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ATLAS INTERVIEW: LARS HEDEGAARD, PRESIDENT FREE PRESS SOCIETY, DENMARK 'WEEKLY GUN BATTLES IN COPENHAGEN" "AMERICA IS IN FOR IT"

I spent some time with Lars Hedegaard, President of the Free Press Society and Executive Editor, The Free Press Society and quintessential Dane.

The Fragility of Freedom: The Danish Example
First of all I was struck by how fragile the entire democratic edifice appears to be and how little it would take to demolish it. As has actually happened several times over the course of the first 150 years of our democratizing process that lasted from approximately 1770 until 1915.

Hedegaard's Free Press Society was the first to step up and offer to publish the Random House banned book, The Jewel of Medina. The book's agent went a different way, and I hear the new publisher is soiling his pants.

Watch the interview. I was flabbergasted by his reports of the bi-weekly gun battles between Muslims and Hells Angels in Copenhagen. Grenades, serious weapons .......... the whole thing. And no media coverage.

Hedegaard says the population changes in Europe are irreversible, that nation states will be an empty shell ....

If you think of Europe's future, "Europe is forever changed".

Pamela: "How does this relate to America?

The Bravest Man in Europe

I spent some insanely quality time with Geert Wilders, Parliament member of his own party, the Party of Freedom and film producer FITNA. If you missed it - deprive yourself no more. Whole post and more vid here.

   

 

UPDATE: The wonderful  KGS at Tundra Tabloids is transcribing this for us:

   

 

TRANSCRIPT: GLICK/GELLER INTERVIEW

Raw transcript (I will correct when i get back to NY)....much love and thanks to Liam and KGS You da best! You must get her latest book Shackled Warrior, Israel and the Global Jihad -buy it here

UPDATE:  Here's the MP3 file folks were clammering for. hat tip eretz

Pamela Geller: Hey it’s Pamela we’re at Atlas on the Air. Special show today, with the brilliant bombshell, Caroline Glick, who has a new book out that if you haven’t gotten it you’re not allowed to listen to the show because this is what you have to be reading: “The Shackled Warrior”. It’s a compendium of her columns but it’s put together almost like a puzzle. Because whose analyses is more brilliant, more succinct, more prescient that Glick’s? I think she’s on the line let’s go direct to Caroline.

CG: Hi Pamela

Geller: Hi, gorgeous how you doing?

CG: Great to be on your show.

Jihadilicious

Spencer highly recommends the wine :)

Sitting with "the Pope" .....Bat Yeor

The Global Politician is running my Bat Yeor interview - all of it here. How cool is that? Here's video of the first half hour. hat tip wolf

Diana West Grills Buchanan

MUST SEE TV. Diana West, my favorite columnist, interviews my least favorite antisemite, Pat Buchanan on CSPAN tonight on Book TV here.

After Words: Patrick Buchanan author of "Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart " interviewed by Diana West

Upcoming Schedule

	Saturday, December 15, at 9:00 PM
	Sunday, December 16, at 6:00 PM
	Sunday, December 16, at 9:00 PM
	Monday, December 17, at 12:00 AM
	Monday, December 17, at 3:00 A

About the Program

In "Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart," Patrick Buchanan says that America is facing a crisis from which it may not survive.  He argues that the effects of mass immigration, ineffective foreign policy, an overextended military, and the worship of "free trade" are leading the country on a path of destruction.  Mr. Buchanan offers recommendations on these and other issues that he says would rescue America from itself.  Patrick Buchanan discusses his book with Diana West, syndicated columnist for the Washington Times and author of "The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization."

 

Dr. Aryeh Eldad, Israel's Next Prime Minister on Atlas Radio, 3 PM

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I am honored to have Dr. Aryeh Eldad, MK Knesset and Israel's best hope  in his candidacy for Prime Minister of Israel on the Hatikvah ticket as my guest on Atlas on the Air today at 3pm. Listen live here. We will be talking about Annapolis, and the future of Jerusalem, and his candidacy.

TEMPLE MOUNT DESTRUCTION Dr. Eldad Calls out Muslim Israeli Minister ...

Atlas Shrugs: ELDAD FOR PRIME MINISTER

Atlas Shrugs: The Answer -Better later than Never

Israpundit » Aryeh Eldad to start new Party in Israel

MK Eldad Drafts Law for Toppling ‘Gov’t of Disgrace’

Watch Dr. Eldad where he joined me and esteemed members of the counter jihad movement to fight the islamisation of Europe and the world.

UPDATE: Here's the Podcast.

True Patriot: Ambassador Bolton

Once again those newsmakers over at One Jerusalem.org hosted a wonderful bloggers roundtable.  I was honored to have been asked to join them in the interview with with the singular master statesman, Ambassador John Bolton.

One Jerusalem is proud to have hosted an exclusive bloggers conference call with Ambassador John Bolton.

Ambassador Bolton is the author of the recently published memoir Surrender Is Not An Option.

It's a great historical tome. One for the ages. Buy it. Jerry Gordan has a great post on the interview here.

Ambassador John Bolton, Condi’s “Legacy project is delusional”  ACT Blog

Bolton considers himself to be a “partisan member of the GOP”. A number of us consider him an American who has enormous moral courage to speak out on critical issues concerning its enemies-both internal and external.

Amen baby.

While notably “broken heartened’ about leaving the Bush Administration, he felt compelled to do so to be free to criticize the UN, our State department and Intelligence Community on important national security issues. These include WMD in Iraq, Iran’s and North Korea’s nuclear development programs. He had very strong criticisms of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s current Middle East initiatives and the careerist environment at both the State Department and the CIA.

Regarding the looming Annapolis Middle East conference, Bolton calls it one of Condi’s “delusional legacy projects”. Her other “projects” include Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs. He contended that the Intelligence community “refused to believe evidence” that Syria was building a nuclear reactor with North Korean assistance. He further stated that Condi Rice and State were in denial about it, because they desperately wanted to conclude a “nuclear free” deal with Pyongyang.

Bolton contends that the Annapolis conference is misguided and will put the U.S. in a “far worse position” and could very well result in a “decline in American influence”.

He suggested that instead, Rice and State should have concentrated more efforts on resolving the Lebanese/Syrian impasse and regime change in Iran. Asked what the problems were within the Bush Administration he pointed to the “huge cultural problems” at both State and the CIA. He suggested that they suffered from “clientitis” and “moral equivalency.” When the careworn word “unacceptable” in Bush pronouncements on the runaway Iran nuclear weapons development program was raised, Bolton suggested that the Administration will “leave things undone”. The Administration, according to him, didn’t pursue pro-active Iranian regime change and strong economic sanctions. The exception being Treasury efforts to put a corral around Iran’s international financial dealings. That left only the military option on the table. However, Bolton pointed out that State is saying “don’t do it”. So that leaves a disastrous heritage for whoever succeeds Bush.

When I pressed John Bolton about what the US should do with the proposed $1 billion World Bank loan to Iran,

......he suggested that the U.S. use it’s ‘veto power’ and tighten the financial noose around Iran-a terror sponsoring state. Bolton thought that taking North Korea “off the official terrorist list”, given the latter’s evident co-operation with Syria and Iran on WMD development, was mistaken. He views this as “an insult’ to our Japanese allies, given North Korea’s kidnapping of Japanese nationals and long range missile testing. When questioned further on the Annapolis Arab - Israeli peace conference, Bolton said that there was “no real Palestinian interlocutor.” That neither Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, currently under indictment, nor PA President Abbas can lead. On the spurious argument bubbling up in the world press that the Annapolis forum was intended to build Sunni opposition to Iran, Bolton noted that “there was no substance at the core of the Annapolis agenda”. In effect, the conference had “a hollow center”. He noted that there was no difference between Sunni versus Shia extremism - they both supported terrorism. He said that talk of concessions was” wrong at both ends”.

When queried about whether there was any change in European attitudes towards the US given the recent Sarkozy rapprochement, Bolton told the classic tale about former French President Chirac, “that anything America proposed - he opposed”. Sarkozy, according to Bolton, is “not the same”, nor is German Chancellor Merkel. He noted, however, “they failed to gain stronger sanctions” against Iran for its relentless drive towards nuclear weapons development.

Click here to listen to the conference call. In it Bolton shares his views of current foreign policy matters and he discusses why the upcoming Annapolis meeting is bad for the United States and Israel.

The bloggers on the call included Jerry Gordon from Israpundit, Omri from Mere Rhetoric, Rick Richman from Jewish Current Issues, Avi Green from Tel-chai Nation, Tigerhawk, Pamela from Atlas Shrugs, Anne from Boker Tov Boulder, Don at Liberally Conservative, Carl at Israel Matzav, and Daled Amos.

Blogger Roundtable:DoD Asst Secretary McHale

On the heels of claims that "half the equipment" the military needed to fight the fires in California is tied up in Iraq - and the rest of the assorted assertions that Iraq/Bush/DoD is to blame - it is nice to see that the Pentagon made available Mr. Paul McHale,  Asst Secretary of Defense McHale. to directly address precisely what the DoD has been doing to assist firefighters in the effort.

Once again the leftists Democrats take a tragedy and attempt to exploit for their own ends. They even hate the fact that those in charge want to keep us informed. Moral illness I tell ya.

McHale: No one has criticized the DoD on the speed in which we deployed our aircraft.

Blogger: The aircraft and copters were deployed far quicker than anyone expected...

McHale: The delay occurred when spotters were not available. There is a requirement that a spotter be on a helicopter before it can be deployed to fight fires. The civilian orgs are responsible for providing the spotters. As soon as the spotters were available they took off.

Wasn't a lack of coordination - simply weren't spotters.

The military response in Calif were not inhibited to any degree by our activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of this morning, appr oximately 2,500 National Guardsman were deployed in fire fighting mission 350 civilian

There were 17,000 available National Guardsman who could have and could have been activated if needed.

No degradation of firefighting response. WE had considerable capability

Atlas: Arson has been cited as the behind the fires are we any closer to knowing who set them?

McHale: We are fighting the fire not the investigation. Not the DoD.

Steve (ThreatsWatch): Military reserve readiness: expanding the civilian

McHale: To better integrate federal, state, civilian planning response to catastrophic events
I think there should be a task force for emergency response on every state. The model should be based on TFER (task force on emergency response)

Guardsmen that have been trained as planners - integrated planning at the state level ..

Feds plans, state's plans, local plans integrated - at the heart  of this integration are the civilian employees  that are currently being trained by National Guardsman on the weekends. During the week, civilians take off their uniforms and  are employees of the DHS.

Citizen soldiers ---> first responders.

Closing remarks:

Awe inspiring is to see the civilian first responders, National Guardsman .....  no one is doing what they are doing for a paycheck. Seeing these  self less  acts ... this sense of purpose is  inspiring.

 

The most interesting portion was dealing with emergency response to catastrophic events. Listen to the whole interview here.

Download mchale.mp3

Listen to Diana West Podcast:War Question

"Peace in Iraq has to be built on a Shiite-Sunni consensus, not a constant balancing act by us," Thomas Friedman writes. This begs the question: Should we stand on one foot until Iraq finds equilibrium? Surge architect Frederick Kagan apparently thinks so. The United States, he writes, should continue to serve as "the bridge between Sunni and Shia" in Iraq. Why? "If we remove this bridge now, it is unlikely that the Iraqis will be able to continue on a path to real reconciliation." Maybe the U.S. needs to get out of the real reconciliation business, and fast. There's a world of trouble outside Iraq. At the very least, it's debatable whether building bridges between Sunnis and Shi'ites inside Iraq should remain American Priority No. 1. So let's debate it.

Must read Diana West column today in the Washington Times: War Question:

Yesterday's radio was incredible. Diana West, author of The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization 
was my guest.

Reader and blogger extraordinaire Jeremayakovka wrote;

Interview really took off here:
(Mins. 35-36):
MSM can't handle warrior-heroes.
Shock that firefighter, police heroism existed.

(37) Sheehan mother of Iraq war
Only POW heroism seen, acknowledged

(40) Agenda, Herd, Fear of standing out
Abu Ghraib: aside, Rory Kennedy (yes, a Kennedy, an RFK daughter), dir. of "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" called for a 9/11 Commission-style investigation
that's how much the Left dares to demand

(46-47) inverted morality of leaving men in the field with no clear goal, no clear rules of engagements
you start to wonder Are we up to it? And should we do this?
(48) a pretend kind of war ... something synthetic about it ... the serious topics of What is our purpose in Iraq? We have this tunnel vision on Iraq.

(50) crusade - [nice to hear. Anita Bryant didn't shy away from using it in 1977 too] crusade literally means bearing a cross -- *that* cross -- into battle
Money quote: "These things are part of who we are. And when you can't be who you are you are going to be overtaken by someone stronger."
If they know who they are, they clearly are going to win.

(54) The party that gets it wrong, and the party that doesn't get it.

(1:00) need for "reconciliation" , la-la delusional accord in the sky reminds of "peace process"
Also: it smacks of one-worldism re post-apartheid South Africa, "truth andreconciliation"

The West show is a must listen. She is brilliant. The podcast is here.

Blogger Interview with Tony Snow: Iraq

Joining me this afternoon to discuss the facts on the ground in Iraq was was Paul Mirengoff at Powerline, Lorrie Byrd over at Wizbang , NZ Bear Truth Laid Bear Ben from The Hill, Fausta,  National Review, Tom Bevan over at  Real Clear Politics, Rob over at Red State, Brian Weekly Standard for all.
Clearly the biggest problem the White House faces is communicating to the American people the advances and headway we are making in Iraq despite a mainstream media aligned with the terrorist force. But Snow made it clear we were in it to win and that was a mighty great thing to hear.

Listen to the audio here (run time 40 minutes): Download tonysnow712.mp3

The White House  received the interim report looking at the state of affairs in Iraq."The whole purpose of the surge on the military side is to create enough stability and security so that there will be maneuvering room for the Iraqi government to be able to deal with sectarian tensions and regional tensions so that they can get about the business of doing political reconciliation and accommodation and passing a whole series of laws that not only going to build confidence but capability in the Iraqi government. But the military piece comes first....... Once you've done that you have the prospect of doing political success.

"Today's report indicates that the has been significant progress on the military front.
Military piece comes from first, you have got to go after the source of violence and military instability................. In this particular surge Political progress is not the leading indicator it is the  lagging indicator............. today's report indicates that the has been significant progress on the military front..3 brigades into Baghdad. Significant  decreases in violence............ Fairly remarkable turnaround in Anbar." Tribal chiefs had to make a choice  - alqaeda or the allied forces.     And so al qaeda has suffered significant damage.
"The purpose of benchmarks is not to find some political reason  for leaving Iraq it is trying to come up with a framework for seceding in Iraq." Today the good news is on the security front there is significant progress, on the political front it's a mixed bag."

On the economic side, the  Iraqis are stepping up..........

Ward asks, why is the motivation for Republicans that are  defecting. Is it a framework for re-election. Tony was not going to try to interpret the motives of members of Congress.

Snow: "What is necessary in the next few months is a surge of facts ." (Yeah that's me in the background going yay!) A surge of true events on what is going on in Iraq today.

Snow: We will present good news and bad news but all that's been presented is bad news , it's a miracle that anybody supports the war based on the characterizations have been painted."
There's some real evil going on there. Americans need  to get a sense of the kind of evil going on there. Humiliating Arabs and Muslims ...........slaughtering men women and children." Michael Yon's work bears hat out.

The concern is getting the word out to the American people so I asked why they didn't have bloggers at the White House press conferences and help to build this alternative highway to new media. In short, Snow said, because there are exactly 49 seats in the White House press room and the people that have those seats paid  two million dollars for them.  NEXT!

Tony Snow was emphatic that bloggers were very important in this fight. I followed up the question asking why the war was positioned as a separate issue when in fact it was very much a piece of the war on the global jihad.

He said, we need to plant a seed of freedom, it can have a profound effect. If we leave, al qaeda moves right in and has access to Iraq's wealth. It immediately becomes a destabilizing factor in the region. Surrounding nations will recalibrate their security plans ......  probably minimizing Americans role and maximizing dealing with al qaeda and iran. That is not good. Then it starts to emanate outward to Afghanistan, Pakistan ..........India. The thought that you walk away and the world suddenly becomes peaceful is wrong.

Snow said the only image Americans have of the war are caskets or people getting shot on the street.
Iraqis are taking 3 to 4 amount of casualties are we are.
Wizbang discussed politicians hedging and
Tom RCP - political poll on the party.

I did ask  if the Navy pulling back in Persian Gulf emboldened Iran and decreased the pressure on them to stop interfering (and killing our soldiers.). He stated emphatically now, that "there were other means to pressuring Iran" but he was not at liberty to say.

I also asked him why Al Sadr was still alive (which met with knowing laughter) and Snow said we do not engage in assassinations. (If  Al Sadr doesn't deserve a bullt, then who in my humble estimatiion.)

There's a lot to listen to, download it.

Fausta has a good recap here. Here's the Initial Benchmark Assessment Report on the surge, and the transcript of the President's press conference this morning.

Others in the call:
Lori Byrd of Wizbang, Red State, Rob Bluey, Military.com , ThreatsWatch, The Hill Congress Blog
The Weekly Standard's blog.

UPDATE: House Republicans remained united on the Iraq vote today – with MORE Democrats voting against than Republicans voting FOR. 

Even Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) admitted that the Democrats’ bill was a political charade, telling reporters yesterday that Democrats had to bring the bill to the floor to pacify antiwar groups:  “If we don't do anything, these groups will feel like we haven't done anything.

Several key facts:

• The bill passed by a vote of 223-201.
• More Democrats voted AGAINST the bill than Republicans voted FOR it.
• 10 Democrats voted against the measure; just 4 Republicans voted for it.

5 of the Democrats who voted against the bill are from Chairman Skelton’s own committee – the House Armed Services Committee (Reps. Boren, Ellsworth, Marshall, and two subcommittee chairs, Reps. Snyder & Taylor)

ATLAS INTERVIEW: Bat Yeor Interview

My Bat Yeor transcript is up here. I cannot thank Pim's Ghost enough for doing  yeoman's work in transcribing the interview. I am forever in her debt. Video, audio and transcript.

The Atlas Interview: Bat Yeor

JULY 6TH***UPDATED TRANSCRIPT*** MORE TO FOLLOW***

I spent the most extraordinary afternoon with Bat Yeor. I am overwhelmed. Much love and thanks to Andrew Bostom for suggesting it.

Diminutive. powerful, clear - I hold Yeor most dear. Her bravery is daunting. The difficulty she faced from "our" side is difficult to grasp. Listen to this brief conversation about the opposition sher faced and the boycotts. Download batyeor_chat.mp3 (Any transcribers out there?))

The Baron transcribed Bat Yeor's speech in Toronto here,

I am loading, compressing the video now. The bad news? I lost half the video file (don't ask - I am not tech girl!) I am crestfallen but I do have 40 minutes of video.
The good news? I have all the audio (just call me back up girl.) I will convert the hour into an MP3 file.   So not one word was lost. All  of the intel is here. Listen to every critical word.

I have a lot to say on this subject - stay tuned. Meanwhile don't miss the  speech she gave in Toronto yesterday. BUY HER BOOKS.

Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis
The Dhimmi: Jews & Christians Under Islam
Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide      

On dhimmitude, the Palestinization of Europe,  Sarkozy, Bush, Olmert, Nazis, Moderate Muslims, the weakening of Bush  and the failures of the people of Israel .........all of it

Download the interview on my radio show here.

Terrorism must be seen as the ultimate attack on the human being, on human rights and freedom, as a modern expression of physical and intellectual enslavement.

If anyone wants to help transcribe Yeor's interview with me, please email AtlasShrugs2000 at aol.com.

"The Western media is aligned with the terrorist force"

"The BBC is an enemy of peace"

"The media is responsible for our defeat if there is still a defeat it too early to say...."

"we are in a new age....we are new an age of Global jihad"

POSTED JULY 1, 2007 5:03 pm. UPDATED Transcript JULY 6th

UPDATE: Magnus transcribes the video! Pims Ghost does the really heavy lifting on the audio.
CLICK BELOW FOR FULL TRANCRIPT.

Lunch with Itamar MarcusPalestinian Media Watch

LIVEBLOGGING: The Middle East Forum put together a small lunch with Itamar Marcus, counter terrorism analyst and the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, which studies Palestinian society from a broad range of perspectives by monitoring and analyzing the Palestinian Authority through its media and schoolbooks. The PMW exposes the death culture in Palestinian "society."

Photographer: Ted Belman, Israpundit

What separates Marcus from other Middle Eastern Arabic translating organizations (ie MEMRI) is  Palestinian society is all they do. What is going on in Palestinian society and only Palestinian society. They were the first to report that Yasser Arafat was saying one thing to English speaking audiences and a completely different thing to the Arab world.

It began in a quest to learn what the Palestinians were saying to their people and more specifically, their children. The Palestinian media is PMW's window to the Palestinian society because it is state controlled so you can determine what the objective is by the propaganda being

Its many reports and studies on summer camps, poetry, schoolbooks, crossword puzzles, religious ideology, women and mothers, children's video clips, and inciting children to 'Shahada" -Martyrdom', have brought the world's attention to many aspects of Palestinian society hidden from the non-Arabic speaking world.d conferences world wide.

In the case of a crossword puzzle, a clue would be  "sea port in Palestine" --  Haifa. The implication that all of Israel is occupied.

Schools reflect a religious battle, an Islamic battle - a battle that will go  on forever

The subject of Marcus's talk was

FROM THE PLO TO HAMAS: IS PALESTINIAN SOCIETY BECOMING ISLAMIST?

In reading the HAMAS CHARTER - it is an Islamic covenant. The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is a Palestine (waft) land. Hamas in its own words.

They see blowing Jews up, killing the Jews as a service to humanity.

The differences between Hamas and Fatah could not be more clear.

The Hamas charter has 105 references to  Allah, Fatah none

The Hamas charter has 33 references to the Koran, Fatah none

The Hamas charter has 7 references to Koran , Fatah none

The Hamas charter has 33 quotews from the Koran , Fatah none.

Check out the Palestinian schoolbook. Check out the Palestinian narrative.

Marcus is now showing  video of Abbas saying one to the Palestinian people (we do not and will not recognize Israel) and saying the complete opposite to the English media the same day - with Condi Rice in the region.

Marcus  is showing Palestinian video of their version on official  Palestinian televison that the Jews "created the ovens of the Holocaust." That the Jews "baked the humans. The Jews had blood on his hands."

This package of "killing the Jews" is the same package that Hitler put forth in Mein Kamp.

Hitler packaged it as self defense. Creating a situation that it is self defense to kill Jews.

This exact message of Hitler was put forth today in the  Hamas newspaper "The extermination is good for the benefit of all mankind. Don't blame us - it's our Lord."

Like the Nazis said "we were just taking orders." Hamas too is saying don't blame us, "we are following the Lord's orders."

Suicide terror is  not an act of desperation it is an aspiration.

They still use the blood libel of Al Dura to seduce their children. They have a music video of the small boy running, laughing, going on ferris wheels (there are no ferris wheels in Pali territories) and he is shouting happily, waving to the children calling to them, "I am waving at you not to say goodbye but to follow me."

The Palestinian media run music videos for years , every day glorifying death, and glowingly depicting 72 virgins in white, dancing and prancing in the water waiting for the shaheed.

We, in America, tend to separate Hams and Fatah but they overlap. They are a global Islamic force. They are calling for death to America, death to Israel on both Hamas and Fatah Israel, more here. Marcus said the biggest the west makes is separating Hamas and Fatah. Their goals are the same and they work together. The Islamic brotherhood.

There is a new program on they have starting showing  :mickey Mouse type character to pass on these messages of hate. They use poetry readings to chant death, "Oh Jerusalem we are coming.. "This is a new program - FOX News will be showing portions of it on Sunday, May 6th.

Gotta run to liveblog a UN conference, do me a favor and send PMW a donation now.

UPDATE: From today's PMW:

Hamas: “The extermination of the Jews is good for the inhabitants of the worlds.”
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - May 3, 2007

The extermination of Jews is Allah’s will and is for the benefit of all humanity, according to an article in the Hamas paper, Al-Risalah. The author of the article, Kan'an Ubayd, explains that the suicide operations carried out by Hamas are being committed solely to fulfill Allah’s wishes. Furthermore, Allah demanded this action, because “the extermination of the Jews is good for the inhabitants of the worlds.”

The killing of innocent Jews by terrorist attacks is portrayed as Allah’s plan for the benefit of humanity.

It should be noted that Hamas’s justification for the extermination of Jews, both as God's will and for the benefit of humanity, echoes Hitler's words in Mein Kampf:

“In this case the only salvation remaining was war… If the Jew with the help of his Marxist creed is victorious over the peoples of this world, then his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity… Thus I believe today that I am acting according to the will of the almighty Creator: when I defend myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.” (Mein Kampf)

In another parallel to the Nazi genocide of Jews, the writer says he wants to be sure that “everyone will know” that these murderous actions are “not of [Hamas’s] own accord” – an echo of the Nazi war criminals’ repeated justification of their actions with the defense that they were only following orders.

The fact that these orders are said to be divine in nature makes Hamas’s justification for the murder of Jews even more ominous.

Following is the excerpt from the Hamas article:

"We find more than once condemnation and denunciation to the resistance operations and bombings [suicide attacks], carried out by Hamas and the Palestinian resistance branches. There is no other choice but to use restraint regarding the condemnation, the attaching of the label of terror [to "resistance"], and the assembling of conferences [for] condemnation [of the attacks]. [This] so that everyone will know, that we did this only because our lord commanded so, “I did it not of my own accord” [*] and so that people will know that the extermination of Jews is good for the inhabitants of the worlds on a land, to which Allah gave his blessing for the sake of the inhabitants of the worlds.”
[Al-Risalah, April 23, 2007]

[*] Translation of Quranic verse taken from USC Compendium of Muslim Texts.

Interview:Israeli MK Dr. Aryeh Eldad

The Israeli opposition speaks and no soon or loud enough.

I participated in an insightful and frank discussion with Israeli MK Dr. Eldad

Click here to listen.

"Israel needs effective and competent government leaders to address the matter of Arab Muslim citizens who actively subvert the Jewish State and join terror groups fighting both the State of Israel and our ally, the U.S. in Iraq. To have enemies within is cause for grave concern and the ineffectiveness of Israel's governmental leadership to confront this menace places Israel in double jeopardy." -- M.K., Dr.  Arieh Eldad   

Leading Israeli Opposition leader, M.K. Prof. Arieh Eldad of the National Union Party, states "that Israeli Arabs citizens who are fundamentalist Muslims are increasingly disloyal.  They constitute a menace that could destroy the State given current multicultural treatment of privileged Muslim minorities." said Eldad.

Dr. Eldad is a reserve Brigadier General and was Surgeon General of the IDF Medical Corps. He is an internationally recognized burn wound specialist and plastic surgeon.  Dr. Eldad headed the IDF Medical contingent in Rwanda in the wake of the genocide and cholera epidemic in 1994. 

Dr. Eldad will focused on:
-the current round of Kadimah government U.S. -Saudi peace plan discussions;
-his views on annexation of Judea and Samaria and comnsideration of Jordan as the 'real Palestinian state;
-the threat of radical Islam to Israel and the West;
-prospects for any imminent change in government in Israel.

As a physician Dr. Eldad said "the diagnosis is wrong" and so "the wrong medication prescribed." The two state solution is not the answer. The war is against western civilization.
"We can not intervene in the internal war of Islam. Eventually the moderate Sunnis will turn to al qaeda."

Jery Gordon aked what is your opinion of shuttle diplomacy Riyadh, Jerusalem, and Gaza?

"Just another experiment  in the huge dimension of human life......Once again we are trying to empower Abbas"

"All for dismantling Israel"......."right of return. Even if we wanted to go with Abu Mazen, it's the same old story.  We try to appease by giving land for peace, but once they are engaged in any kind of agreement .......eventually --- we will be helping them to build a terror state in Judea in Samaria."

"Olmert 's approval rating is lower than 3%.  His plan lost  ground. The fact that he was elected on convergence........ He abandoned it after the war"

"The tragedy of Israseli history trying to find an Arab moderate --since the 1920s."

"Abbas is not a moderate at all. He preaches for the right of return. Even when we try ...........history is dictated by the radicals, by Hamas."

I asked Dr Eldad what he and  the people of Israel thought  of John Bolton recent remarks that the U.S. blocked an Israel truce and that the United States resisted calls for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon last summer.

Eldad said he had no problem with the international commmunity at the time.

"The problem was with Israel leaderhip. Their failure in the war was another terrible example of their incompetence and corruption. "

The indispensible OneJerusalem.Org put this call together here;

In a wide-ranging discussion with bloggers, Dr. Arieh Eldad a member of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) and reserve Brigadier General discusses the serious challenges facing the State of Israel in the near term.

He shares his views on the so-called “moderate” Muslims, including Abu Mazen. He dissects the Saudi “peace plan” and he answers the question of what went wrong in the battle with Hezbollah.

Dr. Eldad expresses his heartfelt belief that Israel must reject the two-state solution that every diplomat seems wedded to and the dire need to educate its young in the principals of Zionism.

Even though he is a member, Dr. Eldad is very clear about the shortcomings of the leadership of the Right wing camp in Israel.

This interview/discussion offers many insights into the political, security, and international challenges facing the State of Israel. It is worth spending some time with an articulate defender of the Jewish state.

Ted Belman and Jerry Gordon of Israpundit were among the bloggers on the call.

What did I come away with. That a two state solution is suicide for Israel and  America.

UPDATE: Kenneth Timmerman speaks with Dr. Eldad in his latest piece over at Front Page mag, The Last War;

Arieh Eldad, a leader of the opposition National Union Party in Israel’s Knesset, or Parliament, told me this week while on a trip to the United States that he is convinced there is “no way to avoid the next war” in Lebanon.

He sees the massive rearmament of Hezbollah by Iran, with Syrian assistance, as clear evidence of Iran’s strategy to launch another war against Israel. “Hezbollah is becoming stronger every day,” he said.

Eldad believes Israel must “neutralize Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria as a preliminary step, or we will not be able to engage Iran.”

By “engaging” Iran he does not mean economic or diplomatic “engagement,” as the State Department might use the term. He is talking about having Israel’s military take out Iranian nuclear and missile sites.

Now that’s engagement.

Dr. Eldad is a plastic surgeon who headed the burns unit at Hadassah hospital for twenty years. He has personally treated Palestinian suicide bombers, only to see them come back after their treatment with bombs strapped to their chests to blow themselves up in the very hospital that saved their lives.

The foes that oppose Israel and America do not reason as we do, he says. “When states have missions that are bigger than life, they are not obeying the basic rules of logic that Western civilization obeys.”

He believes the Islamic Republic of Iran, as a state,  is following the same logic as a suicide bomber. “If the goal is to kill the Big Satan [America] or the Small Satan [Israel], then your own life is not to be considered under their logic,” he told me. “The Iranian regime is willing to sacrifice millions and millions of their own people to defeat the  Big Satan and the Small Satan.”

Because of this, we need to understand that Tehran regime will not comply with sanctions, and does not care about sanctions. “It’s just not the same logic,” he said.

Dr. Eldad’s fear is that Israel will be “left alone” and have to confront a nuclear Iran. And if that day arrives, he warns, “the world should know that we will be ready to destroy the nuclear infrastructure of Iran at whatever the cost it takes.”

“That means we will be ready to use unconventional weapons, because conventional weapons will not be enough,” he added.

 

Tom Delay Talks to Blogs

On my little rant vlog last night I discussed the left's tactic of destroying and eliminating every effective Republican. Clearly a critical victory for the hate America crowd was eliminating Delay from the House Republican leadership. I can not,  for the life of me, understand why the Republicans passed a law that said if any of the members of the House Republican leadership are ever indicted, they are to resign immediately. The Democrats would never agree to or  enact such a rule. Think about it. All the Democrats have to do is  get you indicted (in Delay's case with some hack Democrat prosecutor) and you must resign. Talk about giving the enemy the weapon in which to kill you.

I am reading Delay's new book No Retreat, No Surrender. Considering the stakes, I wish there had been more politics and less personal stuff but I gotta tell you I really like this guy. Always have. I backed him during the worst of the smear merchants' campaign here and here  (and still more here)  and the leftards went berserk on me .  They can stand behind a crooked thief that hides 90g in his freezer, but I am impugned because I back up an honorable, decent guy. That's America!

One Jerusalem.Org put together a blogger interview an.d it was riveting

Delay: We are at a critical crossroads in the 2008 Presidential election.....It frightens me to think of it everyday.

When I heard Delay say that, I said he totally  gets it. You must listen to this download of Delay. It is compelling. Download delay322-0001.mp3  

I am going to have Delay on my radio show Atlas on the Air - date to be determined.  But it sickens me that this man was removed from the fight.

Certain things he said stuck in my head;

He criticizes Israel for not cleaning out "that rats nest called Hezb'Allah."

Amen.

It's critical ......The opposition is more powerful than I have ever witnessed in my lifetime -- in my career. They have put together then most powerful political coalition, more powerful, that I have ever seen --- well financed well coordinated . For the first time in my career coordinated with the media whether directly or indirectly.

Read that again

And this coalition is available to Hilary Clinton because it was basically put together by the Clintonistas........It's an awesome machine we have to defeat.

You gotta listen to Delay.

If we don't come together and come together note, I hope it's already not to late, Hillary Clinton is going to be the next President of the United States.

The whole thing is riveting. I expect his appearance on my radio show to be explosive. He ias organizing a number of real grass roots organizations

We desperately need a national communication strategy that is comprehensive can stand toe to toe to the opposition media. My participation in that is I started a new blog Tom Delay.com ..... We need more movies with our world view, we need documentaries with our world view, we need to bring the radio talk show hosts together, we need to be on the cutting ege of the blogosphere. There is so much we need to be doing that we are not doing.

I asked Delay how Evan Coyne Maloney gets publicity for his movie Indoctrinate U, click here.. He said he had just met with "this billionaire that started doing movies (Narnia and the Ray Charles story)  Philip Anschutz and we'd have to put them together.." Evan are you listening?

[...] The conservatives need to unite.

More to come. But check out www.ccmajority.org and learn more about Delay's new effort to put together a Coalition for a Conservative Majority. Sign up.

The current fight over the firing of those 8 US Attorneys is very important. If the president looks weak he will have the worst two years of his life. We have a scandal that is not real. And, today the media is taking Schumer's lead. Reid made several accusations and has absolutely no proof. The president looked weak when he let Rumsfeld go. If Bush doesn't stand up to the democrats... Its over

This is the most emboldened democratic onslaught I have seen. It is different than the onslaught during Clinton years. Democrats "Win Without War" is a good example. Here you have abortionists and unionists and others working hard together against the war. They all are working together. The best we have is a Grover Norquist luncheon. When the Clintonistas left the White House, they started organizing. The democrats are organized. We Republicans have nothing like that.

I called him out on Norquist and said Norquist was the enemy.

UPDATE: Jim at Gateway has a great post on the interview here

UPDATE:TEL CHAI NATION:  Participated in bloggers conference with Tom...

Others on the call Anne Lieberman (Boker Tov, Boulder),  and Daled Amos (Daled Amos). One Jerusalem.org covers it here.

 

So my VALENSTEYN

Listen to MARK STEYN AND I GO AT IT! Click to play.

What a delicious guy. Great news, Great show. Great guy. Honestly, I could have chatted on that man until 4:30am only to break for a coffee and a post. The bad news? Tech difficulties.  As the flurries of emails started to alert me - the show went down 34 minutes in  just as Mark was getting juicy on Joe Wilson. Loyal Atlasites got creative and called into the show and hear the rest via phone. I love ingenuity!  Fingers are crossed that the podcast caught it all - it has not been uploaded yet. UGH. But at the last minute I grabbed my trusty microcassette recorder and captured the closing few minutes of Steyn discussing  who he likes for president.  The last whispered expletive is mine (sorry about that, didn't realize I was on and I was pissed.)

Lets hope the Alan, the master builder of internet radio captured the whole broadcast  for podcast or heads are gonna roll (whoops, there it is.)

UPDATE: The podcast caught the whole show. Whew! Click on the black arrow on the left.

My past shows can be heard here.

UPDATE: Blog Talk Radio says it was my fault. Apparently I didn't schedule the time. YIKES!

Whatever. The podcast has it all. The birth of the future is never smooth.

Talking Iran with Netanyahu

I had the extraordinary opportunity to talk with Benjamin Netanyahu this afternoon. Thanks yet again, to Alan over at One Jerusalem.org.

He spoke immediately of Iran's race to nuclear weapons race.

Netanyahu: "Iran could be the first non-deterable nuclear power. Fueled and motivated by a hate filled ideology, a satanic apocalyptic cult that is willing to sacrifice millions of its own people for the bad, twisted vision of a reconstituted Islamic empire under Iranian rule."

For this purpose they want to get nuclear weapons that will help them complete what they are already doing which is seeking to topple Lebanon and turn it into a shite republic. They've already taken control of the Palestinian regime with their Hamas proxies. They are seeking to throw out the United States out of Iraq and make it part of the Shite crescent.

But if they get nuclear weapons they would get control of the oil supplies and the Arabian Peninsula and topple many other regimes and then be armed in such a way that they could foster terror on an unimaginable scale.

But equally what they seek to do as they openly say is to destroy my country  while denying one holocaust  as they are preparing another....If they start with Israel they'll only start with Israel. Because Just like the [unintelligible] apocalyptic creed, it's starts with Jew hatred then it spreads like wildfire to the rest of humanity. Stopping Iran is in the interest of civilization.

UN has passed mild sanctions - not sharp enough. Those that say we shouldn't go to a military option. Fine. Then let's do something. He believes Iran and Ahmadinjad are vulnerable. Ahmadinejad lost this last election.Netanyahi proposes  put greater pressure is put on Iran.   Large financial insitututions must divest from Iran He spoke to Schwartzneggar about moving the state pension funds out of Iranian holdings just to get the ball rolling.

On the Q&A Gary over at Regime Change Iran asked the Prime Minister what he thought of regime change in Iran and what the blogosphere could do to help. He believe regime change would be the best case. In a conversation Netanyahu had with Bernard Lewis earlier today Lewis said we ought to be talking directly to the Iranian people. They must know there is an alternative to what they are living. The weapon of truth is the best, the only weapon against lie.

Barak over at the IRIS blog cut right to the matter of Netanyahu's abandonment of the policies outlined in his bookwhen gave land away. Brak laced into him, how could he go against his every principle? Netanyahu said he never abandoned his policy in the land for peace deal. When he was negotiating with the Palestinians and the White House, he wrote a point by point list of conditions the Palestinians had to meet.  Some of which was met. When these conditions were not met -- Netanyahu stopped the bloodletting while trying to make the best of a bad agreement that he inherited. He stopped the runaway process of Oslo.

Rickman of Jewish Current Issues asked about the upcoming talks. Netanyahu said as long as Hamas is in charge, and they are - you can not make a deal -- the only thing you are doing is making concessions to Iran's proxy. All you would be doing is moving the missile launchers closer to the people of Israel. He said we must bring down the Hamas government - remove the head of the octopus.  When you bring down Hamas you will see if you really have a partner.

Wow, he's still talking "partner."

UPDATE: Rick Richman over at Jewish Current Issues has  a comprehensive post on today's call while tying together our previous  previous blogger calls with Netanyahu here;

Obviously if we could get the ball rolling to get all these state pension funds to divest from Iraq -- this in addition to what the U.S. Treasury is doing in curtailing banking activity with Iran -- it puts formidable pressure on the regime. And one of two things will happen -- either it will work and obviate the need for stiffer action, or it will pave the way for stiffer action.

It has to come under the rubric of divesting from genocide. And I know such resolutions have been fielded in the case of Darfur against the Sudan. I suggest a coalition of liberals and conservatives across the political band in the United States, divesting against genocide -- that is, the one that is being perpetrated, the one that is being denied, and the one that is being planned.

I can think of no better purpose, no better moral purpose, no better purpose period. This is what can differentiate our period from the 1930s, by actually doing something. So let’s do it.

We’ve been warned now, twice, and given a road map to peace -- a way possibly to avoid the Hobson’s choice of a pre-emptive strike against Iran or an eventual nuclear war that would start with Israel but not stop there. We need to do it before time runs out.

Richard Baehr asked Netanyahu to predict Iran’s response, assuming non-military options failed and some military response becomes required, and Netanyahu answered as follows:

"I can posit many, many responses -- those that are mentioned and some that are not, on the part of Iran. But none of them involve the risk, none of them begin to measure up to the horrible -- not risk, horrible certainty -- certain horrors I should say -- that await if Iran gets nuclear weapons. So at the end of the day, we have to prevent them from getting those weapons. Period."

Essential reports on the Netanyahu call include those by Atlas Shrugs (who also summarizes the Q&As following Netanyahu’s remarks), Gateway Pundit (an “incredible talk . . . an exceptional call”), Mere Rhetoric (with Omri’s usual stellar analysis) and The Hedgehog Blog (with an insightful comment on divestment). Other bloggers whose reports will undoubtedly follow include Boker tov, Boulder! and American Thinker. The extended list of bloggers on the call is here, where you should listen to the entire 25-minute call.

 

Lunch and more, Avigdor Lieberman

The unfaithful cannot be citizens. Avigdor Lieberman

Daniel Pipes hosted a Middle East Forum lunch earlier today in NYC with Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Avignor Lieberman which I was most privileged to attend.  Founder of the Yisrael Beiteinu, holding 11 of the 120 seats in the Israeli Parliment, it is the 5th largest party in Israel. Second most popular  political figure (Bibi Netanyahu leads), he is right of center -- the opposite of the weak, appeaser Olmert. More curious than anything else was I of how Lieberman  could sanction the policies of the feckless  Olmert government by being a part of it? Photo right: Avignor and Atlas

I respect Lieberman. Canceling a planned appearance at the Public Relations Council in New York because Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had spoken there two months before was righteous indeed. I respect such action.

Lieberman's ministerial position deals primarily with the threat of Iran's developing nuclear program.  And he insists that this is why he joined Olmert 's government --  to address the greatest threat confronting Israel.

“Ahmadinejad is not a rational player,”  “Any attempt to pacify him is like before the second World War in Europe.”

Iran president: Israel will be wiped out

He began his remarks by saying that those who are not faithful to Israel cannot expect to have full rights. He would have  Israelis to sign a commitment to loyalty to the Israeli flag and to its national anthem, and of requiring service in the army or other national service. Citizens who wouldn't  sign the declaration could continue to live in Israel, working, studying, and getting health care benefits, but they could not vote in national elections or be elected to national office.

“It’s not racism. The test is loyalty, not their religion.”

He said he would also deny Israeli citizenship to extreme anti-Zionist Orthodox Jewish groups, specifically pointing to Neturei Karta, which sent representatives to this week’s Holocaust denial conference in Tehran. 

Lieberman presented his solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

"Israel has the right to demand full allegiance from all its citizens. He who is not ready to recognize Israel as a Jewish and Zionist state, cannot be a citizen in the country. Of course, this is TREASON This applies to extremists of the Neturei Karta [anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews -Atlas] as well as to extremist factions of the Islamic Movement."

(Photo:This is Achmaninejad greeting Neturei Karta rep at his evil  Holocaust denial conference of the 70 in Teheran the last two days. hat tip Mark G)

Israeli Arabs should be made to take a loyalty oath.

An oath of loyalty to the country, not a religion. We have the right to demand loyalty from all of our citizens......loyalty is the key to the problem

He railed against the  Israeli Arab MKs for meeting Syrian and Lebanese officials and expressing their support for Hizbullah .  

"It is unacceptable that a senator or a representative in the American house of representatives assist Afghanistan during the war and meet with Bin-Laden and al-Qaeda leaders, express his support for their war against the US and be allowed to return to serve in Congress," 

He has a vision for Israel. His plan for the peace process, referring to it as the "Oslo process",  is based on "three false basic assumptions, that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the cause of instability in the Middle East, that the conflict is territorial and not ideological, and that the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders will end the conflict."

“The conflict includes not only the Arabs in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip, but Israeli Arabs also,” Mr. Lieberman said. “The linkage between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli Arab population — it will destroy us, it is impossible. What is the logic of creating one and a half country for one people and a half country for the Jewish people.

To say that the conflict is based on territories is "nonsense." This is a "worldwide collusion" of civilization and Israel represents the the free world. Israel, 9/11, London, Madrid, Bali, ...... it is about values. Values based on  human rights, women's rights..........why did no one  in the Arab world speak out against the fatwa on Salman Rushdie?

"Phenomenon of the Minorities"

Lieberman contends that wherever there is conflict between two peoples E.G.  Quebec vs Canada, Catholics vs Protestants (Ireland), etc...the best solution is separation. Separation between two nations. The best example being Cyprus. There was terrible friction, blood between the Greeks and the Turks before they separated in '74 and moved to opposing parts of the island. There was no peace agreement .......but the separation lead to stability.

The main issue for Palestinians is economy.

The main issue for Israel is security.  "Without resolving this, we are destined to failed. Providing jobs is critical."

Now we take money from the poor people of rich countries and give to the rich people of poor countries.

He believes Israel should exchange territory for population. And does not believe that Abu Mazen is the right partner.

“I don’t think that Abu Mazen is the right partner. I think that he is the biggest obstacle,”. Lieberman said. “Abu Mazen, he is excellent for declaration, but when he must deliver the goods, he is incompetent.”

He correctly posits the Arab world exploits the conflicts within Israel and Israel should do the same

"Why don't we use the conflicts existing between the Palestinians?"

Our biggest problems are Jews, not Arabs [laughter from the table]

"Every light in the Muslim world has been killed extinguished [IE Sadat] time and time again."

Lieberman says Iran is not Israel's problem (but if no one does anything is is invariably Israel's problem IMAO.) The world is embarking on the biggest nuclear Arab arms race. (Photo:  Lieberman left, Pipes right)

Pacifying Iran will not work. Like Chamberlain.......everyone paid a terribly high price.  Israel has the terrible location of being on the front lines of the collision.

Here is the audio for his full remarks:
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Here is the question and answer:
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UPDATE:

CLICK HERE TONIGHT'S ATLAS  PODCAST: CAROLINE GLICK . We discuss Lieberman and all of it. All of it.

The NY Sun has more: Israel's Lieberman Calls for Tougher Stance on Israeli Arabs

Click below for the VLOG of Lieberman's remarks on Iran

UPDATE: Obviously, Lieberman is onto something;

Increasingly radical, Israeli Arabs want end to Zionist vision of state JTA        

JERUSALEM, Dec. 11 (JTA) — Increasingly alienated from th