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ATLAS, AMERICAN THINKER..... MEDIA AVERSION

Gotta love this, Atlas-eans! Yours truly over at the venerable American Thinker and Lucianne!

UPDATE: National Review too ........

August 14, 2008                         

Obama's Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes

By Pamela Geller

I have been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands of Obama's campaign donations for the past month. Egregious abuse was immediately evident and I published the results of my ongoing investigation. Each subsequent post built a more damning case against Obama's illegal contribution activity.

The media took little notice of what I was substantiating. I went so far as to upload the documents so that anyone could do their own research.  I asked readers to download the documents and a number of folks pitched in.

Despite dropping the groundbreaking bombshell  story of "Palestinian" brothers from the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza who donated $33,000 to Obama's campaign, no big media picked up the story. Jihadis donating to Obama from Gaza? Could there be a bigger story?  Foreign donations are illegal, but this story was all  that and so much more. The "Palestinian" brothers were proud and vocal of their "love" for Obama. Their vocal support on behalf of "Palestinians"  spoke volumes to Obama's campaign.

And yet still no media.

But Obama pricked up his ears. He smelled trouble and while no media asked, he answered anyway. Sen. Obama's campaign immediately scrambled and contended they had returned the  $33,500 in illegal contributions from Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza, despite the fact that records do not show that it was returned and the brothers said they have not received any money. Having gone through all of Obama's refunds redesignations etc, no refund was made to Osama, Hossam, or Edwan Monir in the Rafah refugee camp. And still no media. 

One of the Gazan brothers, Monir Edwan (identified here),  claimed he bought "Obama for President" T-shirts off Obama's website  and then sold the T-shirts in Gaza for a profit. All purchases on the Barack Obama website are considered contributions.

The Palestinians allegedly claimed "they were American citizens", so said Obama's people. They listed their address -- zip code 972 (ironically the area code for Israel) and they input "GA"the state abbreviation for Georgia (screen shot here) They actually lived in a Hamas controlled refugee camp.  So if Obama's people thought it was "Georgia" why did they ship the tee shirts to the correct address in Gaza?  Shipping overseas to a Gaza refugee camp is vastly different than the state next door.

Still no media. 

"Some young men even bought the T-shirts for 60 shekel ($17.29), which is a lot to spend in Gaza on a T-shirt, but that is how much Gazans like Obama," Edwan claimed in a follow up article in the conservative websiet WorldNetDaily.  And Hamas has publicly endorsed Obama.

And still no media.

Obama's campaign said the  Palestinian brothers in the Middle East made $33,000 in illegal donations to the campaign via the internet.

The donations came in between Sept. 20 and Dec. 6 and virtually all of the money, about $33,500, was returned by December 6. But the refunds weren't reported to the Federal Election Commission due to a technical error, campaign officials said.

If McCain had been involved with something so dark and nefarious, taking money from Islamic jihad, his candidacy would never withstand the media blowback.

But it was the son of hope, the agent of change, the one we have been waiting for , so the media yawned.

The jihad donations were hardly the only bloody red flags.  The first in my series of posts ran July 19th. The documents were so unwieldy, readers like John, Doc, and Cathy (who discovered Rafah) were working furiously to cross check our findings at the FEC site and then mine the data.

Obama's overseas (foreign) contributors are making multiple small donations, ostensibly in their own names, over a period of a few days, some under maximum donation allowances, but others are aggregating in excess of the maximums when all added up.   The countries and major cities from which contributions have been received France, Virgin Islands, Planegg, Vienna, Hague, Madrid, London, AE, IR, Geneva,Tokyo, Bangkok, Turin, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Roma, Zurich, Netherlands, Moscow, Ireland, Milan, Singapore, Bejing, Switzerland, Toronto, Vancouver, La Creche, Pak Chong, Dublin, Panama, Krabi, Berlin, Geneva, Buenos Aires, Prague, Nagoya, Budapest, Barcelona, Sweden, Taipei, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Zurich, Ragusa, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Uganda, Mumbia, Nagoya, Tunis, Zacatecas, St, Croix, Mississauga, Laval, Nadi, Behchoko, Ragusa, DUBIA, Lima, Copenhagen, Quaama, Jeddah, Kabul, Cairo, Nassau(not the county on Long Island,lol), Luxembourg (Auchi's stomping grounds), etc,etc,etc,

Half a million dollars had been donated from overseas  by unidentified people  "not employed".

Digging deeper, all sorts of very bizarre activity jumped at us. Dr and JJ continued to break it down and pull data from various sources. We found  Rebecca Kurth contributed $3,137.38 to the Obama Campaign in 112 donations, including 34 separate donations recorded in one day, 

How about this gibberish donor on the 30th of April in 2008.

A donor named  Hbkjb, jkbkj

City: Jkbjnj Works for:  Kuman Bank (doesn't exist)

Occupation:  Balanon Jalalan Amount:  $1,077.23

or the donor Doodad, The # of transactions = 1,044

The $ contributed = $10,780.00

This Doodad character works for FDGFDGF and occupation is DFGFDG

The more questions we answered the more questions we discovered.

Thousands of  Obama's foreign donations ended in cents. The  "cents" did not make sense. And we compared McCain donation documentss  to Obama's. McCain's records are nothing like Obama's. McCain's are so clean. No cents, all even dollar amounts.  But Obama's contained thousands of strange, odd amounts -- evidence of foreign contributors, since Americans living overseas would almost uniformly be able to contribute dollars. Still no media.

Julia Gorin told me a funny story two months ago. Her husband's co-worker wanted to see what would happen if he tried giving a contribution to the Obama campaign via a credit card. He used his Macy's card. The system accepted it. He tried the same with McCain's campaign, and the transaction wouldn't go through.  Now, obviously, down the line, the Obama transaction would fail as well, but it goes to the point that there is no safety system in place -- it'll just accept any and all money, which helps explain how his campaign raised so much more money than everyone else's.

Despite the evidence of dirty campaign donations, crickets chirped in newsrooms across the country. The moment my Gaza story started to get some chatter on talk radio, the left and their supplicant handmaidens in the media sprang into action and created a McCain illegal campaign contribution "scandal".   The Washington Post published an inaccurate allegation  and then retracted not a day later, at the risk of looking stupid. They are jeopardizing the little credibility that they have left.

....a Washington Post story detailing some suspicious looking contributions to the McCain campaign bundled by Harry Sargeant III. Shortly after posting, a correction appeared in the original report, as follows:

An earlier version of this story about campaign donations that Florida businessman Harry Sargeant III raised for Sen. John McCain, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton incorrectly identified three individuals as being among the donors Sargeant solicited on behalf of McCain. Those donors -- Rite Aid manager Ibrahim Marabeh, and lounge owners Nadia and Shawn Abdalla -- wrote checks to Giuliani and Clinton, not McCain. Also, the first name of Faisal Abdullah, a McCain donor, was misspelled in some versions of the story (noted by Amanda Carpenter).

So here an intrepid blogger finds a keg of dynamite of dirty dollar donations to Obama and what does the media do? They ignore it. And when forced to confront it by the sheer newsworthiness of the story, what happens? They go after McCain. They punish McCain.

And that is meant to be a lesson to all of us,  Whatever you find, whatever you discover about the Candidate of Mystery, they will blow it back in your face. And they did. Almost immediately.

The irony and the upshot of all this. John McCain is reviewing contributions. Ain't that a kick in the head. I can tell him he needn't bother. Been there, done that. Nothing to see, keep moving.

Obama's out there raising millions, some in illegal donations and the Washington Post jumps on McCain for a  $50k, which hasn't been shown to be illegal, but merely "inappropriate." The left and their handmaidens, the mani stream media, were so quick to deflect this hit, it seems we have hit a raw nerve. I intend to keep digging. Stay tuned.,

Pamela Geller is Editor and Publisher of the blog Atlas Shrugs.

UPDATE: Told you so: Monitors say McCain did not violate finance laws Guardian hat tip Van

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain won a round against Democrats on Thursday when the Federal Election Commission rejected their contention that he violated campaign finance laws during the GOP primary.

The FEC's draft opinion affirms McCain's right to bypass the public financing system and the strict spending limits that come with it. That was a rejection of the Democratic National Committee's complaint asserting that McCain's campaign had wrongly received loans based on his participation in public financing before later withdrawing from that system. CONTD...

Cross Action News

Excellent new site, Cross Action News and they are running my oped on Iran here.

ATLAS IN ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS: FEEDING THE CROCODILE

Eliza Saxon and I have penned this oped piece, FEEDING THE CROCODILE in today's Israel National News. Go Now!

Happy Fathers Day

                                                            Ruby Geller   

I was closer to my Dad than anyone. There was no one like him. He came up the hard way and made a success of his life the hard way. Poor and fatherless, he took responsibility for his younger brothers and basically assumed the position of head of household while still in junior high school. He worked at every kind of job and business. I heard he even had a dairy truck for awhile.

When I knew him he worked 16 hour days. A workaholic, he always wanted what was best for my three sisters and I. He worked mightily and always figured it out, whatever obstacles were thrown his way. And there were some mighty challenges thrown at him.

The man was rarely home. Always working. In my early teens, I went to work with him weekends and split session and I saw him in action. His pace unrelenting, he did everything - despite the size of the business - from ordering a dozen gross zippers, to pattern cutting, to designing jacquards, sewing samples ......... I am talking everything.  So it was a michaya to tiptoe around the house Sunday mornings in the winter time, so papa could sleep until all hours. Not spring and summer though. Uh uh -- then he would be out by six am to play his 18 holes and spend the afternoon playing gin, nursing a Johnnie Walker on the rocks. And always with a cigarette dangling our of his mouth. Salem after Salem. It's why I love the smell of cigarettes, still.

I loved him. He did everything. I never saw a repairman in  my house -- ever. He fixed everything. Boiler, burner, electric, plumbing, refrigeration - all of it. And he called me to ride shotgun. Always. I would hand him the tools, listen to him cuss like I sailor and he'd Rube Goldberg whatever he was tackling. And it worked.

He built a factory in the toughest part of Brooklyn, East New York, and employed well over 100 folks in that neighborhood. They adored him, respected him. They'd invite him to their homes, their family get togethers. They trusted him and went to him with their problems. And he help solve them. I speak Spanish fluently because I worked with him, for him and I wanted to be able to communicate with everyone the way that he did.

And just like in the house, he fixed everything in that shop from knitting machines to candy machines, elevators to carburetors. He learned.  He had the first computer, an IBM mainframe and what a pain in the ass that was. He didn't care. He thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.  We were going IBM and that was it. I had to learn to do the billing on that damn thing and it was always breaking down and losing data and wouldn't it all be easier, dad, if we could just do it by hand?  "No!" He  spent hours fixing that baby too.

I could always call him whatever fix I was in. A particularly vivid memory was when I was driving on a flooded Belt Parkway  some ways before the Linden Blvd exit and there was a huge "puddle" under a span and I thought, "oh, I could do this" though no other vehicle had attempted  it,  but I was 17 and knew better. Needless to say the water started coming in through my windows and I literally had to get out of the car through the drivers side window (I didn't realize the road dipped there).  Soaked, I made my way up the embankment and started knocking on doors to use a phone to call my Dad. No one would open their door of course but finally a little old lady let me use her phone (the good old pre-cell phone days, eh?).  Anyway, I will never forget, not 15 minutes later, seeing something far off in the distance coming towards me. It was my father's white, convertible Eldorado driving backwards (almost speeding) down the Belt Parkway to come and rescue his reckless daughter (he couldn't access my location the normal way because of the flooding). There was no one else on the Parkway west of the flood so he took the ........initiative.  And while it's not an important story it is one of thousands.

He liked me best. And I was not a favored child in that household but he liked me best. He wasn't around a lot but when he was he always took my part. He stood up for me - an unpopular position to take in that raucous house. Right or wrong - he backed me (and would take me aside later and admonish me if he thought I got it wrong). He got me - and I was not an easy kid.

I learned everything I know from him. He was benevolent and  philanthropic. He was unambiguous and his life lessons still resonate with me everyday. He walks with me everyday. He's on the blog. He didn't suffer fools or full of shitniks   (that's his term that I use and love), and he was unafraid. And ......... so am I.

It was special to be "Ruby's Geller's daughter".

There was no one like him. He was a tough guy. And I loved him.
I miss him like hell.

UPDATE: More wonderful fathers -- Debbie Schlussel writes a touching tribute here and Sammy has a great story here.

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.

 

ATLAS OPED:INDOMITABLE ISRAEL AT 60

INDOMITABLE ISRAEL AT 60

by Pamela Geller and Eliza Saxon

“…and whether we like it or not, the coming into being of a Jewish State in Palestine is an event in world history to be viewed in the perspective, not of a generation or a century, but in the perspective of a thousand, two thousand or even three thousand years…This is an event in world history…” Sir Winston Churchill* (Martin Gilbert, Churchill and the Jews)

Israel in 2008 looks little like the tiny agricultural nation that declared its independence 60 years ago. Modern Israel is   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.

This week Israel celebrates her 60th Birthday and despite our enemies who wish to destroy her, as well as our very own self-hating Jewicidal tools, we as Jews are magnificent. We have much to  be proud of and to celebrate. In fact, let me dare to say, that the nations of the world should thank G-d for us. What we’ve given to the world over the past 60 years  in the  fields of science, medicine, technology, the arts, and academia is immeasurable, miraculous even. Sir Winston Churchill a great friend of the Jews and Zionism said, “Some people like Jews and some do not, but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.’ (Martin Gilbert, Churchill and the Jews)

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.

It galls me that the majority of the Jews I fight for are self destructive, suicidal even. Here in America (and the world over), Israel's real friends are on the right and yet over 80% of American Jews are Democrats. I don't get it.  The conventional wisdom on the left is  that Israel is an oppressor and her actions are worse than the world's most depraved and dangerous  regimes. Chomsky, Finkelstein, Soros .......... these men are killers.

Further, these woefully clueless Jews give aid and  comfort to the enemy.

There are two disturbing pieces in the past week on why Israel shouldn’t exist. One a venomous piece of anti-Semitic invective from Johann Hari in last Monday’s London Independent under the title Israel is suppressing a secret it must face. He writes, “I would love to be able to crash the birthday party with words of reassurance. Israel has given us great novelists like Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua, great film-makers like Joseph Cedar, great scientific research into Alzheimer's, and great dissident journalists like Amira Hass, Tom Segev and Gideon Levy to expose her own crimes. She has provided the one lonely spot in the Middle East where gay people are not hounded and hanged, and where women can approach equality .But I can't do it. Whenever I try to mouth these words, a remembered smell fills my nostrils. It is the smell of shit. Across the occupied West Bank, raw untreated sewage is pumped every day out of the Jewish settlements, along large metal pipes, straight onto Palestinian land. From there, it can enter the groundwater and the reservoirs, and become a poison”. This is nothing less than a modern blood libel, instead of Jews murdering gentile children to make matzah, we are poisoning the wells of the poor, terrorist Palestinians. It’s 2008, but it might as well be an article in the notorious German anti-Semitic newspaper Der Strumer in 1938! Well, Mr.Hari we shan’t require your attendance, thank you very much. In fact, since you’re so distressed and upset by our existence, here’s a suggestion for you, stop using your mobile phone, your computer, many medications, and a long list of other daily inventions from the hard labour and works of the Jews of the filthy State of Israel…

The other deeply disturbing article was written by Karin Laub for AP under the title, Palestinian plight is flip side of Israel's independence joy. Her piece is one continued sob story over the plight of the Palestinians and their life in refugee camps, once again it’s the big bad nasty Jews with their security wall, nightly raids against terrorists and oil blockade of the Gaza Strip. She writes, “As Israel celebrates its achievements - robust economy, democracy and army - Palestinians look back on a history of failures. "We were the losers over the years ... and we will keep losing," said Luay Shabaneh, head of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

The refugees and their descendants number 4.5 million today, or nearly half the world's 9.3 million Palestinians. Few refugees can realistically expect to go home again, because Israelis fear being swamped by a mass repatriation.” There is no history of who started all the wars, why the Palestinians fled and their continued war against the Jewish democratic state since it’s inception and the continued, daily barrage of deadly rocket fire from the terrorist’s of Hamas in Gaza, (which Israel pulled out of in 2005 to her great detriment) upon the people of Sderot. This is a one sided piece of Arab propaganda, without an Israeli counterpoint or narrative. This isn’t journalism, it’s propaganda devoid of pros and cons or even the essential queries of basic journalism 101.

The fallacious term "Palestinian" was concocted by Yaser Arafat and while slow to take, it caught fire when the media worm turned ................ and there's been no going back. Israel bashing is Jew bashing,  the world's oldest profession Period. Anti-zionism, anti-Israel is antisemitism - a modern mask to an age old hate. Don't believe the Jew hater that tells you, I have no problem with Jews, it's Israel's policies that are abhorrent. David Mamet writes in The Wicked Son, 'The outright denunciation of Israel as "acquisitionist" bloodshirsty, colonial, et cetera" is to me simply a modern instance of the blood libel---that Jews delight in the blood of others.'  If anything, Israel has been too docile and too accommodating, to an enemy that vows to destroy her.

Dr. Martin Luther King did not suffer liars that declared that they don’t hate the Jews, just Zionism, Dr. King brilliantly dismantles such rhetoric.

". . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely 'anti-Zionist.' And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--this is God's own truth.

"Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and ever will be so." From M.L. King Jr., "Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend," Saturday Review_XLVII (Aug. 1967), p. 76. Reprinted in M.L. King Jr., "This I Believe: Selections from the Writings of Dr. Martin Luther King J

So I say to Israel, stand loud and proud. Give up nothing. Turn over not a pebble. For every rocket fired, drop a MOAB. Take back Gaza. Secure Judea and Samaria. Stop buying Haaretz. Throw leftists bums out. Stand straight and walk on. Be worthy of your ancestors.

"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." (Winston Churchill)

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...

Happy Birthday Big daddy

Confessions of a "White Supremacist Advocate"

The most hysterical post of the day, seriously. Bless you Bostom :-*

Atlas OpEd: New Media Journal

Frontpage New Media Journal: BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE uh huh.

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS!

They picked up my story here! Snoopy dance of glee!

UPDATE: And The Conservative Grapevine is digging Atlas this week too

First Published Piece 2008

I love when my stuff gets publishedn elsewhere. Don't you? Here is Atlas  in Israel E News. Check out this site because its new and very good. Recently launched it is a non profit news weblog about Israel, which includes daily news, features, opinions, and each article has a talkback where readers can comment. Also included is a forum.

Check out their  list of authors,  I am in extraordinary company.

New Media Journal: Publishing Atlas

Did you see my piece in The New Media Journal? I LOVE THAT! Burning down the house.

Heh

RSM over at The Washington Times:

Atlas Shrugs adds "Schmuckerbie" to the dictionary. -- RSM

 

Atlas Update

In my OpEd piece "We are not Worthy" which ran in Israel National News and was excerpted in The Washington Times, one of the examples I cited  of disrespect to the Jews at Annapolis was the separate use of entrances for the Jews and the Arabs. Apparently this is not so. Glick explains in her latest column ;

It was these twin reports that informed my own decision to begin my Nov. 30 column "Apartheid not peace" with the story of the separation of Israeli representatives from Arab representatives at Annapolis. Happily, after my column was published, both the State Department and Israeli officials denied that the US had enforced the Arab demand for segregated entrances.

I too am happy to find this was reported erroneously by the AFP. But the point of my oped piece stands. But I would remove that example.

 

ATLAS CHRISTMAS KISS TO THE TROOPS!

A big wet Christmas kiss to the troops.

G-d bless everyone of you. Cheesecake, beefcake, yellowcake (!) ...now there's blogcake. Mmmmmmmm good!

hat tip Strategy page

Call to Arms Against Slander of the Troops Bruce, Demoracy Project

Toy drop: A pallet containing toys, holiday decorations and other donated items floats toward an island of the Western Pacific and Micronesia area, bringing holiday cheer Dec. 14 during Operation Christmas Drop. While Santa Claus must find a rooftop to land his reindeer on, America's Airmen and their four-propeller C-130 Hercules deliver the holiday items from the air and move on to their next target. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brian Kimball) All photos cStrategy Page  )

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