It belies logic and reason that this crooked quisling should attempt to bring down the Jewish state as expeditiously as possible before he gets thrown out on his corrupt, bony ass. How vile and abhorrent this clownish creep is. How dare he? Give Golan to Syria? Is he mad?
WASHINGTON - U.S. President George Bush believes that
Israel is offering Syria the Golan Heights without getting anything in exchange,
according to sources briefed on his White House meeting with Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert last week. After Olmert updated Bush on Israel's indirect
talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, the U.S. president demanded, "Why do
you want to give Assad the Golan for nothing?" the sources said.
"It's
not for nothing," Olmert insisted. "It's in exchange for a change in the
region's strategic alignment."
Bush persisted: "Why
should you believe him?" And to that, Olmert did not reply.
The Bush
administration has long had reservations about Israel's talks with Syria and
refuses to play any active role in them. Infuriated by Syria's involvement in
anti-American terror in Iraq, as well as its undermining of Lebanon's fragile
democracy, Bush preferred to invest his diplomatic capital in
Israeli-Palestinian talks, while eschewing contacts with the Syrians.
Olmert tried to explain the strategic importance that Israel attaches to
the talks with Syria, describing the Middle East as being defined by two axes:
an extremist "horizontal axis" running from Iran via Syria to Hezbollah and
Hamas, and a pragmatic "vertical axis" running from Turkey via Syria to Israel,
Jordan and Egypt. Syria, Olmert argued, sits at the intersection of these two
axes. Thus should it switch its allegiance to the "vertical axis," this would
greatly weaken the extremists and strengthen the pragmatists.
Olmert
also believes that Bashar Assad has moved much closer to Iran than his father
Hafez ever did. Today, he said, Damascus is locked in an Iranian "bear hug" that
threatens the very existence of its secular regime. That, combined with Syria's
dismal economy, creates an opportunity to flip Assad into the moderate camp, the
premier argued. U.S. President-elect Barack Obama favors American
dialogue with Syria, and would presumably agree to take an active role in
Israeli-Syrian talks. Aaron Miller, a veteran of former president Bill Clinton's
peace team, published an article in The Washington Post Saturday in which he
urged Obama to adopt a "Syria first" strategy.
This means totally ignoring the reality on the ground. He outright stated that delusion is necessary for 'peace.'
Amazing. At least the old fool was honest. hat tip Raquel
First Ahmadi Nejad may be dying, or at least he is very sick, how wonderful! Perhaps it was all that exposure to yellow cake. I pray for his speedy death.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said he is suffering from exhaustion, in a rare public disclosure apparently designed to combat rumors he is more seriously ill.
Secondly, Olmert's hack and Condhimmi puppet, Tvipi Livni could not hobble together a coalition government so Israel will indeed have general elections. Likud and Bibi Netanyahu are leading. Baruch HaShem!
Israel's political parties have already begun to prepare for a probable nationwide election, this after Kadima Chairwoman Tzipi Livni informed President Shimon Peres on Sunday that she had been unsuccessful in forming a new coalition government
U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on
Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in
a strike the government in Damascus condemned as "serious aggression."
Now, if all of that happened in that couple of days, beating the Marxist Messiah a week from Tuesday should be a piece of (yellow) cake.
Every claim is legitimate, (sacred!) to every religion or sovereignty that was born of or after the birth of Judaism but the Jewish people have no right to her rightful homeland. Ass frickin backwards.
David adds, "The Russians can grab any piece of Georgia they fancy at will,
but Israel can't hold onto a courtyard in the heart of Jerusalem which is already under
their control and will just become another Trojan horse. and I know the place".
The cabinet on Sunday voted to transfer ownership of Sergei's Courtyard in
downtown Jerusalem's Russian Compound to the Russian government.
The move is the culmination of four years of negotiations, after then-Russian
President Vladimir Putin, who is currently his country's prime minister, laid
claim to the site on behalf of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Sergei's Courtyard currently houses offices of the Agriculture Ministry and
the Nature and National Parks Protection Authority, and the Jerusalem branch of
the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.
On Monday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will begin a two-day trip to Moscow.
Israeli officials expect the Russians to raise the question of the transfer of
Russian church property in Jerusalem.
Olmert had planned to visit Russia last month but the trip was put on hold
due to the political uncertainty here.
Israeli officials rejected assertions that an outgoing prime minister should
not be making such a trip, saying it was approved by both Defense Minister Ehud
Barak, and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
Iran's nuclear program and Israeli concerns over the sale of advanced Russian
weapons to Syria are expected to top the talks' agenda.
The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel had said it would petition the High
Court of Justice if the current caretaker government approves the transfer of
Sergei's Courtyard. The group cited the decision by Supreme Court President
Dorit Beinisch two weeks ago preventing the appointment of Supreme Court
justices until a new government is formed.
In a letter sent on Friday to the prime minister, Cabinet Secretary Ovad
Yehezkel and Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz, the forum wrote: "A caretaker
government is not entitled to take important and irreversible decisions that the
incoming government will have to deal with."
The transfer of "important property in the center of Jerusalem to a powerful
foreign state with interests in this region and imperial designs" was no less
important than the appointment of Supreme Court justices, the forum wrote.
Some Israeli officials had expressed concern that such a transfer could set a
precedent for other property in the capital owned by the Russian, Greek and
Roman Catholic churches. The Knesset and the Prime Minister's Office stand on
land originally owned by the Greek Orthodox Church.
Livni on the edge
Under these circumstances, and with everything Israelis have been
through, what Israel really needs is an election. But Livni is having
none of it. She states, "I am not afraid of elections, and we in
Kadima have no reason to worry about elections; they are just
unnecessary." Polls suggest, however, that Livni would hardly be a
shoe-in if elections were to be held (hat tip Van)
At a time when global anstisemitism is spreading like AIDS of the soul and the confluence of world events is clearly leading up to a perfect storm against the Jewish people ...... Israel has elected Condhimmi's wait staff.
Israel hands reins (and all hope for Israel) over to Olmert II - Tvipi Livni. How frickin depressing. I thought the Jews had a shot when Olmurderer was caught for the umpteenth time in his latest act of corruption and skulduggery. I have written little on recent developments in Israel because I am overwhelmed by the perfidy of Israel leadership and the apathy of the people of Israel. Israel is being served up cold to Islamic jihad.
It seemed a divine hand had given the Jewish people the opportunity to oust the treasonous traitor that was selling out the Jewish people to her enemies but that gift was recklessly wasted. *sigh*
Why can't Israel perform the simple task of electing a proud Jew, a a Jew that believes in national sovereignty and the rights of the Jewish people to live on their land. When I interviewed Bat Yeor on this jewicidal phenomena, she lamented, "Israel is unworthy of her ancestors". Emmis.
Livni is more of the same Jewicidal leadership the Jews suffered under Olmert. I saw her speak at AIPAC and prayed this day would never come.
Naomi Ragen writes:
There are 14,000 non-Jewish Kadima members among 74,000 total.
Can you imagine? A party with less than a hundred thousand members is
running the country, giving away land, destroying Jewish settlements,
negotiating over Jerusalem?
Her basic dishonesty is expressed both in her political maneuverings
and in her behavior as a policymaker. In both areas, she upholds
herself as Mrs. Clean - the servant of all of us who are sickened,
demoralized and revolted by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his hordes
of corrupt Kadima colleagues and staffers. But she is not our servant.
Rather than serve us, like Olmert and her Kadima colleagues, she lies
to us in a
continuous bid to expand her power.
Read it all. Worse still, it was the Muslim vote that delivered victory to the seat of power. Makes sense, it's who she serves.
Tzipi Livni has won the Kadima primary election with
43.1% (16,936 votes). Close behind was Shaul Mofaz with 42% (16,505 votes).Fourteen thousand of Kadima's 74,000
registered voters are not Jewish and, as of Wednesday evening, the non-Jewish
sector had demonstrated the highest voting rate among party members. Among
these, 6,900 are Druze, 4,600 are Muslim and the rest are Christian or Bedouin.
Deputy Foreign Minister Majalli Whbee, who
coordinates party issues related to the non-Jewish sector, estimated that many
Muslim members of Kadima would be going to vote late Wednesday night, following
the Iftar feast (which marks the end of Ramadan).
"After the feast, voters will arrive (to polling
stations) en masse," Whbee said confidently. He stated that, according to
estimates, a quarter of the registered non-Jewish Kadima members had already
voted. He believes that some 60% of Arab Kadima voters will vote by the end of
the day.
[Explains why at the last minute
Livni called for, and had, the voting hours extended. df]
Most of the polling stations are located in the
north, in between the various Druze and Arab villages. The largest polling
station is in the village of Shfaram, where it is believed that over a thousand
voters will cast their ballot their by the end of the day.
In several polling stations, like Beit Jan in the
North, Livni crushed Mofaz,..
Note that she just squeaked by and that the exit polls were all wrong, Sound familiar?
Questions to Adversaries of the Jewish state. by Dan Calic
Why is it that someone can say they support national movements, and yet oppose Zionism?
Why are there 22 Arab countries and the world doesn't have a problem with that, yet throw one Jewish country in the mix and you think the world was about to end.
The world hears public calls for the destruction of Israel again and again and does not
care. What would happen if Israel called for the destruction of her enemies just once?
Is the role of UN to accommodate destruction of Israel? - Hezbollah has rearmed itself with over 40,000 rockets and missiles in Lebanon, since the end of the '06 war, in flagrant violation of UN resolution 1701, while the UNIFIL has done absolutely nothing to stop them.
How can someone go to bed on June 4, 1967 as a Jordanian and wake up the next day as a Palestinian?
Why should it be Israel's responsibility to be responsible for self-imposed 'refugees', who have been supporting those who intended to destroy Israel?
How can Jews living on the land of their ancestors, given by G-d, be condemned but Islamic terrorism aimed at destruction of the state of Israel is widely tolerated and quietly supported by the international community?"
(IsraelNN.com) Residents of the Jewish community of Yitzhar retaliated against the nearby Palestinian Authority Arab village of Asira al-Kabaliya in Samaria after an Arab entered the Jewish town and stabbed a nine-year-old boy on the Sabbath.
Dozens of Jews poured into the Arab village, where it was believed the suspected terrorist resides. According to the villagers, the Jews damaged houses, overturned vehicles and shot rubber bullets as well as live ammunition at Arab residents. Villagers hurled rocks at the Jews until IDF soldiers arrived to break up the riot.
At least two Arabs sustained gunshot wounds.
Israel is not defending herself so as not to insult her executioneers. Remember what Ben pointed out a couple of weeks ago?
The Phalanx C-RAM defense system guarding the Green Zone in Baghdad has destroyed
its 100th incoming mortar round.
C-RAM stands for Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar, and it is
development of the Phalanx system originally designed for air defense
for the US armed forces.
It has been re-engineered to destroy incoming rockets, artillery
shells, and mortar rounds. That is not easy. These kinds of weapons
are typically launched from very short range, and there are only
seconds to react. But the Phalanx C-RAM, thanks to its computer
system, can do it. Not perfectly, but well, and that is all you can
ask of a weapon.
The C-RAM has been doing this for years, now, and a growing number of
people have been asking, couldn't such a weapon intercept Qassam
rockets coming out of Gaza?
Yes, of course it could. But Israeli politics seems to be allied with
Palestinian rocket launchers in this case, and only now have the
Israelis decided to "evaluate" a C-RAM.
Every time the warning sirens sound in Sderot, remember
that a simple phone call and a signature, and a few million dollars,
would have had a capable, battle proven defense system spewing 6000
rounds of deadly accurate radar aimed 20 millimeter proximity fused
ammunition at those incoming rockets.
But the Israeli government has been dragging its feet. The sordid and
pitiful tale, the "flip side" of the stories of fear and horror stories
coming out of Sderot, has been covered in the last few months by the
defense weaponry geeks: GO HERE
Olmert continues to commit acts of perfidy in his illegal occupation of the office of Prime Minister in Israel. Today he released close to 200 Jew killers into the general population to commit murder and mayhem. This in the name of the piss process. Snapped Shot has the media's ass kissing coverage of the release of the killers "kissing their mothers" - cheerleading the terrorists. No mention of the bereaved families of the victims.
According to an informal estimate by Israeli security bodies, about 50
percent of the terrorists freed for any reason whatsoever returned to
the path of terror, either as a perpetrator, a planner, or as an
accomplice. In the terror acts committed by these freed terrorists,
hundreds of Israelis were murdered, and thousands were wounded.(more here)
Clearly, the release of Jew killers was timed to coincide with the arrival of the Grand Dhimmi and hatchet man for Islamic jihad, Condi Rice. Ghastly. This is her ninth visit in seven months. Exhausting. Why, in heaven's name isn't she pursuing the removal of Iran's nukes or the NORK's nukes or a Russian pushback with such vigor and enthusiasm. You draw your own conclusion.
Condi, in her relentless pursuit of a bloody fantasy, believes she can satiate the blood lust of Islamic jihad with the subjugation of the Jews. Dismantling Israel, stronging arm the Jews into submission will acheive the opposite goal - it wil empower and embolden the growing imperialism of Islamic supremacy. Terrible, all of it.
Israel releases 198 Palestinian prisoners in effort to boost peace process
Israel has freed almost 200 jailed Palestinians — including a militant
mastermind from the 1970s who became the state's longest serving
Palestinian prisoner — in a goodwill gesture just
hours before US
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits the region.
The prisoners arrived in Ramallah after being released by prison
guards at an Israeli military checkpoint near Jerusalem. The
prisoners, some waving black-and-white checkered keffiyeh headdresses
as they stepped off Israeli buses, kissed the ground before boarding
Palestinian vehicles.
Israel said the release was designed to bolster President Mahmoud
Abbas and his western-leaning administration and give a boost to the
slow-moving peace talks with the moderate Palestinian leader.
Government spokesman Mark Regev said: "It's not easy for Israel to
release prisoners. Some of the individuals being released today are
guilty of direct involvement in the murder of innocent civilians.
"But we understand the importance of the prisoner issue for
Palestinian society...We believe this action can support the
negotiation process and create goodwill."
In the last days of his illegal occupation of the office of Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, the most dangerous man in the history of modern day Israel, is working furiously behind the scenes to establish an Islamic terror state in the heart and soul of the homeland of the Jewish people.
PM Olmert pushing for deal with Palestinians to impose on Israel
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 22 August 2008
Maariv correspondent Ben Caspit reports in today's edition that Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert is pushing hard to reach a deal with PA head Mahmoud
Abbas before he leaves office. American businessman Daniel Abram recently
met with Abbas a number of times to encourage Abbas to reach an agreement
with Olmert.
According to Caspit, Olmert tells his circle that if he reaches a deal with
Abbas "the president of the United States will adopt the wording, the world
with adopt it, the European Union, also the Arab world. We can tell the
Israeli People that this is what can be achieved after long years of
negotiations and the Nation will decide."
Put another way: Olmert intends to create a situation according to which
the Israeli public will be put in the situation that rejection of the deal
means rejection of a plan already embraced by the entire world - with all
the consequences.
Al-Qaeda Affiliate - Jaish al-Islam - Receives Formal Sanctuary in Hamas-Ruled Gaza (Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah Halev)
Except for Fatah, the other Palestinian terror organizations in Gaza enjoy full freedom of movement under Hamas rule. Offshoots of Al-Qaeda in Gaza include Jaish al-Islam (the Army of Islam), the Army of the Umma, and Fatah al-Islam. Following a series of violent clashes, Hamas and Jaish al-Islam established a joint committee to regulate relations between the groups and to solve disputes between them. In essence, Hamas recognized Jaish al-Islam as a legitimate armed movement inside the area under Hamas jurisdiction.
In a previous agreement between the two groups, Hamas had given Jaish al-Islam $5 million and more than a million Kalashnikov bullets in compensation for its freeing of BBC journalist Alan Johnston. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas warned about the emerging trend, telling Al-Hayat on February 26, 2008: "I believe that Al-Qaeda is present in the Palestinian territory of Gaza. It is the Hamas movement that brought Al-Qaeda in and it abets the entry and exit [of militants]....I believe that they are allies."
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner confirmed in July 2007 that Hamas was in contact with Al-Qaeda. However, he clarified that their connection was not the result of Western policy to isolate the Hamas regime.
Hamas has established a terror hothouse in Gaza designed to continue the jihad against apostates, pursue the struggle against Israel, secure the overthrow of the Abbas regime in the West Bank, and assist the efforts of the parent movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, in overthrowing the moderate regimes in the Middle East headed by Jordan and Egypt.
Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan D. Halevi is a senior researcher of the Middle East and radical Islam at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is co-founder with Brian Falkenstein of the Orient Research Group Ltd. and is a former advisor to the Policy Planning Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
I liken this to the US military training al qaeda jihadis in Canada. Judea belongs to the Jews, as does Samaria. Why won't Olmerde leave quietly - and if he won't shouldn't that corrupt crook be arrested?
A coordination meeting took place yesterday, August 4th 2008, in order to strengthen security coordination between Palestinian and IDF Security Forces in the Judea and Samaria region. The meeting was held by the Commander of the Judea and Samaria Division, Brig. Gen. Noam Tibon, Head of Civil Administration, Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai and representatives from the Palestinian Security Forces.
During the meeting, the parties discussed the Palestinian Security Forces' activities in the area of Jenin and northern Samaria. The Palestinians expressed appreciation for having the ability to act independently as part of the recent campaign for improving public order in the region. The Division Commander and the Head of the Civil Administration stated that such activity should continue in order to fight terror and crime within the Palestinian Authority.
July 31, 2008: Israel is desperate to get some kind of anti-missile system in place to protect against rockets being fired out of Gaza by Hamas. Right now, a top candidate is the U.S. land mobile version of the Phalanx anti-ship-missile weapon. This system, called "Centurion" was originally developed four years ago, as "C-RAM". That's why the Israelis want it now, because similar systems developed in Israel will take several years to perfect, and angry voters will not give politicians that much time. Centurion is ready now.
Centurion is basically the Phalanx naval gun system with new software that enables it to take data from its own, and other, radar systems, and shoot down just about any kind of artillery shell or rocket within range (about 2,000 meters). It uses high explosive 20mm shells, that detonate near the target, spraying it with fragments. By the time these fragments reach the ground, they are generally too small and slow to injure anyone. At least that's been the experience in Iraq.
The original Phalanx used 20mm depleted uranium shells, to slice through incoming missiles. Phalanx fires shells at the rate of 75 per second. Another advantage of Centurion, is that it makes a distinctive noise when firing, warning people nearby that a mortar or rocket attack is underway, giving people an opportunity to duck inside if they are out and about.
How could we let this happen?" (Corrupt hack and Jewicidal Prime Minister Olmerde)
As Hamas goosesteps on the march to all out war with Israel -- Olmert scratches his head (as opposed to his tiny testes) and wonders where it all went wrong.
And But Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the "balance"
was so far a positive one. "The calm was intended to give [us] a
timeout which we would do well to take advantage off." WRONG, you pathological assaht, the calm was a hudna for Hmas to rearm, regroup and prepare for the next onslaught.
OLmert-Barak- Livni should be jailed for putting Israel in such dastardly jeopardy, and making every Israeli a ransom for Islamic jihad blackmail. It's terrible, all of it.
Hamas has smuggled four tons of explosives, 50 anti-aircraft missiles,
dozens of Kalashnikov rifles and materials used to produce rockets
into the Gaza Strip since the inception of the cease-fire, Shin Bet
(Israel Security Agency) chief Yuval Diskin said Sunday at the weekly
cabinet meeting.
[...]
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on the truce that "I fear that a
reality is being created in the south, which, in five years we'll be
asking ourselves - How could we let this happen?"
According to Diskin, Hamas has also taken control
of all smuggling tunnels along the border with Egypt, and cement being
brought into Gaza was intended for construction of bunkers.
The Shin Bet head added that the recent prisoner exchange with
Hizbullah had encouraged various Palestinian groups to attempt carrying
out abductions.
G-d forbid they get jobs and actually do something, produce something, create something. DEATH, that's what they do.
But Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the "balance"
was so far a positive one. "The calm was intended to give [us] a
timeout which we would do well to take advantage off," he said.
PM ignores lowly approval rating, adopts scorched-earth policy to save himself
Sever Plocker
How low can one go? When it comes to math, the bottom is infinite; in politics, the bottom is zero – and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is very close to getting there: In the latest public opinion poll undertaken by the Dahaf Institute and Dr. Mina Tzemach on behalf of Yedioth Ahronoth, only 6% of Israelis said Olmert is fit to be a PM.
The number of Israelis killed in terrorist attacks in 2008 so far has more
than doubled when compared to last years figures, Shin Bet (Israel SecurityAgency) chief Yuval Diskin said Sunday at the
weekly cabinet meeting. More here (hat tip wolf)
It is obvious now to Isalmic jihad if they want their murderers released they must kidnap and kill Jews. It works.
This is a sad day, a tragic day for Israel and the Jewish diaspora.
The evil New York Times doesn't know
Child
Killer or Brave Anti-Israel Fighter? Times Leaves It Open for Debate
"Samir Kuntar will return to a hero's welcome
when he crosses into Lebanon this week, 29 years after he left its shores in a
rubber dinghy to kidnap Israelis....That raid went horribly wrong, leaving five
people dead, a community terrorized and a nation traumatized." How would such a
raid have gone "right," in the Times' eyes?
Blue Star wrote, I am boiling over, but put my anger aside and left a calm and collected
voicemail for Israel's Ambassador to the U.S.
My comment: As a staunch supporter of Israel, today I am ashamed of its
government. Trading live terrorists for dead soldiers works contrary to
the safety of every Israeli soldier and citizen. It is also a deep
wound to all those who love freedom. Moves like this will encourage
more kidnappings and murders.
If you've got the chutzpah and the time, their phone number is
(202)364-5500.
Samir Quntar who crushed the head of four-year-old Eynat
Haran with his rifle, was a serving four life sentences for murder in an Israeli
prison is released to a hero's welcome. [..] Besides bludgeoning Eynat Haran to death with rocks and his rifle, Quntar killed
her father and was responsible for the death of her infant sister. He also
killed two policemen in the 1979 attack in Naharia. The Israeli cabinet today
approved a prisoner exchange that would free Quntar and several other prisoners
in exchange for dead Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, who were
kidnapped by Hizbullah in 2006. (More here at PMW).
Blue Star bemoans,
.... terrorists for dead soldiers works contrary to
the safety of every Israeli soldier and citizen. It is also a deep
wound to all those who love freedom. Moves like this will encourage
more kidnappings and murders.
To be honest now that the families are mourning for their dead, the only thing to say is the traditional greeting to mourners
Child-killer freed: A short while after the bodies of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser were identified, murderer Samir Kuntar and the four Hizbullah prisoners headed to the Lebanese border.
Triumphant return â Kuntar in his new outfit (Photo: AFP)
Hizbullah's al-Manar network reported that Kuntar and the four prisoners were received by masses of supporters, cries of joy, and lively music. Following a short ceremony, the freed prisoners were set to head to Beirut for a mass rally to celebrate their release.
In his first statement after being released, Kuntar told al-Manar: "I want to congratulate all those who sacrificed for the sake of this new victory. This is the true supplement to the July victory (Second Lebanon War.) I won't say much now, I will make do with sending well-wishes to the man responsible for the promise that was fulfilled, Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, and to the heroic fighters of the Islamic resistance (Hizbullah)."
Happy day in Lebanon (Photo: AFP)
While families of Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser were mourning their loved ones, Hizbullah launched its celebrations Wednesday afternoon with a festive ceremony marking the arrival of the first caskets containing terrorists handed over by Israel earlier in the day.
Prisoner Swap
(VIDEO) Palestinian president welcomes swap deal between Israel, Hizbullah. Hamas' prime minister in Gaza says, 'The resistance's victory proved the rightness of our way.' Spokesman for Popular Resistance Committees says kidnapping soldiers is ideal way to release Palestinian prisoners
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Senior Hizbullah figures and Shiite leaders took part in the ceremony, near the border with Israel. The first truck to enter Lebanon carried the bodies of 19 Hizbullah fighters.
'Huge achievement'
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Earlier Wednesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hizbullah. Abbas congratulated Kuntar's family and sent his condolences to the Lebanese families receiving their loved ones' bodies as part of the deal.
Samir Kuntar's mother joined the cries of joy on Wednesday afternoon, praising Hizbullah leader Nasrallah for "the huge achievement."
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In an interview with the al-Manar network, Kuntar's mother, also known as Um Jabar, said that "there is no limit to my joy today. I cannot express my feelings. This is complete liberty. For three days I have been getting phone calls from residents of Palestine, Yemen, Morocco and other countries, who congratulate me and I congratulate them."
Check out my interview EXACTLY one year to the day, July 17, 2007, with Karnit Goldwasser. She had faith in Nassrallah "understanding". I said he's an animal -- listen
Atlas Shrugs Asks Karnit Goldwasser FREE THE SOLDIERS RALLY
PG Can I ask you with Olmert releasing Fatah terrorists ....
Karnit Goldwasser: Excused me?
PG: Olmert is releasing these terrorists from prisons with no conditions, what do you think of that?
Karnit Goldwasser : The Prime Minister
PG: Yes, Olmerde. Doesn't that make you crazy? releasing these terorists from prison?
Karnit Goldwasser : That's not quite true. I hope that Fatah .... I hope that Hamas will understand that if that want to get their people to their home, people that they wish to have at home, I hope they will see that Olmert can release people and Olmert can bring people back home in returning of Gilad Shalit.
PG: You have faith in Fatah?
KG: Fatah?
PG: It's a question. I am just asking you because I don't. Everything that I have seen over the past few ....
KG: My problem is with the Hezballah. I am dealing with Hezballah, I'm not [intelligible] ... from the country. I don't know I am hoping Nasrallah will understand and if he wants to release his prisoners he has to do much more but it seems he doesn't want to release the prisoners.
PG: He's an animal
KG: What can I do? ...... What can I do?
UPDATE: Hezb'Allah circling:
Hizballah has marked the conclusion of the prisoner exchange with Israel by launching new tactics consisting of anti-air missile ambushes against Israeli Air Force flights over Lebanon and anti-ship missiles against Israel naval craft cruising off its shores.
DEBKAfile¢s military sources report that Hizballah has taken charge of the missile campaign while handing the Lebanese national army the task of attacking Israeli outposts at the Shaaba Farms enclave and the Mt. Dov slopes of the Hermon range.
It was clear Wednesday, July 16, that Hizballah was now calling the shots in Beirut when the president and government were forced to honor the spectacular heroes¢ welcome the Shiite group organized for the five imprisoned terrorists released by Israel.
Hezbollah practice nazi salute for the return child murderer (hat tip Kasper)
"Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were handing out sweets to celebrate
the handover of the two coffins. Dozens of Palestinians, holding
Palestinian and Lebanese flags, rejoiced at the prospect that Samir
Kuntar would be freed."
"Today is a great victory for the resistance movements and to
Hezbollah, said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. "It shows that the
only successful way to free the prisoners is by kidnapping soldiers."
A former cellmate of Samir Kuntar, Jaber Weshah, who is now deputy
director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, said:
"Today is a true day of joy for all Palestinians and all freedom
lovers across the world."
This is the animal (Sami Kuntar) Olmert set free today to receive a "hero's welcome" in Lebanon. This is a dark day for Israel:
"After drowning Danny [the father] in the sea in
front of Einat (as Ahmed Al-Brass, Mhanna Salim Al-Muayed, and Abdel
Majeed Asslan served as look outs and backup cover for Kuntar), Kuntar
turned his attention towards the 4 year-old. He took his rifle and then
swung it across the toddler's head, knocking her to the ground. Kuntar then
dragged the toddler a couple of feet to the closest rock he could find
and laid her head down on a rock, with the intention of crushing it
with the butt of his rifle. Einat, instinctively covered her head with
her arms, Kuntar struggled with the toddler until he finally managed to
clear her arms out of the way. Once her arms were out of the way, Kuntar
repeatedly beat her on the head with the butt of his rifle and
stomping on her body, until blood rushed out of her ears and mouth. Then, to
ensure she was dead, Kuntar continued beating her over the head until
her skull was crushed and she was dead." (more here is you can stand it)
The Olmert government has known that Regav and Goldwasser have been dead for 2
years.
Wolf, "Olmert deflecting attention from his own corruption has he lets monsters
with blood on their hands free!"
Murdered by Muslim in Jerusalem screaming, what else? Allah Akbar.
We mourn the loss of Elizabeth Goren-Friedman, 54, who had
dedicated her life to teaching blind children; Jean Relevy,
68, who was about to become a first-time grandfather in a month; and
Batsheva Unterman, 33, a kindergarten teacher in Jerusalem. (more here)
This is depraved. Why wouldn't a Muslim kill Jews and insure a solid financial future for his family. This is impossible to fathom and clearly represents how broken Israel is. They have laid down.
1. For many years the Israeli Far Left and the Israeli media (pardon me
for repeating myself - they are largely the same people) have had a bugaboo
over the matter of "Vidu Hariga" or "Making sure they are dead." In
confrontations with terrorist infiltrators, would-be suicide bombers, and
similar peace partners, when it is not clear if the perps are really dead or
just wounded, Israeli soldiers sometimes finish them off with a bullet or
three. Official military orders are NOT to do so, but in many cases the
commanders wisely turn aside when it is done. The leftist judges in the
Israeli courts sometimes take time off from their judicial activism to
scream about how awful "Making sure they are dead" is. Haaretz has long
crusaded against the "barbaric" practice. Leftist "human rights" groups
whine about it.
In the bulldozer attack in Jerusalem this week, the perp was
shot by a policeman. The perp passed out and looked dead. The policeman did
not "finish him off" with a Vidu Hariga shot to the nogen. Perhaps the cop
was worried about being demonized in the media or prosecuted by the
bleeding hearts.
His failure to do so resulted in more death. The terrorist
suddenly came to, and hit the gas on the 'dozer, murdering Batsheva
Unterman, the mother of baby Efrat. Do-good squeamishness and politically
correct idiocy claimed yet another life in Israel. Failure to conduct Vidu
Hariga against terrorists should be a crime in Israel, but, instead, every
cop and soldier has to worry about being indicted if he finishes off a
terrorist. Failure to kill terrorists costs Jewish lives.
Note that the 'dozer murderer was a relative of the
terrorist who committed mass murder in the yeshiva in Jerusalem last spring.
At the time, the house of the terrorist's family was not demolished, the
family was not deported, and - yes indeed - they WERE permitted to collect
survivor benefits as relatives of the dead terrorist from Israel's social
security (National Insurance Institute). For those who assumed I was kidding when I wrote that families of Arab terrorist murderers who have
Israeli citizenship collect such survivor benefits, I was completely
serious.
The family of the Yeshiva murderer set up a "mourning tent" to
celebratetheir heroic "shaheed" family member after he murdered the yeshiva
children. Israeli police protected the premises lest some angry Jew do
something violent to them. They bragged about how proud they were of the
hero with his 72 virgins (see this article).
Then, after all that, Olmert and his pals are shocked, I say
shocked, this week when another member of that same family carries out
another massmurder. While making some noises about how maybe this time the
house of the perp's family should be demolished, it will not happen. The
Jewish leftists will run to the courts to prevent it from ever happening.
Andthen when the third member of the terrorist family commits a new mass
murder, the Olmerts and the leftists in the media will be struck dumb from shock and surprise.
By the way, as fate would have it, one of those
who shot the tractor terrorist was brother-in-law to the Jew who shot and
killed the yeshivamurderer last spring. The Jewish hero had been arrested a
few years back and beaten by the police for participating in protests
against the Sharon Gaza capitulation and the ethnic cleansing of Jews from
Gush Katif.
Government and police spokesmen would have us believe that the carnage in
Jerusalem on Wednesday was unavoidable. Husam Taysir Dwayat, the convicted
rapist, burglar and drug dealer turned jihadist who mowed down innocent people
with his bulldozer on Jaffa Road was not suspected of links to terrorist
organizations. The sociopathic, violent criminal who had "returned" to Islam
over the past month raised no red flags. There was nothing to be done. No one is
to blame.
If the protestations of the government and the police that nothing could have
prevented Dwayat from using his bulldozer to murder three people sound familiar,
it is because they are. Immediately after Ala Abu Dhaim entered into Mercaz
Harav yeshiva on March 6 and massacred eight students, government and police
spokesmen said the same thing. There was no way to prevent the attack. No one is
to blame.
These statements are no more than easy excuses for incompetence. While it may
be true that neither Dwayat nor Dhaim were members of a terror group, it is
certainly true that both of these Jerusalemite terrorists operated in an
atmosphere that engenders both radicalism and lawlessness. Their decisions to
murder innocent people were products not only of their own evil natures, but of
an atmosphere of permissiveness that naturally intensifies any latent desire to
cause death and mayhem. If they had been operating in a different environment,
it is possible they would have behaved differently.
Zioncon has this incomprehensible back story on the tractor terror attack. Israel is a very sick nation.
Beneficiaries ht tip David Batsheva
Unterman had to undergo long periods of fertility treatment before she was
able to conceive. But at last she and her husband had a baby. Five months
ago, Baby Efrat was born, a healthy little girl.
Yesterday, Baby Efrat's Mom took her for a checkup in the
clinic for babies in downtown Jerusalem. When they were finished, Mom put
Efrat in
