Atlas Shrugs

Alleged Israeli Attack on Iranian Missiles in Syria Prompts Threats "Declaration of War"

Israel has not confirmed or denied the series of strikes early Sunday morning, which the Syrian foreign ministry said had targeted three military sites: a "research center" at Jamraya, a "paragliding airport" in the al-Dimas area of Damascus, and a site in Maysaloun.

Israel Targeted Iranian Missiles in Syria Attack NY Times

The airstrike that Israeli warplanes carried out in Syria overnight on Thursday was directed at a shipment of advanced surface-to-surface missiles from Iran that Israel believed was intended for Hezbollah, American officials said Saturday. That strike was aimed at disrupting the arms pipeline that runs from Syria to Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese organization, and it highlighted the mounting stakes for Hezbollah and Israel as Syria becomes more chaotic.

Iran and Hezbollah have both backed President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war, now in its third year. But as fighting in Syria escalates, they also have a powerful interest in expediting the delivery of advanced weapons to Hezbollah in case Mr. Assad loses his grip on power and Syria ceases to be an effective channel for funneling weapons from Iran.

The missiles that were the target of the Israeli raid had been shipped from Iran and were being stored in a warehouse at Damascus International Airport when they were struck, according to an American official.

Syria: Attack on military facility was a 'declaration of war' by Israel

Syrian Minister: All Possibilites Open After Israeli Attacks INN
Syria's Information Minister says that alleged Israeli attack "opens the door to all possibilities."

Syria responded angrily to the overnight air strikes on military targets that it accused Israel of carrying out, warning that the attack "opens the door to all possibilities."

"We will not accept to be humiliated," Syrian information minister Omran al-Zoubi said at an afternoon press conference, according to ABC News.

"We are all in a state of anger. We are abused by this attack," he added.

Israel has not confirmed or denied the series of strikes early Sunday morning, which the Syrian foreign ministry said had targeted three military sites: a "research center" at Jamraya, a "paragliding airport" in the al-Dimas area of Damascus, and a site in Maysaloun.

Syria accused Israel of "coordination" with the extremist rebel groups it is fighting, including Jabhat al-Nusra, which has pledged allegiance to al Qaeda's leadership.

Zoubi’s warning came after Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Feisal al-Mekdad, earlier called Israel's bombing of a weapons transport in Syria a “declaration of war.”

Speaking in an interview on CNN, al-Mekdad said that Israel was siding with “Islamist terrorists” to unseat President Bashar al-Assad, and that Syria would respond “at the time and in the manner that it chooses to.”

President Barack Obama, who has faced growing questioning over the American role in the conflict that has left more than 70,000 dead, did not confirm the Israeli attacks, but said on Saturday that Israel has a right to stop its enemies from getting advanced weapons.

The Whole Picture

This picture will NEVER appear in the press. This is what happens all the time to Israeli soldiers: Notice the certainty in the provocation and how secure the provocateur feels because he knows that Tsahal (IDF) will not touch him. Surrounding the scene are journalists and left-wing activists eagerly waiting for the soldier to act, ready to capture any perceived misstep in order to use it to damn the IDF. Powerless but resolute, the soldier stands in the face of this provocation with restraint and dignity. (thanks to Stuart K)

"Palestinian" "news" agency: "One wonders if the Jews belong to some other kind of human species...From where does all this evil and destructive energy derive?"

This guy sounds like one of Obama's cabinet picks.

"Palestinian" "news" agency: "One wonders if the Jews belong to some other kind of human species...From where does all this evil and destructive energy derive?" Jihadwatch

While Islam is the only world religion with a developed doctrine, theology and legal system mandating warfare against and subjugation of unbelievers, Islamic supremacists in the "Palestinian" Authority are using a 19th-century forgery to project their own aspirations upon the Jews. "Protocols of the Elders of Zion alive and well in the PA," by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik for Palestinian Media Watch, February 25:

The Palestinian news agency Ma'an continues to include Antisemitic content on its website. Currently the op-ed section features an article presenting the old Antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a true document delineating the Jews' plan to subjugate the world.

Opinion piece by Walid Shomaly:

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are a kind of plan formulated by the Jews to infiltrate the world and take it over. While many Jewish leaders claim that they (the Protocols) are a forgery and one of the greatest political fabrications of the modern era, others confirm that they are true and that they are the most dangerous plot of global domination that history has ever known."

Having described the content of some of the protocols, the writer demonizes all Jews:

"Now, after this quick review of a few of these protocols, one wonders if the Jews belong to some other kind of human species, different from other nations. From where does all this evil and destructive energy derive? Do all the other nations deserve all this evil and hostility, just so that Jews may control them? Do all nations other than Jews really have clouded minds?"

And he wonders about the extent of Jewish world domination already today:

"Have most of the things that appear in the Protocols been implemented in the West and in the East? Did the idea of a Jewish world government begin to be carried out towards the end of the last century? And does the US rule the world today in the name of the new world order for the benefit of the Jews, in accordance with these Protocols? Are we on the brink of the establishment of an evident Jewish world government? Until we have answers to these questions and ponderings - as well as others - we say, 'May Allah help us, we the children of Palestine...'"

When describing how one of the protocols "calls to crush religious authority, especially the papacy," Shomaly condemns Christians Zionist in the US as "Zionists in the guise of Christians":

"We see how approximately eighty million Zionist Christians in the United States itself give Israel their absolute support, claiming [to belong to] Christianity while they in fact have no connection with it, for these people are Zionists in the guise of Christians. Thus they can achieve two goals: The first, to smash Christian values and perceptions from within; and the second, to support Zionism by legitimizing its occupation and settling of Palestine."

According to the writer, the Protocols include among other things the following:

"The first protocol calls for the spread of anarchy and wars... [and] contains plans to spread corruption in the world in order to establish firm Jewish rule... Jews are to entice men through liquor, debauchery, and women, and to use fraud, bribery, and betrayal to achieve their goals."

"The second protocol calls for a takeover of government, education, and the press. The fourth protocol calls for a takeover of trade and the destruction of religion."

"While the seventh protocol calls to instigate global wars, the ninth lays out plans to destroy moral values and dispatch agents."

"As far as education is concerned, the sixteenth protocol calls for corrupting it so as to reduce gentiles to creatures incapable of independent thought. Regarding religion, the seventeenth protocol calls to crush religious authority, especially the papacy."

"As regards impoverishing the nations and starving them so as to control them, the twentieth protocol calls for drowning countries in debts, and then forcing them to borrow from Jewish wealth at high interest rates, so that these countries will remain subservient and under their control."...

Tell Obama

Tell Obama about Our Right to the Land - Nadav Shragai (Israel Hayom)

• During President Barack Obama's visit to Israel in mid-March, the planned conversation will once again revolve around security issues. Even the traditional visit to Yad Vashem - if it occurs - will derive its power from the vision of the State of Israel as a refuge for the surviving remnant.
• What will be missing is any discussion of Jewish rights to the land. At the same time, such a discourse figures prominently in the conversations of Palestinians. They are not afraid to wax on endlessly about their past here, to rewrite and falsify their own history.
• Security is important, but it is not everything. It is impossible to base a demand for international legitimacy without the Bible, our patriarchs and matriarchs, Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the City of David.
• The City of David contains a Herodian drainage ditch with the etching of a menorah. On display is the bell from the robe of the Temple's high priest.
• The Temple Mount represents the greatest unilateral concession that any nation and religion has ever made to another: placing our most holy place under the supervision of a competing religion, Islam.
• Our friends need to hear that the historical, religious, legal and emotional connection of the Jewish people to Jerusalem is no less powerful than that of the Palestinians. They need to hear that we are not occupiers of this land, that there are Jews for whom this land is sacred, just as it is for the Palestinians. That we too are connected to this land by bonds of love and tradition.
• Yes, we are here by right of force, but even before that, we are here by the force of our rights.

A Young Brave Visionary

Why do we not hear our leaders speaking like this? Look at the pathetically small crowd (and who knows how many of those standing with signs are anti-Israel). Bless this young woman.

Israel: New Muslim Brotherhood Knesset member can't decide which wife to bring

Only in Israel, the only free country in the Middle East. Free to elect their own executioners.

New Muslim Brotherhood Knesset member can't decide which wife to bring Tom Gross, Middle East Dispatch, January 29, 2013

Taleb Abu Arar, a new Bedouin member from the Raam-Taal party who was elected to the Israeli parliament last week, can't decide which of his two wives to bring to next week's official ceremony when new MKs swear allegiance to the Knesset and the state.

The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reports that Abu Arar is married to one older wife, with whom he has nine children, while his younger wife, who is only aged 22, has already given birth to one child.

Ma'ariv reports that Abu Arar is not violating Israel's anti-bigamy laws because the younger woman is officially only his mistress.

Abu Arar is a member of the "Islamic Movement in 1948 Palestine" which is the Muslim Brotherhood's faction in Israel and aims to establish an Islamic state in all of Israel.

Raam-Taal (the United Arab List) is a party headed by Ahmed Tibi, who often appears as a guest on Western media denigrating the state of Israel. Tibi previously served as a senior advisor to PLO leader Yasser Arafat and represented the Palestinian Authority at the Bill Clinton-sponsored Wye talks in 1998, during which the then Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to withdraw from most of Hebron and large sections of the West Bank.

U.S. Watchdog Ranks Israel as Region's Only "Free" State

If the flow of information were not in the hands of the leftist/Islamic media machine, this would be well known and discussed. As it is, democracy and freedom in 2013 continued its steady decline across the world.

U.S. Watchdog Ranks Israel as Region's Only "Free" State - Herb Keinon
Israel is the Middle East's only "free" state, the U.S.-based Freedom House wrote in its annual report last week, a ranking in stark contrast to claims by the country's critics who argue that the Jewish state's democratic values are steadily eroding. The report, which ranks the world's countries by political rights and civil liberties, characterized Jordan and Syria as "not free," and Egypt and Lebanon as "partly free." Both the West Bank and Gaza are classified as "not free."
    Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen were also rated "not free," while Tunisia, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, and Turkey were defined as "partly free."  (Jerusalem Post)

On Freedom House: As more than two billion people live under oppressive rule, Freedom House speaks out against the main threats to democracy and empowers citizens to exercise their fundamental rights. We analyze the challenges to freedom; advocate for greater political and civil liberties; and support frontline activists to defend human rights and promote democratic change. Founded in 1941, Freedom House was the first American organization to champion the advancement of freedom globally.

What the UN should have been doing, instead of moral equivocating and advancing oppression, repression and dictatorial regimes.

Fierce Zionist Martin Luther King: "When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism"

Martin Luther King would be spinning in his grave if he knew how he was being exploited by the bigots, Jew-haters, racists, demagogues he fought so hard against. If only those who so egregiously use him would heed his words and wisdom.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a proud Zionist Jihadwatch

Martin Luther King, Jr., was an opponent of the jihad against Israel. While there are some disputed quotations circulating in this connection, here are some key and authenticated MLK quotes. Take them to heart today:

"I cannot stand idly by, even though I happen to live in the United States and even though I happen to be an American Negro and not be concerned about what happens to the Jews in Soviet Russia. For what happens to them happens to me and you, and we must be concerned."

"Israel's right to exist as a state in security is uncontestable."

"Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality."

"I solemnly pledge to do my utmost to uphold the fair name of the Jews -- because bigotry in any form is an affront to us all."

"When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism."

Pamela Geller, American Thinker: U.S. Ambassador Tells Georgia To Vote for a “Palestinian” State

Must read. Exclusive reportage over at The American Thinker:

Pamela Geller

U.S. Ambassador Tells Georgia To Vote for a “Palestinian” State

From the former Soviet Republic of Georgia comes news of an extraordinary betrayal by the Obama Administration. As Obama continues to abandon freedom in his support of Muslim Brotherhood and Sharia revolutions and regimes in Egypt and elsewhere, he has taken behind-the-scenes steps to further the international isolation of Israel, the only democracy in that Middle East.

Just before the November 29 United Nations vote granting non-member state observer status, the U.S. ambassador to Georgia, Richard Norland, an Obama appointee, met with Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. During their conversation, Norland recommended that the Prime Minister that Georgia should vote in favor of a Palestinian state.

This happened despite the U.S.’s official opposition, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the vote “unfortunate and counterproductive … plac[ing] further obstacles in the path of peace.” Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on the day of the vote: “None of the vital interests of peace appear in the resolution that will be put forward before the General Assembly today and that is why Israel cannot accept it.” He was right. But in Georgia, the U.S. was betraying a steadfast and true ally.

This information comes from Gabriel M. Mirilashvili, a prominent businessman and corporation owner in Georgia, who is Vice-President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress and head of the World Congress of Georgian Jews. Mirilashvili says that he heard this from Ivanishvili himself, and that there exists an official record of the conversation between Norland and Ivanishvili. When Mirilashvili urged Ivanishvili to oppose the Palestinian statehood resolution, Ivanishvili responded that the American ambassador had told him to support it.

It is also interesting to note that a few days before this meeting, George Soros came to Georgia and also met with Prime Minister Ivanishvili, and they agreed to collaborate on various initiatives. Obama’s close ties to Soros goes back to the 2007 and the run up to the 2008 presidential election.

Meanwhile, another source said that Georgia is harboring Chechen jihadists -- killers who have Georgian passports. When some of these jihadis were arrested in Turkey, the Turkish press published the fact that they were traveling on Georgian passports. What’s more, their leader, Umar Sugaipov, who is not currently in Georgia, is a former deputy head of security for the late President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Aslan Maskhadov.

This is the kind of government that the Obama Administration is whispering with to work against Israel. That the U.S. Ambassador to Georgia would advise that nation’s Prime Minister to support a Palestinian state is shocking, but not surprising. This is what the U.S. under Obama has been covertly but effectively pursuing on the world stage for four years now. While Obama is courting influential Jews in America and Americans who support the tiny Jewish state, he is betraying Israel, our only reliable ally in the Middle East.

Obama’s foreign policy was instrumental in the rise of jihadist and Islamic supremacist regimes across the Middle East and North Africa. And it is not difficult to see what the second Obama presidential term will bring. Obama is consistent in his foreign policy. Four years into his presidency, the world is radically transformed, and soon will be unrecognizable.

Obama has said pro-Israel things -- but in reality his words mean nothing when he has also called upon Israel to accept a Palestinian state with contiguous borders, which would mean a truncated and bisected Israel disastrously vulnerable to jihad attacks. He has also insulted Netanyahu repeatedly. Obama clearly wants to go even farther, but the “Palestinians” and Muslim states so far still won’t cooperate by even giving the appearance of accepting Israel’s existence and wanting to establish a lasting peace.

Obama’s hostility towards Israel is hardly surprising. I warned of his policies towards Israel and the Jewish people in my book, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America. His anti-Israel alliances and troubling relationships are meticulously documented. What wasn’t knowable was just how unfriendly Obama would get with the Jewish homeland. If his anti-Jewish mentors and advisors are any indication, Israel would be wise to realign with other freedom-loving nations as quickly as possible – before U.S. Ambassadors direct any more foreign leaders to betray Israel.

VIDEO: Unable to Respond, Israeli Soldiers Attacked by Muslim Mob Sustain Injuries

This is shameful. The idea that the IDF must retreat against violent "Palestinian" Muslims is patently ridiculous on its face, and everyone knows it. America suffers from this same moral corruption. We force our soldiers to fight with their hands bound and tied....

Israel and the US are "not allowed" to use the proper measures and force.

Ayn Rand spoke of this (in the context of the Vietnam war) and said that it was "worse than appeasement. It's a shameful pretense. Further, since the world knows we [and Israel -- Atlas] are not physically weak, it would be an admission of moral corruption: that we do not possess a primitive dignity that any nation should have -- to its own dead, if nothing else -- that if it is involved in a war, it should finish it. It must win or be defeated."

Unable to Respond, Israeli Soldiers Chased by Arab Mob Sustain Injuries (VIDEO) Algemeiner, December 9, 2012

Video has surfaced of a confrontation between IDF soldiers and a mob of rock-throwing Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank. The incident took place outside the village of Kafr Qaddum and comes only days after a similar scene played out in Hebron.

In the video the IDF soldiers  attempt to disperse a riot before retreating to their posts under a deluge of rocks and stones.

According to Israel’s Maariv three soldiers were injured in the incident, “two by stones, one with a fractured hand and the other in the face with a cut to his head. Another fighter was hurt when a stun grenade exploded and burned his hand. The injured soldiers were evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.”

A source in the IDF told The Algemeiner that soldiers must ask for approval before using force. “Every time you go out on a mission you breach the subject beforehand,” the source said. “Every scenario has its own procedure of how you can engage fire or what they’re going to do in specific scenarios.” The source continued.

If the expectation for that particular mission doesn’t go as expected, as was the case in that scene in the video, then the soldiers have no recourse but to retreat. “I was in the reserve two weeks ago and I heard over the radio that several soldiers were surrounded by a mob throwing rocks and they had to wait for permission to use rubber bullets,” the source said.

Ynet reports that many soldiers have complained of the vague rules of engagement.

For its part an IDF spokesperson for the soldiers’ unit released the following statement:

“The incident depicted in the video is being investigated. The event took place during a violent and illegal riot in Qaddum – one of the most violent areas in the Judea and Samaria Sector.

“Following the incident, the orders pertaining to crowd control were clarified further, stressing that soldiers must break up violent riots with professional determination, while exerting operational discretion as to the use of force.”

A video of the incident can be viewed at the top of this post.

Obama Administration refuses to criticize Egypt's anti-free speech, anti-Jew, anti-women's rights constitution, but quickly condemns new Israeli housing project, wants East Jerusalem Judenrein

So how have I been wrong in calling him pro-jihad? Obama has installed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and aided in jihadist coups across the world. Obama lies and blames the jihadists' attacks on American targets and the murder of American diplomats on our First Amendment freedom.

As for Obama's continued condemnation of Jewish homes in the Jewish capitol of Jerusalem, it is eerily familiar to the calls for judenrein Muslim countries. Build, Israel, build.

But hey, America re-elected him. Now the people must be punished.

Obama Administration refuses to criticize Egypt's anti-free speech, anti-women's rights constitution, but quickly criticizes new Israeli housing projects Jihadwatch

Priorities. Details on Egypt's constitution here. "US doesn't criticize Egypt's draft constitution," by Bradley Klapper for the Associated Press, November 30:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is declining to criticize Egypt's draft constitution despite spirited internal debate over whether the document adequately protects women, religious minorities and dissenting voices.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland lamented the lack of consensus in Egypt's constitution-writing process. She says how people in Egypt view the draft is most important.

If Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi approves the constitution, it goes to a national referendum.

Nuland's restraint didn't reflect the views of all in the administration.

U.S. officials said there were internal debates over whether to criticize the draft constitution for limiting freedom of expression, failing to grant freedom of worship, criminalizing blasphemy and eroding women's rights guarantees....

"New Israeli Settlements Set Back Peace, Clinton Says," by Scott Stearns for the Voice of America, December 1:

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Israeli plans for new settlements near East Jerusalem do not help efforts to bring about a two-state solution to the Palestinian crisis.

Clinton told Israeli officials in Washington that plans for new settlements abutting East Jerusalem "set back the cause of a negotiated peace."

"We all need to work together to find a path forward in negotiations that can finally deliver on a two-state solution. That must remain our goal," Clinton said....

Hamas victory: Hudna windfall, weapons smuggling bonanza

Under Islam, a hudna is a temporary ceasefire to regroup and rearm, and that is exactly what Hamas is doing. Why would civilized men reward the targeting of innocent civilians? Hamas initiated the use of force, and they should pay, dearly. The people of Gaza elected these barbarians; they must pay the price of their government, just as we pay for the sins of ours. And if the people of Gaza support Hamas (as many of them do), they deserve what the government of Hamas deserves.

The hudna calls on Israel to stop all attacks on Gaza, including targeting of individuals (mass murderers and such). It also requires “all Palestinian factions” to stop all hostilities against Israel from Gaza, including rocket fire and attacks along the border. But it won’t stop “splinter” groups that merely rename themselves overnight in order to continue the campaign of Islamic terror. Israel is going to relax border restrictions with Gaza, which means that weapons smuggling will step up in intensity.

Obama praised Netanyahu for accepting the ceasefire proposal that had been advanced by Morsi, thereby adding to Morsi’s stature even as he assumed dictatorial powers in Egypt. It was no accident that after Obama propped him up as his partner in negotiating the Hamas hudna, Morsi issued a decree banning challenges to his rulings.

 Meanwhile, Morsi’s ceasefire proposal doesn’t include any penalty for Hamas if they fire a new round of rockets at Israeli civilians. And even worse, Morsi has declared that Egypt’s treaty with Gaza requires it to regard an attack on Gaza as a declaration of war on Egypt. 

Weapons smuggling bonanza: Israel eases Gaza border restrictions after Hamas truce deal

Jihadwatch

The Israeli authorities will rue the day. "Israel eases Gaza border restrictions after Hamas truce deal," from the Associated Press, November 24:

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Gaza residents said Saturday that Israel has eased some border restrictions as part of its truce with the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers, allowing farmers to visit land near its security fence and letting fishermen head further out to sea.

The Egyptian-brokered cease-fire ended eight days of cross-border fighting that claimed 166 Palestinian and six Israeli lives, according to health officials.

As part of the deal, Israel and Hamas are now to negotiate a further easing of the Gaza border blockade, first imposed by Israel and Egypt after the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007....

The truce is to lead to a new border deal for Gaza, with Egypt hosting indirect talks between Israel and Hamas. Israel has shunned Hamas as a terrorist group and refuses to negotiate with it directly.

Israeli demands that Hamas halt weapons smuggling into Gaza, while Hamas seeks free movement for people and goods in and out of Gaza.

After the Hamas takeover in 2007, Israel and then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sealed Gaza to isolate the Islamic militants and make it harder for them to govern.

The restrictions have since been eased because of international pressure on Israel and because of regime change in Egypt. Both Hamas and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, elected earlier this year, are members of the region-wide Muslim Brotherhood movement.

Before the Nov. 14 start of the fighting, Gaza received most of its consumer goods through an Israeli cargo crossing, while Israel banned virtually all exports and travel from Gaza, preventing the area's battered economy from bouncing back.

Items restricted by Israel, such as construction materials, were brought into Gaza through smuggling tunnels from Egypt, along with weapons for Hamas....

Loser!

"Only in Israel will you find a Prime Minister that Talks like Churchill but acts like Chamberlain." (Muqata)

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Clearly, Netanyahu came under enormous pressure from Barack and Hillary, but so what? The Obama administration has supported the most vicious enemies of Israel (the Muslim Brotherhood). Bibi is responsible for the security of his nation. Period. This hudna gives the jihadists time to regroup, rearm, rebuild. And it cannot be understated that every rocket of the thousands of rockets fired upon the tiny Jewish state teaches these savages something new. During the war on Israel in the summer of 2006, the rockets were hitting southern Israel. Now they reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem with more lethal payloads. What will the next war bring? Inching towards annihilation.

Channel 2 poll: 70% oppose a cease-fire with Hamas, 64% think it will not last long and 24% think it will not hold at all • Beersheba mayor: Southern residents won't tolerate a drizzle of missiles that disrupts daily life • "To stop now is a clear invitation for another round of fighting," says official.

Soldiers use their bodies to spell 'Bibi [is a] loser' Thursday The Times of Israel

Soldiers spell out critique of Netanyahu as a ‘loser’ for not using ground forces in Gaza

In Facebook pic that goes viral, 16 men arrange their bodies to show frustration at not going into battle

The IDF Spokesman’s Office said Thursday it was looking into a photograph circulating widely on Facebook in which 16 IDF soldiers arranged their uniformed bodies on the sand, to spell out the Hebrew words “Bibi loser” — in a deft physical critique of Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu’s failure to send ground troops into Gaza during the just-ended Operation Pillar of Defense.

Netanyahu warned throughout the operation that a wider military assault on Hamas might be about to unfold. The IDF called up tens of thousands of reservists and deployed large troop contingents close to the Gaza border, and some troops were reportedly ordered more than once to gear up for an incursion, only to be ordered to stand down at the last moment.

“We were twice ordered to gear up and told that we are going in, and then we were called back to Israel,” one soldier said Thursday; others said they had even opened border gates before being told to return.

The photograph’s source was not clear at time of writing. It had been posted and reposted on numerous Facebook pages, receiving more than 3,000 “Likes” and 400 “shares” in one Facebook group alone within three hours of appearing.

Clinton announces a hudna

These savages bomb a bus and Secretary of State Clinton announces a hudna? Screw her and the barack she rode in on.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Wednesday a cease fire between Israel and Hamas to end the days of violence in the Gaza Strip.

"The people of this region deserve the chance to be free of fear and violence and today's agreement is a step in the right direction that we should build on," Clinton said in Egypt, where she had been helping negotiate an agreement.

Clinton called for an end to rocket attacks and expressed hope for a "broader calm."

Once again, Israel snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.

Hamas TV after Tel Aviv bus bomb: "Allah willing, we will soon see black body bags" #Savage "religion"

"Allah willing." Always, always always in the name of their deity, despite all protestions from their next victims in the US, Europe and the world. As if feeding the Jew to the monster will satiate these savages.

And while there are few or no Jews living in scores of Muslim countries (now that's racism), the Jewish people welcome their executioners live among them.

Hamas TV after Tel Aviv bus bomb: "Allah willing, we will soon see black body bags"

Savages orgasmic bloodlust celebration. Jihad porn.

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#Savage Jihadist bomb bus in Tel Aviv, Savages cheer and dance at the mosques

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel, defeat jihad. Israel must take punitive action. The world hates the Jews anyway, Israel will be condemned no matter what. Save yourself.

Obama 2.0 rages on.

Tel Aviv: Jihadist savages bomb bus, wounding at least 21 Jihadwatch

"In Gaza, Palestinians cheered and celebrated on hearing the news, announced from mosque loudspeakers along with Koranic songs about victory." But...but...the Palestinian war against Israel has nothing to do with Islam! All the learned analysts always tell us so!

"Tel Aviv bus bombing wounds at least 21," by Edmund Sanders for the Los Angeles Times, November 21 (thanks to Twostellas):

GAZA CITY -- A bomb attack on a Tel Aviv public bus Wednesday injured at least 21 people -- three seriously -- shattering the sense of security in Israel's second-largest city and raising questions about the fate of cease-fire talks underway to end the violence in the Gaza Strip.

The noon-time attack took place on a bus on a busy downtown street. Early reports from witnesses said a man was seen running toward the bus, throwing a bag inside and running away.

Israel police launched a massive manhunt and raised security levels nationwide, fearing additional attacks might take place.

It was unclear whether the attack was related to the ongoing clashes between Israel and the Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas, but police suspected that it was a terrorist attack.

In Gaza, Palestinians cheered and celebrated on hearing the news, announced from mosque loudspeakers along with Koranic songs about victory.

"Israel has refused the truce and they want to escalate the violence, so we will have to escalate as well," said bank employee Hesham Akram, 27, in central Gaza City. "This way, Israelis will feel more insecure so they will give in to our demands for freedom."

Hamas officials did not claim responsibility for the attack, but praised it. Hamas-owned radio said the bombing was a sign that Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank were rising up to support Gazans in the clash with Israel....

VIDEO: #Savage jihadist group launches multiple rockets into Israel from the Sinai

Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group launches multiple rockets into Israel from the Sinai (thanks to Golem)

The Mujahideen Shura Council, an Al-Qaeda affiliate terrorist group launches 8 rockets into the Israeli city of Ashkelon From the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, November 18. Israel seized the Sinai peninsula from Egypt in a defensive war against several Arab Muslim countries, but subsequently voluntarily gave back the territory in exchange for a peace treaty with Egypt. The Sinai peninsula has increasingly become a lawless safe haven for global jihadists and attacks by Al-Qaeda and other international groups from the Sinai Peninsula into Israel have steadily increased since the uprooting of former president Hosni Mubarak in the "Arab Spring"

If Muslim Brotherhood Egypt won't secure the Sinai and allows Muslims to launch jihadist attacks against the tiny Jewish state, then Israel must take back the Sinai -- and while they are at it, Gaza, too. Israel gave away Gaza for peace and got jihad in return. The delusion is over. The Israelis can no longer avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

"Warning to reporters in Gaza: Stay away from Hamas operatives & facilities. Hamas, a terrorist group, will use you as human shields"

Here's the latest on the savages' war against the Jewish homeland:

IDF @IDFSpokesperson updates:

2 rockets headed towards densely populated areas intercepted by the Iron Dome system in the last five hours.

Video: IDF targets house of Hamas commander in charge of central #Gaza training bases, Azi Abudama youtu.be/tLzS9LM3kx4

Warning to reporters in Gaza: Stay away from Hamas operatives & facilities. Hamas, a terrorist group, will use you as human shields.

The Hamas terrorists weren't in the media building to be interviewed. They were there to communicate with field operatives and plan attacks.

Minutes ago, we surgically targeted a Hamas intelligence operations center on 7th floor of a media building in #Gaza. Direct hit confirmed.

#Israel Air Force targeted: terror operatives, rocket launching sites, 7 underground rocket launchers. #Gaza

Also targeted: smuggling tunnels containing explosives, 4 weapon storages, 2 weapon factories, Hamas system of tunnels used to transport gas

Targeted in #Gaza over evening: bank used to finance Hamas operatives, command & control center, Hamas hideout & operatives’ meeting place

Watch: Rocket from #Gaza strikes the Israeli city of Rishon LeZion earlier today youtu.be/G8weqOhncvQ

809 rockets fired from Gaza hit #Israel + 389 Iron Dome interceptions = 1,198 rockets fired at us #IsraelUnderFire

Over the past 2 hours we've targeted 20 terror operatives.

In the past 30 minutes we targeted 13 terror sites, mainly underground rocket launchers.

A short while ago, we targeted 2 terror operatives in the central Gaza Strip

Over the past hour, we targeted 20 terror sites in the #Gaza Strip

The IDF targeted an Islamic Jihad site in #Gaza. Yunis Shaluf, who was responsible for rocket fire on Eilat several months ago, was killed.

Cpl. Yosef Fartuk, 18, from Emmanuel, was killed earlier today by a rocket fired from Gaza into Israel. His family has been notified.