Two pastors had held a seminar in 2003 comparing Islam and the Koran, with Christianity and the Bible.
Muslims filed a complaint against them, and the pastors were found guilty of vilifying Islam.
They were ordered to apologize.
Both pastors refused, saying they had the right to freely express their views about Islam. That decision has now been set aside and the pastors will get a new trial.
UPDATED: OBAMA BACKPEDALS: OPPOSES RELEASE OF PHOTOS. SHARP REVERSAL!!!!
Obama to release interrogation photos UPI
At least 44 photographs will be released May 28, the Los Angeles Times reported. While details of the photos have not been reported, some are said to show U.S. military personnel pointing weapons at suspected terrorists during questioning.
Other material the administration is considering releasing includes transcripts of interrogations, a report by the CIA inspector-general and background information on a Justice Department investigation.
Despicable.
The traitor in the White House will release photos of interrogations of jihadis in the spirit of "transparency". If the Mansourian candidate is so interested in transparency, why not release the vault copy of his birth certificate, his school records, transcripts, and who funded his Harvard education? The most dangerous and secretive man ever to hold the oval office speaking of "transparency". That's rich.
And why not heed Dick Cheney's request to release the intelligence that was produced by torture-assisted interrogations? Why is Obama cherry picking only the ugly to release? Dick Cheney insists that those interrogations saved thousands of lives. Whom do you believe?
Obama scolds us and demands we "respect" jihad "even if with disagree". Why doesn't Obama give a tenth of the respect he gives to Islam to America and our military?
Why is Obama betraying our soldiers? Why is Obama, President of these United States, betraying America and protecting Islamic jihad? Why would he allow these incendiary photos, taken during the height of the war, see the light of day? Why would he want to gin up the jihad?
Obama Administration to Release Bin Laden Associate from Gitmo
This video is Islam. Why won't Obama release photos of the atrocities committed on our soldiers, women, and children living under the boot of Islam?
WARNING WARNING WARNING! IT IS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC. THIS IS SHARIAH LAW. THIS IS ISLAM. THIS IS WHAT THIS NATION'S YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN ARE FIGHTING. WHO IS THE ENEMY HERE?
THIS VIDEO IS VERY ****GRAPHIC****. THIS VIDEO IS VERY ****GRAPHIC****. DO NOT WATCH IT IF YOU ARE EASILY SICKENED. This is Islam.
THIS IS WHAT OBAMA WANTS YOU TO RESPECT. THIS IS ISLAM. THIS IS SHARIAH LAW. Obama nominee HAROLD KOH claimed that "in an appropriate case, he didn't see any reason why sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States."
The release of these controversial photos is stark proof of the stupidity and moral bankruptcy of the Obama administration. The West does not show you these images. The West won't publish this or even the most benign images like the Danish cartoons. The West won't run the images of 911. The West is the gatekeeper for the fourth reich. BASTA. Enough protecting Islam. Enough hiding the truth about Islam.
Worse, the corrupt Obama administration and its decaying handmaiden, the media, are going to release "torture" pictures in their malevolent pursuit of demonizing the military and the Bush administration. I may have had my issues with Bush, but they aren't fit to wipe his boots. These radical amateurs are throwing the world into chaos and handing the keys of the kingdom to Islamic jihad.
I said here:
THEY TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE SAFER WITH THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL YOU ON THE LOOSE THAN YOU ARE IF THEY ARE LOCKED UP IN GITMO.
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THINKS THE EXISTENCE OF GITMO IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE TERRORISTS LOCKED UP IN IT. UPDATE: Congressman: Release CIA Briefing Notes Now - Law Enforcement Examiner
In Islam, a woman who supposedly shames her family not only has her life taken, but also her memory. Every attempt is made to erase her existence, thus, the shame. That includes an unmarked grave.
What Pamela and Robert have attempted is to sustain Aqsa Parvez’s memory with a simple headstone that reads, “Beloved, Remembered, Free.” It isn’t political, it isn’t anti-Islam, and it doesn’t serve to personally benefit either Pam or Robert.
It is just a reminder that Aqsa Parvez’s life did matter, even if her family, by virtue of their inhumane and cold ideology, doesn’t agree. It is also a gesture to remind ourselves that we will not devalue any life, and that we fight to defend all innocent life
A number of brave souls and OTOH, complete fools have weighed in on the Aqsa Parvez memorial fund and the ensuing leftist-apologist outrage at the thought of decent individuals righting a wrong, a fundamentally Western value.
The hatred of the good for being good. When I read of Aqsa's unmarked grave -- I was stunned. I know that girl. I am that girl. If I had been born into those circumstances, I too would be a member of the tragedy club. It seemed that the least good men and women could do was put a headstone with her name.
It is not a big deal. It was the decent thing to do.
Back in early December right after Warmington ran the crushing article of Aqsa's unmarked grave, I ran the post to raise money to right the wrong. Good folks near and far contributed what they could. We worked with the cemetery. It was done ...... I called her 'family'. I asked them what they would like -- they said "we don't speak English". I went through Mr. Porter at Meadowvale, willing to accept any changes the 'family' wanted to make.
Needless to say, the 'family' never looked at the artwork via email or snail mail. I didn't go to the press. I didn't go to anyone. I worked with readers on finding another location. And we did. And again, this time is was the University of Guelph who canceled at the last minute, telling the University newspaper they didn't want to appear to support my 'politically charged views'. They are liars. They are afraid of Islamic reaction to a plaque for a victim of an honor killing. They blame me because I will not burn, sue, deface, harass, intimidate -- I will be civilized.
How would the University be supporting my views or me in any way? The plaque said Aqsa Parvez -- Beloved, Remembered Free. It doesn't say Atlas Shrugs or anyone's name or organization. Just Aqsa.
I did not alert the media. Press conferences were not called. The objective was respecting Aqsa. Period.
Her friends wrote me privately. Thanked me and helped to suggest alternative locations that reflected Aqsa's life, joys and happiness outside her house.
It was not until Joe Warmington did a follow up piece on the difficulty to honor Aqsa (alerted by the reader who had been working with me on Guelph) that the leftist apologists jumped all over ..... me. Yes. The murdering family, the frighteningly bamboozled cemetery administrators (I couldn't get a bench or tree at the cemetery), the University cowards -- they were sanctioned but I was the bad guy. I had no idea that this would blow up into some leftist orgy of blame. But not the family of course.
The reaction is ugly and mean. What is the objective of such invective and personal attacks on me? Perhaps to discourage others who might get it into their heads to do the right thing undertake a similar effort. I can't say. To appease their overlords? I don't know, but it is disturbing to read Selley deride me and in the same malodorous breath refer to the number stamp on Aqsa's grave this way, "her remains currently lie beneath a simple steel plate bearing the
number 774" as if this were somehow an elegant, suitable tribute to this terrorized child.
And while Selley is a sorry little man, he opened up the door to the jackals laying in wait to pounce. And they have. I have been working quietly on this for months - why suddenly are the charlatans expressing disgust? Disgust. Imagine that.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. Ayn Rand
If you missed Mark Steyn's column on this - go here.
For reasons best known to himself, The National Post's Chris Selley chose to pick a fight with the few people who want to ensure that Aqsa Parvez's short life is memorialized by something more than the plot number of an unmarked grave. Pamela Geller and Kathy Shaidle can take care of themselves, and have done, but the reality is that if it weren't for the frothing loony ranting wackjob haters of the blogosphere a 16-year old girl murdered for not wanting to be imprisoned by her family's culture would be entirely forgotten.
So what's more offensive? The moral outrage of Pamela Geller at the westernization of "honor killing"? Or the mainstream coverage by a politically correct media? Here's what the lunchtime poll at Toronto's CITY-TV thought was the big issue arising from Aqsa Parvez's murder:
Do you think society discriminates against women who wear a hijab?
Gotcha. It's our fault.
There has been a good deal of ink -- but Shaidle's post is a must read, And I like Bink's today:
Our Sister Aqsa Free Canuckistan
To be honest, I’ve not read much or heard of Chris Selley before (more here), though Google says he has written for MacLeans, and dislikes TorStar Islamist Harpoon Siddiqui. Hmph.
That there is a problem, Mr. Selley apparently denies; that trying to make a decent memorial for a murdered teen is worse than the act that likely put her there (and thousands others like her– it’s heardly a unique and inexplicable event), he seems to assume. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, he’s a clueless liberal and not a deliberate liar or an Islamophile. A Scaredy-Mouse, not a pro-cat mouse. Or maybe a journalist who thinks that unless he thinks it’s a big deal, it isn’t. Whatevers.
That still leaves us with the problem of slaughtered women and the degrading position of women in jihadist culture. The cat’s standing right in front of us, and demanding more and more space.
Will we look at what’s there, or deny it? On that, Mr. Selley, hangs the future of the culture which includes the clueless such as yourself, the slaughtered, such as Aqsa and her sisters worldwide; and the truth and principle that says all people are created equal under God, and have the rights of freedom, free speech, citizenship, equality under the law, the good things of this life, and the actual life with which to enjoy them.
As a proud donor to the Aqsa fund, I will not let anyone leave her unremembered, nor her memory and example deliberately erased, because we’re afraid of confronting a death-dealing religion– and some of its societies– with the higher and better claims of the West.
Even if we’re not directly related, we are connected by our common humanity, and our Canadian citizenship:, and the moral claim of the hurt or helpless on all of us. So I am honoured to call this discarded young woman a sister, if her own family would rather have her forgotten and her memory neglected, for the ’shameful’ attitudes they judged to be dishonourable to their religion and homeland norms. So back in the day, I referred to Afghan Christian refugee Abdul Rahman as my B-FAM– ‘Brother From Another Mother’– for the same reason, plus he’s a Christian, and thus my brother in the Lord.
So either Aqsa is our sister, or we’re in on the murder and coverup. It’s part of being a morally-aware and awake person. The moral claims of the mere existence of ‘another-such-as-I’ lay hold upon me, and if I should shrug that duty off, I shrug off my very humanity, and that for which 3500 years of religion, philosophy, and law has prepared me to be.
Feminists might claim her as a sister– only if he has the right opinions. They’re sad liberal tribalists anyway.
I am– at least according to the gutless, soulless, witless commandments of political correctness– a sh*t-disturber.
Europe is sinking so fast, I cannot keep up ..............
The main entrance door to the synagogue at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, southeast of Paris, was damaged by fire and a police source said it remained unclear whether one or several petrol bombs were thrown.
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Three other synagogues have been fire-bombed in the past two weeks and vandals have daubed anti-Israeli graffiti on at least two other Jewish places of worship.
Yeah, right, Islamophobes. All those firebombed mosques and muslim businesses and death marches. (/sarc tag off)
Previously, this week at Atlas:
TWO MORE SYNAGOGUES IN FRANCE DEFILED: SWASTIKAS AND DEATH THREATS
BOMB ATTACKS ON FRENCH SYNAGOGUES
CAR RAMS SYNAGOGUE IN TOULOUSE, FRANCE
The media's silence in this run up to a second holocaust is nothing short of a war crime.
Starbucks daubed with Magen Dovid in Beirut
A Starbucks in London’s East End has been fire-bombed. Harry Place
Early this morning, thugs smashed their way into the coffee shop as the manager hid inside the office. As he watched on the security monitor in the office, they daubed racist graffiti and finally lobbed a molotov-cocktail through the plate-glass window. Luckily he managed to make it to the fire-escape and raise the alarm. Fire-fighters managed to stop the flames spreading to the adjacent buildings.
At Indymedia, it is being flagged up as a triumph of “peace activism” (”Smashing the Israeli war machine - Starbucks, Whitechapel firebombed ” is the headline). But sane people, see this for what it is: thoughtless terror and attempted murder. Sane people know that Whitechapel shops often have residential properties above them and that fires spread quickly through the tightly packed buildings. But then sane people know that Starbucks isn’t an Israeli company either. Sane people know that firebombing shops because you think they’re owned by Jews… oh let’s not waffle: sane people know that firebombing shops is not legitimate political activism - for any reason. Even Spiked Online gets it.
Depressingly, the news that a shop in London was firebombed and daubed with antisemitic graffiti seems only to have been reported in the local press - and of course, crowed about at Indymedia.
So what is causing this? Who are the people hoping to incite Kristallnacht 2.0? Some have pointed their finger at George Galloway, with his call to “shut down Israel shops”. The Respect machine is now in overdrive, letting it be known that he was referring to a handful of small booths that operate in shopping centres, selling cosmetics. We take him at his word. Of course, one of these “Israel Shops” was smashed up in Belfast earlier this week.
Galloway must, of course, have been very sure that his audience knew which particular chain of shops he was taking about, and was, no doubt, very surprised to find that others thought he was encouraging action to be taken, generally, against businesses connected to Israel. His spokesman, Rob Hoveman, even went so far as explain that Galloway opposes a boycott of Marks and Spencer. But, as a socialist, does he have no regard for the safety and the livelihoods of the workers at those businesses he thinks deserve targetting? Are they to blame for the war in Gaza? Where was this ’socialist’s’ reminder to respect the staff while “shutting down” shops?
UPDATE: Molotov latte to go, please Melanie Phillips
Much thanks to Michelle in California for snapping this eye candy
Reader David wrote:
Pro-Israel rally held today from 2-4 PM in front of the Federal Building in Los Angeles. I would estimate about 2,000-2,500 pro-Israel supporters turned out. People of all ages, Israelis and Americans. There were several "Christians United With Jews Against Terror" styled signs. The turnout was pretty good, albeit not overwhelming, but there was a lot of drive-by traffic honking horns in support and/or waving Israeli flags or displaying pro-Israel signs. I only saw two or three vehicles drive by with pro-Palestinian signs (one of them accompanied by the middle finger from one of the Palestinian supporters). At one point, a plane flew overhead trailing a "Support Israel" banner.
The rally was very peaceful, although I did observe two verbal exchanges, but nothing violent. There was a group of pro-terrorist supporters counterdemonstrating but I would estimate they numbered only three to four hundred. The pro-thug demonstrators were kept far away from the pro-Israeli demonstration and the key traffic intersection of Wilshire and Veteran by the police who, of course, were out in force.
The only upsetting part of the afternoon was that apparently about ten or so Skinheads walked through the pro-Israel crowd. I did not personally see them, but I heard a couple of others talking about it. Apparently there were no encounters with the neo-Nazis.
Wolf adds:
Will do my best to get some pics to you if possible.
I just back from the Pro-Israel rally in Westwood at the Federal Building. 'Their' rally was from 12-2, and ours was from 2-4. There was a great crowd, mostly Israeli, Iranian and religious Jews. Not enough Americans, Hell's Angels were actually there, there is a division which is Pro-Israel as well as Christians for Israel. A very large crowd.
Of course some of 'theirs' never left and as we began walking back towards are cars, behind the Federal Building, a small bunch of Fakenstinians began marching towards of us 'Chanting Free, Free Palestine', I just took photos, which you see here. A shouting match ensued with the police getting nervous and worried. They were still at it when we left to walk towards are cars. One of my friends was called 'A killer' as a Pali car drove by. And my friend and I were told to go back to Israel, this was from some stupid America women in her 60s on one of the corners by herself as Jews walked by. I called her a cow and my friend Gina took video on her phone. Another adventure on the front lines....
Wolf's pics
Screaming agitators
Click below for more pictures
What the asshat elect does not understand is Bush is iconic for America. The flying shoe was directed at America - our man, our President - the choice (in the last clean election in American history).
This is no joke, this is reported by ABC. If you are unfamiliar with the disgusting shoe incident - go here: Waiting for the Other Shoe to drop Fly.
Regular Atlas readers know how vile Obama's website can be. Just scroll here: Obama's Website: Hub for hate, terror and antisemitism
Trust me, the world is not going to throw a shoe at Obama. They are going to stomp on his face and, knowing him to be the internationalist that he is, he will say, "please, sir, may I have some more?"
OBAMA BUSH SHOE TOSS ABC (hat tip Laura)
Wanting to see how the Web site works, I typed in my hometown zip code in Los Angeles to find events within a 10-mile radius.
It pointed me to several events, including a blood drive, a graffiti cleanup, and an "Obama Celebration and Bush Shoe Toss."
The event, which was listed as a "Day of Service -- January 19," is taking place at the soon-to-open Carnivale Café on the corner of Vermont and Normal.
"Come celebrate with us," wrote Gilbert Gazan, 46, in the event's description. "Say goodbye to old Georgie ... Throw a shoe at a poster of Bush and win a free drink."
Click here to see the LA Weekly cover the restaurant plans to use as the shoe-throwing target.
A woman (?) clad in a veil displays a placard as she joins other protesters in an
anti-Israeli demonstration in Anaheim, California, on January 4, 2009
A depraved bot wears a T-shirt featuring a picture of the father of Islamic terrorism, tunisian Yasser Arafat.
Seditionists and traitors shout anti-Jewish rantings at a demonstration (hat tip rut)
OSLO: ANTI-ISRAEL RALLY TURNS VIOLENT: ISRAEL SUPPORTERS, POLICE ATTACKED BY MUSLIMS/LEFTISTS
TEENAGE
JEWISH GIRL ATTACKED IN PARIS
DENMARK
SCHOOLS RECOMMEND NO JEWISH CHILDREN ENROLL
HOLLAND:
Kanker joden (Cancer Jews) of Kanker Israel (Cancer
Israel)
THE
UK'S JIHAD AGAINST THE JEWS: 'Kill Jews' and 'Jews are
scumbags'
PARIS
ANTI-JEWISH RIOTERS ROB, STEAL, PILLAGE
DENMARK:
MUSLIM THAT OPENED FIRE ON JEWS IN MALL, "SUDDEN JIHAD SYNDROME"
ATTACK
ON JEWS: MUSLIMS OPEN FIRE IN COPENHAGEN, INJURE TWO
AP MAKES NO MENTION OF
ISRAEL/"PALI" CONNECTION
VIDEO:
ANNE FRANK'S HOLLAND: "Jews to the Gas"
DENMARK:
'JUST KILL JEWISH"
J'ACCUSE
FRANCE2: BROADCASTS 2005 HAMAS ROCKET EXPLOSION AS ISRAELI GAZA
ACTION
Thousands protest in Europe at Gaza offensive Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of chanting, banner-waving demonstrators marched in cities across Europe on Saturday to demand a halt to Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip.
Protests were held or scheduled in Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain as the Israeli offensive entered its second week. Kuwaitis also took to the streets, a day after bigger Middle East rallies.
In Paris, police said more than 20,000 demonstrators, many wearing Palestinian keffiyeh headscarves, marched through the city center chanting slogans like "Israel murderer!" and waving banners demanding an end to the air attacks.
Similar protests were planned in some 30 other towns.
London police said more than 10,000 people staged a noisy march and rally to urge an end to an Israeli offensive against Hamas militants that has killed at least 435 Palestinians.
In many European cities people waved shoes -- recalling the action of an Iraqi journalist who hurled footwear at U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad last month in a symbolic insult.
British demonstrators threw dozens of shoes into the street as they passed the gated entrance to Downing Street, where Prime Minister Gordon Brown lives, and shouted angrily at a line of 40 police officers on guard there.
[...]
Paul Mukerji, 42, from Birmingham, acknowledged Israel had security reasons but called its action disproportionate.
Who dictates the proportion? The jihadis?
"The best way for peace for Palestinians and Israelis is to end the occupation," said Mukerji, who said he had spent six months working with Jewish and Palestinian peace groups.
What occupation? There has not been an Israeli toenail in Gaza since 2005. All lies, lies lies.
Ali Saeed, 24, from Luton, said Western governments had failed to condemn Israel's actions.
Failure to condemn self defense? The will to live?
Singer Annie Lennox and asshat Bianca Jagger march along Whitehall, London, amidst a crowd of thousands to demonstrate against against the Jews.
Muslims prey along Embankment ahead of a march in London
Thrown shoes: Hundreds of shoes are seen in the road along Whitehall, as police guard the entrance to Downing Street
The commonality of despising the Jews sure brings out the godless.
UPDATE: BERLIN, GERMANY: SWASTIKAS ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL Associated (with terrorists) Press
BERLIN (AP) -- Berlin police say vandals have daubed swastikas on some of the slabs that make up the German capital's Holocaust memorial.
"DAUBED"? WTF kind of word is that? An AP kinda word.
A police statement says security guards discovered the swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on 12 slabs Saturday lunchtime. Authorities ordered the graffiti's swift removal.
The memorial to the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims consists of a field of 2,700 gray slabs situated close to the capital's Brandenburg Gate.
It opened to the public in 2005 and is freely accessible around the clock. Similar vandalism has occurred on several previous occasions.
"occasions" WTF kind of word is that?
AMSTERDAM: An Atlas reader in Holland sent these translations: the sign reads in Dutch "Anne Frank draait zich om in haar graf, oh Israel " in English "Anne Frank turns herself around in her grave, oh Israel." This is a Dutch expression - the English equivalent would be Anne Frank is spinning in her grave. Yes, I am sure she is.
"Israel herhaalt de Holocaust met de steun van Nederland." Translation: "Israel is repeating the Holocaust with support from the Netherlands".
More from the dhimmi Dutch: Dutch mp (Socialist Party) calls for intifada against Israel during anti-Israel / pro Gaza, pro Hamas, pro Hezbollah demonstration in Amsterdam. January 3rd, 2008 (hat tip MB)
A man and woman hold blood-smeared dolls during an anti-Israel demonstration in Amsterdam
TURKEY: Let 'em into the EU - good luck with that!
SPAIN: Muslims wave flags and shout slogans against Israel during a demonstration outside the Spanish Foreign Ministry in Madrid Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009
Athens: Pro-fakestinian protesters pray in front of riot policemen during a rally outside Israel's embassy in Athens
ROME: Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009
MILAN: Muslims kneel down in prayer in front of Milan's gothic cathedral as they protest Israel - allahu akbar in front of the cathedral - now that's rich.
UPDATE: CHECKOUT ISRAEL!
Israeli Arabs wave Palestinian flags as they join a demonstration of tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs protesting against Israel's military operation in Gaza in Northern Israel.
Un-frickin-believable.
Israeli Arabs carry a giant Palestinian flag as they join a demonstration of tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs protesting against Israel's military operation in Gaza, in the northern Israeli town of Sakhnin, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009
A jihadi throws a shoe near the Downing Street residence of Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown today at a huge protest against the Jews
It is hard to believe that while Shoah victims and holocaust survivors still walk among us, that we would witness an evil so severe and grotesque that it would make the rhetoric of the Third Reich look mild.
Yes, the Nazis killed millions -- that was the obvious monstrous result of their campaign.
We have not yet witnessed the "final solution" of Islamic jihad -- but there are incontrovertible facts that are blinding. The Nazis hid their crimes. The Nazis pretended to be doing one thing while subversively carrying out its "extermination" of Jews, gypsies, "undesirables", etc. They engaged in rhetoric and obfuscation.
This time is different. The Muslims are not engaging in rhetoric. They are not pretending. They want the Jews dead and they exult in their wild screams of blood lust. Such joy, such happiness at their Jew hating chants from a joyless people.
The Germans went to war, conquered countries and with the help of those weak governments and people annihilated the Jews. The Holocaust was a
German initiative subsequently carried out by every nation the Nazis conquered in Europe, with the exception of Denmark.
It's not a national initiative this time. It's global........... a wave of evil has washed over this earth like a veritable tsunami and it has colored everything.
I expect this barbarity and Jew hatred from the Arab/Islamic world. It's what they do and what they have always done.
But what was the lesson that Europe learned after the holocaust? It was not that evil is bad and that they behaved like monsters, but, as Caroline Glick said in our interview, that " rather that everything was caused by nationalism and therefore what we really need to do is have a European Union that will obviate our need for nationalism so that we can become this transnational gobbletygook and we'll all get together and therefore we won't have another Auschwitz". But really the lesson the Europeans should have been is that "we were evil and we have to be good. And that is the lesson we have to learn and and we have to be able and willing to make moral distinctions and stand up for the good and fight evil and that is something the Europeans refuse to do."
Once again Europe chooses to embrace madness and evil as its central unifying characteristic. And this time England is leading the way.
I believe good will triumph over such overwhelming odds and numbers. I know it in my bones, but one has to look at the global landscape and say, at what cost?
Thousands protest in Europe at Gaza offensive Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of chanting, banner-waving demonstrators marched in cities across Europe on Saturday to demand a halt to Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip.
Protests were held or scheduled in Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain as the Israeli offensive entered its second week. Kuwaitis also took to the streets, a day after bigger Middle East rallies.
In Paris, police said more than 20,000 demonstrators, many wearing Palestinian keffiyeh headscarves, marched through the city center chanting slogans like "Israel murderer!" and waving banners demanding an end to the air attacks.
Similar protests were planned in some 30 other towns.
London police said more than 10,000 people staged a noisy march and rally to urge an end to an Israeli offensive against Hamas militants that has killed at least 435 Palestinians.
In many European cities people waved shoes -- recalling the action of an Iraqi journalist who hurled footwear at U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad last month in a symbolic insult.
British demonstrators threw dozens of shoes into the street as they passed the gated entrance to Downing Street, where Prime Minister Gordon Brown lives, and shouted angrily at a line of 40 police officers on guard there.
[...]
Paul Mukerji, 42, from Birmingham, acknowledged Israel had security reasons but called its action disproportionate.
Who dictates the proportion? The jihadis?
"The best way for peace for Palestinians and Israelis is to end the occupation," said Mukerji, who said he had spent six months working with Jewish and Palestinian peace groups.
What occupation? There has not been an Israeli toenail in Gaza since 2005. All lies, lies lies.
Ali Saeed, 24, from Luton, said Western governments had failed to condemn Israel's actions.
Failure to condemn self defense? The will to live?
Singer Annie Lennox and asshat Bianca Jagger march along Whitehall, London, amidst a crowd of thousands to demonstrate against against the Jews.
Muslims prey along Embankment ahead of a march in London
Thrown shoes: Hundreds of shoes are seen in the road along Whitehall, as police guard the entrance to Downing Street
The commonality of despising the Jews sure brings out the godless.
UPDATE: BERLIN, GERMANY: SWASTIKAS ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL Associated (with terrorists) Press
BERLIN (AP) -- Berlin police say vandals have daubed swastikas on some of the slabs that make up the German capital's Holocaust memorial.
"DAUBED"? WTF kind of word is that? An AP kinda word.
A police statement says security guards discovered the swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on 12 slabs Saturday lunchtime. Authorities ordered the graffiti's swift removal.
The memorial to the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims consists of a field of 2,700 gray slabs situated close to the capital's Brandenburg Gate.
It opened to the public in 2005 and is freely accessible around the clock. Similar vandalism has occurred on several previous occasions.
"occasions" WTF kind of word is that?
AMSTERDAM: An Atlas reader in Holland sent these translations: the sign reads in Dutch "Anne Frank draait zich om in haar graf, oh Israel " in English "Anne Frank turns herself around in her grave, oh Israel." This is a Dutch expression - the English equivalent would be Anne Frank is spinning in her grave. Yes, I am sure she is.
"Israel herhaalt de Holocaust met de steun van Nederland." Translation: "Israel is repeating the Holocaust with support from the Netherlands".
More from the dhimmi Dutch: Dutch mp (Socialist Party) calls for intifada against Israel during anti-Israel / pro Gaza, pro Hamas, pro Hezbollah demonstration in Amsterdam. January 3rd, 2008 (hat tip MB)
A man and woman hold blood-smeared dolls during an anti-Israel demonstration in Amsterdam
TURKEY: Let 'em into the EU - good luck with that!
SPAIN: Muslims wave flags and shout slogans against Israel during a demonstration outside the Spanish Foreign Ministry in Madrid Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009
Athens: Pro-fakestinian protesters pray in front of riot policemen during a rally outside Israel's embassy in Athens
ROME: Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009
MILAN: Muslims kneel down in prayer in front of Milan's gothic cathedral as they protest Israel - allahu akbar in front of the cathedral - now that's rich.
UPDATE: CHECKOUT ISRAEL!
Israeli Arabs wave Palestinian flags as they join a demonstration of tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs protesting against Israel's military operation in Gaza in Northern Israel.
Un-frickin-believable.
Israeli Arabs carry a giant Palestinian flag as they join a demonstration of tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs protesting against Israel's military operation in Gaza, in the northern Israeli town of Sakhnin, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009
UPDATED:
OSLO: ANTI-ISRAEL RALLY TURNS VIOLENT: ISRAEL SUPPORTERS, POLICE ATTACKED BY MUSLIMS/LEFTISTS
TEENAGE
JEWISH GIRL ATTACKED IN PARIS
DENMARK
SCHOOLS RECOMMEND NO JEWISH CHILDREN ENROLL
HOLLAND:
Kanker joden (Cancer Jews) of Kanker Israel (Cancer
Israel)
THE
UK'S JIHAD AGAINST THE JEWS: 'Kill Jews' and 'Jews are
scumbags'
PARIS
ANTI-JEWISH RIOTERS ROB, STEAL, PILLAGE
DENMARK:
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Here is proof -- the most stunning indictment of the leftist Islamic alliance hijacking the Democrat party, the media, the (anti)-intelligentsia. Any Jew that calls himself a Democrat and votes that ticket is a kapo. A KAPO! Obama will be taking cues from polls like this - his deafening silence on Israel's self defense, at this point, is stunning. It bodes most ill.
Most Democrats oppose Israeli offensive on Gaza; 62% Republicans support it (poll)
Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans back Israel's decision to take military action against the Palestinians, but only half as many Democrats (31%) agree. A majority of Democrats (55%) say Israel should have tried to find a diplomatic solution first, a view shared by just 27% of Republicans.
Rasmussen poll. Shame on leftwing Jews.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of adults, however, believe the Palestinians are to blame for the current situation in Gaza, while 13% point the finger at the Israelis. Nearly one-third (32%) aren’t sure.
CAN THE 32% READ? Or is the leftist public school system keeping them deliberately stoopid.
Men are far more sympathetic to the Israelis than women. Fifty-six percent (56%) of men support Israel’s military action, compared to 34% of women. Whites narrowly give the edge to military action, but African-Americans by three-to-one say diplomacy was the better way to go.
Proof women can't think. See verdicts of the OJ jury and the Menendez jury.
Sixty-seven percent (67%) of those who say they are following news out of Gaza Very Closely support Israel's military action, while 30% favor diplomacy.
While the Bush administration is viewed as a solid ally of Israel, the new findings signal a possible shift in Washington’s support for Tel Aviv under President Obama.
Just after the election, 47% of voters said Obama will do a good or excellent job handling national security issues. Thirty-four percent (34%) expected him to handle those issues poorly.
Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans back Israel’s decision to take military action against the Palestinians, but only half as many Democrats (31%) agree. A majority of Democrats (55%) say Israel should have tried to find a diplomatic solution first, a view shared by just 27% of Republicans.
While 75% of Republicans say Israel is an ally of the United States, just 55% of Democrats agree. Seven percent (7%) of Democrats say Israel is an enemy of America, but only one percent (1%) of Republicans say the same. For 21% of Republicans, Israel is somewhere in between, and 28% of Democrats agree.
UPDATE: RJC Responds to Poll Showing Sharp Division Between Democrats and Republicans on Gaza Action
Majority of Democrats oppose Israeli self-defense actions in Gaza; Nearly two-thirds of Republicans support it.
Washington, D.C. (January 2, 2009) -- The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) released a statement today in response to a Rasmussen poll of American opinions of the Israel-Hamas conflict, which showed a majority of Democrats opposed to Israel's defensive actions in Gaza while nearly two-thirds of Republicans supported Israel's actions. RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said:
The latest Rasmussen poll (conducted December 30, 2008*) highlights the continuing deep division between rank-and-file Democrats and Republicans regarding support for Israel's right to defend herself. As Israel takes military action to defend herself from the continuous assault of rockets and mortars coming from Hamas-controlled Gaza, that divide is especially note-worthy.
The Rasmussen poll shows that there is a huge split between Democrats and Republicans on whether Israel should have undertaken the current military action against Hamas. Democrats opposed the Israeli action 31%-55% and Republicans supported Israel's course of action 62%-27%.
This is not an isolated instance. We saw a similar split between Democrats and Republicans when Israel fought Hezbollah forces in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll in late July 2006 showed that among Republicans, an overwhelming 84% said they sympathized more with Israel (1% sympathized more with Arab states); by comparison, just 43% of Democrats did so (12% sympathize more with Arab states). In a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll at the very end of July, when asked whether the U.S. should be more neutral in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah or whether the U.S. should align itself with Israel, Democrats supported neutrality over alignment, 54% to 39%. However, by comparison, Republicans strongly supported alignment with the Jewish state, 64% to 29%.
While we are pleased that many Democratic congressional leaders have offered their unqualified support of Israel, the fact that an overwhelming majority of Democrats at the grassroots level oppose Israel's self-defensive action is troubling and a cause for concern in the Jewish community.
We hope that going forward, pro-Israel Democratic congressional leaders and advocacy groups such as the National Jewish Democratic Council will redouble their efforts to educate grassroots Democrats and build greater support for Israel's right of self-defense.
It sickens me that Wafa Sultan must live in hiding here in the US (something that hasn't had to happen for decades.) She should be living in hiding ....in the White House.
In Andrew Bostoms's latest post he writes, "Wafa
Sultanattempts to educate the distressingly
self-righteous (and ignorant) Colin Powell, or Courageous Truth Confronts Pious,
Craven Drivel-Mongering"
Read it all here.
Key extracts presented below, but of course please read her statement in its entirety:
If we consider the Islamic texts, their content and the devotion that so many Muslims - including in America - attach to them; if we consider the tragic upshot of these teachings in terms of our current world’s security, is it not a duty for each one of us to view Islam not frivolously but in a most serious manner?
There was an episode during the current Presidential election that greatly disturbed me. It was former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s interview on “Meet the Press.” For me this interview was a defining moment. He expressed his displeasure at some of his colleagues’ accusations that Obama might be a Muslim, and stated: “And what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim?”
…If Powell doesn’t understand what may be the dire consequences for being a Muslim, then who should understand? The man, who once held the post of American Secretary of State, asserts categorically that there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, even though the country he led has been suffering immensely from Muslim terrorism and has paid a high price because of it.
I appreciate that Powell, who has been nurtured by the American moral code, refuses to judge people on the basis of their religious affiliation. That is his right. But he does not have the right to nonchalantly disregard people’s apprehensions of Muslims, especially at those of us who have lived in Muslim countries. We have risked our lives to escape from them, and are now risking our lives again to speak up against the harm they cause, induced by Islamic theology and culture. In order to understand my perspective one would have to be a woman, living in Syria, my birthplace, or any other Arab Muslim country.
…[As for Mr. Powell], does he understand that Islam is not just a religion but a political doctrine that seeks to impose itself on non-Muslims even by force? If he does, why should people not be doubtful?
This is not an Islamophobic prejudice I present. Muslims, like any other national group, can be either good or bad, and the best among them do not act in accordance with Islam’s political ideology, either because they are not familiar with it, or because they have deliberately progressed beyond it. But how are we to scrutinize the good from the bad when a high level political official like Mr. Powell undermines the questioning of any concerns related to this issue?
Certainly, Mr. Powell knows that Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, is most revered among Muslims. Does Mr. Powell realize that it is incumbent upon every devout Muslim male to emulate Muhammed’s ways? If so, has Mr. Powell studied the life of Muhammad as it is recounted in the original Arabic sources, as I learned it in my schooldays?
…Did Mr. Powell ever contemplate that what he heard from countless Muslims he met throughout his career was not necessarily what they truly meant? I always considered Mr. Powell one of the giants of American politics. To me he was as majestic as the American eagle. But in that moment, sadly, I saw the eagle topple from its lofty peak and tumble down in front of me like a little sparrow; and with it tumbled many of my convictions.
After the events of September 11th, I watched a press conference with an American general whose name I can no longer recall. In the course of the conference, he shared that he had read the Koran twice. One of the reporters asked him, “What conclusion did you reach after you had read it?” He bowed his head for a moment before replying, “We have to defend ourselves.”
It is clear to me and many others who have lived in Islamic countries that a military man - a general - understood our perilous situation better than Mr. Powell - a politician - who held a high level government position. Had Mr. Powell done any thorough research into the study of Islam, as the general did, he may also have come to the conclusion that his question, “What’s wrong with being a Muslim?” was indeed unwarranted.
Jimmy Carter is the Islamic jihad's whore. Carter is a mortal enemy of the Jewish people. Dhimmi Carter should be banned from Israel. Period. Would Nasrallah be welocme in Jerusalem? And frankly, he ought to be brought up on charges here in the states for breaking the Logan Act.
Carter, in Lebanon, says ready to meet with Hezbollah officials AP (hat tip Spencer)
Former United States President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he is ready to meet with Hezbollah officials if the Lebanese [murderers] group agreed to see him.
Carter made the comments upon arrival in Lebanon where he will assess whether his Atlanta-based Carter Center would take part in monitoring next year's parliamentary elections.
Asked whether he would meet with Hezbollah officials during his five-day visit, Carter told reporters that it was up to the militant group, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.
"I am going to meet with all of the political parties as possible," Carter said. "I understand that several leaders of Hezbollah said they were not going to meet with any president or former president of the United States, so I don't know yet."
Political party? The Nazis were a political party too ...
A Hezbollah official told The Associated Press the group had no immediate comment on Carter's remarks but said it might issue a statement, most likely on Wednesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Israel fought the 2006 Second Lebanon War against Hezbollah, after the group abducted two of its soldiers in a cross-border raid.
Hezbollah was responsible for the explosion that killed 241 U.S. Marines at their Beirut barracks in 1983, as well as for two attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and the 1985 TWA hijacking that killed an American serviceman on board.
UPDATE: Now this is rich:
al-Reuters.com - Ex-President Carter says Hezbollah won't meet him (hat tip ejo)
UPDATE: LOL! Looks like Spencer was inching away even then :)
My good friend Robert Spencer is speaking this evening at the University of Wisconsin. He will be led to and from the stage via secret passageway;
that thirty security personnel would be on hand (in addition to my
own); that attendees would have to pass through metal detectors; and
that a bomb-sniffing dog would also be on hand.
Nobody has a clue. Nobody.This is stealth jihad overthrow of our very way of life. No media is covering this and it is the most important story in this nation. Look what has happened to our country, our freedom. Please take this post and send it to everyone you know, any contacts you may have in the media. Please. We need America to see this. Robert doesn't say, but it is obvious death threats have been made.
Any Atlas readers in the Wisconsin - PLEASE GO! I will reimburse you your expenses and pay for reportage -- not much but whatever I can do.
Spencer speaking tonight at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which may no longer be in America
I got off the phone a little while ago with one of the student organizers of my address tonight at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He told me that I would be led to and from the stage via secret passageway; that thirty security personnel would be on hand (in addition to my own); that attendees would have to pass through metal detectors; and that a bomb-sniffing dog would also be on hand.
It is rather amazing to me that all this would be necessary anywhere in America today -- and all because I am saying things they don't like. MSA students have been accusing me this week of fostering an atmosphere of hate that leads to innocent Muslims being victimized. This is a preposterous charge to make to anyone who is trying to defend human rights, but it is also a noteworthy case of projection: it is they who are fostering an atmosphere of hate and thuggery, with all their lies, smears, and hysterical rhetoric, which combined with the way they and their allies have behaved at talks by previous speakers they disliked has made all this security necessary.
The Left and the MSA's on campuses all across the country are fostering a very dangerous atmosphere that is completely opposed to the classic spirit of the university. The increasingly apparent fact that all too many universities have become nasty little propaganda camps suggests that the principles of free inquiry, of honest and open discussion and dissent, and of the old adage, "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," are far more endangered than most people realize.
What the media won't cover. This is the party of the jihad --it is. Of course there would be an Iranian propaganda tent, they got their ticket - Obama and Biden. The party of Ahmadinejad .Over at Looking at the Left: Iranian Potemkin Village at the DNC. BTW, el Marco has the best coverage of the real story- and it's not the story is not on the convention floor. The story is in the streets. and the not the mainstream media is not giving you any coverage on it. Inside the center is pablum. Theater of the absurd
At Civic Center, an exhibit called PICTURES OF YOU, a veritable Potemkin Village of how wonderful life is in Iran. Views from inside and outside Iranian propaganda tent.
Iran propaganda tent
Previously at Atlas: Leader of Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization gets standing ovation at Democratic Convention
Once
again the Dhimmicrats give a platform, legitimacy and credence to the
jihad. America will have to stop the Democrats if we hope to win the
war on the West by Islamic jihad. Obama's convention. Carter and
Matteson. Perfect. The Democratic National Convention
Committee today announced the program for its first-ever interfaith
gathering, which kicks off at 2 p.m. Aug. 24 at Wells Fargo Theater in
the Colorado Convention Center. A keynote speaker is unbelievably Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic
Society of North America. (More here)
ANTI-HATE GROUP CALLS ON DEMOCRATS TO DISINVITE RADICAL MUSLIM LEADER FROM CONVENTION
Ed Rendell was Mayor of Philadelphia. It was 1997. It is a bright, shining example of Democrats putting political correctness over all. Party before country, political expediency over decency. It is why there is no "center" of the Democratic Party. Ed Rendell calls himself a centrist. He also calls himself a Jewish American. He is neither. He is a pig. Watch it and weep.
Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Praises Farrakhan and N.O.I. (Watch the video) hat tip Patti
Islam is a faith that respects their women"
Tell that to the thousands of dead victims of honor killings and the millions of women who have had their clits cut off, you silly tool.
Strong supporter of Obama and leading Obama Vice-presidential candidate contender has a long, cozy relationship with the Nation of Islam.
He has shared a podium with Farrakhan, praised the Nation of Islam with Farrakhan nodding in approval, and described Islam as "a faith that doesn't just talk about family values, it lives family values. A faith where men respect thier women and children."
He kisses CAIR's ass and he's a Jew. They'd slit his throat first. The definition of a modern dhimmi.
Remember this April 2007 post: CAIR's King Governor of the Jewicidals
FLASHBACK!
I wrote here of the targeting of Jewish businessmen in a campaign of attrition against Jewish business ... remember those Kristallnacht posts I ran on the Islamic leftard alliance that was harassing Jewish businesses in New York City here. Well, it seems that the collective negation of humanity, the UN, has joined the Muslim terror groups. UNICEF is deadly.
UNICEF Cuts Ties With Leviev, Joins With Moslem Terror Group INN (hat tip Carl)
(IsraelNN.com)Independent Media Review Analysis reports:: UNICEF cuts ties with philanthropist Lev Leviev because of his support for Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, but is working with the Saudi Arabian terrorism-allied International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO).
The United Nations children's charity fund UNICEF has severed its ties with billionaire Lev Leviev of Israel, because of Arab allegations that he funds Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria. The Arab organization Adalah-NY (The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East) boasts on its website that the decision "followed meetings with Adalah-NY, letters from organizations and Palestinian communities advocating a boycott of Leviev’s companies, and a visit by UNICEF officials to Jayyous, one of the Palestinian communities where a Leviev company is building Israeli settlements." The reference is to the town of Matityahu East, on the Green Line separating Judea and Samaria from the rest of Israel.
At the same time, however, Foxnews reports that UNICEF has linked up with a Saudi Arabian charity organization with branches that the US Treasury has designated "terrorist entities." The organization, IIRO, has offices in the Philippines and Indonesia which fund and support terrorist groups that have killed hundreds in East Asia. The Philippine branch was founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law, Muhammad Jamal Khalifah, and has long had ties to Al Qaeda.
In addition, the UN itself has singled out the above two branches for an asset freeze, arms embargo and travel ban on members of the groups. The UN says that the Indonesian and Philippine branches of IIRO are tied to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
UNICEF: We Seek to be Non-Controversial
Previous at Atlas and related:
: NY JEWISH BUSINESS HARASSED,TORMENTED WEEKLY
Atlas Shrugs: Palis, Islamists Harass NY Jewish Business
Atlas Shrugs: KRISTALLNACHT REDUX: TARGET JEWISH BUSINESSMEN
How the hell do the feminazis, core to the leftist/Islamic alliance, reconcile shiz like thiz. Unless of course, they agree with the good imam.
Iran: Cleric 'calls all feminists whores and foreign spies' ADNKRONOS
Tehran, 27 May (AKI) - A top Iranian cleric from the northeast, Ayatollah Ahmad Elmalhoda, has reportedly called feminists "whores and foreign spies".
"These whores, clutching a piece of paper in their hands to gather signatures, are working for foreign powers and want to destabilise the Islamic Republic," said Elmalhoda.
Pray G-d help those women, because the liberals certainly won't.
He is the highly influential prayer leader in the northeastern holy Shia city of Mashad.
Elmalhoda has called on the government to "intervene decisively against these whores, because it is improper to leave them to act with impunity."
A few weeks ago, Elmalhoda said women who do not wear the Islamic veil as instructed "turned men into animals."
What were they before they were animals?
Verbal attacks against feminists in Iran are also being accompanied by a vast judicial offensive.
Eight feminists involved in a campaign to gather "a million signatures in favour of equality" were recently given jail terms of various lengths and sentenced to public floggings.
The Iranian authorities have in the last two weeks censured twelve websites close to the feminist movement.
Go Obama, go sanction this malevolence and kiss ah- mahdi butt.
AMY GOODMAN! WHY NOT HAVE THIS WOMAN ON YOUR SHOW, TOOL!?! How sick is the leftist/islamic alliance?
Video hat tip shy guy via Carl
Leftist Amy Goodman, notorious jihad tool, gives jihadist University professor the platform to spew Islamic murderous madness here at Democracy Now. (how ironic is that name, Demcoracy Now? they propagandize for the just opposite, total fascism). These people disgust me. Goodman should be sent packing to live in a Druze village in Lebanon. Dhimmi tool. Here she gives As'ad AbuKhalil, professor of political science at the California State University, Stansilaus and the creator of the Angry Arab News Service blog at angryarab.blogspot.com the soapbox. This, fellow Americans, is who is teaching children. YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT WORK!
AMY GOODMAN: In Lebanon, armed clashes since last Wednesday between Hezbollah-led opposition groups and US-backed pro-government forces have left at least eighty-one people dead, many more wounded. Opposition forces overpowered pro-government militias and took over large parts of the capital city of Beirut late last week before handing over control to the Lebanese army.
The fighting shifted to the north and east of the country over the weekend, and fresh clashes were reported in Beirut this morning. Meanwhile, the Arab League has agreed to send a high-level political delegation to Lebanon to dialogue with leaders from all sides.
The violence, which has been described as the worst since the civil war, erupted last week during a general strike called by the General Federation of Labor Unions to protest the high cost of living.
On Thursday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah held a news conference in Beirut to mark what he called the beginning of a "new era" in Lebanese politics. He condemned a decision by the Lebanese cabinet to outlaw Hezbollah's telecommunications network and dismiss the head of airport security for his alleged ties to the party. Nasrallah said their private communication network was a vital tool in combat and critical to their success during the July 2006 war with Israel. He described the government crackdown as "tantamount to a declaration of war."
HASSAN NASRALLAH: [translated] If we want to get off of this crisis, to get out of this standoff, of this confrontation, they need to revoke the decisions of the illegitimate government, and they need to go to the dialogue. That's all. If they want to be stubborn, they will go elsewhere. The game is very dangerous. If they are truly keen about preserving the country, they have only these two solutions.
AMY GOODMAN: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticized Hezbollah and declared US support for the Lebanese government led by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. But after four days of fighting, Siniora capitulated and announced Saturday the decision regarding Hezbollah's demands now lay in the hands of the Lebanese army. The army commander, General Michel Suleiman, is slated to be the new president of the country.
For analysis of the situation in Lebanon, I'm now joined on the phone from California by As'ad AbuKhalil, professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus, and the creator of the Angry Arab News Service blog at angryarab.blogspot.com. We welcome you to Democracy Now!
AS'AD ABUKHALIL: Thank you very much, Amy.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you explain what's happening in Lebanon right now?
AS'AD ABUKHALIL: Well, yes. I think that people may remember, back in the 1980s, the United States government, for two years in the administration of Ronald Reagan, deployed troops from '82 to '84. And there was a civil war, and the United States was supporting the rightwing militias of Israel in Lebanon, and they used the discourse of supporting the central government of Lebanon.
Something similar is taking place right now in Lebanon, and this is very much similar to what's happening in Sudan, in Palestine, in Iraq, in Afghanistan and Somalia. The United States is basically instigating, funding and arming civil wars in all those places. We hear a lot about this inability of the international community to tolerate armed militias. Of course, Hezbollah is an armed militia, but so are the pro-militias of the government. There's a Los Angeles Times article today detailing the efforts by the United States and allies to create militias throughout the country. And the Washington Post indicated that this government of the United States spent $1.4 billion to prop up the administration of Siniora in Lebanon.
And basically, what happened in Lebanon in the last few days is a partial coup d'etat that was in response to a full coup d'etat that was engineered by the United States and Saudi Arabia and Israel from behind the scene back in 2005, capitalizing on the assassination of Rafik Hariri.
And things have gotten to this point because America basically is responsible, more than their clients in Lebanon. I mean, there were ideas of dialogue in Lebanon, and things were moving in that direction, and then, suddenly, lo and behold, the Assistant Secretary of State of the United States for the Near East, David Welch, shows up in Lebanon, and he basically wanted to stiffen the resolve of the clients and to basically prevent the possibility of dialogue. And then, Walid Jumblatt, one of the clients of the United States and Saudi Arabia and Lebanon today, escalated by deciding on taking the issue of disarming Hezbollah, which is supported at least by half of the Lebanese, and Lebanese parties, including clients of the United States, agreed that the issues of disarming Hezbollah should be left for internal dialogue of the Lebanese themselves.
But it seems the Bush administration, while it's sailing into the sunset, wanted to achieve a victory that has long eluded it in Iraq and elsewhere. They were getting too excited about Lebanese affairs in the Washington Post, who were celebrating the so-called Cedar Revolution. Well, they tried to push them further, and look what happened. This is something that experts have warned the United Nations about. If you push things to that point, the other side is going to lash out, and they did lash out, even if one, like me, does not like the scenes of these militias and armed thugs running into the streets of Beirut and so on. But basically, we have to say that this is the doing of US foreign policy, and this is the true face of the Bush Doctrine in the Middle East.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk overall about the United States—what you feel the US role should be right now?
AS'AD ABUKHALIL: Well, I mean, just to get out, just to not be as heavily involved. We have to see that US policy is not only in funding and arming the militias in the Anbar province in Iraq or places in Iraq—I mean, Afghanistan, the warlords, or in Lebanon, the various militias. But we have to say that this level of intense tensions and conflict and animosity is the product of a deliberate American-Saudi policy of instigating a Sunni-Shiite conflict, the likes of which Lebanon has never seen. I mean, even somebody like myself who come from a split background—my mother is Sunni, and my father is Shiite—I mean, we've never seen anything like this. Saudi media, with the full cooperation of the United States, have been for three years mobilizing the Lebanese opposition, because that's the only thing they have. I mean, if patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, sectarianism in Lebanon is the last refuge of scoundrels of the United States and Israel. They have been for serious propagandizing to splitting Sunnis from Shiites in order that they create a militia that can stand up to Hezbollah.
Well, this militia of Hariri's, as supported by the United States, trained in Jordan, funded by Saudi Arabia, basically didn't last. It's very much like the Dahlan gangs in Palestine in Gaza. They do not have a cause. The United States can provide them with weapons and with money; it cannot provide them with a doctrine or an ideology. And that's why, when push comes to shove, they flee. They flee for their life, just as militias of Israel fled across the border when Israel attacked and left, humiliatingly, South Lebanon in 2000.
AMY GOODMAN: Professor AbuKhalil, we have thirty seconds. What's next? What do you make of Hassan Nasrallah's comment that this is a new era in Lebanese politics?
AS'AD ABUKHALIL: Basically, he is saying that they will no more allow this heavy-handed role by the Saudis in Lebanon, and they want to change the balance of forces on the ground. Now, that in itself does not bode well for the future in Lebanon. I fear that Hezbollah may get too intoxicated with their so-called victories on the streets of Lebanon, and they may assert a sectarian agenda that is going to provoke the other side. I worry about a [inaudible] syndrome among the Sunnis of Lebanon.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to thank you very much for being with us. Professor As'ad AbuKhalil teaches political science at California State University at Stanislaus, visiting professor at UC Berkeley.
Meanwhile, the Druze are pleading for US help.
UPDATED 2:01 5/6/08: Apparently the Zogby's are funding Obama! Can you say conflict of interest? Still think Zogby's poll results are reliable given his past history of "tinkering" with results? Here's the FEC disclosure report hat tip J
| ZOGBY, EILEEN | WASHINGTON DC 20015 |
09/30/2007 | 2300.00 | NOT EMPLOYED/NOT EMPLOYED | 27931430679 |
| ZOGBY, JAMES | WASHINGTON DC 20015 |
09/30/2007 | 2300.00 | ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE/WRITER | 27931430680 |
| ZOGBY, JOSEPH | WASHINGTON DC 20003 |
01/25/2008 | 250.00 | U.S. SENATE/COUNSEL | 28930662012 |
This is hardly the first time Zogby has been caught aiding and abetting the jihad. I have written previously of their skulduggery here. Gerald sent this new Jew hating development
Friend Zogby Fixing the Polls?Every time we think we are done writing about Barack Obama and his questionable supporters and friends, someone else with questionable views emerges.Introducing the Zogby family - James, John, and Joseph.James (Jim) Zogby is founder of the Arab American Institute and also writes for Huffington Post. He recently penned an op-ed in the Florida Times Union entitled Israel Must Treat Americans Fairly, critical of Israel’s treatment of Arab Americans traveling through Israel. In response, the Times Union published Israel Must be Treated Fairly which shed some light on Zogby:[...]Zogby’s Arab American Institute election web page (screen shot included in case it disappears) includes the transcript of a 2007 address to AAI by Barack Obama, who begins by stating:“Hello, everyone. Let me begin by congratulating your president and my good friend, Jim Zogby, for his work in putting together this conference. It’s an honor to have his support.”Interesting choice of words from Obama for a man who supports Hamas and Hizbollah, potentially funded Palestinian terrorists, founded the propaganda wing of the PLO, and called on Arab nations to reinvigorate a boycott of Israel, among other questionable activities.In “Stopping the Saudis“, Alex Alexiev reported this about Zogby’s organization:“…according to the Arab News (a Saudi government-controlled newspaper), the World Assembly of Muslim Youth — which was incorporated in the U.S. by Osama bin Laden’s brother Abdullah bin Laden — announced last June that it will “take up the cases” of 13,000 Muslim illegal aliens slated for deportation, together with the Arab American Institute, an American non-profit organization (and the recipient of $300,000 from Saudi prince Alwaleed ibn Talal...”Even some Shia Muslims in the U.S. reject Zogby’s relationship with WAMY and it appears they’ve been outlawed in the U.S. Yet apparently this is not enough for Obama to denounce his “good friend” Zogby and AAI’s support. Discover the Networks details more disturbing information on Zogby that can only bring Obama’s judgment further into question.James Zogby is the brother of John Zogby, President and Chief Executive Officer of Zogby International. Brother Jim is also a senior analyst for the company widely recognized for its Zogby Polls. Did you catch that? The founder of pro-Palestinian organizations is a senior analyst at a leading polling organization in the U.S. Could any of James anti-American, pro-Arab bias be reflected in his poll results?Clinton Leads McCain by 9 Points Nationwide, AP Poll ShowsClinton leads McCain 50 percent to 41 percent while Obama is ahead 46 percent to 44 percent,More here at Bloomberg news.Zogby: McCain Leads Clinton, Trails Obama in National General Election Match-upsUTICA, New York - Republican John McCain trails Democrat Barack Obama by three points in a national general election test, but leads Democrat Hillary Clinton by 10 points, the latest Zogby Interactive survey shows.
Previous related:
Atlas Shrugs: Iraq, Zogby, Polls, GWoT, and the Truth
Atlas Shrugs: Zogby: "Fake and Inaccurate"
Atlas Shrugs: Lefty Pollster ZOGBY Joins Liberal
Any legit news org that uses their antisemitic "data" is in the tank with the leftist/Islamic allliance.
This is insane. Can you see Carnegie or Ford Foundation doing anything like this for the Jews or the Christians or the Sikhs ...... our brains are cracked. It's Stockholm syndrome.
NEW YORK, April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced an initial $10 million investment to enrich the quality of America's public dialogue on Islam and Muslim societies. Many of the foundation's long-term programmatic priorities - from international security and immigrant integration to journalism and support for individual scholars - have integrated a focus on Islam into their grantmaking. The Corporation's comprehensive strategy focuses on increasing public knowledge about the diversity of thought, cultures and history of Islam and Muslim communities, including those in the U.S.
Grants and allocations announced today, as well as investments made over the past six months, constitute the largest commitment by a U.S. foundation toward the development of a more complex understanding among Americans about Muslim communities here and throughout the world - revealing Islam's rich diversity.
"There is a disconnection between many of our public conversations about Islam and our knowledge of it," said Carnegie Corporation President Vartan Gregorian.
Oh, there's a disconnect alright. Why not give this money to returning soldiers? GI scholarships?
"Carnegie Corporation has worked to help remedy this disconnect by contributing to a more fundamental comprehension about a religion of diverse expressions and cultures with 1.3 billion practitioners worldwide. We hope that our work will better equip Americans to make informed decisions about, and engage with, various Muslim communities in our midst as well as those abroad."
Gregorian continued, "Our Islam-related grantmaking is, in part, a response to an increased demand since September 11, 2001 by cultural institutions, thinks tanks, elected officials, policymakers and journalists for more and better information about Islam as a religion, about Islamic civilizations, and about Muslim states and societies."
Is that what came out of 9/11?
Gregorian added that Carnegie Corporation's thoroughly integrated program structure - which prioritizes the sharing of knowledge and experiences across disciplines - has helped to maximize the impact of the Islam work.
"Understanding both Islam as a world religion and Islamic civilizations is one facet of the Corporation's integrated grantmaking, but so is gaining greater understanding of the role of Muslim communities in America's national life: today, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there are approximately 2.5 million Muslims living in the United Sates, and those numbers are on the rise. Muslims comprise new streams in the multiplicity of ethnic, racial, linguistic and religious groups that for more than two centuries have come to the United States and contributed to the rich cultural and social tapestry that is our nation. And like others before them, they too must be integrated into our society and engage positively with our democracy and our democratic institutions."
Carnegie Corporation will support innovative, publicly accessible research by individual scholars; assist media to address the entire spectrum of Islamic religious and political thought; and outreach efforts by universities to connect their research to the broader public. The Corporation is also supporting efforts to inform specific audiences, including members of Congress, about the complex, diverse and rapidly changing landscape of contemporary Islam.
Several of the new grants focus on developing professional and leadership skills including cultivating the new generation of American Muslim leaders, and improving the depth of media coverage by helping journalists develop a more complex understanding of Islam and Muslim societies.
Specific grants awarded today to expand the American public's understanding of Islam and Muslim societies originate from many of the Corporation's program areas and include:
- The Carnegie Scholars program is supporting 20 scholars, analysts and writers to pursue original projects oriented toward catalyzing intellectual discourse as well as guiding more focused and pragmatic policy discussions on Islam and Muslim societies. The 2008 awardees are the fourth consecutive annual class to focus on Islam, bringing to 91 the number of Carnegie Scholars devoted to the topic since the program began in 2000. The Corporation has also allocated funds for a fifth class in 2009. ($4,000,000)
- The Educational Broadcasting Corporation will produce, promote and distribute a series of 12 one-hour episodes with the working title of "Charlie Rose: Conversations in Islam," presenting an array of viewpoints on contemporary Islam from political and religious leaders, scholars and cultural figures. ($1,000,000)
- The Aspen Institute will produce a series of seminars on contemporary Islam for members of the United States Congress. ($800,000)
- The America University in Cairo will convene an intensive training program for students from journalism schools supported by the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education focusing on the history and societies of the Middle East. ($199,800)
- TheNewshour on PBS will expand the activities of the program's Overseas Reporting Unit to address the complexity and diversity of Islam in the context of global peace and security. ($500,000)
- National Public Radio will report on the state of Islam in the U.S. and internationally, including profiles of prominent Muslim leaders and experts on Islam. ($400,000)
- The International Center for Journalists will link American journalists with journalists from the Muslim world to improve coverage of the diversity of Muslim-majority states. ($228,200)
- The University of Southern California will help strengthen emerging leaders in the Muslim American community with the goal of increasing civic and political engagement. ($50,000)
- American University of Beirut will convene a series of seminars in the Middle East addressing contemporary political Islam and intended for journalists from small-to-medium-sized U.S. media markets ($50,000)
- The Religion News Writers Association will create online resources to help facilitate accurate and insightful reporting on Islam and a training seminar for journalists. ($50,000)
- InterNews will produce a series of radio programs for broadcast in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region aimed at raising the voices of ordinary citizens against violence and conflict. ($50,000)
- Johns Hopkins University will provide training to U.S. news editors on issues facing Turkey, including the role of political Islam. ($50,000)
- The Glocal Forum will bring best practices in interfaith dialogue and mediation to its international network of cities ($50,000)
- The Washington National Cathedral is convening an international meeting of religious leaders to facilitate dialogue and reconciliation. ($50,000)
- The Institute for Advanced Study will convene top scholars on the topic of Islamic texts and thinkers that played a role in the European Enlightenment. ($50,000)
- The American Society for Muslim Advancement will increase its communication and media outreach capacity, including the provision of training to diverse, emerging voices and leaders in the many Muslim communities across the U.S. ($300,000)
- The ADC Research Institute will disseminate information on civil rights and civil liberties violations affecting Arab and Muslim Americans post-September 11, 2001. ($50,000)
Over the past six months Carnegie Corporation made an initial set of investments leading to today's grants:
- The Social Science Research Council is supporting outreach to connect the wealth of university-based knowledge on the history and culture of Islam to students, media, the business community and the broader public. ($2,000,000)
- Harvard University is creating an interactive, web-based tool to access a spectrum of scholarly and religious debates and viewpoints in contemporary Islamic thought. ($200,000)
- The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has examined and disseminated a report on the civic integration of American Muslims. ($150,000)
- Women's eNews is producing a series of news stories examining American Muslim women challenging the stereotypes associated with them and Islam in general. ($48,000)
- The Women's Foreign Policy Group in conjunction with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will convene a conference for policymakers and diplomats in which Carnegie Scholars and other experts will engage in a dialogue on Islam in a cultural, historic, and political context. ($45,000)
- The Interfaith Youth Core is promoting religious tolerance on college campuses. ($50,000)
- The Aspen Institute is educating the public about Muslim American philanthropy. ($50,000)
- The Aspen Institute held a seminar of specialists on the radicalization process ($50,000)
- The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is producing a seminar series on Islam. ($25,000)
- New York University is producing a series of public conferences on Western and Islamic theories of law. ($49,100)
- The Consensus Building Institute is building dialogue among Americans on the subject of constructive interaction with Muslim states. ($50,000)
- The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is sharing best practices in government-Muslim community relationships among the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. ($49,000)
About Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Corporation of New York was created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote "the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding." For more than 95 years the Corporation has carried out Carnegie's vision of philanthropy by building on his two major concerns: international peace and advancing education and knowledge. As a private grantmaking foundation, the Corporation will invest more than $100 million this year in nonprofits to fulfill Mr. Carnegie's mission, "to do real and permanent good in this world." The Corporation's capital fund, originally donated at a value of about $135 million, had a market value of $3.07 billion on September 30, 2007.
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You can't make this stuff up. Un-freakin-believable. The New York Time is so in the tank for the jihad they can't deteriorate fast enough. And deteriorating they are. Scott over at Powerline: (hat tip van)
David Harris is the executive director of the American Jewish Committee. He has posted an interesting account of the censorship of the AJC's weekly radio ad by the New York Times-owned radio station WQXR:
On behalf of AJC, I do a weekly national 60-second radio spot. The time is purchased as any advertisement would be. For the past nearly seven years, it has been broadcast across the United States on the CBS radio network, on hundreds of stations, without incident.
Earlier this year, we expanded the reach by adding in the New York area WQXR, a popular classical music station owned by the New York Times.
For the week of March 31, here was the text to be aired:
Fifteen seconds. Imagine you had fifteen seconds to find shelter from an incoming missile. Fifteen seconds to locate your children, help an elderly relative, assist a disabled person to find shelter.
That's all the residents of Sderot and neighboring Israeli towns have.
Day or night, the sirens go on. Fifteen seconds later, the missiles, fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza, hit. They could hit a home, a school, a hospital. Their aim is to kill and wound and demoralize.
Imagine yourself in that situation.
The sirens blast. 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The time to seek shelter has ended. The missiles hit.
This is what Israelis experience daily. But, amazingly, they refuse to be cowed. Help us help those Israelis. Visit ajc.org.
The spot was broadcast several times, as is customary, on the CBS radio network, but WQXR refused to do so.
Now check out their reason. It's pathetic.
Here’s the written explanation from Tom Bartunek, president of New York Times Radio and general manager of WQXR:
”In my judgement several elements of this spot are outside our bounds of acceptability. First, the opening line— `Imagine you had fifteen seconds to find shelter from an oncoming missile’—does not make clear that the potential target of the missile is not our listening area, and as a consequence, runs the risk of raising anxiety in a misleading way. Second, the description of the missiles as arriving `day or night’ and `daily’ is also subject to challenge as being misleading, at least to the degree that reasonable people might be troubled by the absence of any acknowledgement of reciprocal Israeli military actions. Finally, in my judgement the `countdown’ device and the general tone of the message do not meet our guidelines for decorum.”
Stunning, above all, is the reference to "the absence of any acknowledgement of reciprocal Israeli military actions.”
In other words, according to Bartunek’s logic, the only way to broadcast the plight of Sderot’s residents over the airwaves is to equate Israel’s right of self-defense with Hamas’s and Islamic Jihad’s right to strike Israel at will.
They are sick with their hatred of the Jews.
UPDATE: British Journalist Asks NY Radio Station To Reconsider
In response, British radio journalist Walter Bingham, who resides in Israel and has frequented Sderot, has launched a letter-writing campaign to the station urging them to reconsider their decision. Write to: listener.mail@wqxr.com
Mr. Bingham's letter to the station appears below:
Dear Mr. Batunek,
As a radio journalist with 58 years experience, (yes I’m 84 years old and still presenting my own programme,)
I am extremely disappointed to learn, that you have judged the advertising spot requested by the American Jewish Committee to be misleading and its content open to challenge.
I have visited the Sderot area several times and can assure you that the rockets are indeed falling unpredicted and without provocation at any time during the day or night, and that the description of 15 seconds warning is absolutely accurate, as the distance between the two locations is no more than 1 to 1 ½ miles.
The government of Israel has for years now been extremely patient, and while the rockets are aimed at the civilian population, any action in response, has been meticulous to avoid civilian casualties among Palestinians, and exclusively aimed at the perpetrators of such attacks. I greatly doubt if the ‘reasonable people’ to whom you refer are troubled by the absence of any comment about the occasional defensive action by the Israeli military, in the light of the volume of missiles fired at Sderot and neighbouring populated areas, on one day recently 22 and on another some 40.
It is important for journalists to be able to place themselves into the shoes of their subject or interviewee, to be able to report fairly, and I invite you therefore to imagine your feelings, when your small children or grandchildren are at school or even at play in your garden under those circumstances.
In the light of this, I feel that it would be right to re-examine the facts that led you to your decision.
I really would appreciate your considered reply, and send you
My most friendly fraternal greetings.
Walter Bingham M.M. MA(lond)
Chartered Institute of Journalists U.K.
Good luck with that!
ACLU wants to help defend alleged Sept. 11 mastermind
Go to the link. I am not blogging this. These leftists make me so sick already.
UPDATE: OTOH, you have to admire their insane devotion to something so absolutely wrong.
July 23, 2007 , talking change at Obama at National Council of La Raza.
We know so little of the Senator who shot from obscurity to political stardom with his message of "national unity". Yet, the more we know, the more we recoil at the thought that a man who stands with the fifth column in this country might very well inhabit the White House.
Add to the recent revelations of dangerous liaisons, La Raza.
If it is not clear, let me state the obvious. This man is tied to the darkest, subversive elements in American society. Organizations that not only hate America, but in the case of Las Raza, wish to overthrow American sovereignty.
Exposed over at Creeping Sharia: (hat tip TRK)
Barack Obama denied, again, that he was present last July 22nd when his pastor Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. preached hatred of white America, and the Obama campaign claimed he couldn’t have been in Chicago because he made a speech in Miami that same afternoon.
Indeed he did, a speech to La Raza (The Race) - see the meeting agenda here, and video here. “La Raza has always represented that kind of change,” stated Obama.
What kind of change is Obama thinking of?
What kind of change does La Raza represent? Check out the La Raza videos here and all over utube, and a report here. More anti-white, anti-American themes that Obama seems to secretly embrace. La Raza even claims an affinity with Palestine - photo above and La Raza as Palestinians here. Sound like a Mexican CAIR, yeah?
La Raza is a member of MEChA is an Hispanic separatist organization that encourages anti-American activities and civil disobedience whose members romanticize Mexican claims to the "lost Territories" of the Southwestern United States -- a Chicano country called Aztlan. In its national constitution, MEChA calls for self-determination by its members to liberate Aztlan. (more here)
Radical 'Reconquista' Agenda Human Events
Behind the respectable front of the National Council of La Raza lies the real agenda of the La Raza movement, the agenda that led to those thousands of illegal immigrants in the streets of American cities, waving Mexican flags, brazenly defying our laws, and demanding concessions.
Their founding principles are contained in these words in "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan" (The Spiritual Plan for Aztlan):
"In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny. ... Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. ... We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan. For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada."
That closing two-sentence motto is chilling to everyone who values equal rights for all. It says: "For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing."
Police Investigate Explosion in Times Square
Photo: Pamela
Who is the enemy here? There are two Americas - the America haters and the America lovers and in short order we'll have low grade civil war. This is one of the only recruiting stations that has all four divisions under on roof (army, navy, air force, marines). Over at Thunder Run:
This morning at about 3:40 am an explosion occurred outside a very successful recruiting station in Times Square NYC. While no report seems to link the current escalation of force by the anti-war / peace movement I will. First we saw Code-Pink in Berkeley, CA swarm around and set up a continual protest against the USMC. Then we have crowds invading a recruiting station in Washington DC. Now…a bombing of a recruiting station in NYC.
The New York Times describes the event thusly:
Blast Damages Times Square Recruiting Station The New York City police just issued a statement describing the source of the explosion as an “improvised explosive device” and putting the time of the blast at 3:43 a.m. Subways and traffic are running normally through Times Square.
At first glance, the explosion seemed reminiscent, in its effects and timing, of two earlier blasts. At about 3:40 a.m. on Oct. 26, 2007, two dummy hand grenades that had been fashioned into crude bombs exploded outside the Mexican Consulate at 27 East 39th Street in Murray Hill, shattering windows. The building was not occupied and no one was hurt. At 3:55 a.m. on May 5, 2005, two crude but powerful explosive devices detonated outside the British Consulate at 845 Third Avenue in East Midtown, shattering windows and damaging a planter.
Just after 6:45 a.m., a handful of law enforcement officers knelt at the foundation of the recruiting station, smashing the carpet of glass shards with long-handled mallets. Two men in hazardous-materials suits stood above them, among more than a dozen
investigators from the city’s Police and Fire Departments, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Police vans and squad cars ringed the scene, with clusters of detectives on street corners, paging through notebooks and talking on cellphones.And while a spokesperson for Homeland Security wouldn’t comment on whether this explosion was related to terrorism the act in itself was a terror attack…an attack in my opinion against those very people who defend us against terror, the U.S. Military.
The left is already in a tizzy over the event worried that it’s going to cause a backlash against them. In the words of Kos Diarist Cool Blue Reason.“Inevitably, we're going to start hearing about "left-wing terrorism" from the usual suspects in the media. And I'm guessing the drumbeat is going to be especially loud in this political environment."
And you know what CBR, you are absolutely correct. Do you want to know why, the reason is because you are more than happy to surround your self and associate with those who openly hate and attack those who defend us. You support groups like Code Pink and MoveOn.org who call our soldier’s baby killers and murderers. You clap when “students” swarm and destroy recruiting stations and you support world leaders who actively call for the destruction of the very country that defends your right to do so.
Is this event going to be used to attack the left? You’re damn right its going to be used to attack the left, because the left has allowed and even welcomed the militant anti-American into their ranks, and you deserve all of the bad press that goes along with it.
How unhinged is the left over this they are even indicating that it was a right-wing attack against the recruiting station in order to drum up support to oppose the left. Can it get any crazier in the reality based community?
UPDATE: Mayor Bloomberg is speaking: He is saying that this bombing is an insult to all men and women serving in our aremed forces. WRONG! This is an insult to every American. Bloomberg doesn't get it.
The delicious Ray Kelly is up. It was not a sophisticated device. Placed in a small ammunition box you can buy in an army navy store. Examining where the box (where the bomb was placed) was purchased. There is one witness who saw the enemy on a bicycle wearing a backpack. If you saw anything or know anything call 1800 577 tips. No one saw his face.
They are looking at all the cameras in the area. Again, if you know anything is 1 800 577 tips.
There was a cop in the police station next store to bombing and he joined up with the witness. Enemy combatant was in a hooded sweatshirt, backpack, on bike .......... there are so many cameras in that are of NY. They have images, IMAO.
UPDATE: Dan Maloney over at the Gathering of Eagles tells me, "this is the recruiter location that the Gathering of Eagles has most often defended against the domestic insurgents of the radical left". More here.
UPDATE: Citizen journalist Pamela grabbed video:
- 11 AM as the press is allowed on the island for pics...
- a view of damage east..good view of hole in door
- a view of damage and bulge in door
- a view of damage from west...
- that one protester, the door damage, the press (a crew goes underground) and the press start to interview navy...
- Press interview navy...# 1
- Press interview navy...# 2
- Press interview navy...# 3
- press and female navy interview...
- spanish tv with Navy interview
- Japanese tv reporter ...
UPDATE: The Gathering of Eagles has updated and now includes their own photos and video of
the damage done to the Times Square Recruiter Station as well as the
surveillance video of the bomber setting the bomb and the actual
explosion. Go here.
Gathering of
Eagles will stage a "Support Our Troops" rally at the Times Square Recruiter
Station this Saturday, March, 8, 2008, from 1pm until 4pm. All are invited to
bring flags, signs and banners supporting our troops and recruiters.
What:
Support Our Troops Rally
Where: Times Square Recruiter Station West 44th St
and Broadway.
When: Saturday, March 8th, 1-4pm
Pamela's Picture Slideshow here
Lots of cops ....... a good thing
there's an asshat in every crowd
Yeah baby!
"Obama will be almost automatically a healing factor in the animosity now that exists, that relates to our country and its government"
Is this Obamas view? Obama: The Jimmy Carter Connection Kowabungs
Atlas reader Sarasara left this comment:
Anyone who follows Al Jazeera English will be aware of the nauseating spectacle of a promo ad repeated a number of times daily showing a grinning Jimmy Carter exulting in anti-Israeli sentiment as he says “People say it’s a fence....It’s not a fence, it’s a wall!” This ad should awaken Jews to a type of liberal-left bias against Israel which I believe that Obama by his past associations shares. Out of the mouth of babes! Mr James Carter, son of former President Jimmy Carter has just appeared today Mon 3rd March on Al Jazeera English News as a spokesman for his organization: ‘The International Campaign Against The Siege Of Gaza’
He said that "the balance of terror was equal on both sides" and that he "hoped that America would elect a new President like his father who would treat both the Hamas and Zionist terrorists equally."
The media aligned with the jihad force teach the group think. Media bias, priming the American people. Chris over in the UK sent me the following.
On Oct. 6 at its National Convention in Seattle, the Society of Professional Journalists passed a resolution urging members and fellow journalists to take steps against racial profiling in their coverage of the war on terrorism and to reaffirm their commitment to:
— Use language that is informative and not inflammatory;
— Portray Muslims, Arabs and Middle Eastern and South Asian Americans in the richness of their diverse experiences;
— Seek truth through a variety of voices and perspectives that help audiences understand the complexities of the events in Pennsylvania, New York City and Washington, D.C.
Guidelines
Visual images
— Seek out people from a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds when photographing Americans mourning those lost in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
— Seek out people from a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds when photographing rescue and other public service workers and military personnel.
— Do not represent Arab Americans and Muslims as monolithic groups. Avoid conveying the impression that all Arab Americans and Muslims wear traditional clothing.
— Use photos and features to demystify veils, turbans and other cultural articles and customs.
Stories
— Seek out and include Arabs and Arab Americans, Muslims, South Asians and men and women of Middle Eastern descent in all stories about the war, not just those about Arab and Muslim communities or racial profiling.
— Cover the victims of harassment, murder and other hate crimes as thoroughly as you cover the victims of overt terrorist attacks.
— Make an extra effort to include olive-complexioned and darker men and women, Sikhs, Muslims and devout religious people of all types in arts, business, society columns and all other news and feature coverage, not just stories about the crisis.
— Seek out experts on military strategies, public safety, diplomacy, economics and other pertinent topics who run the spectrum of race, class, gender and geography.
— When writing about terrorism, remember to include white supremacist, radical anti-abortionists and other groups with a history of such activity.
— Do not imply that kneeling on the floor praying, listening to Arabic music or reciting from the Quran are peculiar activities.
— When describing Islam, keep in mind there are large populations of Muslims around the world, including in Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, India and the United States. Distinguish between various Muslim states; do not lump them together as in constructions such as "the fury of the Muslim world."
— Avoid using word combinations such as "Islamic terrorist" or "Muslim extremist" that are misleading because they link whole religions to criminal activity. Be specific: Alternate choices, depending on context, include "Al Qaeda terrorists" or, to describe the broad range of groups involved in Islamic politics, "political Islamists." Do not use religious characterizations as shorthand when geographic, political, socioeconomic or other distinctions might be more accurate.— Avoid using terms such as "jihad" unless you are certain of their precise meaning and include the context when they are used in quotations. The basic meaning of "jihad" is to exert oneself for the good of Islam and to better oneself.
— Consult the Library of Congress guide for transliteration of Arabic names and Muslim or Arab words to the Roman alphabet. Use spellings preferred by the American Muslim Council, including "Muhammad," "Quran," and "Makkah ," not "Mecca."
— Regularly seek out a variety of perspectives for your opinion pieces. Check your coverage against the five Maynard Institute for Journalism Education fault lines of race and ethnicity, class, geography, gender and generation.
— Ask men and women from within targeted communities to review your coverage and make suggestions.
RELIGION OF PEACE?:
"Seek out your enemies relentlessly." (Surah 4:103-)
"Believers, take neither Jews nor Christians for your friends." (Surah 5:51)
"Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God's religion shall reign supreme." (Surah 8:36-)
"Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them." (Surah 9:121-)
"Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness in your oaths (lies), but for the intention in your hearts" (Surah 2:225)
Obama and the Jews Jerusalem Post
Heaven forbid the leftists address the legitimate concerns raised by those of us who care deeply about America and the future direction of this country. CHANGE can be bad. For example, CHANGING to a sharia compliant, terror aligning, socialist state would be a bad CHANGE. Obama would not be the first Democrat recognizing Islamic terrorists, Kerry, Biden & Hagel hung out with the Islamist Party in Pakistan. But it is bad for America and not what we want.
Obama's foreign policy adviser's give freedom lovers great pause.
I am appalled at the attacks on those investigative journalists exposing the truth about Obama's true agenda. Check out this asshat's Orwellian editorial in the Jewish JTA. He mendaciously smears the inestimable Ed Lasky. Kampeas is JTA's Jerusalem bureau chief (collective oyish).
Ed Lasky has done extensive research on Obama's advisers as have many others but Ron Kampeas, Goebbels lite, goes after Lasky merely for doing us the great service of exposing the backgrounds of Obama's advisers.
Kampeas is a self hating Jew and a leftist - morally ambivalent at best. He has been doing Obama's bidding for some time. Does Kampeas even care to fact-check? Just read the advisers own writings, read how other media characterize them. The JTA accepts tax-deductible contributions-does this political activity raise questions about their tax status?
Obama's advisers drawing scrutiny Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Even as U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) solidifies his status as the Democratic front-runner with victories Tuesday in Wisconsin and Hawaii, he is facing a new line of attack from some Jewish circles regarding his advisers on foreign policy.
In recent weeks, writers associated with several right-wing media outlets have taken aim at what they describe as anti-Israel voices advising Obama on Middle East issues, spurring a rash of mass e-mails voicing similar concerns.
Among those cited by critics are Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser in the Carter administration; Samantha Power, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University; Robert Malley, an adviser on Israeli-Arab affairs during the Clinton administration; and George Soros, an international financier who has funded pro-democracy efforts throughout Europe and in recent years became a major supporter of the Democratic Party in the United States.
Fairly or unfairly, each has been on the receiving end of criticism from some pro-Israel activists or Jewish groups over positions viewed as being hostile to the Jewish state.
The Obama campaign acknowledges that it has received advice from the people named in the negative e-mail campaign, describing the meetings with these individuals as a product of Obama's "one America" philosophy of reaching out to all Americans.
But, in the end, campaign officials say, the candidate should be assessed according to his own votes and statements. Besides, they add, the personalities in question do not play any formal role in advising Obama on Middle East issues. That task, they say, falls to a collection of policy experts in good standing with the pro-Israel lobby.
Unlike the Internet attacks falsely painting Obama as a secret radical Muslim, the "adviser" e-mails appear to have struck a chord among some Jewish organizational leaders, in addition to worrying some grassroots voters.
No one has said he is a secret radical Muslim. We .... I said he is Muslim by birth. His father was a Muslim and his stepfather was a Muslim and he attended a madrassah in Indonesia from the ages of 6 to 10. FACT.
This week, in an interview with Shalom TV, a Web-based Jewish channel, World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said that "if you have an adviser that is not sympathetic to Israel -- not sympathetic to some Jewish concerns -- you have a potential problem."
"If you only have one or two close advisers and they're both anti-Israel," Lauder said, then "it's only a matter of time before the president becomes anti-Israel."
Lauder made no specific reference to Obama, but the comments come at a time when the Illinois senator appears to be the only candidate facing major questions about his advisers on Israel-related issues.
Lauder's speech, a rarity for him to speak out so strongly, is a must listen here.
Last week, Malcolm Hoenlein, the professional head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, reportedly told Israeli reporters that the "change" mantra in the current U.S. election -- mostly associated with Obama -- was worrying.
Thank Gd someone is speaking out in the public forum.
Ha'aretz framed Hoenlein's comments as an expression of concern about Obama's camp, but the Jewish communal leader told JTA that he was speaking generally about this campaign season and the calls for change coming from supporters of several of the candidates in both parties.
In an effort to counter various attacks against Obama going back several months, his campaign has responded with several long e-mails to Jewish supporters. Insiders say response has been positive -- a perception borne out by primary elections exit polls that show Jews trending toward Obama more than other whites in some states.
Even with minimal impact, attacks can still cross the line and are cause for concern, said Dennis Ross, the Clinton administration's top Middle East envoy.
"When you're in the political season, every difference tends to be magnified," said Ross, who has given the Obama campaign advice and who is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a pro-Israel think tank. "We can have political differences, but it can't lead to demonization."
Much, if not the vast majority, of the material targeting Obama's advisers is distorted and even false.
Check the URLs and all their op-eds,etc
The campaign notes that its Middle East policy is strictly the province of four individuals, each of them perceived as pro-Israel and three of them Jewish: Dan Shapiro, a longtime activist and bridge between the Jewish organizational leadership and Democratic Party; Anthony Lake, a Clinton administration national security adviser; Eric Lynn, the Obama campaign's Jewish liaison who has lived in Israel; and Dennis McDonough, once the foreign policy adviser to former U.S. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), who had impeccable pro-Israel credentials during his time in office.
Lasky hardly barely mentioned Lake and certainly did not fault him for his attachment to the Berkshires. He only quoted Peretz who had pointed out that he had been out of the big picture for some time, living in the Berkshires.
Of the four regular advisers, only Lake has taken shots from Obama's critics. In an article in the American Thinker -- the online conservative magazine that has been the principle redoubt of Obama-Israel skepticism -- Ed Lasky faults Lake, who recently converted to Judaism, for having worked for the Carter administration and for living in the Berkshires.
Much of the material appearing in a number of Lasky articles and circulating in e-mails is similarly flimsy, especially his attacks on Malley
Read the URLs, read the NY Sun, read Martin Peretz, read Commentary), according to Obama supporters and some former U.S. diplomats.
Like Ross, Malley was a senior adviser to the Clinton administration at the U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian talks at Camp David in the summer of 2000.
Malley has differed with Ross and others over the degree of blame to be assigned over the talks' breakdown -- Ross singles out the late Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat -- but he does not solely blame Israel. And in public talks in Washington, he emphasizes Israel's security as a critical element in formulating policy.
"He is not anti-Israeli, he is not a fanatic anti-Israeli," Ross told JTA. "To use these tacks is just wrong."
The targeting of Malley led Ross and four other Clinton-era officials to publish an open letter last week defending his record.
"Whatever differences do exist, there is no disagreement among us on one core issue that transcends partisan or other divides: that the U.S. should not and will not do anything to undermine Israel’s safety or the special relationship between our two nations," the letter said. "We have worked with Rob closely over the years and have no doubt he shares this view and has acted consistent with it."
Soros, the billionaire philanthropist, has donated to Obama's campaign. He has also been critical of Israel and of pro-Israel orthodoxies, but the Holocaust survivor has cast his criticisms as mindful of Israel's security.
Right-he admits in a NYT magazine article that he is harsh on Israel, and funds a a variety of anti-Israel groups
Read Peretz and listen to his 60 Minutes interview. Check out this Atlas post. He was a nazi collaborator in rounding up the wealth of Jews, he never was in a concentration camp. He was a kapo not a survivor.
Soros vigorously opposes the pro-Israel lobby in America and has unsuccessfully tried to create a pro-Palestinian anti-Israel l alternative to it.
Recently, he considered funding an alternative pro-Israel lobby, one that would more aggressively advocate for a two-state solution, while also maintaining Israel's security needs. Lasky links to a Soros article last year in the New York Review of Books to show that the financier is a "fierce foe" of Israel. In it, Soros describes his thesis as follows: "Military superiority is necessary for Israel's national security, but it is not sufficient."
Talk about selective quotations-read his article-his animosity shines through-as it does in other statements he has made, other articles he has written, groups that he funds.
Despite what Obama supporters and some observers say are distortions and falsehoods, there's enough that would worry parts of the pro-Israel community, particularly the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its allies.
Brzezinski's time as Carter's national security adviser left a bitter taste among Israelis and pro-Israel activists. They perceived Brzezinski as creating a false dichotomy between Israel's needs and the effort to recruit Middle Eastern states to America's side in the Cold War -- a key point given that his overriding concern in the Carter administration was containing the Soviets.
It didn’t help that Brzezinski initially endorsed the views of Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, academics who promulgated the thesis that the pro-Israel lobby fundamentally distorts U.S. foreign policy. He later backtracked to a degree, suggesting that their book overstated its case.
The Obama campaign says it does not take advice from Brzezinski, but has accepted his endorsement as a senior U.S. statesman, who says the Illinois senator has the best policy for extricating the United States from Iraq.
Again, all the media outlets describe him as a foreign policy adviser.
Power, the lecturer from Harvard, is a more sensitive problem for the campaign. An expert on genocide who has worked with Jewish activists who press the case that the United States should have done more to stop the Holocaust during World War II, she served for two years on Obama's Senate staff and is a permanent adviser -- but not, the campaign says, on Middle East-related issues.
The Obama campaign has rejected efforts to paint her as anti-Israel, although notably, it does not address her writings related to Israel."Samantha Power is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a book about the evil of genocide, which includes an extensive discussion of the Holocaust, so for this smear e-mail to paint her as anti-Israel is outrageous," said a statement from the campaign that first appeared in the Palm Beach Post in Florida.
Even as they defend Power, Obama campaign officials say she has little say on Middle East issues, confining her advice to issues such as the genocide in Darfur.
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), who is arguably Obama's top congressional backer in Florida, told the Palm Beach Post that the e-mail campaign criticizing the candidate's advisers was a "lie."
"I wouldn't be involved with any candidate," Wexler was quoted as saying, "that didn't recognize Israel as a Jewish state, that didn't reject the Palestinian right of return, and that didn't demand that Hamas reject terror as a condition for talks with the Palestinians."
Kampeas also ignores the criticism from other, more prestigious people. Many have been mining the anti-Israel rich histories of Obama's advisers. Eric Trager over at Commentary blog recently wrote of Obama's adviser Robert Malley;
In the ongoing debate regarding Barack Obama’s stance on Israel, Obama foreign policy adviser Robert Malley has emerged as a divisive figure.
Malley’s supporters and critics agree that he embraces a pro-Palestinian narrative in his approach towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As President Bill Clinton’s special adviser on Arab-Israeli affairs from 1998-2001, Malley was the only American official to blame the United States and Israel—rather than Yasser Arafat—for the failure to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace at Camp David in 2000. Since leaving government, Malley has further developed his pro-Palestinian credentials: he has gushed over Arafat; partnered with Arafat adviser Hussein Agha in promoting his revisionist account of Camp David; and blamed the Bush administration overwhelmingly for continued Israeli-Palestinian strife.
Given Malley’s unabashed bias, supporters of Israel have questioned his true motives, with Martin Peretz’s determination that Malley is a “rabid hater of Israel” representative of the debate’s deteriorating tenor. Last week, Malley’s fellow peace processors shot back, calling the attacks “an effort to undermine the credibility of a talented public servant who has worked tirelessly over the years to promote Arab-Israeli peace and US national interests.” Malley’s former colleagues further wrote that he neither harbors an anti-Israel agenda nor has sought to undermine Israeli security.
Yet the very question of whether or not Malley is a “anti-Israel” is a red herring. Rather than psychoanalyzing Malley to uncover his true motivations, we should assess Malley’s policy prescriptions as to whether they have advanced Israeli-Palestinian peace—the cause for which Malley was employed. It is within this framework that Malley’s insufficiency as a presidential foreign policy adviser is most profoundly exposed.
Consider, for example, Malley’s address at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in September 2005. While debating U.S. policy towards Islamist parties, Malley argued that the U.S. should allow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to permit Hamas’ participation in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Malley said:
[Abbas] thinks that it’s the only way that he can restore political stability; that he can regenerate his own political party; and that he can sustain the ceasefire. . . . We should not be second-guessing that assessment.
Of course, Malley’s policy of not “second-guessing” Abbas on Hamas was an unambiguous disaster, with Hamas’ subsequent election dashing all hopes that the post-Arafat era could yield peaceful compromise.
And Noah Pollak wrote of close pal and Obama advisor, Samantha Power;
Samantha Power: the Salon Interview
It might be time that I downgraded my opinion of Samantha Power from someone who I believe holds naive and mischievous opinions on the Middle East to someone who for the most part simply doesn’t know what she’s talking about. She gave a must-read interview yesterday to Salon.com.
What is the biggest foreign policy challenge for the next president?
The next president is really going to have to walk and chew gum at the same time, because no long-term peace in the Middle East is possible until we get some kind of modus vivendi in the Arab-Israeli situation.
Remarkable. Neither the Iraq war, nor the Iranian nuclear program, nor North Korean nuclear proliferation, nor the situation in Pakistan, nor the ascendant Iran-Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas axis, in Power’s assessment, is comparable to “the Arab-Israeli situation.” This is, of course, the view of the world one gets from watching too many Christiane Amanpour specials on CNN; but it is also one that has virtually no currency among serious people.
You recently wrote in Time magazine that the U.S. needs to “rethink Iran.” What did you mean?
…To neutralize the support Ahmadinejad has domestically, we need to stop threatening and to get in a room with him — if only to convey grave displeasure about his tactics regionally and internationally — and then try to build international support for measures to prevent him from supporting terrorism and pursuing a nuclear program. If we’re ever going to actually put in place multilateral measures to contain Iran, the only way we’re going to do that is if we do it in a more united way with our allies.
To this, one can only reply: “Donny, you’re out of your element.” For starters, Ahmadinejad essentially has no domestic popularity in Iran. He is aggressively detested by everyone in the country with a reformist cast of mind, and he is widely blamed for crippling the Iranian economy through his imposition of some of the most half-baked centralized planning that exists in the world today. This Washington Post piece delves into Ahamadinejad’s domestic unpopularity; this piece from the Asia Times discusses his abysmal poll ratings. If Power thinks that we’re going to get anywhere with Iran by undermining Ahmadinejad’s “domestic support,” let me be the first to inform her: he doesn’t have any domestic support to begin with.
But that’s just a nitpick. The real swindle here is Power’s implication that the U.S. has yet to pursue a multilateral strategy for dealing with the Iranian nuclear program, a fascinating rewriting of history. Between 2002 and 2006, the Bush administration delegated Iran diplomacy to the EU-3 (France, Germany, and the UK), specifically in pursuit of the cultivation of an international consensus against Iran’s nuclear program. The EU-3, working extensively through the IAEA — another of those international bodies that Power believes has been sidelined by the Bush administration — demonstrated nothing more than the ease with which it could be repeatedly manipulated and thwarted.
And over at Michael Totten's blog;
Lebanese journalist Michael Young and Iraqi blogger Iraqpundit have expressed their reservations about one of Obama's foreign policy advisers, Samantha Power. The self-described “Genocide Chick” seems to them insufficiently concerned that an American withdrawal from Iraq will lead to genocide. Her solution? Move people from one area to another and give money to Iraq's neighbors to stabilize the country. You can't blame her for basically parroting the egregiously cynical recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, but in reality this means that US forces should be complicit in the sectarian cleansing of Iraq and pay off countries like Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia that have themselves funded and supported death squads targeting Iraqi Shias, Kurds and Sunnis as well as US troops.
There's a good deal more superior and fact based journalists and writes I could cite and will in future posts, but for now ................
Former Israel Ambassador to America Daniel Ayalon (Who Are You Barack Obama?) wherein the Ambassador expressed concern
regarding Obama's approach toward Iran and also, based on his own personal
experience with Obama dealing on issues concerning the American-Israel
relationship, stating that he was left with an "impression that he was not
entirely forthright with his thinking";
Jerusalem
Post columnist Caroline Glick, who also took on Mike Huckabee
and Ron Paul in this column;
Jerusalem Post Editorial Page editor Saul
Singer (Obama's Mixed Record on Iran );
The New York Post;
Writer Hillel Halkin (Obama Gets Israel
Wrong);
An
American Jewish Committee internal memo questioned Obama's potential approach to Middle East
policy;
Commentary Magazine writer Noah Pollak criticized Obama's appointment of Robert Malley and Samantha Power as
foreign policy advisers. Pollak
notes in a recent post
that Power (a key and very public foreign adviser to Senator Obama) echoes the
views of Zbigniew Brezenski in calling for "special interest groups" influence
over foreign policy to be abolished. Power has also called for the elimination
of foreign aid to Israel and its redirection to "Palestine", as well as the
massive imposition of US military forces in the area to bring about and enforce
a settlement (where, of course, they could find themselves easy targets and be
subject to propaganda attacks as another imperial foray into the Middle East).
Kampeas covers news pertaining to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the peace process relating to it, and he has spoken publicly about this subject in educational programs sponsored jointly by organizations like The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, at The Palestine Center.[4]
Politics and Perceptions of Peace: A Palestinian and Israeli Perspective": Summary of a Lecture by Journalists Said Arikat and Ron Kampeas, presented on June 14, 2005 at The Palestine Center summer educational program for interns sponsored by The Jerusalem Fund, For the Record, No. 228 (2nd of 4 in Series), 26 July 2005, accessed March 26, 2007.
Look at his
presentation. Un-freakin-believable. It's no wonder he is willing to lie about what Lasky and
others write. He is a Pali tool, the quintessential dhimmi, and that is who defending Hussein Obama - an apologist for the jihad. What does that say about Hussein Obama?
Kampeas, who serves as the Washington, D.C. bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, explained that in many ways the failure of the Oslo peace process can be traced to the refusal of the Israeli leadership at the time to listen to what Palestinians were saying about their own affairs and about Israel. Kampeas believed this manifested itself with the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who said that Palestinian affairs were best left to the Palestinians and whatever the Palestinian leadership said about Israel was beside the point.
Arikat and Kampeas addressed the Palestinian and Israeli politics and perceptions of peace on 19 July 2005 at the D.C.-based Palestine Center, the second of four lectures in the 2005 Intern Lecture Series, "In Pursuit of Peace: Dialogues on Final Status."
According to Kampeas,
Israeli Prime Minister and Likud leader Ariel Sharon "explicitly sees the
withdrawal from Gaza as a way to consolidate Israel's hold over the settlement
blocks that were supposedly agreed upon at Camp David" in July 2000. Labor, on
the other hand, which also backs the Gaza plan, believes "once you actually shut
down the settlements, once you manage to get the settlers out of Gaza, then the
floodgates are open [and] the Israelis will see that [withdrawal] can happen,"
said Kampeas.
However, Arikat pointed out that from a
Palestinian perspective, only the complete withdrawal from the lands occupied in
1967 would meet Palestinian national objectives and create an environment in
which a just and sustainable peace could be achieved.
Finkelestein is traitor from our womb best embodies the Jewish left. Soros too. These are the Jews that vote Democrat. These "Jews" aid and abet the Nazis, then and now. I have explained time and time again, this is not a religious divide, it is a political divide. It is an ideological battle, where the enemy of essential American (and Israeli) values are leftards.
American Political Scientist Norman Finkelstein: "Israel Has to Suffer a Defeat" MEMRI
The following are excerpts from an interview with American political scientist Norman Finkelstein, which aired on Future TV on January 20, 2008. The questions were in Arabic, and Finkelstein's responses are in English.
To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1676.htm.
I Do Want to Express Solidarity with [Hizbullah], And I Am Not Going to be a Coward or a Hypocrite About It
Norman Finkelstein: "I was of course happy to meet the Hizbullah people, because it is a point of view that is rarely heard in the United States. I have no problem saying that I do want to express solidarity with them, and I am not going to be a coward or a hypocrite about it.
"I don't care about Hizbullah as a political organization. I don't know much about their politics, and anyhow, it's irrelevant. I don't live in Lebanon. It's a choice that the Lebanese have to make: who they want to be their leaders, who they want to represent them.
"But there is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country. That to me is a very basic, elementary and uncomplicated question.
"My parents went through World War II. Now, Stalin's regime was not exactly a bed of roses. It was a ruthless and brutal regime, and many people perished."
"I Am Going to Honor the Hizbullah; They Show Courage, And They Show Discipline, I Respect That"
"But who didn't support the Soviet Union when they defeated the Nazis? Who didn't support the Red Army? In all the countries of Europe which were occupied - who gets all the honors?
"The resistance. The Communist resistance - it was brutal, it was ruthless. The Communists were not... It wasn't a bed of roses, but you respect them. You respect them because they resisted the foreign occupiers of their country. If I am going to honor the Communists during World War II, even though I probably would not have done very well under their regimes... If I'm going to honor them, I am going to honor the Hizbullah. They show courage, and they show discipline. I respect that."
Interviewer: "That is an accurate description of the situation before 2000, but after 2000, the Israelis withdrew from South Lebanon. There was a rift within Lebanon between the Lebanese political players on the issue of the future of the weapons and the issue of the resistance. This rift, which has taken place... You are now taking sides. After all, you are saying that you are only visiting Lebanon, but you don't see the ramification of the July war for the people."
"There is No Way that the United States and Israel are Going to Tolerate Any Resistance in the Arab World... How Can I Not Respect Those Who Say No to That?"
Norman Finkelstein: "Listen, if you want to close your eyes and believe it was all over in May 2000, you can do so. You can play that game. But the reality was - and everyone understood it - that the Israeli attitude was: We are going to knock out Hizbullah. They began planning for a new war right after they were forced to leave in 2000. They found their excuse, their pretext, in July 2006, but there is no question among rational people that Israel was never going to let the Hizbullah victory go by. They were determined to teach their..."
Interviewer: "The war could have been avoided."
Norman Finkelstein: "It could not have been avoided. There is no way that the United States and Israel are going to tolerate any resistance in the Arab world. If you want to pretend it can be avoided, you can play that game. But serious people, clear-headed people, knew there was going to be a war sooner or later.
This is hysterical and so is this:
But I'm just an "Islamophobe."
What's the matter, John, didn't you get the memo?
The above image was posted in 2005 by the Islamic Thinkers Society, the outfit that trampled on the flag on video and then wished painful torment from Allah on me when I posted the video -- which is tantamount to asking that someone fulfill Allah's will in this regard.
Anyway, seriously, Cinnamon Stillwell has a terrific piece at FrontPage on the Saudi-funded pseudo-academic John Esposito speaking at Stanford, tracing Esposito's continued peddling of the most absurd excuses and apologetics for the global jihad.
Cindy Sheehan in Egypt for Islamists
A (with terrorists) P
CAIRO, Egypt - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan joined a protest Wednesday seeking the support of Egypt's first lady in ending a military trial of members of the country's largest Islamic organization.
Under the watchful eyes of dozens of black-clad and helmeted anti-riot police, some 50 heavily veiled wives and children of 40 senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood detained for the past year, gathered in front of the headquarters of first lady Suzanne Mubarak's National Council Women carrying banners calling for their release.
"I am here to protest the trial of civilians in front of a military tribunal as this is a violation to international law," said Sheehan, who gained fame in the U.S. for her sit-in outside President Bush's Texas ranch following the death of her son in Iraq.
This attention whore will align herself with any America hating and/or Jew hating group. What a pig. Poor Casey. Let her live there, for allah's sake.
The Anti-Racist Blog has incredible coverage here on "Paelstine Awareness Week". As if we could be unaware of all the barbarism, bloodshed and murder.
Today marked the start of "Palestine Awareness Week" at the University of Michigan. The inaugural lecture was performed by anti-Israel Wayne State University anthropology professor Thomas Abowd. The theme of the event was supposed to be "Introducing Palestine", but the event instead focused on "demonizing and de-legitimizing" Israel.
Anti-Semitic Ann Arbor extremists were out in full force for the launch of the week's events.
Much more pictures and coverage here.
A rally disgusting show of Anti American, Anti Israel hate.
The Pentagon inserted on the flag of Israel. Sick
Our crowd
Nazis screaming "Never again!" The nerve ...
Lynne Stewart....... al qaeda operative, guilty of treason (she should be rotting in prison) made a speech while we chanted "treason! treason!" Stewart making speeches. Such lovely people.
"Don't like Holocaust. Don't Make Holocaust"
CJ, Coretta and me.
UPDATE; WE'VE GOT MAIL!
Subject: Thanks for the entertaining video!
Date: 1/26/2008 6:50:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
From: chango412@yahoo.com
Hey! i am the person with that sign that you liked so much. the one with the pentagon on the israeli flag. i really enjoyed your documentation of today. i am sending it around to my friends.
chango
and p.s. "sweetie": jim crow did not last, apartheid did not last and zionism will not last. without the support of the US taxpayers, israel will not last a week.
Lovely people.
UPDATE: Pamela H sent some new video from the rally. Mangia!
UPDATE: COUNTER PROTEST TO THE VILE JEW HATRED
1PM ISRAELI CONSULATE 2ND AVENUE & 43RD STREET
The leftist Islamic alliance were out Friday in DC and NY at the Israeli Embassies. Check out pictures here and videos below. 
CLICK BELOW FOR VIDEO
Busing in Muslim families (more pics here)
Please check out the links. It's enough to make you sick.
Down in DC, Jon over at This Aint Hell made it his business to get to the Israel Apartheid week demonstration. He has a post up
about the protest and counter protest at the Israeli Embassy Friday afternoon. Pictures, video and wolves in Jewish clothing.
The pinkos! Since when are they camera shy?
The Islamonazis and their Leftarded handmaidens will be back out at it today at 1pm at the Israeli Consulate - 43rd Street and 2nd Avenue.
The sick and the evil that walk among us have an "Israel Apartheid Week' planned. Lets make sure there is a pro-Israel presence at each of these- even one person can make a difference:
Anaheim, California: Saturday, Jan. 26, 1 p.m.
512 S.
Brookhurst St., Between Orange Ave. & Broadway)
Boston: Thursday, Jan 24, noon
Israeli Consulate
Saturday, Jan 26,
noon-1pm in Harvard Square
Chicago: Tues., Jan. 29, 5 pm at the
Lakeshore Theater, 3175 North
Broadway (at benefit for the Friends of the 'Israeli Defense
Force').
Initiated by ISM. Call 773-463-0311 for more information.
Cleveland: Saturday, Jan 26
for more info contact donmbryant@yahoo. com
New York City: Saturday, Jan. 26, 1 p.m. at the
Israeli Embassy, 43rd St.
and 2nd Ave.
Philadelphia: Friday, Jan 25
Press Conference
Saturday, Jan 26 march
to Israeli Consulate. Contact: rkamel@verizon. net
San Francisco, California: Friday, Jan. 25, 4-6 p.m.
Israeli Consulate,
456 Montgomery St. (near California)
Seattle: Friday, January 25, 4 p.m.,
Westlake Park, 4th & Pine
Sts.
Washington DC: Friday, Jan. 25 (time tba),
at the Israeli Embassy, 3514
International Dr. N.W.
UPDATE: Chesler's shout out!
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND THE PERMANENT INTIFADA
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) relentlessly grinds on. They and fellow travelers have planned their annual Hate Israel follies and have called it “Israel Apartheid Week.” Rallies outside the Israeli Consulates and Embassies began on January 24th in Boston, January 25th in Philadelphia, Washington DC, San Francisco, and Seattle, on Shabbos, January 26th in New York City, Cleveland and Anaheim, and on January 29th, in Chicago.
The ISM has moved off campus and is now appearing in nine cities in six days in order to present their brand of Big Lie political theatre. Stand With Us has put out a call for pro-Israel signs and bodies to be there. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING
UPDATE on this post: HUFFINGTON POSTS VILE JEW HATRED
The leading left wing blog, The Huffington Post, is so rife with Jew hatred, they cannot contain it. The following comments are in response to the news story of the Gazan Arabs pouring into Egypt after Hamas blew up the wall. BTW, "Palestinian" journalists have admitted the blackouts were faked (go here).
Let's see: Story goes up as splash headline at 10:00am. 0 comments.
1:30pm: 0 comments. Users complaining on other threads; must express Jew-hatred, Israel-hatred... (repeat).
3:30pm: 0 comments: See above; complaints continue.
6:30pm: 16 comments 'approved,' 175 'pending.' And look at the majority that they 'approved'... and remember, on their Comment Policy they say that they post-moderate comments on news threads such as this, but pre-moderate them on their resident bloggers' threads.
Note in the following screen shot that story was RE-TIMED to appear starting at 6:10PM, that first comment posted was at 3:30PM, and the most recent at 5:50PM - before the thread was even put up? Hmmmmm... HuffPost couldn't be manipulating reality and lying to the world (again), could they?
Oh my.
Screen shot: Download 23Jan08GazaThread630pm16posted175pending.pdf
Download GazansKnockDownBorder2.doc
Here are the comments up as they stand now (8:04 pm) This is what was allowed. Imagine what they are holding back.
txfriend (See profile | I'm a fan of txfriend)
Celebrations are abound! Cheers to the ordinary Palestinians who have suffered under barabaric super-power backed cowards!So what will the Israel Neocons do now that Bush has shown an interest in the problem, even calling it an OCCUPATION!!!:
A) Instigate an incident with the Palestinians?
B) Invade one of the border Arab countries?
C) Reorganize their government for the next year till he is gone?
D) Assassinate the Prime Minister again?
ANSWER: A) Instigate an incident with the Palestinians?
Gaza City was plunged into darkness Sunday after Israel blocked the shipment of fuel that powers its only electrical plant in retaliation for persistent rocket attacks by Gaza militants.
The power cut sent already beleaguered Gazans to stock up on food and batteries in anticipation of dark, cold days ahead. Gaza officials warned the move would cause a health catastrophe while a U.N. agency and human rights groups condemned Israel.
"We have the choice to either cut electricity on babies in the maternity ward or heart surgery patients or stop operating rooms," Gaza Health Ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain said.
A Zionist occupied government and Zionist controlled media. The worst of both worlds. Collective punishment is a crime as per international law./div>What's the matter? Rocket launchers and RPGs are inedible? Screw the Palestinians. They wanted Hamas, they got Hamas. And so now they reap what they've sowed. Why the left excuses their terrorism is beyond me. The left does not like Jews.img src="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/images/v/tag_new.gif" alt="NEW" />When an occupying army herded a few thousand Jews into Warsaw it was called a war crime. Those who rebelled against the occupying army were labeled heroes. When Israel corrals over one million Palestinians into Gaza and systematically starves them it is called acceptable. Those who rebel against the Israeli occupiers are labeled terrorists. Collective punishment of civilians is a war crime. What is happening in Gaza today is no different than the crimes perpetrated in Poland seventy years ago. Hopefully one day we will see the Palestinians have their own viable state and those guilty of perpetuating war crimes against them tried and executed just the same as those guilty of war crimes during WWII were.
CCCCCBut a Hamas border guard interviewed by The Times at the border today admitted that the Islamist group was responsible and had been involved for months in slicing through the heavy metal wall using oxy-acetylene cutting torches.
That meant that when the explosive charges were set off in 17 different locations after midnight last night the 40ft wall came tumbling down, leaving it lying like a broken concertina down the middle of no-man's land as an estimated 350,000 Gazans flooded into Egypt.What's up with 183 posts pending at this time, 4:44 pm est? Is HuffPo going to release them all at the same time, wait five minutes, then declare the post closed for comments?this isnt a blog,this is a news story..why do you need to approve these comments?Can you be any more fascist ??whats taking you so long to post our comments Huffpo?I can see over 180 pending....
what are you doing all this time..weeding out the comments that criticize Israel?I don't like to believe in the Jewish mob running the media, but how in the hell does no open comments appear for this article?
Whereas they are working for all the others.
WTF HuffingtonposYou can't allow all the anti-Jewish posts can you Huffington?I say good for the people! I also say when Hamas shoots a rocket into Israel, Israel should shoot one back. If the people quit supporting Hamas, then peace will come. If not Rockets without concern should be sent back.Israel is barbaric. it is the number one terrorist threat in the world...how much longer will we allow them to set policy whilekilling so many n the bargain?169 comments pending and not a single one posted? Do the Zionists have to filter out all uncomfortable information about their brutalization of the Palestinians to make it fit for mass consumption?
Biggest mistake in history.............shutting down Auschwitz
Reply | posted 06:19 pm on 01/20/2008
johnmorgan (See profile | I'm a fan of johnmorgan)
The Huffington Post, home of Hollywood elite, DC intelligentsia, and the left coast cognoscenti is one ugly place.
Check out the Jew hate at the Huffington Post. Most of their threads go on and on for days, thousands of comments for the really hot ones. The leftarded haters can do anything they want - stalk others, threaten, and nothing happens; their opponents (sticking up for America, Israel, etc.) speak out - and they are scrubbed by the moderators, then the stalkers/etc. gloat that they got another user banned, etc.
Now, we have a thread dealing with Israel, Gaza. And what happens? In less than 90 MINUTES the thread is SHUT DOWN (see attached 'Comments for this thread are now closed') Closed??? WHY?? OH RIGHT, the leftist insane Jew-hatred, Israel-bashing brigade dominated the thread. I can almost guarantee you that within the next few hours, the thread will be sanitized, to prevent a recurrence of the Cheney death thread. And do check out the attached 'Comment Policy.' Uh-huh.
Here's the PDF file so if they scrub we have the proof: Download 20Jan08TopThreadIsrael-shutdownafter90MINUTES.zip
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IBRAHIM BARZAK | January 20, 2008 06:24 PM EST |
The latest in the frenzy to obfuscate Obama's connection to Islam, a new member of Obama's Muslim family weighs in. Like most who attempt to shape or change a story, she reveals more than she hides.
In this coming Sunday's New York Times magazine, the weekly Q & A by Deborah Solomon features Barack Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng. The two have the same mother and different fathers (her dad is Indonesian).
She talks about their late mother, who was an anthropologist, and about campaigning for her older brother for a couple of months, and reveals that she has a bumper sticker that reads, "1-20-09. End of an error." But the questions about religious background may stir the most interest.
Soetoro-Ng describes her mother as being an agnostic, who gave the kids "all the good books," and mentions the Bible, and Hindu and Buddhist scripture. Solomon jumps on that, wondering why she didn't mention the Koran, since Indonesia is the most populous Muslim nation. Soetoro-Ng replies, "I should have mentioned the Koran. Mom didn't really emphasize the Koran, but we read little parts of it. We did listen to morning prayers in Indonesia."
Deliberately omitting the Koran. Not good. The mother brought every religious book into the house? The Talmud too?
Solomon then wonders if she was "worried" about even mentioning Islam, given the false accusations against her brother. She answers, "I'm not worried. I don't want to deny Islam....At the same time, it has been erroneously attached to my brother. The man has been a Christian for 20 years." (Editor and Publisher)
And previous to that Obama was what? I pointed these inconsistencies out in my OpEd piece in the Israel National News (1/09/08): Obama, The Muslim Thing and Why it Matters
Every Muslim who left Islam is very definitive about leaving and why. They are quite vocal - Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Walid Shoebat, Elijah Abraham, etc. If he left Islam, Obama must have very definite thoughts about it. He has to, he practiced Islam. That is not benign; it's big. And even if, as inferred by big media, it was not big to him, then he can still appreciate how important it is knowing what he knows about Islam and apostasy.
Obama would have had to make a decision to reject Islam. When did he make that decision? How? Why the silence? Why the reluctance to talk about it?
Apostasy is punishable by death in Islam. Have there been calls for Obama's death? If not, why not? Islam gives no free passes.
Obama's posture on this is hard to define or understand, because it is a critical issue
Add this to Obama's older brother, Abongo "Roy" Obama who is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must "liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture." He urges his younger brother to embrace his African heritage. (More here.)
hat tip Director Blue
Woe to those that call good evil and evil good ............never mind. The jihad, wielding our judicial system like a club with the help of Islamic loving leftist elites, of course.
John Yoo can be forgiven if he's having second thoughts about his career choice. A Yale Law School graduate, the Berkeley professor of law went on to serve his country at the Justice Department. Yet last week he was sued by convicted terrorist Jose Padilla and his mother, who are represented by none other than lawyers at Yale. Perhaps if Mr. Yoo had decided to pursue a life of terrorism, he too could be represented by his alma mater.
Padilla is the American citizen who was arrested in 2002, and detained as an "enemy combatant" in a military brig in Charleston, S.C., under suspicion of plotting to set off a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city. Padilla fought his detention on Constitutional grounds, losing his case in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In January 2006, the feds transferred him out of military custody to be tried in civilian court in Miami. The dirty bomb charge was never filed because the military hadn't read him his Miranda rights or provided him a lawyer when he was interrogated. A jury nonetheless took a day and half last August to convict him of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim people overseas. Padilla could get life in prison.
Mr. Yoo is the former deputy assistant attorney general who wrote memos laying out some of the legal parameters in the war on terror. Those memos most famously pertained to interrogation techniques, some of which were used against such enemy combatants as Padilla. Mr. Yoo long ago returned to Berkeley, and we are happy to say he sometimes writes for us.
Now, years later, Mr. Yoo is being harassed by a lawsuit claiming he is personally liable for writing those memos as a midlevel government official. "Defendant Yoo subjected Mr. Padilla to illegal conditions of confinement and treatment that shocks the conscience in violation of Mr. Padilla's Fifth Amendment Rights to procedural and substantive due process," the complaint asserts.
How spot on, eh? Romy sent this to me inspired by this comment at Gov;
There is one other legacy of Woodrow Wilson we must remember – Islamophobia, as in a phobia against angering Muslims. During the early years of World War I, American public opinion was against entering the war against German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, American public opinion was staunchly in favor of declaring war on the Ottoman Empire to avenge atrocities against the Armenian people. Yet, when the time for war came, Woodrow Wilson was scared about angering Turkey because American missionaries in danger of facing the same fate as Armenians.
This led to a private rebuke from former president Theodore Roosevelt.
“The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and failure to act against Turkey is to condone it; because the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense; and because when we now refuse to war with Turkey we show that our announcement that we meant ‘to make the world safe for democracy’ was insincere claptrap.”
From Theodore Roosevelt to Cleveland Dodge, May 11, 1918. Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, vol. 8, 1316-18. Found in p. 308, The Burning Tigris, by Peter Balakian.
There's more -- it's very good.
Can anyone out there tell me why Dhimmi Bloomberg's city government gives a permit to these Jew haters every week? Every week. Literally the precursor to Kristallnacht, the second holocaust. Who is so dirty in city government as to be complicit in this? These thugs should be brought up on RICO charges. What's next painting Jewish stars on shop windows?
- Adalah serenades Leviev with a perverted "Jingle Bells'
- Such friendly little Lefties...love to call us by name...
- Perverted Carol # 2: We wish you a Merry Christmas"...NOT!
- Adalah goes after Chaplain Dez...says she's "illegal"!
- Perversion # 3: "Boycott, Boycott, Boycott" aka the Dreidel Song
- The dueling songs and a "debate"...things got animated for a bit...
- Sholom Aleichem rules and the 'debate' rolls on...
- We will not submit to sharia...EVER!
Pamela has been to these pogroms. Here's her report
Adalah Returns- Part 4 to harass Leviev Diamonds on Madison Ave (near 63rd St.).
There seemed to be more police this week, just hanging out basically in front of the stores, but more than we had seen on the previous Adalah “Days of Harassment”.
It was good to see that Adalah DEFINITELY had an anemic turn-out this week.
Quite simply their pen wasn’t even HALF full (considering they claimed to be ‘Back by POPULAR Demand”)
A brief re-cap: Week one of the Adalah protests against Leviev got off to an inauspicious start a few weeks ago. It was held at the end of a weekday…in the DARK (5-6 PM) and must have frustrated the Lefties (the obvious problem: low visibility at that hour)
WEEKS 2,3 and 4 have all been on Saturdays from 1-3 PM to get more foot traffic and to be SEEN. The Second Protest was billed as a DANCING protest against Leviev and against Israel with cries of apartheid. This was the most obnoxious of the four protests (to date). No sound permit, but not a problem for the Lefties. They were LOUD and rude. This harassment and nuisance factor went on for two hours and went way past what one might expect from a “no sound permit” protest in front of a business. There were DRUMS, DRUMS, DRUMS!!!! All the neighboring merchants were quite upset. I asked the police why this was acceptable since it was impacting more than just Leviev. They have a permit and …gosh…these Leftards are just so compliant…they don’t cause the POLICE any trouble…so let it play out. BTW- The officer said it wasn’t going to hurt Leviev’s business anyway. The very wealthy will continue to go to their store. Okay…MAYBE this attitude is acceptable if it were ONE time only, but by the fourth weekend (and who knows how many more lie ahead) the impact to all of the businesses shouldn’t be ignored (But clearly…The Leftard’s rule). EVEN when it comes to their choice of WHERE they stand. No matter what the police intend (their placement of the barricades BEFORE the rallies start is always North of Leviev) BUT the Adalah’s (politely, but FIRMLY) refuse to move away from the front of Leviev so… the POLICE are so accommodating that …EACH week !! they move the barricades to where the Adalah’s are standing in FRONT of Leviev. THIS happens EVERY week. Week 2 the Adalah’s did their quaint Pali’ dances as part of their protest. How sweet…holding hands…and dancing in their pen while chanting to the Death of Israel….
For Protest Days 2, 3 and 4 we countered the Adalah’s LIES about Leviev (the evil diamond merchant) and Israel (apartheid and the pali’s right of return) with informational flyers We offered the TRUTH and most of the pedestrians seem quite happy to take our flyers. The Adalah’s, of course, do not respond to any questions about terrorism and suicide bombers.
Weeks 3 and 4 was the “Assault of the perverted Christmas and Chanukah Carols”. Not as LOUD as Week 2. Maybe they were asked to “Keep it down.”(ya think?) Or at least: LEAVE THE DRUMS AT HOME!
Week 3 our counter protest GREW. Our signs and lots of chants from our side which were led by Chaplain Desiree. We continued to hand out Daniel’s counter flyers on both sides of Madison Ave. Those who stood and watched with us from the East of Madison seemed to be supportive of Israel and found the Adalah protest to be offensive. That was encouraging. By Week 4 many were shocked to learn this was WEEK FOUR.
We proudly displayed our LARGE Israeli flag this week (along with our American flag). Good timing, because the Adalah’s added a large "FREE PALESTINAN" BANNER. And yet…our Flag of Israel was clearly annoying them (as well as our chants and flyers) so an attempt was made to have our dear Chaplain Desiree removed as ILLEGAL. (They’ll try anything)This guy kept saying Dez was a NYC detective (NOT) and that she had no LEGAL right to be on the street chanting or handing out flyers…(what?) and .said we were blocking the sidewalk. None of this had merit (typical Lefty belly-aching) and the cops sent the Leftists BACK to their pen. (Hoorah!) Quite enjoyable watching such a petulant display….It’s always good to know we ARE causing them some distress by just being there. Another Leftist fellow came over to talk to Coretta (our patriot who brought the Israeli flag). I was holding the other end…so I was right there…the two of us…when he approached…pointing to the flag and he so nicely and calmly said:” The situation wasn’t about Israel and Palestine” (huh?) “It wasn’t that simple.” This made no sense so I started to respond BUT…he told me he wasn’t there to talk to me. That he’d spoken to me before…(no he hadn’t). Then he turned to Coretta but she’d heard enough and promptly sent him BACK to the Adalah’s. She said she puts up with this all the time. The Leftist can’t believe a black woman would stand with a bunch of RIGHT-wing nut-jobs…not if they could just EXPLAIN the facts to her…(what a BUNCH of racists THEY are!) A few more side notes: A pro-Israel pedestrian Week 3 was so angry at the Adalah’s that he started a verbal exchange with them; the cops told him to move on and when he didn’t they GAVE HIM A SUMMONS! (disgusting) How can anyone hope to stop these anarchists if you can’t challenge their lies? Finally, my usual Adalah fan-club upped the stakes this week. Instead of just calling out my name (constantly) as well as lobbing the wearisome, “Heil FASCIST” greetings, THIS week… Week 4, a pali-female regular said for all to hear “ I hope they HANG you”. (nice,huh?)
BTW- That business about being a RELIGION-of-Peace? Week 3 one of ours called out to the Adalah’s that we all worship the same G-d. (not sure why …maybe a gesture of friendship...) but according to the Adalah Muslim, “Your G-d is not OUR god” (No sh*t, Sherlock) Now…could someone get that information out to the rest of the Western apologists? The MSM? Hello….!
No idea if Adalah will keep coming back each week. Leviev was very nice to us. We met them on Week 3. Had us come into the store …very warmly…so we felt appreciated. But, still…why is Adalah’s protest/boycott permitted to go on…week after week? This nuisance and harassment of a Jewish businessman is racist. Would such generosity and understanding…such PATIENCE be extended to us if we chose to boycott a Muslim business? A CAIR friendly store?
I think we ALL know the answer to that question.
Now….WHAT are we going to do about it?! Consider...The ANTI-APARTHEID HateFest week is coming up again in February. We should be prepared to fight these lies. We MUST.
G-d bless the counter protesters
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Atlas Shrugs: KRISTALLNACHT REDUX: TARGET JEWISH BUSINESSMEN
Adalah has been given a permit to go back to Leviev. That is an outrage. This is Jew hatred. Plain and simple. They are harassing, protesting, intimidating Jewish businessmen in New York. A campaign of harassment that I posted on here and here.
It continues tomorrow. I am out of town, but will be at the next one ........... PLEASE GO AND COUNTER THIS OFFENSIVE AND DANGEROUS "PROTEST". Take any you know to counter protest these thugs and hoods.
Instead of issuing permits, they ought to be making arrests under the RICO act. Dhimmi Bloomberg can be as bad as Dinkins was.
Subject: [PAFNYCalendar] Boycott Leviev: join us for an Dec 22
Alternative Caroling Protest,
Alternative caroling? Pure harassment.
"Sales will ring, are ya list'nin'?
In the lanes jewels are glist'nin'.
A beautiful sight, Leviev's happy tonight,
Stealing lots of Palestinian land."
Join Adalah-NY and the Palestine Liberation Singing Troupe for some
post-Hannukah, pre-Christmas, end of Eid, Winter Solstice,
nondenominational caroling outside of Israeli diamond and settlement
mogul Lev Leviev's NYC storefront.
The tunes will be familiar, but the words will be tweaked to highlight the destruction of communities that Leviev sponsors in Palestine , New York and Africa , and the profits Leviev makes from human rights abuses.
MEET AT 1PM, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22ND
700 MADISON AVE, BTW 62ND AND 63RD
GO AND COUNTER PROTEST!
Make the shortest day of the year the longest day for Leviev!
For more information: www.mideastjustice. org
Boycott Leviev!
There is little comfort in knowing they only conspire against greatness. The leftist enemy is the quintessense of evil in their motive, intent, and method. It is almost impossible to fathom the enemy the Jewish people face in their homeland and abroad. Surrounded by Islamic marauders, annihilationists , nazis .... they simultaneously face a Euro/Arab axis that plots, plans, finances and infiltrates Jewish communities in order to achieve their goa l- the extermination of the Jews.
(IsraelNN.com) The Peace Now movement is suspected of setting up a financial scam to mask the European sources of its funding for its reconnaissance work against Israeli Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria.
The Non Profit Associations Registrar suspects Peace Now of operating a front organization for improper collection of funds, according to a report on Channel 2 TV by reporter Amit Segal.
The radical left-wing Peace Now group allegedly used a non-profit organization (amuta) called Sha'al, which supposedly dealt with educational matters, to receive and disburse millions of shekels over a period of many years.
Some of the organization's donors were exposed in the course of the inquiry. They include the British government, which donated more that 500,000 shekels, Norway (800,000 shekels) and the European Union, which donated 451,000 shekels earmarked for Peace Now's ongoing "settlement hunting" activity: the documentation of construction activity by Jews in Judea and Samaria.
This is not the first time Peace Now has crossed the lines of legality. In 2004, journalist David Bedein revealed and later the Knesset Interior Committee confirmed that Peace Now had received a budget in the amount of 50,000 Euros from the government of Finland to conduct intelligence activities in Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, the Golan, Gaza and Jerusalem. The Israel Penal Code for Espionage was distributed to Knesset Interior Committees, with the third clause defining “photography of sensitive areas of Israel for any foreign power” as an act of espionage, punishable by ten years imprisonment if convicted.
It is not clear whether Segal's report was the result of a new investigative web site dedicated to researching and documenting the group's misdeeds.
The Non Profit Associations Registrar summoned 'Peace Now' to a hearing and instructed them to reply to the allegations by December 31.
Peace Now Calls on US to Talk to Iran
Americans for Peace Now, the Israeli leftist group’s fundraising arm that also engages in anti-Israel lobbying in the United States, urged US President George W. Bush “to open serious, determined and unconditional diplomacy with Iran,” according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The force of evil.
It appears Dhimmi Carter may have advised Nazi Arafat to reject Israel's offer of everything at Camp David.On the one hand, Jimmy Carter appears to be a seditious war criminal, OTOH the Pali Islamazis would never agree to any peace. Bottom line, they are annihilationists. The want Israel, the Jews dead. Gone. Yasser was a Jew killer, a nazi, much the same way as Hamas, the Hezbos etc. Arafatbastard's (Yasser's real name Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini ) hero Hajj Amin Al Husseini conspired with Hitler. Arafat adopted the Nazi template. That is the fact. Islamic ant-semitism is a fact (it's in the Koran). This notwithstanding, Carter is in fact a nazi and a traitor.
What takes my breath away is Carter's perfidy. The damage that one evil idiotarian President can wreak on the greatest country in human history is incalculable. Carter was instrumental in the birth of an Islamic Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and development of Islamic jihad as a growing global evil power. The man ought to be on trial for his life.
Fenig at American Thinker reports here;
Dershowitz on Carter Ethel Fenig, American Thinker
Did former president Jimmy Carter advise Yasser Arafat to reject Israel's offer for peace at Camp David? Alan Dershowitz suggests he did.
It seems that when Carter appeared at Brandeis to plug his book Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid, he pledged to answer any questions that students e-mailed him afterward. Many took him up on the offer, and Carter did answer every question... except one. That one was this: Did you advise Yasser Arafat to reject the peace offer Israel made at Camp David, at the end of Clinton's term? According to Professor Dershowitz, some 15 students e-mailed that question, and they were the only students not to be answered.
This takes on even more relevance in light of the Quartet--and maybe the rest of the world--rushing to reward the Palestinians and Mahmoud Abbas with unaccountable billions more to encourage a Palestinian state that "will live side by side in peace with Israel." Dershowitz recounts a telling incident at the University of California, Irvine which is a "hotbed" of anti-Israeli agitation:He [Dershowitz ] spoke to a large crowd, and first asked those who considered themselves pro-Israel to raise their hands. About 250 hands were raised. He then asked them if they would accept a Palestinian state, side by side, living in peace with Israel. Every hand went up.
Then he asked how many considered themselves pro-Palestinian. About 150 hands were raised. Finally, he asked this group whether they would accept a Jewish state of Israel, living side by side in peace with a new Palestinian state. Not a single hand went up.
hat tip: Richard Baehr
I wrote here of the targeting of Jewish businessmen in a campaign of harassment and intimidation. It continues. It's only a matter of time until these thugs start breaking windows and painting Jewish stars.
CJ (my bodyguard ;) was there and said, "....... another moonbat dance of the devil in front of Leviev's store. Totally incongruous the uppities of Manhattan and the vermin of the left in close contact. Dershowitz came by and bought a diamond. Good show! He's not the best friend Israel ever had but he's not insane."
Scenes from yesterday's rally from Pamela.
IF YOU NEED JEWELRY FOR CHRISTMAS OR HANUKKAH I RECOMMEND THEM.
Destroying Jewish businessmen - sound familiar?
PREVIOUS: Atlas Shrugs: Palis & Islamists Harass NY Jewish Business
UPDATE: OT but related: Muslim women in City firm allege job bias in favour of Jews (is a meritocracy "racist" as well.)
This is a naked attempt to punish Jews for succeeding. The exultation of failure. Welcome to the new America.
Two Muslim women who worked for a large City brokerage firm are taking a rare legal action at an employment tribunal, alleging that Jewish clients were channelled away from them to non-Muslim colleagues.
The women co-workers claim they were religiously discriminated against by their bosses at Swiss stockbroker Compagnie Financière Tradition when it came to the allocation of such clients. The women, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, are being represented by solicitors Russell Jones & Walker.
UPDATE: Pamela took the pics (watch the slideshow HERE) and vid and added this:
I do have a question/observation:
I'm sure this would be considered a NUISANCE and HARASSMENT if done by any other groups.
Adalah's 'art of protest' was not just to carry signs and to pass out flyers.
It was to harass the business by making NOISE. To harm it's business through harassment.
The idea that this was just a couple of hours that would in no way hurt the businesses on this block because their customers are wealthy (and will not be turned away by such a display) was of concern to me.
I read an article recently that this was the type of thing that was said in Germany...1933...
I have been saying that all along.
and we know where that went. This behaviour was UNACCEPTABLE. If we did this in front of a Muslim business that supports the destruction of Israel...same exact methods...how long before we'd be removed from in front of that store. This is NOT right.
Funny, they have no problem exploiting our judicial system everyday, but when the judicial system deals with them, they don't like it. I really hope we don't cave on this one and further, they are indicted. Of course, CAIR knew whta they were doing when they went to Conyers asking to obfuscate the truth. Go to the race baiters, that's the ticket.
CAIR seeks removal of label in terrorism case
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is seeking help from House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. to pressure the Justice Department to change the group's status as a co-conspirator in a terrorism case.
CAIR officials recently met with Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, and then wrote a letter asking him to lobby the new attorney general on behalf of the group, and to hold hearings.
Relentless.
CAIR is among several hundred Muslim groups listed as unindicted co-conspirators in a recent federal terrorism trial in Dallas into activities by the Holy Land Foundation Inc., a group linked to funding the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group. The trial recently ended in a mistrial and prosecutors have said they plan to re-try the case.
UPDATE: John.Conyers@mail.house.gov Start writing Conyers, not that it matters. He follows his own agenda for power. A dar road indeed.
What I considered to be a brilliant homeland security strategy has been nixed by sharia proponents and their useful leftard tools.
L.A. Police Shelves Controversial Plan to Map Muslim Neighborhoods FOX News
LOS ANGELES — A police plan to map out Muslim communities, a proposal that civil rights groups sharply criticized as racial and religious profiling, has been shelved, a police spokeswoman said Wednesday.
The LAPD planned to have its counterterrorism bureau identify Muslim enclaves to determine which might be likely to become isolated and susceptible to "violent, ideologically based extremism."
Several Muslim groups and the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California criticized the plan and sent a letter to Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing expressing their concerns.
"There was a clear message from the Muslim community that they were not comfortable with it. So we listened," said Mary Grady, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department. She couldn't immediately say when the plan might resume.
Grady said the remaining part of the initiative, which includes outreach efforts to strengthen ties with Muslim communities, would continue, and police planned to meet with Muslim leaders Thursday.
More taxpayer outreach? Great.
UPDATE: Let the LAPD know it's their duty to protect and defend and not to cower at the behest of the enemy. Succumbing to Muslim pressure and NOT mapping them...it's on hold presumably forever... Google LAPD and you can see they map drug gangs aka Mexicans, Bloods & Crips without complaints from citizens. hat tip trk
gradym@lapd.lacity.org
I tell ya, it's the individual that will save the day. My new hero Korina
Negligent and intolerable’ Parents bring textbook concerns to Lodi Unified Lodi News
Still not satisfied with the treatment of religions in her son's seventh-grade textbook, Korina Self aired her concerns Tuesday night at Lodi Unified's board meeting.
Backed by nearly a dozen family members and friends, Self delivered a prepared statement asking the board to remove the book "History Alive!: The Medieval World and Beyond" from classrooms.
"To know that a textbook was selected and put into use by our district that is blatantly one-sided, whitewashed, and that our children are being spoon-fed this information with sugar on top ... I feel is negligent and intolerable," Self said.
Self stopped to gather herself several times during her statement, in which she said the book's description of the Crusades and its definition of several Islamic terms, including "Jihad" and "Shari'ah" are incorrect.Korina Self and her husband Jim decided to review their 12-year-old son's textbook late last month after hearing that he was learning about the Prophet Muhammad.
After reading the book, which was published by the Teachers' Curriculum Institute, the Selfs took issue with what they feel is an undue amount of attention to the teachings of Islam, historical inaccuracies and a lack of information on other religions.
"Had Charles Martel not been victorious," Hitler told his inner crowd in August 1942, "then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world." Hitler told Mr. Speer that Islam is "perfectly suited to the Germanic temperament."
Clear explanation by Paul Belien over at The Washington Times on Nazis and Islamists. I for one am not spooked by the newly resurrected old bogeyman - NAZIS! We are not at war with the Nazis. This is a distraction from addressing the real problem, the real scourge of civilization - Islamic jihad. Paul Belien is editor of the Brussels Journal and an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute.
BTW, Paul will be joining me on my radio show next Monday at 3pm. Listen and learn.
Nazis and Islamists Paul Belien, The Washington Times
During the Second World War, the Nazis worked on plans to build the "Amerikabomber," an airplane specially devised to fly suicide missions into Manhattan's skyscrapers.
Albert Speer, the Nazi minister for armaments, recalled in his diary: "It was almost as if [Hitler] was in a delirium when he described to us how New York would go up in flames. He imagined how the skyscrapers would turn into huge blazing torches. How they would crumble while the reflection of the flames would light the skyline against the dark sky." Hitler hated Manhattan. It was, he said, "the center of world Jewry." Less than 60 years later, Hitler's plans were executed by Muslim immigrants living in Germany. At the 2003 trial of the network around Mohamed Atta (the pilot who flew into the World Trade Center), Shahid Nickels, a German convert to Islam and a friend of Atta's, said that the Islamists had targeted Manhattan because it is "the center of world Jewry, and the world of finance and commerce controlled by it."
The parallels between Nazism and Islamism are overwhelming. Yet the subject is a taboo. When last March the German historian Matthias Kuentzel, author of "Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11," was to give a lecture at the University of Leeds (Britain), the university authorities cancelled the lecture after threats from Muslim students.
Read more on this subject here: Nazi/Islam Nexus: Inspiration or Conspiracy
There is a war going on between the Jihadists and the West. We are losing the battle because, as so often in man's history, our political leaders think that they are still fighting the previous war. Europeans who warn against the danger of Islamism are considered — and sometimes even prosecuted — as xenophobes, racists, even neo-Nazis.
The European left, in league with the Islamists, is constantly reminding the Europeans of Hitler and the Nazis, accusing Europe's identity, the very core of its being, of being intrinsically evil. Hence, attempts to rob Europe of its identity are seen as "good," even when those eager to eradicate this identity leave no doubt that they will eradicate the Jews first.
Unfortunately, some American "conservatives" are also blind. Last year, Ralph Peters wrote in the New York Post that Europe's identity is stained by "ineradicable viciousness." He said that the Europeans are "world-champion haters," who have "perfected genocide and ethnic cleansing." Mr. Peters' message is similar to that of Ayyub Axel Koehler. Last June, Mr. Koehler, a convert to Islam and the chairman of the German Council of Muslims, told German church leaders that Europe should be ashamed of the "trail of blood" that it had left throughout the world down the centuries.
Please read it all.
ARTWORK:Charles Martel de Steuben from 1834 till 1837
He is best remembered for winning the Battle of Tours in 732, which has traditionally been characterized as an event that halted the Islamic expansionism in Europe that had conquered Iberia. "Charles's victory has often been regarded as decisive for world history, since it preserved western Europe from Muslim conquest and Islamization."
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