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CNN Still Spreading Blood Libel

CNN: Palestinians: Israelis kill 7 on Gaza beach when in fact Probe: Hamas Bomb, Not IDF Shell, Caused Gaza Deaths

PA TV falsified Mohammed Al Dura    

Palestinian Media Watch said that ''the Palestinian Authority television has repeatedly broadcast a falsified video of the events linked to the death of seven members of a Palestinian family on a Gaza beach, the 9 June. (Guysen.News)

In order to make the Israeli Navy responsible for these deaths, this Television has interposed video images of an Israeli ship firing towards Gaza earlier in the day between scenes of the dead, creating the impression that Israel was responsible for these deaths. The scene filmed by the Palestinians on the beach rules out the hypothesis of an Israeli missile, because an Israeli missile would have made a giant crater and spread sand on the sea and the victims. There is no crater in the scenes from the Palestinian TV.

Read it all here. I reported this back on Friday. Friday, the 9th. CNN, terror tool.

Fallaci on Trial for Speaking Truth to Power

In an extraordinary case of European dhimmitude, the trial of Goddess Fallaci for 'defaming Islam' started yesterday. The Jawa Report has the best coverage here. Read it all, I insist. I saw Fallaci at her last lecture here, read that too.

I predict that the only sound you'll hear coming from the left is deafening silence. The left abandoned true free speech some time ago. A pity, really. There was a time when even the most despicable communist or child molester could count on help from the ACLU to defend his rights.

Clarity and Resolve, a must read BTW:

Just another chunk of the Italian soul being sold for a pittance to the multicult/death cult consortium.

Dhimmitude Going Global

Glaring example of  dhimmitude;

Australia: Muslim prisoner wins damages over halal meat (hat tip tOmP)

Atlas VLOGS the UN, Gaza, Fat Bloggers

A quick vlog cause I have to run and someone (other than Bolton) has to set the clerk Brown straight.

Uh oh, who is going to tell Malloch this?

Great Rushhhhhhhh on Mallach

Rules? In a Knife Fight? Classic Vanderleun

The truth of the matter is that far too many Americans are becoming far too interested in our troops behaving correctly than actually supporting and sustaining them. They blather support out of one orifice while spewing disdain from the other. We hear these clapped-out flatulators daily at work, on the street, and over the tube of the boobs. I don't know about you, but for me these hyperventilating hypocrites are beginning to gripe my hindquarters big time.

The question of "should we be fighting" has long since been answered. Election or no election, Bush or AntiBush, we are in this war and we will be staying in it. If we don't go to it, it will come to us or to a Canada nearby. I hear all these psychotic babblers saying that they are only interested in finding peace through justice. The facts on the ground, as we saw in peace-promoting Canada this month, is that this war is only interested in peace through death.

But if a soldier of America has the will to pursue killers and cowards into the chaotic labyrinth of a Baghdad slum where friend, foe, and neutral are all of the same make and model, where is the will of the Americans that soldier is sworn to protect and serve when it comes to unqualified support; support without the weasel word "but?" If an American soldier can muster the will to drive down a road in Afghanistan where his comrades were killed in the last month, surely there is no excuse for an American citizen, secure for five years in his fat and happy world, to muster the will to support that soldier in deed and in word with no qualifications.

hoo ah! Oh yeah, it gets better.

UPDATE: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Ehud Olmert's daughter (after the rant on Ehud's wife on the VLOG.) You can't say I didn't warn you here:

JERUSLAEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's daughter this weekend took part in a demonstration against the Jewish state in which Israeli leaders were termed "killers" and calls were made for the Palestinian Arab intifada - or terror war - to prevail.

The demonstration took place outside the Tel Aviv house of Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff Dan Halutz following an explosion this weekend on a northern Gaza Strip beach that reportedly killed seven Palestinian Arabs and wounded more than 40.

At first, the IDF was blamed widely for the Gaza beach explosion. The army routinely fires artillery shells at empty areas in northern Gaza in response to the regular launching of Qassam rockets by terrorists from the area aimed at nearby Jewish communities. Full story here  (hat tip Dr. Nancy)

UPDATE: Lowlives anonymous.  He's "feelin' good and getting ready to get back to work." Does that mean he'll reporting to the nearest bar?

UPDATE: Speaking of Olmert's suicide disengagement plan.

Kofi Jumps the Jew hating Shark

Once again we can count on Kofi Annan to pounce on the latest Jew hating device to alienate Israel from the rest of the world while empowering savages, murderers --  in other words like-minded kindred Kofi anti-spirits. And jump on it he did, even though the ruse was exposed almost immediately.

The secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, was "deeply disturbed," he said in an official statement on Friday, at the killing of women and children picnicking on a Gaza beach, committed "reportedly by Israeli forces."

Eyeless in Gaza, Mr. Annan carelessly relies on heart-wrenching press photographs juxtaposing Israeli shelling with a child crying over her dead mother's body. Israel, meanwhile, fears inflaming the region where myths about the supposed Jewish thirst for innocent Arab blood quickly translates into a war cry for billions of Muslims around the world. More here

This story was suspect from the first. I revealed to all the malevolent, diabolical charade that the Jew killers were perpetrating back on Friday here. But let's be honest, does Kofi care if it's a lie. No way. Kofi reports to these savages. He pays the jiyza. He and his flying monkeys.

UPDATE: More ugly UN  news: ANNE BAYEFSKY: SPREADING HATE, DESTRUCTION AND TERRORISM

UPDATE: Probe: Hamas Bomb, Not IDF Shell, Caused Gaza Deaths

Iran War Huddle

I think it's about Iran. But hey, that's just me. They can't really mean to give Iran nuclear technology. Reward them so richly for such rogue belligerence, right? It's a ruse? Right? Pinch me, please.
Iraq is mop up.

Bush summons war cabinet for post-Zarqawi session al reuter
Bush will hold two days of high-level consultations at Camp David starting on Monday to reassess strategy on Iraq as he struggles with an increasingly unpopular war that has dragged down his approval ratings in a congressional election year. (hat tip Bruce)

Iran Seeks Talks but Rejects Nuclear Freeze, than there's nothing to talk about.

Increasingly unpopular with who? al reuters?

Iran Accused of Hiding Secret Nuclear Weapons Site -
Fresh evidence has emerged that Iran is working on a secret military project to develop nuclear weapons that has not been declared to UN inspectors, at a secret military base outside Teheran. The project is codenamed Zirzamin 27, and its purpose is to enable the Iranians to undertake uranium enrichment to military standard. The Zirzamin 27 operation is thought to be being supervised by Iran's Revolutionary Guards under the direction of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the head of Iran's Modern Defensive Readiness and Technology Center, a top-secret military research site. (Telegraph-UK)

A most revealing slip of the tongue

Terror in Queens, NY, USA

Wake-up call editorial from The New York Post - The Fifth Column. The Post may have been referring to home grown terror but if you read carefully, it's the terror enablers (the media, leftists,  Muslim advocacy groups) we really have to beware of;

"He had a really good heart," an official from an Islamic center in Jamaica said. "He cared about people."

Well, apparently not his fellow Americans. Hashmi was indicted for conspiring to send money and military gear to al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan to use against U.S. troops. (Some "good heart.")

And he wasn't even the first former Queens kid to be charged with helping al Qaeda. Muhammad Junaid Babar, an associate of Hashmi, has pleaded guilty to terror-linked charges.

But Babar stated openly that he considered himself Muslim first, American second. And that, in fact, he sided with the Taliban against the United States.

"I'm willing to kill Americans," he said.

And how does the fifth column, The New York Times and syncophants, CAIR, et al react to such news?

Meanwhile, news reports of busted terror plots always seem to include someone excusing the plotters, doubting the story or questioning the tactics of law-enforcement agents.

When Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani immigrant, was convicted last month of plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station, The New York Times ran long reports on the NYPD's intensive surveillance of the Muslim community.

Which only serves to propel the enablers into action.           CAIR-LA: FBI Tries to Reassure Muslims

All of which only helps feed a sense of isolation, victimization and resentment among American Muslim youth.

Add to that the lure of waging a valiant jihad against Western "oppressors." And the Islamic-supremacist brainwashing by Saudi-funded madrasas, mosques and cultural centers. Pretty soon, it's easy to imagine numerous cells, like the Al Muhajiroun group that Hashmi and Babar belonged to, festering throughout the nation?

Hashmi's pals, who call themselves the Islamic Thinkers, set up a sidewalk table each week and display anti-U.S. material. They're also fond of defacing the American flag in public, in hopes of provoking a confrontation (and occasionally succeeding).

Bostom on Book TV

Hey, fortunate Atlas readers. Bostom will be on Monday morning at 5:30 (usually they hide truth seekers in the 3 am slot.) For early risers or creatures of the late late night (like me), watch it. Better yet, TIVO (no, I don't have it).

History on Book TV. A look at non-fiction history books.
The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims

Andrew Bostom discusses the history of Islamic fundamentalism throughout the Middle East, a subject he takes up in his new book, "The Legacy of Jihad." Dr. Bostom also talks about the treatment of non-Muslims living in Islamic countries, the threat to Israel posed by fundamentalists in the region, and the war on terror.

The NY Times on Iran: Severe dysentery

The Jihadis' hometown newspaper.

Just How Far Did They Go, Those Words Against Israel?
New York Times
Did President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran callIsrael to be wiped off the map? And if so, was it a threat of war?

No it means lets make love you fcking maroooooons. Who reads this insanity? It is irrational.

"Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map because no such idiom exists in Persian," remarked Juan Cole, a Middle East specialist at the University of Michigan and critic of American policy who has argued that the Iranian president was misquoted. "He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse." [translation: wipe Israel off the map, d'oh - Atlas]

Ischabibble, ischabobble.

"The Iranian president was quoting an ancient statement by Iran's first Islamist leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, that 'this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time,' just as the Shah's regime in Iran had vanished.

Hmmm, could it be this statement of Ayatollah Khomeini that this evil mouthpiece is quoting? Read; more about the Ayatollah's bookat LGFAyatollah Khomeini, Circa 1942: RoPMA,

From the book Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East (a collection of source documents and statements from key militant Islamic figures), the late unlamented Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (subject of a recent gushing photographic tribute at the BBC) answers the question, “Is Islam a religion of peace?”

Islam is Not a Religion of Pacifists
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 1942

Islam’s jihad is a struggle against idolatry, sexual deviation, plunder, repression, and cruelty. The war waged by [non-Islamic] conquerors, however, aims at promoting lust and animal pleasures. They care not if whole countries are wiped out and many families left homeless. But those who study jihad will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. All the countries conquered by Islam or to be conquered in the future will be marked for everlasting salvation. For they shall live under [God’s law]. ...

Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does that mean that Muslim should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill the [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender [to the enemy]? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to paradise, which can be opened only for holy warriors!

There are hundreds of other [Koranic] psalms and hadiths [sayings of the prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.

It gets sicker and sicker. Check out this logic.

Mr. Steele added that neither Khomeini nor Mr. Ahmadinejad suggested that Israel's "vanishing" was imminent or that Iran would be involved in bringing it about. "But the propaganda damage was done," he wrote, "and Western hawks bracket the Iranian president with Hitler as though he wants to exterminate Jews."

If Mr. Steele and Mr. Cole [yes that's the nototrious Juan Cole. It's always the same usual suspects - isn't it? -- Atlas] are right, not one word of the quotation — Israel should be wiped off the map — is accurate.

Huh? The craven little nazi midget is standing in from of a ginormous poster saying a world without Zionism and a graphic showing a broken America on the ground with Israel soon to follow.

The second translation issue concerns the word "map." Khomeini's words were abstract: "Sahneh roozgar." Sahneh means scene or stage, and roozgar means time. The phrase was widely interpreted as "map," and for years, no one objected.

It reads like an unpublished work of Beckett.

The final translation issue is Mr. Ahmadinejad's use of "occupying regime of Jerusalem" rather than "Israel."

Huh? Pure garbage, the finest crap you can buy. The Sunday New York Times *SPIT*

So did Iran's president call for Israel to be wiped off the map? It certainly seems so. Did that amount to a call for war? That remains an open question.

Oh I get it now, 2 + 2 = 5

UPDATE: Richard Weltz over at American Thinker rips this propaganda apart here. And this guy can translate.

UPDATE: More love from Ahmadinejad. Let's see how the Times mangles this translation. Lowlife Jew Haters. I saw this over at From Hot air here

Iran leader's aide: Jews are filthy

Senior aide to Iranian president says Jews have been accused of spreading deadly plagues throughout history because they are filthy; states that as long as Israel exists, 'there will never be peace and security in Middle East'

Israel Denies Killing Pali Arabs in Gaza

A top Israeli general says the country's armed forces didn't cause the explosion that killed eight Palestinians on Friday and ended the fragile ceasefire in the region. Go here now.

Pali Arabs Kidnap American Jewish Kid

What has to happen to wake Israel, its head clerk and Amerabia out of its self deluded kumbaya stupor? Are they nuts? Or are they still investigating the frame up - the death of the Pali family frolicking on the beach by Israelis Palestinians?

 

AMERICAN JEWISH STUDENT BENJAMIN FISHBEIN KIDNAPPED IN JERUSALEM

The Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service is checking a claim that an Israeli citizen was abducted Saturday night in Nablus. Fatah activists sent a tape to the Reuters News Agency, claiming it shows an Israeli, Benjamin Bright Fishbein, of Jerusalem. The videotape released to the international media shows Fishbein holding up his identity card and broadcasts a statement in Arabic that his kidnappers will kill him if Israel does not release jailed Arab terrorists. The terrorists said they are holding Fishbein in Shechem. Full story here

The target is deliberate. It fits perfectly with the  Jihad official: Florida teen 'ideal target'

Terror leaders rejoice in death of U.S.-born Daniel Wultz, after Tel Aviv bombing. 'He is best target combination – American and Zionist,'

UPDATE: FISHBEIN FREE! La Chaim!

The PA security forces subsequently handed the American over to the Israel Defense Forces. Defense officials believe once the militants discovered the person was indeed an American citizen, they took steps to end the matter quickly.

“Apparently, the kidnappers did not want to end up like Zarqawi,” a defense official said. (hat tip tOm P) From Haaretz via LGF.

Fear and Loathing in Islam

Muslim Madness Alert: Beef up Ayaan Hirsi Ali's security. Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride.

Reaction to Hirsi Ali's Gay Movie

The Dutch authorities fear that “Submission 2,” Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s soon to be released new movie, might make the Netherlands a target of angry Muslims worldwide. The movie criticizes Muslims for their intolerance of gays. In a report published last Wednesday the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Coordinator (Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding, NCTb) warns that one must seriously take into account the possibility of an international Muslim boycott of the Netherlands, similar to the boycott of Denmark by the Islamic world earlier this year over the Muhammad cartoons.

UPDATE: Nothing like murder, embassy burnings, mob lynchings, mass violent protests to bring a community closer together. Isn't that special?

Cartoon crisis helps unite Danish Muslims
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Muslim groups in Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city, say the crisis early this year over published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad helped them unite behind building of the nation's first multi-community mosque.

Iran: Women Risk Life, Limb to Protest

I stand in awe of these Iranian women who go out to protest knowing they are going to get the shit kicked out of them. They know it and still they go.

Iran Rapes and Tortures Dissident Women

These women, these heroes, take their life in their own hands when they dissent by speaking out, by marching, by talking to other women  but they do it anyway. During a conversation I had with Phyllis Chesler,a couple of months ago, she told me of the phone calls she had gotten back in March from women in the international community and from Iran asking what Phyllis thought should they go to the annual march --  -- Phyllis said NO, they shouldn't go. And while Chesler is a  huge proponent of freeing women of the brutality of Islamic life, she advised them not to go because she feared for their lives. Of course, they went away (and were beaten

Support for the June 12th Women's protest in Tehran

If you oppose stoning [of women]!

If you oppose compulsory wearing of the hijab!

If you oppose the arrest and persecution of Women!

If you oppose the swooping of a whips on women's bodies!

If you oppose any form of patriarchy and male-dominance!

If you oppose all inequality and the medieval rule of the Islamic regime against Women!

Place: Haft'eh Teer Square, Tehran
This is a translation by the Iran Press news here.

"We have reached a level where women on the streets are being killed," Story here 

Al-Durah? Jenin? More Blood Libel

*SCROLL* FOR UPDATES  - Breaking news
The Palestinians eat their own. There is a diabolical complicity between the Jew hating media and the savages that would wipe the Jews off the map. What set off the second intifada ? Al-Dura. The moment that plunged Israel into a sea of shit was a staged event. And the French media knew it. And who could forget the farce of Jenin? The irony of Jenin was how the Israelis took more military causalities because they would not employ air cover  so that there would be less Pali civilian deaths (is there such a thing as a Pali civilian? Oh yeah the 4% that voted against terror. )
Judith at HNN has an eye opening account of what really happened to the Pali family here

GAZA BEACH CARNAGE FOOTAGE STAGED?

A terrible tragedy happened on the Gaza beach. Shells exploded and killed 9 men, women and children and injured others. Heartbreaking.

Israel is investigating. But Mark Regev, the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman who said that Israel believes such shelling of civilians to be unacceptable also told the BBC that naval or air shelling have been ruled out. Other possibilities are explored. In the meantime Hamas vows to end the unilateral cease fire with Israel.

But, please, watch this BBC report and tell me what were the cameramen doing on the beach at the moment the shell hit? CNN has the exact same footage.   

Are we once again dealing with a Jenin/al Dura style staged recreation?

The BBC also features an eyewitness by a jounalist named Sami Yousef who just happened to be on the beach during the shelling. He ends his account thus:

I've heard people in the last few hours calling for revenge. If an attack happens inside Israel it will make them a little bit happy. It might also make them reject the referendum planned by [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas. Do I smell a Hamas member exploiting an opportunity (with BBC acquiescence) or is it something more sinister?

So what have we here? Another evil staging to incite and drive those thirsty for Jewish blood. Is this "incident" the deliberate precursor to a world of pain?

Hamas Ends 'Truce' With Israel; Threatens New Violence  

The militant group Hamas has declared an end to its informal ceasefire with Israel and has vowed to increase the level of bloodshed in the region after the death of seven Palestinian civilians taking a beachside picnic on the Gaza Strip Friday.

UPDATE: SHOCKA! Palis refuse to cooperate with investigation here. Transparancy fellas, c'mon now, we is on to you.

IDF sources say Palestinians have not disclosed information regarding exact location, time of explosion that killed seven civilians on north Gaza beach; ‘this makes it very difficult to form clear picture of what happened,’

IDF sources said Saturday that the Palestinians are not cooperating in the investigation of the Gaza beach incident , during which seven civilians were killed. (hat tip tagrafiti)

UPDATE: More and more the truth emerges. Savages.

IDF: Palestinians may have caused blast

As the IDF continued its investigation into the cause of the explosion that killed seven Palestinians on a Gaza beach on Friday, with the initial assumption being that an errant artillery shell was to blame, Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Saturday night that it was possible the blast was an "internal Palestinian incident." IDF officers said that an "internal Palestinian incident" referred to the possibility that terrorists had fired a Kassam rocket which went off target and hit the crowded Gaza beach between Sudaniya and Beit Lahiya. (hat tip AB)

UPDATE: Augean Stables is working this story here: Pallywood on Gaza Beach

I’ve now seen the footage of the BBC, Al Jazeera, and CNN. It bears all the marks of Pallywood:
Palestinian contribution: no blood, bad child actors (it takes the girl two tries to throw herself on her father, no signs of damage or crater, hospital chaos with men in doctors’ coats accusing Israel, played over and over again on TV, use of rhetoric of genocide against Israel.
Western media contribution: cutting to make it more believable (take out the girl throwing herself on the sand beside her “father” before “finding him”), cut from action piece to action piece so the audience doesn’t have the time to develop suspicions, accept the Palestinian version (Israeli shells) as reliable (without even presenting it as the Palestinian claim).

[...] In other words, once again, a scene that bears many marks of staging, will drive Palestinians to self-destructive choices, while the Western media, in the unprofessional credulity, lend credibility to the unlikely and poisonous footage. Let’s hope this time they’re smarter than they were in 2000. Read it all

UPDATE: Sunday morining 4:30 am:

Saturday night, Brigade General Aviv Kochavi did not rule out the possibility that the missile that caused the death of seven Palestinian civilians was a Palestinian missile. He said that according to the initial findings of the inquiry there is information that supports this hypothesis. Translated from the French Guysen here.

Following the death of seven Palestinian civilians on a Gaza beach, last Friday, 19 Kassam rockets have been fired towards Israel. IDF officials however have decided to freeze artillery fire until the end of the inquiry. (Guysen.Israכl.News) Chief of Staff, General Dan Halutz, appointed General Meir Kalifi to the head of the team which will examine the circumstances of this incident. He has until Wednesday 13 June to present his conclusions.

UPDATE: More from Honest Reporting here;

[...] despite suggestions that a single artillery shell was responsible, the Guardian claimed: "a barrage of Israeli artillery shells rained down on a busy Gaza beach...", while the Independent, without waiting for confirmation or otherwise, attributed the incident to "Israeli naval gunboats".

In fact, while the most likely explanation is a single stray artillery shell, the possibility of a Qassam missile fired from Gaza itself has not yet been discounted and has been made more difficult to ascertain due to Palestinian refusals to cooperate with Israeli investigators.

As emotions run high, it is likely that Israel will come in for heavy criticism in the media from those genuinely horrified by recent events and those who do not need an excuse to accuse Israel of "war crimes" or to attack its morality and very existence

NO MORAL EQUIVALENCE

When examining the circumstances behind the Gaza beach incident, it is worth looking at the wider context. An editorial in the Jerusalem Post excellently summarizes the Israeli situation:

Firstly, Israel, while confronting an enemy publicly committed to maximizing civilian fatalities, seeks relentlessly to minimize such casualties even as it defends itself. Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists deliberately aim to kill and maim civilians, both in disputed and purportedly non-disputed Israeli-controlled territory, and show little concern for any "collateral" damage such attacks may inflict on their own people. Israel, in absolute contrast, acts concertedly to thwart the terrorists, not to attack the civilians from whose residential areas the terror cells despicably operate.

 

Israel would have no interest in, nor any need to be firing artillery shells or any other weaponry into the Gaza Strip were sovereign Israeli territory not coming under incessant attack from Gaza.

Indeed, as Qassams have rained down on Sderot and other areas of the Negev, striking residential buildings and schools, it is only due to immense luck that Israel has not already suffered multiple deaths and injuries as a result of such attacks. In the latest missile attacks, carried out by Hamas, an Israeli suffered critical injuries as a Qassam struck a school campus. These attacks, despite their potential for mass casualties, are described by the BBC's Simon Wilson as "mainly symbolic".

While the IDF has not taken responsibility for the Palestinian deaths until the conclusion of an inquiry, Israel has offered assistance to the Palestinians, including evacuating the wounded to Israeli hospitals, where a number are now being treated.

Israel's rush to apologize was a MAJOR MEDA MISTAKE;

Israel's hasty apology for 7 killings in Gaza enabled civil rights organizations, left-wing MKs & foreign countries to condemn Israel. It now appears that Israel had nothing to do with it.

Meanwhile, storms of Kassam tockets are hitting Sderot and nobody says anything. The world stands idly by.

Schools in Sderot are closed... Some 20 Kassam rockets at Israel since last night, critically wounding one... 3 terrorists killed, 7 injured, as they were about to fire more rockets Sunday...

UPDATE: Westbank mama tells us

According to IDF radio today, the artillery shelling on Friday stopped at 16:51, and at that time there was no commotion on the beach. There was only commotion at 17:01, a full ten minutes after the IDF stopped.

UPDATE: REVENGE!' CRY AT GAZA FUNERAL "DESTROY ISRAEL!"

At a mass funeral in which crowds screamed "Revenge!" and "Destroy Israel," seven of the victims were laid to rest a day after Israeli troops shelled a coastal area used by militants. The dead included five members of one family.

"Don't leave me alone," 7-year-old Huda Ghalya

Huda survived because she was swimming when her family died yards away onshore. "Father, father, forgive me," she cried as she kneeled to kiss her father's face at the stark cemetery in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiyah.

Amid the mourning, Abbas called for a July 26 referendum, in which Palestinians are expected to endorse what is effectively an acceptance of Israel's right to existence. New York Post

UPDATE: Israel denies firing shell that killed Palestinians (hat tip Klinghoffer)

A top Israeli general says the country's armed forces didn't cause the explosion that killed eight Palestinians on Friday and ended the fragile ceasefire in the region.    Hamas, which leads the Palestinian Authority parliament, blamed the deaths on Tel Aviv as its military branch resumed attacks on Israel for the first time in 16 months.

Liars.

But Israeli Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant said Sunday the military can prove it wasn't Israeli fire that hit the beach in Gaza, killing eight people.

Galant, who commands Israel's southern command, said Israel stopped firing 15 minutes before the explosion.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday said he was sorry about the deaths, which included three children. [what are you apologizing for schmuck!? Facts first! -Atlas]

UPDATE:DEBKAfile Exclusive: Hamas suspected of planting a daisy-chain bomb trap on Gaza beach to trap Israeli naval commandos (hat tip Bob V)

UPDATE: Rich has updated his  brilliant anaylsis, frame by frame,  of the blood libel here at Augean Stables

On the other hand, a feature unites both the al Durah and the Ghalia families. Their tragedy came at a most important time. In both cases, the Palestinian leadership was on the defensive world-wide (Arafat for his Camp-David no, Hamas for their unwillingness to even mouth conciliatory formulas in English), they were under direct pressure to do something (in this case by Abbas’ referendum which struck horror in the hearts of good Jihadis everywhere), but especially of Hamas, and on the eve of a visit by the Israelis to Europe where this incident would deeply embarrass them (for Barak it was the October 4th humiliation at the hands of Chirac; here it was Olmert “under a cloud“).

Finally, the most important similarity that emerged in the aftermath of both the al Durah and Ghalia family tragedies is that, whatever actually happened, the greatest likelihood (by far) seems to be that the Israelis did not cause the damage in question.

Is it possible that the evacuation scene of real bodies was staged in a different place for the sake of the cameras? Such a hypothesis might explain a great deal of the anomalies already noted, including the strange placement of the bodies and beachware.

It is certainly not beyond the reach of Palestinian cameramen and the “street.” And like so often, the quality of the performance is shoddy at best.

All in all, highly suspicious footage suggesting that, in order to turn a scandalous error into a PR coup (at best — who wants to think about a real Hamas conspiracy to kill their own innocents?), by blaming Israel, the footage was staged using real bodies. As with Pallywood at Netzarim Junction, Pallywood producers don’t sweat the obvious details (at Netzarim the evacuations take place in front of the Israeli guns; here the reconstruction takes place where the original explosion did not happen), because they can count on the media — Arab, Western, Israeli! — to react to the emotional drama they play out. Like magicians with a sleight of hand, they have us focus on the wrong details

UPDATE June 13: Probe: Hamas Bomb, Not IDF Shell, Caused Gaza Deaths

 

Islamic leader: 'British should try arranged marriages'

While the West looks away in fear, Islam marches apace.

In his first newspaper interview since being elected, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari suggests this country should adopt more Islamic ways.

Speaking of the recent arrests and shooting of suspected Muslim terrorists in the UK, Bari, chairman of the east London mosque and the new leader of Britain's Muslims said;

"On the face of it, these guys are innocent. I have talked to people who know them in the Bangladeshi community. The family said they were good boys."

"We need 3,000 more Muslim policemen in London to restore trust."

And the new leader of the British Muslims has big plans for the Brits;

His aim, he says, will be to encourage Britain to adopt more Muslim ways, as well as to encourage Muslims to be good British citizens. He thinks that non-Muslim Britons would benefit from having arranged marriages and espousing stronger family values; they would also do well to stop drinking and gambling and to follow many of the teachings of Islam.

But instead of integrating, do not some Muslims insist on imposing their values? For example, the schoolgirl in Luton who demanded to wear the jilbab left some feeling threatened.

"We supported her right to wear what she wanted," Dr Bari says. "It was wrong for her to lose out on an education just because of her dress. As Muslims, we are far more shocked by pupils' short skirts, but we don't complain. That is another thing the British could learn: modesty is very attractive."

Read it all here

The Brits have their work cut out for him. This is a  "puff piece"  I am quoting. Stop Muslim immigration  and that goes for the States as well.

UPDATE: Excellent piece here from CUANAS for the Kumbaya klowns

Sister describes terror raid as 'barbaric'
Guardian Unlimited
The sister of a man shot in the shoulder by police during an anti-terrorist raid in east London described the actions today as "barbaric and horrific".

Uh, I don't think so sistuh. The London train bombings. That was barbaric and horrific hon and you ought to be damed happy that the police are going after the murderers and terrorists planning mass murder while laying in wait. Right?  Wrong ..........

British Muslims: British Police Go to Hell!

UPDATE: So someone explain to me why British Muslims would want more corrupt policemen? (yeah, it's a rhetorical question)

  Secret report brands Muslim police corrupt

HAMAS CONDEMNS ZARQAWI KILLING

I ask my counterparts, my sparring partners, my colleagues, friends, lovers, countrymen. When can we finally call the our mortal enemy the enemy and conquer these savages? Egyptian Sandmonkey reports;

The whole world celebrates his death , but not Hamas. Hamas mourns him

The ruling Palestinian faction Hamas on Thursday deplored the killing by U.S. warplanes of the al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, describing him as a casualty of a crusade against Arabs and Muslims.

Hamas, branded as a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union and shunned by the West since winning office in the Palestinian government in March, had distanced itself in the past from violence abroad blamed on al Qaeda.

But in a statement faxed to Reuters after Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. air strike north of Baghdad on Wednesday, Hamas said it mourned the Jordanian-born insurgent as a "martyr of the (Muslim Arab) nation."

"With hearts full of faith, Hamas commends brother-fighter Abu Musab … who was  martyred at the hands of the savage crusade campaign which targets the Arab homeland, starting in Iraq," the statement said.

What are we waiting for? Israel has already surrendered in the name of  'security'. It's up to the U.S.

Hamas: Zarqawi's Death Will Not End Anti-U.S. Resistance

War on Jihad: Now or Never

As Islamists Grow Confident, It's Time for the West To Stand Firm
- Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe Yaalon

• In Europe I observed a widespread refusal to consider Hamas' January electoral victory beyond the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In reality, Hamas' rise to power has global ramifications. It opens a new front for radical Islamism in its confrontation with the West and provides encouragement to Islamists worldwide.
• In a February 3 speech in a Damascus mosque, Hamas leader Khaled Mashal redefined Hamas' ambitions from the goal of destroying Israel to the much broader goal of defeating the West. He also revealed the growing confidence of Islamists in pursuing more ambitious goals.
• Hamas' electoral victory is only the latest in a series of strategic successes that have given radical Islamists every reason to believe that God is on their side. They include international terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda and its supporters in the U.S., Spain, and Britain; the insurgency's perceived victories against coalition forces in Iraq; Muslim Brotherhood electoral successes in Egypt; and Hizballah's attainment of a cabinet seat in Lebanon.
• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leading terrorist in Iraq, recently declared that America "is breathing its final