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ATLAS IN ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

Indomitable Israel indeed! Go here now! Atlas OpEd in Israel National News. (what a Mothers Day gift!)

Serious props!

I am honored and humbled by an email  the esteemed Professor Barry Rubin  sent out to colleagues subject line, Thanks to Pamela Geller, Indomitable Herself".

Apparently he liked our oped (yeah baby)...... The fight for Israel is the fight for the individual, the free man. As goes Israel, so goes the rest of the civilized world (just look at Lebanon now).

      INDOMITABLE ISRAEL AT 60,  
A huge amount has been written on Israel’s 60th birthday. But one of the best and most moving articles is the one by Pamela Geller and Eliza Saxon, “Indomitable Israel at 60,” published here. One important element is that it accurately expresses not only the achievements but also the confidence and positive feelings of Israelis on this terrific occasion. I have read many articles in the mainstream media—the most respected newspapers—which have nothing to do with the country where I live. I fantasize sitting down a cross section panel of Israelis to read these pieces and watch the look of amazement on their faces as they then start either laughing or cursing at the nonsense being written.             In contrast, consider one paragraph of the Geller-Saxon piece which—if nothing else was written at all on the subject—would stand as the best description:

“Israel in 2008 looks little like the tiny agricultural nation that declared its independence 60 years ago. Modern Israel is a high tech superpower, leading the world in of medicine, biotech, computer science, environment, culture and art.  After two thousand years of exile, fresh from the ovens of Europe, with virtually nothing, they came to rebuild their lives as free Jews in their homeland.” While there are tremendous dangers, we should remember that the greatest victories have been on the basis of material successes:

In Israel's sixty years, the Jews thrived. Free to pursue their dreams, the Jews  flourished and their enemies seethed,  Jews prospered while their enemies plotted their annihilation. The end of the Third Reich was merely a hudna, a cessation of hostilities until the annihilationists could regroup, rearm, redeploy. But Israel succeeded and Islamic jihad failed in all but one thing. The enemies of the people of Israel succeeded in infecting the world politic with their vile Jew hatred. Worse still, "enlightened",  guilty,  secular Jews sidled up to the enemy and worked their evil inside Israel, the US and other Western nations.”

We should never for one moment forget that all that has been built and done by Israel—and things done by Jews elsewhere in the world—was achieved immediately following the era in which 85 percent of Jews in Europe were murdered and 90 percent of those in the Arabic-speaking Middle East fled or were expelled. And, it is very sad to say, often the battle was waged despite the opposition and even slanders from too many nominal Jews who, for a variety of reasons, have acted as enemies through conscious decision, ideology, ignorance, or foolishness.

Pamela has been tireless in her support of Israel and has broken many new stories as well. Let’s thank her for her good work at a time when we can all be happy about what is achieved while never forgetting—as she doesn’t—all those trying to sabotage not only our accomplishments but our very survival. Oh, and one other point. Let’s remember never to lose our basic confidence, which is richly realistic. Or in the article’s words:

“In the Hagaddah we read 'In every generation they rise up against us to destroy us, but the Holy One, Blessed is He, saves us from their hand.' We survived Pharaoh, Haman, the Inquisition, the pogroms, the Shoah and the continued attempt by our Arab enemies to annihilate us. So I say to our enemies, we shall be proudly standing, long after you have disappeared, footnotes of history....” Exactly right Barry Rubin

Professor Rubin is  the Director, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center

Editor, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal

Editor, Turkish Studies. His latest book is essential reading, The Truth about Syria.

 

LIVE ATLAS RADIO: THE WORLD AT WAR

6:30 Tonight! The World at War listen to my special Special Mothers Day broadcast with Beryl Wajsman on Canada News Talk Radio 940  live here. 

Click "LISTEN LIVE"  on left sidebar. Call in and cross examine on Beryl and I  514 790 0006. 6:30 PM Eastern - we will be kickin' ass and takin' names :)

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ISLAMISTS OVERRUN LONDON STREETS

What the hell are the police doing and the British labour government doing ?  It's embarrassing. Hat tip to Kaspar who tells me the guy on the mic is Abu Izzadeen who was recently convicted on separate terrorism charges. His conviction had nothing to do with this video which was taken before his arrest.

MEDIA SUPPORTS ISLAMISTS WEBSITES: Whose Payroll is this Dhimmi Reporter on?

While our man cyber crusader, Bill (Or is that Bull) Warner, is  kickin' ass and taking names in the enormousn task of  taking down jihad spreading websites, the terror loving mainstream media is taking issue with Warner, not the killers spreading their poison of global jihad.  Internet jihad is so bad, and spreading so fast and furious MEMRI has devoted an entire division to it here:

The Islamist Websites Monitor Project monitors the on-going phenomenon of jihadist sites on the Internet, which are used by terrorist organizations and their supporters to spread their Jihadist message as well as for ideological recruitment, fundraising, training, and for keeping up morale. These sites are the primary factor in the growth of homegrown terrorism in Europe and the U.S.

Well intended useful idiots? I think not. I wonder if these same "free speech" advocates published the Danish cartoons and railed against the litigation jihad taking place against world class journalists exposing Their suicidal asshattery defies believability and yet they are snactimonius. GO BILL!

OPEN LETTER TO "DOTSTER CO, THE COLUMBIAN NEWSPAPER AND REPORTER COURTNEY SHERWOOD

Open letter to "Dotster Co., The Columbian Newspaper and reporter Courtney Sherwood, Vancouver WA "

The Columbian Newspapers accuses me, Bill Warner, of trying to become an Internet Censor due to my insistence that the al-Qaeda linked terrorist website of the Al-shabab at www.kataaib.net be removed from the internet via the Vancouver Web Hosting co, "Dotster", this was not done.

Today the al-Shabab via their website www.kataaib.net are calling for their followers to target (kill) all white people in Somalia, see Sunday Times report. 

In 2005 the al-Shabab killed a female reporter for the BBC News.

Al-Shabab, now an autonomous rebel group which has added an explosive element to the combustible mix of Mogadishu’s militias, enforces strict sharia (Islamic law) and uses tactics imported from the global jihadi movement. As in Afghanistan, those who work or trade with the government risk being branded as spies or collaborators and beheaded as a warning to others. Members of Al-Shabab deliver “night letters” to businessmen and others they wish to intimidate. 

Meanwehile this media tool whores for the jihad:

"In our view: Internet censor Wednesday, May 07, 2008 "

Article from the Columbian Newspaper......A Florida man’s heart might be in the right place, but he is misguided in his bid to get a Vancouver Internet service company to drop a Somali-language Web site. Bill Warner, a Sarasota private investigator (www.wbipi.com), wants Dotster Inc. of Vancouver to refuse service to www.kataaib.net. 

Warner, who has launched similar purge efforts in other cities with other Internet companies, says kataaib.net supports an al-Qaida organization (Al-Shabab) in Somalia, where war and genocide are tragic facts of daily life. Certainly a Web page that is intended to inspire terrorism should be probed and be a candidate for closure.

But the FBI or other experts should make that decision, with a judge if that’s required by law. It’s not Warner’s call".

Read it all.
 

 

ROTFLMAO funny

yeah, that funny.

hat tip lovely Larwyn via Doug though Denny had it first.

The leftards are unabsahedly turning on Hillary.

MA!

Lillian Geller 1934-2006

Happy Mother's day, my sweet dears. When I went south for Passover, my youngest sister had this painting of my mother hung (along with the one of my papa) in a back hallway. I had not seen this since I bolted the home I grew up in where it hung above the fireplace in the den. We are talking decades. And of course seeing her again blew me away. I don't know where my sister had been keeping it all these years ........... and while I had a somewhat, uneven and at times contentious relationship with my mother I can say, without hesitation, there was no one like her. Ever.

Top of the blog Ma!, She would love that.

I miss you, Ma. Sorry for being such a pain the ass.
 

Show mom some love - kiss her once for me :)

UPDATE: Stogie cleaned up the pic for me and removed the glass reflection. Happiness.

Scotland: 1st Muslim Police Association to fight "islamophobia"

If this doesn't put the fear of Gd in you, you're dead already. The healthy fear of islamic jihad is not the problem.

First Muslim Police Association created in Scotland  Mathaba News Agency hat tip wolf

Strathclyde Police Friday welcomed the creation of Scotland's first Muslim Police Association, which is aimed to tackle the rise of Islamophobia.

"The formation of the Muslim Police Association is a positive step," said the chief constable of Scotland's biggest police force, Steve House.

"These are officers who are positive about seeing the police force as a career and want to use their association to reach out to Muslims," House said.

The formation follows the creation of a Muslim Police Association in England, which has been reported to quite successful, not only within the Muslim community, but also with tackling institutional Islamophobia within their own police forces.

The formation of the association in Scotland comes despite their only being around 31 Muslim officers in Strathclyde's 7,000 strong force, which is based around Glasgow, and some 30,000 Muslims living in the region that make up a mere 1.5 percent of the population.

31 out of 7,000. Hmmmmmmm

Police constable Amar Shakoor, Scotland's first Muslim officer, said there had been recent negativity directed towards the Muslim community, which is being treated with suspicion and increased scrutiny.

The association wanted "to highlight some of the positive things Islam can provide to the communities and not just the police services," Shakoor was quoted saying by the BBC.

Saturday Night Blockbuster Charade

UPDATE: Moving the flick below the fold as its on autoplay. Click link at bottom of post to view Atlas.

This is best Hitchcock film he never made. Certainly the sexiest, and one of the smartest. And Audrey. And the soundtrack. That theme song! My mother loved the music from this movie, she would torture me "Pamela, find me that record. You know music. Get me that record!" I was like, "ma, chill".

And I searched. I could never find it. This was before digital music and itunes and ipods. I would look through the bins of used record stores to no avail. I was always trolling those stores for their import treasures anyway. Then one day while I was cold calling, pounding the pavement as a new ad salesperson, for the New York Daily News I came up on some street seller on the Upper East Side with a ton of knick knacks paddy whacks in bins and VOILA! There it was.

Ma, this one's for you.

Charade with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant ..... and the inimitable Walter Matthau.  In my youth, I watched it over and over and over. It is so smart, sexy, scary ............ all of it. I freakin adore this movie.

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Obama's Diarrhea of the Mouth

Check out Obama's statement on Lebanon. How Presidential ...............NOT! It's the jihad! This man is not fit to be dog catcher.

Here is Obama's statement: links hat tip lovely L