that rhetorical game. Perhaps they think that with the U.S. engaged in Iraq and confronting a belligerent Iran, they have the opportunity to take a more aggressive tack. And no doubt they are banking on the European instinct for appeasement and its deep-seated dislike of Israel to shake loose the money that will continue to prop them up.

And it seems their gamble will pay off. Fig-leaf mechanisms for getting money to the Palestinians are already in the works. The failure of Hamas to act like a legitimate government will be papered over with Western money, just as the Palestinian Authority’s failure and corruption were. Money being fungible, funds that should go to schools and hospitals and economic development will go to weapons, explosives, and the salaries of armed gangs. The contempt of the jihadists for Westerners, who will subsidize those eager to destroy the West, will grow only more intense, and their conviction that they will ultimately prevail will be held only more firmly.

Iran: "A Dark Cloud is Looming"

While the thumbsuckers up on Capital Hill analyze their sphincter muscles (anyone else watching Ron Wyden citing Newsweak when questioning Hayden?), evil marches apace here;

Iran Enlists Axis Of Evil in Nuke Battle

Iran is enlisting     Syria and the militant Palestinian Hamas group — both also deeply at odds with the United States,     Israel and some in western Europe — as allies in the battle over its disputed nuclear program.

The move has prompted Israel's U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman to declare that "a dark cloud is looming above our region, and it is metastasizing as a result of the statements and actions by leaders of Iran, Syria and the newly elected government of the     Palestinian Authority."

Syria and Iran have historically close ties dating back to 1980, when Damascus sided with Iran against     Saddam Hussein in the Iran-     Iraq war. But ties have become far cozier since hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected last summer.

"Do you think you are dealing with a 4-year-old child to whom you can give some walnuts and chocolates and get gold from him?" the Iranian president said Wednesday.

Parpahrasing Hirsi Ali the West, the free world is making a mistake if it thinks the choice in Iran is between peace and war, the choice is between war with Ahmadinejad who does not have a nuclear weapon and war with Ahmadinejad who does have a nuclear weapon.

Arafat used foreign aid to buy weapons

Expect Hamas to do the exact same thing. Expect nothing less.

Ex-PA paymaster: Arafat used foreign aid to buy weapons

Former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat ordered millions of dollars, taken from international aid funds, tax money transferred by Israel and from Arab countries, to be used to purchase weapons and ammunition, it was revealed on Wednesday

These weapons were then provided to Palestinian terrorists from the Tanzim and al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades.

The information came from the interrogation of Fuad Shubaki, the Palestinian official who was arrested by the IDF two months ago in a raid on the Jericho prison where he was held together with the assassins of former tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi. Prior to his imprisonment, Shubaki served as the finance chief in the Palestinian security forces.

[To read an archive interview the Post had with Shubaki, click here]

He revealed that several senior Palestinian officials were involved in the allocation of the money to military purposes. Among them were, Jibril Rajoub, Amin al-Hindi and Ghazi Jibali, who all received payments for their part in the weapons purchases.

Shubaki informed his investigators that when the Intifada broke out in 2000, Arafat ordered the establishment of several bodies, consisting of PA officials in various Arab countries, who were in charge of purchasing large amounts of arms.

Remember this is just after Clinton and Barak offered that murderer his own state (97%) and Jerusalem. He walked away and declared war, the intifada. It's not about a state and it's not about a tiny strip of land called Israel. That piece of beach holds no oil, gold, or any other valuable resources. It however, holds the Jewish people. The world knows that getting the land is meaningless, it is getting the Jew that will be the victory for the forces of evil.

He noted that the members of those bodies presented Shubaki with the deals and he would then go to Arafat for approval.

Iran was one of the most generous donors, Shubaki said, offering to assist the Palestinians by training fighters, providing weapons and weapon-producing know-how and funding the establishment of installations that could generate arms.  Read it allHat tip Andrew

HAMAS HATE COMICS FOR KIDS

Palestinian Media Watch is reporting the current edition of the Hamas website for children (www.al-fateh.net) includes short comic strips teaching children to hate the "Zionists".

      

In a story called "dangerous games" two children find toys in the street, however "...these are not toys but bombs that explode in the hands of those who touch them. The evil Zionists place them here to kill the innocent children of Palestine". More here.

Hamas website addresses:

             

http://www.al-fateh.net/fa-75/luab.htm
http://www.al-fateh.net/fa-75/gadab.htm

 

Hamas: "No Peace Ever"

Hamas: ´No Peace, Ever, Without Return of Millions of Arabs´(in other words, Goodbye Joooooooooos")

While worldwide attempts continue in an effort to moderate Hamas and have it agree to negotiate with Israel, Hamas issues a bellicose "Nakba Day" proclamation rendering all such efforts moot.

The Arabs of the Palestinian Authority commemorate May 15 - the date of the end of the British Mandate in 1948, which made room for the formation of the State of Israel - as their "Nakba Day," or Day of Catastrophe. The Hamas terrorist movement, which now controls the Palestinian Authority after an overwhelming popular election victory earlier this year, issued its Nakba Day proclamation yesterday, effectively putting to rest any chances for peace with Israel.

The Hamas announcement emphasizes the justness of terrorism against Israel, as well as the unyielding nature of its demand for the return of millions of Arabs to Israel.More here

Olmert, are you listening to Hamas? or your far left wife?

Give 'em a state! *SPIT*

 

Expect Surprises

Holocaust Papers To Be Released

Not that the media will give it any ink or air. But pay attention anyway. This is just the tip of the iceberg. The Nazi-Arab Connection

Documents from the British National Archives show that in World War II, Nazi Germany sent weapons to the Palestinian Arabs, by way of our friends the Saudis.

Daniel Wultz has Died, American Victim of Islamic Terror

No,  it is not mother's day after all. I am sick sick sick. Debbie Schussel just gave me the tragic news. Daniel Wultz has died. He died. We all thought he was going to make it here after that terrible suicide murder bombing in Tel Aviv;

Last week, we wrote about Daniel Wultz, an American teen-age boy from Miami, who was a victim of the Palestinian homicide bombing of a Tel Aviv restaurant and bus station, during Passover, on April 17th.

Miraculously, though losing massive amounts of blood, suffering massive internal injuries, losing a kidney, his spleen, and a leg, Danny survived and awoke from his coma. But the pain of his injuries was too great for the 16-year-old who wanted to become a rabbi, and Danny was put back into a coma.

Sadly, this morning, Danny died. He is the eleventh fatal victim of that Passover homicide bombing perpetrated by Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and one of many unsung American victims of Palestinian Islamic terror. As we noted, unlike Jill "Zeinab" Carroll, there was very little news or blog coverage of the story of Danny Wultz. As Americans, we should be outraged at the treatment of our fellow American, both by the Palestinians and by our media.

Daniel Wultz, Z"L, 16-Year-Old American Victim of Palestinian Terror

Danny's father Yekutiel (Tuly) was also injured in the bombing, where he and his son lunched together at Mayor's Falafel, a kosher for Passover restaurant. He is quoted in The Jerusalem Post:

"Unfortunately, I remember everything," he said. "Daniel was thrown into my hands, and asked me to pick him up. But when I saw the extent of his injuries, I laid him down to wait for an ambulance. I held his hand and told him I loved him, and he told me he loved me." Go over to Debbie's site and read it all.

Bottom photo: Classmates of Daniel Wultz praying for his recovering at David Posnack Hebrew Day School in Florida on Monday, April 24.

UPDATE: This is an outrage;

JAMES BESSER: U.S. SOFTENS STANCE ON HAMAS

UPDATE: Jihad official: Florida teen 'ideal target'

Terror leaders rejoice in injuries of U.S.-born Daniel Wultz, critical after Tel Aviv bombing. 'He is best target combination – American and Zionist,' Islamic Jihad official says Aaron Klein

Abu Ayman, a leader of the Islamic Jihad, which also took responsibility for the April 17 bombing in which Wultz was injured, threatened all Americans and Jews worldwide and expressed regret Wultz is still alive. hat tip Geoff

Yeah, go soft on these savages and they will tear you limb from limb. Get real.

Eurabia "Quartet" Pay the Jiyza to Savages

The spineless, dickless  room is getting awfully crowded. Am I the one one who holds their nose when reading about Europe's latest act of dhimmitude? Hamas is a militant arm of Iran, guilty of mass murder, what is the EU doing?

Quartet Approves EU's Temporary Palestinian Aid Plan
"The Quartet reiterated its support for assistance directed to help meet the basic human needs of the Palestinian people and promotion of Palestinian democracy and civil society."[ishcabibble, ishcabobble - Atlas]
 
Israel to Oppose Quartet Payment of Salaries to Hamas Government Employees
Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ayalon said Tuesday that Israel will oppose paying salaries to Hamas government employees in the PA via the humanitarian mechanism that the Quartet announced. . "I hope that the Quartet mechanism doesn't plan to finance the salaries of PA workers under the Hamas government," said Ayalon. "External financing of salaries will only strengthen Hamas, intensify violence, and block any chance of a solution." Sources in Washington said EU representatives in the Quartet lobbied to include the payments of salaries as one of the goals of the mechanism, but U.S. representatives strongly objected.

How does Eurabia fight the global war on Islamic extremism? Buying them bombs is not going to save Europe, not by a long shot. And puhleeze don't try to tell me the Palis are going to
"take care of their people," based on what we know, they are the worst abusers of their people. They treat them like they treat their animals.

G-d Bless George W. Bush

Because he is not afraid call good, good and evil evil in a world gone to hell in a handbasket.

The Bush administration says it is unlikely to stray from its strategy of isolating Hamas until the militant group renounces violence, recognizes Israel, and agrees to previous deals between Palestinians and Israelis. "We want to address the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people, but we are not going to provide money to a terrorist organization," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.More here

Considering Hamas is an arm of Iran, this is in America's best interest.

 

Palis: Christian Zionism is Satanism

The author of the PMW article, Hamed Al-Tamimi, is a member of the Supreme [Islamic] Judicial Council and the director of the Inter-Religion Dialogue Department. He charges that the Christian Zionists, together with Jewish Zionists, “both agree on hatred of Islam and the Muslims and on [the goal] to destroy them." Story here

He goes on to slam the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, accusing the organization of “criminal activities against the Palestinian issue and the Palestinian people."

Official PA government Religious Judicial Council web site:

Christian Zionists "adopted Satan as God"

Christian Zionism is a dangerous distortion, a deviation from the true Christian faith

The Christian Zionists and Zionist Jews "comprise the greatest danger to world truth, justice, and peace".

The International Christian Embassy "carries out criminal activities" against Palestinians

Christian Zionism must be expelled by the World Church.

Introduction:
The following article, written by a senior Palestinian Authority religious figure and placed on the website of the PA Supreme [Islamic] Judicial Council, attacks Christian Zionists for adopting "Satan as God" and deviating "from the true Christian faith."

Christian Zionists are presented as a danger to Muslims and the world, and the PA Religious leader calls for their expulsion by the "World Church."

Zionist-Christian motivation is said to be "Crusader motivation" and was behind not only the "cursed Balfour Declaration" but is today "behind the British and American policy in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Arab and Muslim countries."

It should be noted that the writer Hamed Al-Tamimi, a member of the Supreme Judicial Council, was appointed to his position of religious leadership before the Hamas came to power in the PA. The following is the text as it appears today on the website of the Supreme [Islamic] Judicial Council: here at Palestine Media Watch

Hamas/Fatah: Killers Killing Each Other

Something morbidly poetic about that. Hamas and Fatah battle leave 3 dead. Civil war looms large.

The confrontations began after midnight with a spate of kidnappings and peaked at daybreak, when Hamas fighters fired a shoulder-held missile into a jeep with government license plates, killing two Fatah gunmen who were also members of the Palestinian security forces.

The fighting was the latest sign that the two sides could be sliding toward large-scale clashes. Each group has been training its gunmen for possible confrontation, and Hamas recently outbid Fatah in buying a black market shipment of 100,000 bullets.

Meanwhile, Israel Foils Hamas Plot to Kill Mahmoud Abbas

A Hamas plot to assassinate PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has been thwarted after he was tipped off by Israeli intelligence. Hamas' military wing, the Iz a-Din al-Qassem, had planned to kill Abbas at his office in Gaza, intelligence sources said. "So when we learned that Abbas' life was in danger, we made sure to inform him without delay," said an Israeli intelligence source. "Hamas considers Abbas to be a barrier to its complete control over Palestine and decided to kill him," said a Palestinian source who is a close acquaintance of Abbas.

Israel saving Yasser Arafat's successor - who'd a thunk it?

 

Hamas: U.S. Guilty of "WAR CRIMES"

Give 'em a state!

Hamas Accuses U.S. of "War Crimes"
The spokesman for the Hamas-led Palestinian government, Dr. Ghazi Hamad, on Thursday accused the U.S. of "war crimes," and said "the great criminal is the USA." In an interview with the Ma'an News Agency in Jerusalem, Hamad said, "the U.S. is practicing a kind of war crime as it puts the Palestinian people under siege and starvation and oppression." (Ma'an News Agency-PA)

What exactly is a Hamas war crime? Considering all of the murder, bombings and death suffered at the hands of Hamas, that and their avowed mission to destroy Israel, what is a "Hamas war crime?" Living free? Science, math, philanthropy, education?

 

Hamas Chief: Suicide Murder "a Natural Right"

Give 'em a state!

Hamas Chief Says Suicide Bombings "a Natural Right"
Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal has defended Palestinian suicide bombings as a "natural right" while denouncing what he called Washington's ambitions to dominate the Middle East. "Our enemies...don't understand that a suicide operation...is a natural right," he told students in Damascus. Hamas was responsible for the majority of suicide bombings in Israel during the past five years. (AFP/Yahoo)

Spare the Rod, Spoil the Peace
Legally and morally, neither the U.S. nor Europe owes the Palestinians any assistance - much less hundreds of millions of dollars worth on a continuing basis. There are plenty of needy causes to which to devote the scarce humanitarian resources of our overburden governments: Darfurians subject to a genocidal campaign by an Islamist government, Congolese trying to recover from "Africa's World War," Tibetans sitting in exile in India, etc. (TCS Daily)

The Decline of Arabism, The Rise of Islamic Iran Part II

I received this insightful email from Marcin in Poland in response to my post on The Decline of Arabism, The Rise of Islamic Iran. You must read it.

This disturbing development actually dovetails nicely with what Prof.  Marek Edelman (the youngest and only surviving leader of the Warsaw  Ghetto uprising) said in an interview with the weekly "Przekrój" when  questioned about his support for the war in Iraq. He said that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has nothing to do with Palestinians.  Take the Palestinian autonomy. They have no industry, no commerce, no  schools, insufficient clean water, no medical facilities. Really,  they have nothing which makes a modern society worthy of the name.  They do, however, have guns, ammo and explosives aplenty. Which of  course means that someone is supplying them with these things (but  not with life's basic necessities). This has only one possible  conclusion: that someone wants unrest in the region for political and/ or economic gain. Please note that they want UNREST and not for the  PA to win. If they wanted them to win, they'd give them tanks,  warplanes etc., all those things needed to fight a modern military.  Instead they give them toys, baubles to keep them pestering Israel,  without posing an overwhelming threat to the latter. At the same time  they rely on Israel not to go in and obliterate the PA, using Western  fear of political correctness as a weapon against it. Meanwhile, the  lack of life necessities is a powerful prod to the Palis urging them  to keep on killing "for social justice". Unrest is forever, while a  win for one side or the other is a termination of the status quo.

Now, to get back to your article, we have known for a long time that  like the Saudis, the Mad Mullahs of Iran have been supplying the PA  and as it turns out other terrorists with all forms of arms and money  (which was promptly spent on weapons). This means that like the  Saudis they have an interest in the PA being a thorn in the side of  Israel and of the entire region., most likely to maintain  artificially high oil prices and has made Iran very wealthy, since  they are the #4 world oil producer. It has also enabled them to  become a regional powerbroker and a military power as well. Now, not  content with being a grey eminence, the leopard is showing his true  spots. The Iranian government feels powerful enough to issue  challenges to the West, which it has always done, but also to its  immediate neighbors. This means that they feel reasonably confident  that they would end up on top, if the whole festering heap of the  Middle East were to collapse; as it would during a general war in the  region.

Thus,

A) they have a military capability which is unknown to us ie.  being closer to nukes than we think, or/and

B) they are greatly  overconfident in their military power and disdainful of any Western  military response. This is a bad thing, in particular the latter  option. A dilettante confident in his knowledge and skill will  actually launch a war much sooner than a professional who is aware of  the risks and realities (vide Hitler vs. Stalin). And if the two  options both held true, as they might, then a dilettante with nukes  is even worse. Of course, we know Iran would lose in the end, but  this would involve the entire Western world, and at what cost?

This is indeed horrible news.

Melanie Phillips is running a splendid piece here by former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar,which "reminds us of what a tragic day it was for both Spain and the defence of the free world when the Spanish buckled under the threat of terror and replaced him by an appeasement-minded government. Aznar is one of the few present or former world leaders who really gets it. NATO, he says, needs to articulate a new mission: to combat jihadism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and concentrate its efforts upon fighting terror. Obvious. In pursuit of this aim, he says, it should open its doors to those nations that share its values and invite Japan, Australia, and Israel to become full members".

As you can imagine, many people in Europe and in NATO were shocked by the idea of inviting Israel, although they took as a natural fact the establishment of closer cooperation with Japan and Australia, which indeed is a big change for NATO. Some people from Israel also objected to having Israel as a formal ally in NATO. But treating Israel as if it were not an integral part of the Western world is a big mistake that will affect our ability to prevail in this long war against jihadism. I think it is in our mutual interests to have Israel as a formal ally...

The West cannot fight this radical tide without Israel. Israelis might decide that for their own security they had better follow the traditional policy of relying just on themselves. But Islamic extremism is more a tsunami than a tide, and in front of this powerful force we better stand together. In Europe, more and more people better understand the Israeli position each day. If you agree that the world faces a global threat, it is necessary to organize a strong response to this threat. For me, Israel is a vital part of the Western world. Israel is becoming more and more important to the Western world for stability, prosperity, and freedom...

I don't believe in appeasement against terrorism. I don't believe in negotiation with terrorism. I believe in the necessity to fight against terrorists. It is a very serious mistake to negotiate with terrorism. Terrorists should be frightened and defeated, and this is possible. No other policy exists for me.

It’s not often one hears a member of the political or intellectual class articulate so clearly and unequivocally such a moral, progressive and eminently realistic position.

The Philosophy of Death

Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Russia and Qatar Seek to Fund Hamas

Philosophy of Death - Nazir Majali (Ha'aretz)

• There are no words to adequately condemn the despicable attack in Tel Aviv, not only because it is contrary to the interests of the Palestinian people, but, most importantly, because of the philosophy behind it that is destroying the Palestinian people.
• It is a racist philosophy that is based on the cruel principle of killing Jews because they are Jews, which characterized movements in history among which it is not a great honor to be numbered.
• It is a philosophy of war criminals, the goal of which is to murder innocent people walking down the street. And it is a philosophy of cowardice. If someone wants to fight occupation, let them go and attack the occupying army, not innocent people in the street.
• From the point of view of Palestinian society, this is a philosophy of self-destruction. Those who sent the young man to blow himself up in Tel Aviv foster in young Palestinians the culture of death instead of the culture of life. Therefore every patriotic Palestinian must condemn the attack and see it as anti-Palestinian terror.

  The writer is a commentator on Arab television stations and in the Arabic-language daily Asharq Al-Awsat.

Security Officials After Sinai Attack: "Global Jihad Is Closing In" -

Islamic Society:"Mushroom Cloud Is On Its Way!"

At a New York Rally, Islamists and Muslims screaming "mushroom cloud is on the way!" What's it going to take America? Wake up America! Dismiss the left out of hand and fight. Fight for your way of life, fight for your children's lives, and fight for your life. Be in it, not of it....

A New York rally by the Islamic Thinkers Society outside the Israeli consulate yesterday featured chants of "The mushroom cloud is on its way! The real holocaust is on its way!"

The demonstration by the Queens-based group was monitored by the Investigative Project on Terrorism whose members noted signs including "Islam will Dominate" and a picture with an Islamic flag flying over the White House. More here

The chants were in Arabic and translated by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, headed by Steve Emerson, a former reporter for CNN.

Here are some excerpts from the chants:

Leader (in Arabic): "With our blood and our lives we will liberate al Aqsa!"

[The rest also respond in Arabic:] "With our blood and our lives we will liberate al Aqsa!

Israeli Zionists What do you say? The real Holocaust is on its way"

"Takbeer!"

Response: "Allahu Akbar!"

"Takbeer!"

Response: "Allahu Akbar!"

Saturday Cartoon

Over at Slate and there's more

UPDATE: Israel shows up Iran's Jew hating cartoon contest with virulent anti-semitic cartoons (yes, from Israel) here. The Muslims will be taking  notes for the wrong reason (pity, because they should be taking notes for the right reasons.)

Bomber of American Marines Is Made Hamas Security Chief

Bomber of American Marines Is Made Hamas Security Chief

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Hamas government yesterday named a Palestinian Arab whose group has attacked Israel and was blamed for bombing an American convoy to head a new security force made up of Islamic militants.

    The move is a direct challenge to the authority of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and was quickly denounced by Israel and America.

    The Hamas interior minister, Said Siyam, issued a decree appointing the head of the Popular Resistance Committees, Jamal Abu Samhadana, as director general of his ministry.

   In Washington, a State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack, criticized the move. He said it showed “the true nature and the true tactics of this particular Hamas-led government,” and America would still hold the Palestinian Authority responsible for stopping terror attacks.    

An Israeli Foreign Ministry official, Gideon Meir, echoed that.     “If someone needed proof about the connection between the Hamas rule and Palestinian terror, this appointment is the ultimate proof,” he told the Associated Press. “It’s like allowing the fox to guard the chicken coop.”

It's only going to get worse.

 

Annan Tells Syria to Disarm Hizbollah

When I first saw this news item on the wires, I didn't comment because I am skeptical (to put it mildly) and I think this is a gratuitous move on the part of Annan especially since the Islamic Republic of Iran was just elected to serve as the Vice-Chair of the U.N. Disarmament Commission. I  think the UN is useless and ought to go the way of the League of Nations. Annan is a tool of the Axis of Islam and as long as he serves their ends he enjoys the ill gotten stature of his deal with devil.

It's hard to take it seriously when At UN, Attacks on Israel Reign Despite Bombing -

On the day a Palestinian Arab suicide bomber killed nine people in Tel Aviv, two dozen speakers, mostly from Arab and Muslim countries but also from Cuba and Venezuela, lined up at the Security Council to denounce Israel.

And of course Hizbullah dismissed the UN out of hand;

"Terje Roed-Larsen ... tries to meet the demands of the Israeli agenda through the Lebanese gate," Ali Ammar, one of Hizbullah's 14 MPs, told the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation television.

But despite Annan's criticism for Hizbullah's continued armed presence along the borders with Israel, he said that he had

"further taken positive note of repeated statements by Hizbullah's leaders that indicate their willingness to disarm through design of, and Hizbullah's integration into, a broad national defense strategy mechanism for the protection of Lebanon. These are commendable developments."  huh?
More  Here  hat tip Daryl

But I respect and trust Bolton and if he says it is "significant "I will reserve judgment.

Annan urges Iran, Syria to help disarm Hizbullah

Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged Iran as well as Syria on Wednesday to cooperate in trying to restore Lebanon's political independence and disarm militias, the first time the UN chief has issued a report linking Tehran to instability in Lebanon.

US Ambassador John Bolton said Wednesday that Annan's decision to single out Iran was "significant" and "an important step forward" because it recognizes "that Iran's financing terrorist groups in Lebanon and Syria has a significant impact on what happens in those two countries."

Annan mentioned Iran in a report on implementation of a September 2004 Security Council resolution that called for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon, the disbanding and disarmament of all militias, and the extension of government authority throughout the country.

The secretary-general made no mention of Iran financing terrorist groups. But he did note the "close ties, with frequent contacts and regular communication," that Lebanon's Hizbullah guerrillas, who are listed as a terrorist group by the United States, have with Syria and Iran.

HAMAS Friendly Arabs in Israeli Government

Only in Israel would you have Arabs in the Knesset. Can you see Jews in the governments of  Hamas, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt or any Arab government? IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN, NEVER. Unbelievable. Zionism is racism my ass.

Now you have these same Arab MKs meeting with Hamas and demanding to see Israel nuclear facilities. No joke. This is all a result of the suicidal left wing in Israel. Shimon Peres is the number two man in Israel now right? Just how many Jews have to die?

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Enlightened terrible policy is still terrible policy.

ARAB MK GOES TOO FAR

3 Arab MKs met with Hamas leaders, and one of the MKs now demands to visit the nuclear reactor in Dimona. His membership on the permanent Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee is now in doubt. Taleb A-Sana, now in his fourth term as a Knesset Member, was appointed earlier this week as a member of the interim Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. The committee will serve until a permanent one is decided upon by the not-yet formed government.

Israel is infected with the liberalism, the same disease as the US and most countries of the world. It bespoils everything it touches.

Remember

 

Hamas:Good is Evil and Evil is Good

Suicide murder rhetoric here;

Hamas' spokesmen quickly defended the sickening Passover attack at a Tel Aviv restaurant Monday. The result was to put the Palestinian government on record as an outlaw. Just before the bombing, Qatar announced a $50 million pledge, adding to $50 million already promised by Iran and an unspecified "emergency" grant by Russia. Both Russia and Qatar, as well as every other Arab League state, should have second thoughts. The Bush administration should use its leverage to stop both from paying up.

Jordan Accuses Hamas of Smuggling Weapons. Oh and a senior Jordanian official said that weapons allegedly smuggled into Jordan by Hamas came from Syria.

The world will choke on its own blood. For every action or inaction, the rules are rewritten, the line in the sand is moved yet again.Last week I wrote here of an Arab murdered in cold blood for selling his land to Jews. No one in the media gave a shit. Al Doura! Why Is Muhammad Abu al-Hawa Dead?

Muhammad Abu al-Hawa, 42, and the father of eight, was shot seven times last Wednesday night and his body and car were torched. He was tortured and murdered because he stood accused of selling an apartment building in Israel's capital city to Jews. He was buried in a makeshift cemetery because the Palestinian Authority's mufti in Jerusalem, Ikremah Sabri, has barred all Muslims accused of selling land to Jews from being buried in a Muslim cemetery.

Has the moral inversion become so much a part of the daily dialogue that we can't see what is right in front of us. Such danger. The horror of what awaits us.

The Horror of Hamas

'British foreign secretary Jack Straw has just declared he wants to normalize relations with Hamas.'Earlier on Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had claimed that since Hamas now headed the PA government Britain wanted to maintain normal relations with them "as we did with the previous government."' This is the best the UK can do?........more at Zalmi blog

He makes this statement on a visit to Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 9-11 hijackers and principal banker to the Wahabbist Jihad. And within two days of the latest suicide carnage in Tel Aviv which Hamas were quick to justify as legitimate policy.

Saudi Arabia  ruled by an authoritarian regime that rely on coercion, violence, and terror to rule, and that demands from their citizens submission, obedience and conformity. And that includes "journalists," to whom, by now, responsibility to truth and logic has become irrelevant. More here.

Palestinian Rocket Fire Continues

Ehud Olmert: WEAK, John Bolton: Strong

It's not what I would do. It's not what Bibi would have done.

Israel blames Hamas for bombing but limits response
Israel blamed the Hamas-led Palestinian government on Tuesday for a Tel Aviv suicide bombing but acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert decided for now against launching a military offensive against it.

But look to John Bolton as the role model of righteous;

John Bolton on Tel Aviv Bombing: Security Council Cannot Remain Silent

UN Ambassador John Bolton spoke briefly on Tuesday about the suicide bombing yesterday in Tel Aviv. Below are excerpts of his comments with  emphasis added:

"We meet in the aftermath of a vicious and despicable act of terrorism in Tel Aviv. We should first express our condolences to the families of the victims and to the government and people of Israel, and also express our outrage.

The burden of responsibility for preventing terrorist attacks such as this one rests with the Palestinian Authority. The United States has noted reactions by several terrorist groups including Hamas that defend -- and even applaud -- the act of terror in Tel Aviv today, as we have noted President Abbas's quick denunciation of it.

Defense or sponsorship of terrorist acts by officials of the Palestinian Cabinet will have the gravest effect on relations between the Palestinian Authority and all states seeking peace in the Middle East.

[...]

Israel has a right to defend itself. To condemn Israel for defending itself while failing to acknowledge either the provocation of persistent Qassam rocket attacks or the Palestinian Authority's responsibility for taking action to stop the Qassam attacks is unworthy of the Security Council.

In light of today's terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, it is especially important to stress the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority to take action to stop terrorism. The Security Council cannot remain silent when Hamas, the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority, is supporting such attacks.

We also remain concerned about the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people. The United States has long been a supporter of the Palestinian people through substantial contributions of our foreign assistance funds.

On April 7, the U.S. announced that it would increase humanitarian aid to help Palestinians in need. Basic human assistance, including health, food, and education, will increase by 57 percent, to a total of $245 million. The United States will also provide $42 million to strengthen civil society and independent institutions. Assistance will be administered through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNWRA, and other non-Palestinian Authority actors, including local and international NGOs.

[...] A Palestinian Authority government which refuses to accept its responsibility to prevent acts of tenor and punish the perpetrators of such violence, and which by its unwillingness to condemn such attacks gives at least tacit approval and encouragement to terrorism, cannot be considered a partner in peace.

Read the whole statement over  at Vital Perspectives here

More from the formidable Bolton: Bolton Presses On With Plan To Halt Darfur Genocide

FRANCE 'REGRETS' HAMAS FAILURE TO CONDEMN TEL AVIV BLAST....."regrets", how quaint

 

UN Ambassador John Bolton spoke briefly on Tuesday about the suicide bombing yesterday in Tel Aviv. Below are excerpts of his comments with  emphasis added:

"We meet in the aftermath of a vicious and despicable act of terrorism in Tel Aviv. We should first express our condolences to the families of the victims and to the government and people of Israel, and also express our outrage.

The burden of responsibility for preventing terrorist attacks such as this one rests with the Palestinian Authority. The United States has noted reactions by several terrorist groups including Hamas that defend -- and even applaud -- the act of terror in Tel Aviv today, as we have noted President Abbas's quick denunciation of it.

Defense or sponsorship of terrorist acts by officials of the Palestinian Cabinet will have the gravest effect on relations between the Palestinian Authority and all states seeking peace in the Middle East.

[...]

Israel has a right to defend itself. To condemn Israel for defending itself while failing to acknowledge either the provocation of persistent Qassam rocket attacks or the Palestinian Authority's responsibility for taking action to stop the Qassam attacks is unworthy of the Security Council.

In light of today's terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, it is especially important to stress the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority to take action to stop terrorism. The Security Council cannot remain silent when Hamas, the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority, is supporting such attacks.

We also remain concerned about the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people. The United States has long been a supporter of the Palestinian people through substantial contributions of our foreign assistance funds.

On April 7, the U.S. announced that it would increase humanitarian aid to help Palestinians in need. Basic human assistance, including health, food, and education, will increase by 57 percent, to a total of $245 million. The United States will also provide $42 million to strengthen civil society and independent institutions. Assistance will be administered through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNWRA, and other non-Palestinian Authority actors, including local and international NGOs.

[...] A Palestinian Authority government which refuses to accept its responsibility to prevent acts of tenor and punish the perpetrators of such violence, and which by its unwillingness to condemn such attacks gives at least tacit approval and encouragement to terrorism, cannot be considered a partner in peace.

Read the whole statement over  at Vital Perspectives here

More from the formidable Bolton: Bolton Presses On With Plan To Halt Darfur Genocide

FRANCE 'REGRETS' HAMAS FAILURE TO CONDEMN TEL AVIV BLAST....."regrets", how quaint

New Axis Of Terror

After Hamas defended a deadly suicide bombing Monday, Israel's U.N. ambassador warned that recent statements by the Palestinian government, Iran and Syria "are clear declarations of war, and I urge each and every one of you to listen carefully and take them at face value."

Ambassador Dan Gillerman cautioned that a new "axis of terror" - Iran, Syria and the Hamas-run Palestinian government - was sowing the seeds of the first world war of the 21st century.

"A dark cloud is looming above our region, and it is metastasizing as a result of the statements and actions by leaders of Iran, Syria, and the newly elected government of the Palestinian Authority," he said. More here.

Iran Reports Testing New Centrifuge
Iran's president has thrown a new wrinkle into the nuclear debate by claiming his country is testing a centrifuge that could be used to more speedily create fuel for power plants or atomic weapons.

Iran claim on nuclear plan raises new fears
Iran's advanced work with uranium suggests ties to a black market for nuclear technology.

Islamic Jihad Killing Jews Today

Hamas Leader Mashaal: We'll Never Recognize Israel
Speaking in Tehran, Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal warned Saturday that "the Palestinians will never recognize Israel." Mashaal also congratulated the Iranian people on the progress in their nuclear ambitions

A16 year old teenage boy  [updated information] Arab suicide bomber, detonated a large explosive at a Tel Aviv fast food stand in the Neveh Sha’anan neighborhood Monday afternoon, killing at least nine civilians. Story here

At least 50 persons were wounded, with 15 sustaining moderate to severe injuries.

The Islamic Jihad terror group and the Al Aksa Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah party, have claimed responsibility for the attack. Fatah is the party of PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) leader Mahmoud Abbas, and his predecessor, PLO terrorist chieftain Yassir Arafat.

I am so tired of the name game. It's Radical Islamists. They change their name labels like I change La Perla. It's always the same murderers.

In 1993, Israel signed the Oslo Accords and ceded control of heavily populated Arab areas to the Palestinian Authority. When the accords were signed, the PLO and its largest component, Fatah, pledged in writing to refrain from carrying out terrorist attacks or from using violence of any kind against Israel.

Oslo was the biggest mistale Israel ever made. You can not negotiate a peace if you haven't beaten the enemy. Thoroughly. Negotiation only empowers the tactics of the savages. It didn't work in Paris with the Viet Cong, it won't work with these animals. Germany and Japan post war efforts were so successful because those countries were so thoroughly beaten. The Pali Arabs and their enablers must be thoroughly beaten.

The left wing in Israel will destroy that country much the same way they are destroying America. Israel is infected with the same disease (liberalism) as the US and most countries of the world. It bespoils everything it touches.

The Al Aksa Brigades and the Islamic Jihad have been cooperating extensively to carry out terrorist attacks against Israel, especially since Hamas won a pivotal parliamentary election in the Palestinian Authority last January.

Tehran Hosts Conference in Support of Palestinians

UPDATE: From Taranto here;

Terrorism and Trivial Truths
"A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up outside a fast-food restaurant in a bustling area of Tel Aviv during the Passover holiday Monday, killing eight other people and wounding at least 49 in the deadliest Palestinian attack in more than a year," the Associated Press reports. This is in Tel Aviv, not the disputed territories:

The Palestinians' new Hamas leaders called the attack a legitimate response to Israeli "aggression." Israel said it held Hamas ultimately responsible--even though a different militant group, Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility--and would respond "as necessary." . . .

Witness Israel Yaakov said the blast killed a woman standing near her husband and children.

"The father was traumatized. He went into shock. He ran to the children to gather them up and the children were screaming, 'Mom! Mom!' and she wasn't answering, she was dead already . . . it's a shocking scene," Yaakov said.

Another witness, 62-year-old Sonya Levy, said she had just finished shopping when the blast occurred.

"I was about to get into my car, and boom! There was an explosion. A bit of human flesh landed on my car and I started to scream," she said. There's much more here.

Pink Floyd's Anti-Wall

Pink Floyd?  Ugh, crawl back into your has-been cave. Stepping on the Jewish people to advance your own celebrity is pathetic. Your moral equivalency and dhimmitude is contemptuous here via Drudge;

Money quote: "Being an Israeli does not disbar from being a human being."

LATEST: PINK FLOYD rocker ROGER WATERS has requested that his upcoming Tel Aviv, Israel, gig be moved to a joint Jewish-Arab community after pressure from Palestinian political activists.

dhimmi............

The COMFORTABLY NUMB hitmaker will now stage his June (06) concert in a chickpea field at Neve Shalom instead of its original city park venue, according to local press. A report on Channel 2 TV shows the mayor of Neve Shalom, RAYAK RIZIK, walking through the field and welcoming Waters' change of heart.

The bassist has publicly lent his support to a pro-Palestinian movement urging removal of a barrier Israel is building along the West Bank [Jew hater]and, since announcing he was to play Tel Aviv, has been under sustained pressure from Palestinian activists to boycott the venue.

However, he previously maintained, "I am happy to play to anybody who believes in peace.[hey putz, the Jews are dying for peace everyday] I don't discriminate between any of my fans, wherever they live.

Being an Israeli does not disbar from being a human being." WTF?........dirtbag.

Israel has too much class to cancel the performance but I would.

In other burned-out-brain has been rocker news;

Neil Young plans ENTIRE ALBUM on Bush and Iraq War... What a pussy. Live off the fat of the land but not fight for it? Peace through strength, Harvest boy (you reap what you sow.)

Hamas and Al Qaeda, Baby It's Love

Hardly surprising but CONNECT THE DOTS, the Jew is chum for the world press, the objective is Islamic world domination.

Hamas leader, al-Qaida money man meet

A leader of the Palestinian Hamas organization has met with an al-Qaida fundraiser in Yemen.

The meeting, two weeks ago at a fundraising event by the Hamas office in Yemen, was between Khaled Marshaal and Sheikh Abd al-Majid al-Zindani, said by the United States to be a fundraiser for al-Qaida and a spiritual leader of Osama bin Laden.

The Jerusalem Post report said that at the event Zindani praised Hamas suicide bombers and urged people to donate money to the organization, whose political wing won recent Palestinian elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and now control the Palestinian Authority government.

"The Hamas government is the Palestinian people's government today," Zindani said. "It is the jihad-fighting, steadfast, resolute government of Palestine."

Marshaal is a leader of Hamas in Damascus, the Syrian capital, which is the headquarters of Hamas' armed wing.

Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and current head of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, said the meeting between Marshaal and Zindani underscores commonality between the two groups.

"This meeting reinforces the fact that Hamas and al-Qaida come out of the same ideological well-spring of global jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood," the newspaper quoted Dore. "They still share the same financial structure to this day." hat tip Daryl

Meanwhile, Iran's influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani met with leaders of the radical Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad as well as the head of the Shiite Lebanese Hezbollah movement, Iranian sources said, according to AFP. Story here

Need more intel on the coming caliphate? Go here

UPDATE: A commonality indeed- Iran to Give Palestinian Authority $50M

Islamokazees Need the Democratic Party

Homicide Bombers need a union! They need the Democrats, the political wing for the strong arm tactics of the unions in America. Maybe the union vampires should remove their fangs from Wal-Mart's neck and get their slovenly asses over to Gaza, Go where they are really needed. Over at Tim Blair;

TERRORIST HOMICIDE BOMBERS UPSET OVER WORK CONDITIONS

A group of Al-Aqsa followers also took over and forced the closure of the nearby offices of the transport ministry where they demanded a resumption of the distribution of permits to enable the families of people killed in the ongoing Palestinian uprising to travel free by taxi.

The Palestinian Authority is in the grip of an acute financial crisis at the moment because of cuts in direct aid payments by both the European Union and United States.

Most of the 140,000 civil servants in the Gaza Strip and West Bank have not received their March salaries as a result. More here.

FREE TAXIS ! ... surely relates to the "six areas, primarily humanitarian aid such as providing medicine and work for international organizations like the United Nations."  In the interest of supporting the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people,... blah, blah, blah Go over to Rantburg hat tip Zeisen Tom P

John Bolton vs. The Evil that savages Men do

I happily interrupt my Passover holiday to express my unabashed admiration for John Bolton. Yes, again. A fine man indeed. Intestinal and testicular fortitude in one giant of a man. The left hates him because he makes them look so positively small, spineless, petty and limp wrist-ed. Which of course they are.

- The United States on Thursday blocked a U.N. Security Council statement drafted by Arab nations and aimed at putting pressure on Israel to stop military strikes on Palestinian targets.

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the draft, even after three days of intense negotiations, "was disproportionately critical of Israel, and unfairly so, and needlessly so."

You go John.

When the American ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, asked the members of the Security Council yesterday whether they thought it appropriate on Passover, a major Jewish holy day, to debate a motion denouncing Israel, most of the 15 ambassadors failed to grasp what was wrong, according to diplomats present at the meeting, held behind closed doors.

Israeli diplomats are always present during such consultations, but yesterday they were conspicuous in their absence. A diplomat, who asked for anonymity because Israeli officials are supposed to decline interviews during the first 24 hours of Passover, told The New York Sun that the council had been notified in advance that no Israelis would come to Turtle Bay during the holiday.New York Sun

Of course Israel would want to be present when such a matter, critical to her survival was being bantered about by her enemies. Israel can not be present on Passover which is why of course it was scheduled on Passover.

As consultations began, Mr. Bolton asked for what he later described as “consistency about observing religious holidays.” He said that he was told that “we work on everybody’s religious holidays.” From now on, he said, “never again can anybody say, ‘But it’s a religious holiday, therefore I can’t

John Bolton is dah bomb.

Washington does not have formal veto power when it comes to council statements. But it was nonetheless able to block the draft single-handedly because council rules require that statements be unanimous supported by all 15 of its members.

During Thursday's closed-door negotiations, the United States effectively killed the text by seeking amendment after amendment until Qatar, the council's sole Arab member, gave up the fight.

Asked by reporters to confirm that Washington alone had opposed issuing the statement, Bolton responded,

"If I were the only holdout, I'd be proud of that fact."

Ayn Rand would be proud. I am proud.

Qatar, acting on behalf of the Arab group at the United Nations, the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Non-Aligned Movement of 112 nations, immediately requested an open council debate on the Middle East, which was scheduled for Monday afternoon.

"I don't see that that meeting is going to be productive, because I don't think the Security Council is an exercise in group therapy," Bolton said.

I love  him. The ideal man. No bullshit moral ambiguity here. 

But Mansour predicted more than 150 U.N., member-nations would address the meeting, to demonstrate that the overwhelming majority of U.N. members were "on the side of justice and international law."

Translation: wipe Israel off the map

The draft statement, after three days of revisions aimed at toning it down, expressed grave concern both about rocket attacks on Israel launched from Gaza and the escalation of Israeli shelling of Gaza, which Israeli says was meant to end those attacks.

The UN is consistent. Israel has NO RIGHT to defend itself. Dogs.

It called on the Palestinians "to take a clear public stance against violence and to take firm measures to halt rocket attacks and suicide bombings." And it urged renewed action toward creation of a viable Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace and security.

Yeah, right.

Israel has increased deadly airstrikes and shelling of Gaza in what it says [note that, "in what it says"the rockets are a fact,  Al -Reuters has reported on them, calling the deadly rockets, "harmless" here- Atlas], is a response to militants firing rockets into Israel. The attacks have intensified since the militant group Hamas, which is sworn to destroy Israel, took over governing the Palestinian territories after winning a January election.

The Jewish state says it is not intentionally targeting civilians and has warned residents to leave parts of northern Gaza from where militants often launch makeshift rockets. Story here.

If it's not Cheney/Rice in '08, it's got to be Bolton, a warrior in the struggle between good and evil.

“What were these consultations about?” the Israeli diplomat said. “Were they on Israel’s response, or on the terror that led to it?” .....indeed

Photo: Child at Hamas rally 4-13-06

An Arab is Murdered

An Arab resident was murdered yesterday in East Jerusalem, a week after selling his house to a Jew.The Israeli Web site Y-Net reported from Palestinian Arab sources that the killing was claimed by operatives of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, which are the militant faction of Fatah.

Brandeis University Behaving Badly, Again

Another bad moment for Brandeis University here;

Brandeis University votes not to invest in Sudan

Brandeis University will NOT invest any of its endowment in companies that do business in Sudan to protest what it called the Sudanese government's genocidal policies in the African nation's Darfur region.

The executive committee of Brandeis' board of trustees voted unanimously to approve the measure.

School officials say the Waltham-based university currently has NO such investments.

MIllions have died in the Sudan, where women and children are raped, enslaved, and annialated by an Islamic Arab government.

Other universities have voted to end or limit investments in Sudan, including Brown, Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Amherst, Yale and Cal.

So help me out here guys. If they have no investments, why vote? And if the vote is symbolic, why vote no? I mean how could anyone with a drop of human blood running through their body vote for genocide? Louis Brandeis is spinning in his grave.

Considering the Brandeis partnership with the Palestinian "univeristy", thay appear to be consistent in their alignment with evil.

 

Al-Quds University officially propagates the most vile, verifiably specious historical distortion against the Jews since Nazi Germany's Joseph Goebbels. On its Web site, Al-Quds University strongly argues that King David never existed except in myth; that Joshua's conquest never occurred; that the Exodus from Egypt never happened, but rather was a Canaanite myth usurped by the Israelites; that the Al Aqsa Mosque is not built on the ruins of the Temple in Jerusalem; that neither the first nor second temples ever existed; and that the Western Wall was merely a Roman fortress' retaining wall.

It is shocking to me that Brandeis University would choose to closely affiliate with, and give credibility to, an institution such as Al-Quds University.

U.S. $ to U.N.- Spitting into the Wind

United States Assistance to UN Relief and Works Agency

The United States is the largest bilateral donor to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), and second only to the European Community as contributor. [our first mistake....Atlas]
 

FY06 USG contributions to date include $84.15 million to UNRWA's General Fund, which supports the agency's core educational, health, and social programs for refugees in UNRWA's five fields of operation (West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria), and another $51 million to its 2006 Emergency Appeal, which provides emergency food and health care to refugees in the West Bank and Gaza.

Since the second intifada erupted in September 2000, the United States has contributed $186 million to UNRWA's emergency appeals. Over the past seven years the US average annual contribution to UNRWA's General Fund has been $86.45 million.

USG Voluntary Contributions to UNRWA                                          
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+          
|Fiscal Year           |Regular Budget          |Emergency Appeal    |        
|----------------------+------------------------+--------------------|        
|2003                  |$88.00 million          |$46 million          |         
|----------------------+------------------------+--------------------|          
|2004                  |$87.40 million          |$40 million         |          
|----------------------+------------------------+--------------------|          
|2005                  |$88.00 million          |$20 million         |        
|----------------------+------------------------+--------------------|        
|2006                  |$84.15 million          |$51 million          |         
|                      |                        |(proposed)          |         
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

Half of the annual U.S. contribution to , General Fund supports the agency's programs in the West Bank and Gaza, which are designed to promote economic self-sufficiency [self sufficiency - did I read that right? - Atlas] and prepare the refugee population for independent statehood in keeping with the President's vision of two democratic states Israel and Palestine   living side-by-side in peace and security. [That and the tooth fairy - Atlas]

Our contribution to UNRWA's General Fund ensures that the agency can educate    nearly 490,000 children who attend its 647 schools, 273 of which are in Gaza  and the West Bank. [Is anyone checking to see the HATE they are teaching in those schools. Let's teach them to be doctors, researchers, Senators, healers. Yes lets drop Islamokazee 101 from the curriculum...........Atlas]

The U.S. contribution to UNRWA's Emergency Appeal finances the provision of food parcels and mobile health clinic services to refugees in the West Bank and Gaza where unemployment has reached 30 percent, where 56 percent of the 3.8 million population lives below the World Bank poverty line of $2.10 per person per day, and where 40 percent of the population is "food insecure." This year's contribution will support UNRWA's creation of 38,787 temporary jobs.[This is so not the answer, stop enabling terror. That would be the best thing you could ever do for the Palestinian Arabs and their future victims - Atlas]

Abbas: Our Sons Will Fight the Jews

Abbas: Our Sons Will Fight Israelis
Mahmoud Abbas says Israel's plan to impose its final borders will lead to another war in a decade. "After 10 years our sons will feel it is unfair and they will return back to struggle," Abbas said. "Nobody will accept it. The struggle will continue." (Guardian-UK)

This is Israel's "partner in peace."  "Our sons will feel it is unfair," - maybe you should teach them to value life, education, make something of themselves.

Why should the U.S. pay for building all those schools and have nothing to say about the HATE they are teaching there. The is something really wrong with this picture. Fatally wrong.

U.S. Pulling or Suspending $411M in Palestinian Projects
Europe Mulls Path Forward with Hamas
Norway Freezes Aid to PA
France Denies Visas for Hamas Legislators

A Conversation with Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert - Lally Weymouth (Washington Post)

• Q: How much time will you give the new Palestinian government?
  Olmert: I'm not expressing any ultimatum. If we reach the conclusion that the Palestinians are not prepared to meet the requirements that lead to negotiations, we will then move forward without a negotiating process. We are not prepared to wait forever.
• Q: What do you mean by "convergence"?
  Olmert: The idea is that most of the settlements that would have to be removed from where they are now will be converged into the blocs of settlements that will remain under Israeli control....The rest of the territories will not have any Israeli presence and will allow territorial contiguity for a future Palestinian state.
• Q: Will the army stay behind?
  Olmert: I will keep all military options to be able to combat terrorism effectively everywhere.
• Q: Would you want some kind of U.S. recognition of the borders you set?
  Olmert: I will seek such recognition, yes. But it's important to understand that if we reach the conclusion that the Palestinians - led by a Hamas government, which is a terrorist organization - are not prepared to meet the preliminary requirements of the roadmap, then we don't have to wait forever. We don't need to waste our energies and our resources. We can move forward to create a new reality on the ground congruent with the understanding that there should be two states existing alongside each other and that the Palestinians must have a contiguous territory where they can hopefully establish a credible state.

Reuters, Terrorist by Proxy

Forty rockets were fired from Gaza into Ashkelon which took a direct hit. More on rocket attacks here. Typical Reuters coverage here - nothing to see, keep moving.

The terror enablers over at Reuters wrote:

"The makeshift rockets fall harmlessly into Israel."

Naomi Ragen writes;

Thanks, Reuters for putting all our fears into perspective! I hope one of your reporters doesn't happen to be standing in a spot where that amateurish little bomb falls, because despite the lack of professionalism, he might actually find himself unprofessionally beheaded! But hey, that's unlikely.

Actually I hope and pray all of their reporters from the "harmless rocket" target zone.

Reuters doesn't usually send its reporters to places where they are likely to actually witness any news first-hand. They have their "sources" in "Palestine" call them on their cell-phones. I say this all allegedly, of course. Don't believe me if you don't want to. More here

But check out Al Reuters when when Israel defends her beseiged people;

Israeli warplanes pound Gaza after suicide bombing

WARPLANES! POUND! Suicide bomber? Islamokazee.

Israeli army kills Palestinian militant in Gaza

The terrorist (militant my ass) Israel killed was firing grenades into Israel from the northern Gaza Strip.

Believe me I could go on and on. Pay attention to who is editing your news. All the major media outlets get their news off the Reuters wire ......................ugh. These insidious media attacks are  fought daily, and free nations like Israel and America have no messenger for their message. Get the word out on the blogs.

Just look at the lengths Bush had to go to to get his Iraqi message across.

Reuters: U.S. propaganda magnifies Zarqawi threat - report

They appear to be on Zarqawi's payroll as well. Lying sack of dung (not use of the words PROPAGANDA. MAGNIFIES.)

AP is hardly better. Here AP rewrites history of Moroccan Jews.

State Department: Palestinian Assistance : Humanitarian Assistance and Democracy Building

State Department Announces U.S. Aid Package to Palestinians from Vital Perspective

After reviewing what aid is and isn't legal since the election of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, the State Department finally released its policy. Click here for a nice, easy-to-read PDF release from the State Department.

The following $411 million in U.S. aid have been cancelled/suspended (rightfully so):

• $45 million in direct assistance to the Palestinian Authority
• $130 million in infrastructure projects (roads, water infrastructure, construction)
• $20 million in private enterprise development and revitalization, financial markets reform
• $17 million in electoral, political party, local government, and legislative support programs
• $13 million in civil society development
• $10 million in rule of law and judicial programs
• $7 million in technical assistance
• $4 million in community policing
• $165 million in ongoing and planned projects subject to further review

The State Department has authorized $245 million in humanitarian aid and $42 million in democracy building funds, as outlined below:

• $65 million in food programs
• $31 million in health programs
• $500,000 in avian flu prevention and containment
• $14 million in education programs
• $135 million to UNRWA
• $42 million to protect and promote moderation and democratic alternatives to Hamas

Click below for actual document

French Dhimmis Dying to Pay the Jiyza

As their Muslim youth rip apart the fabric of French society, the French can't bend over far enough.
I have no pity, no empathy for these antisemites, these terror enablers. They disgust me -

FRANCE LOOKS FOR NEW WAYS OF FUNDING PALESTINIANS
France is looking for new ways of financing Palestinians that avoid giving money directly to the new Hamas-led government.

Paying Palestinian state functionaries without going through Hamas would be tricky, the official said. [note tricky- Atlas]

And the Jew haters in America are just as bad, don't kid yourself - It Is Anti-Semitic

Hamas' Glee at 9/11

Any Anerican that would consider giving one red cent to Hamas, our enemy,  should be forced to read this everyday, after reciting the pledge of allegiance.
THE MEMRI REPORT
How Hamas Greeted 9/11
By STEVEN STALINSKY

Hamas praised the killing of thousands of Americans in the attacks of September 11, 2001, while saying Muslims could not have been involved — a similar response to those of other groups in the Middle East. Now that Hamas is running the Palestinian Authority, it is worth taking a second look at the terrorist organization’s official press outlets’ coverage of the attacks.

• “Allah has answered our prayers,” Dr. Atallah Abu Al-Subh wrote in an open letter titled “To America,” which appeared September 13,2001, in the Hamas mouthpiece Al-Risala. The Hamas publication also directed messages to high-ranking members of the Bush administration:

• “Every time Dick Cheney and his girlfriend Condoleezza Rice … admonish us [and] gloat at our misfortune, they incite more [violence against us]! We stand in line and beg Allah to give you to drink from the cup of humiliation — and behold, heaven has answere. … America, you planted in the hearts of all men … the seedling of hatred of you! You never considered that the day would come when the saplings would grow and put out your eyes … at the top of the World Trade Center ...Those saplings grew and spread and struck at the liver of the Pentagon. ... Don’t you see that thorns have reached the eyes of your strong Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, who thought that he was too strong to be hurt by the thorns of vengeance … Perhaps you realize, after Rumsfeld fled,that he is only an ordinary man,” Al-Risala contributors wrote shortly after the attacks.

• “The Jews infiltrated the American Army, particularly the Air Force and they pressured pilots to take the planes, knowing that religion is not denoted in the identity cards of those joining the American military. Accordingly the airplanes were [controlled] by the Jews. … Why is Bush ignoring these facts.… Don’t act like you don’t know who is behind the recent events…” a Hamas activist, Yussef Al-’Azam, wrote in a Hamas newspaper, Al-Sabil, on October 4, 2001.

• “Should I greet you [anthrax], or should I curse you … I will begin by saying: Oh Anthrax … you have sown horror in the heart of the lady of arrogance … you have entered the most fortified of places; [you have entered] the White House and they left it like horrified mice,” a November 1, 2001, editorial in Al-Risala headlined, “To Anthrax,” said. The letter also belittled the American military and concluded by blessing the attacks on America:

• “How much hatred has [America] stockpiled. … Were the eradication of its Marines in Lebanon, the destruction of its military headquarters at Khobar in Saudi Arabia, the destruction of the USS Cole in Yemen, the bombing of its embassies in Zambia [sic] and in Kenya, and the attacks on its soldiers in the Gulf … not sufficient? The U.S. should have learned the lessons of history … Today, the U.S. has treated the bitter harvest it sowed in the hearts of millions. Today, we ask: After this, will the U.S. [continue to] think that it is above the law?” the editor of Al-Risala, Dr. Ghazi Hamad, said in justification of the attacks days after September 11, 2001.

Some of the most vulgar responses to the attacks of September 11, 2001, were the celebrations in the Palestinian streets, including shouts of joy by women. Hamas’ reaction to the attacks was equally as disturbing yet not really shocking.

Mr. Stalinsky is the executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute.

Chinese Deny Forming Ties with Hamas - Herb Keinon
Spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Israel Lu Jing on Tuesday denied Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar's claim that he had been invited to China. He also said he did not know of any intention to invite a Hamas official in the near future.
    Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said, "If Hamas can get recognition without changing its positions, there is no chance it will become more moderate." Israel has informed the Chinese and other nations of its position that Hamas should be denied international legitimacy until it recognizes Israel, renounces terrorism, and accepts previous agreements with Israel. (Jerusalem Post)

• The U.S. and Canada cut ties with the Palestinian government after Hamas formally took control of the Palestinian Authority. [Full Story]

Hamas Holds Israeli's Dhimmitude in Contempt

How appropriate - coming to us from Hades

Hamas: Israeli policies remain hostile

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The militant group Hamas on Wednesday dismissed Israel's election results as another face of Israeli policy designed to eliminate the Palestinian issue, while other Arabs warned the Jewish state about taking unilateral action.

Hamas Government Approved, Vows to Fight Israel - Nidal al-Mughrabi
"We cannot recognize Israel," Hamas' newly-approved Minister of Information, Youssef Rizka, told one cheering crowd in Gaza. "The land of Palestine is ours and not for the Jews."

What a joke.The Israelis never learn. I can't imagine what they were thinking but they have to live there and its their security that is at stake. It reeks of a Gore victory after 9/11.

I've been conversing with Doc Nancy and she writes;

The answer is that Israel is infected with the same disease (liberalism) as the US and most countries of the world. It bespoils everything it touches.

We spoke in the past of my concern for Israel's coalition government. I believe there has been a change in its structure in the last generation. It has become clear in recent years that no party leader is able to truly lead because he never has a mandate due to this. To me, this is the real story. And furthermore, by conventional wisdoms' definition, winning 29-32 seats does not a mandate make.

This is fascinating: Graphic (bottom left) shows projected results of Israel's parliamentary election.

If you collect all of the fractious right thinking votes, you get a lot more than 11 seats. The imperiled Sharon who created Kadima was responding to this coalition difficulty, but he never wanted to create a party Peres would approve of. Kadima seems to be much more leftward than he planned. Sharon and Netanyahu were on the same side for years, even competitors in their own party, that's why Bibi said we're "shattered" but the press acts like they were never on the same side. I could study this graph for hours, but I really feel they need to fix their governmental structure becaue what they need most is basically a TWO PARTY SYSTEM, a system that forces people to commit to a side and let the leader lead. THE ABOVE SORT OF LOOKS LIKE A REPEAT OF PEROT!

And lord knows without Perot there would have been no Bill Clinton - what a wonderful world it would be.

But seriously, the doc hits on the key problem. Israel needs an electoral college. Their system is broken, wherein after every election the tyranny of the minority kicks in.

Kadima won an underwhelming victory. Kadima received 28 seats, significantly fewer than predicted. Only once before in Israeli history has a smaller party formed a government - in 1999 - and it lasted only 18 months.

Lots of excuses being made for Likud's abysmal showing. Here is MK Uzi Landau, #14 on the Likud list

Another reason for the Likud's failure, Landau feels, involved the economic reforms led by party leader Binyamin Netanyahu when he served as Finance Minister. "What we were unfairly punished for was the economic policy," Landau said. "People told us that because their pensions decreased, they wouldn't vote for us." The Pensioners' Party in fact scored a totally unexpected success, jumping from oblivion to 7 Knesset seats.

Landau also blamed the media to a certain extent. "Look," he said, "I ran against Bibi [Netanyahu] for party leader, and I have some criticism of him - but what was done to him by some of the media, especially Channel Two and Yediot Acharonot, was simply a targeted killing. I believe the media should perform a self-reckoning of its role in the campaign; it did not act like the watchdog of democracy it is supposed to be."

Frankly, I am not buying it. The fact that the turnout was the lowest in Israeli history is counter intuitive. This, after Hamas, whose mission statement is to destroy Israel,  got elected? What am I missing here? This was a critical election - and the diaspora felt as I did. So yeah I am at a loss.

I think Israel gave Ariel Sharon the old tip of the hat: Sharon's Party Is Winner in Israel. But I also think the Israelis were wrong and will pay dearly for their cognitive dissonance.

Hamas is already dissing the election results ands vowing to destroy Israel. America should watch the unfolding events carefully. Israel's swerve to the left provides America with a snapshot of a similar fate if we do the same at the polls in 2006/2008.

Media Most Septic and Desperate

Rocky Mountain News ran this dishonest, Jew Hating piece of yellow journalism today;

MEMRI's systematic distortions

MEMRI claims to be an independent nonpartisan research institution. One of the co-founders of the organization, Yigal Carmon, is a retired Israeli military intelligence Colonel. Checking the MEMRI website, I found it served up blatant, unbalanced propaganda and was littered with inflammatory articles aimed to incite hate and bigotry toward any person whom MEMRI considers anti-Israeli or anti-Zionist.

Oh how they despise the truth tellers.

Academics as well as professional journalists have repeatedly censured the organization's quality and integrity. Brian Whitaker of the Guardian questioned the honesty of some "translations" posted by MEMRI. Whitaker, specifically, referred to an interview with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Sheikh Ekrima Sabri by Al-Ahram Al-Arabi in Oct. 2000 - the same interview quoted by the ADL, the AJC and Carroll.

Whoa. I thought I was reading Al Jyzra.

Ekrima Sabri, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League sprang into action to disrupt the visit. Both groups immediately sent letters accusing the Grand Mufti of being anti-Semitic and asking co-sponsors to withdraw their support. A press release was sent to the media denouncing the visit. The finishing touches were in News columns by Vincent Carroll (March 7) and Dave Kopel (March 11) that simply seconded the pro-Israeli lobby sentiment. All of their "evidence" seemed to be a regurgitation of the same quotes and accusations. This leads me to suppose that the critics either carbon-copied each other's statements or that they acquired most of their "translation" from one special source: The Middle East Media Research Institute.

Sabri's actions are well documented here. The following excerpts from the weekly Friday sermon delivered by Palestinian Authority [PA] appointed "Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine" Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, at the Al-Aqsa  Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on July 11, 1997. The sermon was broadcast on the PA's official radio station, Voice of Palestine.

"Oh Allah, destroy America, for she is ruled by Zionist Jews...

"Allah will paint the White House black!  Clinton is fulfilling his father's will to identify with Israel...

"The Muslims say to Britain, to France and to all the infidel nations that Jerusalem is Arab.  We shall not respect anyone else's wishes regarding her.  The only relevant party is the Islamic nation, which will not allow infidel nations to interfere...

"The homes the Jews are building will become Arab property, with Allah's help...

"Allah shall take revenge on behalf of his prophet against the colonialist settlers who are sons of monkeys and pigs....Forgive us, Muhamad, for the acts of these sons of monkeys and pigs, who sought to harm your sanctity."

Let's take a look at the Muslim "author" of this piece of trash run by the  Rocky Mountain News (hometown paper of  Ward Churchill). Rima Barakat,  a Palestinian Muslim has said of the Danish  Cartoons here,

The cartoons were very offensive, but we have to rise above this and recognize we have challenges as Muslims that are greater than cartoons.'

Challenges? Like what? Barakat  has done 'workshops' on the "Palestinian Right to Return" aka a ruse for the elimination of Israel.  This workshop, btw, was part of  the same two day conference  as the Cindy and Craig Corrie performance workshop, parents of Rachel Corrie.

Clearly Rima would like to discredit MEMRI, arguably the most significant,  critical sourcea of intel to the lay West. MEMRI pulls back the curtain. We finally have access to what is being broadcast in Arabic to the often cited Arab Street in the MIddle East.

Apparently The Rocky Mountain News is a willing tool to the evil propagandists. Shame on you, dogs. They take their cues from the big boys eh?

Hamas Terror Festival

Hamas Festival Promotes Terror and Violence Among Children

The Hamas terror organization, which will take control of the Palestinian Authority this week, has been promoting the use of children to perpetrate violence and terror.

The Hamas placed pictures of children in combat roles and combat dress on its web site for one week. The pictures were taken at a “Palestinian Children’s Festival” in Yemen. The Yeminite press reported on the festival. Yemen News said, “A Hamas representative [in Yemen] Jamal Issa … stated that the Palestinian children fight alongside the adults in the resistance." The pictures, reproduced below, can also be seen on the website of Palestinian Media Watch, or on a website reporting on news and events in the Palestinian Authority.

This picture shows a girl wearing a sash with the name Reem Riyashi on it. Reem Riyashi was a woman suicide terrorist who killed four Israelis.

Israel better snap out of their pre-election apathy and weigh their candidates very carefully. This is the most dangerous time in modern Israel's history.

 

Palestinian/Al Qaeda Plot foiled In Israel

Israel charges Palestinians with Qaeda attack plot

JERUSALEM, March 21 (Reuters) - An Israeli military court charged two Palestinians on Tuesday with membership of al Qaeda and plotting a suicide bombing and car bomb attack for the group.

Charge sheets published by the Israeli military spokesman said Azzam Abu-Alades and Balal Hafanawi, both 19 and from the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank, were recruited to al Qaeda last year in Jordan. Both were charged by a military tribunal in the West Bank with conspiring to commit murder, membership of an illegal group, illegal possession of weapons and military training with al Qaeda.

The charges say they had plotted a suicide bombing at a pizzeria in a Jewish neighbourhood in Jerusalem to be followed by a car bomb shortly afterwards. They are also accused of recruiting potential suicide bombers to carry out the attacks.

A terrorist by any other name (al qaeda, Hamas, Hizbollah,  Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whichever hat they choose that day) is still as evil. Connect the dots. This is one large global war on Islamofascism.

Bush Says United States Will Defend Israel
President Bush on Monday reaffirmed the United States' vow to defend Israel against attacks from Iran, which is pursuing nuclear arms and has threatened to destroy the Jewish state . "The threat from Iran is, of course, their stated objective to destroy our strong ally Israel," Bush said to an audience in Cleveland.  "It's a threat to world peace; it's a threat, in essence, to a strong alliance. I made it clear, I'll make it clear again, that we will use military might to protect our ally, Israel."  The U.N. Security Council is now considering how to stop Iran's quest for atomic weapons. Meanwhile, Congress is considering the Iran Freedom Support Act, legislation that would tighten American sanctions on Iran to choke off funds it could use for atomic work. Urge your lawmakers to support this legislation.

Thank Gawd ,the President gets it. Israel is, lke Iraq, like the Cartoon jihad, like Thailand, etc.  is another front, another "campaign" - a critical and strategic one albeit, in the war waged on the West by Islamofascists.

Harvard and David Duke of One Mind

David Duke claims vindication by Harvard Dean.

VIDEO here:American White Supremacist David Duke Addressing Damacus Demonstration in Support of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad: My Country Is Also Occupied by the Zionists

VIDEO here American White Supremacist David Duke: Israel Makes the Nazi State Look Very Moderate

This is rich, really rich. On Friday I eviscerated  Harvard’s  Kennedy  School  of  Government  for their Jew hating diatribe against Israel, American Jews and the public affairs committee that lobbies to save Israel from the very real existential threat posed by her every surrounding neighbor. The paper, however, is winning unqualified support by David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, who  claims to be vindicated by a Harvard Dean.  That says it all. doesn't it? Read it all in today's New York Sun

Duke, a former Louisiana state legislator and one-time Klu Klux Klan leader, called the paper “a great step forward,” but he said he was “surprised” that the Kennedy School would publish the report.”

In my post "Dhimmitude and Jew hatred at Harvard" here I wrote;

Harvard, recipient of millions in bloody Wahhabi Saudi dollars, issued an extraordinarily antisemitic paper on the American Israel public affairs committee AIPAC here

AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress....

I am a member of AIPAC and I am a de facto agent? Uh uh. I am just a girl. A quintessentially American girl. Just a believer in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every individual. Those of us that support AIPAC do so because we worry about the existential threat to Israel.

The combination of unwavering U.S. support for Israel and the related effort to spread democracy throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardized U.S. security. ... Why has the United States been willing to set aside its own security in order to advance the interests of another state?...

This is intellectually dishonest and historically inaccurate.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the most critical thing to understand about conflict in the Middle East," he told us, "is that it is not a conflict between Arab and Jew.  It is a conflict between the 10^th century and the 20^th." More at To the Point here

Now it seems former Klu Klux Klan leader David Duke is weighing in, yes that David Duke

A paper recently co-authored by the academic dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government about the allegedly far-reaching influence of an “Israel lobby” is winning praise from white supremacist David Duke.

    The Palestine Liberation Organization mission to Washington is distributing the paper, which also is being hailed by a senior member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization.

    But the paper,“The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” by the Kennedy School’s Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, is meeting with a more critical reception from many of those it names as part of the lobby.The 83-page “working paper” claims a network of journalists, think tanks, lobbyists, and largely Jewish officials have seized the foreign policy debate and manipulated America to invade Iraq. Included in this network, the authors say, are the editors of the New York Times, the scholars at the Brookings Institution, students at Columbia, “pro-Israel” senior officials in the executive branch, and “neoconservative gentiles” including columnist George Will.

  “I have read about the report and read one summary already, and I am surprised how excellent it is,”he said in an e-mail.“It is quite satisfying to see a body in the premier American University essentially come out and validate every major point I have been making since even before the war even started.” Duke added that “the task before us is to wrest control of America’s foreign policy and critical junctures of media from the Jewish extremist Neocons that seek to lead us into what they expectantly call World War IV.”

Former Klu Klux Klan leader David Duke and Harvard. Intellectual equals - isn't that special?

Even Allan Dershowitz with whom I frequently diverge states the painfully obvious.

A professor at Harvard Law School, Alan Dershowitz, whom the authors call an “apologist” for Israel, said he found much of the paper to be “trash.” He said, “It could have been written by Pat Buchanan, by David Duke, Noam Chomsky, and some of the less intelligent members of Hamas.An intelligent member of Hamas would not have made these mistakes.”  

  Those mistakes for Mr. Dershowitz include, for example, the assertion that “There is no question,for example,that many Al Qaeda leaders, including bin Laden, are motivated by Israel’s presence in Jerusalem and the plight of the Palestinians,” which Mr. Dershowitz says “is just absurd.”

  And Martin Peretz, a retired lecturer at Harvard, who is editor of The New Republic, a magazine named in the report as one of those that “zealously defend Israel at every turn,” said, “It is easier to attribute disloyalty to Jews than to question the loyalty of Islamists.This is really questioning the loyalty of Jews, that is what this is about.

Photo: David Duke, wearing Klan robes, attends a Klan rally in Euless, Texas.

University Prostituting for Islamic Petrol-Dollars, Goes After Jews

UPDATE: James Taranto of Best of the Web takes the Harvard paper down point by point. It is a must read;

Duke 1, Harvard 0

Let's take these points one by one:

• Israel is weak and surrounded by enemies. To the contrary, they say, Israel is by far the strongest regional power. Further, "Egypt and Jordan have signed peace treaties with it, and Saudi Arabia has offered to do so." This gives the Saudis far too much credit. True, as we noted in 2002, then Crown Prince Abdullah (now king) told the New York Times' Thomas Friedman that he was amenable to establishing full diplomatic relations, conditioned on Israeli withdrawal from the disputed territories (occupied by Egypt and Jordan before 1967 and Israel since). But Riyadh quickly made clear that it was unwilling even to talk to Jerusalem until after such a withdrawal. As we wrote then, "The Saudi position, in other words, amounts to: Give us land now, and maybe we'll give you peace later." It is true that Israel is the regional superpower, and that Cairo and Amman have signed peace treaties with the Jewish state, but it seems undeniable--and Walt and Mearsheimer do not deny it--that none of this would be true absent U.S. support for Israel. Thus their reasoning is circular: Israel doesn't deserve U.S. support because it has received U.S. support.
  
  
• Israel is a democracy. This they concede, but they also claim that "some aspects of Israeli democracy are at odds with core American values." In particular, they claim that Arab citizens of Israel "are treated as second-class citizens" and note that "a recent Israeli government commission found that Israel behaves in a 'neglectful and discriminatory' manner towards them." Yet even acknowledging that Israeli democracy is flawed, its political system is still vastly superior to those of its adversaries. Israeli Arabs enjoy more political and civil liberties than citizens of just about any Arab country; and the only Arab lands that come anywhere close to being democracies are Lebanon, Iraq and the disputed Palestinian territories--the last two only because of American intervention. That the Israeli government criticizes its own treatment of Arabs is a testament to its democracy; can anyone imagine, say, the Saudi regime offering similar criticisms of its treatm ent of Shiites, non-Muslims or women? American democracy, too, is not without its flaws. During World War II, for instance, black Americans were still disfranchised, and innocent Japanese-Americans were rounded up and put in camps. It does not follow that America was no better than Nazi Germany.
  
  
• Jews deserve a homeland because of their past oppression. Walt and Mearsheimer go so far as to allow that Israel's creation "was undoubtedly an appropriate response to the long record of crimes against Jews." But, they say, "it also brought about fresh crimes against a largely innocent third party: the Palestinians." They lay the plight of the Palestinians entirely at Israel's door, failing to acknowledge the Arab states' vast culpability. The Arabs rejected the 1947 U.N. partition of Palestine, which would have created a Palestinian Arab state including territories beyond the present-day West Bank and Gaza strip. The Arabs immediately declared war on the nascent Jewish state--a war in which Israel gained more territory--and they waged war again in 1967 and 1973. All Arab states except Jordan refuse to allow Palestinians to become citizens, preferring to let them linger as stateless refugees. Nor do the authors acknowledge that since the creation of Israel many Jews who settled there were fle eing persecution in Arab lands and (since 1979) Iran. Whereas Israel has 1.3 million Arab citizens, no Arab country except Morocco has more than a handful of Jewish ones.
  
  
• Israel is morally superior to its adversaries. Here they cite various alleged abuses by Israel during its war of independence and claim that "Israel's subsequent conduct has often been brutal, belying any claim to moral superiority." Even if we concede all the criticisms of Israel, they do not belie "any claim to moral superiority," only to moral perfection. Evaluating which side is morally superior would require a comparative analysis; the only thing Walt and Mearsheimer say about Arab misconduct is that "the Palestinian resort to terrorism is wrong but it isn't surprising. The Palestinians believe they have no other way to force Israeli concessions." No such excuses are offered for Israel's purported misdeeds.

Walt and Mearsheimer's method of analysis presumes Israel's guilt. Every past or present Israeli transgression is evidence of its wickedness, whereas Arab ones, if they are acknowledged at all, are "understandable." This approach paints a highly misleading picture. It is anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent.

Yup, read it all

To read CAMERA's in-depth analysis, "Study Decrying Israel Lobby Marred by Numerous Errors,"click here.

Yahoo - Hawk  says "Georgetown hosts the Pali Solidarity freaks and Harvard puts a patina of respectability on that piece of trash which CAMERA says is so filled with errors that "a student who submitted such a paper would flunk".

Amazing what $20 million from a Saudi sheik will do.....

Palestinian Arabs Doing What They Best

Pali Arab territories grind to a halt ............ does that mean no terror attacks, no bomb making?  Apparently kidnapping is still cool.

Palestinians grind to halt, three foreigners kidnapped
AFP – 3/15/06 The Palestinian territories ground to a halt under a general strike to protest against an Israeli army raid of a West Bank prison, as the authorities braced for further violence.

Three foreign journalists remained hostages of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine for the second day in the Gaza Strip, as thousands of Israeli troops deployed on high alert for possible revenge attacks. Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas was en route home after cutting short a tour of key European cities to manage the crisis sparked by Israel's capture of PFLP leader Ahmed Saadat and five other wanted militants in Jericho.

Businesses remained shuttered and schools closed across the Gaza Strip and West Bank after all Palestinian factions united to order a strike late Tuesday.

Did they expect to release the assassin of an Israeli  cabinet minister to be sanctioned by Israel or the world for that matter. GIVE'EM AID!

Maybe if you stop the aid and they have to work, produce, create for their daily bread they wouldn't have so much time on their hands to kill, maim, kidnap, bomb etc. And don't think for one moment this is not part of the larger war on global terror. Just a thought.........

Just like Iraq, this is part of the campaign against the war on Islamofascism.

BTW, if I wasn't an American and was an Israeli, Netanyahu would get my vote.

Who Are the Six Captured Palestinian Terrorists?
The six terrorists arrested in Jericho include the two top commanders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmed Saadat and Ahed Ulmeh, and three PFLP terrorists who were directly involved in the assassination of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi - Majdi Rimawi, Bassel Assamer, and Hamdi Quran. Both Saadat and Ulmeh continued to guide and direct the organization's terror activity from within the jail. The sixth, Fuad Shubaki, was responsible for the smuggling of large amounts of weaponry including the "Karine A" weapons ship. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
    Saadat was suspected of masterminding a suicide bombing in the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv from his jail cell. (Ha'aretz)
    See also Justice in Jericho - Editorial
The identity of Israeli minister Rehavam Zeevi's killers is not disputed. A photomontage of the killers, weapons brandished, standing over a coffin with Zeevi's picture on it, appears on the PFLP website.

The cluelessness never ends, here Fascist

UPDATE: This is rich, go over to The Augean Stables.................

May Be Too Late To Stop Iran

Ex-Weapons Inspector Says It May Be Too Late To Stop Iran

Washington (AFP) Mar 13 - A former top UN and US arms inspector on Iraq said Sunday it may be too late to stop a nuclear-weapons determined Iran, noting that there is no consensus on taking military action against Tehran.

"I'm afraid that we probably are past the point where there is any meaningful alternative other than military action to stop the Iranians if they are determined to go ahead. And I don't see that as a possibility," said David Kay, who led the US search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq following the 2003 invasion.

"My great fear is indeed we will have to learn to live with Iran, and all its terrorist connections, with the bomb," Kay told NBC television's "Today Show".

Calling the Tehran regime "toxic," Kay said on Sunday that the tensions over Iran's nuclear power program -- which the US believes masks an intention to develop atomic weapons -- differ from those which preceded the US attack on Iraq.

"This time we have a far more united multilateral coalition against Iran and we actually have the International Atomic Energy Agency condemning Iran for 18 years of cheating on its nonproliferation obligations," he said.

"When you've got in Tehran a regime that is toxic in the extreme, you really don't need to make the point that there are serious consequences. Everyone knows where we are moving," he said.
Source: Agence France-Presse Related Links

More from  David Kay's live remarks at AIPAC here

Iran Urging Islamic Jihad to Hit Israel Ahead of Election
Iran continues to urge Islamic Jihad to carry out terror attacks against Israel ahead of the Knesset elections. According to a senior source in the General Staff, the Islamic Jihad terror group seeks to confront Hamas with a dilemma - "whether to uphold the policy of calm toward Israel, as it has done until now."

Abbas, Hamas Reach Impasse

EU Hinges Further Aid on Moderate Hamas Stance [Moderate?  The destruction of Israel is their raison d'exister, what does moderate mean? Calling for Israel's destruction Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays?]

“I have been asking who the savior is and answering myself by saying it is me. My people are in the middle of nowhere lost and confused. Humanity’s caravan has passed them by and they are too far from catching it. By changing their way of thinking, I am changing their behavior and eventually their future.” Wafa Sultan

 

Hamas: Terror is Legit

Hamas Platform: Terrorism is Legitimate The Hamas movement, about to assume control over much of Judea/Samaria, presented its platform over the weekend - defining Israel as "the Zionist enemy" and approving continued terrorism.  Full Story

Give 'em aid!

Palestinian Arabs Dupe US $$$

US Congress Hears Testimony About Inflated PA Demographics

The United States Congress heard a damning report this week about U.S. aid being over-alotted due to deliberately inflated Palestinian population figures.
The findings of an exhaustive study on Palestinian Authority (PA) population statistics claims that the Palestinian Authority has deliberately misled U.S. and international humanitarian efforts by inflating their population figures to attract billions of dollars in relief funds.

Relief funds? Oh puhleeeeze, terror terror and more terror funds, and then if there is anything left over.

UPDATE: Things looking up (fingers crossed, those Eurabians can be mighty weak)

EU threatens Palestinian aid cut
The European Union has warned it will cut funding to a Palestinian government led by Hamas if the group fails to renounce violence against Israel. hat tip Phil

According to John Bolton during our interview here, the EU has alreadygiven them 130 million to "tide them over" so I am skeptical at best.

Human rights vs Sharia here

 

This is Not Your Yiddisha Mama

       JIHAD MA

Palestinian Legislative Council Member "Umm Nidal" on Saudi Iqra TV: A Muslim Mother Should Raise Her Children for Jihad and Interviewer Iqra TV Director-General Critical of Arab TV Channels That Don't Support Martyrdom Operations, here.

The following are excerpts from an interview with Palestinian Legislative Council member "Umm Nidal" Farhat, aired on Saudi Iqra TV, on February 19, 2006.

TO VIEW THIS CLIP, click here.

Chirac Backs Hamas

France is opposed to imposing sanctions on a Palestinian government formed by Hamas

Speaking to reporters on the final day of his visit to Saudi Arabia, Chirac said he was aware of the calls for cutting off aid to a Palestinian Authority led by Hamas, owing to the group's refusal to recognize Israel and renounce violence. More here  and here and here and here and here

Jacques, we'ved reaped what you've sown. There is a special place in hell waiting for you.

Not all Europe is as dhimmi as Chirac;
Germany pledges support for Israel in dealing with Hamas

Islam's Coming Crusade - Martin Kramer

• Khaled Mashal, the leader of Hamas abroad, has demanded that Europe repent for the Danish cartoons. "Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world....Apologize today, before remorse will do you no good....Since God is greater, and He supports us, we will be victorious."
• The secular West had flattered itself, believing it had pulled the Muslim world into modernity. Yes, Islam has sent forth suicide bombers and terrorist insurgents. But they and their sympathizers were in the minority - so the pollsters and analysts told us: "Don't judge Islam by the acts of a misguided few." This faith in the pragmatic Muslim majority has underpinned every Western policy, from the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" to the Bush administration's democracy promotion. The Muslim masses, the assumption goes, will choose peace and freedom, if given the chance.
• But they haven't. 9/11 could be attributed to a fanatic minority. Not so the Danish cartoon protests: Millions have taken part. Hundreds of millions of Muslims who live alongside us and among us inhabit another mental world.
• Our elites have spent a decade denying the truth at the core of Samuel Huntington's thesis: that the Islamic world and the West are bound to collide. There is a clash of civilizations, but there isn't yet a war of the worlds. They lack power, resources and weapons. Today they burn flags; a united West can still deny them the means to burn more if it acts swiftly and resolutely, to keep nuclear fire out of Iran's hands, and to assure that Hamas fails.

Photo toon: ihillary, thanks man

Hamas Website Recruits Kids to Kill: GIVE 'EM AID!

Hamas Launches Web Site Recruits Kids to Become ´Martyrs´

The Palestinian Authority's ruling Hamas terror group has launched a web site for children, preaching the moral desirability of being a suicide terrorist via cartoons and children's stories.

The Hamas-run Al-Fateh.net glorifies shahada, martyrdom, and presents the deaths of terrorists attacking Israelis as a time of celebration, according to a report by Palestinian Media Watch.

One of the stories on the site quotes a mother saying that when she heard her son had become a shahid, a martyr, she bought dates, candies and coffee to give out.

And who has Hamas chosen for their war time consiliere? 

Al Qaeda advises Hamas here
Shocking /sarc tag off

And their propaganda arm in America?  CAIR of course. CAIR: Exposed here;

Propaganda is something the Radical Islamists are very very good at. They have successfully enlisted the mainstream media to do their bidding. Co-opting media bias has, in effect,  become one of, if not, the most successful tenet of the war being waged by Radical Extremism on the West;

But there is another side to CAIR that has alarmed many people in positions to know. The Department of Homeland Security refuses to deal with it. Senator Charles Schumer (Democrat, New York) describes it as an organization “which we know has ties to terrorism.”[2] Senator Dick Durbin (Democrat, Illinois) observes that CAIR is “unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect.” Steven Pomerantz, the FBI’s former chief of counterterrorism, notes that “CAIR, its leaders, and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups.” The family of John P. O’Neill, Sr., the former FBI counterterrorism chief who perished at the World Trade Center, named CAIR in a lawsuit as having “been part of the criminal conspiracy of radical Islamic terrorism” responsible for the September 11 atrocities. Counterterrorism expert Steven Emerson calls it “a radical fundamentalist front group for Hamas.”

The Bolton Interview

What I most admire about John Bolton is his steely demeanor and moral clarity. His spectacular fortitude in the face of scoundrels, liars, and internationally sanctioned criminals  never fails to surprise and delight me. What was completely unexpected was the other side of Bolton. He was funny, thoughtful, deliberate. I really enjoyed the chat.

Atlas: If I could I'd like to talk about you. [he is looking at me askance, laughing here] What formed you..........what is your favorite book?

JB: That's a good question actually. I'd say one of the things that made a big impression on me was Edmund Burke's book Reflections on the Revolution in France and I've read a lot of  John Locke and that had a big impact on me and Ayn Rand.

Atlas: You're just saying that to make me feel better........

JB: No it's true.

Atlas: Growing up, were you one of many?

JB: No, I had one sister, nine years younger.

Atlas: So you were the oldest. Your parents were tough? Encouraging? Non approving?.
Trying to figure out where you developed that spine of yours........I find that quality rare. There's a lot of it in that administration.

JB: My father was a firefighter in the city of Baltimore, my mother was a housewife.

Atlas: YAY, the  great American story.

JB: When the President announced my appointment he talked about my father, he talked about how my mother took me to the library when  I was a little boy and said go in there and read, stuff like that. Regular American family and I was the first person in my family to go to college and what that says is they did push me, they did encourage me.

Atlas: And did you always want to do this? Did you always want public service?

JB: I thought about it a lot, I thought when I was in high school I might go into foreign service, but I didn't do that. I ended up in law school and when I was in law school I never thought I would join the government until the Reagan administration.

I was practicing law in Washington at a firm there, although I was politically active. I represented Jim Buckley in a suit against the post Watergate campaign finance reform bill to get it declared unconstitutional because it put restrictions on what candidates could raise and spend on political campaigns. I was active in politics but mostly I was practicing law until the Reagan campaign and then I went into government.

Atlas: And it was satisfying? You were getting things done?

JB: Yeah yeah, first at the AID  and then in the Justice Department and then when Bush 41 was elected I worked with Jim Baker at the State Department.

Atlas: Do you find it is less difficult, more difficult getting things done in this political climate?

JB: When I was in earlier administrations I was in assistant secretary level positions working hard on my issues and I didn't pay as much attention to the broader.......

Atlas: the big picture? [Atlas interrupting? WTF?]

JB: So when I see it now, it's probably more discouraging how much there is to do.

Atlas: Discouraging how? Discouraging how much there is to do? Or discouraging as in --is it do-able?

JB: Oh its do-able, under the right circumstances. I'm not so naive that I would be doing it if I didn't think there was a chance which makes it in some senses more frustrating. You can see sometimes how close you can get and yet you can't finish a particular thing. Like Iran, I've been working on this for three and a half years

Atlas: And you'll be working on it for three and half more.

JOB: I hope not,  I hope not because now that it's in the Security Council, now is the time to say this is their chance that either they give up their pursuit of nuclear weapons or we go to what the President said, we do something else.

Atlas: We do something else? That's a little vague, don't you think? Deliberately vague?

JB: Yeah, sure absolutely. The President said I never take options off the table. And you've got to be that way. Look this has happened to me enough times before .... if I said, well --  I'll give you an example......after the invasion of Iraq, after Saddam was overthrown I said something in a BBC interview like I hope the governments of Syria and Iran take notice of what's just happened and I got into enormous trouble for that because it sounded like I was threatening the invasion of Iran and Syria.

Atlas: yeah but you get in enormous trouble for waking up in the morning

JB:  Well that's true too.

to be continued

More to come guys, but right now I am going to take a break, head downstairs, meet up with  some AIPAC folks, and have me a glass of pinot noir............I've had it. Long day. But great.

Part II tomorrow.

Update 1:43 am: Will try to finish this tomorrow/today and get to the Panel discussion as well, video egg will not accept a video upload larger than 5 minutes (if I had only known). The transcribing takes an enormous amount of time, laborious -- particularly for the two fingered typist.

UPDATE: MARCH 6TH            PART II

Atlas: As a tangential aside, does that stuff get to you?

JB: The criticism, you mean?

Atlas: Yeah, the intense unfair vilification ......... You don't want to know what they call me  on the left side of the sphere I am your whatever because I am such a staunch supporter. After awhile, does it sting less?  Were you born with a thick skin? The derision is incredible.

JB: Well  nobody likes to go through it.I think there's no question about that. But I think there is an [intelligible] effect over time so I don't think I pay much attention to it.

Atlas: Don't [how funny am i?]

JB: It doesn't affect my behavior, it's just a question of..........

Atlas: [interrupting again] there is that silent majority that supports you

Back to Iran.............

Atlas: I think we've moved too slowly and they've gotten too far. It is frightening to me  because Israel is such a small country, it would just take one,  to get one off

JB: yeah

Atlas: One

JB: Well, the President has used this phrase enough times, I don't know if he ever used it in a speech, but he talks about his concern about  a Nuclear Holocaust -- that's his phrase.

Atlas: He's right

JB: He's got Iran specifically in mind. That's why I am confident over time that whatever happens at the State Department, the President knows what he needs to do.

Atlas: You're clear on that.

JB: Yeah, he's got that, he's got North Korea which he calls a prison camp. He said to Kofi Annan last September - it's a disgrace that during our administrations this regime still keeps its entire population in a prison camp -- which Kofi didn't know what to say. There are things he's got  in his mind that are very clearly fixed.

Atlas: Do you think the UN is more of a detriment, than it is helpful?  Look I do but it doesn't matter what I think, -- the UN, a benefit or a disadvantage to the world? It's sort of  an enabling arm.

JB: I think from a cost benefit point of view the point of the reform effort that we are engaged in is to see if we can get it to a point where it's actually effective.  You know I went through -- in the Bush 41 administration -- getting the resolutions condemning Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, getting the sanctions in place, getting the authorization to use force to throw the Iraqis out, and we used to say that vote to the Security Council was November of 1990 [after the invasion], Congress didn't vote in favor of the authorization to use force until December so we used to say we got Finland to vote in favor of the authorization to use force before we got Congress.

Atlas: Chuckling here

JB: I've seen it in cases where it's helped us.

Atlas: OK

JB: So I don't take the view that there is no good that can come of it. But it's now so encrusted in this management and corruption. It is so out of our control. That's what this reform effort is all about, you can see it  now, if you follow-- and I think you have -- this debate over the human rights commission, the so called reform is so bad even The New York Times and The Washington Post support our position to vote against it.

Atlas: Which is shocking.

JB" Which is amazing

Atlas: [More laughter]

Alright guys, I have got to get back to the convention center. I  will try to post Part III later.

Do you not love that Bolton reads the blog.  I mean, how cool is that?

                         PART III

JB:  But the point is, that's an example where you can make a clear argument that an institution is broken and we've convinced everybody in the existing human rights commission that it is clearly broken. It has zero credibility. Now what it's replaced with is going to make a difference and we're not happy with the result.

Atlas: Yeah, yeah, I know you're not. Listen I don't understand how oil-for food didn't shake up the world.

JB: Look, we just had Security Council meetings this month on fraud, waste, abuse, peacekeeping, procurement. We did a separate meeting on sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers. It did get some attention.

Atlas:  Yeah, scant, what got the level of attention was when they said it was not an admissible level, so the turn around was -- what level is admissible when it comes to that [UN peackeepers' sex crimes]?

JB: Yeah, so  you can have one day of meetings on these things and then the pressure disappears. And that's what we just fundamentally have to change.  Over the next four months, the real battle on getting rid of the unnecessary, outdated, ineffective, counter productive programs, the three Palestinian offices that have been set up by the secretary and all the rest of the waste and abuse that goes on. This is, I mean a lot of it frankly is gonna be my eyes-glaze-over kind of stuff - this is the management program and really not very interesting. But this is where the critical battle is. If we can reshape the organization - at least starting in the next four months, then that's one thing,  but if run into the kind of opposition on all that,  that we faced on the human rights commission then we are not going to get anywhere.

Atlas: What makes you think you're not going to face it?

JB: Oh I'm sure we will. I mean that's why, you have to do this, you have to view what we're trying to do as a test. And you know, we'll succeed or we'll fail. And the big advantage I have is that I'm not afraid to say that we didn't succeed. If we don't get the reform that we need I am going to say that,  and I'm not going to  --  like this human rights commission -- say what we want is a butterfly, and then put lipstick on a caterpillar and call it a success. I'm not going to do  it.

Atlas: But it might be pretty...........um. Let me ask you something else about Hamas. I see the election of Hamas for what it is. I think they knew exactly what they were doing -- I understand about the social services but they knew what they were doing. They know the Hamas mission statement and to me it's a declaration of war. I know [the world] wants us to try to hold their hand but I don't understand how you can make a silk purse out of Hamas. How is the US going to give humanitarian aid now? Explain.

JB: This a big question on how you avoid supporting a terrorist led organization while still giving the humanitarian assistance. And I think it's going to be hard. We just had Alvaro de Soto who is the Secretary General's coordinator for Middle East peace, talking to the security council  and his position was you have to keep funding the Palestinian Authority no matter what. And he said -- "so what are we going to do about health care for the Palestinians, because it's all through the Palestinian authority ?" What are you going to do about education for Palestinian children because it's all through Palestinian Authority."
So we build schools and give [money] to the Palestinian Authority for Hamas to put its teachers in the schools? And this is something  that --you know -- the  Europeans have already given 130 million to tide them over. This is going to be a real test to see what we're, how we're going to come out [on it].

Atlas: Did you grow up in a Jewish neighborhood?

JB: No

Atlas: Did you know many Jews growing up?

JB: Nope

Atlas: It  seems to me you like Jews.

JB: Hysterical laughter

Atlas: Seriously folks. I'm just asking you  because I find it's refreshing, and it's unique, and it's not the everyday, so  I mean,  did you -- was your first love a Jewish girl? I'm just curious........ where'd it come from? C'mon John.

JB: Actually she was, but she wasn't religious.

Both laughing  now. I am clapping .............

Atlas: Thank you for that, so much appreciate it. A couple of other things just because I want to know. I know you have no free time  but when you do,  what do you like to do? Do you like to go to the movies? Do you like to cook?

JB: Just about

Atlas: Do you like to go bowling?  Oh c''mon ............

JB: (Laughing) I take care of my daughter

Atlas: Awwwwww..................that's lovely.

Bolton is a fine man. Great. We're lucky to have him. While taking enormous risks...... he is, in a word, unafraid.
 

UPDATE March 7th : U.S. Envoy Bolton Expects Security Council To Meet on Iran

U.S. Department of State
The 15-nation U.N. Security Council will take up the issue of Iran's nuclear program after the International Atomic Energy Agency board meets March 6, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton says.  Describing the matter as a test for the Security Council, he says that if the permanent members of the council agree “an Iran with nuclear weapons is unacceptable and that it is appropriate to have Iran in the Security Council -- which all five permanent members have said  -- then you have to ask what is the council going to do about it,"

"Looking at the lack of Iranian cooperation, looking at the affirmative efforts Iran made to conceal its nuclear activities and difficulties the IAEA has had pulling information out of them. … There is simply no escaping the conclusion based on the evidence that the Iranians are pursuing a nuclear weapons capability," the ambassador said.

IRAN’S AMBITION “A TEST FOR THE SECURITY COUNCIL,” BOLTON SAYS

"With all due respect to the IAEA, with all due respect, the Charter of the United Nations says that the Security Council is responsible for threats to international peace and security.  The Security Council doesn't need a report from the IAEA," he said.

 

A Self Portrait of Suicide Terrorists

Naomi Ragen writes;

A Self Portrait of Suicide Terrorists

This above link is only for people who are interested in seeing the real version of "Paradise Now," not the Hollywood crap about the sensitive, sexy,  tortured Palestinian lover-boys who debate blowing themselves up.  The real bombers talk about "drinking Jewish blood."  But, hey now, the Jews of Hollywood couldn't nominate that kind of dialogue for an Oscar, now could they?  Below, a link to Palestinian Media Watch, and to the real videos of suicide bombers. These are the people Hollywood is trying to glamorize.

Bomb Victims' Parents Petition Academy Awards to Reject Movie - Chris McGreal (Guardian-UK)

• The parents of three Israeli children killed in a suicide bombing have sent a petition with 32,000 names to Hollywood to demand that the Palestinian film "Paradise Now," about two suicide bombers planning an attack, be dropped from the Oscars this weekend on the grounds that it promotes terrorism.
• "Paradise Now is artistic terror," said Yossi Mendellevich, whose son, Yuvi, 13, died in the bombing of a Haifa bus three years ago that killed 17 Israelis including nine children. "The film contributes to the death industry and the myth of the suicide bombers. By promoting and praising the film as an Oscar nominee, I'm sure the queue to become suicide killers will be much longer."

Needless to say, I won't be watching Sunday night. Neither will most folks. Unbelievable, a once great American art form ..... dead.  A propaganda machine for moral inversion.

Syriana feeds our enemies hatred Charles Krauthammer
Nothing tells you more about Hollywood than what it chooses to honor.

Israel Never Sleeps: Al Qaida in Hamastan

Atlas readers were on to this months ago here dring the disengagement, so who knows how deeper al qaeda has infiltrated into Hamastan. Considering 65% of Palestinian Arabs support A-Qaeda in the US, this continuing development is a natural. Dangerous for the Palis though, sleep with maggots - wake up eaten alive;

Palestinians Catch al-qaida Operative

A senior Palestinian source revealed on Thursday that Palestinian security forces located several operatives spreading al-Qaida ideology. The troops arrested one such extremist in Gaza.

Earlier in the day, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told the Arab daily el-Hayat that he had proof that al-Qaida cells have infiltrated, and are operating in the West Bank and Gaza." I am very concerned about this," said Abbas.

"If they succeeded in infiltrating in such a way, and if no one watches over them, the result could be disastrous for the entire region. The last piece of information I received on the subject was three days ago, but we still have not been able to lay our hands on the operatives," he said.

A Hamas spokesman responded to Abbas's claim by saying that his organization has no intelligence information regarding al-Qaida cells in the West Bank or Gaza.

"If the things Abu Mazen (Abbas) said are true, then the matter must be handled immediately," he said.

Only last week OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Yair Naveh revealed that global Jihad and al-Qaida cells based in Jordan have stepped up their attempts to infiltrate Israel and are in close contact with Palestinian terror cells based in the West Bank.

'We recently caught several local terror cells that were in touch with the international Global Jihad based in Jordan,' Naveh told a closed meeting at the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs. He would not say for certain that the al-Qaida camp in Jordan worked under the direction of the movement's Iraqi leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, but he said 'al-Qaida was working to tighten its grip on the ground' in Jordan and Israel. hat tip Earl

More here;

Quote:
Not wanting to miss out on all the fun, Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network has set up camp in the Gaza Strip and possibly Judea and Samaria in order to better participate in the local anti-Jewish orgy of violence, admitted PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas in remarks published Thursday.

JCPA called it back on January 1st here.

Mainstream Media Pimps for Hamas

Typical mainstream media editorial bias. Ramming killer down our throats

Here's a headline from USA today

U.N.: Israel, West may cause Palestinian financial crisis
USA Today
The United Nations warned Tuesday that Israel and the West could unleash a crisis in Palestinian territories by withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and transfers. The cutoff could bring the Palestinian government to the brink of collapse by limiting its ability to provide basic services.

uh..........A terrorist gang of thugs whose mission it is  to annihilate a people by driving their country into the sea "may cause Palestinian financial crisis". Do they really expect the very people they intend to murder to keep them support them and keep them afloat?

USA Today --guilty of moral inversion and taking their talking points from the corrupt, thieving, sexual abuse enabling, criminal UN? Pinch me, I want to wake up in the parallel, rational universe.

And as for this latest report;

IMRA: MENL: U.S. EASES POLICY ON HAMAS
WASHINGTON--The Bush administration has significantly eased its opposition to Hamas and no longer sees the Islamic movement as an intractable obstacle to an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement.

 

it was never about "the Islamic movement" it was always about the destruction of Israel- Atlas

Officials said the administration has agreed to an international effort to help a Palestinian government controlled by Hamas. They said the administration has set guidelines to ensure continued U.S. financial and other support to a Hamas government that accepts democratic principles and renounces violence.

I see no change in the US position here....here is the money quote -Atlas;

"We accept Islamist parties if Islamist parties accept the rules of the game," William Jordan, head of the State Department's North Africa bureau, said. "It's up to Hamas to decide whether to accept the rules of the game."

Officials acknowledged that the new administration policy departed from the State Department ban on Hamas as a terrorist organization. Under federal law, the United States and its citizens are banned from supporting or engaging a group deemed terrorist.

even Chirac told  Annan here  Hamas must recognize Israel.... and renounce violence. Tom and I don't think he means it. He just wants to  say "see, I tried. Oh well," while giving Sarkozy a run for his rhetoric.

LGF points out New York Times boot licking here;

Today the New York Times has another installment in their long-running series of glowing portraits of Palestinian terrorists: Hamas Member Returns From an Israeli Jail, Head Held High.

His daughter, Hanin, 12, was in tears, burying her face in his waist; he lifted his son Basel, 5, a serious boy in a crew cut who stared around him. He hugged his wife, Fadia, brushing his lips along the embroidered brown scarf that covered her hair.

Yup, it's that bad.

UPDATE March 2: Did AP see the same Afghanistan Press conference that I saw? These guys are sick.

Osama Haunts Bush in Afghanistan AP
What should have been a triumphant moment for President Bush in Afghanistan also served as a vivid reminder of setbacks in his war against terrorism. His visit came at a time of increasing violence and drug trafficking in the country. And Osama bin Laden remains at large, more than four years after Bush demanded his capture, "dead or alive."

Every MSM headline was the same too, Osama still at large. Do all these elite journies sit at a bar and decide how to stick it to Bush (aka as the American people, he was our choice after all.) They all chant the same mendacious talking point. That's the MO, day in, day out, week in week out, yada yada yada.

 

Euroweenie Union Pays Blackmail Money to Hamas

So the EU can't get enough cartoon violence, train bombings, murder, mayhem, dhimmitude....I have NO pity, NONE for the disappearance of the cradle of Western Civilization -- Europe dba Eurabia.
They disgust me............savages. Giving aid to the most vile terrorists makes you as vile and barbaric. Pigs.
It's EXTORTION MONEY, but Eurabia, my dears, it will never be enough.

EU TO RELEASE AID TO PALESTINIANS / HAMAS

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union threw the Palestinians a short-term aid lifeline on Monday to help stave off imminent financial collapse, despite the appointment of a leader of the Islamist militant group Hamas as prime minister.

But the 25-nation bloc made sure most of the 120 million euros ($142 million) would bypass the Palestinian Authority, sharpening pressure on Hamas to moderate its radical policies when it takes over government responsibility.

"Today I have announced a very substantial package of assistance to meet basic needs," European External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said after EU foreign ministers discussed how to respond to the impending formation of a government by Hamas, which does not recognize Israel's right to exist and espouses armed struggle.

The Europeans are lost. Morally, socially bankrupt. The dark  continent.

Hamas....what you don't know can kill you

Hamas, bought and paid for by Iran.  A product of the West's propensity to turn the other cheek.

Nicole Sadighi, an Iranian journalist and an advocate of non-violent movement for democracy in Iran, speaks of the Islamist culture of death here:

Islamic radicalism hails martyrs and jihadists as champions of Islam. They celebrate death and have no respect for life. Ultimately, do they not proclaim the role of martyrdom and jihad as the epitome of Islam? They rejoice in the deaths of their sons and daughters in suicide escapades more than they do when they were born to them. Death is their motivation, inspiration and salvation. Without it they have no meaning; they have no reason; no purpose.

From Honest Reporting; Much has been written about Hamas following its victory in recent Palestinian elections. Some have attempted to sanitize the organization's murderous past and its clearly stated ideological intentions. But how much do you know about the Hamas? Try this quiz by clicking on the graphic below, forward it to relatives and friends and be prepared to challenge the media if it fails to acknowledge the real nature of Hamas - a deadly terrorist organization.

Berlusconi to explain Russia's Hamas policy to Bush AFP
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will try, during a meeting this week with US President George W. Bush, to shed light on Russia's policy toward the radical Palestinian group Hamas, a US magazine reported. 

Huh?

US will FUND HAMAS - UNFORGIVABLE, SHAMELESS, SUICIDAL

The distraction of the manufactured hoopla over the port nonsense, sorry but I really think it's a non issue here, this week's left-wing manufactured distraction (last week it was Cheney.) The real news, the  meaningful events--the  destructive actions go unnoticed. SHAME  ON US!

We have to set the example. America. We have to mean what we say. We must  speak and act from one morally unambiguous position. "Humanitarian" - ha! My least favorite euphemism - what do savages know about humanitarianism? It is extortion money. It funds murder, it pays for silence, it pays for votes. Hamas allegedly won because they provided welfare to their constituents? With whose money? No good can come from - no good. I am writing the President at president@whitehouse.gov. You must do the same. Please. This is the worst kind of message America could sent to the Radical Islam.

Senior U.S. envoy vows continued aid to PA even after Hamas takeover

The United States will continue sending humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people even after a Hamas government is formed, a senior U.S. envoy told Palestinian leaders during the first high-level meeting between the two sides since the Islamic militant group's election victory.

The U.S. continues "to be devoted to the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people and we shall remain so," State Department official David Welch said after the meeting.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Welch told Palestinian officials that U.S. aid would be redirected, but did not elaborate.

The U.S. and the European Union, the Palestinian Authority's main donors, have threatened to cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in financial backing if Hamas doesn't abandon its violent campaign against Israel. With that threat looming, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who favors peacemaking with Israel, again warned in comments published Saturday that he would quit if Hamas didn't change its ways.

Atlas Shrugs: Hamas Will Drive Israel Into the Sea

ZOA: HAMAS VIDEO: 'WE ARE A NATION THAT DRINKS JEWISH BLOOD,' PROMISES TO KILL JEWS 'UNTIL WE HAVE QUENCHED OUR THIRST WITH YOUR BLOOD'

Congress voted to cut off aid to Hamas here. It is the will of the rational thinking American people. Survey: Israel a top 5 loved nation by US citizens. The Arabists at state need their asses handed to them.

Israel says "irrelevant" Abbas to be Hamas "fig leaf"

Iran Just Outside Tel Aviv, Next Stop New York

Do not  for one second,  think I am exaggerating. Iraq, Iran, Syria, France, Denmark, .....these incidents are not separate or disconnected. They are all part of the Radical Islamists' attempt to take over the world. Sit by and you are  a willing dhimmi.

Mofaz: PA Under Hamas Puts Iran Just Outside Tel Aviv

Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz told U.S. envoy David Welch on Sunday that the Hamas and its sponsor in Iran were attempting to create “an axis of evil, here,” on Israel’s doorstep.

Mofaz said, “The latest contacts between the Hamas and Iran, and Khaled Mashal’s trip to Teheran to obtain Iranian support and to create an alliance, brings the axis of evil of Iran, Syria, Hizbullah, and Hamas, right here.”

Mofaz told Welch that the Hamas had specific plans to intensify its relationship with Iran and Hizbullah. “We know about their intentions,” said Mofaz, “and Israel cannot agree to that.”

Despite veiled hints that Hamas might accept Israel de facto within its pre-1967 borders, Mofaz said Israel would not be amenable to any negotiations with the terror group which won a landslide victory against the Fatah in Palestinian Authority elections last month. He called the Hamas approach, “sweet talk.”

ZOA: HAMAS VIDEO: 'WE ARE A NATION THAT DRINKS JEWISH BLOOD,' PROMISES TO KILL JEWS 'UNTIL WE HAVE QUENCHED OUR THIRST WITH YOUR BLOOD'

ZE'EV SCHIFF: LEBANON ADMITS LETTING SYRIAN ARMS CONVOY REACH HEZBOLLAH

Iran Backs Hamas, So What Else is New?

Iran says it would finance a Hamas-led government

Why does this not concern me in the least? Because Iran has been financing Hamas and Hizbollah and Al Qaeda and company all along . Iran is and has  been the largest state sponsor of terror. Hands down. This doesn't make any difference except that they are saying it out loud now. Out from under the proverbial rock...

The fact remains that the USA was the largest donor in the world to the Palestinian Arabs ..........and so US economic aid is vital, vital to the Palis. Iran can barely pay their own bills.

And they lie. Radical Islamists lie. About everything, and they will continue to lie, about everything. Remember Tariq Aziz? Even when the American tanks were right behind his head - he continued to insist Saddam was winning the war.

So remember everything they say is a lie. Go on from there.

UPDATE: I stand corrected....I mistook one liar for another. Baghdad Bob was not Aziz. According to Quentin Langley;

That was Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, but the point is entirely valid.  Tariq Aziz lied about a lot too.  And never encountered a murder he didn't approve.

Much obliged Quentin, thanks

Iran/Syria/Hamas: Terror "Axis of Evil" Will Lead to World War

Bush said it after 9/11. Axis of evil.

This tsunami of global jihad didn't happen overnight. It took decades and it may very well take decades to take it down but Lord knows the American left better take the gun out of our mouths and join the fight. The fight of and for our way of life. And the fight for our very lives;

Iran-Syria-Hamas axis will lead to world war
A new terror "axis of evil" has formed, running between Tehran, Damascus and Hamas, Israel Radio quoted the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman as saying Tuesday night.

 

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein

I would amend that quote to "World War IV". I consider the decades long struggle between the evil empire of the Soviet Union and the free nation of  the United States to have been World War III.

The similarities between the Axis of Powers in the world struggle of World War II and today's Axis of Evil are unmistakable.

World War II (1939–1945)

Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) versus Allies (U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia). More here

"Like the Nazis in the 1930s and the Soviet communists in the Cold War, the Islamofascists are emboldened by appeasement and submissiveness. Give the rampagers and book-burners a veto over artistic and editorial decisions, and you end up not with heightened sensitivity and cultural respect, but with more rampages and more books burned. You betray ideals that generations of Americans have died to defend." —Jeff Jacoby

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." --Einstein, Albert

Join us, the Women of Iran

for the commemoration of

International Women's Day in Tehran

to fight for our freedom from under the rule of the misogynist Mullahs

Date: March 8th, 2006

Time: 16:30 p.m.

Place: Laleh Park, Tehran

hat tip Iran press news

Jew Hate by any other Name is Jew Hate in Churches, Schools, Foreign Policy

Terror comes to Georgetown, Frontpagemag.com

The Palestine Solidarity Movement's (PSM) much anticipated 5th annual conference at Georgetown University on Feb 17-19th seemed more subdued than its predecessors. Maybe PSM had learned its lesson. Past conferences had created firestorms of controversy because of their extremist rhetoric and anti-Semitic chants and their open defense of terrorism. But no one should be fooled. The crowd may have been smaller than in the past—only 200 or so students and community activists—and the volume turned down, but the message and agenda were decidedly more radical.  PSM wants the “ethno-religious” Jewish State eliminated.

The largely Arab-American, kaffiya-clad students received a weekend of training in how to   promote "divest from Israel" campaigns, how to influence the media and deceive church groups, how to frame campaigns to demonize Israel and Zionism and to prove that Israel is worse than apartheid South Africa.       

The people under the PSM umbrella were not there to find out how to build peace-directed coalitions through promoting dialogue with pro-Israel advocates around the world.  Nor were they there to learn how to improve the lives of ordinary Palestinians by building hospitals and schools. Real Palestinians seemed almost irrelevant. When an audience member asked whether Palestinians should be consulted about the boycotts, University of Wisconsin Al Awda and Boycott leader Mohammed Abed answered that “Human rights issues are too important.  A human rights group doesn’t wait for a nod [of approval] even from Palestinian civil society.”

The assault on the Jews extends far beyond American academia. The sphere of Jew Hate is multi- pronged, with the World Council of Churches taking a leading role;

The World Council of Churches Assembly, on the other side, is a wide-ranging, global gathering of Christian leaders which took place in Brazil,  is the biggest and most diverse Christian gathering in nearly a decade.

See the anti-Israel bias on the EAPPI - Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel site:here

Here are some pictures from the World Council of Churches 9th Assembly.  

Note,  Cuba has also two booths -Hat tip and photos: Brazilian Infidel.

Churches Debate Pro-Palestinian Divestment

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - A wide-ranging, global gathering of Christian leaders has become a forum for a question that one delegate calls a religious minefield: Should churches use their investment portfolios to protest Israeli policies toward Palestinians? The debate cuts across ethics, interfaith ties and Holy Land politics - and has taken on an even sharper edge since the Church of England approved a motion for "morally responsible investment" earlier this month. It could lead the church to eventually reshuffle its $1.53 billion in stocks away from companies it considers aiding or profiting from Israeli control of Palestinian territories.

Supporters of pro-Palestinian divestment are now seeking more momentum at the biggest and most diverse Christian gathering in nearly a decade: the World Council of Churches assembly of mainline Protestants, Anglicans and Orthodox churches that together represent more than 500 million followers - and billions of dollars in stock holdings. The amount the churches hold in companies targeted by the divestment campaign is just a fraction, so any possible action would be mostly symbolic. But organizers hope to raise the movement's profile by carrying it from college campuses to mainstream churches - nearly all Protestant - as a way to pressure Israel into concessions. Powerful critics stand in the way. Jewish groups are riled by echoes of the anti-apartheid campaign of the 1980s.

They call it a one-sided view of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and complain it smacks of anti-Semitism. Most evangelical Protestants, meanwhile, sympathize with Israeli policies and some believe that biblical prophecy demands Jewish sovereignty over the entire Holy Land.

"The (Church of England) has chosen to take a stand on the politics of the Middle East over which it has no influence, knowing that it will have the most adverse repercussions on a situation over which it has enormous influence, namely Jewish-Christian relations in Britain," wrote the chief rabbi of Britain, Sir Jonathan Sacks, in an article for Friday's edition of the Jewish Chronicle. Even mainline churches that overwhelmingly condemned Israel's security barrier are divided over whether a stand for divestment is worth poisoning relations with Jews and others

Lord Carey, the former spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, told The Jerusalem Post he was "ashamed to be an Anglican" after the vote by the Church of England, the communion's historic cradle. "We are calling on churches to move from statements to action," said the Rev. Naim Ateek, a Palestinian Anglican who heads the Jerusalem-based group Sabeel, one of the most active pro-divestment groups. "But we know this is a religious minefield. We are asking churches - pleading with them - to have the moral courage to do the right thing." His pitch to the WCC gathering was to a friendly crowd. Last year, the central committee of the WCC-backed "economic pressure" as an acceptable policy tool for its more than 350 member denominations. But its members are still a long way from turning sympathy for Palestinians into any significant economic leverage on Israel.

Most churches studying divestment calls prefer to move cautiously, by starting talks with companies whose products are used in Israeli security operations and other roles, such as Caterpillar Inc., Motorola Inc. and ITT Industries Inc. Divestment - if it occurs at all - is widely seen as the last option. Many church views on divestment were further clouded by last month's landslide election victory of the Palestinian militant groups Hamas, which calls for Israel's destruction.

Even pro-divestment Christian leaders take pains to support Israel's right to exist and reject calls for blanket boycotts on Israeli products. Many churches have property holdings in Israel. "No one said this would be an easy campaign," Ateek said. "But economic muscle is really our own true weapon. I hope to see the snowball getting bigger this year."

The coming months could offer some clues. The Church of England will examine whether to sell Caterpillar stock, valued at roughly $4.4 million. Pro-divestment campaigners allege its construction equipment is used to demolish Palestinians homes. Caterpillar says it adheres to all "local, U.S. and international laws and policies" where it sells products. In May, the Church of Scotland is expected to study possible divestment at its general assembly.

The head of the church, the Rev. David Lacy, called the Israeli security barrier an "oppressive sign of distrust and hatred in the birthplace of the son of God" following a trip in November. The Presbyterian Church (USA) in June plans to review its 2004 declaration to support eventual "phased, selective divestment" of the church's $8 billion portfolio. Some regional Presbyterian groups have urged the church modify or revoke the policy. "I hope that since churches are taking this so seriously" it has "in some small way - contributed to a decision (by Israeli leadership) that this model of occupation won't work," said the church's top executive, the Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick. He is taking part in the WCC conference, which ends on Thursday.

Other churches, including the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the U.S. Episcopal Church, favor policies that stress investment in Palestinian development and other measures. The Roman Catholic Church, which is not a member of the World Council of Churches, also does not support divestment appeals. "This should tell the advocates of divestment that the movement is backtracking," said Rabbi David Rosen, the international director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee. But it still remains a force being closely watched by Jewish organizations and the Israeli leadership.

It's more a battle over impressions than investments, said professor Gerald Steinberg of Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel. "When you talk about the word `divestment' it's associated with South Africa and the fight against apartheid," said Steinberg, who studies Jewish-Christian relations. "For Israel, it's strictly about casting Israel as a state without legitimacy. They feel some churches are trying to delegitimize Israel as a state." More here

Response of pro-Israel Bible-believing Christians: Just where is this ‘Palestine? 

WCC 9th Assembly here

EAPPI - Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel here

Information about Sabeel (Naim Ateek) here

EGYPT REFUSES HAMAS MEETING

Anwar Sadat must be smiling, make that laughing  in his grave (particularly since he was murdered by Islamic Jihad). EGYPT REFUSES  HAMAS MEETING here;

Mubarak refused to meet with visiting Hamas officials
Egyptian authorities turned down a request from Hamas to meet with President Hosni Mubarak, following a request last month by a visiting

Rice to rally Arab nations to pressure Hamas

Nice work Condi. Savages, even those cloaked in free elections, must be isolated, marginalized. The Pali Arabs can not be rewarded for electing the worst kind of murderers as their leaders.

UPDATE: You had to know it was too good to be true. G-d forbid the Arabs give the PaliARabs a dime. Noooooo the Joooooooooooos are responsible for for the Pali economy;

Egypt rebuffs Rice on denying Hamas aid
Egypt rebuffed U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's appeal on Tuesday for Arab states to deny direct aid to Hamas when it forms a government.

Gheit agreed Hamas should accept the need for a settlement with Israel based on a two-state solution as the United States wants. But he would not back the U.S. position on ending financial support, which Palestinians worry will leave their aid-dependent government in crisis even if humanitarian aid from the United States and others continues.

Asked if this meant Egypt wanted Arab states to continue funding Hamas once it assumed power, he said, "It is premature to judge the issue right now."

Ha!

Israel Stops Paying off their Murderers, Hamas

What took so long?  Stockholm Syndrome.

Israel's Cabinet on Sunday approved an immediate freeze on the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax money to the Palestinians in its first response to the takeover of the Palestinian parliament by the militant group Hamas.

The decision came a day after a new Hamas-dominated Palestinian legislature was sworn into office and tapped to form the next government. Israel had promised that relations with the Palestinians would suffer the moment that happened. More here

Who is going ti give the bad news to Abercrombie?
The part of the story that made no sense to me

The Cabinet rejected even more drastic economic measures recommended by security officials, mindful of possible international reaction. But the withholding of funds Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinians still threatened to make life wretched for many in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

International reaction? Hey Israel, they hate you -- get over it. And save your life.

Hamas' new parliament speaker, Abdel Aziz Duaik, denounced the move as a ploy motivated by political concerns ahead of Israel's March 28 elections. "This is a wrong decision, and the Israelis must reconsider it," Duaik said.

But but but, Israel "must be destroyed" why would you want that tainted money Hamas boy?

Hamas has said it would try to make up any shortfall in part by recruiting money from the Arab and Muslim world.

Good luck, seeing as how generous the Arab world has been to the Palestinian Arabs so far, don't hold your breath.

WTF is Abercrombie? Lover of Hamas

In the vote to suspend aid to Hamas, one lone NO VOTE - Rep. Abercrombie here hat tip:  Earl the pearl

BILL TITLE: Expressing the sense of Congress that no United States assistance should be provided directly to the Palestinian Authority if any representative political party holding a majority of parliamentary seats within the Palestinian Authority maintains a position calling for the destruction of Israel.

What kind of animal is Abercrombie? Well, he's a democrat,.That explains alot. No surprise there. He's from Hawaii, they must be smoking too much doobie down.

There is as an"IRAQ WATCH" page on his website, no surprise there. A real democrat advocating troop removal NOW;

"I have joined with several of my colleagues in introducing a bipartisan resolution (House Joint Resolution 55) to get the troops home from Iraq and put the Iraqis in charge of their own future. The troops have done their job and now it is time for Congress to do its job."

What is a surprise? This is a surprise;

He is a member of the Committee on Armed Services, where he is Ranking Member on the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee; he is also a member of the Readiness Subcommittee.

WTF?
To blog readers in Hawaii, a vote for Abercrombie is  a vote for Radical Islam. GET THIS BLOODSUCKING, JEWHATING, FREEDOM KILLING, AMERICA HATING yutz out of office.

US Demand$ MONEY$ Back from Hamas

I LOVE  THIS STORY. At the very least we don't have to underwrite Hamas murder.
US asks Palestinians to return aid, From Reuters, with thanks to Poboy:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has asked the Palestinian Authority to return $50 million in U.S. aid because Washington does not want a Hamas-led government to have the funds, the State Department said on Friday.

The money was demanded as part of a full review of all U.S. aid for the Palestinians that began soon after the militant group Hamas' surprise victory in elections last month. A Hamas-led parliament was set to be sworn in on Saturday but it could take several weeks for a Cabinet to be formed.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the caretaker government of President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to return the money, given last year for infrastructure projects after Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the West Bank.

In the interests of seeing that these funds not potentially make their way into the coffers of a future Palestinian government (made up of Hamas) ... we have asked for it to be returned and the Palestinian Authority has agreed," McCormack told reporters.

A Palestinian official confirmed Washington had asked for $50 million in aid to be returned. "The Palestinian Authority promised to comply," the official said.

Over the past decade, the United States has given about $1.5 billion in aid to the Palestinians, mostly through aid groups. Hat tip TomP See Jihadwatch here.

They hate the Great Satan but have no trouble taking every last penny of the largest donor to the Palestinian Arabs.

YAAKOV KATZ: MOFAZ: HAMAS CONSULTING WITH IRAN ON HOW TO LEAD PA

Meanwhile the dhimmis pver at the EU urges Israel to 'wait and see'. WTF? Wait and see what? How many Jews they can take out in one islamokaze attack or how much Jewish blood they can consume? The EU is just as savage as Hamas, just better dressed.

At the same time as Russia has invited Hamas to talks in Moscow and contemplated arm sales to Hamas, Russia: Putin Orders New Counterterrorism Committee. Ha! Hey Vladimir, let me save you some dead Presidents, stop meeting with terror thugs.

Vote in Big Daddy's Iran's poll  here (right sidebar)......I can not lie, I voted with the majority.

HAMAS:"Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded,"

Youngsters and Jihad -Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen

What would you like to be when you grow up? A Hamas children's magazine has a clear answer: a terrorist. A children's story it published calls upon small children and encourages them to commit terrorist acts and sacrifice their souls for Allah. Western politicians who delude themselves in the belief that Hamas will change have only to consider what Hamas leaders say. On Feb. 3, Hamas chief Khaled Mash'al declared in Damascus: "Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded."
    The children's magazine named Fatah in its last two issues carried an illustrated story about the heroism of a very young but courageous Palestinian child, who is determined to be a jihad fighter like his older brothers. The story demonstrates the indoctrination and "education" to which even the youngest of Palestinian children are exposed by Hamas in schools and publications. The story, translated by Jonathan D. Halevi of the Orient Research Group in Toronto, begins when the child Basaal (meaning the "brave," in Arabic) is exposed to jihad activities while watching television, reading newspapers, and at meetings his brothers hold with their friends to plan attacks on Israeli convoys. This is how "peaceful" Hamas brings the message of Khaled Mash'al alive for Palestinian children. (Washington Times)

As Israel (or the Jews go) so goes the rest of the free world. Remember that when you delude yourself  into believing that this is not your problem and your delicious cushy life is safe and unaffected --Atlas

Photo: Life Magazine 1970 [proof that the jihad indoctrination is working]

Russia and Hamas to discuss arm sales here

HATE HATE HATE and MORE HATE

Palestinian Children Demonstrate in West Bank, Gaza Against Denmark
About 500 Palestinian schoolchildren stomped on a Danish flag and shouted anti-Danish slogans on Monday in the West Bank in a protest organized by a school affiliated with Hamas. (Ha'aretz)

We Were Brought Up to Hate - and We Do - Nonie Darwish (Telegraph-UK)

• Of course, the cartoons are offensive to Muslims, but newspaper cartoons do not warrant the burning of buildings and the killing of innocent people. The cartoons did not cause the disease of hate that we are seeing in the Muslim world.
• In school in Gaza, I learned hate, vengeance, and retaliation. Peace was never an option. At school we sang songs with verses calling Jews "dogs." Hundreds of millions of other Muslims also have been raised with the same hatred of the West and Israel as a way to distract from the failings of their leaders.
• Is it any surprise that after decades of indoctrination in a culture of hate, that people actually do hate? Arab society has created a system of relying on fear of a common enemy. It's a system that has brought them much-needed unity, cohesion, and compliance in a region ravaged by tribal feuds, instability, violence, and selfish corruption. So Arab leaders blame Jews and Christians rather than provide good schools, roads, hospitals, housing, jobs, or hope to their people.
• For 30 years I lived inside this war zone of oppressive dictatorships and police states. Citizens competed to appease and glorify their dictators, but they looked the other way when Muslims tortured and terrorized other Muslims. It's time for Arabs and Muslims to stand up for their families. We must stop allowing our leaders to use the West and Israel as an excuse to distract from their own failed leadership and their citizens' lack of freedoms.
• Muslims need jobs - not jihad. Unless we recognize that the culture of hate is the true root of the riots surrounding this cartoon controversy, this violent overreaction will only be the start of a clash of civilizations that the world cannot bear.

illustration: here

The Times reported that Iran has started to inject uranium feedstock gas into centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear facility, crossing an internationally agreed "red line" on the path to producing the material for atomic weapons.

Iran and "other Countries" Will "Remove Israel"

  Ahmadinejad to Iranians: Israel 'will be removed by Palestinians and "other nations"

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today echoed his earlier threats to "wipe Israel off the map" by telling a mass demonstration in Tehran, commemorating the 27th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, that Palestinians and "other nations" will remove Israel from the region, adding a warning to the West that harsh measures against the nation's nuclear program would result in Iran walking away from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT).

hmmmmm, clearly Syria, the organ grinder's monkey is "one of the other countired but could these be "the other countries" Ahmadjihadman is referring to as well?

Cuba-Iran-Venezuela axis G2 subscription Only

In early January, Cuban official Felipe Perez Roque made a public statement from Tehran.

"Cuba supports the Iranian people and government and appreciates the solidarity of [the] Iranian nation with Cuba ," he said.

About the same time, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke with Fidel Castro on the telephone – then later Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela. He also reportedly spoke to Evo Morales, the Chavez clone who now leads Bolivia.

Later in the month, Chavez joined Cindy Sheehan, the American antiwar activist, to attack President Bush and promised to support her protest against the Iraq war.

''Enough of imperialist aggression,” Chavez said as he hugged Sheehan. “We must tell the world: down with the U.S. empire. We have to bury imperialism this century. Cindy, we are with you in your fight.''

The last conversation took place on Chavez’s nationally broadcast TV show.
The American Family Association was so outraged by the spectacle that it has begun a campaign urging U.S. drivers to steer clear of gasoline sold by Citgo Petroleum Corp., the Houston-based U.S. refining and marketing branch of Venezuela's national oil company PDVSA.

"It doesn't make sense to purchase gasoline from a country that wants to bring down the U.S. government," said Chairman Donald Wildmon.

There are also reasons to believe that Chavez is cozying up to Tehran – and North Korea as well – for more than simple reasons of anti-Americansim. Some intelligence sources believe he, too, is ultimately after the acquisition of nuclear weapons – right in the western hemisphere. That was the dream of his friend Castro, who lost out on the opportunity in the Cuban Missile crisis.

Chavez has also been accused of supporting al-Qaida. Air Force Maj. Juan Diaz Castillo, who was Chavez's pilot, told WorldNetDaily in 2003 that "the American people should awaken and be aware of the enemy they have just three hours' flight from the United States."

Diaz said he was part of an operation in which Chavez gave $1 million to al-Qaida for relocation costs, shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. He is one of more than 100 military officers who have quit the Chavez regime as the president tries to hang on to power amid a month-long general strike that has cut off oil exports, his primary source of income.

And today Venezuela "happily" meets with Iranian sponsored terror group Hamas here

Atlas Action Alert: Please sign this petition

Please sign the “Stop Funding Hamas Terror” petition today. Ask President Bush to initiate a law that would stop the flow of American money to Hamas, especially through the U.S. mail, and stiffly penalize American companies that do business with the oil-rich Arab countries supporting Hamas. hat tip Robert D

US Muslim scholar says Iran attack would be insane

Atlas says US Muslim scholar insane
 

Never Underestimate the American People

Over at Vital Perspectives here:

According to a new Gallup Poll following the election of Hamas as the Palestinian Authority's ruling party, Americans have grown more pessimistic that peace will ever be achieved in the Middle East, and increasingly sympathetic toward the Israelis. By a 2-1 margin, Americans now say there will never come a time when Israel and the Arab nations will live in peace. The 65% to 32% split compares with a roughly 50-50 split last year.

On foreign aid, the poll also found that 57% of Americans oppose giving any financial aid to the Palestinians while Hamas is in power, while 30% would give aid if the Palestinians recognize Israel. A mere 5% say the U.S. should give aid even if the Palestinians do not recognize Israel.

The poll concluded that as a whole, Americans are much more likely to sympathize with the Israelis (59%) than with the Palestinians (15%).

By party affiliation, Republicans (77%) are significantly more likely to sympathize with Israelis than are Democrats (50%) or independents (50%).

Over at Vital Perspectives here:

According to a new Gallup Poll following the election of Hamas as the Palestinian Authority's ruling party, Americans have grown more pessimistic that peace will ever be achieved in the Middle East, and increasingly sympathetic toward the Israelis. By a 2-1 margin, Americans now say there will never come a time when Israel and the Arab nations will live in peace. The 65% to 32% split compares with a roughly 50-50 split last year.

On foreign aid, the poll also found that 57% of Americans oppose giving any financial aid to the Palestinians while Hamas is in power, while 30% would give aid if the Palestinians recognize Israel. A mere 5% say the U.S. should give aid even if the Palestinians do not recognize Israel.

The poll concluded that as a whole, Americans are much more likely to sympathize with the Israelis (59%) than with the Palestinians (15%).

By party affiliation, Republicans (77%) are significantly more likely to sympathize with Israelis than are Democrats (50%) or independents (50%).

Iran, Cartoons, Nukes, One Degree of Separation

These continuing developments are a pointed march to war.

Yemen detains three journalists over cartoons row
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen has detained three journalists and is seeking a fourth after closing their newspapers for republishing satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, officials said on Sunday. Armies of Liberation has excellent Yemen analysis here
Algerian editors arrested over Mohammad cartoons
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria has closed two newspapers and arrested their editors for printing obscured images of the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have ignited unrest across the Muslim world, colleagues said on Sunday.
Thousands of Turks protest cartoons, pelt French consulate with eggs
ANKARA, Turkey Protesters shouting for "blood" and "vengeance" have targeted the French consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, as demonstrations continue over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

The Radicals are remaking the world as we know it.
These rallies were staged, orchestrated by our enemy. They are orchestrated by those that behead with crude instruments for video and distribute purposes. These rallies are part of the war against the West . The rallies are the work of  al qaeda and Iran.
The protesters in Lebanon were Syrian. Most of those arrested in Lebanon were Syrian.
It may not have worked this time but the objective is to whip Muslim populations across the globe into a frenzy of violence against the west.

Ahmadinejad Prepares Country for a Rough Ride.

The New York Times reported that Ahmadinejad in a speech to tens of thousands of demonstrators he said: "I ask our dear people to prepare themselves for a great struggle." "Fasten your seat belts and pull up your sleeves."

Then he Ramps Up the War of Words on Israel.

Khaleej Times reported that the European Union condemned the latest remarks by Ahmadinejad about Israel, in which he said that the Palestinians and “other nations” would eventually remove the Jewish state.

Yahoo News reported that Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, said: "The repressive actions of the Zionist regime against the Palestinians are worse than the Holocaust." Hat tip:Regime Change Iran

The puzzle. Look at the puzzle from a perch, not the ground.Why would Iran delay planned nuclear talks with Russia? Because it gets Russia, an ally of Iran, off the hook to deliver any real result or concession and more importantly..........it's a stall.

SHaransky: "It's Good to know there is another dissident like me - in the White House"

Grab a hot cuppa java and sit down and listen to Natan Sharansky's recent interview here, for a clear understanding of human rights,  lies of "double speak", and "double think", Hamas, etc.

"There must be direct linkage between  diplomacy and human rights" He lived in the Soviet Union without this basic premise, Sharansky was  surprised to find there were a great many dissidents in the free world against this very idea. Listen to it all here. Hat tip Fausta

In other news (or more of the same Jew hate, different day):
Iranian president tells West to dissociate from Zionism

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked the 27th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and taking of the American hostages back in 1979 by slamming the West for slandering Prophet Mohammad. Tens of thousands filled the streets.More here

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeated his view that the Holocaust of Jews under Nazi Germany was a "myth" and argued that Palestinians and Iraqis were suffering from "the real Holocaust".More here

Ahmadinejad to Iranians: Israel 'will be removed'
 
I think it's too late for more international mutual masturbation. These stall tactics give Iran time, time,  time. And we all know what can be accomplished even under the toughest sanctions. The black market, the oil for food "business model" is text book on how dangerously ineffective the UN and international community can be.

Furthermore, let's explore why Iran and the Arabs are against Israel. The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are still nomads. Their culture is base, primitive. They hate Israel because it is the  beacon of modern science and civilization on that continent.

"WHEN YOU HAVE CIVILIZED MEN FIGHTING SAVAGES, YOU SUPPORT THE CIVILIZED MEN, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE."

And one last thing regarding the Hamas election. Even if people are stupid enough to elect terrorists like Hamas or Hitler for that matter  (who managed to "eliminate" the serious  competition) NO POPULATION HAS THE RIGHT TO VOTE FOR THE ENSLAVEMENT OF OTHER PEOPLE -- ANY MORE THAN THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO IT BY FORCE.

UPDATE: In other news, this stuff makes me sick,  here

Sharon's Life In Danger on Shabot

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's life is in danger said Ron Krumer, spokesperson for the Haddasah hospital in Jerusalem where Sharon is being treated here

"A serious deterioration of his digestive tract was discovered after an examination and doctors decided to operate," Krumer added.Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital where Sharon is undergoing an emergency surgery said ...  Check out Vital Perspectives all day.

His seventh operation since January, Israel get your house in order..........

Radical Islam's War on America's Schools

Disturbing developments in the hijacking of America's educational system. Brainwashing America's young minds;

Anger at Brandeis Is Growing Over a Palestinian Scholar, NY Sun

   WASHINGTON — Brandeis University’s refusal to address co
ncerns about possible ties between a prominent Palestinian Arab scholar, Khalil Shikaki, and the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad is prompting outrage in the Jewish community and among some Brandeis alumni.    

Mr. Shikaki is the brother of the assassinated founder of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fathi Shikaki, and a former director of the Florida-based World & Islam Studies Enterprise, founded by Mr. Al-Arian. 

Calls are mounting for an investigation into Mr. Shikaki’s documented associations with known terrorists. Mr. Shikaki was named last year as a scholar at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. One of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s more notorious acts was an April 1995 bombing in Israel that killed a Brandeis student, Alisa Flatow.

   Mr. Shikaki is the brother of the assassinated founder of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fathi Shikaki, and a former director of the Florida-based World & Islam Studies Enterprise, founded by Mr. Al-Arian.    News of Mr. Shikaki’s possible ties to Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders prompted an immediate response from members of the Jewish community.The Zionist Organization of America has called for a boycott of the school.A Brandeis alumna who is also a ZOA-affiliated lawyer, Susan Tuchman, is calling for an investigation into the terms of Mr.Shikaki’s hiring and his past, urging the university to “sever its ties with Khalil Shikaki unless and until it is determined with absolute certainty that he has never been connected with Palestinian Islamic Jihad or those who support terrorism or the destruction of Israel.”

Mr. Shikaki participated in multiple ICP and WISE conferences, alongside militant Muslim leaders who urged conference attendees to embark on a violent jihad against Israel and urging “all our Muslim brothers” to “die as the martyrs died in Afghanistan.” Mr. Shikaki also appeared alongside Mr. Shallah and spoke at an ICP meeting with the blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted of leading a terrorist cell in America that plotted to blow up the United Nations and other New York City landmarks.

Brandeis’s president, Jehuda Reinharz, dismissed the government evidence and the allegations as “unsubstantiated innuendo,” pledging: “There is no plan to take any action with respect to Professor Shikaki.”

Back here in New York at the university of dhimmitude, Columbia marches to beat of holocaust deniers, history revisionists and terror enablers. More here and here and here and here  and here and here oh and here while infiltrating our public schools.

Massad Wins Promotion at Columbia
BY ALEC MAGNET - Staff Reporter of the Sun
A Columbia University professor who emerged as the central figure in a series of student complaints over anti-Israel bias and classroom bullying, Joseph Massad, has been promoted to a position from which he can receive tenure. Mr. Massad last .....

These are not good days for our education system, I must set up an interview with
Efraim Karsh, Professor and Head Mediterranean Studies Programme, Kings College, University of London. Our last meeting was thrilling and enlightening.....................rapid fire speech almost to self strangulation. Karsh explained most emphatically the perversion of the truth in universitystudy as systemwide, university-wide, these "victims of intimidation". The problem is "if you throw Massad out, Massad will get another job so fast they will be lined up".

"Imperialism is not a 'western' concept, but an arab one. History bears this out...the Ottoman, Byzantine, Sassanid- all Arab empires (even before Rome)."

And yet in the "Middle East - the Arabs are always the victim" and to say anything else is "not a good career move".

Professor Karsh was most emphatic about the text(s) being fabricated and created without accurate footnoting, bibliographic innotations and nobody in academia seems to check or for that matter care. Careless mendacious text(s) that are being used in the current curriculum., inaccurate text. This upset Karsh the most. As it is an affront to all that he is and believes. The man is an educator nonparallel, with no equal, so this kind of propagandizing acdemics must be the huge fast crene pie in the face for him....................Mr. Karsh is truth, history and education, - not indoctrination. That's Karsh and I at Columbia last year.

Karsh said he "was very pessimistic" [ugh] and didn't see the way out of it. I didn't footnote as well here. Regrettably. I was paying keen attention and his speech was furious and fast. I would recommend you study his work.

We need a  Karsh  interview of the London School of Economics as he grasps the deliberate campaign of anti-west,anti-Jew, anti-American rhetoric and the far reaching implications. historical reverberations of these acts of civil unrest under the fine guise of higher learning. Not good indeed

Blasphemy, Dhimmitude and the Mohammed Cartoon Wars Blasphemy ...
IsraPundit, Israel - Jan 31, 2006
... Then there's the $10 Million gift by the Saudi Royal family to the University of Arkansas to found the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies on kerfuffle were appalled yesterday when former President Bill Clinton strode to the podium at an "economics" conference in Doha the capital of Qatar and uttered Dhimmi apologetics....

 

Ford Foundation Will Pay for Parley Of Anti-Israel Scholars at Lake Como
Less than three years after reports of Ford Foundation funding of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activity prompted an international uproar, the Manhattan based philanthropic giant is at it again, paying for at least eight scholars who favored a...

Saudi Prince Gives Georgetown University $20M
Georgetown University The Hoya, DC - Jan 13, 2006
A Saudi Arabian prince donated $20 million to Georgetown last month ... Islamic studies program, handing the university the second-largest single gift in its ...
DeGioia Defends Palestine Conference
Georgetown University The Hoya, DC - Jan 20, 2006... as its acceptance of a $20 million grant from Saudi Arabian Prince ... His gift is enabling ... Jew I would feel greatly discouraged from attending Georgetown for the ...

ooooh I see how it is GU? Puta.........

Columbia Dean Admits Taking Saudi Junket
New York Sun, NY -Jan 11, 2006
... who recently gave $20 million gifts to Georgetown and Harvard ... the university's failure to comply, was a $250,000 gift from an unnamed Saudi individual for

STOP SAUDI ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST SCHOOLS IN USA here

They target the children in muludinous ways. Diabolically brilliant I might add;

[...] The fact that this group is operating within America’s borders (with apparent immunity) is alarming to say the least.  But when one discovers how much involvement with and influence this group has over children, that alarm becomes even more heightened.

From March 11th through the 12th, the Muslim American Society of Tampa will be holding its MAS Olympics 2006. The two-day event will comprise of the standard kids sports – basketball, football, soccer, volleyball – things certainly that would appear wholesome and not present the general public with any grounds for pause.  However, given this group’s propagation of radical Islamist beliefs, there are a number of reasons why this event should concern everyone who cares about the welfare of children and the safety and security of the United States.

Sounds all warm and fuzz yright? WRONG!

According to its website, MAS is “a charitable, religious, social, cultural, educational, and not-for-profit organization… a pioneering Islamic organization, an Islamic revival, and reform movement that uplifts the individual, the family, and the society.” However, to those involved in the war against terrorism, MAS is nothing more than an American arm to the violent Muslim Brotherhood the organization from which such groups as Hamas, Al-Qaeda and the Egyptian and Palestinian Islamic Jihads were brought into being. Read it all here hat tip Vital Perspetive

The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America

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Danish Cartoons Incite Palestinian Arabs to Riot, Rampage, Burn European Buildings

This is the way a baying Muslim mob reacted to the row over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons on the streets of London yesterday.THEIR eyes are full of hate and their banners call for a new 7/7 terror attack. More oh Photo here , hat tip Wayne

Maybe the world will get a a taste of what Israel has been dealing with for over 50 years. These cartoons here are ok ,right?

Dozens of Palestinians storm European institutions in Gaza

Demonstrations against Muhammad cartoon spread to Israel.

About two dozen Palestinians burst into the German cultural center in Gaza City on Saturday, smashing windows and breaking doors to protest caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

Olmert Leaning Towards Transferring Money to the terrorist Palestinian Authority.
Acting PM Ehud Olmert, widely praised earlier this week for his decision not to transfer tax monies to the Hamas-dominated Pal. Authority, has apparently decided to transfer the money after all.

Is he nuts, naive, or stupid? Unrepentant Hamas refuses to budge on recognition of Israel

Meanwhile EU to Continue Aid to Palestinians  EU officials said Friday that they had no plans to halt aid to Palestinians despite threats by gunmen to the bloc's headquarters in Gaza. European parliamentarians have also voted to keep aid going. No surprise here, the Europeans succumbed to dhimmitude long ago oui?................sick sick sick

Photo: Hamas Terror Training Children

Syria Protestors Set Fire to Danish Embassy Over Cartoon
Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators were protesting the printing by a Danish newspaper of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

The Great Wars and How They Begin

STATE DEPARTMENT SUCCUMBS TO DHIMMITUDE -- SIDES WITH RADICAL ISLAMISTS.  [hangs head in shame]

I'd rather blowup the whole world than surrender to the Radical Islamists.

SIDON: For the first time ever, Danish and French flags were burned in protest of the 12 caricatures insulting Islam and the Prophet Mohammad. As the situation worsened, angry Islamists in Lebanon went as far as calling for help from Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq).

Thousands of Palestinian refugees in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon, the largest Palestinian camp in Lebanon, staged a protest Friday.

Their voices filled the air when they were shouting phrases supporting Islam. "God is Great! Sacrifice yourselves!" they told Muslims.

Attacking the Danish newspaper which published the depictions, they yelled: "Blow up the newspaper! Kill the Danish! Kill the French! Kill the Americans! Hold your weapons high!"

The protest started from Al-Nour mosque in the camp and  protesters slowly joined in from other mosques within the camp.

A ceremony was held during which the Imam of Al-Nour mosque, Sheikh Jamal said: "The insult made against  Prophet Mohammad requires all Muslims to take revenge."

He added: "Islam is under attack. This demonstration is an expression of the Muslim nation that will score a victory and liberate the lands of Muslims."

The protest started from Al-Nour mosque in the camp and  protesters slowly joined in from other mosques within the camp. A ceremony was held during which the Imam of Al-Nour mosque, Sheikh Jamal said: "The insult made against  Prophet Mohammad requires all Muslims to take revenge."

He added: "Islam is under attack. This demonstration is an expression of the Muslim nation that will score a victory and liberate the lands of Muslims."

They called on Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden "to take revenge immediately!" Full story here. More on photo here.and  here  

These cartoons ran back in September which is when I first reported on them. Why the outrage and insanity now? Isn't it reminiscent of events leading up to the outbreak of World War I.

Tyler of the Fulcrum of destiny blog makes an important point here;

In 1914 World War I began when some obscure nobleman was shot in Yugoslavia. All of Europe exploded into a self-destructive conflict that consumed a generation. Hitler created the myth of oppressed Germans in the Suedantenland in order to annex a part of Czechoslovakia. France and England handed over thee core of Czechoslovakia without bothering to invite that country into the discussion. In the interest of peace Brit PM Chamberlain appeased Hitler and got nothing but war.

The cartoons of Mohammed were first printed in September. This was a non-issue until now. This uproar is not about some drawings, it is about the world-wide caliphate. Supreme Islam must dominate the world!

WWI didn't start because of some minor figure;s assassination; it was heightened militarism and frustrated imperialism and a host of other reasons, NOT the death of one man.

WWII didn't start because Germans were oppressed in Poland, it was because the Herrenvolk needed “living space”. In the case of the German Master Race the living space they needed was the entire world.

There many people working for the Khalifa (the caliphate). Aside from those actively working for this goal are the even greater number of people that support the establishment of a world-wide Islamic empire. There are active workers and passive supporters. Together they number in the millions.

President Bush  describes the caliphate in great detail without using the word. Others in his cabinet use the word caliphate here:

I recently took out three art books from the SFPL. They are filled with historical images of Mohamed throughout the centuries. They were done in countries such as Egypt and India. They are Shia and Sunni. Mohammed is depicted veiled, his face behind a kerchief. All this hub-bub is NOT about some drawings. The uproar is about Moslem supremacy all over the world.

Terror is the tool to spark the Khalifa. Fear paralyzes opposition. It is a tactic used by Nazis and communists alike.

"The First Terrorist People"

"The Palestinians are the first people in the history of humanity to embrace terror and genocide as a way of life. Palestinian schools train kindergarteners and first graders to aspire to murder innocent Jews by blowing themselves up alongside them, and then tell the children that if they're lucky enough to have male genitalia they will go to heaven and be rewarded with 72 virgins to attend their every whim. Palestinian parents murder their own children by telling them to kill Jewish children so that Allah can receive them. This is the sickest culture on the face of the earth, and the fact that it is supported by secular leftists in Europe and America reveals the terminal sickness, as well, of those who crusade in the name of 'social justice'." —David Horowitz

Some Warn of Rising Islamist Tide in the Middle East - Timothy M. Phelps
Dov Zakheim, a former top official in President Bush's Pentagon, said Thursday after the Islamist terrorist Hamas movement swept Palestinian elections, "We have a situation not unlike Germany in 1932 when we had an upstart [Nazi] party ruled by thugs that preached hatred and racism, and also claimed they would clean up a corrupt Weimar Republic."

Pipes on Hamas in Todays New York Sun;

I abominate Hamas and have called for its destruction, but I also recognize that the elections might bring benefits, prompting Israelis finally to recognize the deep and pervasive anti-Zionism in the Palestinian Arab body politic. Hamas and Fatah together won all but 13 seats in the legislative council. A leftist terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, got three seats; three leftist parties - Al-Badil (or the Alternative List), the Independent Palestine List, and the Third Way List - each won two seats, and four independents won seats. With the possible exception of some marginal figures, then, the legislative council wall to wall rejects Israel's right to exist. Or, in David Horowitz's biting description, Palestinian Arabs are "the first terrorist people."

The Palestinian election outcome resulted partly from more than a decade of misrule by Yasser Arafat and his cronies, who stole, plotted, embezzled, and ran roughshod over their subjects. Hamas, in contrast, built a record of community service, relative probity, and modesty. Looked at positively, the success of Hamas implies that Palestinian Arabs do take other matters into consideration besides eliminating Israel. Looked at negatively, they merely prefer honest terrorists to dishonest ones.

The strong Hamas victory, wrote Steven Plaut of Haifa University, is "the only thing that stands a chance of forcing Israelis to open their eyes and wake up." Its ascent might conceivably wake others up, too; will Spain's blinkered government note the recent call by a Hamas children's publication for the city of Seville to be returned to Muslim rule?

Possibly. But I hold out meager hope that Hamas in power will provide a reality check. The "peace process" community will not give up its cherished negotiations just because a murderous totalitarian organization has been elected. As has inexorably been the case since 1993, it will ignore this setback and press ahead for more Israeli concessions.

The New Nazis

The new Nazis by Klaus Rohrich

Yesterday I wrote about the impotence that the world is showing through the UN in the face of Iran developing an Islamic nuclear weapon. There is a powerful historical parallel between the 1930s and today.

Adolf Hitler’s ideology combined a mystical destiny, an overwhelming sense of superiority, religion and an interminable hatred of Jews to form the fundamental tenets of National Socialism.

Mahmud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, presents a similar mix of beliefs that positions him and his country as the savior of Islam and the destroyer of all things Western. Ahmadinejad, Like Hitler, holds the belief that Jews are inherently evil and need to be eradicated in order to purify the world. And like Hitler, Ahmadinejad is arming Iran in preparation for a momentous confrontation with the hated Jews and their American supporters.

As Nazism flourished in most of Europe during the 1930s, so Islamism is now flourishing throughout the Middle and Far East. The avowed goal of Islamists, like that of the Nazis, is world domination and the extermination of the Jewish people. As such, the bellicose statements emanating from the likes of Ahmadinejad, Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and others are reminiscent of the bellicosity that Hitler and his minions displayed prior to WWII.

The West, with the exception of Israel and the U.S. are behaving in much the same manner that their grandparents displayed during the 1930s. That is to say they do not believe war will come if only the Islamists get what they want. Much effort has been made to offer Iran material wealth and favorable trading terms in an attempt to purchase their abandoning the attainment of nuclear weapons. Yet, like Hitler, who took everything that was offered to him and gave nothing in return, Ahmadinejad is bound and determined that Iran will have nuclear weapons, his assertion that the nuclear program is for peaceful purposes notwithstanding

Read it all here in the Canadian Free Press, my northern neighbor continues to surprise me

Hamas: Be Careful What You Wish For

Nobody is more surprised by Hamas'  landslide victory in the Pali elections then Hamas. I previously wrote here that they didn't want to win, they wanted power. They didn't want to run a "country", they wanted power. They don't want to pick up garbage, build roads, create jobs, take control over security, they want to be free to kill terrorize and destroy with impunity and the backing of the Palis.

Well they got more than they asked for, eh? Where are they going to get the money to fund terror, buy missiles, buy off their constituency? America? - uh uh. The EU - I don't think so.
The EU Funded Arafat's Corruption. It Must Not Finance Hamas Terrorism. Arafat spoke out of two sides of his ass, Hamas is unequivocal in its intent to destroy Israel. I can't see the EU taking such an unambiguous stand. And if they do, Israel can retaliate with impunity. Iran? Sure, they can give some money but they can't afford to give the kind of bucko bucks that the big swinging dick countries have beeen giving.. WE PROVIDE ALOT OF MONEY, THE US IS THE NUMBER ONE CONTRIBUTOR TO "PALESTINE".

Quartet: Hamas Must Recognize Israel
"The Quartet reiterates its view that there is a fundamental contradiction between armed group and militia activities and the building of a democratic state. A two-state solution to the conflict requires all participants in the democratic process to renounce violence and terror, accept Israel's right to exist, and disarm, as outlined in the Road Map." (United Nations)

Hamas needs to play ball. They will  want Abbas to stay, to put a face of "peace playing partner" on the new Hamasastan for the world. They must have Abbas. I wonder what price Abbas will demand.......right now Fatah and Hamas are fighting in the streets. Some are whispering "civil war".

Israel, meanwhile, is bracing for its neighbor to be ruled by a party dedicated to destroying the Jewish state and replacing it with an Islamic theocracy.

I don't think the results of this election is such a bad thing. Their enemy was elected, no more hiding under rocks or the veil of Fatah. All the better to carpet bomb. No more psuedo peace playing circle jerk. The truth has been , for all the world to see. This is what Israel has been dealing with all along. If sunlight is the best disinfectant, it's morning in Hamastan and the cockroaches are scrambling.

Essentially, for Israel, nothing's changed.

If you turn on your television sets check out what's happening in Hamasastan. The savages are setting fires, screaming, protesting, rampaging through the streets, bordering on violence, the crowds are refusing a coalition with Fatah. Ha!

......Poor Israel, this little jewel sits smack dab in the middle of the shithole of the world.

Iran says Hamas 'earthquake' will shake US

Palestinian Electons: Spinning Hamas

Today are "elections" in "Palestine" monitored by that great unambiguous statesman Jimmuh Carter. Hamas poised to grab power.

Dr. Dore Gold: Hamas is World-Jihad Motivated

"It is important to say," Dr. Gold emphasized, "that Hamas is an organization that identifies with the goals of world jihad. [Hamas leader] Mahmoud A-Zahar has said that Hamas victories are supposed to strengthen the mujahidin i [Islamic terrorists] in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Hamas sheikhs provide inspiration for Al-Qaeda...

In a democracy, political parties have responsibilities as well as rights. In a democracy, political parties are not simply armed militias some of whose members have decided to seek votes.

In a democracy, political parties accept the idea of voter sovereignty; they accept the idea  -- historically quite radical -- that rulers serve at the pleasure of voters, not because they have the power to rule and not by divine right.

Hamas is an armed militia. It is a terrorist organization. It rejects voter sovereignty. The fact that a "large fraction of Palestinians" support it does not necessarily qualify it as a legitimate political party entitled to participate in democratic society.

- Cliff May

UPDATE: Polls closed about an hour ago. Early indications from exit polling show Hamas with 34% of the vote.

So Hamas gets exactly what it wanted. It did not want to win. It did not want to run a country, pick up garbage, build infrastructure. HAMAS WANTED POWER.

Hamas has not put down its arms. It's not a cease fire. It's  a temporary calm. Their strategy?  A doctrine of response......if they see a perceived subjectively defined Israeli violation, and they see it as their within right to respond - that's quite a loophole.

Theyentered this ceasefire process because they were beaten back so badly. It's a function of power relationships not a function of them suddenly becoming zionists. The danger is as they rearm during this whole period and the PA doesnt do anything sigificant to disarm them that they will become very powerful again and this is what needs to be watched very carefully.

UPDATE: Vital Perspective has the best coverage in the sphere here

Exit Polls on Palestinian Elections Coming In

The polls are now closed in the Palestinian elections and early exit polls show that Fatah has won 40% of the vote and Hamas 30%. There was a heavy turnout of 60% according to Israel Army Radio, which benefited Fatah.

UPDATE (1/25 @ 2:32PM): Israel's Channel 2 reports that Fatah will win 43% and Hamas 32%. The Palestinian Central Election Commission put turnout at 73%. Voting was extended by two hours until 9:00PM local time (2:00PM Eastern time) in East Jerusalem.

UPDATE (1/25 @ 3:05PM): Reuters is reporting a new exit poll that has Fatah winning 45% and Hamas 42%.

UPDATE (1/25 @ 3:49PM): A revised an-Najah University poll shows Fatah at 46% and Hamas at 40%. The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research has Fatah at 42% and Hamas 35%. A Bir Zeit University poll has Fatah at 47% and Hamas at 44%. Vital Perspective predicted such an outcome, and we refer you to our post at Publius Pundit on the reverberations this will send across the region.

 

My Sharona

Sharon to be Removed From RespiratorAccording to Ra'anan Gissin, senior advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, doctors will take the comatose leader off his respirator by the end of the weekend. Sharon has been breathing independently but the respirator was used as a back-up, Gissin said.

Bolton to Emperor: You're Naked!

The frightened demagogues over at the UN answered John Bolton's letter expressing his anger at maps void of Israel. They said....... basically nothing [shocka!]
You know the drill "its not my yob" or "I vas just following orders" or

New York Sun An aide to Secretary-General Annan yesterday attempted to quell criticism of U.N. relations with Israel, but according to the American ambassador, John Bolton, the "fundamental problem" has yet to be addressed by the world body

Mr. Bolton said he would continue the pressure. "The issue is how is it possible this kind of behavior persists of denying the existence of a member state of the United Nations," he said. "I have viewed the map question as a potential pivot point to change this anti-Israel culture."

And while caught with his hand in the proverbial antisemitic cookie jar, Gambari would not rule out continuing with the Israel-less maps

In yesterday's letter, Mr. Gambari stopped short of promising that in the next annual event dedicated to "solidarity with the Palestinian people" the map will not be displayed. Instead, he wrote, he has talked to Senegal's ambassador, Paul Badji, who heads a committee on "the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people," which organizes the annual event, and was "encouraged" by his response. Read it here

Mr. Bolton, keep those feet to fire.....NEXT THREAD!

Israel: Peace through Strength

Hamas has not put down its arms. It's not a cease fire. It's  a temporary calm. Their strategy?  A doctrine of response......if they see a perceived subjectively define Israeli violation, and they see it as their within right to respond - that's quite a loophole.

Theyentered this ceasefire process because they were beaten back so badly. It's a function of power relationships not a function of them suddenly becoming zionists. The danger is as they rearm during this whole period and the PA doesnt do anything sigificant to disarm them that they will become very powerful again and this is what needs to be watched very carefully.

Israel is an interesting case study for America - as a society that has, in large part, won the war on terror. They've reduced terrorism by 90%. Their economy is up over 5% , the best showing of any developing nation. How does one define winning the war on terror? Look at the indexes of a society - tourism, foreign investment, economic activity, consumer outlook - the outlook of its people, unemployment.......looking at those things, Israel has won the war. It doesn't mean that they won't have acts of terrorism but Israel is moving on. They have taken these tailored steps in responding to terrorism (as opposed to my approach which would have been carpet bombing) and been wildly successful. They can hardly stop to pat themselves on the back as the enemy is highly adaptable.

Peace Index: December 2005

[...] determine where the Israeli Jewish public now stands regarding the Palestinians and the renewal of peace negotiations.

The picture that arises is complex. On the one hand, a majority of the Israeli Jewish public thinks the Palestinian Authority and its leaders are not making genuine efforts to prevent the firing of Qassams from Gaza, and that even if Israel were to help Abu Mazen with various gestures, such as lifting closures and checkpoints, neither his status nor the PA's control over the various organizations would improve significantly. Indeed, today as in the past the prevailing view is that most of the Palestinians have not accepted Israel's existence and would annihilate it if they could. So it is no surprise that the dominant perception is that Israel's present retaliatory policy is too weak.

This month we found a reversal in the interviewees' assessment of the Israeli voters' intentions, with a majority now believing that the security, not the social, factor will be decisive. Some 42% thought so in the present survey, while 38% said that the social issue would take precedence in the coming elections (last month the figures were 52%, socioeconomic, and 27%, security-political).

The change is not especially surprising since, with the intensifying of the Qassam fire from Gaza-which an overwhelming
81% majority says the PA and its leaders are making no real effort to prevent-some

73% believe that even if Israel makes gestures to the Abu Mazen government to strengthen it, like removing closures and checkpoints, the chaos on the Palestinian side will not diminish. A further assessment, stable in recent years, of a (this time)

63% majority is that most Palestinians have not accepted Israel's existence and would annihilate it if they could.

The immediate demand, then, is to strengthen Israel's retaliatory policy, which
68% think is too weak
18% see it as appropriate and only 5% as too strong.

The data show, however, that the Israeli public does not think the chances for peace in the future have evaporated.
73% percent support peace negotiations with the PA in principle

67% favor an independent Palestinian state.
Interestingly, those who favor a Palestinian state in principle are a majority even among those who believe the Palestinians have not accepted Israel's existence-60% (compared to 83% of those opposing this view of the Palestinians' position). And for those who see Israel's retaliatory policy as too weak, there is a majority of some sort both among the supporters of a Palestinian state-62.5%-and among the opponents-86%.

Today, 55.5% think the unilateral disengagement from Gaza has proved to be the right step in terms of Israel's overall national interest (38% think otherwise and the rest have no clear opinion). Both among those who think the disengagement was a mistake and those who feel it was wise, we found a majority-82% and 59%, respectively-who regard Israel's retaliatory policy as too weak.

Unilateralism, however, is not the preferred choice for the future, whether or not a stable Palestinian government is established after the upcoming elections. If a stable PA government does materialize, the overwhelming preference-61%-is for initiating a return to the negotiating table with the aim of reaching a permanent settlement, with 16% in favor of leaving the existing situation as it is without a further withdrawal, and only 8.5% supporting a unilateral initiative to evacuate West Bank settlements, in keeping with Israel's security concerns. If after the elections a stable Palestinian government does not emerge, then the preferred alternative-35%-is to leave the situation as it is until one does, trailed only slightly-31%-by the option of returning to the negotiating table and trying to reach a permanent settlement, with only 16% favoring, in this case, an initiative for a unilateral withdrawal. In other words, in both scenarios an overwhelming majority of the Jewish public rejects a unilateral pullback. There is, however, as in previous months, a majority for an extensive dismantlement of West Bank settlements in the framework of an agreement with the Palestinians. 

The idea of an exchange of territories in the context of a permanent agreement, with the large settlement blocs remaining in Israel's hands and rule over the Triangle being transferred to the PA, including large Arab population centers such as Umm al-Fahm, today wins the support of 48% of the Jewish public, while 37% oppose it (in an earlier measurement in March 2002, the figures were the same). To the question "What if it turned out that the Arab citizens of Israel who live in the Triangle oppose the transfer of their communities to Palestinian sovereignty?" 33% of all interviewees answered that they would nevertheless support the territorial exchange, 45% responded that in this case they would oppose it, and 21% had no opinion on the matter (this issue, too, shows stability over time). A cross-check of the two questions-support or opposition to a territorial exchange, and even if the Triangle residents do not want it-reveals that among those who favor an exchange, 58% would do so even against the will of the Arab citizens who live there. A segmentation of the support for a territorial exchange by voting in the upcoming Knesset elections shows higher support for such an exchange on the Left and the Center than on the secular and religious Right.

Among the Arab interviewees, 21% supported territorial exchanges of the kind described, 68% opposed them, and the rest had no opinion. Only 12% favored such an exchange if the residents were against it, while 81% opposed it in that situation.

As for the political alignment after the coming Israeli elections, if Kadima wins and Sharon continues as prime minister then, as in the past, the dominant preference is for a wide coalition including both the left-wing and right-wing parties (42%), while the other two alternatives show almost no difference in support-20% prefer a coalition only with the left-wing parties, 18% only with the right-wing ones. 

Indexes: Oslo: 41.1 (for the Jewish sample, 37.0) Negotiation: 55.6 (for the Jewish sample, 52.9)

 

Sharon's Peace Partners

Updated January 11th: 3,000 Rifles Streaming Monthly into Gaza

Thursday January 12th (Israel time):Ariel Sharon's chief surgeon said the Israeli leader had appeared aware of his younger son at his bedside, and expressed astonishment at his powers of recovery after a massive stroke. . The 77-year-old prime minister, whose fate is crucial to Israel and the wider Middle East, remains in intensive care but doctors said they had been able to all but stop the drugs that had been keeping him in an artificial coma.

Updated January 9th: Gaza Was Going to Show the World

UPDATE 7pm: IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz the army today is at a loss to find adequate responses to the post-withdrawal transformation of Gaza into the largest terrorist base in the Arab world. As well, with the acquisition of an arsenal of missiles and mortars, including Katyusha rockets and shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles by the Palestinians, the security fences around both Gaza and Judea and Samaria, which have long been the Left's ultimate answer to Palestinian terrorism, have been proven to be colossally misguided. Caroline Glick in the JP

SHARON'S LEGACY:  In a new editorial, National Review adds this: "Should the Palestinians at last acquire a state of their own, Sharon will have done more to bring it about than any Palestinian, Arafat included, ever did."

The rest of the editorial is here. Also read Charles Krauthammer on Sharon here, Michael Oren here, Benny Morris here, Amir Taheri here, Robert Satloff here, and Peter Berkowitz here. More here at  FDD And sidle on over to Maggie's Farm here...........always a thoughtful respite


FLAMES OF HATE: Members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades burn a poster of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Gaza City yesterday. (New York Post)

Gaza aka Hamasastan

Terrorists reap 'disengagement' benefits
Terrorist weapons experts flowing into Jew-free Gaza Strip Terrorist weapons experts flowing into Jew-free Gaza Strip

A senior security official confirmed for Ha'aretz Sunday that “Palestinian” terror groups are taking advantage of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip to import advanced know-how in long-range weapons and explosives for use against Israel's Jews.

Whereas Gaza-based terrorists previously relied smuggled computers or the Internet and their less than adequate ability to interpret the information found there, the killers are now able to hone their skills through first hand training

In the immortal words of Ronald Reagan, "We begin bombing in five minutes", I am sooooo down with that.

"Free" Elections in Palestine

EU election monitors face risks in Palestine

Here is a story from Palestine, where they are getting ready to predent an election. It will be held under EU "supervision", which is important in this context. Violence is already on the rise and the police is rebelling against its own government in what is beginning to look like a coup d'etat (probably sponsored by the brown shirts in Tehran).

Compare the authoritarian thug rule in Palestine with the ever stronger democracy and freedom in Iraq. With American support, Iraq is growing ever more stable, its police and armed forces are doing an ever better job at protecting their own families, neighborhoods, cities. Even European election observers had to sign off on the Iraqi election as a fair process with great integrity. The economy is gradually moving ahead, despite the desperate attempts by the Iranian islamonazis to derail the process.

Iraq was liberated by America. Palestine is "cooperating" with the EU. This only goes to show the supreme decisiveness and success of American foreign policy, and how thoroughly pathetic Eurabian dhimmitude is in its dealings with the terror territories, aka Palestine.

Expat Swede

 

Meanwhile, Palestinian Militants Order Vote Observers to Leave Jenin

Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades members ordered international observers overseeing this month's Palestinian election to leave the Jenin area of the northern West Bank "as soon as possible."

oh and note MSM's use of the word militant................

SHARON: Celebrations underway in Gaza

'Rocket barrage if Sharon dies'
1 terror leader threatening life of replacement prime minister

JERUSALEM – Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip are watching the news regarding Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's deteriorating health carefully and will celebrate with Qassam rocket firings at Jewish towns if Sharon dies, terror leaders told WorldNetDaily.

One militant leader threatened the life of Sharon's temporary replacement, Deputy Minister Ehud Olmert, who was installed as prime minister just hours ago.

Celebrations reportedly are underway in the Gaza Strip, with families distributing sweets and gunmen shooting into the air.

"I personally am waiting to celebrate. I have my fingers crossed," Abu Abir said

These animals are peace partners? I am sick sick sick of this bullshit. The Jew is held up to an impossible standard of morality and behavior, exceeds it and is condemned without fail.

The Jew is the world's whipping boy and I for one have had enough. STFU!

"Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock." Will Rogers (thanks Fred)                  No more "nice doggie"

Speaking of animals;
Iran Declares Its Nuclear Plan Nonnegotiable

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American Victims of Palestinian Terror

AMERICAN VICTIMS OF PALESTINIAN TERROR TO BRING NEW LAW SUIT AGAINST FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

A new civil action is being organized on behalf of American victims and the families of American victims of Palestinian terror. The target of the new law suit will be certain non-US based financial institutions which facilitated the funding of HAMAS terror attacks in Israel.

If you are an American victim of Palestinian terror or if you are the family member of an American victim you might qualify to be a plaintiff in this civil action and enabled to seek financial compensation from these financial institutions.

In order to be a plaintiff in this case you or the family member victim must be an American citizen who was injured after March 1996 in an attack carried out by the HAMAS terrorist organization in Israel.

If you or a family member are American terror victims please immediately contact us to determine if you qualify:

Email:

info@israellawcenter.org Tel. No.: Israel (972) 03-736-1519
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Jihad based on "Peace and Security in Exchange for Land"

                     No more "Land for Peace"

Prefacing the above: I, for one, never saw fit to tell Israel what it should or should not do.

I do not live there, I am not on the front lines of terror everyday. When Edgar Bronfman Sr. came out most vocally against the security barrier I wanted to go the Four Seasons where he dines and spit in his face. Where did he get off telling these people what they should or should not do to save their own lives. I had, for years, admired Bronfman's work on behalf of Israel but on this he had lost me. He was a fool.

I hated Oslo. Never saw the logic in it. Rewarding murder. Arafat saying one thing in English to  the West and in the same moment congratulatory moment, encouraging war and Jew killing in arabic to his own people.

On the other hand, I supported Sharon on Gaza. Not for land for peace, but land for war. It seemed to me that after exhaustive efforts to secure peace with Israel's hostile neighbors, it was time Israel set defensible borders, lock down the country and prepare for war.  Shut down the borders and defend its people. Gaza was impossible to defend in terms of manpower and money. Strategically it was a nightmare. Even so, the disengagement was heartbreaking - and the toll it took on the whole of the country can not be underestimated.

But now I am stepping out of my passive but supportive role of Israel and saying NO MORE LAND. It is not so much that it accomplishes nothing except to embolden the terrorists and wannabe islamokazes and render Israel perceptively weaker.............but more significantly, the "peace of jihad is founded on the principle "peace and security for land": peace and security are conceded by the jihad armies if the infidels cede their territory and submit to the rules of dhimmitude. [dhimmitude: the condition of "subjection with protection" of non-Muslims in their own countries, obtained by the cessation of their land to the Muslim ruler. Subjection because the infidels submit to Islamic law or face forced conversions, slavery or death. Dhimmitude is the direct outcome of jihad.₁

Warning Shots - Martin Peretz (New Republic)

• The withdrawal from Gaza by Israel was supposed to be a test. That the hudna (ceasefire) would hold. It didn't. What about security undertakings with regard to Gaza's border with Egypt? Again a failure. Is there elemental public order on the streets? Chaos rules in Gaza, utter mayhem.
• The fact is that almost no one in Israel any longer believes in a negotiated peace with the Palestinians. Not because sensible and humane Israelis can't imagine a fair divide of the land between the river and the sea. But because Gaza has truly shown them that there are - let's be perfectly frank - no Palestinians with whom to treat. Not a single security assurance from the Palestinians has ever held. There is no dispute: This is the record.
• All this has consequences for the West Bank. Sooner or later, and particularly if there is a withdrawal from the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, rockets and missiles will be as common there as they are in Gaza and Lebanon. Already, al-Qaeda has claimed (and Israeli intelligence has confirmed) that it was responsible for at least one rocket attack on Israel proper.
• Those who casually promote the notion that Israel should disengage from here, there, nearly everywhere close to the 1949 lines are proposing that the Jewish state commit suicide. Virtually the entire country, including Ben-Gurion Airport, would be vulnerable to even simple weaponry.

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Spit in my Face and Tell me it's Raining

GSS: 900% Increase in Terrorist Smuggling in Four Months
The General Security Services (GSS) has released its 2005 year-end report, which reveals a dramatic increase in weapons brought into Gaza by Arab terrorists since Israel's evacuation of the region.

Tell me again, what is the objective  - Atlas?

Palestinians give 'thumbs up' to President Madman's view
IranMania.comLONDON, January 1 (IranMania) - Palestinians share Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's view that Israel cannot co-exist with other nations in the region, said a senior Palestinian official, IRNA reported.

Iran president likens Zionism to fascism, says 'Zionist' crimes same as Nazis':

MARGOT DUDKEVITCH: 2,990 ATTACKS DURING 2005 'TRUCE'

UPDATE:let's see what Fascist Israel has wrought this week, shall we?

Israeli consortium lays the groundwork for genetic 'credit card'    Israeli researchers at the Technion have begun work on an ambitious project that will one day enable individualized medicine tailored to each patient's genes. By determining the genetic influence on patient reaction to medication, the multi-disciplined team of scientists and engineers from five different faculties expect to solve one of the most difficult problems currently facing physicians: which drug to prescribe to a patient and in what dosage. More...

Technology | Israeli startup develops method to predict and prevent earthquakes  Some experts contend that it is virtually impossible to predict where an earthquake will occur. But a determined Israeli startup would beg to differ. Terramoto has developed a three-stage method which samples rock using drilling equipment that can precisely chart subterranean pressure or friction building up along fault lines. They're confident the results will facilitate the prediction and prevention of earthquakes. More...

Profiles | From babies and Legos comes high tech innovation   An ultra-Orthodox Israeli mother of five would seem an unlikely candidate to be a hot attraction at last year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But Sarah Lipman's breakthrough technology for consumers to interact with computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices has drawn a great deal of interest in her company Power2Be. Lipman represents part of a new generation of strict religiously observant Israeli women who are finding ways to merge their talents for technology with their strong commitments to family life. More...

Health | Israeli scientist develops natural alternative for Ritalin   A natural oil-based alternative to Ritalin for the treatment of ADD and ADHD developed in Israel has achieved promising results in initial testing. While Ritalin and other medications have proved helpful to millions of children, their potential side effects and health hazards are worrisome to parents. The Israeli treatment which is being developed by Dr. Nachum Vaisman, the head of clinical nutrition at the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, could offer these parents additional options.  More...

Technology | Taking the 'chemical' out of agrochemical  It's a challenge for a company in the crop protection business to aspire to be environmentally friendly. But Israel's Makhteshim-Agan Industries, among the world's largest generic agrochemical makers, is working to make its herbicides, insecticides and fungicides as safe as possible. With the motto, 'Taking Care of Nature,' it's not surprising that a number of MAI's products are also environmentally friendly, making them in demand in more than 100 countries. More... Technology | Israeli breakthrough paves way for 'green' diapers Technology | JCT graduates engineer high tech success Profiles | A dedicated Israeli philanthropist tackles food insecurity Culture | Israeli art gets a Manhattan address  Health | When bread is not an affliction  Health | A mobile mission - Israeli researchers help stem mental retardation in Arab village  Health | Natural relief for prostate enlargement Find it all at Israel 21C Technorati Tags: terror, Gaza, Radical, Islam, Iran, Israel, Palestinian

Homicide Bomber Planned Attack at Children's Hannukah Party -

Suicide Bomber Planned Attack at Children's Hannukah Party -

The suicide bomber who killed an Israel Defense Forces officer and two Palestinians at an army checkpoint near Tulkarm Thursday was apparently planning to blow himself up at one of the many children's events taking place in Tel Aviv during this week's Hannukah holiday, army sources said. Had the bomber not been stopped at the checkpoint, the attack would have been far more deadly, said the sources. The slain officer was Lt. Ori Binamo, 21, of Nesher. Of the slain Palestinians, one was the taxi driver and the other might have been the bomber's guide. The IDF believes that the Islamic Jihad network in the northern West Bank was responsible. That network has been responsible for the deaths of 26 Israelis since the start of the year, including all of the suicide bombings inside Israel.
    IDF sappers said the suicide belt containing more than 10 kilograms of explosives was packed with nails and iron scraps to make it more deadly. Because the blast occurred in an open area, its effect was mitigated, but had it gone off in an enclosed hall packed with parents and children, as was apparently intended, the effect would have been devastating. Col. Aharon Haliba, commander of the Ephraim Brigade, said, "With all my sorrow over Ori, I have to tell the truth: He and his soldiers, with their bodies, prevented [a far more serious] attack. That is their job; that is our job." Due to warnings of other attacks, the high alert along the seam between the West Bank and Israel will remain in force.

It'so so depraved, it leaves me speechless...............and what's with the term "suicide" bombing?
IT'S HOMICIDE BOMBING

In other news from Hades,   Gaza Chaos Worsens

When the lines are no longer blurred

Group Claims Rocket Strike on Israel

AP - Al-Qaida in Iraq said Thursday that it fired a barrage of rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel this week, in a rare claim by the group of a direct attack against the Jewish state. Full Story

First off, check out the AP headline.......the use of "group" instead of al-Qaida, wild, right? WTF are they protecting?

Al Qaida in Iraq huh! Al Qaida striking Israel huh!

Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, the head of Israeli army intelligence, said Thursday in an interview with Israel's Channel 10 TV, "Today al-Qaida is turning its focus to the heart of the Levant —     Syria, Egypt, Jordan, the     Palestinian Authority, the countries around us, and to Israel."

This is a turning point. Iran's declarations of Jewish genocide has the let the proverbial cat out of the bag. It is open season. For all those Jew haters that have long insisted that our policies in the Middle East are the cause for the barbarism and hate ("why do they hate us?") bear in mind that al qaida stuck America (the Big Satan) first. Osama was unhappy with our presence in Saudi Arabia remember? So are we to believe Israel is suffering because of her alliance with the US? The big Satan's little Satan? Of course not.  Radical Islamonazism's objective is word domination. Caliphate anyone?

 

Iran, Hizballah and Palestinians Gang up for a Second Front against Israel

 

Nothing happens for decades then decades happen in a day.

65% of Palestinians Support Al-Qaeda Attacks in U.S.

Poll: 65% of Palestinians Support Al-Qaeda Attacks in U.S. and Europe

According to a survey of Palestinian opinion financed by Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 65% support al-Qaeda actions in the U.S. and Europe, 32% support al-Qaeda actions in Iraq, and 13% support al-Qaeda actions in Jordan.

    Some 69% of Palestinians see violent action as legitimate and half believe that suicide attacks are necessary to force Israel to make political concessions. However, 57% believe the intifada should stop and 74% think that attacks from Gaza should cease. 83% think it is in the Palestinian people's interest to keep the ceasefire with Israel, but only 26% support the use of force by Palestinian security services against those who break the calm. (FAFO-Norway)

I understand we are in the process of giving humdreds of millions of dollars to the uber terrorists. My question is why?  How many blows to the head do we have to take just to define the enemy. We are the Hedda Nussbaum of the Middle East (israel is running a close second).

See also Islamic Jihad Vows Harsh Response to "Security Zone" - Ali Waked (Ynet News); Palestinian Resistance Committees: "We Have Detailed Maps of Israeli Military Camps"  more here

Gaming Theory Nobel Winner Nixes Pullout 'Disaster'

Israeli Nobel Laureate Classifies Disengagement as ´Disaster´

By Ezra HaLevi Nobel Laureate Prof. Yisrael Aumann addressed the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Wednesday, calling the Disengagement a “disaster” and pleading for patience on the part of the gov't.

Aumann, who recently received the Nobel Prize for Economics due to his work in game theory, explained the basic principles of game theory to the committee. He also explained the application of those principles in reaching a final-status arrangement with the Jewish State’s Arab neighbors.

Using lessons from his innovations, Aumann attacked the unilateral removal of Jews from Gaza and northern Samaria last summer. He said that continued withdrawals would only lead to bloodshed, as they signal that Israel does not know what to do and is merely taking an action for the sake of “doing something.”

The Hebrew University professor told the Knesset committee that the urgency with which the government seeks to reach a settlement with the Arabs poses a great danger. He said patience and proper preparation on the economic and social levels are what will bring true peace to the region.

“The current drive for peace now, not tomorrow,” Aumann said, “is liable to bring about the opposite.”

The Nobel Laureate said that Israel’s Arab neighbors - “our cousins,” as he referred to them – must be convinced not that we are desperate for peace, but that we are willing to be patient and live with the current situation.

With Jews like these We don't need Palestinian Terrorists

Opinion is one thing. Advocacy that leads to Jewish death and puts Israel's very survival in question is quite another;

Leftist Jews urged Rice's 'tough line'

 JERUSALEM - Far left-leaning American Jewish organizations urged U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to pressure Israel during her brokering this week of a deal that for the first time hands to the Palestinians final control of the Gaza border, telling Rice her tough line against Israel will win her American Jewish support.

Rice  extended her stay in Jerusalem to push through the deal on the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza that restricts Israel to monitor the area by camera, calls for a European presence at the border station, and gives the Palestinians final veto power on all vehicles and persons entering Gaza.

The deal was blasted  by Israel's military establishment in urgent messages sent to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office. Hat tip: Dr. Nancy

These useless idiots know not what they wrought.

And Spielberg, a self congratulating Jew who is a shondah on our people,  AUTO-ANTISEMITES, a new worrisome enemy;

Spielberg's Munich Pact  By Debbie Schlussel

Spielberg lied.

But not as much as he and admittedly anti-Israel scriptwriter Tony Kushner lied in this two-and-a-half-hour-plus celluloid fairy tale. Like the book on which it’s based, Munich is long, boring, and filled with fakery.

Spielberg’s “Black September” terrorist group is named after the Munich terrorists, who murdered the Israeli athletes in September. The real-life “Black September” is so named after Jordan’s massacre of 10,000 Palestinians in September 1970 – causing many Jordanian Palestinians to flee for safety in the West Bank and Israel.

Real-life Palestinians in 1973 beat to death U.S. diplomats, like Cleo Noel and George Curtis Moore in the Sudan, with Yasser Arafat personally giving the orders. (They were tortured to death and beaten so badly, authorities could not tell which of the two was black and which was white.)

Spielberg’s Palestinian terrorists have cute, young, innocent, piano-playing daughters who will be fatherless. But he never shows the cute, young daughters of the Israeli athletes who were made fatherless – and whose fathers, unlike the Palestinian terrorists, were innocent victims with no choice in the matter.

Spielberg’s Mossad agents say bigoted things like, “The only blood that matters to me is Jewish blood,” and go around killing innocent people at whim. The real-life Mossad agents who hunted the Munich terrorists went to great pains to avoid killing innocents (whether or not they were Jewish), a reason it took so many years and financial resources to get all but one of them. (Jamil Al-Gashey lives safely under the protection of the terror-state Syria.) In real-life, they killed only one innocent man whom they mistakenly believed to be a terrorist – a Moroccan waiter in Norway – for which those Mossad agents responsible were tried, convicted, and imprisoned, something that does not happen in the Spielberg version of events. Spielberg’s Mossad agents complain that Israel has no death penalty, so killing the terrorists violates Israeli law. Real-life Israel does have a death penalty for Nazi war criminals, like Eichmann, and recognized that the Munich terrorists were equally worthy.

Spielberg’s Mossad agents cry and brood a lot, unsure of themselves and why they are pursuing terrorists. Been there, seen that before – in the left-wing Israeli film Walk on Water. But it bears little resemblance to the real Mossad agents who hunted the terrorists. They were not metrosexual, sensitive guys – as badly as Spielberg and Kushner would like them to be. Like Golda Meir, they could not have been more certain of the just purpose of their mission.

Then, there is something I haven’t read in other critics’ accounts of Munich – something that made me sick to my stomach. Are the lives of the innocent Israeli athletes so worthless that the scenes in which they are murdered by Palestinian terrorists are interspersed with the self-doubting Mossad agent having sex?  Thanks for cheapening these murdered athletes’ lives, Spielberg.

What can you expect from the man who said his meeting with Fidel Castro “was the eight most important hours of my life”?

Indeed. Never again will Spielberg get a shekel, half penny, plug nickel from me. It never dawned on me that Spielberg was glorifying a nazi, war  profiteering Schindler.  But that is what he did. Schindler was an unapologetic war profiteer, getting rich off  Jewish slaves. If he had a crisis of conscience at the end of the war when the allies victory was painfully clear, one can only guess but if anyone deserved an homage it was Raoul Wallenberg - Atlas.

UPDATE December 29th I wish to clarify something here. If I implied that Oskar Schindler was not worthy of the love, respect,and admiration of the world let me stand corrected.

Oskar Schindler was a great man. A righteous gentile. He earned the title through his unselfish, heroic acts and must be remembered as such. Yes, a righteous man. Deserving of his place at Yad Vashem and in the hearts and souls of every Jew that lives and survived. It was Speileberg's motives I questioned, not Oskar Schindler's.

 

Yad Vashem is the Israel Holocaust Museum and Center. It is the organization responsible for bestowing the honor, "Righteous Gentile". In a world where clowns, frauds and monsters can receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Yad Vashem is meticulous about researching candidates for the title Righteous Gentile. The decision to bestow that title is, to my mind, irrefutable proof of a person's status as moral hero. Yad Vashem awarded the title to Schindler in 1967 and confirmed it and extended it to his wife in 1993.

When I reviewed the Yad Vashem site I learned things I hadn't known about Schindler. For example:

1. In 1943 Schindler worked as a secret operative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and "undertook a highly risky journey to Budapest, where he met with two representatives of Hungarian Jewry. He reported to them about the desperate plight of the Jews in Poland and discussed possible ways of relief.";

2. Schindler was arrested and interrogated numerous times by the Gestapo but he did not stop his activities; and,

3. Schindler arranged the only recorded case where Jews (300 women) were saved and released after having been shipped to a death camp.

If Schindler had only been self-interested he would have avoided antagonizing the Gestapo and hoarded his money. He could then have saved his own skin at the conclusion of the war by arranging passage to South America as did so many other Nazis. Instead Schindler (a man with an apparently money-hungry nature) beggared himself to save Jews. He risked his life by breaking almost every rule of a vicious dictatorship. His activities were so unprecedented for a German that after the war he was an outcast from and subject to threats and harassment by German emigree colonies. Hat tip MarcH

 

Christmas in Bethlehem

The New Statesman and the Baltimore Sun paint a very grim picture of the city of Bethlehem a few weeks before Christmas. According to the Sun:

A once-bustling neighborhood has become a ghost town. Shops are shuttered or empty, and the streets are deserted. A sign carries the name of an abandoned restaurant. "Memories," it says. Another sign near an empty shell says, "Border Cafeteria."

Typical of the The Statesman's claims is the following:

The flicker of optimism has been dampened by the completion of the barrier around Bethlehem and the installation of the gate, which has given a sense of permanence to the isolation and the economy's free fall. The crossing is daunting even for tourists who are searched on their coaches as they enter Bethlehem.

According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, each one of these points is factually incorrect:

• There is no barrier (completely encircling) Bethlehem. There is only a fence where the Bethlehem area interfaces with Jerusalem and close to the 1949 armistice line. Only a very small segment of the fence is a concrete wall preventing terrorists from shooting at motorists.
• The economy has actually improved significantly. While 110,000 tourists visited the city during 2004, more than 218,000 have already visited Bethlehem during 2005 - an increase of around 100%. There have been corresponding increases in Bethlehem's main industries: Textiles 50%, Stone and marble export 40%, commercial transportation 20%. These increases have brought millions of dollars into the local economy.
• The IDF has decided to take a "calculated risk" to make access easier for tourists. According to IDF Lt. Col. Aviv Feigel in the Jerusalem Post, "The military will try to speed the process by not checking every tourist bus, but conducting spot checks of random buses instead."

Israel is taking these steps despite the fact that "Half of the Israeli terror fatalities in 2004 came from attackers who entered Jerusalem from Bethlehem."

The New Statesman also raps Israel for pushing Christians out of Bethlehem. But as FrontPage magazine points out, it is actually the Palestinians who have been forcing the city's Christian residents to leave.

The Vatican, in a rare diplomatic move, called publicly on the Israelis to intervene in Bethlehem on behalf of its severely receding Christian population. Now totaling less than 12% of Bethlehem's population, Christians, who have been the targets of continual PA violence, might leave entirely. The result will be that in the place where Jesus was born there will no longer be a Christian community.

And just this week, Palestinian gunmen disrupted Christmas preparations in Bethlehem  taking over the municipality building across from the Church of Nativity (See Associated Press). For a detailed report on Muslim violence against Christians that is largely ignored by the media, click here. Despite the Palestinian efforts to push out Christian residents, this holiday season will see thousands of pilgrims celebrating Christmas in Bethlehem. The New Statesmen and Baltimore Sun should cover the facts and not rely on Palestinian propaganda.

Comments to The New Statesman: letters@newstatesman.co.uk
hat tip Honest Reporting (if you got a couple of extra bucks, send it their way)

Bloody Sudan Govt Arming Palestinian Terror

Palestinians' weapons route traced to Sudan's Darfur
Palestinian terrorists have received a steady supply of weapons and ammunition from Sudan. Western intelligence sources said Sudan has been a major source of weaponry for such groups as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the ruling Fatah militia.

The worst crimes against humanity are being committed in Darfur, the Sudan. The Radical Islamonazis are raping women, children, selling them into slavery. The militias are torching villages, destroying crops, , stealing cattle and slaughtering those whose skin colour does not resemble theirs.If you are not up to speed on the Sudan go here and scroll. And the world stands by and watches and talks about how it's a terrible thing. And our own Congress won't help these brutalized people.
ALL ISLAMONAZIS ARE CONNECTED! That is why the left is so learning disabled. "Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Sheer stupidty. Want more stupidity?

Congress rebuffs Rice on Darfur troop funding
Congress rejected U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's impassioned appeal to provide $50 million for African troops trying to keep peace in Sudan's Darfur region, the State Department said on Monday.
This is a seperate story but I had to bring it up because we ought to be ashamed. Photo story here.

Now we find these radical islamic muslims are funding the Palestinians.

Western intelligence sources said Sudan has been a major source of weaponry for such groups as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the ruling Fatah militia. The sources said the Sudanese weapons, delivered via Egypt, were far cheaper than from other places.

[On Sunday, Palestinian gunners fired a Kassam-class short-range missile into the Israeli city of Ashkelon, Middle East Newsline reported. The missile was said to have landed into a maximum security infrastructure facility in what Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz termed an increase in Palestinian capability.]

"It's [Sudan] become a huge source of weaponry for the Palestinians as well as for other militias in need of equipment," a source said. "There's an entire infrastructure that's proven highly reliable."

From Darfour, Sudanese smugglers have transported the weaponry to Egypt. The equipment then was brought over the Suez Canal into the Sinai Peninsula. From the eastern Sinai town of Rafah, the weapons, ammunition and explosives were smuggled into the Gaza Strip.

If that's the case we have reason enough to give Robert Zoellick anything and everything he needs to stop their suffering and protect the dhimmis, Christians, moderate Muslims, from a brutal Radical Islamic government.

Zoellick: "While you are bickering," he said, "your people are dying." It was the first time Zoellick became visibly angry on his latest trip to Africa, but it would not be the last. Before heading back to Washington, Zoellick would blow his top. Read it

You can not look away from this. Please write your congressmen. Please ask that they give Condi Rice the funding for the AU peacekeepers. Those guys are being murdered as well. Where is Angelina Jolie indeed.

REGIME CHANGE SUDAN, NOW. We must take a leadership postion on this, the UN has failed these people horribly. I do not know how they sleep at night, so much blood on their hands.

UPDATE:

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UPDATE: December 22 The latest from the great humanitarian and savior Kofi Annan

It's been a tough year for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.

So you might imagine Mr. Annan would feel a bit contrite as the year draws to a close. Apparently not. At a year-end press briefing this week, Mr. Annan was more snarls than smiles. To a question from London Times correspondent James Bone, an eyewitness tells us the Secretary General had this to say: "I think you are being very cheeky. Listen James Bone, you've been behaving like an overgrown schoolboy in this room for many, many months and years. You are an embarrassment to your colleagues and to your profession. Please stop misbehaving and please let's move on to a serious subject."

The question that Mr. Annan deemed insufficiently serious concerns an unresolved chapter from Mr. Volcker's investigation. In 1998, Kojo Annan purchased a Mercedes in Geneva in his father's name, thus enabling him to get a $6,541 diplomatic discount. The car was then shipped to the Annans' native Ghana, where diplomatic immunity further exempted the car from $14,000 worth of taxes. The Volcker report details a letter Kojo sent to a friend, saying, "I will confirm with my dad I can use his name," and Kofi Annan's secretary sent him a note asking if another of his aides would write a letter saying the car belonged to the Secretary General. That other letter has never been found. It remains unclear whether the elder Annan knew his name was being used for the purposes of tax evasion.

Reporters have been pressing the Secretary General's office on this subject for months, to no avail. Benny Avni, the New York Sun's outstanding reporter at Turtle Bay, noted last month that spokeswoman Marie Okabe had previously exploded at Mr. Bone when he raised the issue: "We don't consider this a U.N. matter," she said. Sensitive subject, apparently.

hat tip tip: WSJ Political Diary John Fund

Peaceloving Palestinians Dancing In the Streets ... VIDEO HERE Celebrating Sharon Stroke UGH

They are dancing in the streets in Hamastan. Handing out candy to the children. Shooting their guns in the air (a favorite Palio celebratory gesture)
Animals.......... Go ahead, Spielberg, kiss their ass, you self hating shmuck.

 

Ariel Sharon Suffers Stoke; Palis Dancing in the Streets

They are dancing in the streets in Hamastan. Animals................

Go ahead Spielberg, kiss their ass, you self hating shmuck.

 

Terror Wins

Hamas Surges in West Bank; Blow to Fatah
New York Times
The Islamic militant group Hamas won local elections in some of the West Bank's largest cities, according to preliminary results. And look at the headline over at the dhimmi America/Jew hating AP -  the are positively apoplectic with joy "Hamas Celebrates Landslide Election Win"
pure glee
Oh and btw, I shed no tears for Fatah. Bloody murderers as well.

Jewish Father of Five Murdered in Hevron Hills Shooting Attack

Terrorists shot at Israeli motorists, killing one and injuring two others, in the southern Hevron Hills region Friday afternoon. The attack took place 20 miles south of Jerusalem, between Beit Haggai and Har Manoah - a region slated to be left on the Arab side of the Partition Fence. The terrorists opened fire from a vehicle driving in the opposite direction.

The attack took place in between Beit Haggai and Har Manoah - a region slated to be left on the "other" side of the Partition Fence

Let's continue down this road, shall we. Let's say Hamas wins. Hmmmmmm. Democratically elected terror. Hmmmmmm democratically elected fascists. So what? Hitler was democratically elected too.

Bottom line, if they won't join the human race..........

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France [Gaza]. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender."
- Winston Churchill

Bah dah bing, bah dah boom.

UPDATE: Breaking news

Michael Ledeen of NRO is reporting on a phone call he got from someone he trusts who says Ahmadinejad was the target of an assassination attempt - apparently unsuccessful (damn).  Rick over at Right Wing Nuthouse has the whole story and then some here

Iran President's Bodyguard Dies in Ambush

Tehran, Iran -- One of the bodyguards of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed and another wounded when an attempt to ambush the presidential motorcade was thwarted in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, according to a semi-official newspaper and local residents.
“At 6:50 pm on Thursday, the lead car in the presidential motorcade confronted armed bandits and trouble-makers on the Zabol-Saravan highway”, the semi-official Jomhouri Islami reported on Saturday.
“In the ensuing armed clash, the driver of the vehicle, who was an indigenous member of the security services, and one of the president’s bodyguards died, while another bodyguard was wounded”, the newspaper, which was founded by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote.
Ahmadinejad traveled to the restive province, where ethnic Baluchis have been fighting for years for autonomy, on Wednesday and returned to Tehran on Friday afternoon. Tehran often refers to anti-government activists and political opponents of the Islamist regime as “bandits” and “trouble-makers”.
The newspaper report made no mention of Ahmadinejad’s whereabouts during the attack on his bodyguards’ vehicle, but Zabol residents reached by telephone said there were rumors in the town that the hard-line president himself was the target of the attack, which took place near Zabol.

“Many people have been rounded up for questioning after the attack and the authorities here were clearly shaken by the incident”, a Zabol resident told Iran Focus.
The Sunni Baluchis have faced years of religious and racial discrimination under Iran’s Shiite clergy-dominated government.
Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a “myth” on Wednesday, on the first day of his trip to the province.
“They have fabricated a legend under the name 'Massacre of the Jews', and they hold it higher than God himself, religion itself and the prophets themselves”, he told a crowd in Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan and Baluchestan.

The presidential office and other government officials have refrained from making any comment on the ambush.
hat tip Tom P Iranvajahann

 

"It's not about blood money," La Dolce GIUSTO!

While I live and breathe, the holiday season has indeed started and what gifts she brings......

Italian court orders Iran asset freeze

A court in Italy has ordered the freezing of an Iranian government account held in a Rome bank in what lawyers say represents an unprecedented legal victory for three US families seeking compensation from     Iran for its alleged support of Palestinian suicide bombings that killed their relatives.

Lawyers and activists in Washington said their success in Italy was likely to be followed by similar cases against Iran in other courts in Europe and possibly Asia. The ruling could also open the floodgates to similar civil cases against the Islamic regime and other states accused by the US of sponsoring terror.

A civil court in Rome ordered Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) last week to freeze an account held by the Iranian government, drawing diplomatic protests from Tehran on the basis that Iran's official accounts were protected by the Vienna Convention governing diplomatic relations.

"It's not about blood money," said Steven Flatow, a US lawyer from New Jersey whose daughter Alisa was killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber on a bus in Gaza in 1995.

What makes this so noteworthy in addition to the obvious, is holding Iran responsible for a Palestinian homicide bombing -Atlas

UPDATE: Nuclear-Minded Iran Meets With Top Palestinian Terrorist
Top Iranian officials met this week with a leader of Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group explicitly dedicated to Israel's destruction. Khaled Mashaal, Hamas' political chief, conferred with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who months ago called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." Ahmadinejad's rhetoric has intensified concerns about Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.  Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has said Iran could be only "months" away from being able to assemble atomic weapons if it starts enriching uranium. Ask your members of Congress to support the Iran Freedom Support Act, which would tighten sanctions on Iran to choke off funds it could use to assemble atomic arms.

Rat Bastard Abbas Pays Vig On Jewish Blood

Abbas Approves Monthly Grant To Families of Suicide Bombers

The head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has approved a new law, providing monetary grants to the families of suicide bombers.

Abbas gave his approval just six days ago, a day before a suicide bomber struck the HaSharon Mall in Netanya, killing five Israelis and wounding scores of others. hat tip:MarcH and flopthree (the synchronous Atlasphere )

all I can say Bush better mean these animals! BASTA with the moral inverting! Stop murdering Jewish people. stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop

Bush plans overhaul of US foreign aid system Washington Financial Times

President George W. Bush’s administration is drawing up plans to carry out the biggest overhaul of the US foreign aid apparatus in more than 40 years in an attempt to assert more political control over international assistance, according to officials and aid experts.

The proposed reorganisation could lead to a takeover by the State Department of the independent US Agency for International Development. USAID was established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, managing aid programmes, disaster relief and post-war reconstruction totalling billions of dollars each year.

Stop funding terror, like Bolton said in his speech last night to ZOA. We paid 22% of the cost of that  UN map of Palestine sans Israel, WE PAY 22% OF ANNAN'S SALARY. Fire the spineless snake. He has more  blood on his hands than a bariatric surgeon.

This is not a conflict between two sides with legitimate grievances and competing interests. It is a conflict, at its core, between a nation that asks only to live in peace with its neighbors and a racist, hate-filled group of nations and peoples who seek only the destruction, the annihilation, the extermination of all Jews from the Middle East.

Joe Farah weighs in on No Jews allowed;

I'm still waiting for the international outrage.

I'm still waiting for my colleagues in the news media to jump on the story.

I'm still waiting for Americans to recognize the way the story illustrates the root cause of conflict in the Middle East.

I refer to last week's story of how WND's Jerusalem bureau chief, Aaron Klein, was denied entry to Syria because he is a Jew.

As I prepare this column for publication, not one other news agency in the world has reported on it.

Why is this story so significant?

Because it so perfectly illustrates why we continue to have conflict in the Middle East between Arabs and Israelis.

Photo: Suicide bombing, Uncorrelated 

UPDATE: Abu Mazen's bloodlusty days go back a long way...........Abbas and Arafat will always have Munich.

Naomi Ragen shares Information about the PLO's new head, who funded the Munich Massacre of Israel's Olympic athletes.  From pioneering attorney Nitsana Darshan Leitner,

Its no wonder that, as the NY Times editorial suugests, the sympathetic Palestinian character in the Munich film"sounded like Abu Mazen,"  -- it probably was Abu Mazen, see below press release from 2003. Abu Mazen funded the  Black
September attack  on the Israeli team.

ISRAELI CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP ACCUSES ABU MAZEN OF HAVING FUNDED 1972 MUNICH OLYMPIC MASSACRE, CALLS FOR PROBE OF PALESTINIAN PM's ROLE

Letter to German and American Leaders Alleges that New P.A. Prime Minister Financed "Black September" Terror Attack Which Killed 11 Athletes Including U.S. Citizen

The Israeli civil rights group Shurat Hadin has announced a campaign to convince U.S. and German law enforcement agencies to open an investigation into the role of newly-appointed Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu Mazen in the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.

On September 5, 1972, a squad of heavily armed Palestinian terrorists attacked the dormitories housing the Israeli Olympic team and murdered a coach and weight-lifter David Berger, who was an American citizen. The terrorists then took nine Israeli athletes hostage. While the terrorists and their hostages were transported to the airport, the German police botched a rescue attempt and all nine of the athletes were murdered.

The director of Shurat Hadin, attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, sent letters this week to U.S. President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder containing new information indicating that that Abu Mazen (whose given name is Mahmoud Abbas) provided financing to the PLO's Black September terrorist group, in order to carry out the notorious terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympic Games. While recent newsmedia profiles of Abu Mazen have accentuated the Palestinian leader's alleged "terrorism-free" personal history, the Shurat Hadin charges that in 1972, Abu Mazen, then a high ranking PLO official, provided financing for the terrorist attacks being perpetrated by Yassir Arafat's PLO faction Fatah under the nom de guerre Black September.
Shurat Hadin is basing its information on published statements by the terrorist who masterminded the the Munich attack, Mohammed Daoud Oudeh ("Abu Daoud"). In his French-language autobiography, Palestine: From Jerusalem to Munich, Abu Daoud describes the role of Abu Mazen in providing the funds to carry out the Black September Olympic attack.

Furthermore, in an interview with journalist Don Yaeger of Sports Illustrated Magazine in August 2002, Abu Daoud reiterated his charges that Abu Mazen supplied the money for the deadly attack. In his memoir Abu Daoud states: "After Oslo in 1993, Abu Mazen went to the White House Rose Garden for a photo op with Arafat, President Bill Clinton and Israel's Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.

"Do you think that ... would have been possible if the Israelis had known that Abu Mazen was the financier of our operation?" Abu Daoud writes. "I doubt it." Today, the Bush Administration seeks a Palestinian negotiating partner "uncompromised by terror," yet last year Abu Mazen met in Washington with Secretary of State Colin Powell."

Abu Daoud's allegations have been confirm by sources within the Palestinian Authority, according to Shurat Hadin.

Attorney Darshan-Leitner's letter to President Bush states: "Under your leadership the United States has declared that it will no longer maintain contacts with those tainted by terrorist pasts. It appears that the new Palestinian leader, on whom the United States and Israel are now pinning their hopes, was also involved in murderous attacks perpetrated by the PLO's Black September. If proven true, Abu Mazen's role in the brutal killing of the Israeli athletes and American citizen David Berger must preclude his involvement in the negotiations between the United States, Israel and her Arab neighbors."

Both Germany and Israel still have the legal jurisdiction to prosecute those involved in the Munich Olympic killings.

More on Palestinian depravaties at Lawhawk

Islamic Jihad Deadly Homicide Bombing In Israel

                                  Islamic Jihad Claims Responsibility
Islamic Jihad is an organization strongly supported by both Syria and Iran. Why is it no one in the "international community" give's rat's ass when Israel gets hit? Just another day

At least five people murdered and more than 50 injured after a homicide bomber struck at a shopping mall in the coastal Israeli city of Netanya.

Islamic Jihad, also known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is one out of seven Palestinian groups that is listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. This group is responsible for more than 40 attacks that have left over 100 Israelis dead. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has refused to disarm groups such as PIJ and Hamas, even though such militant organizations pose the greatest competition against his Fatah party in the upcoming PA election on January 25 

UPDATE: Quartet to Syria: Close Islamic Jihad Offices

Red Cross deal on Israel nears but Syrians unhappy
Yes that would make sense. Syria would be unhappy that Israel and the Red Cross would be bringing medical help to the neediest around the world in thier most dire hour. Yes I could see how Syria would have a real problem with that. AVENGE HARIRI!

Beheading Sweet Young Christian Girls on their Way Home from School

*** HORRIFIC MURDERS OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOL GIRLS IN INDONESIA BY ISLAMIC MILITANTS *** *** WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES AND REPORTS FOLLOW ***Hat tip Dog Pundit *** HELP TO ORGANIZE A CHURCH LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT FOR TOMORROW, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2005 ***

A terrible crime has been committed in Poso, in Central Sulawasi, Indonesia, which for several years has seen sectarian violence against the Christian minority. Thugs have beheaded 3 Christian 16 year old girls walking back from school. This Voice of America report tells how the anti-Christian violence has attracted Islamic militants to Sulawasi. WARNING: the following image from Reuters Alertnet is disturbing, but documents the absolutely inhuman and barbaric cruelty of the Islamic militants.The account of the attack is documented in this Reuters report, which describes National police spokesman Aryanto Budiharjo as saying up to 6 veiled men dressed in black used machetes to kill the girls from Bukit Bambu village. Two other victims are shown to the right (photo from Reuters Alertnet).

This report from The Star in Malaysia tells how the girls were found in their school uniforms, and that their heads were found 2 hours later some distance away, including one head found about 100 meters from a church. A fourth girl managed to hide and escaped with cuts. The sectarian violence must stop. There is absolutely no justification for killing defenseless, 16 year old girls on their way to school. If you would like to protest these outrageous murders, you can send a polite letter to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono His contact information is located here. Please try to organize church letter writing campaigns for tomorrow, Sunday, October 30, 2005. Here is the Indonesian President's website. This URL at the Indonesian Embassy in Washington DC gives the mailing addresses and phone numbers for the entire Indonesian cabinet.

Hat tip Dog Pundit

Israel Bends Over

And please don't even think of telling me that Israel should have no say in what "political parties"  dance at the next Pali election. Hamas is not a political party, Hamas is a murdering bunch of thugs that want to take over the world. This "concession" is just another victory. And even if Israel has no choice, they don't have to sanction it.

Israel Says it Won't Oppose Hamas Role in Palestinian Vote
New York Times [of course the NYT, they love a story like this - Atlas]
Justice minister says Sharon's government will not intervene as Palestinian leader tries to bring militant group into democratic process.

unless of course they want them to win, so that they can blow their would be assassins to smithereens but do they really need an election to do that? 

Declaration of War: Syria uh Hamas uh Hizbollah uh Iran uh PA uh Al Aksa uh PA .....

So we are supposed to believe this rocket was rocketed?

I read earlier in the week that a rocket was found on Sharon's property and I immediately thought 'oh yeah that's rich", I can just see these shmendricks running onto the property and leaving this thing as a message. Sort of like wrapping a fish in newspaper to tell the Corleones that Luca Brasi sleeps with fishes "It's a Sicilian message" (yup that was on again last night).

Palestinian rocket was aimed at Sharon
Telegraph Sat, 22 Oct 2005
A Palestinian militant group which fired a rocket found at the ranch of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last week said today that it had been targeting the Israeli leader and would continue to do so.

Anyway, there is no way I believe that a rocket sailed by all of Israel's state of the art defense systems undetected. But that is not my point, The terrorists say they will continue until they successfully assasinate Sharon? Hey! That's a declaration of war.  We know they mean it. And we know they take out heads of state. The assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon was a carefully planned terrorist act organized by Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services, according to a report by the chief UN investigator, Detlev Mehlis, made public on Thursday. The report said, "The assassination of 14 February 2005 was carried out by a group with an extensive organization and considerable resources and capabilities....There is converging evidence pointing at both Lebanese and Syrian involvement in this terrorist act." (Warren Hoge,  Jim's bro)

Hariri's son, Beirut MP Saad Hariri, said his father "told me that President Bashar Assad threatened him, telling him: 'This is what I want. If you think that President Chirac and you are going to run Lebanon, you are mistaken. It is not going to happen. President Lahoud is me. Whatever I tell him, he follows suit. This extension [of Lahoud's term] is to happen or else I will break Lebanon over your head and Walid Jumblat's....So, you either do as you are told or we will get you and your family wherever you are.'"

If I were King of the Forest, I would take out everyone of the those murdering bastards so that we could all live in peace.

 

Who is Going to Tell Sharon?

Ok ok I will. You have no partner. Hellooooooooo. Masturbation w/o the plesasure.

Sharon Pledges Progress Toward Peace
AP via Yahoo! News
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Tuesday to continue with steps toward peace with the Palestinians, but only if they do their part first, while ruling out new initiatives

Mr. Sharon, read the letter in the following  post carefully.

UPDATE: I guess someone told him................heh

Sharon Calls for United Jerusalem, Developing Jordan Valley and Golan Heights - Vered Luvitch
Prime Minister Sharon began his speech by saying that Jerusalem is Israel's eternal and undivided capital. "We will continue to...strengthen Jerusalem, the Negev and the Galilee, as well as the settlement blocs, the Golan Heights and the Jordan Valley," he said

The Enemy of my Enemy is my friend so say Hamas and PA and al qaida

I guess everyone is feeling better now that they figured out the answer to their problem - kill the joooooooooooooos!

From Israel News;
Hamas & PA Reduce Infighting and Target Judea & Samaria

Arab terror gangs and the PA announced a truce as the PA tries to show it is in control, but Hamas still patrols in several Gaza towns. Firebomb and shooting attacks against Jews on the rise.

"Any action aimed at spreading chaos or internal strife ... will be considered treason," according to a statement at a Gaza news conference of eight terrorist groups, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Several of the leaders were masked.

KHALED ABU TOAMEH: AL-QAIDA RAISES ITS HEAD IN GAZA

Has al-Qaida started operating in the Gaza Strip? A leaflet distributed in Khan Yunis over the weekend by al-Qaida's "Palestine branch" announced that the terrorist group has begun working towards uniting the Muslims under one Islamic state.

"The Muslim nation has been subjected, through various periods, to conspiracies by the infidels," the leaflet said. "[The infidels] have brought down the Islamic Caliphate, dividing the nation into small and weak states. They also managed to dilute the Islamic and character of the nation."

The leaflet said unity was the only way for Muslims to achieve victory over their enemies, adding that the terrorist group's chief goal was to enforce Islamic law in the entire world.

 

Clueless, still? Lies, Lies, Lies and the Media that Tells Them

Clueless or Malevolent?.........That is the question. How dare the BBC, AFP, AP and assorted media elites report the following as news?

Bush claimed God told him to invade Iraq, Afghanistan: BBC
AFP via Yahoo! News Fri, 07 Oct 2005 1:42 AM PDT
US President George W. Bush allegedly said God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, a new BBC documentary will reveal, according to details.
BBC report: Bush said God told him to invade Iraq
Newsday Sat, 08 Oct 2005 8:05 AM PDT
LONDON -- US President George W. Bush allegedly said God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, a new BBC documentary will reveal, according to details released on Thursday.

They expect us to believe that Bush whispered this into the ear of a Palestinan insider? The media really thinks we are mindless. brainless, souless, sheep (an accurate description of who they are). Actually they don't give a rat's ass what we think. They tell us what they wan us to believe. The Palestinians are incapable truth.
That's how the Palestinians make their living - by manufacturing their news. Pallywood anyone?
This is a new low.............really disgusting.

UPDATE: OCTOBER 10   D'oh Dept:

White House Denies Bush Said God Told Him to Invade Iraq and Create Palestinian State
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan responded to a question Thursday regarding a BBC broadcast quoting the Palestinian prime minister and foreign minister as saying that they were in a meeting with the President in June of '03, and the President said to them, "God told me, 'George go and end the tyranny in the Iraq'" and so forth.
    McClellan: "No, that's absurd. He's never made such comments."  (White House)

But you knew that..............

Frankly I don't know how Rick does this carnival weekly, I could give him posts every five minutes. Alas, we must be happy with what we get and as you all know, The Carnival of Clueless is my Favorite..............and it's up. New Bat Date, New Bat Time............Fridays! At Right Wing Nuthouse...........eeeha!

Chirac Honored on Palestinian Stamp............Hero to Terrorists Worldwide

How about that............Archdhimmi Jacques Chirac honored on new Palistinian stamp.  He was always in collusion with terrorists, always. Uh.....where did Arafat go to die (from AIDS)..........?

Archdhimmi Jacques Chirac and archterrorist Arafat are honored as heroes on Palestinian Authority stamps. (Image from France-Echos, with thanks to Bernard Fichera).

Hat tip:Tom P.
Jihadwatch

UPDATE: September 23

Psssssssssst. France is Stealing our Secrets

Actually, when you think about it the Chirac stamp is quite fitting.........it belongs with the other atrocitites the Palios celebrate in their postage stamps, who could forget the Al Dura stamp?

The image of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy whose death scene was broadcast worldwide at the very onset of the so-called al-Aqsa intifada that broke out in September 2000. Televised images of the boy, reportedly killed by Israeli soldiers, instantly ignited anti-Israel and anti-Jewish passions all over the world, provoking a wave of violence from the lynching of two Israeli reservists in Ramallah to synagogue burnings in France. In the ensuing years, the story of Muhammad al-Dura has attained near-mythic stature in the Arab and Muslim world.

When in fact, The IDF took the rap while the Arabs got away with murder!

Palis Loot Their Future- Now it's Land for War, not Peace

"These greenhouses are for the Palestinian people," he said. "We don't want anyone to touch or harm anything that can be useful for our people." His plea did little good. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia implored Palestinians to leave the structures intact, even as people scavenged through debris elsewhere in the settlement.

American Jewish donors had bought more than 3,000 greenhouses from Israeli settlers in Gaza for $14 million last month, and transferred them to the Palestinian Authority. Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, who brokered the deal, put up $500,000 of his own cash. More

And for what? For Peace? To destroy? To what end.............only the Devil knows

Palestinians Truly Enjoyed Looting and Desecration

While the Jihad will continue it's "campaign" against Israel,  THE ONLY GOOD THING  THAT WILL  COME OUT OF THIS;

ISRAEL THREATENS EXTREME RESPONSE TO TERRORISM

Make no mistake about it. Read this very carefully, it was what the disengagement was all about.

If Oslo, which I vehemently opposed  (rewarding terror?), was Land for Peace,  Gaza may essentially be LAND FOR WAR.

UPDATE: September 15

The notoriously anti-American, anti-semetic and grossly inaccurate depcted the looting as follows; The BBC reports:

the Israeli pullout is proof of one thing - that the militants are the best hope of getting a state, that violence succeeds where politics fails.

And the future here will not be written without the involvement of the gunmen.

 

After 38 years of occupation, Palestinians were taking what they could from the wreckage of the settlements. A Palestinian colleague looked on, without surprise.

"We just got our land back," he said, "What else can anyone expect?"

But a well-dressed passer-by beseeched us - in perfect English - to stop filming.

Palestinians can still see the limits of their freedom.

It stops at the glittering edge of the Mediterranean Sea

NETANYAHU: GAZA TURNING INTO ISLAMIC TERROR BASE

And Tom P. points out

Why is U.S. doubling aid to Palestinians?

A most urgent question, especially in light of this and this. From Les Kinsolving in WND, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:

The following are reported plans to finance a potential Palestinian state:

From the United States: Doubling the present $275 million to $550 million – this after Palestinians have already received $1.5 billion (and how much of that was stolen by the late Yasser Arafat?)

In May, President Bush pledged $50 million in direct U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority to build housing and other infrastructure in Gaza once Israel completes its disengagement.....

Jihadwatch

No Media Bias Here........

No, No,  media bias here folks...........nothing to see............keep it moving

DOES MY ROCK look big on this?                                 hat tip Tom P Barcepundit

WE LOVE PEACE BUT PEACE ON OUR TERMS................SLITTING THE THROATS OF THE INFIDELS

So said an American speaking member of Al Qaeda on a just released video and

Hamas Celebrates Victory of the Bomb
"We are celebrating the victory of the bomb," declares a Hamas poster with a picture of an armed masked man superimposed to look as if he is crushing settler homes and Israeli soldiers with his feet. "The first Palestinian victory, the first Israeli defeat," says another. "It's the first time the resistance has won. Gaza is the beginning of the road to the liberation of Jerusalem," said Diyab Hassan Ouda.

So this is how  Hamas, supported by the largest state sponsor of terrorism, Iran (THE ENEMY) is choosing to interpret the lockdown of the state of Israel. That is their choice.

Iran warns of 'consequences' if referred to U.N. Security Council 
Iran warned Sunday that there will be "certain consequences" if it is referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions over its nuclear activities. The country also said it has plans to build two more nuclear power plants.

I choose to go down for America, for the Bush Doctrine. I'll be damned if I am going to wait for their next attack. BA DAH BING BA DAH BOOM. I say we take them out. Iran is on the move and they intend to take Iraq.

The left may want to play fast and loose with America, my kids and me but they lost the election. They have done great harm to this country.........and this is the Really Big Sho . And if anyone goes nuclear it has to be us...........IT HAS TO BE US.

Let's roll.........................

MUSLIM KILLING CHRISTIANS! Dont just stand there!

Killing Christians, "honor murders", fffffffffffffffolks whats it going to take? Where is the goddamn media?

A Muslim mob converged on the Palestinian Christian town of Taibeh, burning and looting 13 homes owned by relatives of a man suspected of having an affair and impregnating a 30 year old Muslim woman who worked for him. Prior to the mob attack, in yet another suspected "honor killing," the pregnant woman, Hiyam Ajaj, was found dead from poison.

 

Lara Sukhtian, of the Associated Press (AP), has written a compelling article about the incident that included context regarding Muslim-Christian tensions, as well as the disturbing practice of "honor killing" among both Muslim and Christian Arabs.  While I understand that coverage of the massive Hurricane Katrina relief effort has appropriately bumped many other news items, this compelling story is of particular interest to Christians and women's rights advocates, as well as the general public.

 

In contrast to the dwindling population of Christians in the PA territories -- as well as surrounding  Muslim countries -- Israel's Christian population is vibrant and growing.

In Memorium September 5, 1972

The Munich Massacre

By Mitchell Bard

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It was 4:30 in the morning on Sept. 5, 1972, when five Arab terrorists wearing track sweat suits climbed the six-foot six-inch fence surrounding the Olympic Village. Although they were seen by several people, no one thought anything was unusual since athletes routinely hopped the fence; moreover, the terrorists' weapons were hidden in athletic bags. These five were met by three more men who are presumed to have obtained credentials to enter the village.

Just before 5, the Arabs knocked on the door of Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg. When Weinberg opened the door he realized something was wrong and shouted a warning to his comrades. He and weightlifter Joseph Romano attempted to block the door while other Israelis escaped, but they were killed by the terrorists. The Arabs then succeeded in rounding up nine Israelis to hold as hostages.

At 9:30, the terrorists announced that they were Palestinians and demanded that Israel release 200 Arab prisoners and that the terrorists be given safe passage out of Germany.

After hours of tense negotiations, the Palestinians, who it was later learned belonged to a PLO faction called Black September, agreed to a plan whereby they were to be taken by helicopter to the NATO air base at Firstenfeldbruck where they would be given an airplane to fly them and their hostages to Cairo. The Israelis were then taken by bus to the helicopters and flown to the airfield. In the course of the transfer, the Germans discovered that there were eight terrorists instead of the five they expected and realized that they had not assigned enough marksmen to carry out the plan to kill the terrorists at the airport.

After the helicopters landed at the air base around 10:30 p.m., the German sharpshooters attempted to kill the terrorists and a bloody firefight ensued. At 11, the media was mistakenly informed that the hostages had been saved and the news was announced to a relieved Israeli public. Almost an hour later, however, new fighting broke out and one of the helicopters holding the Israelis was blown up by a terrorist grenade. The remaining hostages in the second helicopter were shot to death by one of the surviving terrorists.

At 3 a.m., a drawn and teary-eyed Jim McKay, who had been reporting the drama throughout the day as part of ABC's Olympic coverage, announced: "They're all gone."

Five of the terrorists were killed along with one policeman, and three were captured. A little over a month later, on Oct. 29, a Lufthansa jet was hijacked by terrorists demanding that the Munich killers be released.

The Germans capitulated and the terrorists were let go, but an Israeli assassination squad was assigned to track them down along with those responsible for planning the massacre. According to George Jonas in Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team, eight of the 11 men targeted for death were killed. Of the remaining three, one died of natural causes and the other two were assassinated, but it is not known for sure if they were killed by Israeli agents.

Meanwhile, the mastermind of the massacre remains at large. In fact, in 1999, Abu Daoud admitted his role in his autobiography, Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist. He claims his commandos never intended to harm the athletes and blamed their deaths on the German police and the stubbornness of then-Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (JTA, May 4, 1999).

The massacre of 11 Israeli athletes was not considered sufficiently serious to merit canceling or postponing the Olympics. "Incredibly, they're going on with it," Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times wrote at the time. "It's almost like having a dance at Dachau."

Iran's Leader Calls for Jihad Against Israel aka The Free World

Iran's Leader Calls for Jihad Against Israel
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed Palestinian militants for "expelling the Zionist regime from Gaza" and said "the only way to confront the Zionist enemy is the continuation and fortification of resistance and jihad." Speaking Saturday in a meeting with Islamic Jihad's secretary general Ramazan Abdullah, he added that "with the cooperation of jihadi groups," further "success is also possible in other parts of the occupied territories." (AFP/Yahoo)

My question is how much more proof do we need that we are indeed in the throes of World War IV. The Iranians back the Palis, the Syrians, Hizbollah, Hamas and even the diabolical UN: says Iran Produced Enough Stock for Nuclear Weapon - George Jahn
Iran has produced about 7 tons of the gas it needs for uranium enrichment since it restarted the process last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Friday. A former UN nuclear inspector said that would be enough for an atomic weapon. (AP/Chicago Tribune)

The global chessboard continues to strengthen it's axis of evil as Russia Opposes Reporting Iran to Security Council. WTF??"Moscow sees no reason why the question of Iran's nuclear program should be sent to the UN (Security Council)," Alexander Yakovenko, a Russian deputy foreign minister, said Monday. (Reuters)

Mind you it was only last week that China and Russia were making love and military exercises togerther but only after Iran, China Eye Military Cooperation

Here we have China sending a "military delegation from China" to discusss their "mutual enemies"  

Iran received a military delegation from China, paving the way for cooperation in the defense field, Iran's Mehr News agency reported, citing Brigadier General Nasser Mohammadi Far, the commander of the Iranian army's ground forces.

Ok ok, lets see if we can tie this baby together.

First off we have the Financial Times reporting China and Russia joint exercises to strengthen ties.Nearly 10,000 troops are to take part in unprecedented joint military exercises by China and Russia this month aimed at strengthening ties between the armed forces of two powers that were once bitter foes. And.................

Russia will help Iran despite nuclear moves Russia will maintain support for Iran's nuclear program despite Tehran's decision to restart the enrichment of uranium, Russian news agencies quoted sources in Russia's atomic agency, Rosatom.

These are dangerous developments of the gravest of consequences. And if the Left in Amerca doesn't stop smoking the crack cocaine that is making their brains into mush, this long drawn out World War will be bloodier, deadlier, beyond our wildest nightmares.

A is A. What's with the playing nice? We have a world crisis on our hands. We are a hyperpower, why are we so afraid to use it. REMAKE IRAQ. Give the KURDS A HOMELAND. Take out Iran's Nukes. Prop up our Eastern European friends.

Let's play Chess for G-d's sake, the game has already begun

Here in America the terrorst organization CAIR continues to chip away at the very foundation of this country.

Muslims aim to challenge critics in America

ROSEMONT, Ill. -- In the days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, many American Muslims were fearful about leaving their homes. Months later, many remained reluctant to respond to critics who made derogatory comments about Islam or Muslim communities. Now, almost four years after the attacks, American Muslims are being urged by their leaders to answer back.

As the Plainfield-based Islamic Society of North America hosts nearly 40,000 Muslims this weekend near Chicago at its 42nd annual convention, there is plenty of talk here about how Muslims must answer their critics and, if need be, get tough with them.

At a Saturday morning seminar attended by more than 200 people, the discussion included how to apply pressure on politicians who smear the faith, the benefits of corporate boycotts and what constitutes legal grounds for defamation suits.

"The key," Corey P. Saylor, government affairs director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations told the audience, "is to not just sit back and take it."[take what for G-d's sake?- Atlas]

Already fighting on behalf of American Muslims is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, as it is commonly known. The organization, playing a prominent role at ISNA's convention, has developed a reputation for being something of a pit bull in protecting the civil rights of Muslims.

CAIR, for example, sued a North Carolina congressman after he accused the organization of acting as a fundraising arm for Hezbollah, a militant Palestinian group. The council also organized a boycott against a radio station until it fired a disc jockey who called Islam a terrorist organization. CAIR also brought considerable pressure on a Colorado lawmaker who asserted that America should take out Islam's holy sites in the event of another terrorist attack.

Arsalan T. Iftikhar, the national legal director for CAIR, said Saturday it was time for everyday Muslims to "defend the image and reputation of the community and Islam in general."

"I am here to teach you how the American Muslim community can legally empower itself to protect itself in the American courts," he said, as he went into the nuances of the limits of the First Amendment.

 

Sayyid Syeed, the secretary general of ISNA, a group generally less vocal than CAIR, earlier in the weekend said his organization is considering filing defamation lawsuits against some of its sharpest critics.
Although he declined to name the potential targets of such suits, one of the critics most often cited by Muslim leaders is Steven Emerson.

 Emerson's 1994 documentary, "Jihad in America," about radical Islamic groups operating in the United States, won a prestigious journalism award. But his credibility suffered after his on-air commentary about the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He was among the first pundits to say the bombing had the earmarks of Middle Eastern terrorism. It turned out to be the product of homegrown terrorists.

Via phone Saturday, Emerson said ISNA's interest in using defamation law amount to an effort to stifle free speech. "They are apologists for militant Islam," he said.

Iftikhar said such comments are exactly the reason Muslim groups are becoming more vigilant in responding to their critics. "That's his mantra," he said of Emerson. "He used innuendo, conjecture and defamation."

hat tip Brigitte Gabriel

while at the very same time;  Muslims ransack Christian village

Efforts were under way on Sunday to calm the situation in this Christian village east of Ramallah after an attack by hundreds of Muslim men from nearby villages left many houses and vehicles torched.

The incident began on Saturday night and lasted until early Sunday, when Palestinian Authority security forces interfered to disperse the attackers. Residents said several houses were looted and many families were forced to flee to Ramallah and other Christian villages, although no one was injured.

The attack on the village of 1,500 was triggered by the murder of a Muslim woman from the nearby village of Deir Jarir earlier this week. The 30-year-old woman, according to PA security sources, was apparently murdered by members of her family for having had a romance with a Christian man from Taiba.

"When her family discovered that she had been involved in a forbidden relationship with a Christian, they apparently forced her to drink poison," said one source. "Then they buried her without reporting her death to the relevant authorities."

When the PA security forces decided to launch an investigation into the woman's death, her family protested for fear that the relationship would be exposed. The family was further infuriated by the decision to exhume the body for autopsy.

The attack is one of the worst against Christians in the West Bank in many years. Residents said it took the PA security forces several hours to reach Taiba. Others complained that the IDF, which is in charge of overall security in the area, did not answer their desperate calls for immediate help.

 

"More than 500 Muslim men, chanting Allahu akbar [God is great], attacked us at night," said a Taiba resident. "They poured kerosene on many buildings and set them on fire. Many of the attackers broke into houses and stole furniture, jewelry and electrical appliances."

With the exception of large numbers of PA policemen, the streets of Taiba were completely deserted on Sunday as the residents remained indoors. Many torched cars littered the streets. At least 16 houses had been gutted by fire and the assailants also destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary.

 

"It was like a war, they arrived in groups, and many of them were holding clubs," said another resident.

"Some people saw them carrying weapons. They first attacked houses belonging to the Khoury family [looking for the man who had the affair with the women, not realizing he had already fled the village.] Then they went to their relatives. They entered the houses and destroyed everything there. Then they tried to enter the local beer factory, but were repelled by PA security agents.

The fire engine arrived five hours later."
Col. Tayseer Mansour, commander of the PA police in the Ramallah area, said his men arrived late because of the need to coordinate their movements with the IDF. "The delay resulted in the torching of a number of houses and cars in the village," he said.

 

Taiba, the only West Bank village that is completely inhabited by Christians, is famous for its Taiba Beer factory, which was established by the Khoury family in 1994.

The residents are Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox or Greek Catholic. The village was originally called Ephraim, and is thought to be the city to which Jesus came with his disciples before his crucifixion: "Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim" (John 11:54).

According to some accounts, Salah a-Din, who led the war against the Crusaders, was responsible for the name change. He is said to have found the villagers there to be nice and kind - in Arabic, taybeen - and the name stuck, to become Taiba.

 

Billions for Palestinian Murderers, Circle Jerk for Israel

Israel’s acting finance minister Ehud Olmert ends Washington talks without  US commitment on Israel's $2.1bn aid request for disengagement costs. Can you believe that?

“It would be strange,” Olmert said after meeting secretary of state Condoleezza Rice Wednesday “If America withheld the grant,” which Israel has sought to help defray the costs of relocating Gaza communities and army infrastructure.

Strange? Talk about understatement...........it would be perverse, depraved.

DEBKAfile’s Washington sources note that, while heaping praise on Ariel Sharon for his courage in going through with the dismantling of 25 Israeli communities, the Bush administration will hold back financial assistance until he makes good on the “understood” position. This means that the West Bank security fence must exclude Maale Adumim, Gush Etzion, the Binyamin bloc near Ramallah, Ariel and the Beit Arieh region commanding Israel’s international airport. Israel will also be asked to continue pulling back from West Bank territory.

Are they kidding? They must be kidding. Billions to those dancing in the streets on 9/11.

Caroline Glick writes eloquently and sorrowfully of the disengagement;

And so, even as our souls cry out in pain as we stare wild-eyed at the sight of 8,000 Jewish patriots, transformed in a moment into homeless, wandering Jews in the Land of Israel, our duty is to soldier on and work to preempt further destruction.

The foundational myth of the Left is that Jewish extremism, not Palestinian terrorism, is the cause of Israel's present security woes and the source of the constant wars that have plagued us since the dawn of modern Zionism. What we saw this week was that these people – whom one British reporter standing outside the synagogue in the now-ruined city of Neveh Dekalim ever so eloquently referred to last Thursday as "the hardest of the hard-line settlers" – are anything but extreme.

The expelled residents of Gush Katif – from the farmers of Atzmona, Katif, Netzarim, Netzer Hazani and Kfar Darom, the surfers and fishermen of Shirat Hayam, the Torah scholars of Neveh Dekalim and the mothers of Gadid – are not "hard-line" or "extremists." They are the finest sons and daughters of Israel. They are the bravest soldiers in the Israeli military and the most patriotic citizens that Israel has produced.

The heroism the Jews of Gaza and northern Samaria displayed in the face of their own destruction is of another order altogether. Standing before their own army, on the surface, they were faced with a terrible choice. Do they fight their countrymen to maintain their communities, or do they accept their cruel and inexplicable fate?

photo essay

and the US is playing hardball with assistance? Look at what Israel contributes to the world and to the greater good. And what have the Palestinians done? Taught the world to mercilessly murder to get anything you want. Is this what we, a free people, are advocating?

Palestinian aid boost backed, 3 Billion

The leaders of the Group of Eight gave strong support Friday to a new initiative to give $3bn a year in aid to the Palestinian authority once Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip this year.

No firm decisions on the aid package were taken at the G8 summit in Gleneagles. But diplomats from some non-UK countries suggested that significant momentum had built up among the leaders to agree a package this year.

This is on top of the 350 million Bush just gave the Palis back in February

 

WASHINGTON  — Eager to help Middle East peacemaking and combat Palestinian poverty, President Bush said Wednesday he would seek $350 million to support the Palestinians.

"The beginnings of reform and democracy in the Palestinian territories are showing the power of freedom to break old patterns of violence and failure," the president said, noting that he is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the region early next week.

He said the money would go toward political, economic and social reforms for the Palestinians. (photo: Palestinians dancing in the streets on 9/11)

I am sure President Bush would like very much to see these funds go toward political, economic and social reforms for the Palestinians, "ending poverty". But that is  self deluding. Keeping the Palis in abject poverty is the objective of Islamic Jihad as it provides a priceless marketing tool in the war against the existence of Israel.

The Arab states have done nothing, nothing to alleviate Palestinian "suffering". To the contrary they have gone out of their way to keep the Palestinians in refugee camps, in squalor,  for all these decades.

I think it is disgusting that we are playing possum with Israel. We should be ashamed of ourselves.

Israeli success in curbing Hepatitis A to be model for other countries

Israel's 'Accordion Pill' unfolds according to plan -

Using the secrets of the brain to promote scientific cooperation

Israeli breakthrough - Frozen ovarian tissue transplant reverses infertility

Israeli researchers bring nanotechnologies to life

Israeli researchers coax liver cells to produce insulin

Israeli breakthrough: Cholesterol drugs reduce risk of cancer -

Israeli technology unmasks Internet scam artists

Israeli device goes straight to the bone

Investors converge on Israel for bio-technology meet -

California VCs look to Israel for the next big thing

Israeli 'baseball' camera spies out terrorists

Israel lauded for pioneering work in VoIP

Israeli discovers way to breathe underwater without oxygen tanks

and thats just a few of the contributions Israel has made to humanity over the past couple of months. Who can the Palestinians rely on for their economy and healthcare if not Israel? Terrorist organizations like Islamic Jihad? Hamas? Hizbollah? Is that what the money is for?

Think about it.

Why isn't the New York Slime Times or the International Herald Trib All Over this story?

Billions for Jew killing, crumbs for peace

What Happened to Fifty Years of Aid Money? - Frederick Forsyth
I saw Gaza on my first visit to Israel in 1968. It was created in the same year as the UN created Israel: 1948. It was supposed to be a temporary camp for Palestinians displaced by the new Israeli state. Its inhabitants were supposed to be able to return to new plots of land inside Israel or accept a living space in the lands of their surrounding Arab "brothers." (This was 19 years before the 1967 war.) Alas, the "brothers" did precious little. Gaza had better propaganda value as a festering sore of human misery to be waved before the world. It soon became a sewage-smelling slum.
    But aid did pour in; billions of it, enough to make that tiny plot a mini Garden of Eden, a prosperous, healthy, thriving enclave beside the blue Mediterranean south of Ashkelon. Fifty years later, it was still a sewage-smelling slum, wreathed in chaos. What happened to all the money? Well, the Palestinian leadership embezzled half of it; the rest went on guns, bullets, and explosives. (Daily Express-UK)

Goodbye Gaza, Hello Hamas

It's funny (not) but when I was flying down to Florida a couple of days ago, the FOX channel wasn't working on the flight and so  I was forced to watch CNN...........yeah I had to pin my eyelids open to stop from cringing.
Anyway, it was the day before the Jews were scheduled to disengage from Gaza and all CNN kept talking about, especially that 2nd rate, C list ,numbskull Jack  Caffertywas "why should America help Israel pay for the disengagement and the resettling of the families?" (three generations mind you) torn from their homeland.

*spit*

Oh and just for knowing, Bush has agreed to half of what Israel requested.

UPDATE:  Must give props to the New Zealand Herald for this extremely even handed piece on the UN and media's  prejudice on the Pali/Israeli conflict;

Two things immediately occurred to me while reading them. The first was the astounding absence of context; the second was that the attacks were coming from representatives of an organisation whose stance on the Israeli-Arab conflict, over decades, has hardly been exemplary.

Reading the articles, one would be forgiven for thinking Israelis have had nothing better to do than bomb or shoot up Palestinian communities. The implication is that Palestinians have, as a result of their benighted circumstances, had no choice but to take up arms against their oppressors.

The story is full of holes. Why no reference to the fact that Gaza has been for years been the planning base and launch pad for hundreds of bomb, mortar and other attacks against Israelis?

And in case we've become hardened to the idea of terrorism, let's remember what it entails: body parts splattered across city streets, infants without limbs, orphaned children maimed for life.

Why have the writers ignored the fact that, far from distancing itself from attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has embraced these groups, failing to honour its commitments to dismantle the terror networks?

There's also no reference to the fact that establishing bomb factories in the midst of civilian neighbourhoods have long been favoured Palestinian extremist tactics.

Why, one wonders, did Newman fail to mention that those same traumatised Palestinian children she writes about have been subjected, through PA media outlets, school textbooks and holiday camps, to programmes inciting violence against Jews and lauding the "martyrdom" of suicide bombings.

Another missing piece: Palestinian leaders have for 10 years been responsible for administering Gaza. During that time, they have squandered millions of dollars in foreign aid - setting up a dozen security agencies, bankrolling propaganda, diverting funds to private bank accounts, buying apartments in Paris.

Then again, taking a one-sided view of the Israeli-Arab conflict is standard operating procedure for the United Nations.

amen...................thank you

 

GAZA WITHDRAWAl: "I'va Made a Deal with the Americans

And so it was said by Sharon and so it is what we will believe.

in an interview with the daily newspaper Yediot Ahronot, Ariel Sharon gave a strikingly succinct explanation of his diplomacy. "I've reached a deal with the Americans," he said. "I prefer a deal with the Americans to a deal with the Arabs."

There it is. So let's move forward and see what great can be accomplished.

 While Arab World Delights as Evictions Edge Nearer, the Arab world reacted with ill-disguised glee as Israeli soldiers confronted Jewish settlers. Al-Jazeera carried non-stop coverage of Israeli settlers weeping and waiting for the inevitable.

At the same time Israel will expect quid pro quo from the rest of the world. Israel Calls for End to Hostility at United Nations -( Bill Rigby)  Gaza  should put an end to UN hostility against Israel, Israeli UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman said on Monday. The comments echoed previous calls by Israel and the U.S. to halt the litany of anti-Israel resolutions passed by the UN General Assembly each year and dismantle the extensive bureaucracy built up around the Palestinian cause. "We hope we will see a more positive and a less combative General Assembly, recognizing that something dramatic, historic has happened," said Gillerman. (Reuters)

Frankly I see it all in Gillerman's take on it

Defense Minister Mofaz: Israel's Interests After Disengagement - A Jewish Majority with Defensible Borders
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Monday: "The State of Israel is hereby carrying out a unilateral step, however coordinated it may be. Israel must defend its security interests, which primarily are to have a Jewish state with a Jewish majority, defensible borders, and strategic depth, and to make every possible effort to strive for peace."

Obviously Hamas aka Iran doesn't. Hamas: Pullout Beginning of Israel's End
The implementation of the disengagement plan marks "the beginning of the end for Israel," Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal told the London-based al-Hayat newspaper Tuesday. "It is unthinkable that our people will renounce the resistance, which made the enemy retreat,"

Look, if that's not a call for all out war, I don't know what is. At some point, the gloves come off, with America's blessing of course.

And so it was said by Sharon and so it is what we will believe.

in an interview with the daily newspaper Yediot Ahronot, Ariel Sharon gave a strikingly succinct explanation of his diplomacy. "I've reached a deal with the Americans," he said. "I prefer a deal with the Americans to a deal with the Arabs."

There it is. So let's move forward and see what great can be accomplished.

 While Arab World Delights as Evictions Edge Nearer, the Arab world reacted with ill-disguised glee as Israeli soldiers confronted Jewish settlers. Al-Jazeera carried non-stop coverage of Israeli settlers weeping and waiting for the inevitable.

At the same time Israel will expect quid pro quo from the rest of the world. Israel Calls for End to Hostility at United Nations -( Bill Rigby)  Gaza  should put an end to UN hostility against Israel, Israeli UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman said on Monday. The comments echoed previous calls by Israel and the U.S. to halt the litany of anti-Israel resolutions passed by the UN General Assembly each year and dismantle the extensive bureaucracy built up around the Palestinian cause. "We hope we will see a more positive and a less combative General Assembly, recognizing that something dramatic, historic has happened," said Gillerman. (Reuters)

Frankly I see it all in Gillerman's take on it

Defense Minister Mofaz: Israel's Interests After Disengagement - A Jewish Majority with Defensible Borders
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Monday: "The State of Israel is hereby carrying out a unilateral step, however coordinated it may be. Israel must defend its security interests, which primarily are to have a Jewish state with a Jewish majority, defensible borders, and strategic depth, and to make every possible effort to strive for peace."

Obviously Hamas aka Iran doesn't. Hamas: Pullout Beginning of Israel's End
The implementation of the disengagement plan marks "the beginning of the end for Israel," Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal told the London-based al-Hayat newspaper Tuesday. "It is unthinkable that our people will renounce the resistance, which made the enemy retreat,"

Look, if that's not a call for all out war, I don't know what is. At some point, the gloves come off, with America's blessing of course.

I know what the Bible means when it says "woe to those who call evil good and good, evil..."

Israel Closes Gaza Strip to Israelis as Disengagement Starts
Israel's defense forces shut the Gaza Strip to Israelis at midnight Sunday as the government started the final phase of its withdrawal from the area, an army statement said. For the next two days, Israeli forces will go house-to-house and ask residents who have stayed past the deadline to evacuate peacefully. After that, the military and police will begin removing remaining settlers forcefully

Photo:  A house belonging to Yakov Mazaltarin, top, burns yesterday as he and another man prepare to leave their home near the Jewish settlement of Rafiah Yam in the southern Gaza Strip. Mazaltarin said he refused to see his property in the hands of Palestinian Arabs. David Guttenfelder / AP

Hamas Chiefs Insist Fight Goes On
Hamas leaders made a rare public appearance together Saturday in Gaza to assert the Palestinian militant group's right to continue its armed campaign against Israel. "Hamas confirms it is committed to armed resistance," Ismail Haniya said. The Hamas leaders positioned themselves in front of their green flag and draped themselves in the group's color, defying PA officials, who said on Friday that only the Palestinian flag should be used to celebrate Israel's withdrawal

Where for art thou BiBi?

Netanyahu Resigns from Government

By Hillel Fendel Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced his sudden resignation from the government this afternoon, citing the disengagement plan as dangerous and harmful to the State of Israel.

"We have reached the moment of truth," Netanyahu informed the Cabinet in a letter he left on the Cabinet table after his dramatic announcement this afternoon. "There is a way of reaching peace and security, but unilateral withdrawal - under terrorist fire, and with nothing in return - is not the way to do this. Withdrawing from Gaza will turn that area into a terror base that will endanger the country.

Less than a half-hour after the surprise announcement, the Cabinet voted by a 17-5 margin to approve the first stage of the disengagement. The three communities that are to be destroyed, according to the decision, are Kfar Darom, Netzarim and Morag.

Not good, Not good at all. The Sharansky resignation was bad enough.........and many of my readers are wildly divided on this issue as am I. But I honestly believe those borders and those bands of settlers are too hard to defend (militarily and $$$$$$$$$$).

Believe me the thought of that tiny country getting any smaller leaves me cold, dead cold. And I was dead set against Oslo. But this is different...........this is not land for peace.

I don't see it as land for peace, I see it as strategy for war................they must protect Israel first and foremost and on this I see eye to eye with Elliot Jager
And I think Bibi's timing is most unfortunate.....................I mean really. I know he wants to be Prime Minister, but not this way. This is not the time to play politics. And I expect much railing at me from my readers.

Disengagement Blues - Elliot Jager
With a heavy heart, I embrace Prime Minister Sharon's argument that the Jewish state must not rule over Gaza's 1 million hostile Palestinian Arabs in perpetuity; that Gush Katif is no longer a military asset; and that to salvage as much of Judea, Samaria - and Jerusalem - as possible, precious communities must be uprooted. Sharon claims that once the Gaza withdrawal is behind us there will be no "gestures" and no "progress" on the road map until the terrorism infrastructure is dismantled. If he holds firm, if the U.S. pro-Israel community unites behind this stance, Israel will be diplomatically better off than it is today. Disengagement allows Israel to consolidate its defensive lines. It demonstrates understanding of international public opinion, and stabilizes the home front. (Jerusalem Post)

And the man in the arena?
SHARON!
"Israel is a Peace Seeking Country"

"NO COMPROMISE
NOT NOW
NOT THE FUTURE
ON OUR SECURITY"
you may hate it, but it's a plan...........a defensible plan

Sharon, I believe he  is going against everything he ever held dear,everything he has ever believed to make Israel safe. At the end of the day, this is his objective.I know at first (second, third) glance the disengagement is hideous, but it is a boots on the ground plan. It is a REALITY plan. Close ranks, close borders, and keep the Palis out - end of story. DEVELOP ALL THAT DESERT, the Negev. If not the Jews, then who?

 

Look this is just my opinion..............

Palis fire on Israeli Protesters, Kill Palistinian toddler

and they killed their own kinder...........................you reap what you sow

My Way reports:

SDEROT, Israel (AP) - Palestinians fired rockets Tuesday at a gathering of thousands of Israeli settlers protesting the upcoming Gaza withdrawal, but missed, killing instead a 3-year-old Palestinian boy and wounding nine other Palestinians in Gaza.

Among the wounded were five children, aged 4 to 11, including four children of Hisham Abdel Razek, a senior official in the ruling Fatah party and a former Palestinian Cabinet minister. Abdel Razek's wife was also injured.

The dead boy was identified as Yasser Adnan Ashkar, who was killed when one of the stray rockets hit his family's home in Beit Hanoun, northeast of Gaza City. His 11-year-old brother was in critical condition. Abdel Razek's family was visiting at the time, witnesses said.

Now keep telling me it's about the Palis wanting their own land and not about the elimination of Israel.

Conflicts of Interest - Martin Peretz
Given the world's being so enthusiastically taken in by Arafat, given the forked tongues of the present Palestinian leadership, one issue for Israel is: Can the Palestinians be trusted? Frankly, it's hard to find many people who'd answer in the affirmative. News has trickled out about details of Condoleezza Rice's demands on Israel, which apparently include that it supply the PA with weapons and ammunition. And who exactly will guarantee that these will not fall into the hands of the legions of habitual terrorists who nestle in the PA's militias or that they won't simply be passed on to the pious murderers of Hamas and Islamic Jihad?
    The PA has so many times obliged itself to Bill Clinton, George Bush, and the Israelis to stop official incitement against Jews and Israel. But the most grotesque and genocide-provoking hatred for the Jewish people and their state continues to flood the official marketplace of what you might not want to call ideas. I've known this for years, and American journalists have known it for years, but it has gone largely unreported. It's not their kind of story because it ruins the story of Palestinian moderation, to which so many reporters, columnists, and editorialists are wed. (New Republic)

Read more about the Palis over at Garbanzo Toons................he's good

Empirical evdence of the MSM, Alphabets blatant Jew Hate

This just in from always unbiased  CBS news:

Behind Israel's "Disengagement" [their quotes not mine]

But Israel isn’t really disengaging from the Palestinians at all, not even in Gaza, where, if all goes to plan, there won’t be a single Israeli settlement by the end of the summer. Israel will still hold the keys to Gaza, control its borders, its airspace and access to the sea. Palestinians have long described the Gaza Strip as the world’s biggest prison. Disengagement won’t change that. The prison guards will just be manning the walls instead of walking the cellblock corridors.

 

Give him a a NOBEL Peace prize no less

The September 2005 Atlantic Monthly magazine

"In a Ruined Country: How Yasir Arafat destroyed Palestine."  Through interviews with numerous people who were close to Arafat or who had dealt with him for many years, the picture of Arafat that emerges is one of a man utterly committed to the eventual destruction of Israel (peace negotiations notwithstanding), but equally obsessed with amassing power for himself through incitement, intimidation, violence, chaos and corruption. Arafat's cronies also make clear that Arafat initiated and/or funded and was intimately involved in much of the terror against Israelis not only in the 60's and 70's, but also post-Oslo, in the 90's and 00's. Samuels also provides readers with what some might perceive to be troubling information about current Palestinian leaders such as Mahmoud Abbas and Mohammed Dahlan

What We Can Do Instead Of Bombing Mecca

Jihad Watch.org

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald offers some suggestions of what we can do to defend human rights and resist the jihad threat, in the wake of Congressman Tancredo's remarks:

It would have been better to make the following point: during the Cold War, the Soviet rulers knew that if they did certain things, certain things would be done by NATO or the American government. And the knowledge of what might be done, would be done, in return, helped prevent the Soviet rulers from doing what they might otherwise have done.

So it would be helpful to make suggestions as to what would constitute deterrence. These might include, not destroying Mecca, which would cause maddened Muslims everywhere to attack and kill Infidels -- and the problem with Islam is that it contains many elements of a violent cult that cannot be wished away, or hidden any longer. Are maddened millions or tens of millions or hundreds of millions of inconsolable Muslims, for whom Mecca no longer exists, and so with nothing further to lose, what we wish to bring into being? No. But the idea of discussing possible means of deterrence, not of the determined suicide-bomber, but of all those who have helped to fund mosques and madrasas, or to supply the emotional and financial and intellectual support system (including the continued smooth practitioners of taqiyya-and-kitman in the West), and who can be threatened in all sorts of ways.

More sober discussion of how, for example, points of entry and exit into Mecca, could systematically be reduced in number, or airfields used by pilgrims made unusable, is a different suggestion, one that has many advantages, in that it is an incremental response: first this quadrant is closed off, and now this one, and so on.

It is now clear to Muslims in the West, or to some of them, that their assumption about continued Western appeasement, based on continued misunderstanding of Islam by Infidels was wrong. The EU's foreign policy is still in place, but Bat Ye'or's "Eurabia" is circulating -- even at the highest levels of the Pentagon. Eventually, terror, used as an instrument of Jihad, will alert enough Infidels to the permanent problem of Jihad, of all the instruments of Jihad, including that of demographic conquest and Da'wa, and lead inexorably to an understanding that the Muslims in their midst, allowed in by political elites who were either indifferent, or mesmerized by the Idols of the Age, those unexamined assumptions about how Everyone Wants the Same Thing and All Religions Are Alike. Those Muslims may be "moderate" or "immoderate," and the "moderation" may be real, or feigned, permanent or temporary, immune to, or susceptible to, being jettisoned whenever setbacks or depressive fits or any of the ills that flesh and spirit are heir to, may cause a "moderate" Muslim, or even a "Muslim-for-identification-purposes-only" Muslim, to throw off that "moderation" and morph in Jekyll-into-Hyde fashion, into someone ready to blame the Infidels. There have been quite a few examples of such outwardly "moderate" people changing their beliefs and hence their behavior, as a response not so much to political or geopolitical events, but to personal setbacks, emotional disarray. When the universe is viewed through the prism of Islam, it is the Infidels who always wear black.

Discussion of measures that might truly curb, for example, the Saudi money that pours into the Western world, and funds mosques everywhere, all over that world, and madrasas all over the dar al-Islam, and that is furthermore used to buy an army of hirelings, non-Muslim apologists for islam, should be undertaken - out in the open so that Infidel publics can be made aware of the size of the problem.

Deterrent measures, that could be undertaken without waiting in some cases for any further attacks (but further attacks will help to justify the more far-reaching among them) might include, but not be limited to:

 

1) Seizure of Saudi-owned assets in the West, and sale of such assets to pay for the economic damage, including the cost of surveillance and other security measures, that are attributable to Saudi-funded mosques, madrasas, and propaganda all over the world.

2) Seizure of other Arab-owned or Muslim-owned assets in the West, for the same reasons. There need not be any distinction made between property owned by governments and those who are deemed to be enemy nationals -- no such distinction was made during World War II.

3) A complete ban on Muslim migration to the Western world (which needs to be undertaken in any case), and limits put on any contact between Muslims living in the West, who may already have obtained ciizenship and -- unless they are native-born converts -- their countries of origin.

4) Careful review of how citizenship is obtained, and what oaths of loyalty are administered, and if those oaths can possibly have been meant by those whose sole loyalty, by the very tenets of their belief-system, can only be to Islam and the Community of Believers, the umma al-islamiyya.

5) Government-sponsored centers to teach people about Islam outside of universities, which all over the Western world have been infiltrated, or rather captured by, apologists for Islam both Muslim and non-Muslim.

The study of Arabic under teachers whom the Infidel governments will deliberately find among Arabic-speaking non-Muslims, chiefly from those populations most likely not to supply subtle apologists for Islam - Maronites, Copts, disaffected Berbers, Arabic-speaking Jews. A knowledge of Arabic is not required for an understanding of Islam 80% of the world's Muslims do not speak or read Arabic but have no difficulty knowing what Islam is all about. But it can be of help in studying the history of Jihad-conquest, and certainly it can be of help in debates with Muslims who accuse one of "not understanding Islam without a knowledge of Arabic." Nonsense, of course, but nonsense more convincingly refused if someone has studied Arabic.

6) War-footing (i.e., Manhattan Project support) for solar and wind and nuclear energy projects, for conservation, and for mass transit, including that such as Amtrak which loses money, but should be cheerfully subsidized by an intelligent government bent, even hellbent, on diminishing OPEC oil revenues.

7) An end to all outward and visible signs of rhetorical "respect" for Islam, including the studied refusal to mention "Islmaic terrorism" or "Muslim terrorism" which has gone on for too long. Use these adjectives; never let them go. Use the word "jihad." Stop all attempts at verbal escamotage, where the listener is left, puzzled, dissatisfied with the deliberate vagueness.

 

8) End all access to Western education, not only for those Arabs and Muslims studying any kind of science, but in every area. Attempting the hopeless project of "educating them" out of their belief-system will not work. Many terrorists have lived in the West, seen the West, studied in the West, taught in the West. Dr. A. Q. Khan did "research" in the West - and we know the results of that research. Muslims in Western universities are dangerous to Infidel wellbeing, not only because of the women they marry and cause to convert (to the subsequent sorrow of many), but because they are, with the odd exception, likely to conduct Da'wa and promote the geopolitics of Islam. Past masters at taqiyya-and-kitman, they should be regarded as akin to enemy agents, promoting a belief-system that means Infidel political and social arrangements and assumptions no good.

Condemning them to the solitary confinement of dar al-Islam will cause a concentration of minds.

9) End all access to the Western world for the children of the ruling elites all over the Muslim world. Without this escape hatch, those rulers will have to begin to consider how to ameliorate things in their own countries.

10) End the jizyah of Infidel aid to Muslim states, such as Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, and whatever the latest political instrument of the shock troops of the Jihad against Israel, the "Palestinians," may be called. Call attention to the $10 trillion that has already been recdeived by the Muslim members of OPEC in the last 1/3 century, and continue to advise those Pakistanis, Egyptians, Jordanians and "Palestinians" to ask for that aid no longer from the Infidels, who suddenly have to pay higher prices for oil and hundreds of billions more for security all over the Western world, but to those Arab and Muslim states that, not coincidentally, are receiving those hundreds of billions more in oil revenues each year.

11) Keep the focus clearly on the belief-system of Islam and on Jihad. And after the next small terrorist attack on Infidels -- say, 10 killed - begin to legislate to make sure that some of the measures suggested above become not merely ideas but the law.

12) Clean out the taxpayer-funded government radio and television stations of those who have so misled us about Islam over the past 20-30 years. Begin, possibly, by firing John Simpson, the deeply, even conspiratorially, anti-Israel and islamophilic head of the BBC World Affairs broadcasting, the same John Simpson (a close friend of Peter Hounam, whose conspiracy book about Israel is the kind of thing that antisemites love to flog) who described the Muslim bombers in London as "misguided criminals." That should have been enough to cause his discharge. Why wasn't it? What will it take for the long-suffering British license-payers to demand a change in the BBC coverage and, even before that, iin the personnel in charge of reporting on the Middle East and Islam? This domestic Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose business, where one need not even bother to turn the dial to Radio Berlin or Radio Tokyo to hear the sly propaganda, has to stop.

These are things that can be done, should be done, long before suggestions about "bombing Mecca" need to be bruited about.

Talk of attacking Mecca, instead of concentrating on more plausible suggestions (which do include limiting easy access to Mecca, something which the Saudis already do in limiting the number of visitors), is not likely to be helpful.

Isolate from who? Their intended Murder Victims????

Israeli Cabinet OKs Jerusalem Barrier
AP via Yahoo! News Sun, 10 Jul 2005 7:38 AM PDT
Israel's Cabinet on Sunday gave final approval to a Jerusalem separation barrier meant to stop suicide bombers, over strident Palestinian objections and U.S. misgivings because it will isolate thousands of Palestinians.

JewKilling ok, Everything Else is Terror *SPIT*

In the wake of the attacks, The (UK) Sun published a roundup of Islamic terrorism 'across the world over the last decade' ― complete with map. Guess which Mideast country that has absorbed hundreds of Islamist attacks during this period does not appear in the Sun's account?

It seems that editors at The Sun don't consider the nearly 1000 Israeli civilian victims of Islamic terror worthy of mention as any one of the 'worst atrocities' for the past 12 years.

Comments to: talkback@the-sun.co.uk, letters@the-sun.co.uk

hat tip Honest Reporting

UPDATE
Thought that you'd like to know that the Sun now
prefaces their "Timeline of Terror"
(http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005310401,00.html)

with the following:

We have not included the unforgivable Palestinian terror attacks and suicide bombings in Israel due to their sheer number

hat tip: Aryeh
Modi'in Israel.

[for me it's too little  too late, talkabout weak excuses - but hey thats just me.
I am thankful they did it though - Atlas].

Has someone told Bono that one Palestinian is worth 23 Africans?

According to the G-8 Summit players, that seems to be the message that no one wants to admit.  But look at the numbers from this article on FOX News.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161892,00.html 

With a last-minute pledge from Japan, Blair won a key victory — a promise to boost Africa aid to $50 billion annually by 2010, from the current $25 billion....

G-8 members pledged up to $3 billion a year for three years, or up $9 billion total, much of it in the form of private investments, to help energize the Palestinian economy and create conditions more conducive to getting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process back on track.

According to Microsoft Encarta, there are approximately 800 million Africans.  There are approximately 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.  Keep those numbers in mind.

 

The G-8 is agreeing to boost aid to Africa from $25 billion annually up to $50 billion annually by 2010.  That's five years from now before they reach their goal.  So they probably won't be getting more than than an average of $35 billion a year over the next 3 years.  That represents $44 a year per African or $131 per person over the next three years.  There are numerous conflicting estimates of African GDP, anywhere from $700 billion to $1.6 trillion.  Let's assume it to be $1 trillion a year.  That places African GDP/capita at $1250 a year.  So the Africans will be getting a 4% pay raise.  Wow.

 

The Palestinians, however, got a much better deal.  Even though they have a so-called elected government that has yet to stop terrorist activity, the 3 million Palestinians in so-called "Palestine" will receive $3 billion a year over the next three years.  That works out to $1000 of yearly aid to each Palestinian or $3000 over the next three years for each Palestinian.  Mind you that the Palestinian GDP per capita is only about $1000 to start with, so the G-8 is promising to immediately double the Palestinian GDP per capita.  Go ahead, check the math.

 

People Receiving Aid	Africans	Palestinians
Population	800,000,000	3,000,000
Yearly Aid (estimate)	$ 35,000,000,000	$ 3,000,000,000
Aid / Capita	$ 44	$ 1,000
# of Years	3	3
3 Year Aid / Capita	$ 131	$ 3,000
Palestinians/Africans Multiple		23
GDP (approximation)	$1,000,000,000,000	$ 3,000,000,000
GDP per Capita	$ 1,250	$ 1,000
Aid as % of GDP/Capita	4%	100%

 

 

So the Palestinians will get 23 times the financial aid as the typical African.  It makes you wonder how these G-8 Leaders can stand there at Gleneagles and say they are against terrorism and sign on to this agreement.  The Palestinians have done nothing but terrorize and yet we keep rewarding them.  This agreement is yet another stunning embarrassment for "Soft Power" diplomacy.

 

 

hat tip TimMcD - Tim, you are so smart

'My dream was to be a suicide bomber. I wanted to kill 20, 50 Jews. Yes, even babies'

This is what we are up against, this is what we are attempting to reason with, negotiate with, "make whole"....................it aint good. I ran a piece on this human filth earlier in the week focusing on how the enemy exploits the kindness of Israeli society to commit acts of terror, and how that startling revelation is virtually ignored by the MSM.
In this article meet the lowlife behind the evil............

'My dream was to be a suicide bomber. I wanted to kill 20, 50 Jews. Yes, even babies'
By Manuela Dviri in Tel Aviv

When a soldier asked her to remove her long, dark cloak, she turned to face him. All her movements were taped by the military surveillance camera at the checkpoint: calmly, deliberately, she took off her clothing, item by item, until she looked like any normal young woman in T-shirt and jeans. It was then that she tried to set off the belt containing 20lb of explosives hidden beneath her trousers. To her horror, she did not succeed. Desperate, she clawed at her face, screaming. She was still alive, she realised. She had failed her martyrdom mission.

That afternoon, on June 21, the 21-year-old, Wafa Samir al-Biss, was brought before the press by Israeli intelligence. Her neck and hands were covered with scars caused by a kitchen gas explosion six months earlier. The ugly scars - which had been treated in a hospital in Israel - had probably helped turn her into the perfect would-be huriia (virgin), the ideal martyr, since they would make it difficult for her to find a suitable husband.

According to the Israeli doctor who attended Wafa at the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, she received blood transfusions during her treatment. "I told her, with a laugh, that now she has Jewish blood in her veins," he said, adding sadly that she had "seemed so nice - we got a lovely thank you letter from her family.''

Wafa had been sent on her mission by the Abu Rish Brigade, the small militant faction with links to Fatah. She did not, she said later, regret it, though she stressed that her decision had had nothing to do with her scarring. "My dream was to be a martyr. I believe in death," she said. "Today I wanted to blow myself up in a hospital, maybe even in the one in which I was treated. But since lots of Arabs come to be treated there, I decided I would go to another, maybe the Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv. I wanted to kill 20, 50 Jews …''

hat tip Ms.Mordin

 

If this doesn't provoke a resurrection............

After the desecration of the churches in Bethelem and the latest reports of atrocities committed against the Christians of Bethlehem, this news items sickens me....................

Bethlehem to be Handed Over to PA Next Week - Margot Dudkevitch
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz on Thursday ordered the army to prepare to hand over to Palestinian security control the West Bank cities of Bethlehem next week and Kalkilya the week after. Mofaz stressed the need for the Palestinians to disarm all fugitives and ensure they sign a pledge to refrain from terrorist activities.
    Palestinian officials said on Thursday that hundreds of Nablus gunmen would move into the Palestinian police forces as a way of bringing them under control. The officials said that under the tentative agreement, 700 gunmen would be absorbed into the security services. However, Palestinians admitted that even with the Nablus accord, large-scale collection of weapons is not on the horizon. (Jerusalem Post)

The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same and Abused Children become Bloody Murderers

Yesterday June 1970

Today June 2005

PA Television Continues to Teach Children to Become "Martyrs" Arab Press

The Palestinian Authority continues to promote “martyrdom” in its state-produced children’s television programs, according to a report by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).

“Shahada, or death for Allah, has been the backbone of the Palestinian Authority's messages to its children since the start of the terror war in September 2000," states the Wednesday report. "Although the number of these messages has been reduced in recent months, the promotion and glorification of child Shahada continues nonetheless, as seen this week on PA TV.”

The report cites a broadcast of a PA TV series named “The Palestinian Diaspora.” The series is presented daily as a factual portrayal of history. Though throughout the series, Israel's creation and ongoing existence have been presented as injustices that must be fought, this past week’s episode honed in on the issue of child martyrdom.

Click here to view the clip from the show

This week’s episode, set in 1956, shows Arabs mourning Israel's existence. A 12-year-old refugee is shown reading his uncle a story he wrote.

“The scene has two explicit messages,” write PMW’s Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook. “[They are:] A child should be willing and anxious to fight and die in order to destroy Israel, [and that] Arab 'refugees' can never resettle, but must 'return' to Israel.”

An excerpt from the clip, broadcast on PA TV on June 16:

[The scene opens with the 12-year-old boy's friend writing, "I shall return" over a map he drew of “Palestine,” covering all of Israel]

12-year-old Arab Boy: "His mother cried and said, 'My son! Swear to me! Don't leave me alone…! I'm afraid you will be killed.'

"Her son said to her, 'Don't cry, my mother! Let me go and fight for the sake of the homeland. The enemy stole our beautiful land… We all must fight in order to redeem the lost paradise… We lived in joy and happiness, until the foreign enemy [Israel] came and expelled us from our land, and we became refugees in tents. But we will return, by Allah's will!'

"His mother told him, 'Farewell, my son. Allah be with you.' He kissed her and left to fight, and fought until he became a Shahid [martyr for Allah]."

The Boy’s Uncle: "...Let me ask you, if they come and tell you, ‘we will give you a very big house, a car, land and money, just resettle!’ Would you agree?"

Boy: "No!"

Uncle: "...the homeland is greater than individual possessions."

The Back Story should be the FRONT story: Palestinians Attempt to Exploit Those in Need of Medical Treatment

Aryeh sends me this link (excellent blog  btw, on why Abu Mazzan should be arrested).
and then Aryeh assumes correctly:

I assume that you've  heard, but in case you haven't, a 21 year old young Palestinian woman who was being admitted to Israel so that Israeli doctors could treat her for serious burns all over her body (as a result of a home accident), decided to repay their generosity by bringing the Israeli army 20 pounds of ammunition. She strapped this gift to her body and intended to blow herself up with as many civilians as she could.

Now she's under arrest which is a shame for her becuase if she had succeeded in blowing herself up there'd no doubt be a street sign bearing her name andmaybe even a soccer team named after her.  By now Amnesty International would be condemning the barbaric Israelis who could allow a young woman to be driven tothis ghoulish behavior.  After all, it is our fault,right

Female Palestinian Suicide Bomber Planned to Blow Up Israeli Hospital

Wafa al-Bas, 21, arrested on Monday at a Gaza checkpoint, planned to blow herself up in an Israeli hospital. Israeli officials said Bas was burned in a cooking accident five months ago and had received treatment on humanitarian grounds at Beersheba hospital. She was making another trip for follow-up treatment but planned to blow herself up instead. In an interview shown on Israeli television, Bas said her "dream was to be a martyr." She said she was recruited by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - an off-shoot of Palestinian leader Abbas' Fatah faction. Later, she pleaded for mercy because she "didn't kill anyone."  (BBC)
    The Shin Bet received a tip that Fatah was planning to send Bas on a suicide mission via one of the Gaza Strip crossings. Israel gave the PA and Chairman Mahmoud Abbas detailed information of the plan, but the PA did nothing. (Ha'aretz)
    Security forces were alerted when the biometric screener at the terminal crossing revealed that Bas was wearing 10 kilograms of explosives. She then attempted several times to detonate the explosives but failed. She said she had intended to blow up in a "crowded area in the hospital." A senior Israeli security official pointed out that human rights groups have criticized Israel in the past for carrying out inspections on Palestinians requiring medical treatment in Israel. (Jerusalem Post)
    See also Palestinians Attempt to Exploit Those in Need of Medical Treatment (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

This is the real news. The ignored, swept under the bloody rug news. The Amnesty International, UN, Eyrabia, calling Israelis Nazis, news. The real story for you isPalestinians Attempt to Exploit Those in Need of Medical Treatment.

Please for a moment..............sit back, close your eyes inhale through your nostrils and think about this  irrefutable truth. And then think about what you read in the papers and see on the alphabets (abc,cBS, commienewsnetwork etc.)

THIS IS THE FIGHT BOILED DOWN TO IT'S ESSENTIAL OILS.......................>

He Must Be Doing Something Right If They are Trying to Kill Him, eh?

Palestinian Gunman Fires on Palestinian Prime Minister - Eric Silver
A Palestinian gunman opened fire for two minutes Wednesday with an M-16 automatic rifle on a sports club in Balata near the West Bank town of Nablus where Ahmad Qurei, the Palestinian prime minister, was holding a meeting. As Qurei was beating a hasty retreat in his official car, an explosion was heard about 300 meters away. The prime minister had come to appeal for a return to law and order.
    The gunman, Mahmoud Hatib, a 21-year-old member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, affiliated with the mainstream al-Fatah movement, was recently released from an Israeli jail.

It was only a matter of time...blame the Jooos

It had to happen right?
from my peops over at Honest reporting:

In the wake of Newsweek's now-retracted Guantanamo Bay Koran toilet abuse story, Palestinian prisoners have floated their own version to the western press.

On June 7, The Scotsman headlined: 'Israeli Soldiers 'Desecrated Koran During Riot''. Reports on this unfounded claim from Israel's Megiddo prison (including these Associated Press and Reuters versions) included a refutation from the Israeli Prisons Authority, but the media-fueled rumors were enough to spark violent protests and public burnings of American and Israeli flags in faraway Muslim communities.

And now, this:

This rehashing of an ancient anti-Semitic blood libel appeared prominently on GoogleNews.

Throughout the Arafat years, Palestinian spokespersons fed similar items to the western press, such as claims Israel deployed radioactive uranium against Palestinian protestors, and Suha Arafat's accusation in the presence of Hillary Clinton (pictured) that the IDF made 'extensive use of poisonous gas... which has led to an increase in cancer cases among women and children.'

A senior Israeli official said the cancer juice case reminds him of 'the same types of lies Yasser Arafat used to spread.' As documented in a JCPA report, those included accusations that Israel disseminated bubble gum that sterilized Palestinian girls and sent AIDS-infected prostitutes to infect Palestinian men.

We understand that Google uses an automated algorithm to filter news search results, but as HR has repeatedly indicated, this system is deeply flawed and lends itself to promulgating such absurd propaganda.

Comments to GoogleNews: news-feedback@google.com

this is only the beginning, believe me. Once they saw how successful the left wing media in America and worldwide aided and abetted the enemy, nothing will stop this.

Crossposted at blog brother Lance over at RedStateRant.... a Cotillion afficionado

Palis Won't Disarm and AID IRAQI TERRORISTS! So let's give them $350 million!

WHAT DO THEY TAKE US FOR?

APPEASERS! That's what they take us for!
It is an insult that they continue to purport the same tired lies and expect us to feed at the trough of mendacity (did I just say that?)
Kidwa, mishpacha to Yasser Arafat, said the Palestinian groups had the right to keep their weapons as long as the occupation continued..........it must be so empowering to say what you what, kill who you want, answer to no one, break any and all rules of any agreements, terrorize innocent Jews, fund and train Iraqi terrorists and GET RESPECT, EMPATHY AND LAND........I know I know, we take the moral high ground *SPIT*.

Their problem is they mistake our kindness for schmuckiness............that too will come to an end.

Palestinian Authority "Won't Disarm Gunmen until Occupation Ends" by Khaled Abu Toameh
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Nasser al-Kidwa (pictured, right) declared on Saturday that the PA had no intention of disarming Palestinian militias as demanded by the road map. Kidwa, a nephew of Yasser Arafat, said the Palestinian groups had the right to keep their weapons as long as the occupation continued. "Using arms under occupation is legal," he explained. Kidwa's statements stand in sharp contrast to promises made by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to confiscate "illegal" weapons from Palestinian groups and individuals. (Jerusalem Post)

tell me why we are sending the Palis 350 million? to kill our boys?

Palestinians aid Iraqi terrorists

Rockets, explosives improvements shared with U.S. enemy

Israeli military intelligence is collecting new information on the development of Palestinian weapon systems dubbed "the new age of Qassam rockets."

Various Palestinian groups, including the Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the Islamic Jihad, The Islamic Movement – Hamas and the Tanzim, have improved the range of their Qassam surface-to-surface rockets and have developed special anti-armor explosive charges.

Information about these developments was caught on the Internet including messages sent to jihadists in Iraq on how to destroy Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and other U.S.-made armored personnel carriers.

Some of the information comes from jihad supporters in Europe, predominantly in the U.K., but also from Islamic blog operators in North America.


 

Lets Have Peace--RELEASE CONVICTED MURDERING RADICAL ISLAMISTS!

So this is what we have to do to make peace with the Palis? Please someone pinch me really hard because this has got to be a nightmare. Can someone look as this and actually make sense of it?  WTF has really changed?

Palestinians Release Two Islamic Militants
AP via Yahoo! News Sat, 11 Jun 2005 2:55 AM PDT
The Palestinian Authority released two militants jailed in connection with a Tel Aviv suicide bombing, making a conciliatory gesture intended to ensure the Islamic Jihad militant group abides by the truce with Israel, Palestinian officials said Friday.

But but but.............they want PEACE, Religion of Peace

It seems we (the free world) have given the jihadists enough time to rearm, demilitarize, resupply their splodydopes and are ready for the battle. BUILD THAT WALL ISRAEL O'ISRAEL! Lockdown and let the carpet bombing begin, do the world's dirty work. Bush and Condi, cannot, must not equivocate on this..............hey there's the  ticket for '08, Condi, Bush - anybody out there know if a President can run as Vice-President (bet he can't).

Jihad Leader: "Calm" is Over - Khaled Abu Toameh and Arieh O'Sullivan
The period of calm is over and the Palestinians should be prepared to resume their attacks on Israel, senior Gaza Islamic Jihad leader Khaled al-Batsh said Tuesday. Islamic Jihad was one of the few Palestinian groups that had refused to accept the tahdiah (calm) agreement that was reached in Cairo in February. (Jerusalem Post)

But but but but, what they really want is PEACE

who are we kidding here? And Bush thinks they are going to disarm? This hateful disengagement (remember I was never for OSLO  - hated LAND FOR PEACE)  because it was a lie, a delusion, but I honestly think it is lockdown time. LOCKDOWN the country, secure the borders, build a wall and KILL anyone that attempts any harm.................NEXT!
And if that doesn't work, take all that goddamn land back.

Palestinians Fire Rockets at South Israel

JERUSALEM - Palestinians fired three Qassam rockets at southern Israel on Tuesday, hitting one home, while Israeli soldiers traded fire with a Palestinian fugitive holed up in a house in the northern West Bank, the Israeli army said.

The violence came a day after Palestinians and Israeli police scuffled at a contentious holy site in Jerusalem, which has been a flashpoint during the conflict.
[I did a post on this ARAB STONE JEWS]

Hamas militants claimed responsibility for the rocket attack on the Israeli city of Sderot. No injuries were reported.

Hamas said the attack was retaliation for a visit by Jews on Monday to the Jerusalem holy site that was home to the biblical Jewish Temples and to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine. A confrontation broke out when Muslim worshippers threw stones at the Jewish visitors and Israeli police responded with stun grenades.

ARABS STONE JEWS

*SPIT* These stories make me sick.......and the lucid, pragmatic manner in which the media delivers them is even more perverse As opposed to the deafening shrill ravings of an unhinged media reporting on Israel (remember Jenin, 23 soldiers dead, 53 Palis and the Israelis would not use air cover so that they might avoid civilian casualites -ugh) Taking the moral highground is one thing, sacrificing even one Jewish life is too much (particularly when it's all pali propaganda anyway).

Temple Mount: Arabs stone police, Jews

In a new burst of violence, several hundred Arabs pelted police and Jewish visitors with stones on the Temple Mount Monday, lightly injuring two Jewish visitors and a police officer, as the nation marked Jerusalem Day and the reunification of the capital thirty-eight years ago.

The violence broke out at 9:15 a.m. as a small group of Jewish visitors who were touring the ancient compound accompanied by police came under a hail of stones.

and Bush is making nice with Hamas? Please tell me its an end run tactic, please tell me it is part of some grand strategy to take Hamas and Hizbollah down...........anything else is incomprehensible
Reluctant U.S. Shows Signs of Shift on Hamas - Adam Entous
The Bush administration is showing signs of easing its hard-line approach toward Hamas, in response to the militant group's rising political clout in the Palestinian territories and appeals for flexibility from European allies, officials and diplomats said. The White House acceded to Hamas running candidates in Palestinian elections, even though the group has refused to disarm and Washington lists it as a major terrorist organization. Senior administration officials said they may be open to contacts with some of Hamas's political affiliates, and would not rule out dealings with the group if it gave up its weapons and ended violence.
    The White House said President Bush has not changed his view that Hamas is a terrorist group that must be disarmed. "We're not acquiescing," a senior administration official said. "We do not deal with...terrorists." But the official added: "How do you pursue this without limiting democratic choices?" Another senior official called it a shift in emphasis, not policy. It could be reversed if Hamas-sponsored violence escalated, experts said. (Reuters)

UH..........do we bother to call Amnesty International?

How about Amnesty saves some lives?
Oh nooooooooooooo they can't! They are too busy calling Gitmo a Gulag despite the three squares, religious freedom and taxpayer funded free Korans provided for all.
And they must be swamped with Israeli War crimes, they can't be bothered with the little things...........
Don't the Palis just take these poor guys and shoot them in the street to "send a message"?

Israel Works to Prevent PA Execution of 50 Collaborators - Yuval Yoaz
Israel has gone to great lengths to prevent the PA from executing approximately 50 Palestinians convicted of collaborating with Israel. Israel approached U.S. Ambassador Dan Kurtzer on the matter, and went ahead with the release of Palestinian security prisoners last Thursday only after the PA said it did not intend to carry out the sentences. (Ha'aretz)

We Have Eyes, But Will Not See

I smell war
I smell terror
I know I know, I am such a KILLJOY. Everyone is chit chatting PEACE PEACE PEACE PEACE PEACE PEACE like chickens in a chicken coop but so many developments point to just the opposite:

Syria Tests Scud Missiles

"Syria test-fired three Scud missiles last Friday, including one that broke up over Turkish territory and showered missile parts down onto unsuspecting Turkish farmers, Israeli military officials revealed Thursday. Syria test-fired three Scud missiles  late last week, reinforcing Israeli worries about Damascus' ability to deliver a missile-borne chemical attack against Israeli civilian targets, Israeli military officials said Friday. " The New York Times reports. In the Cato Policy Analysis "The Syria Accountability Act: Taking the Wrong Road to Damascus," United Press International foreign editor Claude Salhani writes: "The Syria Accountability Act leads in the wrong direction in the fight against anti-American terrorists by escalating an unnecessary conflict in the Middle East that will only strengthen those who wish us harm.

Israeli military officials said they interpreted the launchings as a gesture of defiance to the U.S. and UN by Syrian president Bashir al-Assad. "This is really putting your fingers in the eyes of the Americans, saying, 'I'm not dancing to your flute,'" a senior Israeli military official said. "The tests are probably needed for the missile project, but this is Bashir taking a risk here and sending a message."
    Syria harbors the leadership of the Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad and helps them, as well as the Iranian-sponsored Hizballah, with money, arms, and sponsorship. "The message from Syria to the Palestinians is not to stop shooting," a senior Israeli official said. (New York Times)

Kurdish Cleric Murdered in Syria a Moderate Voice of Change - Paul Koring
The lifeless body of outspoken Kurdish cleric Sheik Machouk Alkhaznawi was returned to his family in Syria on Wednesday, three weeks after he went missing. Amnesty International and members of the Kurdish Democratic Party said he was killed by authorities, citing evidence of torture on the body. Days before his disappearance, Globe and Mail correspondent Paul Koring interviewed Alkhaznawi in Damascus for a story about Syria's newly emboldened political dissidents. "Either the regime will change, or the regime must go," he said in the interview. Engaging, passionate, inspiring, and funny, Alkhaznawi was every despot's worst nightmare. He was a champion of tolerance, respect between Arabs and Kurds, and the compatibility of democracy and Islam. (Globe and Mail-Canada)

U.S. Calls Killing of Anti-Syrian Lebanese Journalist "Heinous"
The U.S. condemned the killing of a prominent anti-Syrian Lebanese journalist in a bombing Thursday in Beirut. "It's a heinous act," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said of the killing of Samir Kassir, 45, an editorial writer for the Lebanese An-Nahar newspaper and a frequent commentator on Alhurra, the U.S.-funded, Arabic-language satellite television channel. Kassir helped found Lebanon's Democratic Left movement, a main force behind the protests that led to Syria's withdrawal from Lebanon. (Bloomberg)
    See also Lebanese Enraged by Kassir Murder Point Fingers at Syria - Jessy Chahine
At the scene of Samir Kassir's assassination, angry crowds accused Lebanon's pro-Syrian regime of murdering opposition journalist Samir Kassir. "Assassins! Agents of Syrian corruption! Who will be the next victim?" they yelled. Kassir, who had an eloquent way with words that made him one of the widest-read writers in Lebanon, authored countless fiery editorials against Syria's tutelage over Lebanon during his lifetime. (Daily Star-Lebanon)

According to 'The Oslo Syndrome'
By Center for Security Policy
FrontPageMagazine.com Terrorist organizations are not being dismantled by Abbas. Instead, groups like Hamas with the avowed mission of destroying Israel are ascendant. They are winning local elections and taking full advantage of the "hudna" (temporary suspension of hostilities) to rebuild their offensive capabilities against Israel.

Hamas and other terrorists are being integrated into Palestinian security forces, receiving valuable training and even arms from American and European personnel. In addition, burgeoning quantities of ever-more powerful weapons are being smuggled into Gaza from Egypt.

Meanwhile, Palestinians are being encouraged by official imams whose sermons are broadcast on Abbas-controlled media to kill Jews and destroy America. For example, less than two weeks before Mr. Bush welcomed Abu Mazen to the White House, Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris claimed on Palestinian Authority TV that history showed the torture, exile and murder of Jews to be legitimate and the Muslim conquest of the United States inevitable.

If the evidence is so clear that the Palestinian state Abu Mazen is a-building will be but a new state-sponsor of terror, how could President Bush - who in June 2002 rejected that prospect and has devoted his presidency to eliminating such sponsors - possibly be turning a blind eye to the facts on the ground? How could he be insisting that Israel make still further territorial and political concessions, including over Jerusalem, let alone be handing over directly to the Palestinian Authority $50 million in U.S. taxpayers' funds?

I have seen Moishe the Beetle, he is me

Student: "Professor Wiesel, in your book, Night, you have a character, Moishe the Beetle, who comes back to warn the people. Do you see yourself now as you saw Moishe the Beetle, as a kind of messenger with a warning for all of us to listen to?"

Elie Wiesel: "In a way, yes. But not only I, really. I think all those who went through that experience could say that they are messengers. We are all messengers to each other. If not, there would be no possibility for human beings to speak; there would be no possibility to hope. It would be impossible for any one of us to think of tomorrow. Tomorrow will be the year 2000. When I think of that year, I’m seized with anguish. What will happen then to our memories? What will happen when the last messenger will have given his or her message and will no longer be here? That is where you come into the picture, you young people. We have a tremendous faith in you—justified".

BRUTAL TERROR PAYS HUGE DIVIDENDS

What's next? A  seat on the UN security council? I kid you not ...............

NATO gives Palestinians observer status

Officials in Jerusalem acted coolly to the announcement by NATO that it was granting observer status to the Palestinians. [cooly? they ought to be frothing at the mouth- Atlas]

NATO made the announcement on Tuesday during a meeting of the Parliamentary assembly in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

This is a very important decision as for many years European countries have only heard the Israeli voice in these groupings. [oh really, since when did Eurabia give a rat's ass about "what Israel has been saying"? They have only taken the Pali side, antisemeitism anyone?-Atlas]For peace to become a reality and agreements to be fully implemented, we need to be able to tell our side of the story too," said Hassan Khreisheh, the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian body and one of the two Palestinian delegates. [Moral Inversion!-Atlas]

According to a NATO press release, MK Joseph Paritzky welcomed the involvement of the Palestinians and other Arab states in the work of the Assembly, which is made up of 248 delegates from 26 member countries.

"This shows that we belong to the parliament of the most important and biggest defense union of the world, and the decision is highly appreciated," Paritzky was quoted as saying.

What rich beautific rewards for Jewkilling.............

HONEST REPORTING: 5 YEARS AND COUNTING COUNTLESS LIES,BLOOD LIBELS EXPOSED

Honest Reporting - G-d love' em - five years old and their mission now even more monumental, exposing radical islamic,  antisemetic lies worldwide. They work 24/7/365 tirelessly, relentlessly, thanklessly.
Watch the video, it's just two minutes, you can spare it puhleeze, click on the photo:

Today's Daily Diet of AntiSemitism Carefully Prepared by Al-Jizz

How is this considered a "news organization"? Every story, every word for that matter, is dripping with jewhatred. They are channeling Goebbels. Imagine a daily diet of such vitriole, day in, day out, week in week out, year in year out.  They do the same thing with America, not because of Israel but because of everything America is  and represents.
Israel  suffers from the same hate-America crowd.  Being America's close ally comes with a price.
But do not for one moment misunderstand the enemy. With or without the Jews, we are all infidels which is why the Arab radical islamic government is killing muslims in Sudan (the moderates are being slaughtered), the Chistians and anyone that does not subjugate themselves to radical islam. And there is no color barrier, black on black, Arab on Arab............Israel is the canary in the coalmine
From Al-Jazeera online today:

More on Palestine...

Jewish settlers seize more Palestinian land Palestinian fighters fire rockets into Israel Israeli missile strike targets Palestinian fighters  PA minister accuses Israel of nuclear waste disposal

oh and lest we not forget they also make sure to  rally up the jewhaters to march on DC for our conference today through Tuesday...........

Activists to protest pro-Israel conference

A coalition of U.S. and international groups plan a peaceful demonstration against Israel next week when a pro-Israeli group holds its annual conference in Washington.

The coalition includes prominent congressmen such as Republican Paul Findley who’s said that Washington’s strategic relations with Israel discredits the U.S.’ image and would drag it into unnecessary wars with Iran and Syria.

Among the groups supporting the May 23 protest is the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee and the Middle East Crisis Committee and Council for the National Interest.

G-d Save the Christians of Bethlehem

If history is any indication, the Christians of Bethlehem have no chance. Radical Islam is like the Blob, it eats countries (ie wasn't Persia aka Iran once Christian, all of the Middle East by and large was  once Christian. Wasn't Eurabia once Europe?)............. channeling  Steve McQueen

Bethlehem Christians Worry About Islamic Takeover - Julie Stahl
Christians in Bethlehem are concerned that their city may slowly become an Islamic stronghold following recent municipal elections in which members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, both on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations, took a number of seats. "Slowly, slowly they will take over [and] have Palestine as an Islamic state," said one Christian leader in Bethlehem. Thirty years ago no one had ever heard of Hamas; now more than 30% of the city is Hamas and it's growing every year, he said. More than 5,000 Christians have left the city during the last few years, primarily for economic reasons, while the so-called Christian countries in the West gave all their money to the PA, which was like giving it to the mafia, said the Bethlehem Christian. (CNSNews)

WTF is all this About? GET OVER IT!

WTF is this?

Palestinians Mark Founding of Israel
AP via Yahoo! News Sun, 15 May 2005 8:55 AM PDT
Angry protesters marched through the streets and sirens brought traffic to a halt throughout the West Bank and Gaza on Sunday as Palestinians mournfully commemorated the day Israel was created, calling it one of the darkest days in their history.

Palestinians Lament Founding of Israel
AP via Yahoo! News Sun, 15 May 2005 1:47 PM PDT
With sirens and rallies, Palestinians on Sunday mournfully commemorated the anniversary of what they call "Al Nakba," or "the catastrophe" — the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of their people with the 1948 creation of the state of Israel

Palestinians Mark Founding of Israel
ABC News Sun, 15 May 2005 9:10 AM PDT
Palestinian Rallies Mournfully Mark Day Israel Was Created 57 Years Ago

I dont get it! 1948 was 57 years ago. ISRAEL EXISTS! RECOGNIZE IT! GET OVER IT!
Get off our backs, get your teeth out of our necks. Get a life, get a job, build a road, collect your garbage, stopping slapping your wives upside the head, stop blaming Israel for your inate failures.
Get a Life............ISRAEL AINT GOING NOWHERE -BADA BING!

Check  this out: Pipeline of Hate

Cut and Paste and Send this letter to President@Whitehouse.gov

Dear Mr. President:

The PLO Authority, which you have provided over 1 billion dollars in aid
during your administration, has repeatedly and publicly vowed not to lift
a finger against the murderers they nurture.  They have kept their word.

Shafik Aadel Mustafa A-Aani, the terrorist ringleader of the suicide
bombing of the Stage Cafe on Feb. 25, was recently released by the PLO
Authority, who then went on to kill a 20 year old Israeli this week.  Also
this week, Arab terrorists carrying a Kassam rocket in the back seat of
their car in Gaza, were initially arrested, and then released this by the
PLO, leaving them free to launch their next terror attack (Reuters, May 3:
"Palestinian Interior Ministry spokesman Toufiq Abu Khoussa said the three
were in a car, en route to fire rockets and were let go on Tuesday
following intervention by an Egyptian official in Gaza".)  Also this week,
the Arab terrorist murderer of Minister Ze'evi was officially permitted by
the PLO Authority to run for high political office in their upcoming
elections (YNET news, May 1:  Ahmed Saadat, jailed in Jericho for role in
murder of late Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, says candidacy will
underscore "right of prisoners to stand for office")

Mr. President, in this troubled world with the USA facing increasingly
dangerous threats from many quarters, including the growing nuclear threat
from North Korea and Iran, it is both wrong and foolish to abandon our
Israeli friends and to subsidize our Arab enemies.

The PLO has not stopped their efforts to participate in the international
Arab terror campaign, of which America's suffering on 9/11 was a part.  It
is therefore long past time for you to end your financial and political
support for the PLO Authority.  Instead please support Israel's moral,
historical, strategic and Biblical rights for full sovereignty in Judea,
Samaria, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Gaza.  That way the development
of another Arab terrorist state that will threaten America will be
prevented.

Sincerely,
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Holy Arafish! Fatah beats Hamas!

Fatah supporters celebrating after receiving unofficial election results in the Gaza Strip on Friday. (AP)

Fatah beats out a strong Hamas in municipal elections
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz
Correspondent and Agencies Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah movement narrowly fended off a strong challenge by the Islamic militant group Hamas in local elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday, with Fatah winning 56 percent and Hamas 33 percent of the vote. The corruption-tainted Fatah had feared defeat in Thursday's elections, but unofficial election results indicated the party won in 45 of 84 communities. However, Hamas established itself as a major political player, winning 23 of the contests, including in the three biggest towns - Qalqilyah, Rafah and Beit Lahia. Final official results are expected only Sunday but Qalqilyah's next mayor will likely be from Hamas.

For me the most telling pull quote was the following;

In the remaining 16 communities, neither side won a clear majority, with independents or smaller factions getting the most votes.

obviously there is plenty of fear out there. Which to choose? Fatah, the corrupt violent party of Ararat or Cold  Blooded murders Hamas?........decisions, decisios..........

LYNCH AVERTED; IDF COMMANDER SUSPENDED!

This is where Israel and I part company. This Commander was suspended for saving his men from being lynched? Me? I say a parade down 5th Avenue is not good enough for him.

Near-Lynch Averted, IDF Commander Suspended
Arutz

An IDF  commander and his five troops were almost lynched by an angry Arab mob Wednesday. The commander has been temporarily suspended, after using live bullets to save his and his troops' lives.

Near-Lynch Averted, IDF Commander Suspended Three hundred PA Arabs attacked six IDF soldiers guarding equipment near Highway 443, one of the two main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway. The equipment is being used in building the separation fence. Two Arabs were killed in the confrontation. The mob of Arabs came from the village of Beit Likiya, southwest of Ramallah, and approached the soldiers near the Jewish town of Mevo Horon. The Arabs began by hurling large rocks at the soldiers, who responded by using non-lethal means to disperse the riot. The soldiers fired tear-gas and then began using rubber bullets, but the crowd kept throwing rocks, wounding the force’s commanding officer. The commander then fired into the air, but when the attackers still failed to disperse, the commander fired at one of the rioters’ legs and then at a rocky area near the crowd. Three Arabs were wounded and two later died. Central Command O.C. Maj.-Gen. Ya'ir Naveh announced the suspension of the commander in charge of the force from operational activity until the full inquiry into the incident is completed. “The company commander was suspended in light of errors both in the way he conducted himself and in the way in which he commanded his force,” an IDF spokesman said. Asked to elaborate, an IDF spokesperson told Arutz-7 that he may have fired too quickly, and that he should have been aware that shooting at rocks would cause the bullets to ricochet unpredictably. She acknowledged, however, that the soldiers "faced a very scary situation" and that the commander would likely be reinstated after the investigation is completed.

"The Hell of Israel Is Better than the Paradise of Arafat" - Daniel Pipes

If  you havent sunk your teeth into Daniel Pipes' Column this week GO NOW! There is something utterly genius in Pipe's observations. Pipes is our boots on the ground. He is everywhere (but hopefully does not suffer from the G-d complex). His take on the Arabs that live in Israel that WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH PA RULE OR GOVERNANCE is the "emmis" on the street. It says it all.........Kofi are you listening, or counting the indictments you seemlessly avoid?

Pipes work is long but extraordinary....get through it. His rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation is breathtaking

"The Hell of Israel Is Better than the Paradise of Arafat"
by Daniel Pipes
Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2005

In the Palestinian Authority's (PA) elections that took place in January 2005, a significant percentage of Arab Jerusalemites stayed away from the polls out of concern that voting in them might jeopardize their status as residents of Israel. For example, the Associated Press quoted one Rabi Mimi, a 28-year-old truck driver, who expressed strong support for Mahmoud Abbas but said he had no plans to vote: "I can't vote. I'm afraid I'll get into trouble. I don't want to take any chances." Asked if he would vote, a taxi driver responded with indignation, "Are you kidding? To bring a corrupt [Palestinian] Authority here. This is just what we are missing."

This reluctance—as well as administrative incompetence—helped explain why, in the words of the Jerusalem Post, "at several balloting locations in the city [of Jerusalem], there were more foreign election observers, journalists, and police forces out than voters." It also explains why, in the previous PA election in 1996, a mere 10 percent of Jerusalem's eligible population voted, far lower than the proportions elsewhere.

At first blush surprising, the worry about jeopardizing Israeli residency turns out to be widespread among the Palestinians in Israel. When given a choice of living under Zionist or Palestinian rule, they decidedly prefer the former. More than that, there is a body of pro-Israel sentiments from which to draw. No opinion surveys cover this delicate subject, but a substantial record of statements and actions suggest that, despite their anti-Zionist swagger, Israel's most fervid enemies do perceive its political virtues. Even Palestinian leaders, between their fulminations, sometimes let down their guard and acknowledge Israel's virtues. This undercurrent of Palestinian love of Zion has hopeful and potentially significant implications.

Pro-Israel expressions fall into two main categories: preferring to remain under Israel rule and praising Israel as better than Arab regimes.

No Thank You, Palestinian Authority

Palestinians already living in Israel, especially in Jerusalem and the "Galilee Triangle" area, tell, sometimes volubly, how they prefer to remain in Israel.

Jerusalem. In mid-2000, when it appeared that some Arab-majority parts of Jerusalem would be transferred to Palestinian Authority control, Muslim Jerusalemites expressed less than delight at the prospect. Peering over at Arafat's PA, they saw power monopolized by domineering and corrupt autocrats, a thug-like police force, and a stagnant economy. Arafat's bloated, nonsensical claims ("We are the one true democratic oasis in the Arab region") only exacerbated their apprehensions.

‘Abd ar-Razzaq ‘Abid of Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood pointed dubiously to "what's happening in Ramallah, Hebron, and the Gaza Strip" and asked if the residents there were well off. A doctor applying for Israeli papers explained:

The whole world seems to be talking about the future of the Arabs of Jerusalem, but no one has bothered asking us. The international community and the Israeli Left seem to take it for granted that we want to live under Mr. Arafat's control. We don't. Most of us despise Mr. Arafat and the cronies around him, and we want to stay in Israel. At least here I can speak my mind freely without being dumped in prison, as well as having a chance to earn an honest day's wage.

In the colorful words of one Jerusalem resident, "The hell of Israel is better than the paradise of Arafat. We know Israeli rule stinks, but sometimes we feel like Palestinian rule would be worse."

The director of the Bayt Hanina community council in northern Jerusalem, Husam Watad, found that the prospect of finding themselves living under Arafat's control had people "in a panic. More than 50 percent of east Jerusalem residents live below the poverty line, and you can imagine how the situation would look if residents did not receive [Israeli] National Insurance Institute payments." In the view of Fadal Tahabub, a member of the Palestinian National Council, an estimated 70 percent of the 200,000 Arab residents of Jerusalem preferred to remain under Israeli sovereignty. A social worker living in Ras al-‘Amud, one of the areas possibly falling under PA control, said: "If a secret poll was conducted, I am sure an overwhelming majority of Jerusalem Arabs would say they would prefer to stay in Israel."

Indeed, precisely when Palestinian rule seemed most likely in 2000, the Israeli Interior Ministry reported a substantial increase in citizenship applications from Arabs in eastern Jerusalem. A Jerusalem city councilor, Roni Aloni, heard from many Arab residents about their not wanting to live under PA control. "They tell me—we are not like Gaza or the West Bank. We hold Israeli IDs. We are used to a higher standard of living. Even if Israeli rule is not so good, it is still better than that of the PA." Shalom Goldstein, an adviser on Arab affairs to the Jerusalem mayor, found likewise: "People look at what is happening inside the Palestinian-controlled areas today and say to themselves, ‘Thank God we have Israeli ID cards.' In fact, most of the Arabs in the city prefer to live under Israeli rule than under a corrupt and tyrannical regime like Yasser Arafat's."

Pali's Firearm Hidden in His Younger Sister's Underwear

TEACH KIDS PEACE

Honest Reporting: This week, IDF soldiers searching for a wanted terrorist in a West Bank house discovered a girl hiding a gun in her underwear, YNet reports. The soldiers in the Balata refugee camp, a terrorist hotbed, found the gunman inside his home and ordered him to surrender his weapon. He refused, claiming he didn't have one. After questioning, they found the man's firearm was hidden in his younger sister's underwear.

And earlier this week, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy was arrested near Nablus after being discovered wearing five pipe bombs strapped to his body. The boy aroused suspicions by wearing a heavy jacket on a hot day.

HonestReporting has repeatedly critiqued the media's negligence in failing to report the indoctrination of Palestinian youngsters toward violence, and the growing culture of hate against Israel and the United States.

Now, in a pro-active effort to challenge this human rights abuse, HonestReporting partnered in launching a new project that we're proud to introduce at this time ― Teach Kids Peace. Please take a moment to view the powerful 90-second introductory video by clicking on the graphic below, and visit TeachKidsPeace.org for news updates and alerts for activists.

As the momentum shifts toward a possible peace agreement in the Mideast, it is now more crucial than ever to ensure that children are educated toward building peace.

Kill a Jew, get a Home!

This is hard to imagine happening but it is happening. It is the policy of every Demcratic nation state that there be no negotiating,  no doing business with terrorists. Isn't that what Condi said yesterday  exactly to the word  regarding the American contractor kidnapped in Iraq? And yet it is the US pressuring Israel -- " under the auspices of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the World Bank indicated that it intends to assume the assets of those Jews whom the Israeli government intends to expel from teir homes and farms in Katif and Samaria" . The bank subsequently intends to hand over these assets to senior Palestinian Authority security official Muhammad Dahlan as reported in FrontPagemag.com

Kill a Jew, Get His House

By David Bedein

No democratic state should ever do business with terrorists, let alone those who would target a school buses. But Israel, under pressure from the United States, may be forced to do just that.

In talks that took place this past week in Aspen, Colorado , under the auspices of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the World Bank indicated that it intends to assume the assets of those Jews whom the Israeli government intends to expel from their homes and farms in Katif and Samaria the banksubsequently intends to hand over these assets to senior Palestinian Authority security official Muhammad Dahlan. There is no requirement that Dahlan and others who receive these assets have no past involvement with terrorism.

Yet this runs counter to the government of Israe’s decision of June 6 2004, in clause 7 of the plan put forward by Ariel Sharon. The clause states: in clause 7 of the plan put forward by Ariel Sharon. The clause states:

The State of Israel will aspire to transfer other facilities, including industrial, commercial and agricultural ones, to a third, international party which will put them to use for the benefit of the Palestinian population that is not involved in terror.

However, in a June 2004 monograph prepared by the World Bank for the government of Israel and the PLO, entitled “Disengagement, the Palestinian Economy and the settlements and issued by The World Bank,” and signed by then-World Bank president James Wolfenson, there is a detailed program for the transfer of all Jewish assets to the Palestinian authority. In this document there is no prerequisite that those who receive the assets have no involvement with terror. The World Bank simply eliminated the phrase "not involved in terror" and explained that "the State of Israel will aspire to transfer other structures, such as industrial and agricultural facilities, to an international third party that will use them for the benefit of the Palestinian population." In other words, the World Bank clearly intends to hand over assets without any anti-terror clause.

Significantly, the man to whom the World Bank intends to hand over those assets, Muhammad Dahlan, is defined by the government of Israel as a terrorist. In a June, 2002 editorial in the Wall Street Journal, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Dahlan the man who has presided over an ever-fortified terrorist network in Gaza, which today is home to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and has become the base for some of the most heinous terrorist attacks unleashed against Israel.

Relying on confirmed intelligence information, Olmert explained that Dahlan pel.ermitted to become a safe haven for the hundreds of fugitive terrorists fleeing Israeli forces. Among those being sheltered is his childhood friend Mohammed Dief, a leading Hamas mastermind with the blood of scores of Israelis on his hands. Dahlan's district also became the primary launching grounds for the hundreds of Kessem missiles fired at  Isra

Blah Blah Blah-

BUT IS NOT BLAH BLAH BLAH! The Palis and their brothers are still very much in the business of terror while fallaciously walking the walk and talking the talk of ceasefire. Meanwhile, Israel, is giving up LAND, blood and treasure. Who are the real lunatics here?

Rifle-Smuggling into Gaza Nipped in the Bud; Terror Continues

Defense/Security

The porous Israeli-Egyptian border at Gaza was partially stopped up last night, when Israeli security authorities discovered and confiscated a stash of 36 rifles about to be smuggled into Gaza.

An Israeli Border Police unit thwarted the smuggling of the Kalachnikov automatic rifles, but nine men involved in the attempt managed to flee the scene back into Egypt. Some 140 Kalachnikov rifles have been intercepted by Israeli forces along the Egyptian border since January 1, 2005 - a tiny amount in comparison with those that were not intercepted. According to army estimates, between July 2004 and February 2005, over 3,000 assault rifles were smuggled into Gaza, as well as 400,000 bullets, 400 pistols, and 600 kilograms of explosives.

An Arab mob took advantage of the overturning of an IDF jeep in Bethlehem late this afternoon, and began stoning the rescue force that came to help the soldiers. Four soldiers were hurt, including one in light-to-moderate condition, and an Arab who threw bricks at the soldiers was shot and wounded.

A teenaged Arab boy attempted to stab an IDF soldier at the Fouriq Checkpoint in Shomron, east of Shechem, this afternoon. The attacker was taken into custody without having succeeded in his goal.

Near Shechem yesterday, a 15-year-old Arab boy was caught after being hired by Palestinian terrorists to carry five pipe-bombs into pre-1967 Israel.

And now from the "I need more Psychotropic Drugs" Dept

Second cabinet meeting/second term

THE PRESIDENT: "Just concluded the second Cabinet meeting of the second term. I want to thank my Cabinet officials for doing such a fine job. I appreciate your hard work, and thank you for your dedication to the country. Q Mr. President, Prime Minister Sharon has said he intends to expand the largest Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Other officials say no construction is imminent. Are you satisfied? And what will you tell Sharon when you see him about the settlements?

THE PRESIDENT: Our position is very clear that the road map is important, and the road map calls for no expansion of the settlements. I'm optimistic we can achieve a peace in the Holy Land. I'm optimistic because I firmly believe that Ariel Sharon wants to have a peaceful partner, wants there to be a democracy in the Palestinian Territories, and I believe President Abbas wants the same thing. And there's a lot of hard work to be done, but we're making progress. And I look forward to meeting the Prime Minister in Crawford to continue to work with the parties to advance peace."
Geez, how many Jooooooooooooos have to die, how many Oslos have to fail until we get this damn thing right? We gotta win the war first! You can't negotiate a peace on a war that has not yet been won?
Anyone remember Vietnam? Anyone recall the difficulties surrounding negotiations on the declaration of a cease fire in Vietnam at the Paris Peace talks in '71  (even though the Americans had basically won that war on the ground)? BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO FINISH A WAR BEFORE YOU CAN NEGOTIATE A PEACE.....................where is the leverage?
A senior Israeli Cabinet minister acknowledged Wednesday that serious differences exist between Israel and the United States over Jewish settlement expansion.

And then, of course, there is  Daniel Pipes take on the pullout in the Jerusalem Post.........

Sharon's plans at least have a quality to them, sparing Israel the wooly notions of a "new Middle East" that so harmed the country a decade ago. But in another way, Sharon's plans are worse than Oslo; at least that disaster was carried out by the clueless Left. A Right – led by Ariel Sharon – valiantly and staunchly opposed it. This time, it is the Right's hero who, allied with the far-Left, is himself leading the charge, reducing the opposition to marginality.

There are many theories for what reversed Sharon's views on the matter of a unilateral Gaza withdrawal in the 10 months between February and December 2003 – I have my own ideas about the hubris of elected Israeli prime ministers – but whatever the reason, its consequences are clear.

Sharon betrayed the voters who supported him, wounding Israeli democracy. He divided Israeli society in ways that may poison the body politic for decades hence. He aborted his own successful policies vis- -vis the Palestinians. He delivered Palestinian, Arab and Muslim rejectionists their greatest boost ever. And he failed his American ally by delivering a major victory to the forces of terrorism.

Hey Pipes (click #7), tell us how you reall feel...........btw that's the second Pipes piece that alludes to his take on Sharon's less than honorable motives in the disengagement plan. Hey Daniel do share!

 

Yes, it Makes me Happy when the Animals turn the Guns Against Each Other

I am sure I will take mega-criticism for this but frankly, I don"t give a __________. I am too tired of all the things that go unsaid in the name of political correctness (euphemism for antisemitism).

In a continuing violent development, the terrorists have yet again turned the gun toward themselves. AT EACH OTHER, for a distinct and welcomed change. And I expect to hear from an number of you insisting that Abbas is the good guy..............well if that is indeed true then he will deal with these terrorists for what they are...........COLD BLOODED KILLERS. Until I am proven otherwise I am unwilling to sacrifice one more delicious Israeli life to their bloodlust.

I am tired of murderers, terrorists, and wanton killers being referred to as "militants", "gunmen", "freedom fighters", or whatver flavor of the week "al aksa"," fatah", "plo", it's all smoke and mirrors - the killers are the same animals over and over again.

Al-Aksa gunmen shoot up party meeting in challenge to Abbas leadership
By Associated Press March 10, 2005/Israeli Insider, click headline

Palestinian gunmen burst into a meeting of the ruling Fatah Party on Thursday, shooting into the air and forcing participants to disperse in a brazen challenge to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The incident cast doubt on his authority as he comes under increasing pressure from Israel to disarm militants.

More than 1,000 Fatah grass roots activists were meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah when two dozen gunmen dressed in military-style fatigues, their faces covered, burst into the room in a shiny new hotel where the session was in progress. The gunmen, from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a violent group affiliated with Fatah, rampaged through the room and shouted slogans charging the Fatah leadership with complicity in widespread corruption. Shocked participants ducked and scrambled for the exits as the intruders, brandishing their assault rifles, began throwing chairs around, ordering everyone to leave.

The meeting broke up in disarray, and as the Fatah members fled, the gunmen fired in the air outside the hall for several minutes. No one was hurt, but the gunmen made their point -- the session did not reconvene. "Our demands are for change and reform," said Menwer al-Aqraa, an Al Aqsa commander in Ramallah, without elaborating. He said, however, that his group would not disarm

Pali security guard looks at members of the Fatah party as they leave a hotel in the West Bank town of Ramallah Thursday March 10, 2005, after more than 20 Palestinian gunmen burst into a large gathering of this ruling party, ordered people out of the building and fired shots into the air.

 

Palestinian Terror Controlled by Iran

While I can't say I am surprised, I found it somewhat reassuring to read this in a MSM left wing organ like TIME magazine (written with the omnipresent left wing slant of course, I mean G-d forbid it not Bush bash). But it reinforces the fundamental thinking of the right, hardly a band of disparate outlaw barbaric murderers, the deliberate and strategic network of state sponsored terrorism comes into the bright light of day. Out of the fog of mendacity, the Bush doctrine and the "Axis of Evil" is hardly myth, but brutal truth. What more do the naysayers need? This is World War IV............Godspeed

Palestinian Islamic Jihad Is Controlled by Iran - Interview with Martin Indyk - Elaine ShannonAccording to Martin Indyk, former Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs and U.S. Ambassador to Israel during the Clinton administration, "What Secretary Rice knows and hasn't said is that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is controlled by Iran. While it's important, essential, to get the Syrians to shut down the PIJ office in Damascus, it's also important to be clear about what the source of the problem is. From the mid-1990s, Iran has been determined to use PIJ terrorist operations to disrupt the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and there is a very clear of pattern of PIJ activities during the intifada. Whenever [the region] calmed down, it was the PIJ that launched terrorist attacks, because the Iranians have a very strong interest in preventing the peace process from going forward. We should be pointing the finger at Iran and pressuring them, with the Europeans, to stop this sponsorship of terrorism against the Israeli-Palestinian peace process." (TIME)

What Happened to the Goddamn BUSH DOCTRINE!

Surprise Surprise Surprise. Syria did it! duh.........no! Now what? More diplomatic masturbation? More billions for mob contracts on Jewish lives to the Palis (currently being considered in England) yecch! Moral Inversion! Moral equivalence! Where is our Morality and why have we forsaken it? She sobs.....

Israel Intercepted Order from Jihad Leader in Damascus for Tel Aviv BombingIsraeli intelligence officers briefed ambassadors of the EU, the G8, and the UN Security Council on Friday's Tel Aviv bombing. They read from a transcript of an intercepted telephone call in which Ramadan Shallah, Islamic Jihad's Damascus-based leader, ordered a West Bank commander to go ahead with the bombing. Mark Regev, the foreign ministry spokesman, said: "In a regime like the Syrian regime, such an order could not come from Damascus unless the regime was acquiescing or collaborating." (Independent-UK) Western Donors Weigh Billions for Palestinians - Josh MeyerTop U.S. and European officials met with the new Palestinian leadership in London to consider $4.5 billion or more in new aid that they hope will bolster the Palestinian government. Pledging money may prove to be the easy part. The larger challenge will be avoiding the corruption that drained the life out of aid programs during Arafat's long tenure. "Things haven't changed as much as they need to change, and it is going to be very difficult," said Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute. The PA has received billions of dollars for schools, hospitals, roads and other basic needs in the last decade, one of the most expensive development programs ever on a per-capita basis. But millions of dollars disappeared. Last year Congress stipulated that outside auditors must be able to monitor how the money was used. But a few months ago, as Congress considered a request for another $20 million, aides said they learned that U.S. auditors were not permitted to enter the building where they thought the records were. (Los Angeles Times)

BUSH DOCTRINE: Initial formulation: No distinction between terrorists and those who harbor them

Remember I said 100,000 is the going rate Hizbollah pays for Jew Killing? Here's more PROOF

I will ask until I am dead...............when is this moral inversion going to stop? When is it going to be ok to stop killing jews? People wake up, wha are we waiting for 9/12?
Hezbollah paid up to $100,000 for attack

Palestinians finger Lebanese terror group in Tel Aviv bombing

TEL AVIV – The suicide bombing here Friday night that killed four Israelis and wounded over 50 was funded and directed by Hezbollah forces, which may have paid up to $100,000 for the attack, security sources told WorldNetDaily.
The three main terror groups – Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades – denied involvement much the way Moe Larry and Curly denied hooliganizing.

I first Posted this on the 2/16 While the UN goes about it daily business of rape, robbery and pillaging, the bloodlibel reward for murder goes unnoticed. And if that werent enough, even the French refuse to classify Hizbullah as a terrorist organiztion. Ellsworth Toohey, your legacy is very much alive And who is giving Hizbullah all this dough?  Hizbullah Lifts Pay for Suicide Attacks to $100,000

Defense/Security

The Lebanon-based Hizbullah terror organization has announced that it is raising the compensation it pays out to families of suicide attackers from $20,000 to $100,000.

Bank transfers and e-mail intercepted from the organization by they PA reveal this new development, reports Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman.

Senior officials of PA armed forces claim that Hizbullah presents the number one threat to the ceasefire currently in effect. The Lebanese group is attempting to enlist terrorists from the Fatah organization, the main governing party in the PA, and from Fatah offshoots such as the Al Aksa Brigades. The latter is closely aligned with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and is responsible for the murder of hundreds of Jews since the outbreak of the Oslo War in September 2000.

Israeli officials, too, report that there are currently some 50 Hizbullah-sponsored terrorist cells throughout Judea and Samaria.

Confessions of a Former Palestinian Terrorist

Liaten up! If you are available

More Thuggery, Threats and Assasinations. Ah yes this is PEACE

 

ah yes it all comes flooding back...........I remember it well. Dragging these poor souls into the street and blowing their brains out for suspected collaboration with the Israelis.       Shot dead in cold blood for all the world to see and Abbas says CONTINUE!. Oh, and if that weren't enough they are threatening more terrorism.      I love our new friends dont you? I cant wait to hear from my lefty pals telling me how "negative I am. All we are saying is give Peace a chance!" Kumbaya my lord!  Abu Mazen Orders Execution of Arabs Accused of Helping Israel

Inside  Israel

   

In one of his first policy decisions as head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has approved death sentences for three Arab men accused of helping Israel.

Gaza governor Sakher Bseso announced earlier this week that Abu Mazen had transferred several cases of people sentenced to death under Yasser Arafat’s regime to the mufti (arbiter of Islamic law) of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri. Abu Mazen then signed the decisions, authorizing PA executioners to carry out the death sentences.

Shurat HaDin – The Israel Law Center condemned the decision, and though the identity of the three men was not released, speculated that the condemned men were most probably Yusef Hassan Sinwar, Muhammad Abu Kainas and his son, Rami Kainas.

Sinwar, 31, was sentenced to hanging by a PA military tribunal in October 2004, after an hour long "trial." He was convicted of assisting the IDF in capturing fugitive terrorists.

Abu Kainas and his son were similarly convicted in a Gaza military court of charges that they tipped off the IDF to the whereabouts of Hamas chief Abdel-Aziz Rantisi in June 2003, even though it lead to a failed assassination attempt, and that they also gave away the location of Ra'fat Za'anin, a Hamas leader the IDF successfully killed in 2003. The father and son were displayed to journalists in September 2004 at a police station in Gaza operated by Mohammed Dahlan's PA forces.

Another PA prisoner, Walid Hamdiya, has been on death row since 1995. In October 2002, he was sentenced to death by firing squad. Hamdiya's sentence, however, has not yet been carried out. Several other accused Israeli agents being held in PA prisons are facing capital charges although they have not been "convicted" as of yet.

 

PA Official Threatens More Terrorism

Defense/Security

   

The Palestinian Authority's strongman in Gaza, Mohammed Dahlan, threatened today that attacks from the PA will continue if Israel does not withdraw from the strategic Philadelphi Route.

While noting in an interview with Israel Radio that PA president Mahmoud Abbas is committed to maintaining security while the planned Israeli withdrawal from Gush Katif proceeds, Dahlan warned that Israeli failure to withdraw from the border area with Egypt would turn the Philadelphi Route into another "Shab'a Farms", referring to an area along the Israeli border with Lebanon that Hizbullah terrorists demand Israel evacuate. The Shab'a Farms, or Mount Dov area, has been a frequent target of attack by Hizbullah forces.

So many things to thank the frogs for......their gifts just keep on giving!

Love, look at the two of us Allies Resisting as U.S. Pushes Terror Label for Hizballah - Steven R. WeismanThe Bush administration is arguing with European governments over whether they should designate Lebanon-based Hizballah a terrorist organization. In the past two weeks, France has rebuffed appeals by Secretary of State Rice and Israeli Foreign Minister Shalom to list Hizballah as a terrorist organization, which would prevent it from raising money in Europe through charity groups. Israeli and American officials say that Palestinian chairman Abbas has told them that he, too, regards Hizballah as a destructive force, one determined to undermine peace talks by supporting militant groups that attack Israelis. The Netherlands, Italy, and Poland support the Bush administration's view, while Germany and Britain believe the issue is moot unless the French change their minds. (New York Times) See also below Commentary: Terror Litmus Test - Editorial (Wall Street Journal Europe)
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Bombing (should) Begin in 5 minutes. Free the religiously oppressed!

"We are all shouting for Syria to get out. I want to kill someone today" -- a Syrian Funeral mourner Israel should never have pulled out of Lebanon. It was the only time the country  was "free", Christians could practice their religion and Syria was kept at  bay. But noooooooooooo,  Israel was forced to leave the "occupation". Why is it you never hear of SYRIA'S OCCUPATION OF LEBANON.............HOSTILE  OCCUPATION NO LESS U.S.  Has Stern Message for Syrias"Profound Outrage" Over Beirut Bombing - Bill  Nichols The U.S. recalled its ambassador  toSyria for consultations Tuesday in an expression of concern by the Bush  administration about a potential Syrian role in the assassination of former  Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. State Department spokesman Richard  Boucher said U.S. Ambassador Margaret Scobey delivered a stern message to the Syrian government  expressing "our deep concern as well as our profound outrage over this heinous  act of terrorism." (USA Today) See also U.S. and  UN Step Up Pressure on Damascus -  Robin WrightSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that the U.S.  has agrowing list of differences" with Damascus. At the UN, the Security  Council called for a report by Secretary General Kofi Annan on the  "circumstances, causes and consequences" of the assassination. (Washington  Post) U.S.  Has Stern Message for Syria: "Profound Outrage" Over Beirut Bombing -  Bill Nichols The U.S. recalled its ambassador to Syria for consultations  Tuesday in an expression of concern by the Bush administration about a potential  Syrian role in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.  State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said U.S. Ambassador Margaret Scobey  delivered a stern message to the Syrian government expressing "our deep concern  as well as our profound outrage over this heinous act of terrorism." (USA  Today)     See also U.S.  and UN Step Up Pressure on Damascus - Robin Wright Secretary of State  Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that the U.S. has a "growing list of differences"  with Damascus. At the UN, the Security Council called for a report by Secretary  General Kofi Annan on the "circumstances, causes and consequences" of the  assassination. (Washington Post)     See also U.S. Recalls Ambassador  to Syria (State Department)

What's a Dead Jew worth? Hizbullah pays $100,000

While the UN goes about it daily business of rape, robbery and pillaging, the bloodlibel reward for murder goes unnoticed. And if that werent enough, even the French refuse to classify Hizbullah as a terrorist organiztion. Ellsworth Toohey, your legacy is very much alive And who is giving Hizbullah all this dough?  Hizbullah Lifts Pay for Suicide Attacks to $100,000

Defense/Security

The Lebanon-based Hizbullah terror organization has announced that it is raising the compensation it pays out to families of suicide attackers from $20,000 to $100,000.

Bank transfers and e-mail intercepted from the organization by they PA reveal this new development, reports Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman.

Senior officials of PA armed forces claim that Hizbullah presents the number one threat to the ceasefire currently in effect. The Lebanese group is attempting to enlist terrorists from the Fatah organization, the main governing party in the PA, and from Fatah offshoots such as the Al Aksa Brigades. The latter is closely aligned with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and is responsible for the murder of hundreds of Jews since the outbreak of the Oslo War in September 2000.

Israeli officials, too, report that there are currently some 50 Hizbullah-sponsored terrorist cells throughout Judea and Samaria.

The Shock! The Horror!! Released Terrorists Return to Terror

Unthinkable I know, but its true half of Released terrorists return to terror. Why this is still a negotiating tool I do not hazard to guess. I use to imagine that the Israelis would microchip the terrorists much the way I microchipped my King Charles Cavalier, Dagny, to track them before they got the next one off. But no such luck, having investigated this to small extent it seems they are not GPS - awwwwwww sh*t!

Half of Released Terrorists Return to Terror 14:35 Feb 11, '05 / 2 Adar 5765

With a ministerial committee set to decide Sunday which Palestinian terrorists to free as a gesture to Abu Mazen, a new study shows that half of released Arab terrorists return to their evil ways.
A booklet published by journalist Boaz HaEtzni and others includes warnings and protests by public and military figures who say that releasing prisoners is dangerous from several standpoints: * It places the lives of Israel's citizens in certain danger* It harms the IDF's deterrence effect* It strengthens both the motivation and capabilities of the terror organizations* It weakens Israel's moral stance against terrorists and those who shelter them."From 1985 until now," the booklet states, "Israel has released thousands of Palestinian terrorists in various prisoner exchanges. Not one of them underwent a test to determine if he will continue to endanger us or not." "We have gathered some of the results of past prisoner releases," HaEtzni explained, "and we show that waves of terrorism have been ignited as a result. According to authorized data, some 50% of the released terrorists returned to terrorism after their release.""Our purpose in publicizing this report," he says, "is to warn those who release terrorists that every other terrorist to be released is expected to endanger us again!""Those who must make this decision," the booklet states, "should be aware that the eyes of women, children, babies, elderly, new immigrants and IDF soldiers who were murdered by terrorists released by Israel will be upon you. If the government hadn't decided to release them, and if the President had not signed their pardon, and if the Supreme Court had not refrained from preventing the release, these people would have been with us today."Though the public and ministerial debate is focused on the question of whether to release murderers or not, many relatives of terror victims say no terrorists at all should be released. Aryeh Bachrach, whose 18-year-old son Ohad was murdered by Arab terrorists almost a decade ago, says there is no difference between terrorists who have murdered and those who did not succeed in their goal. "Our organization [Almagor] has lists of terrorists released without 'blood on their hands'," Bachrach said, "whose hands became full of blood afterwards. If they have no blood on their hands, it means they didn't succeed the first time, and they'll simply try again." The ministerial committee comprises Ministers Sharon, Mofaz, Peres, Olmert, Netanyahu, Ramon, Livny, and Ezra.

Ahms for the Arab Rich, Ahms for Murdering Thugs! ARGH!

Time to hurl, safeguard your keyboards......... "Deadbeat Arabs"? You mean they are not gorging us enough on their oil exports.?? Believe me, the last thing the Arabs want is the Palios out of those refugee camps. It has been their MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON against Israel. ULULULULUL

Lantos,
Kissinger Link U.S. Aid to PA with Contributions from Arab "Deadbeats" -
Barry Schweid  Rep. Tom Lantos, the senior Democrat on the House
International Relations Committee, said Thursday he would condition U.S. aid to
the Palestinians on oil-rich Arab "deadbeats" making good on their own promised
contributions. The assertion drew swift endorsement from former Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger, who said, "I think it is reasonable
that the surrounding Arab states that have resources should at least match U.S.
support.''    Lantos said he would urge Congress to insist that
the PA fight terrorism and that Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and
other Arab oil states, which he said reaped $40 billion in windfall profits last
year, make good on their pledges of $400 million in aid.    Lantos
also said the new Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, "will
have to show backbone'' by dismantling terror groups. "He will either
defeat them, or they will defeat him,'' Lantos said. Kissinger added, "there can
be no solution without a tremendous change in attitude, particularly
propaganda,'' in Arab countries in the region. (AP/Guardian-UK)

The New York Slime Times buries child murder by Palios

Tunisian stamp, which says in French and Arabic "The Palestinian Martyr Child, Mahamed Doura" Once again the New York Times continues to abandon the truth and pursue its left wing antisemetic agenda. I am sure you remember the story........................................................

The New York Times buried on page 6 of the Business section (Section C) an important story (February 7, 2005) on the escalating scandal surrounding the facts of the infamous Muhammad al Dura episode. The case involved the alleged Israeli killing of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy and the severe wounding of his father at Gaza's Netzarim Junction in September 2000. Then the Times buried in paragraph 26 the key finding of the article itself which is that two prominent French journalists reviewed footage of the event shot by France 2 televison and found there is no "definitive scene showing that the boy had died." Additionally, the same journalists, Denis Jeambar and Daniel Leconte, refuted a central claim of the France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin who reported the al Dura story. His longstanding defense regarding the scant, apparently truncated footage of the alleged killing had been that to show further images of the shooting and thus "the agony of the child" – was too "unbearable." Jeambar and Leconte stated categorically that such images of the "agony" do not exist. That is, there are no scenes of a bloody and dying child and injured father in the 27 minutes of tape they reviewed of the scene despite Enderlin's repeated claims to the contrary. Unmentioned at all in the Times story is the pair's statement in their article in the January 25 edition of Le Figaro that the 27 minutes, including footage taken just prior to the alleged shooting of al Dura, shows scenes in which the "Palestinians seem to be organizing a staged event. They 'play' at war with the Israelis and simulate, in most of the cases, imaginary injuries." ...................Once again much the way the New York Times played the Abu Gharib story, something like 48 front page stories on that irrelevant piece of nonsense, the NYT buries this important truth of media manipulation and propaganda. Bear in mind, they have never ran front page stories on the grossest corruption scandal of our time - Oil for Food, sucking the blood of the Iraqi poor. But mindless front page coverage of Abu. And you still dont see their agenda? Thank G-d for HonestReporting.com

Kill a Jew Go to Heaven

NATAN SHARANSKY's timing was perfect. On January 25, Sharansky, the ex-Soviet dissident and current Israeli cabinet member, presented a detailed report on the Palestinian Authority's promotion of anti-Semitism and genocide in its official media. He did so amidst the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and Israel's National Day Against anti-Semitism.
A day later, one of the co-authors of the report, Itamar Marcus, explained his findings to foreign diplomats in the Israeli parliament. The disturbing report compiled by the Palestinian Media Watch, titled "Kill a Jew-Go To Heaven," illuminates what Sharansky calls the PA's "culture of hatred." After Marcus delivered his briefing, Sharansky seized on the Auschwitz anniversary in a statement to reporters, declaring that anti-Semitic propaganda poisons Palestinian society as it once did in Nazi Germany.
Is that an exaggeration? Not after perusing "Kill a Jew-Go to Heaven." The 20-page report outlines the three phases of anti-Semitism found in various PA-run media, including newspapers, radio, crossword puzzles, political cartoons, and school textbooks.
The first phase depicts Jews as subhuman. "The foundation stage defines Jews and presents them as different from others, possessing inherently evil traits," the report explains. This hatred is even disseminated to children. "Treachery and disloyalty are character traits of the Jews and therefore one should be aware of them," the Palestinian textbook Islamic Education for Ninth Grade says.
When such content was brought to the PA's attention in 1999, the U.S. government offered to fund the reprinting of that book and others. But the PA refused. The report also contains 20 segments from interviews with various individuals on Palestinian television who compare Jews to animals.
Jewish traditions are maligned in this phase as well. A PA daily newspaper, while blaming the drug problem in the PA on Israel, ran a cartoon of the Jewish menorah, replacing the seven flames with seven syringes.
The second phase portrays Jews as a threat to the existence of Palestinians in particular and the Arab world in general. "[The second] phase shows that these traits are not a private Jewish matter, but have ramifications for the entire world," the report reads. ". . . Jews are planning and executing heinous crimes. If unchecked these crimes constitute a mortal danger, not only to all Muslims and Arabs, but to all of humanity."
Read the whole thing, click on the title "Kill a .............."                                                            Natan Sharansky draws attention to a new report by the Palestinian Media Watch. by Rachel DiCarlo

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions

....You cannot take a cease-fire as a long-range goal while they are still preserving their infrastructure. The extremist organizations can rebuild them and bring about a situation in which, at a time they choose, they can carry out one terrorist attack or a series of terror attacks, which will bring down this whole process and send it to hell." (Ha'aretz)

What a ceasefire really means. We must be very careful. We  want only peace..........but our kindess is often mistaken for shmuckiness and weakness. Palestinian Militants Unleash Mortar Barrage After Truce DeclarationPalestinian militants fired a series of mortar bombs and rockets into Jewish settlements in Gaza on Thursday, two days after Palestinian and Israeli leaders declared a halt to violence at a summit meeting. Hamas said it launched 46 mortars and rockets over a two-hour period at daybreak on Thursday. (Reuters) See also Israeli-Palestinian Security Talks PostponedIsraeli-Palestinian talks on security coordination were postponed on Thursday. Palestinian officials said the Israelis asked to cancel the meeting "because of mortar firing in Gaza." (Reuters) The Middle East's Dance of Death - Melanie PhillipsWhat the world finds so hard to acknowledge is that the source of this terrible conflict is not Israel's behavior. It is not the settlements, the roadblocks, the prisoners. It is not, despite the near-universal assumption, the absence of a Palestinian state. The source is the Arab world-backed Palestinian terror war against Israel's existence. The onus is on Abbas to end that war by dismantling the entire infrastructure of Palestinian terror, and to give his own community an identity other than the impulse to destroy another people. But the signs are not auspicious. What looks rather more likely is that Abbas is instead a world-class tactician, who will be able to pose with ostensibly clean hands disclaiming the murderous terrorism that Hamas will continue to inflict upon Israel, thus forcing Israel to react and casting it even more decisively as the regional bully. If this is so, then Israel is in even more danger now than it was in before. (melaniephillips.com)

Palistinian Insiders

One of the cardinal rules of responsible journalism is the independent status of the journalist ― while journalists may belong to political parties, they cannot actively work for a party relevant to the sphere they cover, lest their independence and neutrality be jeopardized.
But today, the Jerusalem Post reported that two of the largest wire services ― Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Associated Press (AP) ― have employed journalists with inappropriately close ties to the Palestinian Authority. Majida al-Batsh was a Palestinian affairs correspondent for AFP for many years, while simultaneously being on the payroll of the Palestinian Authority as a reporter for the PA's official organ, Al-Ayyam.
If this is not evidence enough of impropriety at AFP, last year Batsh announced she would actually run for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority. The Post reports:
Her colleagues claim that shortly before she joined the race [for PA president], Batsh resigned from the news agency, saying she wanted to devote her time to the election campaign. However, they add, this did not prevent her from seeking the agency's help in her campaign.
"One day she showed up and asked to use the fax machine to send some documents," reports one coworker. "The agency did not object."
Batsh isn't the only AFP reporter receiving a PA salary on the side:
One of the agency's correspondents in the Gaza Strip is Adel Zanoun, who also happens to be the chief reporter in the area for the PA's Voice of Palestine radio station.
The AFP bureau chief in Jerusalem, Patrick Anidjar, refuses to discuss the issue, saying, "I don't understand why you have to have the name of our correspondents." Pressed to give a specific answer, he says: "I don't want our correspondents' names to go into print. I don't want to answer the question. What is this, a police investigation?"
Meanwhile, Muhammad Daraghmeh ― who turns out near-daily reports from Ramallah or Jerusalem for the Associated Press ― also works for the PA's Al-Ayyam, according to the Jerusalem Post (and a pro-Palestinian site).
This is the equivalent of a network's Washington correspondent getting paid on the side by the Democrats or Republicans. Imagine the scandal that would produce. Yet with their coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, AFP and AP don't seem to have a problem with it.
HonestReporting has repeatedly demonstrated that the local staff employed by western news outlets contributes in no small way to the problem of anti-Israel media bias. The major media outlets rely on Palestinian cameramen and stringers to tell the tale from the West Bank and Gaza, as the Jerusalem Post reports:
AFP is not the only member of the international news media to employ "journalists" who see themselves as "foot soldiers" serving the Palestinian cause. Other parts of the foreign media frequently allow their stories to be filtered through such fixers-consultants...
"I will never work on a story that defames my people or leadership," boasts a Palestinian "fixer" (mediator/guide/translator) who works on a regular basis with many foreign journalists. "It is my duty to protect my people against Israeli propaganda."
All this calls to mind the declaration by Fayad Abu Shamala, the BBC correspondent in Gaza for the past 10 years, at a Hamas rally in May 2001:
"Journalists and media organizations [are] waging the campaign shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people."
HonestReporting subscribers are encouraged to write to Agence France-Presse, requesting clarification of its policy regarding AFP reporters working simultaneously for institutions within the Palestinian Authority.
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Don't WHITEWASH Arafat's record

Please  report on Arafat's history objectively. You must include his decades-long involvement in terror, his goal of destroying Israel, and his siphoning of hundreds of millions of dollars from money donated to help the Palestinian people that went instead into his own private accounts. In this era of unspeakable terror, please remind the public of Arafat's blood-soaked history and of his many missed opportunities to bring peace and a better life to the Palestinian people. Key Dates in the life of Yasir Arafat, known to many as the "father of modern terrorism"-- Aug 4, 1929: Arafat born in Cairo. Muhammad Abdel Rahman Abdel Rauf al-Qudwa al-Husseini is fifth child of prosperous merchant, Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini.-- 1933 : Arafat's mother dies. He and his infant brother are sent to live with uncle in Jerusalem. -- 1948: Arafat runs arms to Palestine.-- Late 1950s: Arafat co-founds Fatah, the "Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine."-- Jan. 1, 1965: Fatah's first attempted attack in Israel fails. They had attempted to bomb the National Water Carrier.-- July 5, 1965: A Fatah cell planted explosives at Mitzpe Massua, near Beit Guvrin; and on the railroad tracks to Jerusalem near Kafr Battir. -- 1965-1967: Numerous Fatah bomb attacks target Israeli villages, water pipes, railroads. Homes are destroyed and Israelis are killed.-- July 1968: Fatah joins and becomes the dominant member of the PLO, an umbrella organization of Palestinian terrorist groups.-- Feb. 4, 1969: Arafat appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO -- Feb. 21, 1970: SwissAir flight 330, bound for Tel Aviv, bombed by PLO-group PFLP in mid-flight, killing 47. --Sept. 6, 1970: TWA, Pan-Am, and BOAC airplanes hijacked by PLO terrorists. -- September 1970: In operation known as "Black September," Jordanian forces battle PLO, driving them out of Jordan, after the group's violent activity threatened to destabilize the kingdom. The terrorists flee to Lebanon.-- Sept. 5, 1972: 11 Israeli athletes killed at the Munich Olympics by PLO-affiliated terrorists.-- March 1, 1973 : Palestinian terrorists take over Saudi embassy in Khartoum. The next day, two Americans (including the United States' ambassador to Sudan, Cleo Noel) and a Belgian were shot and killed. James J. Welsh, an analyst for the National Security Agency from 1969 through 1974, charged Arafat with direct complicity in these murders.-- April 11, 1974: 18 residents of Kiryat Shmona in Israel killed in their apartment building by Palestinian terrorist who infiltrated from Lebanon.-- May 15, 1974: School in Ma'alot attacked by Palestinian terrorists who infiltrated from Lebanon. 26 Israelis, including many children, were killed.-- June 9, 1974 : Palestinian National Council adopts "Phased Plan," which calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state on any territory evacuated by Israel, to be used as a base of operations for destroying the whole of Israel. The PLO reaffirmed its rejection of United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for a "just and lasting peace" and the "right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force."--Nov. 13, 1974: Arafat, wearing a gun, addresses U.N. General Assembly-- 1982: Having created a terrorist mini-state in Lebanon destabilizing that nation, PLO expelled after Israel responds to incessant PLO missile attacks against northern Israeli communities. Arafat relocates to Tunis.-- Oct. 7, 1985 : Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. Wheelchair-bound elderly man, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot and thrown overboard. Intelligence reports note that instructions originated from Arafat's headquarters in Tunis.--Dec. 12, 1988: Arafat claims to accept Israel's right to exist.-- Sept. 1993: Handshake with Israeli Prime Minister Rabin, inaugurating the Oslo Accords.  Arafat pledged to stop incitement and terror, and to foster co-existence with Israel, but failed to comply.Throughout the years of negotiations, aside from passing, token efforts, Arafat does nothing to stop Hamas, PFLP, and Islamic Jihad from carrying out thousands of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.  With Arafat's encouragement and financial support, groups directly under Arafat's command, such as the Tanzim and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, also carry out terror attacks. -- Oct. 21, 1996: Speaking at a rally near Bethlehem, Arafat said "We know only one word - jihad. Jihad, jihad, jihad. Whoever does not like it can drink from the Dead Sea or from the Sea of Gaza." (Yediot Ahronot, October 23, 1996) -- April 16, 1998: In a statement published in the official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, Arafat is quoted: "O my dear ones on the occupied lands, relatives and friends throughout Palestine and the diaspora, my colleagues in struggle and in arms, my colleagues in struggle and in jihad...Intensify the revolution and the blessed intifada...We must burn the ground under the feet of the invaders." -- July 2000: Arafat rejects peace settlement offered by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, which would have led to a Palestinian state.-- Sept 2000: New "intifada" is launched. Arafat continues to incite, support and fund terrorism. Below are some of the attacks since Sept 2000 perpetrated by groups under Arafat's command:
-- May 29, 2001: Gilad Zar, 41, of Itamar, was shot dead in a terrorist ambush by Fatah Tanzim.
-- May 29, 2001: Sara Blaustein, 53, and Esther Alvan, 20, of Efrat, were killed in a drive-by shooting south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.
-- June 18, 2001: Doron Zisserman, 38, shot and killed in his car by Fatah sniper fire.-- Aug 26, 2001: Dov Rosman, 58, killed in a shooting attack by Fatah terrorist. -- Sept 6, 2001:  Erez Merhavi, 23, killed in a Fatah Tanzim ambush shooting near Hadera while driving to a wedding.
-- Sept 20, 2001: Sarit Amrani, 26, killed by Fatah terrorist snipers as she was traveling in a car with her husband and 3 children.-- Oct 4, 2001: 3 killed, 13 wounded, when a Fatah terrorist, dressed as an Israeli paratrooper, opened fire on Israeli civilians waiting at the central bus station in Afula. -- Nov 27, 2001 - 2 killed 50 injured when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd of people near the central bus station in Afula. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility.
-- Nov 29, 2001: 3 killed and 9 wounded in a suicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. -- Dec 12, 2001 - 11 killed and 30 wounded when three terrorists attacked a bus and several passenger cars with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades, and light arms fire near the entrance to Emmanuel in Samaria . Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.-- Jan. 3, 2002: Israelis intercept the Karine-A, a ship loaded with 50 tons of mortars, rocket launchers, anti-tank mines and other weapons intended for the Palestinian war against the Israelis. The captain admits he was under the command of the Palestinian Authority.--Jan 15, 2002:  Avi Boaz, 71, an American citizen, was kidnapped at a PA security checkpoint in Beit Jala. His bullet-riddled body was found in a car near Bethlehem. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.
--Jan 15, 2002: Yoela Chen, 45, was shot dead by an Al Aqsa Brigade terrorist -- Jan 17, 2002: 6 killed, 35 wounded when a Fatah terrorist burst into a bat mitzva reception in a banquet hall in Hadera opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle. -- Jan 22, 2002: 2 killed, 40 injured when a Fatah terrorist opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle near a bus stop in downtown Jerusalem.-- Jan. 27, 2002: One person was killed and more than 150 were wounded by a female Fatah suicide bomber in the center of Jerusalem. -- Feb 6, 2002 - A mother and her 11 year old daughter were murdered in their home by a Palestinian terrorist disguised in an IDF uniform. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility. -- Feb 18, 2002 :  - Ahuva Amergi, 30, was killed and a 60-year old man was injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on her car. Maj. Mor Elraz, 25,  and St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri, 21,  who came to their assistance, were killed while trying to intercept the terrorist. The terrorist was killed when the explosives he was carrying were detonated. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. -- Feb 22, 2002: Valery Ahmir, 59, was killed by terrorists in a Fatah drive-by shooting north of Jerusalem as he returned home from work.
-- Feb 25, 2002: Avraham Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, were killed in a Fatah terrorist shooting attack south of Bethlehem. Fish's daughter, 9 months pregnant, was seriously injured but delivered a baby girl.
-- Feb 25, 2002: Police officer 1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, died after being fatally shot, when a Fatah terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in the Neve Ya'akov residential neighbhorhood in northern Jerusalem. Eight others were injured.-- Feb 27, 2002: Gad Rejwan, 34, of Jerusalem, was shot and killed by one of his Palestinian employees in a factory north of Jerusalem. Two Fatah groups issued a joint statement taking responsibility for the murder. -- March 2, 2002: A suicide bombing by Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem killed 11 people and injured more than 50. -- Mar 5, 2002: 3 were killed and over 30 people were wounded in Tel-Aviv when a Fatah terrorist opened fire on two adjacent restaurants shortly after 2:00 AM.  -- Mar 5, 2002: Devorah Friedman, 45, of Efrat, was killed and her husband injured in a Fatah shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass "tunnel road", south of Jerusalem. -- Mar 9, 2002: Avia Malka, 9 months, and Israel Yihye, 27, were killed and about 50 people were injured when two Fatah terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya on Saturday evening, close to the city's boardwalk and hotels. --March 21, 2002: An Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bomber exploded himself in a crowd of shoppers in Jerusalem, killing 3 and injuring 86.-- March 29, 2002: Two killed and 28 injured when a female Fatah suicide bomber blew herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket. -- March 30, 2002: One killed and 30 injured in an Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. -- April 12, 2002: Six  killed and 104 wounded when a female Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bomber blew herself up at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market.  -- May 27, 2002: Ruth Peled, 56, of Herzliya and her infant granddaughter, aged 14 months, were killed and 37 people were injured when a Fatah suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. -- May 28, 2002 - Albert Maloul, 50, of Jerusalem, was killed when shots were fired by Fatah terrorists at the car in which he was traveling south on the Ramallah bypass road.-- May 28, 2002 - Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade terrorists killed Netanel Riachi, 17,  Gilad Stiglitz, 14, and Avraham Siton, 17,  three yeshiva high school students playing basketball.
-- June 19, 2002: Seven people were killed and 37 injured when a Fatah suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem. -- June 20, 2002: Rachel Shabo, 40, and three of her sons - Neria, 16, Zvika, 12, and Avishai, 5 - as well as a neighbor, Yosef Twito, 31, who came to their aid, were murdered when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar, south of Nablus, and opened fire. Two other children were injured, as well as two soldiers.  The PFLP and the Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
-- July 25, 2002: Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43, was killed in a Fatah shooting attack near the West Bank community of Alei Zahav.
-- July 26, 2002: St.-Sgt. Elazar Lebovitch, 21, of Hebron; Rabbi Yosef Dikstein, 45, of Psagot, his wife Hannah, 42, and their 9-year-old son Shuv'el Zion were killed in a Fatah Al Aqsa Brigade shooting attack south of Hebron. Two other of their children were injured. -- July 30, 2002: Shlomo Odesser, 60, and his brother Mordechai, 52, both of Tapuach in Samaria, were shot and killed when their truck came under Fatah fire in the West Bank village of Jama'in. -- Aug 4, 2002: 2 killed and 17 wounded when a Fatah terrorist opened fire with a pistol near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City.
-- Aug 5, 2002: Avi Wolanski (29) and his wife Avital (27), of Eli, were killed and one of their children, aged 3, was injured when terrorists opened fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road in Samaria. The Martyrs of the Palestinian Popular Army, a splinter group associated with Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack.
-- Aug 10, 2002: Yafit Herenstein, 31, of Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley, was killed and her husband, Arno, seriously wounded when a Fatah terrorist infiltrated the moshav and opened fire outside their home.
-- Sept 18, 2002: Yosef Ajami, 36, was killed when Fatah  terrorists opened fire on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank. -- Oct 29, 2002: Three people, including 2 fourteen year olds, were shot to death by a Fatah terrorist.-- Nov 10, 2002: Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons, Matan, 5, and Noam, 4, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz Metzer - and Tirza Damari, 42,  were killed when a Fatah terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire. -- Nov 28, 2002: 5 killed and 40 wounded when two Fatah terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She'an, near the central bus station, where party members were casting their votes in the Likud primary.
-- Apr 24, 2003 - 1 was killed and 13 were wounded in a suicide bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack.-- May 5, 2003 - Gideon Lichterman, 27, was killed and two other passengers, his six-year-old daughter Moriah and a reserve soldier, were seriously wounded when Fatah terrorists fired shots at their vehicle in Samaria.  -- May 19, 2003: 3 were killed and 70 were wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack. -- Aug 29, 2003:  Shalom Har-Melekh, 25, was killed in a Fatah shooting attack while driving northeast of Ramallah. His wife, Limor, who was seven months pregnant, sustained moderate injuries, and gave birth to a baby girl by Caesarean section. -- Jan 29, 2004: 11 people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.-- Mar 14, 2004: 10 were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. -- May 2, 2004: Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters - Hila, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, and Merav, 2 - of Katif in the Gaza Strip were killed when two Palestinian terrorists fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif. Fatah and Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack.