September 02, 2010
Remove the Check Points!
Another terror attack on Jewish civilians in Samaria.
But because they were settlers, it's no big deal. In fact, it's all their fault.
Sort of like abused wives who make their husbands beat them to a bloody pulp.
Anyhoo.
I have a fab-u-lous idea. Israel should dismantle even more check points as, y'know, a confidence building measure.
It will make the genocidal-yearning Palestinians even more confident that killing Jews is not only fun, but easy and made easier by Barack Obama who demanded the dismantling of vital check points in Judea and Samaria.
Case in point: a while ago I flew to N.Y. and there was a typically horrendous, snake-like security check point here in Los Angeles. It was like a block long and manned by surly and really rude TSA workers.
Right in front of me, a little old lady was pulled out of line—she was baffled, looked on the verge of a heart attack—and yanked into a private area for, I assume, a thorough body scan. Look, can you blame the TSA geniuses? Tons of terrorists fit her profile: Caucasian, Christian, about 75 years old, walking with a cane.
Your government at work.
But seriously, airport check points—brought to you overwhelmingly by Palestinian terrorists—should be dismantled.
Think about it.
Check points humiliate the traveler, strip him/her—and lets not forget all the beloved medicated pets—of their inherent human/animal/whatever dignity.
Check points are a sign of international aggression against, well, international peoples.
Check points are an insidious form of imperialist, colonialist, capitalist, Zionist/Jewish occupation.
It's also a breeding ground for sexual harrasement of really pretty women and, heck, let's face it, really pretty men.
Things in burqas have nothing to fear. No one knows if they're animal, mineral or vegetable, and if a TSA guy/gal tries to find out you can be sure CAIR and the ACLU will bring down dozens of law suits.
BTW, my wife Karen gets a lot more attention than yours truly. Go figure.
And talk about inconvenient. I often spend more time at check points than in flight to my destination.
Here' the thing that really drives me nuts: Stinky feet. Noxious socks. The airport smells like, well, a mosque or an NFL locker room. This is definitely something Al Gore should look into. I'm sure there's some humongous glacier melting into an ice cube because of all the foot emissions.
Look, dismantle the airport check points and maybe a few hundred planes will get blown out of the sky every month—c/o your peace-loving Islamists—but heck, we need confidence building measures with the Arab Muslim world.
Remove the airport check-points and peace will, um, explode.
Just as it has in Israel every time check points are dismantled.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at 09:59 AM | Comments (7)
September 01, 2010
The Murder Process
Yesterday, Seraphic Secret wrote about the Muslim desecration of Har Hazeitim, the Jewish cemetery on the Mt. of Olives.
We concluded:
When Arab Muslims trod on the graves of our dead, you can be certain that they have no regard for living Jews. The fiction of a peace process is a dangerous illusion. You cannot make peace with a culture that marinates in such barbarism.
A few hours after posting the piece, Palestinian terrorists murdered four Jews.
Here are the slain:
Yitzchak, 47, and Talia, 45, Imas, who leave behind six orphans aged 2 to 24 . Talia was nine months pregnant when she was murdered by the Islamist terrorists.
Avishai Shindler, 24, murdered on his first wedding anniversary.
Kokhava Even-Chaim, 37, a teacher in Efrat—where Karen and I have friends and family—is survived by her husband Maimon, a Zaka volunteer who discovered that his wife was one of the victims when he arrived on the scene. Kokhava leaves behind an eight year-old daughter.
These victims were traveling in a car near Kiryat Arba. When they halted at an intersection, Palestinian terrorists, lying in ambush, opened fire with automatic weapons. They dragged the wounded Jews from the car and riddled their bodies with hundreds of rounds. It was a brutal massacre, a Palestinian specialty.
H'YD, May HaShem avenge their blood.
Hamas and the Palestinian media referred to the murdered Jews as “settlers” and “rapists.”
Elder of Ziyon reports that The New York Times echoes this sentiment by labeling the victims settlers. In short, demonizing and blaming the victims.
Soccer Dad also takes the NYT times to task.
The dead were Jews.
Period.
That's why they were murdered.
And according to the Hamas covenant all Israelis are settlers because the entire state of Israel is considered occupied territory and part of a future Islamic caliphate.
Killing so-called settlers is simply a tactic designed to garner support from the useful idiots in the West for killing Jews. Especially the European useful idiots whose only regret about World War II is that Hitler's Final Solution was not, y'know, final.
Minutes after the murders took place, spontaneous celebrations broke out in Palestinian towns. Make no mistake about it, there is a groundswell of popular support among the Palestinians for eliminating Jews from the face of the earth.
There was a standard denunciation from the PA:
PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said the attack was "against Arab interests."
Disgusting. Not a word about right and wrong. Asserting only that the murders are bad publicity for the Arabs. I'm pretty sure it's the same language used by Arafat even as he unleashed his terrorists on the Jewish state.
Jews of conscience are reacting sensibly and with determination. The bigoted building freeze imposed by Barack Obama has been suspended immediately.
And Jews should build several towns in Judea and Samaria in memory of the four Jews who were slaughtered.
In fact, every time a Jew is murdered in the land of Israel, a new town should be founded. In this way, the Islamists know that there are consequences to their murderous actions.
The peace process is a farce. The murder process is a more apt description. Does anyone believe that the building freeze appeased the Palestinians? In fact, it emboldened them. They reasoned, quite logically, that they could not allow Barack Obama to be more Palestinian than they.
There is no reason to negotiate with an entity who is sworn to your destruction, save an appetite for national suicide, which is the ideological heart of the internatonal left.
Some conflicts are intractable. The U.S. and its allies during World War II understood that the only resolution to genocidal Nazism and Japanese Imperialism was total victory. Annihilate the enemy armies, destroy their homeland, dictate an unconditional surrender, and then build functioning democracies.
At some point, Israel and the freedom loving west will be compelled to follow the same strategy towards the Islamist Palestinians and the Islamist world.
The Islamists and their enablers must be brought to their knees and humiliated beyond endurance.
And please, don't talk to me about moderate Muslims.
They are about as relevant as were moderate Germans and moderate Japanese.
There is no substitute for total victory.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at 08:53 AM | Comments (19)
August 31, 2010
Muslim Tolerance in Action: Desecrating Jewish Graves
Jewish graves on the Mount of Olives deliberately destroyed by Arab Muslims.
You know how the Ground Zero Mosque Islamists claims that the purpose of the massive structure is to promote tolerance and interfaith dialogue.
Well, that was the intitial fiction. But that's been dropped because the aggression and rigidity are, well, obviously so not tolerant, so hostile and Islamist, that now, Mr. Feisal Abdul Rauf—“I don't believe in religious dialogue”—and his supporters tediously repeat the lie that this is about, ahem, religious freedom.
Well, religious freedom is not a problem in America.
The real problem is, gee, what a shock, in the Muslim world.
The Mount of Olives, an ancient—from biblical times Jews have buried their dead here—and a holy cemetery in Jerusalem, is being used by Muslims as a garbage dump.
Jewish graves have been desecrated and destroyed. Muslims regularly lead their donkeys across the gravestones.
Muslim children play soccer among the dead.
Of course, this is nothing new:
Jewish burials were halted in 1948, and massive vandalism took place from 1948-1967. During the nineteen years of Jordanian rule, 40,000 of the 50,000 graves were desecrated. King Hussein permitted the construction of the Intercontinental Hotel at the summit of the Mount of Olives together with a road that cut through the cemetery which destroyed hundreds of Jewish graves, some from the First Temple Period. After the Six-Day War, restoration work began, and the cemetery was re-opened for burials.
More here.
The Muslim world is a sea of Jew-hatred and intolerance.
The outrages continue. Even today, our dead are not spared.
...there was no area of Har Hazeisim [Mount of Olives] that was spared the wanton destruction, filth, and abuse. He said that neighboring Palestinians use the cemetery roads as a shortcut and on evenings parade their donkeys through the area. “I witnessed Palestinians walking on graves as if it were a pedestrian mall,” he said. His heart-wrenching video confirms the findings of State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss that Har Hazeisim has all but been abandoned by the Israeli government. Lubinsky met with officials in the Prime Minister’s office to lodge a strong protest at the government’s turning a blind eye to the systematic destruction of Har Hazeisim.
Snip.
Levin’s video shows graves that were recently deliberately destroyed by Palestinians living in nearby villages and in the cemetery. He found a fully functioning soccer field on Har Hazeisim with the goal posts being broken fragments of graves. He also found at least one dead animal between the graves, roving dogs, drug paraphernalia, and garbage strewn everywhere. Many of the Committee participants reported being victim to stones being hurled at them by youngsters and at least one participant had a Molotov cocktail thrown at his car.
When Arab Muslims trod on the graves of our dead, you can be certain that they have no regard for living Jews. The fiction of a peace process is a dangerous illusion. You cannot make peace with a culture that marinates in such barbarism.
Full story here.
The tombs of the Prophet Zecharia and of the Hezir family on the Mount of Olives.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at 08:16 AM | Comments (10)
August 02, 2010
Welcome Home Soldier, Not!
An Army sniper is suing the Ministry of Defence over a “catastrophic error” which put him and his family in danger of being kidnapped by al-Qaeda.
This morning, Dennis Prager discussed this story from Great Britain on his radio show.
Dennis pointed out that for the first time in memory, Western soldiers who fight the enemy overseas, are now under threat—at home.
Did American, British, or Australian soldiers fear for their lives when they returned to their families after the two World Wars?
Of course not.
They came home as heroes, secure that their sacrifices saved Western civilization.
Korean and Vietnam veterns never feared retaliation by domestic, communist allies.
But Islamist terrorists—a phrase the Obama WH refuses to utter—have created a new paradigm. Our soldiers and their families are at risk, threatened with kidnapping and beheading.
This is chilling, a reminder that transnational Islamists are a fifth column in Western democracies.
Police feared the soldier and his family could face retaliatory attacks by British-based Islamists after it was disclosed to the media that he had shot dead several Taliban gunmen at a range of 1.5 miles during during a tour in Helmand.
The soldier and his family were forced to leave the country amid fears that he was a possible target of a kidnap plot.
Full story at The Australian.
Two quick notes:
1. The distance from which this sniper worked—a mile and a half!—is just astonishing. This soldier might be the most skillful sniper on the face of the earth. He and his family deserve only the best from his country and all freedom loving people. The treatment he has received is disgraceful.
2. The IDF has some of the best snipers in the world, but their identities are classified, nor does the IDF make public their Confirmed Kills.
Here's a list of the Top Ten Snipers: http://military.discovery.com/technology/weapons/snipers/snipers-intro.html.
H/T Soccer Dad
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at 10:19 AM | Comments (10)
June 21, 2010
The Surrender of the West
Europeans believe that by throwing Israel/Jews to the Islamists, they will be spared. On the contrary. This betrayal will only embolden the Islamist barbarians.
The great Jewish Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky has a very simple and accurate test to determine if criticism of Israel is honest and constructive, or malignant Jew-hatred: The three D's:
1. Double standard.
2. Demonization.
3. Deligitimization.
By this standard, the so-called world community, and those on the international left, easily fall into the category of Jew-hatred.
Shelby Steele, one of the most articulate and moral voices in America, focuses on, ahem, world opinon, and its unholy alliance with the Islamist terrorists.
The most interesting voice in all the fallout surrounding the Gaza flotilla incident is that sanctimonious and meddling voice known as "world opinion." At every turn "world opinion," like a school marm, takes offense and condemns Israel for yet another infraction of the world's moral sensibility. And this voice has achieved an international political legitimacy so that even the silliest condemnation of Israel is an opportunity for self-congratulation.
Rock bands now find moral imprimatur in canceling their summer tour stops in Israel (Elvis Costello, the Pixies, the Gorillaz, the Klaxons). A demonstrator at an anti-Israel rally in New York carries a sign depicting the skull and crossbones drawn over the word "Israel." White House correspondent Helen Thomas, in one of the ugliest incarnations of this voice, calls on Jews to move back to Poland. And of course the United Nations and other international organizations smugly pass one condemnatory resolution after another against Israel while the Obama administration either joins in or demurs with a wink.
This is something new in the world, this almost complete segregation of Israel in the community of nations. And if Helen Thomas's remarks were pathetic and ugly, didn't they also point to the end game of this isolation effort: the nullification of Israel's legitimacy as a nation? There is a chilling familiarity in all this. One of the world's oldest stories is playing out before our eyes: The Jews are being scapegoated again.
Full article here.
H/T Jonathan R.
And this video demonstrates, quite clearly, to whom the West has surrendered. A culture that indoctrinates its children into a belief that murder and mayhem are the highest value.
Make no mistake about it, these cute little Arab Muslim children will, in a few years, be blowing themselves up in your local shopping center.
I keep hearing about the “legitimate claims of the Palestinian people.”
There is nothing legitimate about a genocidal yearning religion and culture.
In fact, any group that abuses its children in such a way has no claim to any land, for they are beyond civilization.
Such a people should be isolated and told that until they reform the madness that is their culture, they deserve nothing but contempt.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at 08:34 AM | Comments (11)
June 09, 2010
Spitting on the Graves at the World Trade Center
Make no mistake about it, the Islamist plan to build a thirteen story mosque a few feet from Ground Zero is a terrorist strategy designed to illustrate the triumph of Islam.
Islam is and has always been an imperialist doctrine.
And they have set their sights on America by conquering New York.
Feisal Abdul Rauf , the Imam who's leading this effort, is a stealth terrorist, what Richard Landes labels as a Demopath, “Someone who presents himself and his companions as pacifists and lovers of humanity even as he chants jihadi songs about wiping out whole populations.” Richard cogently argues that, “Demopathy is perhaps jihad's greatest weapon, precisely because we are so receptive to claims of good will and peaceful intent.”
Following the Islamist playbook, they will attempt to build their mosque in the name of peace and reconciliation and then before you know it, the soil will be declared a waqf, and non-believers will be banned.
You think that's a wild fantasy?
The Muslims deliberately built a mosque where the First and Second Jewish Temples stood.
And try entering Mecca if you're a non-Muslim.
You will have your head handed to you—literally.
Let's go to the video:
H/T Kishke
Further reflections on the mosque at Ground Zero:
H/T David Suissa
By the way, did you know that there was a massive protest in Manhattan the other day?
American citizens, unlike the spineless politicians who bow at the altar of multiculturalism, recognize this mosque as a declaration of war and a further act of Islamist mass murder.
From World Net Daily:
As many as 10,000 protesters from across the country — including family members who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001 — took to the streets in New York City Sunday to fight construction of a 13-story Islamic mosque to be built just steps from Ground Zero where Muslim terrorists murdered 2,751 people in the name of Allah.
Now the organizers plan to sue the federal government to designate the site as a war memorial.
The following are some photos of the protest posted by various blogs:
H/T Eileen Wohlgelernter
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at 08:02 AM | Comments (5)
April 27, 2010
The Dhimmis of Hollywood
Dhimmitude: an attitude of concession, surrender and appeasement towards Islamic demands.
South Park, equal opportunity satirists, have finally met their match.
No, not the Islamist barbarians who have issued an indirect fatwa against South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the unforgivable crime of satirizing the notion of Muhammed's appearance.
The veiled threat posted on a jihadist website, is, I'm afraid, totally expected.
It is Hollywood itself that has betrayed Parker and Stone.
In the episode—I viewed the original before it was censored—Muhammed was shown inside a U-haul, inside a mascot's uniform, and finally as a child's stick figure drawing.
It was hilarious.
And deadly.
I knew immediately that Parker and Stone would be threatened with a fatwa.
Radical Islam is on the march, and unlike Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism, Islam demands that non-Muslims submit to their beliefs.
I was also not surprised when Comedy Central censored the episode. Every single reference to Mohammed was bleeped, like a dirty word.
The original episode cannot even be viewed on You Tube.
Islam means submission, and making Hollywood submit to a bunch of deranged Islamic fascists turned out to be easy as pie.
Look, the official position of the Obama administration is that the U.S. is fighting "terrorists in overseas contingency operations.” Not, mind you, Islamist terrorists who subscribe to Salafist Islam.
So why should Hollywood identify an enemy that Obama says does not exist?
Remember when you first heard about Arab Muslim suicide bombings?
They were directed against Jews in Israel.
You were horrified, right?
But there was no great outcry.
In fact, the left reliably defended these terrorist outrages, claiming that the poor oppressed Arabs had no choice against the powerful and evil Jooz.
Consequently, suicide/homicide bombings metastasized in every Muslim battleground across the earth. And now when the bombs go off and body parts are scattered what do you do?
Yawn.
The same with beheadings.
When Daniel Pearl was beheaded you shuddered. This is not possible, you said to yourself. What kind of barbarians commit such acts.
But at the same time you were assured by, ahem, moderate Muslims in America, that Islam is the religion of peace.
Peace means the absence of conflict, so when enough people are beheaded, well, there you go:
Welcome to the peaceful Islamist landscape.
And when the Afghan Taliban exploded the ancient Bamiyan Buddhist statues, again, you were horrified.
But the West did nothing.
After all, it's their culture, and all cultures and religions are the same.
The liberal Hollywood elite—who bravely compared President Bush to Hitler—will submit.
In fact, a prominent Hollywood producer said to me: “Parker and Stone should have known better.”
Thus, the victims become the aggressors.
It's like cutting off a man's leg and blaming him for limping.
Producers will insist on alternative antagonists: Neo-Nazis, right-wing militias, Evangelical Christians, Tea Party members, multinational corporations, the Pope, and oh yes, the frightening Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.
Comedy Central should have run the episode. And every network and cable station should have broadcast the episode at the very same time.
The American airwaves should have been wall to wall with this episode.
Such defiance is the only way to fight radical Islam.
But cowardice and appeasement have won the day.
Welcome to Dhimmi Hollywood.
Where the future bodes well for 7th century Islam.
The future for Parker and Stone is less certain. Like the novelist Salman Rushdie, and the courageous freedom fighter Ayaan Hirsi Ali, both threatened with murder via fatwa, they will need 24/7 security.
I strongly recommend former Israeli commandos who provide such services.
Unlike President Obama, these men know the enemy well.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at 08:51 AM | Comments (19)
March 15, 2010
The World Made Judenrein
Fatah just held a ceremony in Ramallah, naming a central square in honor of a terrorist. Keep in mind that Fatah are viewed as “moderates.”
Also keep in mind that Barack Hussein Obama has created a major crisis with Israel over Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish neighborhood in Jewish Jerusalem in the Jewish State.
Not a word from Obama, Biden, Clinton, or Axelrod about Fatah's glorification of Jew-killing.
Let's take a look at the bloodbath these savages choose to honor:
On the morning of March 11, 1978, [Dalai] Mughrabi and her Palestinian unit of eleven members, including one other woman, landed on an Israeli beach, killed an American photographer named Gail Rubin and hijacked a taxi, killing its occupants. They proceeded along the coastal highway shooting at traffic along the way. They next hijacked a bus and later a second bus, from which the passengers were transferred to the first one. The bus was finally stopped at a police roadblock. A shooting battle ensued. Eventually, Mughrabi blew up the bus which became a large deathtrap of fire. Many of the passengers were killed. In total, Mughrabi and her team killed 37 people, including at least 10 children. Some 71 people were wounded. Mughrabi and several other attackers died.Via Wikipedia
Look, I have no illusions about the so-called Palestinians. They are a proudly Jew-hating group who have no desire to establish a state, only to destroy Israel.
The so-called peace process is a fool's errand.
For the forseeable future, Israel can only manage the crisis.
Peace will come, as it did to Japan and Germany, when the West—meaning America—gets fed up and utterly lays waste the Arab Muslim terrorist states.
Arab Muslim terrorists cannot be appeased.
The beast is always hungry.
Unconditional surrender is the only language barbarians comprehend.
Barack Hussein Obama spent over twenty years as a faithful member of Jeremiah Wright's openly anti-American, Jew-hating Church. Obama is a man of the hard left who has spent his entire life in the company of fashionable anti-Zionists and rabid Jew-haters. It's in his intellectual DNA.
The notion that he is a reliable ally to Israel is proof that the 78% of American Jews who voted for Barack Hussein Obama exist in a willfull state of cognitive dissoanance.
Here's the crux of the matter: Barack Hussein Obama cannot dictate where Jews can and cannot live.
Jews have the right to live anywhere and everywhere.
We have the right to live in Ramat Shlomo, Brooklyn, Paris, Cairo, London, Los Angeles, etc.
Once you accept the notion that one patch of earth is legitimately made Judenrein, than the Jewish people are doomed.
And then the Arab Muslims will come for you.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at 09:26 AM | Comments (18)
December 28, 2009
Suicide in Slow Motion
Flying is unbearable.
Not because we're jammed like sardines into a steel tube and frequently treated like cheap luggage by the obviously unhappy flight attendants.
No, air travel is a horror because radical Islam has terrorized the entire planet. If we did not have checkpoints in every airport, in every terminal, death would endlessly rain from the skies.
I'm always amused by those who decry the Israeli checkpoints that are maintained in order to thwart terrorist attacks.
Checkpoints in Israel are not restricted to the movement of Arab Muslims.
No, when you go to a mall in Israel you have to pass through a checkpoint. If you go to the movies, checkpoint. Restaurant, cafe, department store—everyone passes through a checkpoint.
In Israel, checkpoints are a way of life. The citizenry, right wing, left wing, Jew, Muslim, Mormon, Christian, Druze, Coptic, Catholic, Samaritan, Russian Orthodox, whatever, everyone submits because checkpoints are designed to protect, well, everyone.
The PLO pioneered airline terrorism—who says Islam isn't an innovator?—and ever since their reign of terror began in the 60's the world is held hostage by a growing number of caliphate Muslims, creatures who yearn for the 7th century even as they use the technology of the 21st century to bring about Armageddon.
When I move through our airports and observe the TSA workers, I do not feel safe. That's because the TSA workers seem more like the product of some dopey works program. They are interchangeable with the angry bureaucrats at the DMV or the U.S. Post Office.
This is a stark contrast to the intense and eagle-eyed El Al security agents who are actually trained in counter terrorism, and whose methods are mostly invisible and involve vetting passengers before they get to the airport.
The terrorists are not stupid. They continually test the system, reverse engineering the security methods that are in effect.
Next, I suppose we'll be subject to underwear checks.
But the terrorists will quickly identify the weak points that spring up and exploit them to the fullest.
How about profiling Arab Muslims?
It's common sense.
But profiling is not that simple. As I said, reverse engineering will activate a plague of new assets, Islamic converts who hold American or Canadian passports, thereby allowing them to escape an unsophisticated profiling dragnet.
Make no mistake about it, proper profiling includes not just looking at Arabs or Muslims, but a deeper penetration of the passenger's social, religious and economic background. The Israelis do it every hour of the day, that's why El Al is the safest airline to travel. And if we in the West are to beat these human monsters, then we must rid ourselves of political correctness and move aggressively to a real world war against Islamic terror.
Israel Matzav has a fine and informative post about security and profiling at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport.
It's quite simple, you look for terrorists, not for bombs or explosives.
If we don't follow this common sense and proven model we are doomed to certain defeat.
Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano assured us yesterday that “the system worked.”
It's hard to tell if she's just a political hack or a complete moron.
Either way, she should be fired.
The system failed hugely.
The battle against Islamic terror should be an offensive war focused on thwarting the next plot. But the Obama administration seems resolved to treat transnational terrorism as an ordinary criminal matter, which seeks civil prosecution after the attack, after the bodies have been stacked like fire wood.
This is exactly the wrong way to defeat the terrorists, and we can expect new, arbitrary and useless rules to make airline travel even more miserable.
Take a look at some of the new rules:
I have only contempt for the fools who proposed these idiotic measures.
We should also point out that the closing of Gitmo does not seem to have endeared us to our caliphate enemies.
Nor does Obama's multi-cultural outreach to the Muslim world.
And don't you feel all warm and fuzzy inside knowing that Obama is repatriating approximately 80—that's not a typo—Gitmo detainees to, um, Yemen, a failed Muslim state, fast turning into a comfortable forward base for caliphate Muslims.
That should work out nicely.
The incredibly wealthy—hey, what happened to poverty as the root cause of terrorism?—Nigerian Muslim who almost slaughtered a planeload of innocent people on Christmas day, failed to accomplish his mission because of a faulty detonator and a few brave passengers. Now, he's being read his Miranda rights and will, no doubt, get a fine Jewish lawyer from the ranks of the odious ACLU.
This terrorist is an illegal enemy combatant and should be turned over to the military for vigorous interrogation. But now that he's in custody he cannot be properly questioned.
He is being afforded the exact same constitutional rights as any American citizen.
This is madness, suicide in slow motion.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at 08:57 AM | Comments (23)
November 16, 2009
KSM Trial Intel Gift to al Qaeda
The decision to afford KSM and his Islamist gang all the civil rights of American citizens and alien residents is a nakedly political maneuver designed to accomplish three goals that are at the ideological heart of the Obama administration:
1. Declare that there is no war against transnational terrorism, thus treating terror attacks as a criminal matter.
2. Put the Bush administration on trial.
3. Abolish the notion of American citizenship in favor of an amorphous international citizenship.
Military tribunals are a time honored and effective method of dealing with foreign combatants. The U.S. has made use of military tribunals since The Revolutionary War.
The use of civilian courts prove to the jihadists that America is not only weak but stupid. The Islamic terrorists have told us, again and again, that they are at war with us, that they wish to annihilate the west, and yet the left refuses to connect the dots.
But there as even more pernicious danger to the use of civilian courts for Islamist war crimes, the spilling of valuable intelligence.
'This is a prosecutorial decision as well as a national security decision," President Barack Obama said last week about the attorney general's announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda operatives will be put on trial in New York City federal court.
No, it is not. It is a presidential decision—one about the hard, ever-present trade-off between civil liberties and national security.
Trying KSM in civilian court will be an intelligence bonanza for al Qaeda and the hostile nations that will view the U.S. intelligence methods and sources that such a trial will reveal. The proceedings will tie up judges for years on issues best left to the president and Congress.
Whether a jury ultimately convicts KSM and his fellows, or sentences them to death, is beside the point. The treatment of the 9/11 attacks as a criminal matter rather than as an act of war will cripple American efforts to fight terrorism. It is in effect a declaration that this nation is no longer at war.
Full article by John Yoo at The Wall Street Journal.
Andrew McCarthy weighs in with an ever darker analysis:
The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other top al-Qaeda terrorists to New York City for a civilian trial is one of the most irresponsible ever made by a presidential administration. That it is motivated by politics could not be more obvious. That it spells unprecedented danger for our security will soon become obvious.
The five 9/11 plotters were originally charged in a military commission. Military commissions have been approved by Congress and the courts. Eleven months ago, the jihadists were prepared to end the military case by pleading guilty and proceeding to execution. Plus, the Obama administration is continuing the commission system for other enemy combatants accused of war crimes. If we are going to have military commissions for any war criminals, it is senseless not to have them for the worst war criminals. In sum, there is no good legal or policy rationale for transferring these barbarians to the civilian justice system. Doing so will prompt a hugely costly three-ring circus of a trial, provide a soapbox for al-Qaeda’s anti-American bile, and create a public-safety nightmare for New York City.
There is, however, a patent political rationale behind Obama’s decision.
Full article here.
Rudy Giuliani nails it:
Part I
Part II
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at 08:48 AM | Comments (4)
November 09, 2009
Political Correctness Kills
There were plenty of explicit warnings that Hasan was an Islamist terrorist living comfortably in the bosom of the American military.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America's Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.
He also told colleagues at America's top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July.
Colleagues had expected a discussion on a medical issue but were instead given an extremist interpretation of the Koran, which Hasan appeared to believe.
But why weren't there any whistle blowers?
A few paragraphs down we are hit with the explanation:
One Army doctor who knew him said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim soldier had stopped fellow officers from filing formal complaints.
Read the full story here.
...fear of appearing discriminatory...
The virus of political correctness has infected even our military.
Democracies always balance freedom and security. That's a given. But when fighting a multi-front war against a fanatic enemy, one must use common sense and err on the side of safety.
But for this cancer of radical liberal thought, thirteen young men and women would be alive today.
Meanwhile, we should view the Fort Hood terrorist massacre in the context of a popular internet call for decentralized Arab Muslim terrorism.
Counterterrorism blog notes that radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki's sermon "Constants on the Path of Jihad" has become a bible, er Koran, for lone wolf Muslim terrorists:
“Jihad does not end with the disappearance of a person. Jihad must continue regardless because it does not depend on any particular leader or individual… Jihad does not depend on any particular land. It is global. When the Muslim is in his land, he performs jihad… No borders or barriers stop it. The message cannot be conveyed without jihad. If a particular people or nation is classified as… ‘the people of war’ in the Shariah, that classification applies to them all over the earth. Islam cannot be customized to suit the conditions where you are, for instance Europe.”
Full analysis at Counterterrorism blog.
We should also be aware that the Arab-Muslim war against Israel is not a regional conflict concerning borders or so-called refugees—that's just a convenient justification. It is, in fact—and far too many Israelis don't comprehend this—part of a transnational Arab-Muslim war against “Jews, Crusaders and other infidels.”
The enemy is not at the gates.
The enemy has already breached the gates.
And the leftist media, at every turn, protect and enable the Islamists who are determined to destroy western civilization. How many times have we heard the chattering classes say: “It's not clear if religion is a motivating factor in the Ft. Hood attack...”
These people are not stupid. They are, however, supplicants at the idol of multiculturalism, a religion which posits that all people are the same, all religions are equal, and all we need to do is understand one other.
In truth, the Islamists understand us just perfectly.
But many of us don't understand the Islamists.
And this can be fatal for a civilization.
To get a clear-eyed view of the Isamist war against us I urge you to screen The Third Jihad, Radical islam's View of America.
In 72 minutes, the film reveals that radical Islamists driven by a religiously motivated rejection of western values cultures and religion are engaging in a multifaceted strategy to overcome the western world. In contrast to the use of “violent jihad” and terror to instill fear in “non-believers,” The Third Jihad introduces the concept of “cultural jihad” as a means to infiltrate and undermine our society from within.
This is a superb film that is politically incorrect.
Which means that it does not deny facts.
Have you noticed that President Barack Hussein Obama has never publicly uttered the phrase Islamic terrorist, or Islamic radical.
If ever anyone deserved the death penalty, Hasan is the poster boy for capital punishment. But I have little doubt that he will get jail time and then, probably, an early release for good behavior.
Update #1: Hasan frequented a strip club near Fort Hood. Not a big shock. There is a well documented history and pattern of devout Muslim terrorists getting their jollies before committing their murderous acts.
Update #2: The story is rapidly devolving into incompetence and insanity.
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.
Full story here.
Update #3: And hey, look at all the moderate Muslims out in the streets protesting this heinous act.
Not really.
Silence = acceptance.
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November 05, 2009
Massacre at Fort Hood
Once again, we must point out that the terrorist attack at Fort Hood—12 dead, 31 wounded—the murderer is wounded and in custody—is not a tragedy but an atrocity.
The name of the terrorist has been released: Malik Nadal Hasan, a Major in the U.S. Army.
Hot Air is providing regular updates.
Look for claims that Hasan was the victim of harassment.
The media keep talking about the search for a motive.
This is politically correct babble.
The motive is religious: Islam's ideological love affair with jihad.
Counter Terrorism Blog writes that the Ft. Hood massacre is the largest terror act since 9/11.
As long as the West dodges this simple truth we will continue to lose ground to the Caliphate Muslims who seek transnational dominance under the banner of Sharia.
Waiting for President George Bush to catch the blame for this latest act of terrorism.
Or Israel, yeah, always safe blaming the Jews.
Seraphic Secret extends our most sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of the innocent victims.
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July 02, 2009
Full Body Shmatte and the Assault on Civilization
Recently, France banned the burqa—excellent move—and of course, Al Qaeda has promised revenge.
I'm sure the ACLU would argue that if you ban the burqa the next step is banning yarmulkes.
But honestly, those who wear yarmulkes—Orthodox Jews like yours truly—are not seeking to undermine the West and replace democratic, freedom loving societies with a barbaric 7th Century Islamic theocracy where Jews are eliminated, homosexuals are hanged, public beheadings are frequent, women are stoned to death, and all minority religions are oppressed.
Let's face it, the burqa is part and parcel of the Islamist war against western civilization.
Pop Quiz: To whom do you think the women wearing burqas are married?
The first rule of war is: know your enemy.
Predictably, Barack Hussein Obama chooses to turn this bit of obvious wisdom on its head. Like all leftists, Obama redefines enemies as friends and friends as enemies.
In leftist circles— a group deeply attracted to totalitarian impulses—this is called “nuanced thinking.”
Pat Condell makes you laugh out loud, but as with all great comedy, his observations have the unmistakable ring of truth.
New York has a law, dating from 1845, that allows loitering charges against someone who is "masked or in any manner disguised by unusual or unnatural attire or facial alteration."
Simply put, the masks are a security threat.
Naturally, the KKK claims that the law is unconstitutional.
I am not a lawyer and I have no idea if it's unconstitutional or not.
I'm just an average American citizen with some common sense, and I don't believe that the Constitution is a document that compels national suicide.
Further, it seems to me that masked people—we have no idea if they're male or female, because they're wearing full body shmattes—are an implicit threat to civilized society.
I mean, look, when a masked, uh, thing, walks into a bank, what's the natural reaction?
You shoot them.
It's called self-defense.
Phyllis Chesler explores the issue of banning the burqa in America. She's also taking a poll and I voted, duh, Yes.
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June 11, 2009
Honey, Supper's in the Oven, I'm Out Killing Jews
A few observations:
1. The video material that makes up the bulk of this news report is a not-so-slick promo film staged by the public relations department of Hamas, hence it is propaganda.
2. The intent of the propaganda is to give the illusion that Arab Muslim women in Gaza are enthusiastically training to kill Jews. But, the film emphasizes that these women are, at the same time, devoted mothers and wives. It's the Arab Muslim version of the upwardly mobile woman who, in Vogue cover speak, can “have it all.”
3. The truth is somewhat different: Arab Muslim female terrorists are not gun-toting front line terrorists. Their role is confined to homicide bombings. And in almost every case the woman has been mentally challenged or shamed into the murderous act because of a disgraceful divorce, charges of adultery, unforgivable spinsterhood—whatever works to purge the undesirable female from the umma.
4. Not content to abuse an entire generation of Muslim children through rabid Jew-hating indoctrination, Palestinian culture now moves to normalize this pathology among mothers and wives. In the past, female terrorists were almost exclusively single women. Arab Muslim culture views the womb as a valuable source of flesh destroying shrapnel.
5. These female terrorists are firmly embedded and glorified in Gaza—the Palestinian State. It is a state that ethnically cleansed itself of 9,000 Jews, a state whose charter calls for genocide against the Jewish people, a state that declares its final goal not a Palestinian state but an Islamic Caliphite. Barack Hussein Obama's demand for a two-state solution by 2011 is, in fact, a call for Israel to commit national suicide.
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June 10, 2009
I Was Raped By The Taliban And I liked It...
Joanie de Rijke, feminist friend to the Taliban.
Ever wonder why so-called western “feminists” rarely protest the savage oppression of women in Muslim countries?
In Afghanistan women who try and get an education regularly have acid thrown in their faces. Or they are murdered in the streets. In Saudi Arabia women are forbidden to drive. All over the Muslim world so-called honor killings are everyday occurrences.
And yet western feminists are silent, reserving their energies for pro-abortion activism—including barbaric third term abortions—and advocating for changing the traditional definition of marriage.
It's safe to say that most secular western feminists are leftists and their world view is a fashionable cocktail of Marxism, multi-culturalism, moral equivalence and a strong dose of tolerance—if not downright admiration—for the most intolerant fanatics who stalk this earth.
And the poster child for this world view is Dutch leftist/feminist/journalist Joanie de Rijke who was kidnapped by the Taliban and serially raped for six days until a ransom of $137,000 was paid by the Dutch government.
Joanie de Rijke traveled to Afghanistan to conduct a “sympathetic
interview” with Taliban Islamists who killed ten French troops.
I believed that rape is evil.
I believe that rapists should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
I believe that victims of rape—and I heard lots of rape stories when I was researching a film in prison, so I include homosexual rape in this equation—have been violated in ways that can almost never be psychically expunged.
But what do I know.
I'm not an enlightened progressive.
Most women who get repeatedly raped while being held captive might find that a tad objectionable. Not Joanie de Rijke, 43 year old left wing Dutch journalist who traveled to Afghanistan expecting to interview members of the Taliban. Taken captive by a Taliban commander, she was repeatedly raped by her Muslim captor while awaiting payment of a ransom. He even invited her to have a threesome with one of his three wives. After the ransom was paid and Ms. de Rijke was released, she defended her captor, saying she bore no animus: “I do not want to depict the Taliban as monsters. I am not angry with Ghazi Gul. After all, he let me live” and, she added, "they . . . respected me" and that they gave her "tea and biscuits.”
Tea, biscuits... and rape.
Sounds like a new trend.
By the way, don't make the mistake of assuming this woman is crazy, or suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. Nothing of the sort. She is eminently sane. And she sympathized with her abductors and rapists before the crimes were committed. No, this creature is a perfect product of left wing dhimmitude. How much do you want to bet that Joanie despises Israel and spends lots of energy denouncing Israel—Israel bashing is popular among feminists—as a colonial, apartheid regime.
To read the full story, please head on over to Wolf Howling, one of the smartest bloggers in the known universe.
Excellent article by Dore Gold on Israeli Settlements and U.S. Policy. Gold sketches in historical facts that the Obama administration conveniently ignores, or of which they are completely ignorant. Most likely a combination.
Israeli settlements in the territories captured in the 1967 Six-Day War date back more than forty years. They began as military and agricultural outposts that were located for the most part in strategically significant areas of the West Bank which Israel planned to eventually claim. These settlements were also situated in areas from which Jews had been evicted [by Arabs] during the 1948 War. While the U.S. did not support the settlement enterprise, its response to the settlements has varied in intensity, depending on the overall relationship between the two countries.
For the complete article, click here.
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May 26, 2009
Jihad Against Starbucks
A Manhattan Starbucks was bombed early this morning.
It's not widely reported but Jihadists have targeted the Starbucks chain because the logo, according to these Jew-haters, represents the Jewish Queen Esther.
It's easy to laugh at such obvious lunacy, but this conspiracy world view—Jews control everything—is the norm in the Muslim world. Such easy narratives serve to explain why the Muslim world is steeped in squalor, violence and ignorance.
The Terror Wonk explains it all.
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April 20, 2009
“The Jews Are Our Enemies Because They Are Infidels, Not Because They Occupied Palestine”
Seraphic Secret has long maintained that the Arab-Muslim war against Israel has nothing to do with land, boundaries, so-called refugees, so-called occupation, or national aspirations. Let's face it, the so-called Palestinian people had a state in 1948 via the U.N. partition plan, but they and five Arab armies chose to invade Israel in an attempted war of annihilation.
No, the Arab-Muslim war against Israel is a war against Jews, against Judaism, a slow motion war with genocide as the end-game.
Of course, the Hamas Covenant states all this quite proudly.
And the PLO charter is equally articulate in its genocidal yearnings.
Naturally, liberal totalitarian enablers in the West choose to ignore basic facts in favor of so-called, ahem, reasoned criticism of Israel — unhinged Jew-hatred in disguise.
Thus, it's nice to hear a Muslim cleric, in the “moderate” Arab state of Qatar, give voice to the frothing Jew-hatred that is a core belief of Islam.
The following is an excerpt from a Friday sermon delivered by Qatari cleric Sheik Muhammad Al-Muraikhi, which aired on Qatar TV on January 9, 2009.
Sheik Muhammad Al-Muraikhi:
We do not treat the Jews as our enemies just because they occupied Palestine, or because they occupied a precious part of our Arab and Islamic world. We will treat the Jews as our enemies even if they return Palestine to us, because they are infidels. They rejected Allah and His messengers.
Source: MEMRI
Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. And of course the Durban Hatefest, U.N. sponsored—that's a shocker—featured Iranian President Ahmadinejad denying the Holocaust while promising a new Holocaust.
France led the walk-out.
Merci.
Western allies followed.
They should not have attended this travesty in the first place.
Though the Congressional Black Caucus disagrees.
Hey, what would happen if a Congressional White Caucus was formed?
Or get this: A Congressional Jewish Caucus?
You and I already know the answer.
Meanwhile, let's hear it for The U.S., Israel, Canada, Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and New Zealand who refused to attend.
The Arab states, their totalitarian South American and African enablers applauded Ahmadinejad wildly.
The contrast between good and evil could not be more stark.
At Durban not one word about 4 million people murdered in Congo.
Not one word about genocide in Darfur.
Not one word about the murder of homosexuals in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Not one word about the so-called honor killings and repression of women everywhere in the Arab-Muslim world.
Not one word about the rape of young boys and girls by the Taliban.
Not one word about Cuba's gulag of political prisoners.
Not one word about the mad tyranny of Hugo Chavez or Daniel Ortega, brutal men who lead regimes that are built on abuse of human rights and government sponsored Jew-hatred.
Not one word about the cesspool of Jew-hatred that characterizes every Arab society on the planet.
No, these human monsters of the U.N. endlessly attack Israel, the Jewish State.
I greatly look forward to the day when Israel turns the Iranian nuclear facilities to dust and ashes.
Even more, I look forward to the day when we are no longer dependent on Middle East oil and the Jew-hating Arab Muslim states return to their default condition: tribal barbarians forever murdering one another upon an ocean of sand and useless oil.
Seraphic Secret is happy to announce that one of our favorite bloggers, Wolf Howling, after a too long hiatus, has returned to the blogosphere. His posts are articulate and deeply informative. Do bookmark the always excellent Wolf Howling.
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April 12, 2009
Somali Pirates: One Lesson
Ava Gardner says, “Well done, boys!”
Okay, kids, time for a pop quiz: What lesson do we learn from today's magnificent rescue operation of Capt. Phillips by our Navy?
1. Negotiate with terrorists.
2. Let the U.N. handle the situation.
3. Count on the, ahem, international community for support.
4. Pay ransom to the terrorists.
5. Allow the U. S. military to mount an operation and kill the terrorists.
If you choose #1, 2, 3, or 4, you are a moron.
G-d bless our military. G-d bless Capt. Phillips.
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March 23, 2009
Kuwait: Yearning for Mass Murder
H/T David Suissa
As you watch this video, keep the following in mind:
1. Al Jazeera, the TV station that broadcast this murderous filth is state owned, thus the message has been vetted and approved by the government of Qatar.
2. Qatar is considered a moderate Arab/Muslim state.
3. To this designation, the mind reels.
4. No doubt the inept President Obama will soon appear on Kuwaiti late night television to soothe their, um, genocidal dreams.
5. Or maybe send them a home made video wishing them a happy something or other. Because the message to Iran was so well received.
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March 19, 2009
Nuanced Language to the Rescue: Man-Caused Disasters
Man-Caused disasters in training.
The German magazine, Der Spiegel, conducted an interview with Janet Napolitano, Obama's pick for Secretary of Homeland Security.
Spiegel: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word "terrorism." Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?
Napolitano: Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word "terrorism," I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.
Is this just a matter of semantics?
No, not really. Her terminology—Orwellian is too kind a term—is a signal that the inept Obama administration not only refuses to identify Islamic terror as the enemy of civilization, but puts us all on notice that terror is not really, er terror. There are just some annoying disasters brought about by unknown homo sapiens.
I have news for President Barack Obama and an administration that seems more suited to high school student council: The radical Islamic world declared jihad against the West in 1979, and has been waging this war—with maximum cruelty—ever since.
If you cannot even name the enemy then you are either a fool or an enabler of terror.
Let's quote from Sun Tzu's The Art of War:
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Obama and co. are going to get us killed.
Soccer Dad provides more food for thought on this story.
Meanwhile, let's hear from President Obama's teleprompter. He never leaves anywhere without it. Pathetic, yet LOL funny.
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March 11, 2009
The British Fight Back
Seraphic Secret has expressed deep concern about England's spineless policies towards its radical Muslim population. The Jew-hating Caliphite Muslims grow bolder, their language more virulent with each passing day, and the British government hunkers down behind politically correct pronouncements and self-destructive policies of appeasement.
But, as several British subjects have told Seraphic Secret, there is a disconnect between the chattering classes and the British people.
When radical Muslims heaped abuse on British soldiers returning from Iraq, the British people responded:
A home-coming march by soldiers returning from Iraq has been marred by ugly scenes after Muslim anti-war protesters hurled abuse at the parade.
Around 20 men in Islamic dress held up banners and placards saying 'Anglian Soldiers Butchers of Basra'', 'Anglian Soldiers Criminals, Murderers Terrorists' and 'Baby killers.'
The protest took place as 200 soldiers from 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, known as the Poachers, paraded through Luton.
Riot police were forced to intervene when a number of locals, waving St George's flags then turned on the protesters shouting 'scum" and 'no surrender to the Taliban' .
Police dogs and riot vans were also called to the scene to keep the two sides apart.
Luton's Mayor Councillor Lakhbir Singh said: 'The Royal Anglian Regiment was given freedom of the town some years ago and we are proud to welcome them back.'
The home-coming march was led by a military band through Luton to mark their return home from a second six-month tour of Iraq in two years.
The 2nd Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, 'The Poachers' are a light role Infantry Battalion based in Celle in Northern Germany as part of 7th Armoured Brigade, 'The Desert Rats.
Full story here.
This is a clip of British citizens turning, with righteous anger, on the radical Muslims. Hopefully, what we're seeing is a revival of the great fighting spirit that animated this people to resist Nazi Germany when the rest of the world lay supine. Let's roll the videotape:
And speaking of terrorist enablers, Chas Freeman, the Saudi and Chinese dupe Obama nominated—oh yeah, Obama's Israel's friend—as Director of The National Intelligence Council, blames the Jooz. What a shock.
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February 17, 2009
They Are Here
Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local Muslim community — reported her death to police Thursday.
Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.
"He came to the police station at 6:20 p.m. [Thursday] and told us that she was dead," Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said late this morning.
Muzzammil Hassan told police that his wife was at his business, Bridges TV, on Thorn Avenue in the village. Officers went to that location and discovered her body.
Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light.
A job well done.
Full story here.
A few quick observations:
1. This atrocity is not being covered by the mainstream media.
2. The reason is obvious: The more the public learns about those who practice Islam the more repugnant it becomes. Those who believe in multiculturalism cannot bear the intellectual whiplash of a delusional belief that clashes with reality. Phyllis Chesler analyzes honor killings, here.
3. Do you remember when Islamic beheadings first burst into the news? You were shocked, right. No more. Just as homicide bombings have become oh-so-ordinary, beheadings will turn into tediously everyday events. This is how Islamic terror weaves its way into the body politic. ShrinkWrapped brilliantly psychoanalyzes the Islamist war over the female body.
4. When you excuse and justify terror against Jews in Israel you invariably end up excusing Islamic terror against women, i.e. the abuse excuse: it's all Israel's fault, thus it's all the woman's fault.
5. Punch line: CAIR handed the beheader an award for his fine community work. That's a stunner.
6. Beheadings have arrived in America.
They are here.
And oh yeah, Happy Valentine's Day from an Egyptian cleric:
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February 11, 2009
Hamas TV: Mothers Urged to Kill Their Children
This clip from Hamas TV brings into sharp focus the death cult that is Palestinian society. In normal societies, mothers love, nurture and protect their children. The Palestinian death cult redefines motherhood: love means raising your child to die in the act of cold-blooded murder.
Imagine if such a woman was your next door neighbor and she had a beef with you.
There is no negotiations or accommodation with such a pathological world view.
Chunks of Europe—England, France, Holland—are gradually ceding their culture to radical Islam. This is the natural outcome of states where individual liberty and initiative is crushed by Socialism.
Obama, a Socialist and an appeaser, is leading America towards the failed European model, where the state grows and gobbles the citizenry into a unworkable welfare grip.
As Margaret Thatcher said: “The problem with Socialism is that at some point you run out of other people's money.”
The Iranians, who can smell weakness across oceans, are already eating Obama alive.
Obama, and those like him, are not match for the Islamic barbarians.
Look closely at this monster in the guise of a woman, listen to what she says, and you better believe that she is not an aberration.
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February 09, 2009
Hollywood, Pallywood: The Moral Landscape
Movies are a moral landscape.
From the optimistic and impossibly glamorous Astaire & Rogers, affirming love and the American dream during the depths of the depression, to the evil, moral inversion of the Oscar nominated The Reader—the sympathetic pedophile Nazi played by Kate Winslet can't read the sign that says: “Do Not Burn The Jews”—all movies inhabit a moral universe that have the ability to influence history.
I work in Hollywood. I help manufacture dreams. I am acutely aware of the power that movies wield.
But there is another film industry at work, Pallywood, and it has been grinding out lies and propaganda since 1948.
Until Pallywood and their leftist enablers are understood, exposed, and shredded, we are all in danger of being swallowed by transnational Islamic terrorism.
French filmmaker Pierre Rehov helps lead the charge against the false narrative of the Arab world:
Hat Tip: Israel Matzav
And here's an absolute stunner: The American Communist Party has endorsed Obama's, ahem, stimulus package. “We now have not simply a friend, but a people's advocate in the White House,” says Communist Party USA leader Sam Webb. Now, repeat after me: The Manchurian Candidate.
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February 04, 2009
UNRWA: Lords of Misery, Plus Radical Belgium
It's about time for the U.N. to declare itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Islamic terror.
And take a look at what's going on in Belgium:
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February 03, 2009
Daniel Pearl and the Normalization of Evil
Daniel Pearl Z'L
An important article from The Wall Street Journal.
By JUDEA PEARL
This week marks the seventh anniversary of the murder of our son, former Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. My wife Ruth and I wonder: Would Danny have believed that today's world emerged after his tragedy?
The answer does not come easily. Danny was an optimist, a true believer in the goodness of mankind. Yet he was also a realist, and would not let idealism bend the harshness of facts.
Neither he, nor the millions who were shocked by his murder, could have possibly predicted that seven years later his abductor, Omar Saeed Sheikh, according to several South Asian reports, would be planning terror acts from the safety of a Pakistani jail. Or that his murderer, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, now in Guantanamo, would proudly boast of his murder in a military tribunal in March 2007 to the cheers of sympathetic jihadi supporters. Or that this ideology of barbarism would be celebrated in European and American universities, fueling rally after rally for Hamas, Hezbollah and other heroes of "the resistance." Or that another kidnapped young man, Israeli Gilad Shalit, would spend his 950th day of captivity with no Red Cross visitation while world leaders seriously debate whether his kidnappers deserve international recognition.
To read the complete article, please click here.
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January 29, 2009
The Third Jihad
This is a must see video, a 30-minute digest of a longer film.
A few observations:
1. There is a libel popular among the chattering classes that goes something like this: mid-east terrorism is caused by the Arab-Israeli conflict. Resolve the Palestinian conflict and all troubles will vanish. This is false. Israel is, and has always been, the central front against radical Islam. The Islamists use the conflict to justify their aggression.
2. Feeding off this meme is the notion that because America supports Israel, a transparent democracy, the Islamic world hates America. This is also false. The Islamists hate America for who we are, a freedom-loving republic opposed to totalitarian regimes.
3. Prisons are feeding grounds for Islamist recruiters. I know, I spent a good deal of time in various prisons doing research for films and I can testify that violent Islamist gangs rule the yard. Radical Islam appeals to the sociopath. That's why closing Gitmo is so dangerous. Putting hard-core jihadists in American prisons is exactly what the terrorists desire. It makes recruitment and operations-planning so much easier.
4. Like a disease, terrorists must be isolated or the ideology spreads in prisons—and in the halls of academia.
5. Europeans took a short break from their in-bred Jew-hatred out of nothing more than mild embarrassment at Auschwitz. But they have now regained their Jew-hating chops, calling it, what else? Human Rights These oh-so-civilized creatures enable and encourage the Islamists at most every turn. For instance, Spain has revived The Inquisition.
6. The cultural fall-out of Holocaust denial and Holocaust justification are making their way into the mainstream. The world of fashion is now pushing Nazi Chic.
7. Finally: Only Muslims can fix what is gravely broken in the Muslim world, that's why this video is so significant.
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Thanks to Allah for the Holocaust
An Egyptian cleric speaking over horrifying images of the Holocaust "Hopes It Will Happen Again, Allah Willing, At The Hand Of Muslims."
Let's take note of a few important points:
1. Egyptian TV is run by the state, opinions expressed have to be vetted by government censors—who obviously have no problem with the genocidal yearnings and historical lunacy in this friendly chat.
2. The cleric spends a great deal of time on Theodore Herzl. Everything he says about him is false. Herzl was a secular Jew, a journalist. He did not invent dynamite. That was Alfred Nobel.
3. The Holocaust is no longer denied, but justified. As always in the Arab world, conspiracy theories need not make any sense. Holocaust denial lives quite comfortably alongside Holocaust justification.
4. Egypt has a peace treaty with Israel and is viewed as a moderate Arab country. If this is moderate, can you imagine the world-view of the non-moderate Arab states.
5. Don't bother trying because the world views of moderate and non-moderate Arab states are exactly the same. They only differ on the eliminationist tactics to be deployed against Israel.
6. Imagine that you're an Arab Muslim child somewhere in the mid-east. You turn on your TV and view this video. What will this Arab child will conclude about Jews and Israel?
7. And that's why there will never be peace in the middle east, only various forms of accommodation, because the Arab Muslim world—backward and barbaric—exists on a steady diet of Jew-hatred and lies, justified by Islam.
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December 22, 2008
Islam = Terrorism? Duh
FBI Most Wanted Terrorists.
But, of course, according to an opinion piece in (where else) the New York Times, it's sinister to link Islam with terrorism.
Sigh.
Seraphic Secret is proudly sinister.
Karen and I wish all our friends and relatives a happy second night of Chanuka. And if you want the perfect Chanukah gift—also excellent for Christmas—here's my shameless suggestion.
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November 25, 2008
Holy Land Foundation Guilty On All Counts
A cartoon from the peace-loving Palestinian moderates
showing how Jooz feast on Arab blood. Hey, definitely hand over
East Jerusalem to the Arabs. And sure, expel a few hundred
thousand Jews from their homes in Judea and Samaria,
because experience has shown how brilliantly that worked out
in Gaza. What could possibly go wrong?
H/T Weasel Zippers
Money from the Holy Land Foundation supported filth like the cartoon above that is wildly popular and influential among the peace-loving Palestinians. Remind you of anything? Yup, Nazi propaganda. Dead ringer, of course. The Islamic terrorists know effective Jew-hatred when they see it.
Rule of thumb: when you hear Islamic Charity, assume it really means: “Hey kids, let's kill some Jews.”
But like the man in the movie said: “Follow the money.”
And Karen is always telling me that movies are not real.
It's going to be a fab-u-lous Thanksgiving.
Hey, do you think the Obama administration, um, I mean the Third Clinton administration—oh yeah, that's change, w/out the fragile interns we fervently hope—is going to be as aggressive as George Bush in pursuing America's Islamo Nazi fifth column?
Only time will tell.
After more than 15 years of investigation and two trials, the Holy Land Foundation and five of its former organizers were found guilty of illegally funneling more than $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
The verdicts by a Dallas federal jury are a significant victory for the Justice Department, which streamlined its case after a mistrial last year and worked hard to carefully educate jurors on the complex evidence presented in the massive case.
Guilty verdicts were read on 108 separate charges.
To read the complete story, please click here.
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November 24, 2008
Surprise! CAIR Get Slapped With Summons
This is shocking, just shocking.
Terror-linked Muslim lobby's dinner turns into public relations nightmare.
Nihad Awad, director of CAIR, being served
a subpoena.
WASHINGTON – When the Council on American-Islamic Relations held its 14th Annual Banquet at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel tonight, it was planning to raise funds and honor some of its supporters, but instead several top officials of the Muslim lobby group were served with a summons and complaint for various civil and criminal offenses.
Y'mean financing and supporting world-wide terrorism and Jew-killers in Israel is a criminal offense. Who would have thought?
The dramatic surprise, caught on video, was a result of the research work of the Mapping Sharia Project, headed by Dave Gaubatz. He personally served CAIR Director Nihad Awad at the banquet tonight while Democratic North Carolina state Sen. Larry Shaw, a CAIR national board member, was addressing the festivities.
Good to know your local Democrat is hard at work with a bunch of Sharia-yearning lunatics.
Four CAIR clients have filed a federal civil complaint alleging criminal fraud and racketeering against CAIR, a self-described public interest civil rights law firm. The lawsuit also names CAIR's national leadership as individual defendants.
Listen, when a group defines itself as a civil rights organization, chances are pretty darn good that it's a front for a totalitarian leftist movement and a bunch of rabid Jew-haters.
To read the complete story, and to view the video, please click here.
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November 04, 2008
"Obama's Historic Intifada"
Obama has picked up another endorsement from the fetid swamp of Arab-Muslim extremism. An editorial in the influential Beirut newspaper, Al Quds Al Arabi, sizes up Obama as a President who will make America safe for the Islamists.
I have always said that the Islamic terrorists are evil, but hardly stupid.
... the probable election of Barack Obama to the White House and claims that with Obama installed in Washington, Islam will be able to “impose its point of view” on the world."
As to be expected, Atwan’s editorial decries the Bush administration because it is “controlled by Zionists… whose objective is to destroy the Arab world and Islam.” Displaying true Muslim conspiratorial thinking, Atwan further claims that all Middle Eastern countries have been under the control [of] Israel, even though the Arabs have the “largest wealth” in the world in petrodollars.
Atwan is merely echoing the feeling in the Mid East that a Barack Obama will look upon them with favor or will be so weak that he will not be able to stop Islam from “imposing” its “point of view” upon the world.
To read the complete article, please click here.
Meanwhile, in good ol' Chicago, where dead people, terrorists and Jew-haters reliably vote for Democrats, Bill Ayers, Louis Farrakhan and Barack Obama all voted at the same polling station. You just can't make this stuff up.
Seriously.
Seraphic Advice: Go out and vote. Do not pay any attention to the dinosaur media who are in the tank for Barak Obama and have invested everything in his victory. Various outlets will call an Obama victory early in order to suppress the Republican turnout, as was done in Florida in '04 where the GOP lost thousands of votes.
The only media you can trust is the blogosphere, talk radio or Fox news. The rest are corrupt to the core.
Pay attention to polling stations and look for Democrat/ACORN operatives breaking the law. They are very good at this. If you see any irregularities, report them immediately.
And read this article from The Jerusalem Post that explains, in detail, why voting for Barack Obama, is sheer lunacy—if you love Israel.
From Carl in Jerusalem this not so surprising revelation: Obama's terrorist buddy Rashid Khalidi's salary at Columbia University is paid for by America's good friends The PLO and the Saudis.
Recite Tehillim, Psalms.
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September 23, 2008
The Fanatics of Islam and their Democrat Enablers
Iran represents a self-proclaimed existential threat to the state of Israel and a regional danger to the Gulf Sunni states. Iran has been murdering Americans and Jews for over thirty years. Armed with a nuclear weapon Iran would tip the balance of power in the Middle East and bring this genocidal state one step closer to achieving her strategic goal: a world without Israel.
Why Fanatics are Fanatics
There are some who believe, with messianic fervor, that high-level diplomatic negotiations along with tough international sanctions, will convince the Islamic Republic of Iran to give up her nuclear ambitions.
This belief represents the voice of enlightenment, the notion that reason is the ultimate arbiter of human behavior.
Unfortunately, when dealing with fanatics, nothing could be further from the truth.
Fanatics reject reason; that's why they are fanatics. The fanatic believes that reason is—follow me here—unreasonable.
The fanatic acts with unrestrained aggression because history—the history of Islam—indicates that religious fanatacism triumphs against the forces of reasoned thought and debate.
Islam, let us not forget, was spread through the merciless application of violence and carefully modulated social repression.
Thus Jihad: a ruthless imperial and expansionist philosophy.
Islam does not recognize national borders, only the community of Islam, therefore the Westphalian Treaty designed to protect the territorial integrity of nation-states is a non-issue for the fanatic mind-set of Islam. That's why the Hamas Covenant states that their objective is the destruction of the “Zionist entity” to be replaced, not by a Palestinian state, but by a greater Islamic community.
The Terror Playbook
Let's glance at some outtakes from the Hamas Covenant, an ideological, tactical and strategic playbook to which the terrorist organization rigidly adheres.
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).
This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), clarifies its picture, reveals its identity, outlines its stand, explains its aims, speaks about its hopes, and calls for its support, adoption and joining its ranks. Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realised.
The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that. Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Moslem generations until Judgement Day.
There are few differences between Hamas and Iran. And let's not forget that Hizbullah is an Iranian proxie embedded in Lebanon, Gaza, with sleeper cells in Europe, Africa, Canada and America.
Time on Their Side
And though Iran seems to be just another nation-state, albeit a totalitarian state, the Persian ruling class, the clergy, view their current Islamic republic as a stepping stone to the creation of a much larger transnational Islamic community, where Sharia rules and all other nation states cease to exist.
No amount of reasoned debate can shake this mind-set. Carrot and stick diplomacy only rewards the fanatics with even more time in which to weaponize their nuclear arsenal.
And when dealing with terrorists, time is always on their side. In fact, tactically it's a most precious commodity.
Cease-fire, Cease to Exist
That's why the cease-fire Israel accepted from Hamas in Gaza only strengthens the Islamic terrorists for time allows them to import more weapons, build more sophisticated bunkers, train more terrorists, and prepare their massive arsenal of long and short-range missiles for the moment when the cease-fire ends.
In the Art of War Sun Tzu cautions: “Know your enemy.”
Not recognizing Sun Tzu's simple but brilliant dictum, Israel embraces a form of national suicide.
It's a bitter pill for good and well-intentioned people to swallow, the notion that fanatical belief systems animate national destiny. In the West we have been taught that reason and the desire for peace motivates modern man because, presumably, logic and self-interest benefit all mankind.
But the Islamic fanatic sees reason as a weakness to be exploited. Thus, Israel expels 10,000 Jews from their homes in Gaza under the “reasonable” assumption that this gesture will convince the Arabs and the entire world that Israel genuinely desires peace. But creating Judenrein zones—the definition of apartheid—only legitimizes the fanatic Islamic belief that no place on earth should be safe for Jews.
Tragically, the chattering classes in Israel and the West do not understand that the collective fanatics of the Islamic world view the expulsion as further proof that terror works, proof that jihad—a religious cover for unrestrained terror—is highly effective.
The fanatic knows that when reason meets the fanatic, reason collapses into a cocoon of appeasement and surrender. The fanatic can read the mind-set of the “enlightened” Western, but the mind of the Islamic fanatic is incomprehensible to the rational liberal mind. Thus, the liberal West is always at a grave disadvantage.
For the Islamic fanatic, there is no downside to being a fanatic in the war against Israel, the Jewish people, Christians, and the West.
It works.
The Not So Jewish Democrats
Against this backdrop, we should all—Democrats, Republicans and Independents—rally together to voice opposition to the current genocidal Persian regime.
But when Governor Palin—who has more spine than the entire Democratic ticket— was disinvited to yesterday's U.N. rally, under intense pressure from various Jewish Democrats, this indicates a level of, well, fanatacism that is frightening and revolting, and signals that the Democrats have no interest in worthy bi-partisan efforts.
Even when it comes to a rogue nation that has repeatedly stated their intention to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
And as far as having the courage and resolve to fight and defeat transnational terrorism, I think it's pretty clear by now that Obama is only comfortable when he's fighting women: Hillary and Sarah.
I could be cynical and celebrate the kapo-like behavior of the Democrats for I am certain that this disgraceful chapter will flip significant numbers of voters—especially Jewish Democrats—to the Republican side.
In fact, the latest polls show a tectonic shift by traditional Jewish Democrats to the McCain-Palin ticket.
But such a cold-blooded calculation feels like a phyrric victory.
Putting on Their Kapo Caps
The mighty Caroline Glick details which fanatic Jewish Democrats put on their kapo caps and placed partisan politics above the Persian-Islamic-Nuclear threat. We are not surprised at the names which have surfaced. As any good screenwriter knows, characters must be consistent in order to be effective and the Democrats who agitated for Palin's disinvite are the usual suspects.
The moment that [Hillary] Clinton found out that she was to share a stage with Palin, she cancelled her appearance. By cancelling, she signaled to Jewish Democrats — and Democrats in general — that opposing Palin and the Republican Party is more important than opposing Ahmadinejad and the genocidal regime he represents.
The Jewish Democrats on the rally's organizing committee got the message loud and clear. Two of the rally's co-sponsors — the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the UJA Federation of New York demanded that the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations disinvite Palin.
The JCPA is led by Steven Gutow. Before joining the JCPA, he served as the founding executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, which is the Jewish support arm of the Democratic Party. The UJA Federation of New York is led by John Ruskay, who began his Jewish communal career as an anti-Israel "peace" activist in the radical CONAME and Breira organizations. Among their other endeavors, CONAME and Breira opposed US military assistance to Israel during the Yom Kippur War and called for US recognition of the PLO after the group massacred 26 children in Ma'alot in 1974.
Gutow and Ruskay were supported in their demand to disinvite Palin by the National Jewish Democratic Council and by the new Jewish pro-Palestinian lobbying group J-Street.
To read the entire article, please click here.
FADE TO BLACK
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September 15, 2008
Death in the Corn
The great war correspondent, Michael Yon, reports from Afghanistan.
My first mission with 2 Para was an ambush. We trudged over to a nearby ANA (Afghan National Army) compound where a small contingent of Brits from 2 Para are living and running missions with the Afghans. The journey was less than a half-mile, yet the prospect of being ambushed by direct fire or bombs was very real. Some Brits from the ANA camp, along with Afghan soldiers, helped secure our way. We walked through deserted compounds and a large cemetery, all of which have been the scenes of recent fighting. A British soldier named CPL Matt Desmond saw me, and realized there was a civilian in the bunch. He looked me in the eye and said, “If you see the grenade in the cemetery, don’t kick it!” and he chuckled, though I could see by the condition of his gear and the look in his eye that Desmond was a serious soldier.
A radio call came in that Gib, which we just left maybe 15 minutes prior, was about to get attacked. Good timing, I thought. If the Taliban attacked infantry style, since we were already outside the wire, they might lose track of us, and maybe the platoon I was with could maneuver on one of their flanks and kill them. But the Taliban must have seen us leave Gib, I thought. Because if they were preparing to attack, it would have been smart to watch the base for as long as possible before launching. But who knows? The enemy makes mistakes just like we do.
Some minutes later, we arrived at ANA compound, which was surrounded by Claymores. Claymores are powerful defensive mines that are like super-powerful shotguns. They’ll rip bodies to shreds, and so I never like walking in front of them, but that’s what you’ve got to do to enter these bases. Some Taliban are willing to pay the reaper to “disarm” those mines with their bodies, so that their buddies can follow behind them.
To read the entire dispatch, please click here.
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September 11, 2008
9-11: You Shall Not Forget
Photo: A Hole in the Sky, courtesy Elder of Zion.
The Torah teaches that we should forever remember what Amalek did to the children of Israel in the desert. Furthermore, the Torah commands us to wipe this evil off the face of the earth.
Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God. Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.
—Deuteronomy 25
What was Amalek's great evil?
They attacked the stragglers, the oldest and the youngest, the lame and the blind, those who were at the rear as the Jews marched through the desert on their way to the promised homeland, the Land of Israel.
Amalek is still with us.
They still attack and murder the weak and the defenseless.
Amalek are the Islamic terrorists.
We must remember the evil of 9-11.
And we must eradicate modern Amalek from the face of the earth.
If not, our children and grandchildren will be murdered in cold blood just as the innocent victims of 9-11 were slaughtered.
And let us not forget the joy that gripped the Palestinians as word of the 9-11 attacks spread through East Jerusalem.
Yes, East Jerusalem, the real estate the Olmert-Livni-Barak government is prepared to turn over to Amalek.
You Shall Not Forget.
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September 09, 2008
Hey Kids, Let's Watch Palestinian TV!
This delightful clip is not from Iranian TV, nor from Hizbullah or Hamas.
It's from the Palestinian Authority, Fatah TV, Israel's “peace partners.”
Funded by American tax dollars.
At the moment, Olmert and the Kadima party are planning to expel thousands of Jews from Judea and Samaria—because the Gaza expulsion worked out so well.
Once it becomes acceptable to expel Jews from their homes, well, no Jew, anywhere in the world, can feel secure. The terrorists will always voice some grievance that demands the expulsion of Jews from their homes and from entire countries. Once Jews are expelled from Gaza, Judea and Samaria, you can be sure that Jews in Tel Aviv are not safe, nor in New York, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Paris or Hong Kong.
These Jewish populations, will eventually also be expelled by Muslim terrorists on the grounds that the presence of Jews is intolerable. Already, there are neighborhoods in London where Jews cannot safely walk for fear of being murdered by Muslim gangs.
And once Jews are successfully targeted, Christians are next, for Jews are the canary in the coal mine of civilization.
Let there be no doubt, the Palestinian Authority is nothing more than a Jew-hating death cult devoted to eradicating Israel through terrorism and stealth negotiations.
Considering the filth that's broadcast on Arab TV, it's no wonder that Muslims recently defiled the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hevron.
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August 26, 2008
Olmert's Hands: Washed in Blood
Israel has just released another 200 terrorist prisoners as a “goodwill gesture" to Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas.
Again.
Because all the confidence building measures in the past have worked out so well.
The results of this cowardly policy are clear: close to two-hundred Jews have been murdered by terrorists released from Israeli prisons. This figure does not include those Jews who have been grievously wounded and disfigured.
This case is even more odious as Olmert released two Arab Muslim terrorists who have blood—a lot of Jewish blood—on their hands.
Well, after releasing child murderer Samir Kuntar, why not?
As Joshua Pundit writes:
Two of this particular group bear special mention as an example of the kind of people Olmert is releasing to a hero's welcome among the Palestinians. Muhammad Abu Ali murdered two people. In 1980, he killed Yehoshua Saloma (Hy"d) in Hebron, a young Yeshiva student studying in the Kiryat Arba Yeshiva. Saloma, a new immigrant from Sweden, walked into Hebron from Kiryat Arba to buy some dried fruits for the upcoming Tu B’Shvat holiday. While he was shopping, he was brutally ambushed from behind. Ali later murdered a fellow prisoner while he was in jail.
Said Al-Ataba masterminded an attack on the Petach Tivka market in 1977 that wounded dozens and took the life of an Israeli woman, Tzila Galili, (Hy"d).
Both of them are now free to kill again. And that's not merely a figure of speech.At least 180 Israelis and counting have been murdered by terrorists who had been released from Israeli jails, and that doesn't take into account those that were arrested or killed in an attempt.
Is Gilad Schalit's return from cruel captivity in Gaza part of this deal?
Of course not.
As always with the Arabs, Israel makes suicidal concessions and the world press labels Israel intransient.
The Arabs maintain maximalist positions, and Israel just keeps surrendering blood, treasury and land in the vain hope that the Arabs will eventually give up their genocidal dreams.
But why should they? The Israeli left has turned Israeli into the battered wife. No matter how badly she is beaten, it's always her fault.
Ironic position for leftists to take, huh?
But on the left, compassion rarely extends to Jews and never to Israel.
Olmert, Livni and Barak have turned appeasement and surrender into a finely tuned dhimmitude. The Israeli government and their leftist enablers have become the new Judenrat, self-righteous kapos who determinedly keep sacrificing Jewish lives to the chimera of peace.
There will only be peace when the Arabs have been defeated, utterly and completely. As America defeated Japan and Germany during World War II.
For a detailed analysis of the prisoner release read this paper.
Here's what needs to be done:
1. Israel must institute the death penalty as punishment for terrorism. Arab Muslim terrorists aspire to be new Eichmanns. Israel should reward them with that Nazi's well deserved fate.
2. Terrorists must never be released unless they have served their entire sentences, or they are in a box.
3. When terrorists who have been released from Israeli prisons commit further crimes, those who ordered their release should be prosecuted as accessories to murder.
Hat Tip: Soccer Dad.
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August 13, 2008
My Infidel Jewish Doctor
Saudi physicians prepare to perform surgery on a member of the Royal family.
“They booked the entire top floor of the hotel.”
“Expensive.”
“Oh yes. Beverly Hills expensive. So: I'm escorted by a couple of huge bodyguards into one of the suites and there must be fifty courtiers hanging around. And then I see him, sitting in a chair watching television. Thing is, he's watching two televisions at once.”
“The royal Saudi prince.”
I'm in shul, talking with a friend, a prominent physician.
“Right.”
“What was he watching? Oh, please say MTV, and The Playboy Channel.”
“I don't remember, sorry. Anyway, I examine the Prince and give a tentative diagnosis. But I tell them that the Prince has to come into my office for a thorough exam. They say no. I have to fly to Saudi Arabia and do it there.”
“Cool.”
“Not really. Jews are not allowed to set foot on Saudi Arabian soil so I had to go to the Saudi Embassy and fill out special paperwork. I had to show them my tallis and tefillin and get clearance.”
“We should call the ACLU, this is outrageous.”
“Funny.”
“So what happened?”
“I'll tell you what happened, 9-11 happened. That's the day I was supposed to fly to Saudia Arabia. I wasn't going anywhere, certainly not to Saudi Arabia.”
“Tell me something, how did the Prince get referred to you?”
“I have no idea. I asked but they weren't saying.”
"Did they know that you're Jewish?”
“Oh, yes, absolutely. They insist on Jewish doctors.”
I pull a silent movie double-take.
“Shut-up.”
“No really, they asked me for the name of another physician for another prince but stipulated that the doctor had to be Jewish.”
“Why?”
“Well, I know they won't go to their own physicians, and some of my best students were Saudis. There are some very fine physicians there. I suspect they're worried about assassination. There's a lot of that going on The Kingdom.”
My mind is spinning away in screenplay mode; this has all the makings of a great Hollywood comedy.
“I'll bet you got a nice fat fee.”
My friend chuckles.
“Collecting was a nightmare. I had to schlep to the embassy over and over again and fill out a mountain of paperwork in order to get paid. It took over a year. And then they tried to beat down my fee. They paid just half the bill. I had to go after them for the balance. Can you believe that?
“Hey, aren't we supposed to be cheap, at least according to the Jew-haters?”
“From now on I stick with my normal patients. The Saudis, never again.“
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August 12, 2008
Jihad Against Sexy Fruit & Vegetables: Seriously
“Hi, I'm a secret counterterrorist agent. Robert is writing a
screenplay about my thrilling adventures fighting Islamo Fruit Nazis.”
A few observations;
1. We will be told that the barbaric edicts imposed by the Taliban have nothing to do with Islam. Apologists for Islamic terror will assure us that Islam is being “hijacked” by a fringe group who do not represent true Islam. Once again we will be browbeaten with the comforting narrative that moderate Muslims decry this latest Islamic atrocity.
2. To which we reply: If being a moderate Muslim is characterized by total silence and an absence of action against totalitarian Islam, well, these are most certainly not moderate Muslims. Rather, they are enablers of terror, akin to the German civilians who silently stood by and allowed genocide against the Jews.
3. We wait for Western feminists to rise in righteous anger and denounce the Islamo Nazis who proudly commit honor killings, and child-rape. Clitorectomies are widespread in the Muslim world as is the inferior status of women in matters of marriage, divorce and inheritance. The Islamic world wallows in the forced segregation of women. It's a culture designed to make women dependant on men for simple, every day activities.
4. But we know this will not happen. Western feminists, like those who steer Ms. magazine, are far too busy attacking Israel, kvetching about the failed candidacy of Hillary Clinton, painting President Bush as a war criminal, and agitating for the right to slaughter infants in the womb.
5. Yup, Western feminists do have their priorities.
Besides the terrible killings inflicted by the fanatics on those who refuse to pledge allegiance to them, Al-Qa'eda has lost credibility for enforcing a series of rules imposing their way of thought on the most mundane aspects of everyday life.
They include a ban on women buying suggestively shaped vegetables, according to one tribal leader in the western province of Anbar.
Sheikh Hameed al-Hayyes, a Sunni elder, told Reuters: "They even killed female goats because their private parts were not covered and their tails were pointed upward, which they said was haram.
Original article here. Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, David Paulin
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Islamo Nazis on the march in Canada, and the Canadian authorities are oblivious. Take a look at what happened to author Howard Rotberg.
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The terrorist Jew-haters understand that BO is a moral relativist with no stomach for fighting Arab-Muslim terrorists. Hence, BO is their candidate of choice. They are cheerfully contributing funds to a man who spent over 20-years as a member of a racist, Jew-hating church, (and BO has the chutzpah to accuse John McCain of racism) a candidate who, even today, refuses to acknowledge that he was dead-wrong about the troop surge that has defeated al Qaeda in Iraq. In fact, BO claimed that the surge would make the situation in Iraq even worse. Yup, the terrorists know an appeaser when they see one. As opposed to John McCain who spent more years in captivity, being tortured by the Communist North Vietnamese, than years BO has sat in the Senate. Last week a BO android showed up at the front door of my home. She requested—actually more like demanded—a $200.00 contribution so I could help effect “change in this country.” I politely declined. The BO droid suggested $150.00 dollars for, you guessed it, change. Again I politely declined. She finally reduced the price of change to $25.00. I said: “By the way, what kind of change are you talking about?” She said: “For a different kind of politics.” I said: “You mean BO will get rid of campaign fund raisers who chant meaningless slogans?” To read the entire story, please click here.
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I'm sitting here working on a script. There's a Reluctant Hero overcoming all sorts of impossible obstacles in order to achieve his goal. There's The Love Interest, a wise-cracking babe who's like totally messing with Reluctant Hero's head. She's Gloria Grahame—but even scarier, which is to say your basic irresistible femme fatale. There are my antagonists, really bad guys, from a really sick culture, out to destroy my really Reluctant Hero and subvert his really important mission. Quick, dial up my agent using my new Bluetooth device—oh man, I feel just like Buck Rogers—my agent is reassuringly down to earth, a great sounding board and I go: “I'm stuck here because blah, blah, blah.” My agent goes: “Set up a battle, and have your hero kill a whole bunch of bad guys, and we think it's all over, but then, somehow, it turns around and your hero is in even deeper do. Then in Act III you get to pull him out and he completely annihilates the bad guys and their entire set-up. A real blood bath. Good triumphs over evil. Any other questions?” I'm like, okey dokey. My agent's also an arch Hollywood liberal—big shockeroo—and we have a great time kibitzing each other. I tell him he's voting for Obama because B'O looks like that tedious and saintly black Pres. from "24." He tells me I'm a trigger happy war monger. Innocent delivery: “What's wrong with that?” Anyhoo. After getting this great script advice I cleverly ask my agent about the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas, whose authority extends maybe to the bathroom in the Muqata. “Israel has to make difficult choices, make some difficult concession,” my agent recites. I'm pretty sure he memorizes the Op-Ed pieces by Nicholas Kristof of the NY Times. My agent writes back: I shoot back: My agent responds: Okay, maybe I'm not too normal, but I am sane enough to be worried about a political mind-set that is determined to appease a culture of Islamo Nazis. Olmert might be stepping down—someday—but his approach to the Islamic terrorist culture lives on. For the complete story, please click here.
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The Lebanese government is preparing official celebrations in honor of the evil and of brutal terrorist who will be swapped tomorrow for the corpses of IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasset and Eldad Regev. The swap is a victory for Hizbullah, and a statement by the present Israeli government that there is no difference between a Jew who is alive and a Jewish corpse. This course of action does not sanctify, but degrades life. By yielding to this exchange, every Jew in Israel and the diaspora is rendered an inviting target. To read the entire story, please click here.
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Olmert-Livni-Barak, and a majority of the disgraceful Israeli Knesset have, through a series of disastrous policy decisions, weakened Israel's national security and resolve. The expulsion of Jews from Gaza made the creation of Judenrein, Arab-only zones, acceptable. The Second Lebanon War was, presumably fought, to bring back the IDF soldiers, Regev and Goldwasser, kidnapped by Hamas. As we know, the war ended in a cease-fire and the soldiers were never returned. Further, Israel's strategic position was deeply compromised when Livni urged UNIFIL troops on the border. The siege of S'derot proved that the current government is incapable of protecting her citizens, the primary duty of the state. The current Hudna with Gaza—a one-way arrangement for Hamas continues her terrorist activities—also proves that Hamas and Hizbullah/Iran can bring Israel to its knees. And now, trading the most vicious terrorists for dead bodies makes it clear to the Islamic terrorists that Israel places no value on Jewish life for if the Jewish state will trade live terrorists for Jewish corpses, well, there's no reason to keep any kidnapped Jews alive. The Muslim jihadists can safely murder Jews and get the same results from the Jewish State in negotiations. And so, it is no accident that the human filth went on a killing rampage yesterday. Israel has displayed such lack of fortitude that terrorists everywhere perceive an open season on Jews. If Israel wanted Goldwasser and Regev returned from Gaza, there was a simple method: denying power, fuel and all supplies to Gazastan until the soldiers were returned. This should be the policy towards any terrorist state. Tragically, Israel is allowing Gaza to strengthen its strategic and tactical position and we can expect another bloody disaster if the current government is allowed to steer the national course. To read the complete story, please click here.
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To read the complete story, please click here. Soccer Dad just reported to me that LGF has links to several blogs including The Muqata, Boker Tov Boulder, Israel Matzav, and Israellycool. I have a prediction. The big story in the mainstream media will not be the terrorist attack or the victims; but we can anticipate buckets of tears and liberal rage that the terrorist was killed—with too many bullets. They will want to know why the terrorist was not taken prisoner and read his rights. H/T: Soccer Dad, who correctly said to me: “Apparently he [the reporter] never heard of confirming the kill.” Here's the good news: this is one Muslim terrorist who will not be used in a disgraceful and damaging prisoner swap. Update: Revoking citizenship of terrorists and their families.
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Here's a splendid but chilling analysis of Al Quada's new global strategy for Islamic domination authored by Amir Taheri. It's worth noting that this strategy is currently being used against Israel: kidnappings, holding of hostages, the use of women and children as human shields, homicide bombings, countless gestures that make normal life impossible for the "infidel" and Muslim collaborators. Tragically, this strategy has been most effective against the current Israeli government. Let us be clear: The war waged by the Arabs against Israel is a jihadist war and was characterized as such by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who, back in the 30's, when he was collaborating with Hitler, declared a holy war against the Jews. Too many Israelis have embraced the fiction that the war waged against the Jewish State is about refugees, land or so-called occupation. This is a slick fiction designed to lull Israel into a surrender mode and enable Europe and the international leftist to indulge their most deep seated Jew-hatred behind a fig-leaf of “mere anti-Zionism.” The strategy outlined is working brilliantly against Israel, who, step by step, have handed enormous victories to the Palestinian Salafist, Khomeinist terrorists in Gaza, Judea, Samaria, Lebanon and Iran. No wonder the Islamists proclaim their contempt for Israel and the IDF. Israel, the Jewish State, has made it acceptable for Jews to expel Jews from their homes—to create Judenrein villages, towns, entire countries. Further, Israel has made it acceptable to negotiate with Jew-haters and Holocaust deniers about where Jews are permitted to build homes and live their lives. No wonder the Islamists proclaim their contempt for Israel and the IDF. Israel is negotiating away Jerusalem, and arch-leftist Jews in the west outline intellectual black holes that justify and enable the loss of Judaism's holiest city. No wonder the Islamists have contempt for Israel and the IDF. Gazastan has terrorized Israel with rockets ever since Gaza was made Juderein, and the Israeli response has been tepid. Now, Israel bows to a foolish truce, even as Gaza continues to launch rockets into Israel. This is not wise state craft, but pure cowardice. No wonder the Islamists have contempt for Israel and the IDF. They kidnap and murder Jews, then trade Jewish corpses for the most cold-blooded Islamic murderer—true human filth—in Israeli custody. The Israelis tell themselves that this is a display of higher values. Hizbullah correctly labels it weakness and a lack of patience; a brilliant Muslim victory over the Jewish people. It proves that crushing the skull of a 4-year old Jewish child is no big deal. This capitulation to terrorist blackmail declares open season on Jews everywhere. The Islamists have created a deadly precedent, for if Jews in Israel look to Muslims for permission where to live, well, before you know it there will be zones in Manhattan, Paris, Milan, London, Madrid, Dublin, and Stockholm where Christians will be barred under pain of death. As Seraphic Secret has frequently written: Jews are the canary in the coal mine of civilization. The other day, I said to a friend: “I know of no incident in America where a Jew has been kicked out of his home because he is Jewish. I can't say the same about the Israel.” For the first time in my life I can foresee the end of the Jewish state, not through war, but through incremental steps toward voluntary slavery.
“I only look like a cucumber. Actually, I'm a Method
actor, trained by Stanislavsky.”
"They regarded the cucumber as male and tomato as female. Women were not allowed to buy cucumbers, only men."
Other farcical stipulations include an edict not to buy or sell ice-cream, because it did not exist in the time of the Prophet, while hair salons and shops selling cosmetics have also been bombed.
Most seriously, Sheikh al-Hayyes said: "I saw them slaughter a nine-year old boy like a sheep because his family didn't pledge allegiance to them."
Please sign our petition pleading for the life of this young
woman, about to be executed for un-Islamic behavior.Such tactics have triggered a backlash among Sunnis, whom Al-Q'aeda had claimed to be protecting, the sheikh and military leaders said.
Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Albers, an American intelligence officer, told the news agency: "Al-Qa'eda's very heavy-handed killing of civilians backfired on them. The Sunnis just wouldn't stand for it any more.
"The self-described protectors of the Sunni community now kill more Iraqi Sunnis than anyone else."
August 08, 2008
Canada: Death of Free Speech
Graphics: Courtesy of Wolf HowlingAugust 05, 2008
Gaza Donors to Obama
“Please elect Obama—so we can slaughter
more Jews and Crusaders.”Palestinian brothers inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip are listed in government election filings as having donated $29,521.54 to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign.
Donations of this nature would violate election laws, including prohibitions on receiving contributions from foreigners and guidelines against accepting more than $2,300 from one individual during a single election, Bob Biersack, a spokesman for the Federal Election Commission, told WND in response to a query.
The contributions also raise numerous questions about the Obama campaign's lax online donation form, which apparently allows for the possibility of foreign contributions.
Last week, the Atlas Shrugs blog outlined a series of donations in 2007 made to Obama's campaign from two individuals, Monir Edwan and Hosam Edwan, totaling $29,521.54.
In an online form on Obama's campaign site, the Edwans listed their street as "Tal Esaltan," which they wrote was located in "Rafah, GA."
Rafah is not a city in Georgia. The Atlas blog immediately raised concerns that the money may have been donated from the Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
July 31, 2008
How Arab Children Spend Their Summer Vacations: Learning to Kill Jews
Arab girls in Gaza summer practice killing Jews with a
model of a Quds missile.
Gloria Grahame, femme fatale, A Woman's Secret (1949)
At one point, I get kind of stuck. I dunno, sometimes my brain just goes thataway.
I e-mail him the story below with this note:Hey, don't you think that a culture that marinates its young in hate, violence, death and Jew-hatred deserves to be treated like the bad guys in my script, y'know, total annihilation?
Robert, there is a difference between movies and reality.
That's a vicious rumor!
Robert, I'm really worried about your mental health.
Palestinian children on annual vacation can choose between Hamas or Islamic Jihad summer camps, both of which boast militia-style training, Koran classes, lessons on political prisoners.
In the Gaza Strip, as in Israel, children are currently in the midst of summer vacation, and the Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s “summer camps” are in full gear. In the past few weeks, the Palestinian groups have been holding camps throughout the strip, some of them proudly displaying rockets and other weaponry.
Hamas alone is currently conducting no less than 300 summer camps for tens of thousands of children, and the focus is on familiarizing kids with the Palestinian towns and cities destroyed in 1948, as well as instilling religious fervor in them. The camps also feature sports and military-type trainings such as crawling under barbed-wire.
Islamic Jihad has also launched its own summer camps, offering some 10,000 children activities similar to those of Hamas. The kids study passages from the Koran and participate in quizzes on religious matters, with emphasis on the required commitment to political prisoners and Palestinian land. They also learn how to hold a Qassam rocket-launcher.
July 15, 2008
Lebanon Celebrates Evil
Lebanese with posters of their hero,
a child-murdererKuntar, a Lebanese Druse, was 16 when he led "Operation Nasser." On April 22, 1979, he and three other members of Abu Abbas's Palestine Liberation Front sailed on a rubber motor boat under the cover of darkness from Tyre to Nahariya.
Arriving at about midnight on Shabbat, they first encountered policeman Eliyahu Shahar and shot him.
They then entered an apartment building on Rehov Jabotinsky 61, where they took Danny Haran, 28, and his four-year-old daughter, Einat, hostage. Haran's wife, Smadar, hiding in a crawl space above the bedroom, muffled the cries of her two-year-old daughter Yael, accidentally smothering her. As police arrived on the scene, the terrorists pulled Danny and Einat down to the beach, where Kuntar shot him in the back at close range and threw his body into the sea, and crushed her head on the rocks with the butt of his rifle.
July 03, 2008
Fortress Gaza
In Sidon, Lebanese citizens prepare banners that celebrate the eventual return of their hero, Samir Kuntar, who crushed a Jewish child's skull with the butt of his rifle.
Yesterday's terrorist attack in Jerusalem was not the random act of a lone terrorist. Let's be clear, when Israel shows signs of weakness and national resolve melts away the jackals move in to create even more havoc.The model for Hamas is Hizbullah's preparations for and conduct of the Second Lebanon War in 2006. The evidence suggests that Hamas is using its uncontested control in Gaza to effect a qualitative change in its abilities and ambitions.
Hamas's strategy derives at the highest level from the group's muqawama (resistance) doctrine. According to this view, Israel's Achilles' heel is its inability to absorb large numbers of military and civilian casualties. Hamas believes Israel's will can be broken through attrition and a steady toll of unexpectedly high numbers of both military and civilian casualties.
In the event of a major IDF incursion into Gaza, Hamas would seek to maintain a steady rain of rockets on Israeli communities around the Strip and to break the sense of armored and air invulnerability hitherto enjoyed by Israeli forces engaging with its fighters. Hamas would of course also try to inflict steady losses of 4 to 10 casualties per day on IDF's ground forces during the fighting. Looking to the 2006 model, the movement's planners believe that achieving these goals could be sufficient to break Israel's will.
July 02, 2008
Terror Attack in Jerusalem
People started screaming 'he is running us over, he is running us over,'" recounted traffic policewoman Elinor Nahum, 22, who was the first to react, firing at the bulldozer and apparently hitting the terrorist. Another policeman then climbed onto the vehicle and was lightly wounded in a struggle with the attacker.
Finally, an off-duty soldier took a gun from a security guard at the scene and shot the terrorist, who cried "Allah Akhbar" (God is great) before being killed. The soldier, Moshe Plesser, was assisted in neutralizing the attacker by Eli Mizrahi, a member of police's elite Yasam anti-terror unit.
Plesser, 18, is the brother-in-law of IDF officer David Shapira, who killed the terrorist in the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva attack on March 6.
Evacuating a wounded child from the scene of the Islamic terror attack“The video also shows a policeman shooting the lifeless man at point-blank range, a move that could spark questions from Israeli human rights groups about whether the officer's shot was necessary and if he might have unnecessarily killed the man.”
July 01, 2008
Al Quaeda's New Strategy
In a notable departure from past al Qaeda strategy, Naji recommends "countless small operations" that render daily life unbearable, rather than a few spectacular attacks such as 9/11: The "infidel," leaving his home every morning, should be unsure whether he'll return in the evening.
Naji recommends kidnappings, the holding of hostages, the use of women and children as human shields, exhibition killings to terrorize the enemy, suicide bombings and countless gestures that make normal life impossible for the "infidel" and Muslim collaborators.
Once parallel societies are established throughout the world, they would exert pressure on non-Muslims to submit. Naji believes that, subjected to constant intimidation and fear of death, most non-Muslims (especially in the West) would submit: "The West has no stomach for a long fight."
For the complete article, please click here.
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June 30, 2008
Baby Killer: Hero to the Arabs
Israel has just handed a huge victory to Hizbullah and to the world-wide jihadist movement. Israel has agreed to swap a notorious baby killer, and other terrorists, for the corpses of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
Baby killer Samir Quantar, not surprisingly, is a hero to the Arab world. Because he crushed a Jewish child's skull with a rock, because he made the Jewish father watch this bloody deed and then murdered the father, he has become a symbol to the Arab world of their jihad against Israel, against Jews.
Do not fool yourselves that this a "moral victory" for Israel.
This is self-righteous nonsense and deeply delusional.
Moral victories like this result in jubilation in every Arab capital and the guarantee that more Jewish babies will be murdered in cold blood; more Jews will be kidnapped, tortured and murdered by jihadists.
Moral victories like this swap are part of the incremental steps that lead a society to collapse from within.
Moral victories like this reward the IslamoNazis for every atrocity—past and future. It's called positive reinforcement.
When Israel—a land under siege by genocidal enemies—makes national security decisions based on tragic individual cases, that society is doomed because her enemies will move forward, emboldened, to exploit this weakness again and again and again.
We know that Hamas, and Hizbullah, Persia's proxie, are celebrating this infamous deal. But take notice that Fatah, the "moderate" terrorist gang, are also publicly celebrating this human monster's deed and release.
So, sure, go ahead, keep negotiating with the Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas, and then hand over East Jerusalem to Fatah.
What could possibly go wrong?
According to the Palestinian Authority leadership, Samir Quntar epitomizes the ideal Palestinian prisoner. Quntar, who crushed the head of four-year-old Eynat Haran with his rifle, is serving four life sentences for murder in an Israeli prison, but is almost certain to be freed in a prisoner swap with Hizbullah this week.
On one hand, Quntar embodies what the PA considers the "heroism" of terrorists fighting Israel. On the other hand, he's the ultimate symbol of all terrorist prisoners who have murdered Israelis and will eventually be freed as a result of future kidnappings or through some other means.
PA TV, controlled by Mahmoud Abbas, broadcast the following picture honoring Quntar. He is depicted beside a map of Israel completely covered by the Palestinian flag.
Following are several recent quotes from PA leaders since April 2008, describing Quntar.
"Samir Quntar, the warrior from Lebanon."
"The brave warrior, Samir Quntar."
"The Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership are standing behind you (Quntar)."
"You (Quntar) are an inseparable part of the action to free our homeland."
"Your (Quntar) patience and strength are a lesson for us."
Besides bludgeoning Eynat Haran to death with rocks and his rifle, Quntar killed her father and was responsible for the death of her infant sister. He also killed two policemen in the 1979 attack in Naharia. The Israeli cabinet today approved a prisoner exchange that would free Quntar and several other prisoners in exchange for Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, who were kidnapped by Hizbullah in 2006. The exchange could happen within the next few days.
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Cook
Palestinian Media Watch
For excellent commentary and what a grand time baby murderer Samir Quantar has had in prison, see Soccer Dad: The Deal Keeps Getting Worse and Worse.
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June 26, 2008
Olmert Transferring Millions Directly to Hamas
Hamas speaks
The Olmert-Livni-Barak government are directly responsible for enabling Hamas' reign of terror.
The Olmert-Livni-Barak government are directly responsible for the murder of Israeli citizens.
This infamous government aids, abets and arms Hamas, a proudly genocidal gang of Jew-haters.
This is the second paragraph of the Hamas Covenant: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
By transferring hundreds of millions of dollars into Gaza this Israeli government is funding the Gaza terrorist tunnels.
By transferring hundreds of millions of dollars into Gaza this Israeli government is bolstering Iran's onslaught on Jews and the Jewish state.
By transferring hundreds of millions of dollars into Gaza this Israeli government is guilty of money laundering.
We know that the Olmert-Livni-Barak government is the most inept in the history of the Jewish people, sacrificing security at almost every step by following a delusional path of appeasement to the IslamoNazis of Fatah, Hamas and the Persian proxy Hizbullah.
We know that Olmert is corrupt to the core.
We know that Olmert's sons evaded service in the IDF and suffered no consequences.
Now, we know that the Olmert-Livni-Barak government are traitors—with rivers of Jewish blood on their hands.
In an unprecedented admission, the office of Israel's Prime Minister revealed today that it is allowing the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars to the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza due to “Israeli diplomatic considerations.”
Translation: Israel channels hundreds of millions of dollars directly to Hamas because of diplomatic pressure from the Jew-hating EU and the jihadist enabling American State Dept.
In a response letter sent to Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of human rights organization Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) wrote that the transfer of funds to the Hamas controlled government in the Gaza Strip does indeed regularly take place after "consultations among the relevant bodies." Shurat HaDin had accused the Israeli government of secretly transferring hard currency to the Hamas.
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In the initial letter of warning sent by Shurat HaDin on behalf of victims of Hamas terror attacks to the PMO, Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner wrote: “The currency of record in the Gaza Strip is the New Israeli Shekel (NIS). Most of the financial activity in the Gaza Strip runs on a cash basis, using the NIS. Tens of thousands of Hamas terrorists and governmental official get their salary in Israeli currency — in cash. Thus, the transfer of large sums of cash into the Gaza Strip is, by definition, an act that directly fuels the terrorist activity of Hamas and is therefore a violation of the Terror-Funding Act of 2005 and the domestic and international laws against money laundering.”
To read the complete story on the fine blog Israeli Insider, please click here.
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June 25, 2008
The Jew-Hating Savages of Paris
The Islam you will not see in the mainstream media
Phyllis Chesler writes about the savage beating of Rudy Haddad, an orthodox Jew in Paris, and the shocking—but not surprising—silence of the arch-liberal media.
Here are several points to consider:
1. The human monsters who committed this atrocity are Muslim.
2. But the French media and the chattering elite, voluntary Dhimmis, refer to the Muslim gangs as French youths, or African immigrants—and a variety of cowardly and clumsy, self-defeating code phrases.
3. This unprovoked attack on a single, innocent and defenseless Jew is not a civil crime, though I'm sure that's how it will be treated. The attack on Rudy Haddad is pure jihadist aggression, and these Muslims should be prosecuted as terrorists.
4. Lack of jobs, lack of education, poverty or unfortunate childhoods will, no doubt, be advanced as the “root cause” of this atrocity. This is foolishness which can lead to national suicide.
5. Jihad has nothing to do with social conditions. It's part and parcel of Islam, a Jew-hating religious ideology that encourages violence against Jews and all non-Muslims.
6. These Islamic barbarians will probably claim that they attacked Rudy Haddad because of anger over “the occupation.”
7. When Muslims speak of occupation they are speaking of the entire state of Israel, a genocidal belief, and besides...
8. Muslim atrocities against Jews go back to the time of Muhammed who ordered the slaughter of the Jews of Medina when they refused to accept Islam and recognize Muhammed as a prophet.
9. Remember: There are always good excuses for killing Jews.
10. The French and all apologists for radical Islam should take note: If Muslims kill Jews and are excused for such savagery, guess who the Muslims next murder?
11. You.
As we've frequently written: Jews are the canaries in the coal mine of civilization.
Islam lights up Paris
In January of 2006, Ilan Halimi was brutally tortured for three full weeks in Paris by gangs of African Muslim immigrant torturers. The media did not describe them as “Muslims,” but rather as “youth,” “militants,” “gang-members, “immigrants,” and “immigrants from Africa.” Neighbors took turns and joined in torturing Halimi. Other neighbors heard his screams and did nothing. Some came to watch. Halimi died on February 13, 2006. The ringleader of the gang, Youssouf Fofana fled to Ivory Coast in Africa but was extradited back to France. He and 18 others are facing a trial in his torture and murder. American expatriate journalist, Nidra Poller, has written about this horrific case.
Ilan Halimi HSY'D, 1982 - 2006
May His Neshama Have an Aliyah
Now, a visibly Jewish, kipah-wearing 17 year-old, Rudy Haddad, walking in a Jewish quarter, was set upon by 15-30 “African immigrants.” No one is saying whether they are Muslims or not. Alright, Martians from Africa beat Haddad with iron bars and fractured his skull. Haddad, like Halimi, and like their attackers, are also of African or possibly Arab descent–as was Sebastien Selam who was murdered in Paris in 2003. Haddad has just come out of a medically induced coma.
And further down:
So, where are all the anti-racists now? I hear no condemnations. The silence is chilling. And all too predictable. Where are the mainstream media? Where is FOX, CNN, MSNBC, and the International Herald Tribune? (Only ABC ran a Reuters’ 190 word story earlier today). When I Googled this story, the first three pages consisted of stories filed by small bloggers and mainly by Jewish and Israeli media. (Military Photos carried a story as well). But where are The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times? For heaven’s sake: Where is Le Soir, Le Monde, and Figaro? Has France’s Channel 2 covered this?
Arguably, Channel 2 bears a great responsibility here for that is the channel that broadcast the fake murder of Mohammed al-Dura and that sued for defamation when Philippe Karsenty described the coverage as a hoax. As we all know, the French Court found that Karsenty’s criticism was not “libelous.” Charles Enderlin, of Channel 2, has vowed to appeal this decision and has gotten 300 of his journalist-buddies to form a circle of support for him.
I think that Haddad’s grieving family and the Chabad community (to which Haddad was apparently connected since he was on his way to pray at the Beth Chaya Mouchka Lubavitch synagogue), might explore a lawsuit (or at least a demonstration) against the state-owned Channel 2 and against Enderlin. If you think this is a far-fetched suggestion, please consider the other options.
Indeed, what is to be done? Do Jews world-wide, beginning in Europe, and particularly in the 19th arondissement in Paris, need Israeli Defense Forces to guard them as they walk to Parisian synagogues?
To read the complete article, please click here.
Hat Tip: seraphic Friend, David Paulin
And as Seraphic Friend Mere Rhetoric correctly states:
No responsibility is to be borne by academics or activists who froth at the mouth while screaming that shadowy cabals of Jewish bankers, journalists, and merchants are undermining the West and must be excised from decent society. Because their accusations are aimed at Zionist Jews. So that's OK.
The Fifth Annual Ariel Avrech Z'TL Memorial Lecture by Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl is now available.
Look at the sidebar to the right of this blog, and click the graphic directly below Ariel's picture, the video will download and play. Or you can click the Audio link and just listen to the lecture.
Karen and I are happy that we can share this special presentation with all our Seraphic Friends.
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June 23, 2008
Israeli Factor in Iraq
Hamas terrorists in Gaza thanking Allah for
the recent Hudna
Here's an interesting article from Strategy Page that discusses the counter terrorist measures adopted by American troops from the Israeli model.
Perhaps the most vital strategic issue addressed in this analysis is that victory over terrorists can only be achieved when states abandon the notion that terrorism is a police, criminal problem—and moves effectively on the offense with aggressive military action.
The reason Hamas in Gaza have begged for a Hudna is because the Israeli Defense Forces have been eliminating their leaders and destroying terrorist cells with great efficiency. Has no one noticed that the Hamas leadership have gone to the mattresses for the past few months?
The leaders of Hamas and Hizbullah are terrified; in addition their resources have been seriously degraded.
That the Olmert-Livni-Barak government has accepted this Hudna is a sign of their ineptitude. It's no secret that the General Staff of the IDF are profoundly unhappy with the Hudna for it allows Hamas to rebuild their terrorist infrastructure, put new security measures in place, and rebuild their weapons capabilities by smuggling Iranian rockets and highly-trained Persian terrorists into Gazastan via tunnels from Egypt.
The jihadist Islamic world correctly views this Hudna as a victory for Hamas and Hizbullah. Of course the big winner is Iran, now solidifying their stranglehold on Lebanon and seeking hegemony over Gaza, thus surrounding Israel with two terrorist states who have vowed genocide against Israel and the entire Jewish people.
The recent Supreme Court decision handing Habeus Corpus to non-citizen terrorists is not just foolhardy, but deeply dangerous. In effect the court has extended the constitutional rights of an American citizen to Osama Bin Laden.
This is not how a state can effectively wage war against non-state actors.
In fact, it's a recipe for national suicide.
Barack Obama favors a return to the failed pre-9-11 policies—treating terrorism as a criminal problem.
John McCain correctly sees trans-national terrorism as a security threat that can only be defeated by an effective military.
No wonder the Islamic world is cheering Barack Obama's candidacy. They know a leaky vessel when they see one.
For political and diplomatic reasons, it's not likely that the Israelis will get the credit they deserve for the defeat of al Qaeda in Iraq. But it was Israeli concepts and tactics that helped bring IED (roadside bomb) casualties down from a high of 84 a month in May of 2007, to a low of 9 in May of 2008. While the new armored vehicles (MRAPs) and other technology (jammers and UAVs) played a role, it was the Israeli concept of going for the brains behind the bombs, that tore the heart out of the Islamic terrorist organizations in Iraq.
The armed forces of the U.S. and Israel have long worked together, to exchange tactics, techniques and technology. One of the items the Israelis shared was the tactics they developed to defeat a Palestinian suicide bombing campaign that began in 2000 (after Palestinian radicals refused to accept a recently negotiated peace deal).
The Palestinian terrorist groups still say they are going to destroy Israel. But as a practical matter, the current round of Palestinian terrorist violence is over. You can see this by the sharp decline in successful terrorist attacks, and the frequent pronouncements from the terrorists groups that they are going to behave, for a while anyway. What the terrorists really want is to avoid any more of the Israeli tactics that shot down their terrorist operations. This included going after terrorist leaders and technical specialists, and either capturing or (failing that) killing them. Raids and air attacks were made against buildings used by the terrorists, and tight security on Israelis borders were instituted. This last measure crushed the Palestinian economy, which put popular pressure on the terrorists to stop their attacks, and promise to keep it that way. The Israelis also set up an increasingly effective intelligence system inside Palestinian territories. What the Israelis did was "take the war to the enemy." This is an application of the old maxim, "the best defense is a good offense." This particular war is still going on, but the Israelis only adopted their winning tactics in 2003 and two years later the terrorists were rendered largely ineffective.
To read the complete story, please click here.
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June 07, 2008
Canadian Muslim Terrorists: Kill Rats or Jews, No Contest
From Arab News, a Saudi Arabian state sponsored
newspaper. Cartoon depicts rats as Jews, scurrying through
a Palestinian home.
But of course, this has nothing to do with Islam.
The alleged leader of the alleged Toronto 18 terror bomb plot had just broken the news to one of his alleged co-conspirators that the house they were thinking of renting as a base had a rat problem.
"I don't like wanna live with rats," the leader said.
The co-conspirator, who clearly was still pining and pushing for the house rental, inquired rather timidly, "It's permissible to kill rats?"
The leader thought about it, and concluded, a bit reluctantly, that rat-killing was probably allowed by the Koran.
"Is there any good about rats?" the co-conspirator asked.
Well, said the leader, a little anguished because such matters are not so simple, only that the rat "is a creature of Allah."
Jews, not so much. There was no such hand-wringing about Jew-killing.
Jews, the leader had told this same co-conspirator and two others a month earlier, you can kill with abandon. Because of what they had done to Palestine and "stuff like that, they're all our enemies. It's not enough to say they're only my enemy in a certain part of land, they're your enemy everywhere you see them....every single Jew is your enemy."
For the complete story, please click here.
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May 30, 2008
The Mortal Threat: Western Relativism
Magdi Christian Allam
Italian journalist and Muslim convert to Catholicism, Magdi Allam, warned this week that Islam is growing as a result of the ideology of relativism that pervades the West and claims that there are many truths instead of one unique Truth.
In an article published by the magazine Mundo Cristiano and quoted by Analisis Digital, Allam explained that relativism, which attributes “equal dignity to everything regardless of the content” has made it possible for extremism and Islamic terrorism “to be introduced and to take root” in Europe, to the point that there are Islamic extremists with European citizenship who “act upon and spread an ideology of hatred and violence.”
Likewise, Allam, who was recently baptized by Benedict XVI, said it was impossible to be a moderate Muslim, because the religion of Islam is “physiologically violent, as confirmed by certain verses from the Koran that defend an ideology of hatred, violence, death and condemnation of those who are not Muslims. This way of thinking comes from Mohammed,” Allam said, adding that Islam is an “intrinsically violent” religion.
Asked about his conversion to the faith, Allam said he was convinced by the preaching and testimony of Benedict XVI, whose “strong affirmation of the relationship between faith and reason as a foundation for understanding the authenticity of true religion” fascinated him.
Original article here.
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May 28, 2008
Hamas + Iran: “Never Forego Jihad Against Israel”
Terrorists embrace: Khaled Mashaal and Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The other day Seraphic Secret suggested that in the war against terror one should always listen to what the terrorists are saying.
Too many in the west take refuge in the delusion that the terrorists don't really mean what they say; it's just overblown rhetoric, insist the chattering classes, typical of Arab-Muslim culture that places a high premium on flowery language.
This is deeply paternalistic if not outright racism.
I respect the terrorists as a formidable enemy of Jews, Israel, Christians, and western civilization. The jihadists believe deeply in their facist Islamic ideology. They manipulate the dinosaur media, and the laws and courts of western democracies to further their own murderous ends. At the same time they make no secret of their genocidal intentions.
It would be nice if more Jews, Israelis, and western democracies believed as deeply in their own Judeo-Christian values and thus recognized and were prepared to fight the existential threats from the Islamic world: a war that's been going on in various permutations for fourteen centuries against any and all who do not embrace Islam.
And yes, I say Islam because you cannot take the Islam out of the Islamists.
Hamas in Gaza and her citizens, who overwhelmingly voted this genocidal gang into power, are making war on Israel, on Jews everywhere. Gazastan does this with the full aid of Iran and the Egyptian government who allow Iranian weapons to be shipped into Egyptian ports, from there trucked by highway to the Gaza-Egyptian border, and then right into Gaza.
This is the peace Israel gets from Egypt in exchange for returning the Sinai.
Remember it's never land for peace; it's always land for war. As a friend, a member of the Cheyenne tribe warned me: “We traded land for peace with the American government, and look what happened to us. Don't let Israel make the same mistake.”
The longer Israel waits to subdue Gaza, the more hazardous the operation and the more casualties.
For those who harbor any illusions about Hamas and Iran's eliminationist intentions, here's the cry of Islamic terror loud and clear.
Chief Hamas terrorist Khaled Mashaal said Tuesday that the terrorist organization would never forego jihad against Israel, and thanked the Iran for its ongoing support of terror activities against Israel and Jews around the world.
Mashaal made the comments to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a visit to Tehran. Khamenei encouraged Hamas to continue murdering Israelis and Jews, saying a failure to do so would "disgrace" the terror group.
Original article from Arutz Sheva.
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May 27, 2008
The Price of Appeasement: Again
Hamas terrorist displays Qassam rocket.
It's really quite amazing. The delusional peaceniks who keep calling for Israel to make, ahem, painful concessions, never seem to notice that each concession leads to a withering of Israel's deterrent capabilities, and more threats of annihilation from her jihadist enemies.
Here's a simple rule for Israel—for Jews—to keep in mind:
Never listen to those who urge giving up land for peace. Instead, listen to what the terrorists are saying. They make no secret of their tactics nor their long range genocidal strategy.
In short, when Jew-haters say that they are out to destroy Israel, you should take them seriously.
Terrorists in the Gaza Strip are rejoicing at an Israeli decision today to evacuate troops stationed at a major Gaza-Israel border crossing following repeated Palestinian attacks against Israel's side of the border station.
"This retreat proves the Israeli army is a paper tiger. What we proved to the world in 2005 (when Israel evacuated its Jewish communities from the Gaza Strip) we are proving once again. We are reaching a new step and proving our resistance and our rockets are working," Muhammad Abdel-Al, spokesman and a leader of the Hamas-allied Popular Resistance Committees terror group, told WND.
"Just as the Zionists are running from the border, they will also run from Ashkelon, Ashdod, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa and Tel Aviv ... . We will keep firing until every Jew climbs back into the sh--ty hole he came from," said Abdel-Al, whose group took responsibility for scores of recent attacks against the Israeli border.
Abu Ahmed, a leader of the Islamic Jihad terror group in Gaza, called Israel's troop evacuation a "victory."To read the complete article, please click here.
Haveil Havalim—FrumeSarah Style, came in late, but do chek it out. As always, a fine collection.
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May 25, 2008
The Fall of Lebanon
Hizbullah terrorist in Lebanon displays his
ideological playbook: The Koran.
A few days ago, in our Idiot's Guide to the Israeli-Syrian Negotiations, Seraphic Secret wrote:
Syria has no intention of moving away from Iran's orbit. In fact, Syria's intelligence services are busier than ever in Lebanon helping Hizbullah—Persia's proxy—extend its dominance over the country. This is actually the seminal story in the Middle East. Lebanon is toast. Hizbullah is hollowing out the state and Shia dominance is almost assured.
I'm pleased to see that Professor Barry Rubin agrees with me.
Here, in an important essay, Professor Rubin analyzes the fall of Lebanon, what it means for the region, how history should, but is not serving as a guide for the freedom-loving West, and how Barack Obama might be the most clueless presidential candidate in the history of the Republic.
According to Obama at an Oregon rally, Iran does not “pose a serious threat” to the United States. His reasoning is as disturbing—or more so—than his conclusion. Obama explained that Iran has less to spend on defense and if it “tried to pose a serious threat to us they wouldn’t . . . stand a chance.”
We can now feel secure that the Iranians won’t load their soldiers onto landing craft and storm the New Jersey beaches. Unfortunately, that isn’t their military strategy. Perhaps Obama doesn’t understand that the average B-1 bomber costs less than a suicide bomber. Has he heard about asymmetric warfare?
Forget that. Has he heard of terrorism, the Marine barracks’ bombing, or September 11?
According to Obama:
"Iran they spend one one-hundredth of what we spend on the military. I mean if Iran tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn't stand a chance. And we should use that position of strength that we have to be bold enough to go ahead and listen. That doesn't mean we agree with them on everything. That doesn't, we might not compromise with them on any issues. But, at least we should find out are there areas of potential common interest and we can reduce some of the tension that have caused us so many problems around the world."
One cannot pretend away the implications of this paragraph. Let’s list them:
—No understanding that Iran follows strategies designed to circumvent that problem of unequal power including terrorism, guerrilla war, deniable attacks, long wars of attrition, the use of surrogates, and so on.
—The only way Obama sees for using the U.S. “position of strength” is to listen to their grievances, as if we are not familiar with them. In short, the only thing you can do when stronger is to get weaker. Presumably the same applies when you are the weaker party.
—Why is he so totally unaware that dialogue has been tried? A decade with the PLO, longer with Hizballah by other Lebanese, four straight years of European engagement with Tehran over the nuclear issue, multiple U.S. delegations to talk with the Syrians, and so on. Was nothing learned from this experience?
—And what happens afterward if Obama’s dialogue doesn’t work? What cards would he have left? What readiness to try another course? Perhaps by then the Iranians will have nuclear weapons and other gains negating that “position of strength” so fecklessly frittered away.
—What possible issues can the United States find to compromise with Iran? Let’s say: give them Lebanon (oh, we already did that); ignore their sponsorship of terrorism; give them Iraq; give them Israel; withdraw U.S. forces from the region, accept their having nuclear arms. What?
—Why should the United States be able to reduce tensions through negotiations when Iran wants tensions? There is an important hint here: if the United States makes concessions it might buy off tensions. Since Iran and the others know about Obama’s all-carrots-no-sticks worldview, they will make him pay a lot to get the illusion of peace and quiet.
—There is no hint, not the slightest, of his understanding the option of using power to intimidate or defeat Iran, or as a way to muster allies. If Obama had the most minimal comprehension of these issues, he would fake it with some blah-blah about how America would combine toughness with flexibility, deterrence with compromise, steadfastness in order to gain more from the other side in negotiations. A critical element in peace-keeping, peace-making, and negotiations is to act tough and be strong in order to have leverage. Even in responding to criticisms, Obama has only talked about whether negotiations are conditional or unconditional and at what level they should be conducted. He is oblivious to the fact that the chief executive does things other than negotiations.
—If this is Obama’s strategy while Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons what would he do in dealing with a Tehran owning them?
Make no mistake, Obama is channelling Neville Chamberlain—precisely because what he says shows his parallel thinking. Many people may get a chill listening to Obama but it certainly isn’t a Churchill. Apologists, sympathizers, and wishful-thinkers keep endowing this would-be emperor with beautiful suits of clothes. He doesn’t have any.
For the complete article, please click here.
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May 21, 2008
8 Seconds at an IDFCheckpoint
Time: Monday evening, 6:50 PM.
Location: Chawara IDF Checkpoint, Road 60
IDF Unit: Nachal Brigade
Situation: Routine checks on Palestinian population for weapons.
The following is based on a radio interview this morning on IDF radio (Galei Tzahal) between the checkpoint commander and Radio interviewer, Razi Barkai.
The checkpoint commander is a 22-year old officer from the Nachal Brigade — his unit took over the checkpoint for the first time yesterday. Corporal Michal Ya'akov, from the IDF military police is also assigned to the checkpoint. The checkpoint commander said the following incident lasted 8 seconds.
Start your clock now and click to the Muqata:
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Intrafrada: Welcome to Gruesome Gaza
Preparing the next “image” for Gaza's popular pastime.
Obviously, all the fault of the Zionist enterprise, code for: Jooz.
A popular pastime in Gaza is swapping gruesome footage of dead or dying victims of the Strip's incessant violence.
The images used to be almost exclusive legacies of clashes with Israeli forces but last year that changed. Now being far more keenly traded are snapshots of Palestinian fratricide, gruesome images taken by "militia-cams' that record scenes for posterity.
Spend any time near the emergency ward of Gaza's Shifa Hospital and security staff or ward workers will offer a look at their mobile phones, which they'll quickly switch to video mode to show images of victims of intra-Palestinian clashes being wheeled in agony from ambulances.
Sit in a town square for more than five minutes and you'll be quickly encircled by youths clamouring to outdo each other with images of death and mayhem.
A veritable library of the "intrafada" now exists in Gaza among militias and clans. Most were added during 2007, when the numbers of intra-Palestinian deaths jumped by 800 per cent — from 55 to 439 — almost all of the deaths in Gaza.
Last year was, by any measure, a revolutionary year in Palestinian politics. More than at any time in the previous two decades, the two most dominant political blocs were willing to bid for influence through the barrels of their Kalashnikovs.
Another factor that contributed to the violence, however, was a creeping radical Islamicisation — a small but growing number of youths in Gaza hitching themselves to an al-Qa'ida world view that pitches them against the rest of the Strip and renders, as fair game to be killed, anyone seen as acting "un-Islamicly'.
A spate of so-called honour-killings of women accounted for about 25 per cent of the body count — far higher than any of the years before.
To read the complete article, please click here.
I just noticed that Soccer Dad also covers this story, but he provides some invaluable links which reveal that this gruesome behavior in Gaza has ample precedent in the fratricide-ridden Arab world. What's most shocking is that the Gazans really do blame the Israelis for their own barbaric behavior. A refusal to take responsibility for one's own actions is a sure sign of an immature mind, a degraded society.
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May 14, 2008
Hamas: We Will Persecute and Burn the Zionists to Eternity
Olmert's peace partners give the official Palestinian Nazi salute.
Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said Wednesday that a Palestinian state will be established on all of the land of Palestine and not only on parts of it, and that it will include "Jaffa, Lod and Haifa."
Zahar also reiterated Hamas' unwillingness to recognize the State of Israel and said that the group "will continue to persecute the Zionists wherever they are, after we prove that the Zionist army can be defeated — contrary to what was believed in the past, that it is impossible to beat the Zionists."
Speaking in the Gaza Strip, he went on to affirm Palestinian right of return, claiming that the "right of return of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians is closer than ever."
"After we defeat the Zionists we will persecute them… we will persecute them to eternity, and the sun of the freedom and independence of the Palestinians will burn all of the Zionists," he continued.
Original article from The Jerusalem Post.
I have a few questions and observations:
1. Why is this terrorist Jew-hater still alive? One hellfire missile from an Israeli drone will feed hell.
2. Why is Israel supplying fuel, power and medical supplies to Gaza? The Arabs who live in Gaza elected Hamas, thus overwhelmingly endorsing their genocidal program. Gaza shares a border with Egypt. Let the Egyptians supply, no doubt, brilliant medical care to their beloved Arab-Muslim brothers.
3. In the past few days mortars and rockets from Gaza have slaughtered two Israeli citizens, Jimmy Kedoshim, 48 and Shlomit Katz, 70. This morning, a missile from Gaza scored a direct hit on a shopping center in Ashkelon injuring a dozen men, women and children. The rocket was a Grad Missile, designed and brought into Gaza from Persia. It has a larger payload than the Quassam and a range of 12 miles. The technology will only improve. The corrupt PM Olmert has been negotiating with Holocaust denier and terrorist leader Muhamar Abbas. This is not just appeasement, it's self-strangulation on a national level. The first duty of the state is to protect all its citizens—not just the latte sippers in Tel Aviv. Yes, I guarantee, if missiles from Gaza were hitting Tel Aviv, Olmert would invade Gaza faster than he'd take a bribe.
4. Not only is Olmert negotiating with Abbas, but he's been negotiating a cease-fire, in reality a hudna‚ through Egypt, a leaky partner for Israel—with Hamas. This signals to the Arabs that Israel has lost the will to fight. No wonder Hamas boasts of destroying Israel and burning Jews. At this point, Olmert and Livni are no less than enablers of Hamas and all transnational terrorist groups who seek to eliminate Israel and rid the world of Jews.
5. Once again, Seraphic Secret urges Israel to cut all fuel, power and medical supplies to Gaza.
6. Israel should announce that each rocket, mortar and missile from Gaza will be met with an automatic response of ten shells to one. Thus it will be quite clear who is responsible for the rain of destruction.
7. If the attacks from Gaza don't cease within ten days, carpet bombing should commence. The civilian population will be warned in advance so they can make their way to Egypt, into the warm embrace of their generous Arab-Muslim brothers.
8. Gaza is an enemy state and should be treated as such.
9. Olmert is an appeaser and should be recognized as such.
10. If Israel continues with her current policies of appeasement, she will soon be bracketed by an Syrian-Persian controlled Lebanon—a done deal—and Gaza, a proxie for Persia. Israel must act with overwhelming force to short-circuit this Shia terror encirclement, and to reestablish regional deterrence. All else is suicide in slow motion.
11. And unless Israel deals decisively with these barbarians, then Israel will soon be subject to this sub-human jihadist savagery.
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May 12, 2008
The Fleet Positions Itself for War Against Iran
Currently, there is a large U.S. naval deployment that points to a an overwhelming military strike against the Persian nuclear facilities. The carrier rotations indicate a clear tactical pattern for war.
Why now?
Iran will not willingly give up her nuclear ambitions. That much is clear. Iran is intent in spreading its hegemony throughout the region. Currently, she is, through her proxy Hizbullah, in the process of turning Lebanon into another Gaza.
We can assume that America and Israel are sharing intelligence on this operation. The Saudis, who fear and detest the Shia Persians are, no doubt, opening their files on their Muslim brothers. The Gulf Sunnis are as anxious as Israel to defang the Shia Mullahs.
President Bush and his advisers cannot risk an Obama presidency, in effect, a second Jimmy Carter. Obama, an entrenched leftist, is an appeaser. The Persians, and every transnational terrorist movement, would eat him—and us—alive.
Nuclear weapons in the hands of the Mullahs would be a disaster for the region and for the civilized world. President Bush understands the geopolitical implications. And yet the American press yawns in the face of a regime that denies one Holocaust while it promises another.
Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, “unprecedented in its scope.”
Bush’s secret directive covers actions across a huge geographic area – from Lebanon to Afghanistan – but is also far more sweeping in the type of actions permitted under its guidelines – up to and including the assassination of targeted officials. This widened scope clears the way, for example, for full support for the military arm of Mujahedin-e Khalq, the cultish Iranian opposition group, despite its enduring position on the State Department’s list of terrorist groups.
Similarly, covert funds can now flow without restriction to Jundullah, or “army of god,” the militant Sunni group in Iranian Baluchistan – just across the Afghan border — whose leader was featured not long ago on Dan Rather Reports cutting his brother in law’s throat.
Other elements that will benefit from U.S. largesse and advice include Iranian Kurdish nationalists, as well the Ahwazi arabs of south west Iran. Further afield, operations against Iran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon will be stepped up, along with efforts to destabilize the Syrian regime.
And this:
Our observations regarding developments began back in September of last year, as we began to watch how the rotations would come together for 2008. We have discussed 6+2 strategy for carriers before. The carrier strategy which was enabled by the Fleet Response Plan was designed to insure the Navy has 6 aircraft carriers available within 30 days to anywhere in the world, with 2 more available by 90 days. The theory is that beyond 90 days, the other 2 carriers not conducting a nuclear refueling would be available within 180 days. 6+2 is theory though, it usually involves several of those 6 carriers returning from deployment, thus the 30 day metric.
However, as the rhetoric builds, we observe 6+2 is getting very close to reality. Lets count them down.Here is the 6 for the 30 day response this summer:6 & 30 Days:USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) - Deployed to GulfUSS George Washington (CVN 73) - Deployed on way to JapanUSS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) - Next Atlantic Fleet Carrier to DeployUSS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) - Next Pacific Fleet Carrier to DeployUSS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) - Surge Atlantic Carrier Behind RooseveltUSS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) - Surge Pacific Carrier Behind Reagan2 & 90 Days:USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) - Rotating from Japan to San Diego (Currently Deployed)USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) - Currently Deployed, Returning Home2 & 180 Days:USS Enterprise (CVN 65) - 16-month Extended Docking Availability Began April 11thUSS Nimitz (CVN 68) - Currently Deployed, Extended Drydock Availability Begins After DeploymentNuclear Refueling:USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) - Unavailable until end of 2008Check closely, we list both carriers for 60 days as deployed today, plus a 180 day carrier as deployed today. In other words, they won't be unavailable until the Navy decides them to be.
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May 02, 2008
Whitewashing Hamas
An important commentary from Caroline B. Glick, the woman who should be Prime Minister of Israel.
Another ordinary week has come and gone in southern Israel.Bombarded by rockets from Hamastan in Gaza, residents of Sderot, Ashkelon and nearby towns watched as their national leaders conducted negotiations by proxy with Hamas to release hundreds of terrorists in Israeli jails and consolidate Hamas's weapons supply lines by suspending Israeli counter-terror operations during a "cease-fire."Between trips to the local bomb shelter, they watched Israeli trucks deliver fuel and supplies to Hamas in Gaza in the morning; and they watched Hamas store the fuel and supplies in depots near the border in the afternoon. In the evening they watched news reports echoing Hamas' claims that Israel is depriving Gazan hospitals of fuel and Gazan civilians of basic foodstuffs.Wednesday night they tried having a Yom Hashoah ceremony in Sderot but it was interrupted by incoming missiles. For its part, Hamas marked the Holocaust with a documentary series claiming that the genocide of European Jewry was a satanic Jewish plot to cull the Jewish population of its handicapped and to manipulate the world media.Hamas captured headlines this week with its allegation that Israel was responsible for the death of a Palestinian woman and four of her children in an explosion in Bet Hanoun in Gaza as the IDF targeted Hamas terrorists from the air. The IDF conducted two investigations showing that the woman and her children were killed by something else: a secondary explosion caused by bombs the Hamas terrorists — one of whom was her husband — were carrying at the time the IDF targeted them.To read Caroline Glickman's complete article, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friends, Joel Wiesz, Yonoson Fisgus, M.D.
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May 01, 2008
Hamas TV: Jews Planned Holocaust to Kill Disabled
While Jimmy Carter was meeting with Hamas, the terrorist group made the most of the legitimacy bestowed upon them by this Jew hating Democrat by producing for Arab TV an “educational film” about the Holocaust—Palestinian style.
Good job, Jimmy!
Yup, in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is being observed today in Israel and America, Hamas commissioned a television program that claims a gruesome conspiracy between the Nazis and the pre-state Jewish leadership.
And don't forget Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama.
No wonder the Arab world hates Israel and Jews with such passion. They are fed lies from cradle to grave.
Let me repeat the obvious: the wars between Israel and her Arab neighbors has nothing to do with so-called occupation, boundaries, walls, or a Palestinian state.
It's about Jews living and breathing in the mideast.
From The Jerusalem Post:
According to the documentary's narrator, Israel's first prime minister David Ben Gurion decided that Jewish “disabled and handicapped are a burden to the state,” after which “the Satanic Jews” —the film cuts to a picture of a hassidic Jew — “thought up an evil plot to be rid of the burden of disabled and handicapped” — the film then cuts to piles of emaciated corpses — “in twisted criminal ways.”“This is official Hamas TV,” explained PMW director Itamar Marcus. “It's owned and totally controlled by the Hamas leadership in Gaza, and it goes out by satellite to the whole Arab-speaking world.”
And remember, Israel is supplying Gaza with the energy and fuel with which this and other fine educational movies are produced.
Keep it up Israel.
National suicide on your 60'th birthday, makes perfect sense.
What to do?
Well, I know a few ladies who have a few common sense proposals.
Brigitte Bardot takes aim at jihadists in France.
Carole Lombard says: “Bomb Gaza back to the stone age.”
Lillian Gish vows: “I'll pick off those pesky jihad varmints one by one!”
Peggy Cummins is Gun Crazy and will fight the Islamists to the death.
Zhang Ziyi is an old fashioned girl. She'll disembowel the Islamofacists.Posted by Robert J. Avrech at 12:46 AM | Comments (3)
April 17, 2008
Hamas: All Out for Obama
Hamas says: Vote for Barack Hussein Obama—Or Else!Last night during the Democratic debate, as Obama explained that his way of dealing with the Persian nuclear threat was by talking to them, my fearless wife turned to me and said:
“I'm scared.”
I nodded my head in agreement.
Both candidates promise to surrender in Iraq and thereby turn Iraq into a province of Iran.
Obama, the most left wing member of the Senate, with a voting record even more left wing than Senator Edward Kennedy—that's quite a feat—didn't answer one question directly. He's the slippery politician cleverly disguised as an anti-politician.
I realized that much of Obama's appeal lies in is his voice. He sounds like an oboe. He sounds like he knows what he's talking about. His well modulated tones are soothing. You feel like you can fall asleep listening to Obama drone on and on—he's like an appealing Philip K. Dick android—and when you wake up all will be well.
In truth, it's a well crafted illusion.
Look, I'll be honest, I hope the Democrats nominate Obama because the more the American people learn about this radical leftist, the more they will be inclined to vote for John McCain. Last night, by refusing to give straight answers, Obama revealed his shallow core. For if Obama were to give straight answers, the American electorate would flee from his banner in record numbers.
But of course, the Jew-hating jihadists recognize a potential Trojan horse when they see one:
On the eve of a planned meeting of its leader Khaled Meshaal with former President Jimmy Carter, the Hamas terrorist organization has expressed the "hope" that Senator Barack Hussein Obama will win the presidential elections and change America's foreign policy.Even though Obama has said that he would not meet with Hamas unless it renounces violence and recognizes Israel, or becomes the recognized leadership of the Palestinians -- he has no qualms about holding talks with the leadership of Iran, Syria, and North Korea -- that doesn't seem to bother the Hamas leadership."We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections," Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas' top political adviser in the Gaza Strip, said in an exclusive interview with World Net Daily and with the John Batchelor Show on WABC Radio in New York.He saw Obama's comments about Hamas as political posturing that was understandable to lull supporters of Israel before the election.To read the complete story please click go to Israeli Insider.
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April 15, 2008
Poison Plot c/o Pardoned Fatah Terrorists c/o Olmert
Last week, we linked to a story about a gruesome plot by Fatah terrorists to poison the food in an Israeli restaurant and murder as many Jews as possible. It turns out that this plot was hatched by Fatah members who were released from Israeli prisons in an amnesty deal brokered by PM Olmert and his government.
Seraphic Secret draws some core lessons from this latest Palestinian atrocity.
1. Terrorists should never be pardoned. They should either be killed or locked in jail for life.
2. When an Islamist makes an agreement it's worthless. Jihadists have no honor. They are liars who will do and say anything in order to kill Jews and Christians.
3. Fatah is and always has been a genocidal terrorist organization.
4. Prime Minister Olmert and Foreign Minister Livni are a clear and present danger to the Sate of Israel. They ignore S'derot—under steady bombardment from Judenrein Gaza—all the while making nice to Mahmoud Abbas, a Holocaust denier and and a terrorist.
5. The more concessions Israel makes to her enemies the more terror she invites.The terrorist cell that planned to poison an Israeli restaurant this month was led by jihadists who were recently granted amnesty by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, WND has learned.The pardoned terrorists, members of Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, were directly involved in orchestrating the foiled attack, according to defense sources. They were granted amnesty in October as a stated Israeli gesture to help bolster Palestinian Authority President and Fatah Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.The terrorists were given amnesty on condition they disarm, refrain from attacks and spend three months in PA detention facilities and another three months confined to Nablus, the northern West Bank city in which they reside.To read the complete story, please click here.
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April 14, 2008
Fatah: "Drive Them [Israelis] All Out of Palestine"
Child care, Palestinian style.Seraphic Secret has long maintained that there is no difference between Fatah and Hamas. Both are genocidal terror groups who have vowed to eliminate the State of Israel.
But don't take my word for it, let's hear from a high ranking PLO member as he speaks to an Arab audience in Lebanon.
Title of Video: Palestinian Authority Representative in Lebanon Abbas Zaki Supports Anti-Israeli Attacks and States: We Act According to the Phased Plan. Once We Get Jerusalem, We Will Move On to Drive Israelis Out of All of Palestine
Click here for the Video Clip.
And here is the transcript of excerpts from the interview with Abbas Zaki, Palestinian Authority representative in Lebanon, which aired on NBN TV on April 9, 2008:
Abbas Zaki: We believe wholeheartedly that the Right of Return is guaranteed by our will, by our weapons, and by our faith.
Interviewer: Do you still believe in weapons, not just in negotiations?
Abbas Zaki: The use of weapons alone will not bring results, and the use of politics without weapons will not bring results. We act on the basis of our extensive experience. We analyze our situation carefully. We know what climate leads to victory and what climate leads to suicide. We talk politics, but our principles are clear. It was our pioneering leader, Yasser Arafat, who persevered with this revolution, when empires collapsed. Our armed struggle has been going on for 43 years, and the political struggle, on all levels, has been going on for 50 years. We harvest U.N. resolutions, and we shame the world so that it doesn't gang up on us, because the world is led by people who have given their brains a vacation – the American administration and the neocons.
Young Palestinian: As I recall, the invasion of 1982 and the destruction of South Lebanon was not just in response to missile attacks, but in response to operations as well. Israel does not use only the missiles as a pretext. It uses any activity of the resistance as a pretext.
Abbas Zaki: The important thing is that in any operation, Israel will pay a price. We don't want cases in which you don't kill even a chicken, but Israel kills 20 of you. I salute any operation that makes Israel pay a heavy price.
The P.L.O. is the sole legitimate representative [of the Palestinian people], and it has not changed its platform even one iota. In light of the weakness of the Arab nation and the lack of values, and in light of the American control over the world, the P.L.O. proceeds through phases, without changing its strategy. Let me tell you, when the ideology of Israel collapses, and we take, at least, Jerusalem, the Israeli ideology will collapse in its entirety, and we will begin to progress with our own ideology, Allah willing, and drive them out of all of Palestine.
Courtesy of MEMRI.Hat Tip: Seraphic Brother-in-Law, Rabbi David Singer
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April 10, 2008
Eat, Drink, Die
Grill Express RestaurantPalestinian restaurant workers planned to serve, gee, what a shock, dishes laced with poison to Jewish patrons.
Here's another stunner. The terrorists are aligned with Fatah, the very group with whom Prime Minister Olmert is negotiating.
Yup, Olmert and Livni are propping up a genocidal Arab regime who are no different than Hamas.
Oh, wait, I'm sorry. Mahmoud Abbas does wear nice suits. They are made in London by the best bespoke tailors. In fact, the very tailors who cut the suits for the corrupt Columbia Professor Edward Said, who also looted money from Fatah for his sartorial pleasure.
Look, they're all a bunch of corrupt bums who have no interest in building a state, only in destroying a state—Israel—and, naturally, these Palestinian, ahem, leaders, steal as much money as possible.
That's our American tax dollars at work.
And EU currency being used to plot terror attacks in the heart of London.
In the meantime, Jew-killing is the name of the game, the more gruesome the better.
Y'know, when terrorists plan on killing Jews and the Prime Minister of the Jewish state rewards the terrorist entity with er, peace talks, it only encourages further terrorist attacks.
It's called positive reinforcement.
The thwarting of an alarming terror plot was cleared for publication on Thursday, almost three weeks after a joint Shin Bet and police operation led to the arrest of two Palestinian employees of the 'Grill Express' restaurant in Ramat Gan.The men, Eihab Abu Rial and Anas Salum, both 21-year-old residents of the West Bank city of Nablus, had planned to lace dishes served at the establishment with a powerful toxin without odor or taste, in the hopes of killing as many patrons as possible.The two did not have working permits and were residing in Israel illegally. While in Nablus, they had been recruited to the al-Aqsa Martyr's Bridges, the military wing of Fatah, under the guidance and funding of Hizbullah.The men were arrested by police investigators following information obtained by the Shin Bet, several short days before they planned to carry out the attack.In their questioning the men told interrogators they were to receive the poison from two operatives in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus – Husseini Salag and Hani Quabi – who are still wanted by security forces.The white substance is virtually undetectable and affects its victims approximately four hours after being ingested.
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Anti-Semitic Obama Supporter Attacks Jewish Philanthropist
Daphna ZimanDaphna Ziman is a Jewish philanthropist in Los Angles. Her work with the African American community is well known. Last night, she was supposed to be honored. Instead she was subjected to a vicious Jew-hating diatribe by a supporter of Barack Obama. It's no secret: the black community is riddled with Jew-hatred. And with so many apologists for Jeremiah Wright on the left and in the Jewish community, well, Jew-hatred has found a comfortable home not just in the black community but in the Democratic party.
by Daphna ZimanApril 8, 2008Hi,I have to tell you of an experience I had last night that was so anti-Semitic and frightening:Last night I was honored by Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, for my work with Children Uniting nations with African American children who are living out of home care. I have dedicated my life to saving these children from abuse, neglect and a life of crime. We created 'adoption day' and "Day of the Child" determined to recruit caring adults to be mentors and life savers for our at risk children in the inner cities.The Mayor was present and City Council member Bernard Parks, assemblyman Mike Davis, Senator Mark Ridely Thomas etc. I was introduced as a children advocate and a leader in the Jewish community. I began my speech by talking about how I woke up in the morning and listened to Hillary Clinton's speech, in the spirit of Dr. King from Memphis, that moved me so deeply. I expressed to the crowd how grateful I was to listen to Sen. McCain apologize to the community for mistakes he has made in the past. I acknowledged Sen. Obama's speech from the campaign trail about Dr. King's mentorship.After I spoke and thanked the fraternity and their members, Rev. Eric Lee, pres. and CEO of Southern Christian Leadership Conference of greater Los Angeles, was introduced as the key note speaker.He began his speech by thanking Jesus for Obama, who is going to be the leader of the world. He continued by referring to other leaders Like Dr. King, being that this was the moment of celebrating Dr. King's spirit on the anniversary of his death, and Malcolm X.It was right after the mention of Malcolm X that he looked right at me and started talking about the African American children who are suffering because of the “JEWS” that have featured them as rapists and murderers. He spoke of a Jewish Rabbi, and then corrected himself to say "What other kind of Rabbis are there, but “JEWS”. He told how this Rabbi came to him to say that he would like to bring the AA community and the Jewish community together. “NO, NO, NO,!!!!” he shouted into the crowd, we are not going to come together. “The Jews have made money on us in the music business and we are the entertainers, and they are economically enslaving us.”He continued as to how now the salvation has come and the gates have open for African Americans to come together behind Barack Obama, because now is the time to show them (meaning the Jews).He continued to speak about “White supremacy” vs. the talents and visionaries in the core of African Americans. He demeaned being given freedom, by saying “To what?” to a country that kills women and children.I could no longer be polite and sit in front of the crowd, so I walked out.Members of the fraternity ran after me as did my staff, I was not able to contain my tears and I cried. I cried for me and my family, who have tried so hard to help the African American community, because we adopted children from the same realities and wanted to give back to other children and people. We have been completely color blind, for us it was only helping those children in need.This letter has been truncated for reporting purposes, as our sole interest in sharing this with you is to provide you with a first hand account of Daphna Ziman's devastating personal experience of anti-Semitism at a recent event at which she was being honored.From Stand With Us.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Aliza Zibkoff
And here's Roger Simon interviewing Daphna Ziman for Pajamas Media. This is worth watching for Ms. Ziman is utterly authentic, completely believable and shocked by the vicious Jew-hatred that was unleashed at her and the Jewish people. She's a Jewish liberal who's been mugged by reality.
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April 09, 2008
To Destroy Gaza
Hamas marches in Gaza reminding citizens of their duty to kill Jews.Two Jews, Oleg Lipson 37, and Lev Cerniak 55, were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in Nahal Oz.
What were these Jews doing?
What was their crime?
They were providing fuel to the citizens of Gaza.
Who were the terrorists who committed this deed?
Three terror groups claim responsibility: Islamic Jihad, the Popular Resistance Committees and Fatah's Mujahideen Brigades.
Fatah, by the way, for those who are slow on the uptake, is the, ahem, moderate terrorist group with whom PM Olmert is negotiating, in fact, secretly negotiating, and gee, on a fast-track to divide Jerusalem and G-d knows what else he and Foreign (very foreign) Minister Livni have given away to this genocidal organization.
Seraphic Secret has long maintained that supplying energy to those who have vowed to wipe Israel off the face of the earth is suicidal.
The choice is clear: it's either the citizens of Israel or the citizens of Gaza.
I choose the citizens of Israel.
The barbarians in Gaza have made the choice for me.
And by the way, so have the savages in the U.N.
If the government of Israel does not act, it's time to replace this odious government.
Now, with this murderous attack, the terrorists have brought home the terrible paradox of supplying energy to those who have vowed to murder every Jew on the face of the earth.
Pin-point assassinations make for nice headlines and are blah, blah, blah, morally defensible, but in the long run they do not win wars, nor do they maintain any form of deterrence.
Until the civilian population of Gaza is brought to its knees, until Gaza is turned into a vast parking lot Israel will become one huge S'derot.
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Carter to Hug Hamas
It comes as no surprise that Former President Jimmy Carter is planning to travel to Syria to meet with senior Hamas leader Khalid Mash'al, probably on April 18.
Carter, best friend to dictators everywhere, will achieve two important benchmarks with this meeting.
1. He will bestow legitimacy on a Jew-hating and genocidal organization.
2. This visit will increase petro donations to the Carter library.It should be kept in mind that the Hamas covenant calls for the annihilation of the state of Israel. Major parts of the charter are based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It also calls for a caliphite to rule the world.
I suppose Carter expects to moderate Mash'al's “militant” views. Or maybe they'll just sit around discussing the vast Jewish lobby that controls American foreign policy.
Khalid Mash'al has been on Israel's hit list for many years. He's the definition of a terrorist, a war criminal. Former President Jimmy Carter not only enables Jew-haters and terrorists, he props ups tyrannies that would murder every Jew on the face of the earth.
It's interesting to note the similarities between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter. Both advocate talking to our enemies without preconditions. Just the other day, Barack Obama, sounding like a replay of Carter, called for a “diplomatic surge that includes Iran.”
In truth, Iran becomes more dangerous every single day.
But Barack Obama, like all donkey appeasers, figures that just making nice to jihadist Jew-haters will, y'know, charm them into being good neighbors. As if that's ever happened. Hey, Obama's Pastor certainly never moderated his views on Jews or Israel. Not in 20 years. But then, as far as we know, Obama never even tried to talk some sense into his good Pastor. Nope, Barack Obama just sat there for 20-years, with his wife and children, nodded his head and responded, “Amen brother.”
I will say it right now: Jews who vote for Obama are either suicidal, stupid, or hey, delusional, which is pretty much the definition of a Jewish Democrat these days.
With all due respect.
Anywhoo.
This notion of Iran as a partner to stabilize Iraq is not merely gullible, but dangerous. Persia seeks hegemony over that region of the world. Persia, from 1980 to 1988 fought a bloody war with Iraq in which a million men were slaughtered. Now Persia sees her chance to annihilate her blood enemy and absorb that country as a province, and snatch Iraq's vast oil fields as a grand prize.
Obama, when speaking to General David Patraeus, sounded not just like an appeaser and a defeatist, but quite frankly, he was way over his head.
Never forget that Jimmy Carter lost Iran. Never forget that Jimmy Carter helped usher in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It appears that Barack Obama is determined to lose Iraq and perhaps throw Israel into the bargain.
It's quite clear that Barack Obama is a replay of Jimmy Carter.
Oh, and guess which Democratic candidate Carter is backing in the primaries?
And this from the Republican Jewish Coalition:
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) today called on Sens. Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama to speak out in opposition to former President Jimmy Carter's possible plans to visit with Hamas terror chief Khaled Meshal in Syria. As reported by FOX News, the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter is planning a trip to Syria in mid-April and will be meeting with Meshal."It is unacceptable that a former American president would choose to dignify and legitimize Hamas leader Khaled Meshal with a visit. Hamas is a designated terrorist organization that denies Israel's right to exist, kidnaps Israeli soldiers, fires rockets on Israeli towns, is responsible for the deaths of American citizens and celebrated in the streets of Gaza after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Meshal has even called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 'courageous' for denying the Holocaust," said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks."As presidential contenders who have pledged to protect America and stand with our ally, Israel, we urge Senators Clinton, McCain and Obama to speak out forcefully against former President Carter's possible meeting with Khaled Meshal and to ask him not to have this meeting," said Brooks.Flash Video: Jimmy Carter's War Against the Jews
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April 08, 2008
Al Qaeda on Iraq
Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaedas’s second in command.I've just been listening to Barack Obama question General Petraeus about Iraq. Obama says that if America were to withdraw from Iraq, things might get “messy.”
Really?I would think that the word genocidal would be more appropriate.
The contrast between Obama and General David Patraeus is stark. General Patraeus has spent his entire adult life honorably serving and defending this country. Barack Obama is the slick creature of George Soros and his vile moveon.org and their legion of Jew-haters.
Let's keep in mind that Barack Obama has been in the Senate less time than the five-and-a-half years John McCain was imprisoned in the Hanoi Hilton being tortured by the North Viet Namese Communists.
The thought of Barack Obama as Commander-in-Chief of General David Patraeus and men of his ilk is, to say the least, frightening.
But listen, don't take my word for how disastrous an American withdrawal from Iraq would be, let's hear from the jihadists themselves—who are salivating at the idea of an American surrender.
No wonder the Arabs in Gaza are all for Obama.
This from that fine blogger Wolf Howling.
Ayman al Zawahiri is al Qaedas’s second in command. He gave an interview to al Sahab in December, 2007, and, most recently, answered written questions in a kind of jihadi talk radio show. Both provide a wealth of information and insight into the mind of a man who is in equal measure a religious fanatic and psychopath.I've been going through Zawahiri's most recent communiques as time has allowed over the past week. They are worthwhile for spelling out the goals and intentions of al Qaeda, as well as for giving a window into the logic of a true Salafist:1. Iraq remains al Qaeda’s central front:As-Sahab: And what is the most important field in which this Mujahid vanguard is wrestling with the enemies of Islam?Zawahiri: Iraq is the most important of these fields.2. One of the points I have repeatedly made is that pulling out of Iraq would have dire long term consequences for our ability to conduct foreign policy and gather allies, particularly among nations threatened by radicals. Zawahiri thinks so too. He fully expects the U.S. to retreat from Iraq, repeatedly referring to Vietnam. He later explains that he forsees al Qaeda reasserting itself after America leaves Iraq and that the Anbar Awakening cannot keep al Qaeda out of Iraq without American support:Zawahiri: And I also call on all Muslims to stop supporting the armed groups which have cooperated with the Americans against the Muslims and mujahideen. And I warn those individuals from among the armed factions who have been involved in cooperating with the occupation against the mujahideen that history is recording everything, and that they will lose both their religion and life, and that the Americans will soon be departing - Allah permitting - and won't keep defending them forever. And let them look at the fate of America's agents in Vietnam and the fate of the Shah of Iran, and intelligent is he who learns from other's mistakes.That is why those who conspire against the Jihad and Mujahideen in Lebanon with American weapons, Zionist collusion and Saudi money must know that they are digging their graves with their own hands, and that the Americans and Jews will not defend them, because they are looking for those who will defend them, and whoever doubts this should remember Vietnam and look at Iraq and Afghanistan."I expect the Jihadi influence to spread after the Americans’ exit from Iraq, and to move towards Jerusalem (with Allah’s permission). As for the militias mentioned, they have failed to eliminate the Jihad with the help of what is called the strongest power in the history of mankind, so will they succeed by themselves or with the help of Iran?To read the entire article, please click here.
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Iraq: Persian Proxie
Iraq's future if Obama becomes President.Caroline Glick explains why the Iraq war is the central front in the clash against Iran and Syria. It is worth noting that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have staked their presidential runs on the theme that the Iraq war is wrong and they will withdraw American troops. In short, they promise to surrender—and leave Iraq a vacuum to be filled by Iran, who yearn to spread Shiite hegemony over that region of the world.
Which would, by the way, be extremely bad news for Israel.
Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf Sunni states wouldn't be thrilled either. In fact, they want to see Iran annihilated. Preferably by the Israelis.
Of course, Iran and Iraq fought a bloody 8-year war in which over a million men and Iranian boys died in World War I style trench warfare. This war continues as Iran pours arms and terrorists into Iraq in order to kill American and allied troops, destabilize the country, and to convince the American public that Iraq is a replay of the Viet Nam War.
The Democrats are the party of appeasement and defeatists. The notion of winning a war, of sticking by obligations and allies just never occurs to this party.
It matters little to Democrats that after America shamefully fled Viet Nam over 750,000 anti-Communists were murdered and a million innocents slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge Communists in Cambodia. They don't remember that Viet Nam invaded Cambodia to stop the horrific slaughter because America no longer had the will to intervene on foreign shores—even when genocide was taking place.
The Democrats have no historical memory. They have become fossilized isolationists, more concerned with so-called global warming than with confronting true evil—Islamic jihad.
The Republicans are willing to fight evil, yet they fail to explain that evil. And that failure must be corrected for it can turn fatal.
And yet, rather than make clear to Congress and to the US public that the war in Iraq is not an Iraqi war per se but a key battleground in a regional war in which Iran and Syria have combined forces on multiple fronts in a bid to defeat the US and its allies, the Bush administration obfuscates that central truth. For the past five years, key administration officials have repeated the bizarre claim that Iran and Syria share the US's interest in bringing stability to Iraq and that responsibility for ending the war rests solely on the shoulders of Iraq's government rather than on the shoulders of the foreign governments who are waging the war.To read Caroline Glick's complete article, please click here.
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April 02, 2008
Why A Terrorist Strategy
Typical picnic and bar-b-cue for the peace-loving citizens of Gaza.Professor Barry Rubin explains why Arab/Muslims use terrorism as a political tactic to brutalize, neutralize and then hollow out national states.
In addition, Professor Rubin reveals the parasitic role played by the western media as they insist on defining these murderous terrorists as “militants” or “extremists,” in their quest for objective neutrality. I think Rubin is being generous. Many in the international media, most certainly the wretched and always unreliable BBC, are just plain Jew-haters.
As we survey dozens of arch liberal newspapers and television stations we are forced to conclude that the media have surrendered all common sense when it comes to reporting on the Arab war against the Jewish people and the tiny state of Israel.
Professor Rubin's article brilliantly explores another vital issue that we write frequently about here at Seraphic Secret: the grotesque misuse of language by Islamic totalitarians. Language is twisted and deformed by the jihadists, and the perversions and definitions that are spewed by these caliphite terrorists are casually accepted and spread by the western media—all in the name of moral equivalence and multiculturalism.
The end result is the death of language, the death of meaning, and the global spread of Jew hatred disguised as politically acceptable anti-Zionism.
It is once again 1938.
Many years after September 11, despite more than 10,000 terrorist attacks by radical Islamist groups alone, there is still an amazing amount of confusion and falsehood over what should be a very simple point: What is terrorism all about?The answer is politics and, to be specific, revolutionary politics. Most obviously, terrorism is a tactic used by political groups but, most importantly, it is a strategy. Defining who and what is "terrorist" should be neither a moral judgment nor a propaganda exercise. It is a simple use of political analysis.There are many incomplete or misleading concepts of terrorism. Often, terrorism is conceived as evil and its perpetrators as irrational criminals. While, of course, terrorism is evil in moral terms the problem with this approach is that it feels no need to go further in understanding what is going on.Partly as a reaction to that concept, terrorism is presented as a matter of opinion. In today's world, of course, repressing women, denying freedom, and murdering dissenters are often presented in democratic countries as a mere cultural choice, an aspect of local color. It should be remembered that when the Communist USSR made an alliance with Nazi Germany the Soviet foreign minister explained that fascism was merely a matter of taste.Leaving all that aside, though, once the issue is defined in moral terms then it is being depoliticized. The media thinks of itself as neutral. Consequently, the English-language Western media often calls people who commit terrorist actions "militants" or "extremists." That may be a good thing since it indicates a radical and implies a violent orientation. But it only educates up to a point.Here's what you need to know: There are arguably good reasons for having a terrorist strategy, not as a reaction to poverty or oppression but as a way to seize state power and transform societies.Why does an ideology or movement decide that its best course is deliberately murdering the maximum number of civilians? The choice of terrorist strategy is a judgment particularly about one's goals, enemy, and constituency.Only a despotic goal pursued by a totalitarian movement can sustain a terrorist strategy which, in turn, further reinforces an anti-democratic, intolerant orientation. A radical Islamist dictatorship in which the ruling elite's whim is rationalized as divine will is the shining hell that is the movement's utopian dream. This replaces the Marxist dictatorship of those claiming to embody the proletariat's needs with that of those pretending to interpret divine desires.To be deserving of mass murder or even genocide, the enemy must be defined as simultaneously demonic and weak. Pure evil, so to justify its being massacred but also cowardly to explain why the revolutionaries will triumph. We have reached the point where many non-radical Muslims agree that criticizing radical Islamism is punishable by death.Unfortunately, a large part of the West seems to be acting in a way that seems to embody the predicted weakness but that, too, is another story. More relevant here, though, is the fact that the terrorist strategist may make a tactical adjustment in the face of a tough opponent. The reason that Muslim Brotherhoods in Egypt and Jordan do not presently engage in terrorism has nothing to do with their worldview and everything to do with fear of repression. In contrast, Hamas and Hizballah--very parallel movements in every way--can go all-out because there is no government of their peers that is going to flatten them for doing so.Especially important is the terrorist strategist's assessment of his constituents. He must believe that terrorism will be relatively popular among those he wants to win over. Terrorism appeals as a revolutionary strategy largely because the violence used against Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, and Western targets is largely cheered among Arabs. Only a minority are radical Islamists but a majority is pleased, at least at their work in nearby places. The fault lies with the fans in the stands rather than the victims in the arena.This is the problem presented by terrorism and radical Islamism. Crazy people can be given therapy, misunderstandings can be cleared up with dialogue; honest grievances can be resolved by mutual concessions. With determined, ideologically clear, mass-based revolutionary movements you can only defeated them or surrender. Holding them off, that is preventing them from winning for a very long time until they are truly worn down, is another option. Refer here to the history of Communism.Finally, a new twist is added, not for the folks at home but for the suckers out there. "The communists disdain to conceal their aims," wrote Karl Marx in 1848. Since then, the public relations' industry has flourished. Terrorist movements and supporters learned to feign innocence (and moderation), accusing their victims of being terrorists. With a lot of help from prestigious Western news organs they have turned the tables.Arab leaders spoke in 1948 and 1967 of repeating the Mongol massacres and driving the Jews into the sea. This has not completely changed. Hizballah chief Hasan Nasrallah said recently, "The Zionist entity can be wiped out of existence." But there is no end of commentators around to explain that he doesn't really mean it seriously.Instead, the sophisticated talk is of "collective punishment" and "excessive force." Even a young gentleman of the old school like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has many saying he was misquoted about seeking to wipe Israel off the map.Consider this 1993 exchange between two founders of the U.S.-based, Hizballah-supporting Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR):Omar Ahmad: "There is a difference between you saying, 'I want to restore the '48 land' and when you say 'I want to destroy Israel..."Nihad Awad: "Yes, there are different but parallel types of address. There shouldn't be [a] contradiction. Address people according to their minds. When I speak with the American, I speak with someone who doesn't know anything. As for the Palestinian who has a martyr brother or something, I know how to address him, you see?"Yes, I see. But I wish everyone else did, too.Barry Rubin is Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Interdisciplinary Center university. His latest book, The Truth about Syria was published by Palgrave-Macmillan in May 2007. Prof. Rubin's columns can be read online at: http://www.gloriacenter.org/index.asp?pname=submenus/articles/index.asp.
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April 01, 2008
A British Call for Freedom
In our previous post we commented on the wretched BBC.
This post is the anti-BBC.
Here, in just 6 minutes, a loyal and freedom loving British citizen, with common sense—and without public tax dollars—speaks eloquently about the dangers of Islam, the appeasers in Britain, the arch appeaser in Canterbury, and the path of dhimmitude that some in Britain are allowing to flourish.
This will put a smile on your face—unless you're a communist, a socialist, a code pinkist, an anarchist, a Jew-hater, an Islamist yearning for the return of the caliphite, or a member of Pastor Jeremiah Wright's congregation.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Treppenwitz.
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Gaza for Obama
Stunning piece of news. Barack Obama is the candidate of choice in Judenrein Gaza. Won't be long before Barack's, ahem, former Pastor, Jeremiah Wright's sermons are selling like hot cakes in Gazastan.
Notice how the BBC correspondent frames the entire narrative—genocidal Gaza, oh dear, perfectly comprehensible—as all Israel's fault because of the so-called occupation. Of course, Hamas, Fatah, Hizbullah, and practically every Arab on planet earth consider the entire state of Israel to be occupied territory. But, for the over-educated, over-bred jihadist enablers of the BBC, well, whatever.
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Shocking News: Hamas Hate Jews
"A Palestinian girl held a Koran and a fake rifle at a
recent rally organized by Hamas in Gaza."Now, carefully read the caption to the photo that accompanies Erlanger's article. I actually laughed out loud.
"A Palestinian girl held a Koran and a fake rifle at a recent rally organized by Hamas in Gaza."
Fake rifle.
Really?
Because a homicidal, Jew-hating Palestinian would never carry a real Kalachnikov. And of course, Hamas go to the trouble of manufacturing fake automatic weapons because y'know, they wouldn't allow their delicate, non-violent women to carry real-live weapons.
Some thoughts about the editors/caption-writers at the N.Y. Times:
1. Delusional.
2. Listening to sermons by Barack Obama's, ahem, former Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
3. Wouldn't know a real gun from a fake gun if it shot them in the face.In his article, Erlanger goes easy on Fatah, as if they don't incite Jew-hatred also. Erlanger has been in Israel for several years and only now has discovered that the Hamas covenant is a murderous and Jew-hating document that's partially based on the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Maybe in another few years Erlanger will become aware that Fatah is no different than Hamas. Didn't Erlanger notice that Fatah has been marinating in the martyrdom of the terrorist who committed the Mercaz Massacre.
No, of course not, that would ruin Erlanger's neat narrative.In the meantime, Jews are murdered by genocidal Arabs while Erlanger and his ilk continue to apologize for terrorists, and when they do publish articles that nibble at the truth, the attempts are so feeble, using language so cautious, that the moral equivalence that lies at the heart of the beast shines through.
Like the western journalists who overlooked Stalin's genocide, history will harshly judge Steven Erlanger, Isabel Kirshner, Helene Cooper, and all the other fellow traveler's of the New York Times and the other arch liberal journalists who have aided and abetted Arabs terrorists. Their words, no less than bullets and shrapnel, have murdered and maimed countless Jews.
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March 20, 2008
Obama's Pastor Worships Hamas: What a Shock
Barack Obama with spiritual mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright.From BizzyBlog comes evidence that Obama’s church not only has anti-white, anti-American feelings, but may also have a pro-Hamas bias. The July 22, 2007 Trinity United Church of Christ bulletin reprinted an article written by Mousa Abu Marzook, deputy of the political bureau of Hamas. Originally printed in the LA Times as Hamas’ Stand, Pastor Wright added a new title, “A Fresh View of the Palestinian Struggle”. The Times was criticized for giving a Platform To Genocidal Terrorist. Where does that leave Obama’s church? Marzook is a known terrorist and created an extensive Hamas network in the United States.The smoking gun is here in Obama’s church bulletin. Was Obama there? Does he support Hamas? Expect Obama and his supporters to simply ignore this tacit if not direct support of a terrorist organizaton.Via: Free Republic
Again: Seraphic Secret maintains that Barack Obama's character and judgment are severely impaired. The proof is his 20-year association with Reverend Wright and his black separatist church, a church that espouses “a pledge of allegiance to a black value system.” Whatever that means. Reverend Wright is a bigot, an anti-American demagogue, a spinner of paranoid fantasies, and obviously a Jew-hater and pathological anti-Zionist.
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March 19, 2008
Lessons of the Great Syrian Raid
A new poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians support the attack this month on a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem that killed eight young men, most of them teenagers, an indication of the alarming level of Israeli-Palestinian tension in recent weeks. The survey also shows unprecedented support for the shooting of rockets on Israeli towns from the Gaza Strip and for the end of the peace negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli leaders. The pollster, Khalil Shikaki, said he was shocked because... never before, he said, had a majority favored an end to negotiations or the shooting of rockets at Israel... His explanation for the shift, one widely reflected in the Palestinian media, is that recent actions by Israel, especially attacks on Gaza that killed nearly 130 people, an undercover operation in Bethlehem that killed four militants and the announced expansion of several West Bank settlements, have led to despair and rage among average Palestinians who thirst for revenge. Mr. Shikaki’s poll also showed that the militant Islamist group Hamas, which Israel and the United States have been trying to isolate, is gaining popularity in the West Bank.In short. It's all the fault of the Jews.
Let me point out the one recent military action in the Middle East that should have had far reaching lessons for Israel and for all major counter terrorism operations, but it seems to have been overlooked.
In 2007, the IAF mounted Operation Orchard, a brilliant and completely successful raid deep into Syrian territory when the IAF bombed a Syrian, North Korean, Iranian facility—probably nuclear.
This raid was so far reaching, so technically advanced that the Syrian ground defenses went dark. The Israelis hacked into the enemy network and rendered them useless. The Syrians had no idea that the IAF was in their airspace. And when they finally became aware of the Israeli incursion they were so intimidated they didn't scramble one single fighter to engage in a dog fight. They knew it was suicide.
But here's the lesson: The Syrians never retaliated.
The Syrians didn't even protest in the U.N. Security Council.
The Syrians and the Persians were so cowed by Israel's overwhelming military and technological capabilities that they just hunkered down and shut the hell up. For they know that if Israel gets riled Israel can annihilate them.
Israel and the world should have taken notice of the Syrian and Iranian reaction. Instead, Israel retreated to her old patterns of appeasement. S'derot and now Ashkelon suffer daily from missile attacks.
One could argue that the Syrian raid was mounted, most certainly, because of an existential threat.
But I will argue that Hamas, Fatah, Hizbullah, and the slow, grinding, wearing down of Israel's national will by being conditioned to accept daily bombardment is also an existential threat.
The lessons of the Syrian raid are obvious: When Israel uses her military might—not pin-point assassinations—the terrorists and their state hosts crawl back into their holes and cower in fear. They are, at the core, bullies who hide behind the skirts of women and children. They cannot fight against Jews as equals.
And now, after the Mercaz Massacre, when common sense informs us—we don't need polls—that the Arab street supports and glorifies this and all atrocities, it's time for the Israeli government to hit the enemy, wherever he resides, with overwhelming and crushing force.
All else is national suicide.
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March 12, 2008
Iran Places Bounties on Israeli Leaders
The latest annual Israeli Intelligence Report, compiled by the IDF Intelligence Branch, with the help of the Mossad and the Shabak (General Security Service) has just been submitted to the government and it is a bit more forthright than the convoluted American NIE. The authors sum up the major threats to Israel in this way:
1) Lebanon is crumbling and falling into the hands of Hizbullah.
2) Syria remains a threat.
3) Israeli-Arabs are joining the fray.
4) Gaza and the world-wide Jihad movement are threats to Israel.
5) But the most significant danger of all lies in Iran's nuclear program.Not mentioned is this latest bit of blood-lust from the Holocaust denying Islamic Republic of Iran.
Iran has placed a bounty on the heads of Israel's security establishment via its state-supported Islamist student union.Students offered rewards totaling one million dollars for the execution of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Mossad Director Meir Dagan and IDF Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin, the state-run Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) reported Monday.The group has requested that Iranians wishing to increase the bounties donate their kidneys. The bounty for Barak is currently 400,000 dollars, while the murders of Dagan or Yadlin would earn the would-be killers 300,000 each. "These sums will be given to any person, or their families, who could punish these individuals in any part of the world," the Islamist group announced.Banners announcing the bounties feature the quote by Islamic Revolution Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that "Israel must be wiped off the map." The line has become a rallying cry for Iran's President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad in his bid for nuclear capabilities.But by all means, let's allow this terrorist Islamic state, proudly reaching for the genocide of the Jewish people, to acquire nuclear weapons. What could possibly go wrong?
Via: Arutz Sheva
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March 10, 2008
Arabs Celebrate Merkaz Massacre
This clip is from Israeli television. Even if you don't understand Hebrew, the pictures speak for themselves—Gazan and Jerusalem Arabs celebrating the terrorist massacre of eight young boys learning in Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav.
The world shouldn't forget the Arab response to Jewish murders. And neither should the Israeli government, who reflexively yield to appeasement in the face of every horror—a sure path to self-destruction.
When you look at the footage keep in mind that Israel is supplying these joyous people with electrical power, fuel, and humanitarian aid; and that the IDF does everything in its power not to harm these blood-thirsty civilians.
Also keep in mind that this is not an Arab-Israeli conflict. In fact, Hamas terrorists are now almost entirely trained by Iranian forces, and Hamas openly boast of the Sunni-Shia alignment against the Jews and the West.
In truth, the only language the genocidal Jew-haters understand is force, and until they are brought to their knees in unconditional surrender—as was Germany and Japan in World War II—these dysfunctional societies will be an existential threat not only to Israel, but to Western civilization.
Once again, Seraphic Secret's Five Steps to Victory:
1. Denying power and fuel to Gaza.
2. Cutting off all talks with Fatah. There's nothing left to talk about.
3. Declaring the boundaries of Israel final.
4. Including Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel.
5. Further, Israel must rid herself of the appeasers Olmert and Livni. They are a mortal threat to the Jewish State, to the Jewish people.You Tube: via Seraphic Friend, Michael Makiri.
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March 06, 2008
Slaughter of Yeshiva Students
From Naomi Ragen:
I write you this with a heavy heart. This evening, about 8:30 p.m., an Arab terrorist from East Jerusalem, bearing a blue Israeli identity card, entered one of Jerusalem's elite Rabbinical academies, known as Mercaz Harav. He carried a package into the unguarded building where rooms full of young boys in their early to late teens sat pouring over the pages of the Talmud. Some of them had just returned from the kotel. They were waiting for the festive evening—marking the beginning of the joyous month of Adar, the month of the holiday of Purim—to begin.The terrorist headed for the library. He opened his package. Inside was a gun and so many rounds of ammunition that security forces at first thought it was a suicide belt because of its enormous weight. He saw young, unarmed yeshiva students learning Torah and he opened fire at point blank range. In a room nearby, some older students heard the shots. At first they thought it might be firecrackers to welcome in the month of Adar. And then they heard the screams. Somehow, about twenty of them were able to rush out of the library and barricade themselves in another room. They heard the shots and the screams. They watched the shadow of the terrorist as he walked to and fro, silencing the moans of the wounded with further shots. They waited, expecting to be killed at any moment.A yeshiva student in the dormitories, hearing the shots, took his personal weapon and opened fire on the terrorist, wounding him. From across the street, a former student of the yeshiva, a paratrooper and an officer, took his weapon and ran across the street. Because of his familiarity with the yeshiva, he was able to find the exact angle from which to fire at the rampaging murderer, shooting him in the head, and putting an end to the carnage. He did this at great personal risk.So far, we in Jerusalem are hearing reports that eight boys are dead, and many more are injured, some of them seriously. We are hearing reports that the Hamas is giving out candy and rejoicing in Gaza. Hamas leaders are proud of this "hero."This is the kind of heroes that Muslims have. The kind that kill young unarmed students at point blank range. May G-d avenge their blood.Posted by Robert J. Avrech at 02:36 PM | Comments (5)
March 03, 2008
War is the Remedy
Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman
“War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say give them all they want.”General Sherman said that. And he knew something about war. He brought the South to its knees by making the good citizens of the Confederacy suffer the consequences of their horrific culture and evil political choices. Sherman's aim was simple:
“To whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
It was called Operation Hot Winter.And it was doomed before it began.
Hama's rockets were reaching Ashkelon. This made Olmert look bad. Okay, he was always willing to sacrifice the citizens of S'derot. They are poor, mostly North African Arab Jews. Totally expendable.
But when the Katyushas, c/o Iran, via our good friends Egypt, reach Ashkelon, well, that called for some smoke and mirrors.
So Olmert unleashed the IAF and the IDF.
Sorta.
And Hamas flinched.
Listen, it doesn't take a lot to make these terrorists squeal like pigs. They start calling for, ahem, cease-fires as soon as the shrapnel gets close to their leadership. Look, they have no problem letting civilians die, they have no problem sending homicide bombers—translation: gullible morons. But when their own heads are on the line, it's cease-fire time. Actually, in Arabic, they're calling for hudna, which means they want time to regroup, recover, rearm, and then start killing Jews when they're strong enough.
Olmert and Livni played their roles as expected. Instead of destroying the Hamas infrastructure, instead of cutting power and fuel to the terrorist statelet of Gaza, they have withdrawn all IDF troops from Gaza. Just in time for Condi Rice's visit.
No wonder Hamas have announced that: “Israel's defeated soldiers have retreated from Gaza.” And of course Hamas have claimed victory. They are not entirely wrong. The purpose of a military offensive is to crush the enemy. This simple and basic doctrine seems to elude PM Olmert. He uses the IDF like chess pieces in a cynical game designed to keep him and his crumbling coalition in power.
“Next stop, Tel Aviv.”So: we'll see Qassams raining down on S'derot and the more sophisticated Katyusha's on Ashkelon. We're back in reruns. Everyone is comfortable. Especially the Europeans, who find it intolerable when Jews defend themselves. They're far more comfortable with pogroms, mass graves, y'know, lots and lots of good, manageable dead Jews.
Israel will never break out of this self-defeating cycle unless she changes the rules of engagement. That means going on the offensive against Hamas. Destroying infrastructure, killing leadership, including the men who hide out in Damascus. Israel will never know peace unless she achieves total victory over her enemies.
The Seven Samurai don't negotiate. They fight.This means:
1. Denying power and fuel to Gaza.
2. Cutting off all talks with Fatah. There's nothing left to talk about.
3. Declaring the boundaries of Israel final.
4. Including Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel.
5. Further, Israel must rid herself of the appeasers Olmert and Livni. They are a mortal threat to the Jewish State, to the Jewish people.Unless these steps are taken, Israel will sprint endlessly on a treadmill going nowhere, until she's physically and spiritually drained—and then her enemies will pounce to devour the Jewish State.
Meanwhile, check out LGF's link to a Reuter's article on Gaza. It's pure jihad propaganda that could easily find a slot on Al Jazeera.
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February 28, 2008
Abbas: Moderate Terrorist
Mahmoud Abbas, Moderate Holocaust Denier, Moderate TerroristWe're shocked, just shocked. The moderate President of the moderate Fatah, who attended the moderately Marxist Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow and wrote a sparkling dissertation on Holocaust denial, yeah a few Jews died during World War II, but mostly from y'know, disease, is whipping out some pretty snappy dialog these days.
This President of not very much (actually he seems to be co-President of Israel) and who receives billions upon billions of dollars in aid from the Europeans and from our brilliant State Department, is actually threatening violence against his beloved Jewish peace partners.
And we thought that this was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Hey, we have a great idea: let's hand over Judea, Samaria and half of Jerusalem to the Arabs. Maybe then we'll score some brownie points and the Arabs will like us—they'll really like us—and we'll all live together in peace and harmony, sip latte and sing Kumbaya.
Or: we can deny power and fuel to Gaza, stop talking to Abbas. Declare all boundaries as final and let the Arabs sort themselves out once and for all.
The world will then have to pay attention to genocide in Darfur, Kenya, Congo, Chad, Tibet, North Korea, the list of true horror shows is endless.
Anywhoo, this from Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate President of the moderate Fatah:
PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday said that he does not rule out returning to the path of armed "resistance" against Israel and took pride in the fact that he had been the first to fire on Israel and that his organization had trained Hizbullah.In an interview with the Jordanian daily al-Dustur, Abbas said that he was opposed to an armed struggle against Israel - for the time being."At this present juncture, I am opposed to armed struggle because we cannot succeed in it, but maybe in the future things will be different," he said.The PA president also expressed pride both in himself and in his organization, Fatah, for trailblazing the path of resistance."I had the honor of firing the first shot in 1965 and of being the one who taught resistance to many in the region and around the world; what it's like; when it is effective and when it isn't effective; its uses, and what serious, authentic and influential resistance is," Abbas said."It is common knowledge when and how resistance is detrimental and when it is well timed," he added. "We (Fatah) had the honor of leading the resistance and we taught resistance to everyone, including Hizbullah, who trained in our military camps."Original article here.
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February 19, 2008
The Jew Haters of the Methodist Church
When an organization chooses to target the Jewish state, and only the Jewish state with one sided criticism—propaganda really—charges more suited to a totalitarian regime, then we are inclined see classic Jew hatred.
The United Methodist Women's Division chooses to ignore the terrorist entity of Hamas in Gaza, the terrorism of Fatah, the Islamic State of Iran that denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, they ignore North Korea, a regime that uses famine as a weapon to murder several million of its own citizens, ignores the genocidal regime of Sudan, and of course ignores the 22 Arab countries that make up the Arab League where human rights are abused on an hourly basis. Naturally, these women have no interest in the mass murder and refugees of Congo where 45,000 people die each month, and the devolving state of Kenya.
That's why the United Methodist's Women's Division is a gang of slick, terrorist enabling Jew-haters.
Among the latest exploits of the United Methodist Women’s Division is a children’s book intended to instill anti-Israel themes among Methodist younsters. Innocuously called, “From Palestine to Seattle; Becoming Neighbors and Friends,” the booklet portrays Israel as an oppressor of Palestinians while omitting all mention of terrorism. It was written by Mary Davis, a former United Methodist missionary in “Palestine,” where she led “study tours,” whose political content no doubt was predictable.The United Methodist Women’s Division, with over $60 million in assets, $30 million in annual income, and nearly 700,000 members, is one of the most powerful women’s groups in America. Its mostly older members, strung across over 30,000 local churches, earn money for their New York-based headquarters with bake sales, Christmas bazaars, and church suppers. Few among them realize that their donations fund causes of the radical left, including anti-Israel activism.In the children’s story, a Seattle Methodist pastor just returned from “Palestine” shares a letter from a young Arab boy in Bethlehem with his own children. The Arab boy, Tarek, has never been to McDonald's because the closest one is in Jerusalem, and travel there requires a pass by the Israelis. Naturally, the American children are disturbed. In an ongoing pen pal exchange, Tarek asks the American children why their country thinks all Palestinians are terrorists. The Americans are embarrassed. They summon up the nerve to ask Tarek why passes are needed to travel to Jerusalem.To read the complete story by Mark Tooley, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend Miranda Rose Smith.
Today's Links:From the mighty Professor Barry Rubin: Who Owns the Palestine Card? Professor Rubin argues that the Palestinian conflict is really just a fig-leaf for the larger regional conflict where the Shia are determined to destroy Israel and build a hegemony in the Middle East.
From Breath of the Beast. Obama's Campaign and the Real Meaning of the Che Flag. Or: How dopey are Barak Obama's supporters? Answer: There are no words. It's almost painful witnessing our friend Yaacov Ben Moshe slicing and dicing a Barak supporter as she defends the Che flag incident. I have to admit, I look at Barak Hussein Obama and his, ahem, fainting believers, and I smell George McGovern.
EU Politicians Make Empty Promises to Hirsi Ali H/T Phyllis CheslerThis is excellent because it's about Hollywood Good Guys. Via our good friend Dirty Harry at Libertas.
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February 17, 2008
Fatah Falls Apart?
This fine article analyzes the chaos that is Fatah. The fact that the Olmert government is negotiating with such a stew of thugs drives home how delusional the foreign policy of Israel, and the Western powers truly are.
By Barry Rubin
Rather than unite in the face of the Hamas challenge and the task of gaining support from the West Bank’s people, Fatah seems to be collapsing.
Or perhaps the feuds are not only over power but who gets to control the almost $7 billion scheduled to be given the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) over the next three years. A contributing factor is that Fatah has said it will hold a congress in March, the first full such meeting in almost 20 years.
There are at least five factions operating in Fatah today, and even that is an understatement. While PA “president” Mahmoud Abbas and his prime minister, Salam Fayyad enjoy Western support, they have very little from their own organization. These two are relative moderates who have no internal base of support. Even the very tiny group of those who can be called moderate is split since, for example, Ahmad Khouri (Abu Ala), is quarreling with Abbas.
Then there are the cronies of the late head of Fatah and the PA, Yasir Arafat, who have not developed any moderate tendencies but are using Abbas to cling to power. A typical example of this group is Hakam Balawi who was the PLO ambassador to Tunisia when Arafat’s headquarters were there, a particular favorite of Arafat. These people are basically careerists who simply stick with whoever is leader.A third group are the hardliners, like Abu Ali Shahin, who views himself as a revolutionary fighter. Other powerful figures in this group include Farouq Qaddumi, the actual head of Fatah; Sakhr Habash (Abu Nizar), chief of the Fatah Revolutionary Committee; and Salim al-Zaanoun, head of the Palestine National Council (PNC), the PLO’s legislature. These people want a continuation of armed struggle against Israel and believe that total victory is still possible.A fourth faction can be called the “young guard,” but this is also split among different contenders for leadership. Muhammad Dahlan, formerly the leading Fatah security (i.e., military) commander in the Gaza Strip is one candidate; Marwan Barghouti, the head of Fatah in the West Bank and now imprisoned by Israel, is another. Dahlan and Barghouti are also very much at odds.Recently, Shahin has called Abbas a failed leader who should resign. Balawi claimed Dahlan was plotting against Abbas, and Dahlan in return accused Balawi of being an Israel spy.As if this isn’t enough, the “young guard” knows that the current leaders will not give it any meaningful share of power in Fatah. The group, for instance, does not have a single member on the Fatah Central Committee.In short, PA and Fatah politics are a mess. This has long been true but few noticed and it didn’t matter when Arafat was alive since he kept the lid on everything, while playing off his subordinates against each other, and provided unity.Now, however, things are different. It is amazing that since Fatah and the PA are the West’s candidate to make good use of almost $7 billion, beat Hamas, establish a Palestinian state, and make peace with Israel, few observers take note of this disastrous situation or factor it into their policies. Unless Fatah changes its ways, and there is no reason to believe it will do so, one can only wonder if Hamas will be controlling the West Bank, too, within five years. Certainly, one can expect the aid money to disappear without helping the Palestinian people much and be sure that this divided, quarreling leadership will not be able to make peace with Israel.Professor Rubin is Director of Global Research in International Affairs.
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February 16, 2008
How Mughnieyha Got Dead
Some days, it's just good to roll out of bed go to shul, daven, not check out any news until Shabbos is over and then BOOM, discover a nugget of gold like this:
Nothing seemed very remarkable about the short, bearded man who mingled with other guests on Tuesday evening at a reception in Damascus, the Syrian capital, to mark the 29th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iranian revolution.Yet before the night was over he was dead in the twisted wreckage of his car and the inevitable assumption was that Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence service, had killed him with an ingeniously planted bomb.The news spread rapidly that the dead man was Imad Mughniyeh, an elusive figure known as “the Fox” who had been one of the world’s most feared terrorist masterminds.According to Israeli intelligence sources, someone had replaced the headrest of the driver’s seat with another containing a small high-explosive charge. Israel welcomed his death but the prime minister’s office denied responsibility. Hezbollah accused the “Zionist Israelis” of killing its “brother commander” but believed the explosive had been detonated in another car by satellite.To read the complete story, please click here.
Seraphic Friend Shrink Wrapped analyzes one short section of this story and comes to the conclusion that someone is not quite telling the truth.
Soccer Dad, always a sober analyst, raises questions about the reliability of the sources for the head-rest story.
And here's an informative article from The Weekly Standard that ties in Mughnieyah with Al Qaeda.
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Mughniyeh's True Legacy
The great Caroline Glick provides some fascinating analysis into the recent assassination of terrorist Imad Mughniyeh. As I wrote earlier, this was no ordinary hit, the complexity of such an operation cannot be overstated. Running foreign agents in a totalitarian state like Syria is a massively difficult undertaking that demands financing, rock-solid intelligence, agents who speak the native language fluently, cover stories that bear the closest scrutiny, the ability to set up the hit right under Puppy Assad's brutal secret police, and of course a smooth exit after the assassination, when borders are sealed and the country is locked up tighter than a sardine can.
Mughniyeh was not killed because of past deeds, though certainly the Israelis had him marked for death many years ago—no, this terrorist was deleted in order to halt future operations.
It is quite possible that terror master Imad Mughniyeh was not killed Tuesday night in Damascus for his past crimes, but to prevent him from carrying out additional attacks in the future.On January 30, French security services raided a Paris apartment and arrested six Arab men. Three of the men - two Lebanese and one Syrian - were travelling on diplomatic passports. According to the Italian Libero newspaper, the six were members of a Hizbullah cell. Documents seized included tourist maps of Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin and Rome marked up with red highlighter to indicate routes, addresses, parking lots and "truck stopping points." The maps pointed to several routes to Vatican back entrances.Libero's report explained that the "truck stopping points" aligned with information the French had received the week before from Beirut. There, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah had convened a conference of his senior terror leaders where he ordered them to activate Hizbullah cells throughout Europe to kidnap senior European leaders.To read the complete story, please click here.
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February 15, 2008
Our Friends The Saudis
This from the country, actually a corrupt family corporation, that does not allow Jews to set foot on its holy Muslim soil.
Saudi Arabia's rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed yesterday.Previously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced "another 7/7" and the loss of "British lives on British streets" if they pressed on with their inquiries and the Saudis carried out their threat to cut off intelligence.Prince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council, and son of the crown prince, was alleged in court to be the man behind the threats to hold back information about suicide bombers and terrorists. He faces accusations that he himself took more than £1bn in secret payments from the arms company BAE.He was accused in yesterday's high court hearings of flying to London in December 2006 and uttering threats which made the prime minister, Tony Blair, force an end to the Serious Fraud Office investigation into bribery allegations involving Bandar and his family.The threats halted the fraud inquiry, but triggered an international outcry, with allegations that Britain had broken international anti-bribery treaties.To read the complete story, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Jake Novak
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February 14, 2008
The Day After the Mughniyeh Hit
Bashir Assad is not a happy puppy.
First, the Israeli Air Force shuts down his state-of-the-art missile defense system, c/o Russia, and bombs his in-progress nuclear facility into nothingness.
The Syrian air force does not scramble. Pilots cower in underground bunkers. They are not going to get into dogfights with Israeli pilots.
Putin promises to rebuild the missile defense system. Sorry, no refunds.
Okay, so the IAF were able to drop in, uninvited. But at least Assad was able to keep a tight rein on Damascus, his capital, where he boasts giving aid and comfort to the world's most notorious terrorists. This gives Assad status in the Arab world. He's got bragging rights. He props up the world's most vocal Jew-killers and boasts about it 24/7. This places him on a pedestal far higher than Egyptian President Mubarak or those decadent Saudis.
But now, boom, someone, has blown it all sky high. The Mughniyeh hit was the result of an extremely complicated and sophisticated operation. The assassination reveals that Assad's security services are not as all-knowing as he pretends. The hit reveals that an enemy service set up safe houses in Syria for months, maybe years, conducted surveillance, obtained lots and lots of explosives, right under Assad's nose. And oh, let's not forget that the assassination team have exited Syria, and are being debriefed by their extremely proud and happy handlers. Mazal Tov.
Interpolation:
The hit was clean, almost surgical. No innocent bystanders were killed. So we know that this wasn't a case of Arab fratricide. This was not a Syrian job, a Lebanese hit, an Iranian blood bath. No this was an extremely professional job carried out by security services who only wanted to kill one man and minimize civilian loss of life. There was a moral core at the heart of this killing. And let's not forget the Mughniyeh connection with Fatah.
End Interpolation:
And this is the scary part for Assad and for Hizbullah—no doubt there are double agents within Hizbullah and the Syrian security services who cooperated in giving up intel about Mughniyeh.
This assassination is no ordinary killing.Every terrorist in Damascus is looking over his shoulder wondering: who is the traitor?
Hizbullah thug-in-charge Nasrallah is already in the Israeli cross-hairs. He can't be feeling optimistic this morning. Thus, he's threatened war against Israel, but chances are Hizbullah will strike at softer targets in Europe and America where innocent citizens are easy prey.
I am particularly concerned about South America where the Iranian intelligence services have been busy building up their terror networks for the past few years.
If not today, then tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Assad has to be worried about his image as fierce dictator. The Israelis, and whoever erased Mughniyeh, are making him look really bad.
Finally, I have a question: when America invited Assad to Annapolis, did they conveniently forget that he was providing a safe haven to Mughniyeh, the man responsible for murdering so many Americans?
Today's Links:
Arabs Set Fire to Joseph's Tomb. Under agreements with the PA, Joseph's Tomb is supposed to be protected. Now the PA are claiming that Joseph was not Jewish, that he was a Muslim. Oh, we get it, now it's okay to set fire to the tomb.Victor Davis Hanson looks at Barak Obama, then looks at the Robert Redford movie The Candidate, and so should you.
Obama and American Jews by Eric Trager.
Obama and Israel by Noah Pollak
Enabling Palestinian Terror. H/T Seraphic Friend, David Paulin
The Return of the Wacko Vet Media Narrative by David Paulin.
The Danish Cartoons Part II: What a Riot!
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February 13, 2008
Hizbullah Terror Chief Killed in Damascus
When a man died in a bomb explosion late last night in Damascus, Syrian police kept media and other onlookers well away from the scene of the blast in the affluent Kfar Soussa district.Syrian media, all of which falls under the direct or partial control of the regime, still hasn’t mentioned the incident, but Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV station in Lebanon today confirmed that the dead man is Imad Mughniyeh, one of their top commanders and one of the world’s most wanted terrorists.Among the crimes Mughniyeh masterminded:* The 1983 suicide bombings in Beirut that killed over 300 US marines and French troops.* The 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner in which a U.S. Navy diver was killed.* A wave of Western hostage-taking in Lebanon in the 1980s.* The 1992 bombing of Israel’s embassy in Argentina in which 29 people were murdered.* The 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish center in which 95 people died, including Holocaust survivors. (In reporting Mughniyeh’s death this morning, the BBC refused to call the Buenos Aires bombing of elderly Jews “terrorism” and merely referring to it as “an act of violence.”)The left-wing Israeli paper Ha’aretz, today called Mughniyeh The epitome of the “Axis of Evil”.Mughniyeh had been in hiding for years and had undergone several rounds of plastic surgery to disguise his appearance. In recent years, he established links with Osama bin Laden despite the Sunni-Shia heritage of their respective terror groups.Hezbollah has blamed Israel for assassinating Mughniyeh. Israel has not denied it.Original article here at NRO.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Dr. Carol
Update I : Hamas know exactly who sent Mughniyeh to hell. Thus, they call on all Muslims to unite against the Zionist Octopus.
Update II: Howling Wolf comments on the Mughniyeh hit.
Today's Links:
Dhimmi Dutch Catholics. H/T Seraphic Friend, Jake Novak.
Howling Wolf Presents: Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh: The McCain Derangement Syndrome.
Seraphic Friend Treppenwitz believes that Olmert is going to open a ground offensive against Gaza very soon—to save his political neck. Seraphic Secret would not be surprised.
Judith Apter Klinghoffer Blogs: The Danes Under Siege, It's No Cartoon
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February 12, 2008
Jihad in The Pentagon
You know, this has all the earmarks of a Hollywood film, except for one little detail: the bad guy is a Muslim.
Here's a follow-up on the story. Nice resolution. H/T Seraphic Friend, Aaron Schultz.
Today's Links:
The Path to the Final Solution. An excellent You Tube video. Don't miss it. H/T Seraphic Chaver, Kishke.
Iran Celebrates by Hanging America and Israel. But by all means, let's learn to live with a nuclear Iran. What could possibly go wrong?The Bias of the N.Y. Times and Gaza. Seraphic Secret has frequently labeled NY Times Jerusalem correspondent Steven Erlanger a spokesman for Hamas. The Augean Stables reveals that Erlanger is that and more. He's a lazy writer, a mediocre thinker, and a deeply compromised journalist who makes nice to terrorists in order not to lose access to their Jew-hating propaganda.
Listen to the hollow man, Erlanger, attempting to defend himself. Intellectual collapse.
Che & Obama. Well, of course Obama didn't know about the Che and Cuban flag in his campaign office in Houston, Texas. But listen, don't you think that those who support Barak Obama says something about Obama? Last I counted, the Communist ideology so beloved by Che Guevera and his supporters is responsible for the murder of approximately 100 million human beings in the 20th century.I've just noticed that Seraphic Friend Jeremayakova is on the same wavelength as we are, and expands elegantly on the Obama yadda-yadda.
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February 08, 2008
Hamas: We're Allowed to Lie
Seraphic Secret believes that it's vital to understand the tactics of the jihadists, Caliphite yearning terrorists who have vowed to eliminate the State of Israel.
Hamas, like Fatah, frequently lie to the Western press in order to score propaganda victories in their relentless march towards their genocidal goals.
The justification for their lies is religious and bound up in Islam, in the doctrine of “taqiyya.”
Read on, and the next time a Hamas, Fatah or any jihadist spokesman is quoted by the gullible Western press, chances are pretty good that what you hear is a tissue of lies.
Hamas leaders spoke to the Arabic language Ash-Sharq il-Awsat newspaper recently and explained that as Muslims, they are allowed to lie. In an interview printed on Thursday, senior Hamas terrorists explained, “A Muslim is permitted to say things that oppose his beliefs in order to prevent damages or to be saved from death.”This approach, known in Arabic as “taqiyya,” was behind several Hamas leaders’ recent public expression of support for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, they explained. Senior Hamas terrorists in Samaria, who were recently released from jail, publicly expressed disapproval with the Hamas takeover of Gaza and said they supported the PA forces. The sources quoted in Ash-Sharq il-Awsat explained that the Samarian terrorists’ announcement was not a sign of dissent within Hamas ranks, but rather a permitted use of “taqiyya” to deceive Abbas and avoid prison sentences.Original article here.
Soccer Dad provides some perfect examples of the lies that Hamas feeds to the Western media, lies that cover war crimes.
Hamas lies to cover war crimes—crimes defined by Article 28 of the Geneva Conventions—and Israel's military responses, defined by the same article, are perfectly acceptable.
Article 28 of the Geneva Conventions: The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.
Karen and I wish all our friends a beautiful and profound miracle in Shabbat.
******* Today's Links:Here's a nice story, a Lubavitch Hasid takes over as principal of a chaotic, failing South Bronx school, and against all expectations, turns the school around. Read about Shimon Waronker.
Here's a fine article by military historian Abraham Rabinovich contrasting the IDF of the Yom Kippur War, and the IDF of the Second Lebanon War: Endgame.
My Hollywood friend Dirty Harry lists Ten Reasons to be Hopeful for 2008. He's talking Presidential elections, folks.
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February 06, 2008
The Protocols of Hamas
It's important to understand the ideology of Hamas, the freely elected government of the Palestinian people.
Here is Article Twenty-Two of the Hamas Covenant.
For a long time, the enemies [Jews] have been planning, skillfully and with precision, for the achievement of what they have attained. They took into consideration the causes affecting the current of events. They strived to amass great and substantive material wealth which they devoted to the realisation of their dream. With their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others. With their money they stirred revolutions in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their interests and reaping the fruit therein. They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money they formed secret societies, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests. With their money they were able to control imperialistic countries and instigate them to colonize many countries in order to enable them to exploit their resources and spread corruption there.You may speak as much as you want about regional and world wars. They were behind World War I, when they were able to destroy the Islamic Caliphate, making financial gains and controlling resources. They obtained the Balfour Declaration, formed the League of Nations through which they could rule the world. They were behind World War II, through which they made huge financial gains by trading in armaments, and paved the way for the establishment of their state. It was they who instigated the replacement of the League of Nations with the United Nations and the Security Council to enable them to rule the world through them. There is no war going on anywhere, without having their finger in it."So often as they shall kindle a fire for war, Allah shall extinguish it; and they shall set their minds to act corruptly in the earth, but Allah loveth not the corrupt doers." (The Table - verse 64).The imperialistic forces in the Capitalist West and Communist East, support the enemy with all their might, in money and in men. These forces take turns in doing that. The day Islam appears, the forces of infidelity would unite to challenge it, for the infidels are of one nation."O true believers, contract not an intimate friendship with any besides yourselves: they will not fail to corrupt you. They wish for that which may cause you to perish: their hatred hath already appeared from out of their mouths; but what their breasts conceal is yet more inveterate. We have already shown you signs of their ill will towards you, if ye understand." (The Family of Imran - verse 118).It is not in vain that the verse is ended with Allah's words "if ye understand."If article Twenty-Two, the non-Koranic passages, sound vaguely familiar, that's because Hamas lifted most of their lunatic conspiratorial ravings from the notorious anti-Semitic Tzarist forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Hamas is a proudly genocidal organization whose charter is filled with debased Jew-hatred and vows the elimination of the State of Israel, to be replaced with an Islamic Caliphite.
Hamas clearly says that there is no room for Jews in Muslim lands. Hamas states that negotiations are merely a delaying tactic to buy time for the umma, the Muslim forces, to gather strength and then eventually destroy Israel.
In the 2006 Palestinian elections, certified by former President Jimmy Carter, Hamas was overwhelmingly chosen to lead the Palestinian people. Not just in Gaza, but in Judea and Samaria.
Thus the covenant of Hamas represents the will of the Palestinian people.
Those who say that the Hamas covenant is meaningless are not rooted to reality. They are, of course, paternalistic, treating the Arabs like children.
In fact, the Hamas covenant means everything. It's the heart and soul of Hamas. One only has to analyze the tactics and strategy of Hamas to realize that they are following their covenant—chapter and verse.
During World War II, America and her allies made no distinction between German and Japanese armed forces and the citizens who supported their chosen governments. The allies understood, quite clearly, that only the most ruthless military actions could put an end to those totalitarian regimes.
At some point in the near future Israel will have to destroy Gaza, infested with jihadists—for reasons of security and deterrence. This is reality. All else is fiction or national suicide.
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Seraphic Friend, David Ribner, has started a new blog, African Conflict, a forum to discuss the historical backgrounds and the geopoliticial implications of ongoing conflicts, wars, and interventions in Africa.
Take Me to Your Leader Barry Rubin mediates on the, ahem, unremarkable rulers in the Arab world.
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February 04, 2008
Homicide Bomber in Dimona
From The Israel Project:
As Israel continues to work for peace a Palestinian suicide bomber killed one woman and wounded 11 other people when he blew himself up in a crowded mall in the southern Israeli city of Dimona at 10:30 A.M. (8:30 A.M. GMT). A second suicide bomber was killed by a policeman before he could detonate his explosives belt.The Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group was the first to claim responsibility for the attack, but Fatah’s armed wing, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) later claimed responsibility for the bombing. Hamas stated that the attack was “justified.”The terrorists infiltrated into Israel from the Sinai region, having originally come from Gaza. The border between Gaza and the Egyptian Sinai peninsula is currently open after Hamas destroyed the border-barrier two weeks ago.This is the first time the southern town of Dimona has been hit by a suicide-bomb attack. Israeli defense officials warned last week that Hamas and other terrorist groups had sent terrorist operatives into the Sinai through the open Gaza-Egypt border, in order to carry out suicide bombings in Israel. On Saturday, Feb. 3, two Palestinians wearing suicide-bomb belts were caught in Sinai by Egyptian security forces and on Friday, Feb. 2, 15 armed Palestinians were also arrested in Sinai by Egyptian forces.In 2007, Palestinian terrorist groups attempted to carry out 29 suicide bombings in Israel which were prevented by Israeli security services, according to Israel’s internal intelligence agency the General Security Services.The last suicide-bombing occurred on Jan. 29, 2007 in Eilat, was also perpetrated by PIJ and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and came from Gaza via Sinai. In 2007, there were 17 attempted suicide bombings originating from Gaza.2006 Terror Attacks:Jan. 19 – PIJ and suicide bomber detonated his explosives belt at a Tel Aviv falafel stand. Thirty-one people wounded.March 30 - An Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bomber killed four Israelis near the West Bank settlement of Kedumim.April 17 - A PIJ suicide bomber killed 11 people at a falafel stand in Tel Aviv, in an attack similar to the one carried out Jan. 19. The bombing also wounded 60 others. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.Source: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (Sept 1993),Seraphic Secret will say it once again: Israel is under no obligation to provide the terror state of Gaza with power and fuel.
Further, the citizens of Gaza, in free and democratic elections, overwhelmingly elected Hamas, whose charter calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and its replacement with an Islamic State. The charter also calls for the death of Jews everywhere.
Thus the citizens of Gaza are enemies of Israel, and as America bombed German and Japanese cities and her citizens into the stone age in order to restore civilization, Israel must do the same to Gaza and to any Arab entity that threatens Israel's security.
By the way, if you are under any illusions about how ordinary Gazans respond to the news of this horrendous attack on Israeli civilians, click here.
More on Kobi Mor, who shot and killed the second homicide bomber.
Soccer Dad correctly points out that this homicide bombing is a direct result of the breach in the wall between Gaza and Egypt. The MSM floated the false story that the Gazans poured into Egypt because they were starving. This was, of course, a lie. No one in Gaza is starving. The Gazans were buying luxury items like TV's, motorcycles, visiting relatives, and oh yes, buying narcotics, trading in black currency, and naturally, smuggling arms, ammunition, and moving Iranian trained jihadists into Gaza, and Sinai, in order to stage terror attacks in Israel.
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Farewell United Kingdom. If you cannot even honestly name the problem, you cannot fight it. The UK will not survive as a democracy into the next century. That's an easy call. It will devolve into a barbaric Islamic entity. Even the U.K. educational system is geared for self-destruction. And let's not forget U.K. Muslim Policemen and government officials aiding and abetting so-called honor killings. In the article, "Asian" is code for Muslim.
Memo to the Jews: For the love of G-d, get out while you still can!If all this doesn't ring alarm bells then take a look at this story about Muslim medical students who refuse to obey basic rules of hygiene because it clashes with Islam. Personally, I'd prefer a nice Jewish doctor—who, y'know, scrubs before a procedure. But hey, that pesky hygiene thing is probably just part of the international Zionist conspiracy thing we hear so much about in the enlightened Arab world.
And though bigamy is illegal in the U.K., well, if you're Muslim and you've got a couple of wives and you're applying for welfare—no problemo!
As I said, the U.K. is toast.
Okay, some good news: The IAF's Greatest Hits.
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February 01, 2008
Attack on Efrat
Karen's brother, his wife and children and live in Efrat. We have close friends who live in Efrat. Naturally, this terror attack gets our attention.
Terrorists threw an improvised explosive charge (IED) at Israeli vehicles between El Khader junction and Efrat North junction Friday morning.An additional explosive charge blew up as the IDF combed the area.YeshaNews reported there were no casualties. A bomb crew is making sure the area is safe, and the road is closed for now.Original story here.
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January 30, 2008
Made in Israel
When Israel expelled 9,000 Jews from Gaza, we were assured that the Arabs would build a productive society, and the border with Israel would be peaceful, afterall, the so-called occupation of Gaza was at end.
That's what the liberal narrative promised.
Reality intruded.
Hamas told the truth. Their terror tactics drove the Jewish pioneers from Gaza, rendering another patch of land Judenrein and Islamic. Thus in the free and democratic elections of 2006, certified by non other than Jimmy Carter, the so-called Palestinian people overwhelmingly elected Hamas, for they wanted more of what Hamas achieved in Gaza, they yearned for what Hamas vows in their charter: the annihilation of the State of Israel.
Now, the grotesque scenario continues on an even greater level as the Jewish State continues to enable Gaza, the Palestinian State, an enemy entity, in its all out war (4th Generation War, to be sure, but just as fatal) against the Jewish State.
Now, the Israeli Supreme Court orders the Jewish State to supply Gaza with the power and fuel with which to launch terror attacks against Israeli citizens.
Elements of the Jewish people have now chosen the welfare of a belligerent enemy jihadist state over innocent Jewish citizens.
This is not just an infamous decision, this is intellectual collapse, this is slow motion suicide, this is, yes, murder of Jews, by Jews, through legal decisions that are profoundly immoral.
The first duty of a state is to protect its citizens. Israel is failing miserably in that duty.
The groups that sued on behalf of Gaza are a fifth column in Israel, and the Israeli Supreme Court are a chamber of leftist fools. These two groups are the best example of Lenin's dictum: The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will use to hang them.
Here's a sickening article from a, sigh, German magazine, detailing how Qassam rockets are manufactured. The writer is clearly enamored of these murderous terrorists, something we've come to expect from the Eurotrash, Jew-hating press. But here's the point: as long as Israel continues to supply energy and fuel to Gaza, Israeli children will live and die in terror.
The vehicle finally stops at a dirt track. The Islamic Jihad rocket factory is housed in a kind of garden shed. The hut measures five meters by five meters, metal pipes with small wings lean against the wall in the corner: Half finished Qassams. There are several tightly packed garbage bags on a shelf. "TNT," says Abdul and produces a chunk. The explosive looks like lumpy sugar. A large cauldron is sitting ready on a gas cooker while bags with Hebrew writing are piled up high up against the wall. "Fertilizer for the rocket fuel," Abdul says and grins. "We get it in Israel."To read the complete article, please click here.
Here's an invaluable Timeline of Rocket Attacks from Gaza, from The Israel Project. Clarity helps. Of course since Gaza was made Judenrein, more than 4,000 rockets have been launched from Gaza. Appeasement always invites aggression. So for those who are chomping at the bit to hand over Judea and Samaria and, of course divide Jerusalem, well: You. Are. Delusional.
Update: We assumed, incorrectly, that the Israeli Supreme court would accept the arguments of the Israeli Fifth column. We are delighted to report that the Supreme Court have rejected the arguments of these Jew-haters. But let us repeat: Seraphic Secret believes that Israel is under no obligation to supply the terrorist state of Gaza with any power or fuel whatsoever. The so-called humanitarian supply is nonsense. All material in Gaza is funneled into killing Jews.
No state can survive when she supplies the enemy with the means of her own destruction.
Update: Just noticed that Soccer Dad has also posted about this digraceful German journalist, who, what a shock, has a history of writing deeply sympathetic pieces about Arab terrorists intent on killing Jews. Old habits die hard among our Teutonic friends.
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Notice how the, ahem, human rights groups in Israel, are absolutely silent when Arabs murder desperate African refugees trying to get into Israel. You know why? Because they are not human rights groups. They are Jew-hating thugs, dedicated to the annihilation of the Jewish State.
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January 25, 2008
Know Your Enemy
The Hamas government's Covenant, Article Thirteen:
[Peace] Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse directed against part of religion.And further down:
There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with. As in (sic) said in the honourable Hadith:
"The people of Syria are Allah's lash in His land. He wreaks His vengeance through them against whomsoever He wishes among His slaves It is unthinkable that those who are double-faced among them should prosper over the faithful. They will certainly die out of grief and desperation."This represents the democratically elected charter of the people of Gaza.
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Karen and I wish all our friends a beautiful and profound miracle in Shabbat.
Blast Kills Lebanon's Anti-Terror Officer. Syria continues to murder all opposition. And Lebanon edges closer to all-out civil war.
Imam offers Prayer at Iowa Statehouse: Watch Out!What's the worst that could happen when you release terrorists from Israeli jails as, ahem, confidence building measures? Well, they kill more Jews. That was a really hard call.
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January 24, 2008
Sinai Terrorist Alert
Immediate fall-out from the Gaza-Egyptian breach. As always, it's Israel who has to be on alert. This from Andrew Cochran at Counter Terrorism Blog:
The Israeli government has issued warnings against traveling in the Sinai Peninsula in the wake of Hamas' destruction of the Egypt-Gaza Strip border wall and the elimination of any effective border security at the Rafah crossing. "Terrorists in Sinai are working to abduct Israelis and transfer them to the Gaza Strip," warned the Prime Minister's media adviser. "The currently open border between the Gaza Strip and Sinai makes it easier for terrorists to move back and forth. Therefore, the National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau recommends that Israelis avoid visit Sinai and that any Israelis currently there leave forthwith." The sight of tens of thousands of people streaming back and forth between Gaza and Egypt raises the likelihood that arms shipments and cash will be streaming to Hamas without hindrance from sympathizers in Egypt and elsewhere. It's a nightmare security scenario for counter-terrorism forces in Egypt and Israel, and for U.S. officials intent on negotiating a comprehensive peace settlement. Surely Israel will not risk further infiltration by waiting for Egypt or a third party to reassert border security there.This looks like the "Waziristan-ization" of Gaza to me.******* Today's Links
Who said Jews are smart?
Look what they've done to Anne Frank. Appalling! H/T Judd Magilnick via LGF
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Gaza and Egypt: The Big Silence
Make no mistake about it, the bombing of the wall between Egypt and Gaza by Hamas is a major event. Hamas have, in effect, declared war on the Egyptian government. Mubarak is in a difficult position. He despises and fears Hamas and all the transnational terrorist gangs who have taken root in Gaza. Yet at the same time, he's been appeasing them, allowing arms and money to flow from Egypt into Gaza, in order to maintain the stability of his corrupt regime. Now, Hamas, as they always will, have broken the rules of the game. Mubarak cannot take control of Gaza, nor can he ignore this terrorist entity.
Gaza is the u-boat under the entire region and sooner or later it will be necessary for this genocidal state to be destroyed.
Seraphic Friend Shrink Wrapped believes that the toppling of the wall is in fact, good news:
There has been an impressive conspiracy of silence regarding one particular aspect of the situation in Hamastan (Gaza) which may be dissolving of necessity; this conspiracy reeks of hypocrisy and venality but has served the needs of the Palestinians, their Arab brethren, and the usual demonizers of Israel, which includes the UN and much of the Western press. It is a two part fiction. The first part deals with the Palestinian/Gazan relationship with Egypt. Despite the fact that every map of Palestine shows a long border between Egypt and Gaza, the MSM typically neglects to follow a simple line of logic; ie, while it may be true that the Israelis at long last had finally cut off some supplies into Gaza from Israel in response to the dramatic escalation of rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza into Southern Israel, few Diplomats or Media spokespeople were so impolite as to mention that it would be a trivial matter for Egypt to take over the task of distributing the West's largess to the suffering population of Gaza. To those who might object that Israel would not allow Egypt to do so, perhaps Condoleeza Rice could remind them that as part of the current push for a "peace process" Israel ceded the border between Gaza and Egypt to Egyptian administration. While food, fuel, medical supplies could have easily been imported through Egypt, for political reasons both Egypt and Gaza abjured such an obvious solution. Maintaining the fiction that the big, bad Israelis were starving the poor Innocent Palestinians was of more value than actually caring for th Gaza population. Further, Egypt, to all accounts, has always had a rather porous border when it came to military supplies.The second part of the fiction is part of a larger one, Arab solidarity with the Palestinians. The Ummah has been primarily concerned with destroying Israel and Palestinian suffering and Palestinian terror has been their primary weapon.Both of these issues have been clarified in the last 24 hours.To read the complete article, please click here.
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Terrorist Attacks North and South of Jerusalem.
Pallywood: Hamas Staged Some Blackouts. Shocking, just shocking! H/T Seraphic Chaver, Kishke.
Soccer Dad argues that mainstream newspapers are now Complicit in aiding the terrorist gang Hamas.
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January 17, 2008
Stopping Iran
An important article in Commentary Magazine by Norman Podhoretz on why America must bomb the Iranian nuclear facilities.
Up until a fairly short time ago, scarcely anyone dissented from the assessment offered with “high confidence” by the National Intelligence Estimate [NIE] of 2005 that Iran was “determined to develop nuclear weapons.” Correlatively, no one believed the protestations of the mullahs ruling Iran that their nuclear program was designed strictly for peaceful uses.To read the complete article, please click here.
Podhoretz does not believe that Israel will attack Iran. For the mission to succeed, he explains, the attack must be pulled of with little margin for error. Casualties for Israel could be enormous. America's military, Podhoretz writes, can operate with a much larger margin for error and sustain higher casualties. This is all theory, based on a paper written by American MIT academics. In fact, all military missions are all based on perfect models. And beside, the IAF is rather good at accomplishing the seemingly impossible. Seraphic Secret respectfully disagrees with Mr. Podhoretz. Israel has been directly threatened by Persia. Even if Israel is faced with severe IAF casualties in an attack on Persia, the alternative—a nuclear Iran—is unthinkable for Israel, for the entire region.
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January 14, 2008
Freedom of Speech? Only for the Jihadists
Seraphic Secret has long maintained that the war on terror is being fought on multiple fronts: military, propaganda, and judicial. Perhaps one of the most dangerous developments is the use by Muslims of Western courts to further the cause of jihad. In England, it has reached terrifying proportions. Canada seems to be following the same dreadful template.
Ezra Levant is a Canadian publisher who published the Danish cartoons. For that act, a Saudi cleric living in Canada made a complaint to Canada's HRC which Mr. Levant was hauled into the commission to answer. He was kind enough to videotape these proceedings and post them to the net.For the revealing videos—it's an Orwellian world in Canada—and further links, go to Howling Wolf.
Meawnwhile, Israel seems to be sliding into a police state mentality. H/T Seraphic Friend Lance Fogel
Israel Matzav comments in-depth about the problem of free speech in Israel. And as Seraphic Secret has noted, it's only the right who are under attack. Olmert's enablers on the left are untouchable. H/T Seraphic Brother-in-Law, Rabbi David Singer.
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More, ahem, "humanitarian aid" for Gaza, is caught at one of those pesky check-points.
The Europeans are aware of the Iranian nuclear threat. They are not really concerned, nor encouranging to Israel's security situation. A sobering article. A Green Light for Iran.
She was shopping for Shabbos. A homicide bomber self-detonated. She survived. And now she writes. Essential reading. My Shrapnel.
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January 09, 2008
Al Qaeda in Gaza
Gaza continues to devolve into a jihadist entity. Al Qaeda's Fatah al Islam has a firm foothold on that narrow north-south salient. Under the leadership of terrorist chief Shaker al-Abessi, his forces can be seen racing through the streets of Gaza in their min-vans. Before too long, Gaza will go the way of Afghanistan under the Taliban, a hollowed-out state run by illiterate thugs spouting sharia, running Mafia style shake downs on every street corner, and justifying their existence with the most vicious Jew-hatred since the Third Reich.
Seraphic Secret has repeatedly warned that Israel's conflict with her Arab neighbors has nothing to do with borders, nothing to do with so-called refugees. These are only fig-leafs for the true existential conflict: the intolerance of Islam for Jews in Israel, for Judaism anywhere.
The moment that the Jewish state joined hands with Islamic totalitarians and rendered Gaza Judenrein, the die was cast. It became acceptable for Muslims to dictate where Jews could and could not live.
Gaza was just the first patch of land. Next comes Judea and Samaria. Then Jerusalem. Haifa. Tel Aviv. London. Paris. Brooklyn. It's not enough that every Arab/Muslim country on the face of the earth is Judenrein, no, the planet must be Judenrein.
The expulsion of Jews by Jews from Gaza has turned that land into a forward base for the most dangerous jihadist groups operating in the jihadist empire. The residents of S'derot are living under a constant barrage of missiles. It is intolerable that Israel is not defending this town. It is disgraceful. The first duty of the state is to defend its citizens. The Olmert government is failing at this task miserably.
Let us repeat a simple but effective road to victory:
1. Turn off all power and fuel to Gaza.
2. Destroy the infrastructure of Hamas through hell-fire missiles.
3. Announce that the next missile from Gaza into Israel will be met with bombardments into the civilian population of Gaza.******* Memo to the American Navy:
With all due respect, the next time you get swarmed by a bunch of Persian speedboats who announce that “You are going to explode in a few minutes.” Well, for the love of G-d, open up with those neat Gatling Guns and blow the Naval Republican Guards out of the water. This was no miscommunication, they were testing you, testing your mettle.
Guess what?
You failed.
Now they know that you're the next U.S.S. Cole.
Nice to know that military analyst Ralph Peters agrees with me completely. This link was sent to me a few minutes after I put up my post. Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend Lance Fogel
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The Washington Post publishes a true piece of Jew-hatred. Once again we can count on the peaceniks to emerge as the most vicious of anti-Semites. Hat Tip: About a dozen Seraphic Friends. This one was just off the charts.
My buddy Treppenwitz explains what the 67' borders really means.
Meanwhile Shrink Wrapped, who might be the best shrink in the blogosphere, explains the Muslim mindset when it comes to Jews, Israel, and Dhimmitude. A fine piece of analysis: The Ancient Scourge.
Over at Libertas, my friend Dirty Harry, who now loves Pico Kosher Deli, my fave restaurant in the universe, has just posted his Top Ten Films of 2007. Take a look, it's way different than mine.
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January 08, 2008
No-Go Zones for Non-Muslims
Seraphic Secret has warned over and over again that once it becomes acceptable to create Arab lands that are Judenrein, there will be no line in the sand the jihadists will not cross.
Remember, Jews are the canary-in-the-coal-mine of civilization.
Well, in Britain, there are now no-go zones for non-Muslims.
When Muslims tell you that the presence of Jews is intolerable in Gaza, or in Judea and Samaria, or in parts of Jerusalem, or, heck let's face it, the 22 Arab/Muslim countries that are Judenren, well it doesn't take too much foresight to see that the next logical step in the aggressive rise of imperial Islam is to create zones where the presence of non-Muslims is intolerable in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, and New York.
And Condi is enabling this barbaric mind-set.
Time is running out for Israel. If she doesn't get serious about the jihadist threat, I fear for her existence. Here then our recommendations for defeating the Arab/Muslim threat.
Towards Victory:
1. Jews have the right to live anywhere in the world. Especially in Israel, the Jewish State.
2. Appeasement leads to further aggression on the part of Israel's enemies.
3. There is no peace process, there is a process of war.
4. Israel should cut off all supplies of power and fuel to Gaza.
5. Israel should cease all negotiations with the Arabs. There's nothing to talk about. We have legitimized these genocidal killers far too long.
6. Israel should declare Israel's boundaries; the Arabs can sink or swim.
7. Israel should announce that the next rocket that comes from Gaza will be met with an overwhelming barrage against the infrastructure of Hamas.
8. If the rockets from Gaza continue, Israel should announce that the next attacks will be directed at the civilian population of Gaza.
9. Israel must carry through on these threats. Further: all terrorist attacks must be met with disproportionate responses.
10. Israel must never trade land for promises of peace.Today's Links:
From Soccer Dad. Want to know the difference between Republican and Democratic candidates? Democrats don't mention Islamic Terrorism. Hey, it's a No-Go Zone.
From Breath of the Beast: Why the Left Taunts the Tiger. A fine analysis on the addiction of the chattering classes to sneering at the culture that shields them from extinction at the hands of the jihadists.
From Dhimmi Watch: Columbia Professors to Visit Iran to Apologize to Ahmadinejad. I wish this was a joke, but no, this is what passes for sophisticated thinking in the groves of academia. I dunno, where I come from, Brooklyn this is known as bootlicking. Hey, maybe while the good professors are in Persia they can catch a nice amputation, or hanging, Sharia-style.
Seraphic Secret has long maintained that the Arab Israeli conflict is not about land, certainly not about boundaries, and come one, Arab refugees? Listen when people pick up and schlep maybe 30 or 40 miles away that does not make them refugees. No, the conflict is existential, it's about the right of Jews to live in Israel, in the Jewish homeland. It's a religious war being waged by the Muslim world against Judiasm and Jews. As a reminder of this basic elemental truth, Al Qaida blasted two Katyusha rockets from Southern Lebanon into Northern Israel today as a Hello President Bush. Israel's strategic and tactical response? They are going to maintain the status quo. Wow. That must have the jihadists shaking in their boots. And as for the really effective UNIFIL troops in Southern Lebanon that Tzipi Livni assured would guarantee Israel's northern border. Uh-huh. Really good job. I have a question: when is Israel going to get rid of this disastrous government? H/T Seraphic Friend, Michael Makiri.
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December 31, 2007
Sugar From the EU
Proving once again that the so-called Palestinians are far more interested in killing Jews than in building a state, the IDF discovered 6.5 tons of potassium nitrate at one of those humiliating check-points, in sacks that were disguised as sugar. The sacks were labeled humanitarian aid from the EU.
Potassium nitrate is the chemical that was used in the first World Trade Center bombing and in the Oklahoma City bombing. It's the active ingredient in Kassam rockets.
It's worth noting that the IDF siezed the potassium nitrate at a check-point in Judea and Samaria, the area nominally under the control of the "moderate" Fatah. No doubt the moderate terrorists were shocked, just shocked to discover the chemicals right under their moderate noses.
Need we mention that the potassium nitrate was headed for the Judenrein state of Gaza?
Need we mention that is is illegal to bring potassium nitrate into Judea and Samaria and Gaza? Why? Because the chemical is used to murder Jews. We realize this is a hardship for the poor Arabs and no doubt, Peace Now, and B'tselem, finds this ban an outrageous human rights violation, but there you go, it just goes to show how fanatical some people feel about protecting Jewish lives.
And the EU. What do they say? Well, nothing. They're like totally: no comment. They can't be bothered even thinking about something so insignificant. But really, what can they say? They have been enabling Jew-killing for over 60 years. Yup, we're counting World War II.
Now, we understand that the Europeans feel guilty about their reprehensible behavior during World War II when they willingly participated in genocide, or just turned a blind eye to the slaughter of Jews. And so in order to erase that shameful, bloody stain Europeans self-righteously cast the Jewish state as modern day Nazis and the Arabs as the Jewish victims.
It's moral inversion of the worst sort.
But you know what, we don't buy it. No one does. No one who's sane and honest.
The Arab/Muslim world is awash in virulent Jew-hatred. Their plans for Israel and for world Jewry are frankly genocidal.
Europeans should admit the truth. They favor the Arabs because of oil. And because Europeans are still habitually anti-Semitic.
And European countries are drowning in scary, hostile Muslim immigrants. The demographic time bomb is ticking away; tragically, the appeasers and cowards have gained the political upper-hand.
So the EU have chosen sides. And once again, the Jews are expendable.
We're shocked.
So, EU, definitely keep sending tons and tons of, ahem, aid to your peace loving Arab buddies.
Keep trying to salve your bloody conscience, at the expense of the Jewish people.
Here's my guarantee:
Sooner or later the Arabs will send a nice big sack of sugar back to Europe—in deepest gratitude.
Oh yeah: How about turning off the power to Gaza? Really, Seraphic Secret has been suggesting this tactic for, oh gee, a long time. This shipment of potassium nitrate is practically a declaration of war from Gaza. It's really time to stop supplying the terrorist entity in Gaza with the power and fuel with which to make war on the Israel. It's time for the Israeli government to get serious about Gazastan.
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December 28, 2007
Hey Kids, Let's Put on a Jihad Show
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!
Gotta love Palestinian TV for children. Hey, we have Sesame Street and Sponge Bob and they have this, um, child abuse. But by all means, let's reward such worthy people with a state.
For the complete transcript of this charming children's song which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on December 20, 2007, please go to MEMRI.
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December 27, 2007
World War IV
Victor Davis Hanson reviews World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz (Doubleday 2007, 240 pp.)
World War IV is an indispensable book for these times. The war in Iraq has occasioned some of the most shameful partisan behavior since Vietnam, as well as generating in the mainstream media a narrative filled with what Podhoretz accurately calls “misconceptions, distortions, and outright falsifications.” To correct this partisan spin, Podhoretz economically and clearly surveys both the facts and the distortions, providing readers with all the ammunition they need to counter the “Bush lied” and “illegal war” master narrative relentlessly peddled by the Democrats and their shills in the media. Even more important, World War IV sets out the case for sticking with the Bush Doctrine, whatever its drawbacks, as the best policy for countering the threat of Islamic jihad. All serious voters this coming year should not pull the lever until they have read this book and understood what is at stake for America’s security in the coming decades.To read Victor Davis Hanson's complete article, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, A. Mark David, Q.C
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December 20, 2007
The Trojan Horse Called Hudna
Hamas is offering Israel a Hudna.
This is no surprise.
Their upper ranks have been decimated in the past few days through targeted killings. The terrorists are in disarray, on the run, mounting poorly coordinated operations and dying in great numbers.
A Hudna, let's be clear, is an opportunity for the terrorists to rebuild their networks, replenish their ranks, and prepare the next round of attacks. Hamas will find a pretext to break the hudna when it suits them. A hudna serves no one but the terrorists.
Under no circumstances should Israel accept this offer.
As we explained yesterday:
The IDF should continue with the targeted killings. In the past few days they have knocked off an impressive list of terrorists, eleven senior Islamic Jihad operatives were killed in Gaza, including Majd al Harazin, head of Islamic Jihad's military wing and Karim Dahlul, director of their Qassam missile production.This indicates that human intelligence in Gaza has improved along with electronic surveillance via drones and other cool Hollywood SFX methods. The terrorists are thugs, clever thugs, but they are stuck a few generations behind the super smart Jews in the technology field and this puts them at a severe disadvantage. The IDF should keep offing the terrorist, and stay on the offensive. This keeps the terrorists awake at night, has them scrambling from safe house to safe house; their cell phones are useless—Israeli surveillance are listening. And best of all, the terrorists are wary of every loser cousin who might bear a mysterious grudge and flip for Shin Bet.This constant pressure reduces the terrorist network to a profoundly constricted circle, unable to better their military resources, or mount effective terrorist attacks. Inevitably, the cells stagnate, members turn on one another due to personality conflicts, mutual suspicion and creeping paranoia. The terrorists become disoriented, hunted things, nice fat targets for Israeli smart bombs.As I correctly analyzed, the terrorists are grievously wounded, and their networks, large and small, are so seriously degraded that they are now begging, through Israeli journalists, for a Hudna.
Now is the time for Israel to ratchet up the pressure to even higher levels. When you have the enemy on the run, it is your military obligation to pursue and destroy them. If not, they will return and sow terror on the civilian population of Israel.
Now is the time for another round of targeted killings.
Now is the time to unleash the dogs of war.
If the government of Israel accepts this Trojan horse called Hudna, they will have missed a golden opportunity to cripple Hamas to the point of impotence.
Links: Mere Rhetoric also comments on Hamas begging for a hudna.
Soccer Dad presents a fascinating report on how Israel should play the world-wide PR game. Hint: Pull out your map of the Mideast.
Very happy to bring you this story about our friend Lisa Ramaci.
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December 14, 2007
Syriantoxication
Yesterday, we wrote about the assassination of Lebanese General Francois al-Hajj, which we dubbed, the Murder of Lebanon. Barry Rubin, an eminent analyst of the Syrian dictatorship, weighs in on the delusions of the west when it comes to diplomacy and the murderers in Damascus.
A strange malady has apparently descended on part of Israel's, much of America's, and most of Europe's elite. Let's call it Syriantoxication, the belief that there is a real chance to make peace with Syria and—in its extreme version—that Lebanon should be sacrificed for that goal.To call this wishful thinking is understatement. Why is this happening?To read Barry Rubin's complete article, please click here.
Meanwhile, Soccer Dad, has done a superb job of collecting and analyzing the best reporting on the assassination of General al-Hajj and the devolving political situation as Syria extends her bloody imperial reign—with Iran's aid—over Lebanon.
Seraphic Secret once again warns: the gravest short-term threat to Israel's security lies to the North. If Syria and Iran rein over Lebanon, Israel will be trapped in a Gaza-like terrorist vise. And once again, Israel will be faced with the option of invading Lebanon. But Lebanon will no longer be Lebanon, it will be an extremely dangerous Syrian/Iranian proxy with Hizbullah as a nominal figurehead.
This is what comes from years of incremental appeasement. You turn around one day and your genocidal enemies are in your backyard, smiling; for now they control entire countries, lands that have been hollowed out and been made into compliant shells for transnational terrorist gangs. This is Sudan. Huge swaths of Pakistan are no-go zones for the central government, and are controlled by terrorist warlords. It is Gaza after it was made Judenrein. And it is Syria's strategy for Lebanon.
Karen and I wish all our friends a beautiful and profound miracle in Shabbat.
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Rational National Suicide
As mortars and rockets rain down on southern Israel every day, two distinct world views have come into sharp focus. IDF Chief of Staff General Gabi Ashkenazy states, that to put an end to this intolerable situation Israel must control the territory from where the terrorists operate. As an example, he points to the presence of the IDF in Judea and Samaria. No mortars or rockets are launched from those areas. Connect the dots, he challenges.
But the Israeli left, typified by Foreign Secretary Tzipi Livni, argues that the so-called peace process will be destroyed if the IDF invades Gaza. Plus the Americans and the invaluable Europeans will get, y'know, really angry. And they might actually segregate Jews at international peace conferences, force Israelis to use Jews-only service doorways. And, gasp, the Arabs might not shake our hands. Can't let that happen.
Thus explains Caroline Glick, we have rationalizers versus rationalists.
FBI agents undergo Islamic "sensitivity training" by people who are themselves the subjects of their counter-terror investigations. US military personnel at Guantanamo Bay are forced to wear gloves when they touch copies of the Koran belonging to their jihadist prisoners.More disturbingly, in their rush to placate this irrelevant tiny minority of jihadists, Israeli, US and European officials willingly trounce their core values of the rule of law and freedom of expression. In Israel, Israeli Jews who build homes without permits are prosecuted to the full limit of the law and ejected from their homes. Israeli Arabs who have built entire towns illegally are ignored by authorities in the interest avoiding diplomatic consequences or stirring up passions.In the US, one can stand outside the White House and burn the American flag without fear of criminal charge. But if a person draws a pig on a copy of the Koran in a public library, he is liable to find himself under arrest for committing a hate crime. And in Europe, you can participate in a demonstration invoking Islam as you call for the destruction of Britain or Holland or Demark without fear of legal action, but if you publish a caricature of Muhammad in your newspaper, you may find yourself the subject of a criminal probe and forced into hiding for promoting racism.To read Caroline Glick's complete column, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Joel Weisz
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December 13, 2007
The Murder of Lebanon
The December 12th assassination of Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj, 54, his bodyguard and five innocent bystanders, was a professional job. The blast was caused by a 77-pound bomb that was hidden beneath a car parked on the street. This has all the earmarks of a Syrian hit, most certainly in coordination with Hizbullah and the Ahmad Jibril Palestinian Group.
This murder has the same MO as the 2005 assassination of ex-Lebanese PM Rafiq Hariri, most certainly carried out by Syrian intelligence in association with Pasdaran.
This operation demanded the coordination of several lethal players and structures: safe-houses; financing—lots of cash was needed to make this operation function at all levels; a high degree of security had to be maintained; human intel was gathered and disseminated through various networks; there was betrayal—most certainly at high levels inside the Lebanese army; and expert bomb-makers were at work.
No rag-tag terrorist group could have pulled off this assassination so smoothly. This was a professional operation run by state-trained pros, men who have by now most certainly fled Lebanon for the safety of Gaza, Damascus and Tehran. Lower echelon operatives will melt into the Bekaa valley and the teeming northern Palestinian towns that are despised by the general Lebanese population.No murder charges will ever be filed against anyone. And of course, in the Arab world, the Mossad will be blamed, which is insane for this was the last thing Israel needed. But insane and quite stupid conspiracy theories are the honey of the Arab world. The reality of their dysfunctional societies are simply too shameful to confront. It's far easier to blame the Jews, for, well, everything.
General Hajj was expected to succeed General Michel Suleiman, the army chief of staff, who was to become Lebanon's next President.
The murder serves two purposes:
1. Revenge: General al-Hajj was a Christian, born in the southern Lebanese town of Rmeish. His village has a history of resistance against Muslim terrorists since the late 60's. Numerous young men from his town are officers in the Lebanese army and have, over the years, fought Syrian occupation and Hizbullah. Most recently General al-Hajj led the Lebanese army against the Fatah Islam Terror group in the Nahr al Bared Palestinian camp in norther Lebanon this past summer. General al-Hajj was hostile to Hizbullah, and had plans to chase them out of southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley.
2. Message: From Syria to the Lebanese Army. To avoid confronting terror groups, especially Hizbullah. Syria will not rest until Lebanon is once again under Syria's domination, through her proxy, Hizbullah. The Lebanese army, traditionally neutral in politics, has now been warned. If they seek confrontation another ruinous civil war will most certainly erupt.
What can we expect? Resolutions from the U.N. Syria and Iran look most favorably on these multi-paragraph resolutions; in their eyes, the more time the bureaucrats at the U.N spend pushing paper, the better. Time is always on the side of totalitarians. Democracies are notoriously impatient, a grievous weakness in geo-politics especially when confronting the threat of radical Islam, a patient and lethal beast.
The butchers in Damascus understand that even as they murder the opposition, western liberals invite them to peace conferences, and Israeli leftists yearn to hand back the Golan from which the Syrians would control the strategic high ground, an invaluable asset, not to mention the only bargaining chip the Israelis hold. For the Syrians it's a win-win-win situation. They kill, and kill and kill and they suffer not a single negative geo-political consequence.
INTERPOLATION:
In truth, the Syrians don't want the Golan back. They desperately need the status quo. It strengthens their shaky regime, props up their belligerent posture as the true confrontation state against the Zionist entity in the Arab world. A status they thoroughly enjoy and publicly celebrate.
END INTERPOLATION:Israel is now being surrounded and strangled in a terrorist vice: Gaza, Lebanon; now the Israeli government talks of dividing Jerusalem and turning Judea and Samaria over to the Arabs, which means a deadly encirclement by short-range weapons—snipers and mortars.
This is a recipe for national suicide. Jerusalem and a host of other Israeli cities will turn into S'derots, under constant terror attack; and if Israel responds properly, she will be accused of a “disproportionate response”—which is the only sane response when civilian populations support and celebrate terrorist infrastructures.
Lebanon is falling under a Syrian/Hizbullah/Iran axis—merciless terrorist entities—and the world yawns.
******* Here at Seraphic Secret we like to report good news. In New York, a bunch of thugs attacked three Jews who dared say: “Happy Chanukah” on the subway. To their aid came a young Muslim student from Bangladesh. Hat Tip, Seraphic Friend, David Paulin
Update: Muslim Hero is Honored H/T Seraphic Chaver, Kishke
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December 10, 2007
The Fallacy of Islam Equivalency
Some common sense is always nice:
How many times have you heard this from your leftist friends when speaking about the barbarism of radical Islam?
Oh yeah, what about the Inquisition? What about the Ku Klux Klan. What about Timothy McVeigh? What about radical Christians who blow up abortion clinics? Huh? What about them? Huh?So how do you respond to such moral equivalency pap as that? Respond with this:More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined. ( source)More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. (source)Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years. (source)19 Muslim hijackers killed more innocents in two hours on September 11th than the number of American criminals executed in the last 65 years. (source)For the original post go to: The Gathering Storm
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December 06, 2007
No Gays in Persia—And We Know Why
Remember when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his talk at Columbia University, declared: “We are friends with the Jewish people.”
Who can forget such golden ivy league moments.
Ahmadinejad went on to lecture learnedly about the Holocaust: “There are researchers who want to approach the topic from a different perspective.”
Wow. Just what the university needed, a fresh perspective. For this parents shell out over 50K per year. Talk about scams.
Let's see, regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions, Ahmadinejad stated: “They are completely peaceful.”
Audience reaction? Yawn. What is the big deal about a jihadist nuclear bomb? Global warming, now that's something to get worried about.
The Palestinians? Well, of course the Persian demagogue was going to hit this note. It's in the playbook of every petro-tyrant on planet earth.
Predictably, the audience was up and cheering, clapping, and howling Allah Akbar. And those were the Jewish students. What can you do, the so-called Palis are a leftie fashion item, like an overpriced and truly hideous Marc Jacobs jacket.
Really, Columbia University students and faculty are so tedious, such left-wing dupes, in short: a bunch of Jew-haters.
But: when queried about homosexuals in Iran, President Ahmadinejad firmly declared: “In Iran, we do not have homosexuals like in your country. We do not have that in our country. We do not have this phenomenon. I do not know who has told you that we have it.”
(Which means, I suppose, Persia has no theater, no film industry, and G-d help Persian women, no really good hair-stylists.)
Audience reaction?
Off the charts. There was roiling anger mixed with disbelief, plus a massive dose of contempt. Gosh, the peace-loving Columbia intellectuals were ready to lynch the little Persian fella. You would have thought the guy had denied the Holocaust or, um, called for the annihilation of the State of Israel.
Gotta love those morally astute Ivy league academics. Pass the Kool-Aid, please.
Well, now we know why there are no homosexuals in Iran.
The Iranian regime murders them.
Iranian Makwan Moloudzadeh had not celebrated his 20th birthday when he was hanged on Wednesday in Kermanshah prison for having had a homosexual relationship seven years ago.To read the complete story, please click here.
Seraphic Friend Shrink Wrapped has an excellent blog, Heads Will Explode, that explores the left's pact with jihadists. It's a fine analysis of the lengths radical ideologues will go to deny reality.
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Iran: Dangerous as Ever
It looks like America has kicked the can down the road. As Seraphic Secret has already pointed out, Israel alone bears the responsibility of taking out the Persian nuclear facilities. The latest NIE report, that liberals are so anxious to embrace, a first, since liberals never believe anything from our intelligence services, only serves as cover for America to get out of Dodge and let the Israelis do to Persia what they did to Syria.
A simple question: Why would Iran, which floats on an ocean of oil, choose to invest in a nuclear energy program instead of upgrading its refining capacity so that it doesn’t have to import gasoline? He fears there’s only one answer. So does Israeli intelligence: “If one looks at the investment, if one looks at the nature of the project, if you look at the cost to the Iranian economy, there is no logical explanation other than that the Iranian program is not benign.” Even the Times acknowledges that mastering enrichment, which will Iran will now certainly be allowed to do, is the hard part of building a weapon; El Baradei himself estimated just a few weeks ago that if they’ve worked out the kinks in their 3,000-centrifuge cascade, they could have a bomb in a year. The cause for celebration, especially on the left, isn’t that Iran is no longer a threat, it’s that it’s a threat that Bush has no grounds for confronting militarily and is unlikely to be able to pressure diplomatically. It’s the next president’s problem now.To read the entire article, please click here.
Essential reading: John Bolton on the flaws in the Iran Report. H/T Seraphic Friend A. Mark David, Q.C.
Plus: Iran Closer to Nuclear Bomb than West Admits.
Oh, and from the, ahem, moderate PA: Hitler is a hero on Pali radio. Gee, what a shock. The Arab world feeds on a steady diet of Jew-hatred. There are real-world consequences to such vile propaganda.
Meanwhile, Hamas are stealing fuel from Gaza hospitals to use in terrorist operations. Naturally, Israel will be blamed for causing a humanitarian disaster.
And the current Israeli government is appeasing these terrorist gangs. I feel like I'm witness to national Jewish suicide in excruciating slow motion.
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December 03, 2007
PA Murdered Zoldan
Hold the presses.
The moderate Arabs, Israel's, ahem, partners for peace, murdered Ido Zoltan. The always reliable PA Police murdered Zoldan in cold blood.
This is truly stunning, a plot point we did not see coming. You mean Mahmoud Abbas' police force actually kills Jews?
No way.
But, but, (stuttering in disbelief here) they want peace. The New York Times tells me so, endlessly, tediously, with Woodstock-worthy prose and analysis that floats comfortably in the stratosphere.
And Olmert knew about the murderers before Annapolis, but kept quiet because, y'know, he was respecting shiva, the mourning perid.
Forgive the gallows humor.
Actually, because he's Olmert, the most wretched Jewish leader since King Ahab, sans the kosher kitchen. Yup, Ahab and Jezebel had a glatt kosher kitchen, it's in the Talmud.
Anywhoo.
Let's not forget that Zoldan's murder was facilitated by the removal of fourteen IDF check-points. Why? To appease the Israeli left—Peace Now should be renamed Pogrom Now—to restore Arab honor and dignity (that's a tall order) but really to make Jew-killing far more convenient.
For goodness sake, let's release more terrorists from Israeli prisoners, quick, or they might turn to terrorism out of anger and frustration. And while we're at it let's remove some more check-points, hand over over Judea and Samaria, at least half of Jerusalem, and listen why don't we throw in Beverly Hills. Maybe then the Arabs will be satisfied.
Or, hey, here's an original idea from Ehud Barak, let's offer the Jews some gelt to make a quick exit from Judea and Samaria. They're in it for the money, right?
Just when I thought I have seen the bottom of Israeli politics, along comes a bottom-feeder of the most cynical kind and really—pass the barf bag.
Barak wants to offer money to Israel's most loyal citizens to leave the land of Israel.
I wonder what would happen if a Jew offered Arabs money to exit their homes, because their presence was, y'know, intolerable to Jewish sensibilities.
Uh-huh.
Thought so.
I have a question for the left: when will you be satisfied that enough real estate has been declared Judenrein so that—cue Kumbaya—peace (theoretically) will rein?
So far 23 Arab countries (I'm including Gaza here, it's a so-called Palestinian state) are free of Jews.
Now you want to make parts of Israel free of Jews.
Doesn't that seem really and truly weird?
And suicidal?
Just asking.
The IDF and General Security Services (Shin Bet) released for publication Sunday night that two Palestinian Authority (PA) National Security Force officers and another accomplice are the ones who murdered 29-year-old Ido Zoldan on November 19.Israeli security officials knew Zoldan was murdered by PA policemen, because two of the three terrorists who shot him to death were arrested the next day in a joint IDF and Shin Bet operation.To read the complete story, please click here.
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Chavez: Jew-hater
Hugo Chavez, Communist tyrant, hero to the left, buddy to Danny Glover, Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, and super friend to the working class, super model Naomi Campbell, is also, get this, a Jew-hater.
What a shock?
Well, it won't be long before Venezuela is Judenrein. Gosh, Jews are running out of real estate. And now even Israel is shrinking, incredibly, as Gaza is Judenrein and it's become acceptable to speak of making parts of Judea and Samaria Judenrein, and it's now even fashionably brave—not fool-hardy, suicidal, a-historical?—to talk about making sections of Jerusalem Judenrein, because, y'know, that'll definitely bring about peace. This time it'll be different.
Because the Arabs are so anxious for peace. They have demonstrated it over and over again. Right?
It's quite odd, liberals never ever bring up military victory as a tactic for bringing about peace.
That's actually the one sure-fire method that works against totalitarian regimes. Nothing else has ever triumphed. Against the Communist Soviet empire America fought hundreds of bloody proxy wars over several generations, alongside a vigorous arms war, a brutal covert war in every corner of the world, and of course an economic war that ultimately shattered the Soviet empire. No treaty, no piece of paper flapping in the wind has ever defeated a tyrant, especially a determined Islamic empire on the march.
Police raided Venezuela’s main Jewish social club on the eve of a national referendum.The raid on La Hebraica late Saturday night occurred just hours before Venezuelans went to the polls to decide on constitutional changes proposed by President Hugo Chavez. The raid was seen as a provocation against the Jewish community, which is almost unanimously opposed to Chavez, a major ally of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his leftist reforms.The police raid took place as 900 Jews enjoyed an all-night wedding party at the nearby Union Israelita synagogue in Altamira, an upscale suburb of Caracas.According to sources, members of the police unit that investigates drug-trafficking and terrorism broke the main gate of La Hebraica in the middle of the night, allegedly looking for weapons and explosives.Officers searched the premises but found nothing, the sources said.Venezuelans on Sunday rejected by a narrow margin 69 constitutional amendments proposed by the Chavez government, including eliminating presidential term limits, which would have paved the way for Chavez to be re-elected indefinitely.Saturday night's raid echoed one from November 2005, when Venezuelan police raided a Jewish school in Caracas looking for weapons. None were found.Original article here.
Caracas Jews brace for violence, and flee Venezuela.Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, David Paulin.
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November 29, 2007
The Day After Annapolis
The Annapolis Summit saga continues based on 5 misconceptions….1. That Palestinian society can be reformed by outsiders.2. That economic assistance to the Palestinians can alleviate political problems.3. That Mahmoud Abbas can become the agent for change and therefore he deserves the support of the West.4. That Palestinian society can be quickly transformed into a good neighbor of Israel and that a stable settlement is within reach.5. That Hamas control of Gaza can be uprooted by inter-Palestinian politics.With all of the platitudes during the Summit leading to bi-weekly meetings ahead, we will capitalize on the momentum created by our united widespread open opposition to the Summit.We quote Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) who said, “Middle East negotiations should proceed with caution . . . While all Americans hope for a lasting peace in the region, the American people cherish our ally Israel and the security of Israel must come first…Peace talks have failed in the past because one side wanted peace and the other side wanted Israel.”Meanwhile, Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook of Palestinian Media Watch report:
Just a day after Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the Annapolis peace conference pledged to negotiate a peace treaty by the end of 2008, Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority continues to paint a picture for its people of a world without Israel.An information clip produced by the Palestinian Authority Central Bureau of Statistics and rebroadcast today on Abbas-controlled Palestinian television, 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 of the state of Israel as "Palestine" is not coincidental, and is part of a formal, systematic 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.The fact that this campaign continues before the ink on the Annapolis agreement is even dry appears to contradict the central promise of the Palestinians at the Annapolis conference: that Israel has a right to exist.Hat Tip: Unity Coalition for Israel
And Melanie Phillips asks: One question, Mr. President: what the hell has happened to you?
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No Room for Jews in Israel
Reality check #1: There were fair and free elections among the so-called Palestinian people. The winner, in a landslide, was Hamas. Only a single precinct went for Fatah. So the true and legitimate voice of the so-called Palestinian people is Hamas.
Reality check #2: Hamas tell the truth. It's a relief to hear, from the Muslim/Arab world, such, er, honest straight talk. Even if it is frankly and boastfully genocidal. One has only to read the Hamas Covenant to understand that their aim is the annihilation of the "Zionist entity", the imposition of Sharia and the elimination of Jews from, well, the face of the earth.
That Israel is negotiating with Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas, President of Fatah, President of, er, Nothingness, is just proof that Israel and the West are in denial of a terrible reality.
Reality check #3: The Arab/Israeli conflict is not about land, it's certainly not a regional conflict. Rather, it's an existential religious conflict where the Islamic world has declared war on Judaism.The guest list at Annapolis proved this beyond a shadow of a doubt, for no one in their right mind believes that, say the Saudis, Algerians, Mauritanians or the charming Sudanese really give a crap about the so-called Palestinians. Annapolis was a ghastly check-list of Muslim/Arab tyrants who refuse to recognize Israel as a sovereign state, Muslim/Arab nations that are Judenrein, Muslim/Arab nations that make genocidal war on their own citizens, Muslim/Arab nations, that given the opportunity, would wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
Yes, here gathered in one hall was a rogues gallery of Muslim/Arab tyrants and Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni were begging for their blood-soaked handshakes.
How degrading for the Jewish people.Well, at least Hamas are here to, um, speak honestly. They don't even bother to claim to be merely anti-Zionist and not anti-Jewish.
Reality check #4: How to defeat Hamas.
Hamas, the true and democratically elected representative of the so-called Palestinian people, are proud Jew-haters.
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."To read the complete article, please click here.
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November 28, 2007
Eliminating the Jewish State
Seraphic Secret has frequently pointed out that the only difference between Fatah and Hamas is tactics. The long term strategy of both terrorist gangs is identical; their charters mirror one another calling for the elimination of the "Zionist entity."
Fatah use a double pronged offensive: terrorist attacks, with plausible deniability built in for the gullible left and the Jew-hating Europeans. They cloak their murderous operations—sub-contracted through Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and other gangs—via a clever and patient political strategy of nibbling away at the physical borders of Israel. This has been immensely successful with the appeasers on the left always anxious to trade away territory for, well, nothing.
Gaza, now Judenrein, is just the first step in several incremental steps to dismember Israel.
Judea and Samaria are next.
After that: Jerusalem.
The left are, of course, in full compliance, anxious to step up to the plate and repeat the same mistakes over and over again for they just want to be loved by those who want nothing more than to kill them. It's the Stockholm Syndrome in bold type.
Hamas have no patience for demographic war. They just want to kill Jews—now. And, in truth, they speak for the majority of the so-called Palestinian people. Let's not forget for one moment that Hamas won the free and fair elections—Jimmy Carter, hero to the left, certified the final results—in a landslide. Only one precinct went for Fatah. Really, it's Hamas who should be sitting at Annapolis, let's be honest. Mahmoud Abbas is President of the "Hey, Mahmoud, Nice Suit You're Wearing Today, Society." If Israeli citizens and the IDF were not in Judea and Samaria, Fatah would be toast in about two hours.
INTERPOLATION:
The Hashemites in Jordan, contrary to their public pronouncements, would not be happy puppies. The last thing they want to see is the IDF scampering out of Judea and Samaria. That would mean another Black September for the hapless Hashemites.
END INTERPOLATION:In fact, in every single country in the Arab world, if free elections were held, the Islamists would win—hands down—and the more secular reformers would have their throats slit.
And for those who believe that the Arabs really want to live in peace and justice with Israel.
Well, yeah, absolutely true.
But don't superimpose your Western values on the words peace and justice. When Muslims speak these two words they are imagining a world where Sharia rules as justice and peace means that Jews (and all religious minorities) are dhimmis, a severely oppressed underclass.
Just ask Jews from Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Ethiopia, or Morocco what life was like under the Muslim yoke of peace and justice.
That's why the Arab/Muslim world is, Judenrein.
Here's a superb article by Daniel Pipes that actually has something nice to say about Ehud Olmert, and reveals the Arabs as a bunch of racist Jew-haters.
Shocking, huh?
Hey, we like to surprise our Seraphic Friends.
Surprisingly, something useful has emerged from the combination of the misconceived Annapolis meeting and a weak Israeli prime minister, Ehud ("Peace is achieved through concessions") Olmert. Breaking with his predecessors, Olmert has boldly demanded that his Palestinian bargaining partners accept Israel's permanent existence as a Jewish state, thereby evoking a revealing response.Unless the Palestinians recognize Israel as "a Jewish state," Olmert announced on November 11, the Annapolis-related talks would not proceed. "I do not intend to compromise in any way over the issue of the Jewish state. This will be a condition for our recognition of a Palestinian state."He confirmed these points a day later, describing the "recognition of Israel as a state for the Jewish people" as the "launching point for all negotiations. We won't have an argument with anyone in the world over the fact that Israel is a state of the Jewish people." The Palestinian leadership, he noted, must "want to make peace with Israel as a Jewish state."Raising this topic has the virtue of finally focusing attention on what is the central topic in the Arab-Israeli conflict -- Zionism, the Jewish nationalist movement, a topic that typically gets ignored in the hubbub of negotiations. Since nearly the birth of the state, these have focused on the intricacies of such subsidiary issues as borders, troop placements, armaments and arms control, sanctities, natural resources, residential rights, diplomatic representation, and foreign relations.The Palestinian leadership responded quickly and unequivocally to Olmert's demand:The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee in Nazareth unanimously called on the Palestinian Authority not to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.Salam Fayad, Palestinian Authority "prime minister": "Israel can define itself as it likes, but the Palestinians will not recognize it as a Jewish state."Yasser Abed Rabbo, secretary general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's executive committee: "This issue is not on the table; it is raised for internal [Israeli] consumption."Ahmad Qurei, chief Palestinian negotiator: "This [demand] is absolutely refused."Saeb Erekat, head of the PLO Negotiations Department: "The Palestinians will never acknowledge Israel's Jewish identity. ... There is no country in the world where religious and national identities are intertwined."Erekat's generalization is both curious and revealing. Not only do 56 states and the PLO belong to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, but most of them, including the PLO, make the Shari"a (Islamic law) their main or only source of legislation. Saudi Arabia even requires that every subject be a Muslim.To read Daniel Pipes' complete article, please click here.
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November 27, 2007
Teddy Bear Jihad
I am so relieved that the Sudanese have been invited to Annapolis. After all, we need sane, level-headed, diplomatic voices in these trying times.
Okay, so the Sudanese are guilty of genocide. What're you gonna do, it's their culture. This is the age of multi-culturalism, right?
We'll just have to be tolerant of Khartoum's official death squads, the Janjaweed, who have murdered somewhere between 200 to 400,000 non-Arabs in the past few years. The Janjaweed have also cast a million non-Arab Sudanese into refugee camps where untold numbers are dying on an daily basis. Accurate body counts are hard to come by. The Janjaweed are not exactly methodically Nazi-like in their paper-work. Why? Because most of them are illiterate Muslims. But they do know how to murder and they do know how to mutilate and rape. They have also kidnapped an untold number of women and female children as sexual slaves.
Anyway, the Western world protests feebly, (not the Muslim world, what a shock) but gives most of its attention to, who else, the so-called Palestinians.
Why?
1. Unrelenting Arab terror. If you murder innocent men, women and children that makes your grievances, er, legitimate.
2. Oil from our Saudi friends. If you have endless buckets of black gold, that makes your intolerable religion, er, tolerable.
3. Propaganda from, well, everybody. If you tell lies often enough, well, Julius Streicher looks like an amatuer compared to Al Jazeera, Al Reuters, Al AP, Al New York Times.
4. Fashion. The so-called Palestinians are, well, a fashion accessory for the always fashion conscious left, the place to be for civilized glib academic Jew-haters. Even the lefties have come to realize it.Meanwhile, back in the happy-go-lucky Islamic Republic of Sudan, the religion of peace marches on and we wait for Peace Now, Tony Judt, or Henry Siegman to blame the Jooz for the Teddy Bear Jihad.
A British teacher is facing 40 lashes in a Sudanese jail if convicted of insulting Islam's prophet by letting children name a teddy bear Mohammed.To read the complete story, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Chaver, Kishke
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November 26, 2007
Total War
I'm going to go out on a limb and make a wild prediction—dripping irony here—that attempted terrorist attacks in Israel are going to increase during Annapolis.
And after Annapolis fails, and everybody blames the Jooz, the Arabs will riot and of course the world will excuse their bloody rampages—after all, that's their culture—and Hizbullah/Iran with Syrian support will gobble up Lebanon.
Why not? America just legitimized the murderous, and imperial—19 years occupying Lebanon—Syrian regime by inviting those thuggish assassins to Annapolis.
Once Lebanon goes to Hizbullah/Syria/Iran, well, all bets are off.
Another civil war will probably explode. And everyone will blame the Jews. Including, who else? Peace Now. They can always be counted on to embolden those who wish to annihilate Israel and the Jewish people. Call it The Josephus syndrome.
And to take advantage of the chaos, Hizbullah in Gaza will step up their attacks on Israel in order to goad the IDF into a ground invasion of Gaza.
Israel must resist this invitation. Instead, Israel must cut off all the power and fuel supplied to Gaza. There is no moral imperative to supply your enemies with the power to kill your own citizens.
If this does not pacify Gaza, then the Israeli air-force should bomb that jihadist salient back to the stone age. There is no reason for a single Israeli soldier to die or get wounded in a ground invasion.
There is no victory in warfare unless the citizens who have chosen to ally themselves with tyrants and genocidal governments are made to suffer along with their leaders. Witness Japan and Germany during World War II.
I am talking about total war.
This tactic of warfare was used in 1864 by Union troops under Maj. General William Tecumseh Sherman when he burned Atlanta to the ground and began his March to the Sea. The March was designed to break Southern morale. In Sherman's words: "... to make Georgia howl."
Sherman understood total war. He realized that that to win one must strike at the enemy's infrastructure. After Sherman's March the Southern economy collapsed and Lee's army was shattered.
Total war is not pretty, but it does save lives for it ends wars quickly instead of allowing conflicts to drag on endlessly, generation after generation.
It's time to make Gaza howl.
In the meantime, that fine analyst Barry Rubin has written an article about that folly: Annapolis.
Despite thousands of claims by lots of famous people, national leaders, and respected journals, solving the Arab-Israeli conflict will not make radical Islamism or terrorism go away. Would you like to know why? Because even if this issue could be solved—which isn’t about to happen for reasons requiring a different article—to do so would necessitate a compromise including an end to the conflict, acceptance of Israel, and compromises by the Arab side. These steps would inflame the extremists and make any Arab rulers who accepted it vulnerable to being called traitors. It would increase instability in the Arab world, also by removing the conflict as splendid excuse and basis for mobilizing support for the current rulers. Arab politicians understand this reality; most people in the West don’t.To read Barry Rubin's complete article, please click here.
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The Moral Dementia of Annapolis
Warning: Annapolis is being supported by Israel's most deep-end leftist organization Peace Now. Not surprising, Peace Now has some of their most fervent supporters here in La-La Land. If you hang around long enough you'll no doubt them babble on about Tikkun Olam—alot.
As if they have the vaguest idea what this concept truly encompasses.
At the moment, for it's the fashion, they think it means buying useless computers for Africans who desperately require roads, medicine, septic tanks, clean drinking water, y'know basic sanitation; or they lecture—endlessly, drearily—about so-called global warming, instead of confronting true and frightening evil: jihad.
It's so much easier to rant about the weather and hold, ahem, interfaith services with clever jihadists than actually show some moral and physical courage and confront these Jew-haters head-on.
Have you ever noticed that far left organizations bear names that have no relationship to reality. Peace Now has nothing to do with peace and everything to do with appeasement and the slow-motion annihilation of Israel.
One can scrawl the word peace, Shalom, on all the blackboards in the world, but it's the gesture of a fantasist when the other side is committed to your destruction, in fact boasts of this end-game relentlessly in their media, in their mosques, in their, ahem universities, and through their grade school educational system.
Just take a walk through Gaza or anywhere in the Arab world. Jew/Israeli hatred—there is no difference—is pandemic. Posters of so-called martyrs—actually, butchers of innocent men, women, and children—are displayed like rock posters. There is no talk of peace, only victory and the destruction of the Zionist entity.
When the Arabs speak of "occupation" they are talking about the entire state of Israel. From the Jordan to the Mediterranean. It's in the charter of Hamas and Fatah/PLO. Both documents are Islamist and boastfully genocidal. Parts of the Hamas charter are based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Let's be clear: Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas is president of nothing. Gaza belongs heart and soul to Hamas, Hizbullah, and a dozen criminal clans. And the only thing that keeps Judea and Samaria from sliding gleefully into the arms of Hamas is the presence of brave Jewish citizens and the Israeli Defense Forces.
Once again, we are living in 1938.
Too bad that so many in the West refuse to learn the lessons of history.
And of course, so many are Jews.
Sometimes, the only way to achieve peace, is through the business end of a gun.
In preparing for the Mideast conference in Annapolis, Maryland, this week, Jerusalem Post columnist and deputy managing editor Caroline Glick took some questions from National Review Online editor Kathryn Lopez Monday morning.Glick, a senior Middle East fellow at the Center for Security Policy, is author of the upcoming book (March), The Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad will be released in March. All Glick clicks are available here.Kathryn Jean Lopez: Is there anything good to come out of Annapolis?Caroline Glick: It is hard to see any positive outcome from the Annapolis conference. Some have argued that the conference will make clear the distinction between states interested in peace and states uninterested in peace. But it is far from clear why this is the case. Indeed, one of the basic flaws inherent in the Annapolis conference, and indeed in Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s recent frenetic pursuit of Palestinian statehood is the complete absence of moral distinctions between states committed to the ideals of peace, freedom, and fighting terror and those committed to jihad, tyranny, and hatred.To take just the most obvious example of Rice’s moral equivalence, she upholds Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Prime Minister Salam Fayad as moderates who seek peaceful coexistence with Israel. Yet the fact is that neither Abbas nor Fayad have taken any steps that could be considered conducive to peace. They joined a unity government with Hamas in March and would have remained Hamas’s junior partner in that Saudi-brokered governing arrangement had Hamas not decided to oust Fatah forces from Gaza in June. Fayad has continued to pay the salaries of the Iranian-trained Hamas army in Gaza since the terror group’s takeover of the area just as he pays the salaries of Fatah terrorists in the West Bank.In addition to his position as political leader of the Palestinian Authority, Abbas is also the head of the Fatah terror organization. Due to its reputation as a secular terror group, the U.S. State Department upholds Fatah as a credible partner in peace talks with Israel. But this strains credulity. Since the onset of the Palestinian jihad against Israel in September 2000, Fatah has carried out more terror attacks against Israeli targets than either Hamas or Islamic Jihad. Just last week Fatah terrorist murdered 29-year-old Ido Zoldan.In spite of Fatah’s moderate reputation, the fact is that Fatah terror cells in the West Bank are bankrolled by Iran and its Hezbollah proxy. Its operatives are directed by Tehran no less than Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives are.To read the complete interview, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Dr. Carol
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BBC Wipes Israel off the Map
From the BBC Radio yesterday morning:
“And later in the program, after we have heard from our correspondent in Annapolis, Maryland, we will be speaking to representatives from both sides, the Palestinians and the Americans.”"Was this just a mistake, or was it a further subconscious glimpse into the BBC’s warped worldview?"
Original Post from NRO
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Dr. Carol
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November 23, 2007
Iraq's Savage Ironies
Below is a fine article by Victor Davis Hanson, in which he brings much needed military/historical perspective to the war in Iraq.
Recently, at a Shabbos lunch, I had a discussion with a friend about Iraq. My friend, sputtering in fury, claimed to have turned a corner against President Bush because of how poorly the war has been handled. I asked my friend if he felt that Eisenhower and his generals had done a good job in North Africa?
My friend shrugged, “Pretty good.”
He had not a clue as to the series of blunders made by the Americans, tactical and strategic, in North Africa, nor the terrible toll in lives through poor planning, especially in airborne operations.
There is a learning curve in all wars, I explained, terrible as it is, and in this conflict with jihadists, the U.S. army, outfitted and trained for traditional war, must adjust to Fourth Generation combat. It's a huge change. And General Petraeus and his Colonels have done a magnificent job.
“Well, why didn't Bush do it earlier?” My friend shot back angrily.
“There were other generals in the way. Some of them real turkeys. The army is an unforgiving bureaucracy.”
Dripping with sarcasm: “Well, you're more forgiving than I am.”
“No, I just live in the real world.”
My friend went on to attack the corruption in Iraq.
I said that far worse went on in the Civil War. “Unfortunately war draws out the the best and worst in men.”
“There was no corruption in World War II,” my friend assured me. “Harry Truman made sure of that.”
I looked at my soup.
I went: “Uh-huh.”
There is no dialog with dirt ignorance.
The war in Iraq — as all wars — is fraught with savage ironies.In the build-up to the invasion, anti-Americanism in Europe reached a near frenzy. It was whipped up by French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, and evoked warnings of an eternal split in the Atlantic Alliance. If Iraq had proved a catalyst for this expression of near hatred — fueled by long-standing angers and envies — it soon, however, proved to be a catharsis as well.Both leaders overplayed their hands when the U.S. had already begun downsizing its NATO deployments in Germany. Elsewhere, Europeans started to have second thoughts about alienating America at a time of rising Russian belligerency, and suffered from increased worry over radical Islamic terrorists at home and abroad.The result is that their successors, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, are staunchly pro-American in ways their previous governments were not, even well before the Iraq War. And given the increased jihadist threats to Europe, worries about Iran, and the consistency of the U.S. effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, these governments may well have learned — in a way they did not anticipate in 2003 — that there really is no other ally like a steadfast United States, in these unstable times.To read the complete article, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend from the Great White North, A. Mark David, Q.C.
Karen and I wish all our friends a beautiful and profound miracle in Shabbat.
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November 21, 2007
Oscar Worthy Terrorist Flick
Here's a little terrorist video that will actually put a smile on your face.
My buddy Treppenwitz has posted a fine little video of some Arab/Muslim terrorists, I assume in Gaza, launching what appear to be standard mortar rounds, probably c/o Ehud Olmert, from a home-made rocket launcher, towards Israeli civilian populations, in order to kill, maim, and terrorize.
All the while chanting: "Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar."
But I know, they're not really Muslims. They're radicals who have hi-jacked the, er, religion of peace.
Anyway: These master terrorists are feeding mortar rounds into a toilet pipe, over and over again, and pretty soon—well, I don't want to spoil Act Three for you.
It's a classic short, Oscar-worthy. Far better than Lions for Lambs, Rendition, Redacted, Valley of Elah, etc.
Go to that excellent blogger Treppenwitz, a man who totes a laser-pen in his pocket, and then click on the very interesting film clip.
To paraphrase Dirty Harry: It will make your day.
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November 20, 2007
Terrorist in the AP Newsroom
Further proof that the mainstream media is infected with jihadists and their Western enablers. The AP is one of the most wretched news organizations on earth. There is no transparency to their operation. Try and interview their reporters and editors about how they choose their stories, or their hiring practises, and you run into a brick wall. The official policy of the AP is their reporters are not allowed to give interviews to, get this, the media.
Pravda reborn.
In Stephanie Gutmann's invaluable book The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy, there is an entire chapter devoted to AP's bias against Israel and Orwellian methods. You must read this book, it's a real eye-opener, one of the most important exposes about the sad state of journalism in the Middle East ever published.
The U.S. military says it has "convincing and irrefutable" evidence that an award-winning Associated Press photographer is connected to the insurgency in Iraq.The photographer, Bilal Hussein Zaidon, faces charges in the Iraqi Central Court based on the evidence, Pentagon officials said Monday.Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell and other U.S. military officials would not say directly what charges he faced. They referred reporters to the Iraqi court system.Hussein, an Iraqi who lives in the western Anbar province city of Ramadi, has been held without charge by the U.S. military since April 2006, when bomb parts and insurgent propaganda were found in his house after the U.S. military asked to use it as an observation post during an operation.Hussein was already under suspicion by the U.S. military because he arrived at terrorist attack sites so quickly that they suspected he had advance knowledge of attacks, according to Morrell.To read the complete story, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Jake Novak
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November 19, 2007
FBI Hate Crimes, 2006: Jews Suffer Over 5 Times More Attacks than Muslims
Remember this the next time CAIR starts claiming protected victim status. From the FBI's site (thanks to Morgaan Sinclair) comes a table on hate crimes, from which I have taken here only the number of hate-motivated offenses committed in 2006 against each group. Be sure to look at the whole table at the FBI site.Anti-Black 3,136Anti-Jewish 1,027Anti-White 1,008Anti-Male Homosexual 881Anti-Hispanic 770Anti-Female Homosexual 192Anti-Islamic 191Original article from Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch.
Hey, I know, CAIR can accuse the FBI study of, y'know, Islamaphobia.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, David Paulin
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Oceans of Blood: The Al Durah Blood Libel
From that fine blogger Breath of the Beast, the latest on the blood-libel that should be on the front pages of every paper in this country, but won't be because, y'know, it's okay when Muslims fake a death and then libel Israel, Jews and Judaism, and the Islamic world, enabled by the Western press, uses the obviously fake and bloodless footage as an excuse to launch murderous terrorist attacks in every corner of the world.
Muhammed Al Durah is alive. My guess is that he's in a madrassah somewhere in Pakistan or Sudan. Meanwhile, his father makes a nice living traveling about the Muslim world signing pictures of his "dead son" much like O.J. Simpson signing memorabilia at sports conventions.
The Muslim world is addicted to the culture of death. The younger the better. It is ghastly.
Even more ghastly are the Jews on the left who enable these monsters. Charles Enderlin is a Jew, an Israeli citizen, a man who tampers with evidence. May his name be blotted from our memory.
Charles Enderlin is adrift in a rising ocean of blood. He is either so arrogant or so blinded by his fear that he is helpless to do what needs to be done to stem the tide. It is a tragedy of Biblical scale. When it all started, he was riding an exhilarating wave. (Background: here, here and here)In October of 2000 he had what must have been a dream job. He was the Jerusalem Bureau Chief for France2. He got to live in one of the great, cosmopolitan, civilized cities of the world and report daily on a simmering, dangerous, richly symbolic conflict at the cutting edge between civilization and chaos. There was always a story. Because he lived and worked in Jerusalem there was never any censorship or physical threat or even any physical discomfort. He had Palestinian stringers who fed him footage and information from the unsafe and difficult areas so he could sit in Jerusalem, edit film in his fuzzy robe and slippers and be a war correspondent.I am guessing that he just got too sloppy and arrogant to see how he was being used by his trusted Palestinian sidekick Talal Abu Rahma. Rahma knew the boss wasn’t disposed to check up on his work as long as he delivered serviceable goods and he gave him a juicy scoop once in a while. One day, Rahma overplayed the deal and Enderlin was setup for a fall. The rest of the story boils down to what Enderlin knew, when he knew it and whether or not he would take responsibility for it.His now controversial report on the alleged shooting of a twelve year old boy named Muhammed al Durah at Netzarim Junction in Gaza vaulted him to the top of the jounalistic world. He had “scooped” everyone and had presented a perspective on the Arab-Israeli conflict that had been hinted at by the media and longed for by the liberal and leftists in the dank guilt-ridden recesses of the west- especially Europe. It quickly became apparent that although it had never actually been seen or proven, there was a large and willing potion of the audience that readily took to the image of the Israelis as oppressors and thugs. The film and Enderlin’s presentation of it would, if true, have been proof of murderous brutality by the Israeli army. Enderlin reported that they killed the boy in cold blood. Looking at the report footage now, with the knowledge and background that has come to light it is hard to believe that such ambiguous and poorly staged stuff could have caught the imagination of the world the way it did. But, then, you had the voice of Charles Enderlin telling you what to believe about it in your ear and it is always dangerous to underestimate the size and explosivity of the subterranean lake of anti-Semitic blood-libel that seems to bubble and churn beneath the entire world’s population.To read the complete story, please click here.
And here is a report by Melanie Phillips on the Al Durah blood-libel, from the trial in France.
Ms. Phillips concludes her piece on a powerful cautionary note:
The ‘killing’ of Mohammed al Durah was swallowed uncritically by the western media, despite the manifold unlikeliness and contradictions which were apparent from the start, because it accorded with the murderous prejudice against Israel which is the prism through which the Middle East conflict is habitually refracted. This scandal has the most profound implications not just for the media, not just for the Middle East conflict but for the western world’s relationship to reason, which seems to grow more tenuous by the day.The very best book on why the media tilts so ferociously against Israel is Stepanie Gutmann's The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy. Highly recommended.
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November 16, 2007
Come Home
From Iraq, Michael Yon, our greatest war correspondent, tells us in no uncertain terms that the surge has worked, that the terrorists are on the run, that the forces of freedom are winning.
But the Democrats last night on CNN were deeply invested in America's defeat in Iraq.
Are the Democrats unaware of the reality of what's happening in Iraq? Or is the truth a mortal wound to a party whose platform is built on defeatism?
Michael Yon contributes a lovely and moving photo essay.
I have to say this: I'm glad that Christians are returning to their churches to worship. It's a fine thing and I hope freedom of religion spreads in Iraq.
But the fact remains that Iraq, like every Arab/Muslim country, save for several thousand Jews in Morocco, is Judenrein and toxic for Jews.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen any fighting. I can’t remember my last shootout: it’s been months. The nightmare is ending. Al Qaeda is being crushed. The Sunni tribes are awakening all across Iraq and foreswearing violence for negotiation. Many of the Shia are ready to stop the fighting that undermines their ability to forge and manage a new government. This is a complex and still delicate denouement, and the war may not be over yet. But the Muslims are saying it’s time to come home. And the Christians are saying it’s time to come home. They are weary, and there is much work to be done.To read Michael's complete photo essay, please click here.
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November 14, 2007
Spy vs. Spy
A Muslim woman lives in America illegally, fakes a marriage to gain U.S. citizenship, infiltrates the FBI and CIA, and then passes info to Hizbullah. But of course there's "no evidence she was a spy." Oh yeah, she's also the sister-in-law of one of Hizbullah's principle U.S. financiers, Talal Khalil Chahine, who has fled the country. And she's from Detroitistan. No, she's not a spy. Must be, ahem, Islamaphobia running rampant in the FBI and CIA.
So much for the background checks.
A former agent for the FBI and CIA pleaded guilty Tuesday to faking a marriage to win U.S. citizenship, clearing the way to being hired and given security clearances by the two intelligence agencies.Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, emigrated to United States from Lebanon in 1989. She was given U.S. citizenship five years later and began working as a special agent at the FBI's field office in Washington in 1999, according to a criminal information sheet filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit.While working as a special agent, Prouty improperly searched an FBI computer database for information about her relatives and links they might have to the Hezbollah terrorist organization, the criminal sheet showed. She joined the CIA in 2003 and resigned as part of her guilty plea Tuesday, officials said.To read the complete story, please click here.
The great Debbie Schlussel has more damning evidence on the Hizbullah spy.Hat Tip: Seraphic Chaver, Kishke
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November 13, 2007
Mr. Homicide Bomb Goes to Washington
How stupid is the State Department and are our lawmakers in Washington?
There are no words.
Read on and let us caution our readers, a barf bag will be most handy. This is a case where a simple Google search could have turned up all one needs to know about this jihadist Jew-hating Islamist.
Tamimi's Washington trip was timed to generate support for an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Annapolis summit at which Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to outline a Palestinian state including most of the West Bank. Some reports claim Olmert also is willing to cede sections of Jerusalem.According to media reports, Tamimi and his group expressed to U.S. lawmakers last week a six-point platform that includes plans to set up a panel representing all the faiths that would condemn media or government incitement against any religious group; a board that would review educational materials for incitement; and a "hot line" to address any emerging crisis surrounding access to holy sites.But in the recently released book, Schmoozing with Terrorists, by WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein, Tamimi presented a different attitude, stating Jews have no right to Jerusalem or to Judaism's holiest site, the Temple Mount.Tamimi also is well-known for his justification of Palestinian suicide bombings and was accused by Israel of inciting violence at the beginning of the second Palestinian intifada that started in September 2000.To read the complete article, please click here.
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November 12, 2007
Arafat Memorial Turns Into Bloodbath—What a Shock!
So what happens at a memorial for terrorist leader Yasser Arafat? Flowers, speeches, dignified and calm crowds of well-wishers acting like, y'know, civilized people?
Not exactly.
In fact, the memorial turned into a riot and blood bath.
Not a Jew in sight. Though I'm sure the Arabs will blame the Jooz.
No, this was just more Arab on Arab violence that is, in fact, a fitting tribute to the bloody legacy of Arafat, one of the most reprehensible figures in modern history: a terrorist, a liar, and a thief who pocketed millions upon millions of dollars earmarked for humanitarian aid.
The memorial for Arafat, a thug, was attended by thugs who acted, well, in character.
Sure, let's give 'em a state. Just what the world needs, another dysfunctional, Jew-hating jihadist Arab country.
Oh wait, they already have a state, it's called Gaza. And what a fine, peace-loving country they are building.
Hundreds of thousands of Fatah supporters fled in panic today after gunfire erupted at a memorial event for former Palestinian Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat.
The anniversary had given the defeated faction in Hamas-controlled Gaza a rare chance to hold a rally. Medical officials said at least 15 people were wounded.
Fatah officials accused Hamas forces of opening fire from the nearby Islamic University. Hamas said its men had come under fire from Fatah gunmen and shot back.To read the entire story, please click here.
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The Saudi Threat in America
One of the politically correct lies we are fed is that Saudi Arabia is a "moderate" Arab state. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Saudis are in the forefront of the jihadist war against the West. But because of our need for oil, and their need to placate the West, they wage their holy war in particularly piratical methods. Expertly and cunningly the Saudis put on one face to meet the West, while at the very same time the corrupt Saudi royal family foments hatred of Jews through national education that teaches The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to grade school children, slick lobbyists in Washington, pouring millions of petro-dollars into the Middle Eastern Studies departments of our universities—fig-leafs for official Jew/Israeli hatred—and the financing of radical mosques on foreign shores to promote hatred of Jews, Christians and all non-Wahhabi sects of Islam.
Here's a fine article by Frank Salvato on the Wahhabist Infiltration of America.
Part of the reason many Americans don’t appreciate the significance of Osama bin Laden’s declarations of war against the United States and the West is because they are completely oblivious to the in-roads radical Islam has made within the United States. Radical Islamists (i.e., Islamofascists, Wahhabis) understand that the conflict must take place on multiple fronts: militarily, economically, diplomatically and ideologically. Because they understand the complexity of the confrontation and the ability of the West to adapt to challenges – albeit lethargically – they employ multiple tactics in their aggressive pursuit of victory. The West’s addiction to sensationalism, epitomized by our limited attention to detail, unless it plays in the superficial 24-hour news cycle, facilitates the successful infiltration of radical ideology into Western society.Much to the chagrin of the multicultural and the proponents of diversity, those who promote radical Islamist ideology thrive on the fact that the politically correct culture of the West – and the United States in particular – deems it inappropriate to question religious practices or teachings. With this politically correct “wall of separation” in place little if any scrutiny is given to the information disseminated within any given religious institution. This directly facilitates the ideological advancement of Wahhabism, the most radical and puritanical form of Islam, within the mosques of the United States.To read the complete article, please click here.
And here's another article from The Times, Saudi Arabia is the Hub of World Terror, by Nick Fielding and Sarah Baxter.
Hat Tip: America's Truth Forum
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November 11, 2007
Hamas to Sieze West Bank
The great thing about Hamas is they tell the truth. They hate Israel and they want to annihilate the state. They hate Jews and they want to kill every Jew on the face of the earth.
Okay, we appreciate blunt talk from our enemies.
Unfortunately, too many on our side—jihadist enabling leftists, delusional liberals—refuse to believe that there are people out there who actually—get this—don't like Jews. They have a hard time believing that there are people who prefer the death shrieks of battle over the soothing harmonics of Kumbaya.
Take Prime Minister Olmert. A leftie and a liberal. Easily the most inept Jewish leader since—hey, King Ahab was pretty bad but, according the the Talmud, at least he and Queen Jezebel kept a kosher kitchen. My pious Catholic Mexican housekeeper knows more about Yiddishkeit than Olmert.
Anyway, Olmert's planning on going to Annapolis at the end of the month and making, as liberals like to phrase it, "painful concessions" to the PA.
Painful as in: Lots and lots of Jews are gonna die.
Here at Seraphic Secret we make no secret—ouch, bad pun—of believing that the expulsion of 9,000 Jews from Gaza was a religious, national and international disaster.
It was a disaster worthy and equal to Neville Chamberlain's surrender of the Sudetenland to Hitler.
Appeasement leads not to peace, but to further aggression. Our Arab and Persian enemies proudly boast that Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon and then from Gaza were clear victories for Hizbullah/Iran and Hamas, clear victories for the jihadist armies of Islam.
And yet, Olmert, President Bush, and the EU have apparently learned nothing from past debacles. They insist on following the same short-sighted policies of appeasement that only lead to strengthening the hand of the jihadists and lowering Israel's defensive posture and her national deterrence capability.
There is no land for peace.
There is only land for war.
In the Palestinian national elections, Hamas did not just carry Gaza but they won every precinct in Judea and Samaria (The West Bank) save one lone precinct that went for the PA.
If Olmert is foolish enough to give up more land, and suicidal enough to consider handing over parts of Jerusalem, then the Arabs will truly have Auschwitz borders ringing the State of Israel.
Jewish history teaches one clear lesson: when our enemies tell us that they plan to kill us, we should believe them.
A top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip warned on Friday that the Islamist movement would seize control of the West Bank if Israel withdrew from the occupied territory."Israel says the party in power in Ramallah (Fatah) serves its interests and if Israel withdraws from the West Bank, Hamas will take control. That's true," Mahmud Zahar told a party rally in Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip.He called on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party to "learn the lesson of what happened in Gaza"—where nearly five months ago Hamas routed the moderate leader's loyalists and security officers in the coastal enclave.To read the complete story, please click here.
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November 08, 2007
Jew-Hatred in England, Gaza Confessions, and Good News from Iraq
Melanie Phillips reports on the alarming rise of Israel/Jew-hatred in England. This should remind all decent people that Jews are the canary in the coal mine of civilization.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, David Paulin.
Seraphic Friend Mere Rhetoric shows us in no uncertain terms that more aid to the Palestinians means more dead Jews.
Meanwhile, in Israel, this from a man who supported expelling Jews from Gaza:
The disengagement from Gaza "was a mistake" National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer told Non-Stop Radio (Radio Lelo Hafsaka) on Thursday."I admit and confess," Ben Eliezer said, "I was with those who strongly supported [former prime minister] Ariel Sharon, and today I say with my head held high: We erred, we made a very big mistake."To read the complete article, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Chaver, Kishke
Over in Iraq, more good news you will not read about in the mainstream media, but the great Michael Yon has an important dispatch about an important photograph.
Michael writes:
A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from “Chosen” Company 2-12 Infantry to the church, where I videotaped as Muslims and Christians worked and rejoiced at the reopening of St John’s, an occasion all viewed as a sign of hope.The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. "Thank you, thank you," the people were saying. One man said, "Thank you for peace." Another man, a Muslim, said "All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian, is brother." The men and women were holding bells, and for the first time in memory freedom rang over the ravaged land between two rivers.Karen and I are flying east to visit family. We'll try and blog while we're away, but postings might get a bit spotty. We wish all our friends a lovely and meaningful Shabbat.
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November 07, 2007
Hamas Goes Hollywood
Your first instinct may be to laugh, but this is no laughing matter. Besides the cost in human suffering, where Arab leaders once again spend millions on projects that do not improve the lives of their citizens, it is imperative to realize that Hamas is choosing to earmark huge amonts of money towards massive propaganda. This is the life-blood of the media war against Israel, Judaism and the West. The Big Lie, repeated over and over again, soon goes from being an outrage, to being common place, to another accepted truth in a world of moral relativism.
How long before Michael Moore or Danny Glover drops by to sign a co-production deal?
Though its people are struggling to make ends meet, Hamas officials are busy worrying about raising funds for the ambitious project to turn Gaza into a movie-making emporium. First in the production order is a film based on a novel penned by hardliner Mahmoud Zahar.It's a tale worthy of its own movie script: The Gaza Strip's isolated and cash-strapped Hamas rulers plan to build a $200 million media city and movie production house that will be part tourist attraction and part effort to cement control of the territory it seized by force in June.To read the complete story, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Lance Fogel
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November 02, 2007
Saudi Marriage Expert: How to Beat Your Wife
Let's see, America has Dr. Phil and Oprah, and the Arab world has "Dr." Muhammad Al-Arifi.
We have our culture and they have their culture.
Who are we to say that we are civilized and they are barbarians.
Anyway, sit back, relax, prepare for some unique relationship advice, and find out how to, um, beat your wife.
He's Saudi author and cleric, "Dr." Muhammad Al-'Arifi, who in a remarkable segment broadcast on Saudi and Kuwaiti television in September, counseled young Muslim men on how to treat their wives."Admonish them—once, twice, three times, four times, ten times," he advised. "If this doesn't help, refuse to share their beds."And if that doesn't work?"Beat them," one of his three young advisees responded."That's right," Al-'Arifi said.Click here to view the segment at MEMRITV.orgHe goes on to calmly explain to the young men that hitting their future wives in the face is a no-no."Beating in the face is forbidden, even when it comes to animals," he explained. "Even if you want your camel or donkey to start walking, you are not allowed to beat it in the face. If this is true for animals, it is all the more true when it comes to humans. So beatings should be light and not in the face."To read the complete article, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Jake "Fox" Novak
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Fatah Police Defect to Al Qaida
Ever since Israel expelled 9,000 Jews from Gaza two years ago, turning yet another patch of Middle Eastern soil Judenrein, the situation on the ground has become increasingly dire.
Israel expected she would get peace in return for land.
As if there's a long history of such behavior on the part of her Arab enemies.
Israel expected that she would garner good-will from the world for expelling her own citizens and creating a national trauma.
Instead, Israel is treated with more contempt than ever before.
And Gaza is now a forward base for every transnational Islamic terrorist gang in the neighborhood.
The IDF has a plan to cut off minimal amounts of electricity and fuel to Gaza, the entity that is bent on Israel's destruction. But the EU, lapdogs to the Saudis, protested vehemently because, as we all know, it is Israel's responsibility to supply power to the very people who have taken a sacred vow to annihilate the Jewish state.
Israel's judiciary might actually come through and allow the power cut-offs.
But this cut-off will not be enough. Not nearly enough.
So, as Gaza sinks into spasms of uncontrollable violence, Israel is backed into a corner where she will have no choice but to invade the Gaza salient and pay a heavy toll in the lives of her ground troops and of course, the lives of Arab civilians.
The very game plan the jihadists are wishing for.
Once again, the peaceniks, the humanitarians will be responsible for the vast bloodshed that is to come.
Scores of Fatah policemen who used to serve in the Palestinian Authority security forces in the Gaza Strip have now joined the al-Qaida-affiliated group calling itself the Army of Islam, sources in the Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry told The Jerusalem Post Thursday.Meanwhile, Fatah's armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, claimed responsibility for firing 20 rockets from the Gaza Strip recently. The group said the attacks signaled the beginning of a military campaign dubbed "Operation Gaza Autumn," in the course of which it would fire hundreds of rockets at Israeli communities. It said residents of Sderot had two choices: leave or die.To read the complete article, please click here.
And here's some news about PA policemen, newly deployed in Nablus that should send shivers up and down the spine of sane Israelis. I mean, what could possibly go wrong with these fine and upstanding young men? Their loyalties are, um, solid, right?
Meanwhile, in Gaza, the preparations for war against Israel continue deep underground:
The IDF has stepped up its efforts against the terror infrastructure in Gaza and, in a 36-hour operation that ended Thursday, discovered seven weapons-smuggling tunnels in the southern Strip along the Egyptian border.The kilometer-long tunnels were discovered near Dahiniye by an elite Engineering Corps unit and troops from the Golani infantry's Battalion 51. The tunnels were found within two kilometers of the border with Israel and, according to the IDF, had been used intensively in recent months to smuggle weapons and explosives from Egypt into Gaza.The troops destroyed the tunnels in controlled explosions. IDF sources said they had been large enough for people to pass through and were most probably used by terrorists to leave Gaza on their way to Iran or Syria for training.To read the complete article, please click here
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November 01, 2007
Al Qaeda Defeated
From Michael Yon, our most valuable journalistic resource in Iraq, important information that will not be reported by the mainstream media.
I have a question.
If there is good news from Iraq is that bad news for the Democrats?
And if the answer is yes, what does that say about the core ideology of the Dems?
“Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated,” according to Sheik Omar Jabouri, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the widespread and influential Jabouri Tribe. Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad, Sheik Omar said that al Qaeda had been “defeated mentally, and therefore is defeated physically,” referring to how clear it has become that the terrorist group’s tactics have backfired. Operatives who could once disappear back into the crowd after committing an increasingly atrocious attack no longer find safe haven among the Iraqis who live in the southern part of Baghdad. They are being hunted down and killed. Or, if they are lucky, captured by Americans.Colonel Ricky Gibbs, the American brigade commander with responsibility for the Rashid District in south Baghdad today told me, “So goes South Baghdad goes Baghdad.” General Petraeus had told me similar things about the importance of South Baghdad. In fact, Rashid is quickly developing into what might be one of the final serious battlegrounds of the war.For Michael's entire photo-essay, please click here.
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October 31, 2007
Mufti: No Jewish Prayers in Palestinian Jerusalem
This is shocking, just shocking. A senior Pali Mufti speaks honestly about the final Pali Arab strategy for the Har-Habayit, Temple Mount—if Jerusalem is divided.
Guess what the plan is?
1. Freedom of worship for Jews.
2. No Klingons permitted in Pali Jerusalem.
3. The Temple Mount will be Judenrein.
If you answered #1, you need to cut back on your meds—drastically.
If you answered #2, you really should move out of your parent's basement.
If you answered #3, mazal tov, you are an incredibly sophisticated analyst of Middle Eastern affairs.Of course, the arch left will dismiss Sabri's statements as irrelevant because he is no longer the official Mufti; the idea being, we imagine, that his opinions are grossly outside the normal boundaries of the dysfunctional Pali society; a culture that values death over life. Indeed, Pali society indoctrinates its youth into believing that the highest status one can achieve in life, is a blazing and bloody death, killing as many Jews as possible. Yes, such widespread values do qualify as a pathologically dysfunctional culture.
Anywhoo.
We have a sneaking suspicion that the current PA appointed Mufti and the oh-so-benevolent Pali Arabs will, I dunno, not be very tolerant of Jews and Judaism once they gain control of precious and holy Jerusalem real estate.
Hey, what can I tell you, it's just a dark and and lurking suspicion. Gosh, what's got into me? Where's my faith in human nature, in the religion of peace?
Maybe it's because I'm flashing on Arafat's solemn promise to respect and protect Joseph's tomb.
That worked out really well, didn't it?
If Jerusalem is divided, and it's eastern part made the capital of "Palestine"—world Jewry will be forever cut off from the hope it has held onto for 2000 years, and be once and for all prohibited from ascending the Temple Mount and even from praying at the Western Wall.This warning was clearly sounded in an interview the former PLO-appointed mufti of Jerusalem gave to The Jerusalem Post this week, excerpts of which were published Thursday.Ikrema Sabri emphatically told the Post that no Israelite temple had ever stood on the Temple Mount.What's more, the cleric insisted, the Western Wall - whose massive stones the entire world knows to have been laid by Herod the Great during the Roman occupation of the Land of Israel - had nothing to do with any temple either."The wall is not part of the Jewish temple. It is just the western wall of the mosque. There is not a single stone with any relation at all to the history of the Hebrews....To read the complete article, please click here.
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Thugs in Charge
It's an odd phenomenon. The mainstream media gleefully splash huge headlines whenever an Arab is killed by an Israeli.
But far more Arabs die at the hands of other Arabs.
It's not even close.
Sectarian murder between Fatah and Hamas is epidemic. Clan and tribal feuds in Gaza are reaching horrific levels.
Do we need to mention so-called honor killings which cannot even be properly counted for so many Arab women are slaughtered in the dead of night and secretly dumped in unmarked graves.
From Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group:
Since its victory in the January 2006 parliamentary elections, Hamas has violated the human rights of numerous populations throughout the Palestinian Territories. From April 2006 through June 2007, Hamas committed various international war crimes against Fatah members. Hamas engaged in the capture, torture, and murder of Fatah members and leaders throughout the Palestinian Territories. Members of the Hamas stormed the homes of Fatah members with guns and weapons, wounding and sometimes killing selected targets and civilians during the months following Hamas’ parliamentary victory.To read Ocean Guy's entire article, please click here.
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Fatah TV Promises Elimination of Israel
According to received wisdom Hamas are the radicals and the PA are moderates.
Seraphic Secret has been saying for several years that the only difference between Fatah and Hamas are tactics. The long range goal for both terrorist organizations is the destruction of Israel.
Hamas wish to eliminate Israel immediately through all forms of terrorism.
The PA are happy to utilize terrorism, using their proxies Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, The Tanzim, The Executive Force, and the always useful fig leaf of negotiations. This gives the PA time to chip away at Israel's resolve, strengthen the Israeli and western left (always useful allies for jihadists) and wring consessions through petro blackmail using unscrupulous oil rich Arab allies and their powerful western lobbies.
It's easy to see that the PA are playing the oldest shill game in the world. All you have to do is be willing to monitor their media. Pay close attention to the rhetoric they feed their own people, not the lies carefully packaged for the gullible west. You'll quickly realize that Mahmoud Abbas and his entire thugocracy are the same genocidal jihadists as Hamas and Hizbullah.
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 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.'"To read the rest of this article, please click here.
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October 30, 2007
Negotiations Fatah Style
This is an interesting negotiating tactic. The, ahem, moderate Holocaust denying President of the PA, Mahmoud Abbas, threatens violence if he doesn't get everything he wants.
Wow, that's a moderate starting point.
Seraphic Secret has maintained that peace talks with the Arabs are a dead issue. They have no interest in building a state, only destroying a state.
Some geo-political conflicts can only be solved on the battlefield.
The jihadists who have incited this war understand this just perfectly. It's time for the Jewish state and the Jewish people to realize the same awful truth before it's too late.
The Persian nuclear threat is only a hint of what's to come from the genocidal Muslim world.
At some point Israel will be forced to make war on the Palestinians and crush them in a terrible conflict that will, once and for all, show them that they are a defeated nation. Their only reasonable option will be an unconditional surrender and then reconstruction.
It worked with Germany and Japan.
The Arabs have given Israel no other option.
Abbas warned Tuesday that unless all the issues at the root of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are solved, violence will break out anew in two or three years.Israel Radio reported that Abbas also said that a planned US-sponsored Middle East parley in Annapolis, Maryland, has been scheduled for November 15, but that the date was not yet final.Israel Radio later quoted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as saying that he would make a "great effort" to ensure that the conference becomes a first step towards peace. Olmert said it was imperative to avoid making excuses and to venture forward in negotiations despite the risks involved.Meanwhile, the chief Palestinian peace negotiator, former PA prime minister Ahmed Qurei, said Tuesday there would be no talks with Israel unless a deadline was set for establishing a Palestinian state.To read the rest of the article, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Chaver, Kishke
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The Fate of Iranian Jews
Fascinating article about the Jews of Persia.
"I can tell you, based both on personal experience and on what I hear from friends, that there are places [in Iran] where Muslims have already divided among themselves the homes and property of their Jewish neighbors. They say that if there will be a war, the first thing they will do is slaughter the Jews."To read the entire article, please go to Soccer Dad.
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Google Maps go Dark on Israel
Last week we noted that jihadists in Gaza were using Goggle Maps to target Israel. Unlike some of our more, ahem, liberal commenters, we thought that this was an atrocity and unacceptable.
We also tipped our readers to the facts that Google execs were in secret talks with the IDF.
Well, we are glad to report that when the jihadists reference Israel, em excuse me, the Zionist entity, on their computers, they will come up blank.
We assume the ACLU will sue Google for, er, not providing Muslims with freedom of information to kill Jews.
Seraphic Secret would like to extend a note of appreciation to Google for not just living up to their corporate motto of "do no evil," but for actively fighting evil—a far more worthy goal.
Hat Tip: Our National Treasure, Soccer Dad
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October 29, 2007
Kanefsky: Rabbi to Fatah
Normally we would ignore an article printed in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal. The circulation of this weekly paper barely reaches 16,000. This blog reaches far more readers in only two days.
There's also its editorial slant that is somewhat left of Trostsky. A recent editorial advocated that Jewish women marry non-Jewish men because y'know, things are tough out there in the singles world.
As a Christian friend remarked me: “With Jewish journalists like that who needs Hamas.”
Indeed.
This leads us to Yosef Kanefsky. This past week The Los Angeles Jewish Journal got to splash a headline that proclaimed an Orthodox Rabbi Advocates Dividing Jerusalem.
Oh joy for the the not-so-Jewish Journal.
We heard sales, er, give-aways of the Journal spiked—in Gaza.
As we said, we'd like nothing better than to ignore Kanefsky, an arch leftie crank in Pico Robertson area, who leads a Romper Room congregation, but naturally the story was gleefully snapped up by the Los Angeles Times, a paper that would like nothing better than to see Israel disappear from the map. And of course, all the usual leftist Conservative, and Reform suspects jumped in to greet their lone Orthodox colleague to the Official Neville Chamberlain Appeasement Club. One of these characters labels Kanefsky a—get this—visionary.
Actually, now that we think about it, this is quite appropriate
Kanefsky sees things that do not exist.
And so, now that the Los Angeles Times has given Kanefsky's minority opinion legs, we are forced to weigh in on the matter and give this narcissist the last thing he should be afforded: attention.
You see that's one of the core problems of the left; when they publicly advocate for their extreme leftist positions they become invaluable collaborators to Israel's and Judaism's enemies. They become propaganda tools of Hamas and Fatah, proud advocates of genocide.
They become enablers to genuine Jew-killers.
If not by deed, then through the language of collaboration.
That's why Lenin pegged western liberals as "useful idiots."
Kanefsky, insufferably smug and self-righteous, a gift to the jihadists, is not, as he no doubt sees himself, a courageous voice, but a gullible man, so self-absorbed that he doesn't realize that his name is now at the head of the list being drawn up by Fatah and Hamas as the Jew most likely to head up the Judenrat.
Seraphic Friend Omri Ceren of Mere Rhetoric does a nice job of analyzing Kanefsky's Quisling-like proposal:
The Los Angeles Jewish Journal has decided to print an article by Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky advocating handing over Jerusalem to the Palestinians. Other people will probably handle the rank impracticality and immorality of this proposal: "Don't worry about the historical Arab desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Jerusalem or how the Wakf's ongoing destruction of Jewish artifacts on the Temple Mount is openly linked to denying Jews access to Jerusalem by unblinkingly stating that Jews never had a temple in Jerusalem — the Palestinians won't cheat on their obligations because United Nations peace keepers will protect Israeli interests!" Super.What we're concerned with is the blistering stupidity of this Kanefsky's understanding of Middle East negotiations, and what it says about how he's bought into an anti-Semitic myth that becomes an anti-Israel talking point that becomes the basis for peace talks that end with hundreds of murdered Israelis. The article itself is a confused hodgepodge of largely unrelated leftist whines about how the Israelis have been mean (Jerusalem, settlers, human rights, etc), until it reaches this elegant crescendo of naivety:To read the entire article, please click here.
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October 25, 2007
Gaza Blackout at Long Last
Israel is about to cut some electricity and fuel deliveries to Gaza. It's about time. Seraphic Secret has been calling for this simple measure—for years.
It is, literally, insane that Israel is providing electricity and fuel to an entity that is sworn to her destruction.
To those who accuse Israel of imposing collective punishment on Gaza.
No kidding.
That's war.
That's the price Gazans pay for electing the genocidal Hamas terrorists into positions of leadership. That's the price Gazans pay for allowing, encouraging and celebrating homicide bombers and the launching of daily missiles into Israel.
In fact, Gaza is lucky that her enemy is Israel. Any other country faced with such unrelenting violence and hateful propaganda would have, long ago, reduced to Gaza to ashes and rubble.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak's approval earlier Thursday of an IDF plan to impose sanctions on the Gaza Strip in wake of the escalation in Kassam rocket attacks was the first step, defense officials told The Jerusalem Post, towards a "complete disengagement" including the gradual reduction in Palestinian dependency on Israel for gas and electricity.During his weekly security meeting on Thursday Barak approved the plan that had been formulated by Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilna'i and Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj.-Gen. Yosef Mishlav in line with the recent cabinet decision that defined Gaza as a "hostile entity."According to the plan, one of the power lines connecting Israel and Gaza will be shut down at first for 15 minutes after a rocket attack, gradually increasing the cutoff length if the barrages continue, up to a two-hour limit. In addition, Israel will begin reducing the amount of gasoline it allows into the Gaza Strip.To read t
