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SAMANTHA POWER RETURNS: I TOLD YOU SO

Back in March Power resigned under pressure from all quarters (allegedly for a Hillary slam) but we knew better. A proud anti-semite (think Robert Malley, another "fired" anti-semite who has returned to the post election fold)  Samantha Powers calls for the invasion of Israel

Yes, she's baack and that aint good, deeply disturbing though predictable.  I have been warning of her return  for months. She stepped back in March so "the one" could seize the White House.

In what can only considered a masterstroke in the machination of an antisemite, Obama has installed Power at the Arabist, Israel (Jew) hating State department where she will be right at home. Melanie Phillips explains it here:

As I have said before, Emanuel’s parentage is irrelevant. As The Forward notes, he was not only a player in the catastrophic Oslo appeasement process but also supported the informal ‘Geneva initiative’ which even doveish Israelis condemned as a suicide note for Israel.

And as for Mrs Clinton, Hillary the Moderate is itself a fairly recent piece of triangulated reconstitution. Not that long ago, she was significantly to the left of her husband; and it must not be forgotten, crucially, that she herself is an Alinsky disciple.

What is much more likely is that Hillary, a professed defender of Israel, would be used (as would, to a lesser extent, Rahm Emanuel) to provide deniable cover for Obama as his administration forces Israel to cut its own throat -- the centrepiece of what passes for his foreign policy to date.

For surrounding Hillary would be appointments which would be solidly anti-Israel: people who believe that Israel must be forced to jeopardise its security to bring into being a Palestinian state which they think would lance the Islamist boil – because they believe that Israel is not the victim but the cause of Islamist rage and global terror. It has been widely reported that Obama has been consulting the former Republican National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, who is a leading voice in this camp. Moreover, according to the Wall Street Journal, Scowcroft is linked to a number of like-minded Republicans Obama is thought to be considering bringing into his administration, such as Jim Jones as his National Security Adviser.

A few days ago, Scowcroft and Carter’s former NSA Zbigniew Brzezinski (an open enemy of Israel and another of Obama's advisers) penned a significant op-ed in the Washington Post. This appeared to be a first draft of the Obama plan to force Israel back into its 1948 ‘Auschwitz’ borders and bring a Palestinian state into being, in the quite remarkable belief that this

would dissipate much of the appeal of Hezbollah and Hamas, dependent as it is on the Palestinians' plight. It would change the region’s psychological climate, putting Iran back on the defensive and putting a stop to its swagger.

What planet are they on? A Palestinian state would be run by Hamas as a proxy for Iran. As such, it would be a disaster for the Palestinians  -- as several of them have now realised – as well as for Israel, the region and the world.

Moreover, to allay Israel’s security concerns over handing over territory to a Palestinian government that is incapable of combating terrorism, Scowcroft, Brzezinski and Jones recommend stationing an international force, perhaps from NATO, in the disputed territories.

Ah yes: to repeat the conspicuous success NATO troops achieved in bringing peace in Srebenica, for example, or Rwanda, or Lebanon?

The Republicans, who really don’t begin to grasp just what has hit them, similarly fail to acknowledge that among their own ranks are many who, just like in the British Conservative party, share with the left the desire to neutralise American power and throw Israel under the bus. Some of those people came to power under George W Bush and set him on the disastrous path to appeasement -- which his demented detractors on the left somehow failed altogether to notice.

There are other unsettling indications that Obama may already be running a shadow foreign policy. Robert Malley, one of Clinton’s Oslo negotiators, is one of America's most outspoken apologists for Palestinian terrorism against Israel and claims that Syrian, Lebanese and Iranian attacks against Israel are all Israel's fault. The Obama campaign distanced itself from Malley last May after the Times reported that he was meeting regularly with Hamas leaders. But a few days after Obama’s election, Malley travelled to Syria, ostensibly under the aegis of the appeasement-minded International Crisis Group. Yet one of his aides told FrontPage Magazine that acting on Obama’s instructions, Malley traveled to Cairo and Damascus to tell Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syria’s President Assad that ‘the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests.’ And as Caroline Glick reported, Hamas terror operative Ahmad Youssef told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that in the months leading up to his election, Obama's advisers held steady contacts with the leaders of the terror group in Gaza, and had asked that Hamas keep the meetings secret in order not to harm Obama's chances of being elected.

If Israel is to be browbeaten into committing suicide, however, it is essential that the fingerprints of the Israel-haters are not found at the scene of the crime and that it is carried out instead by someone with impeccable credentials as an Israel supporter. That person may well be Hillary Clinton who, if appointed Secretary of State, will be expected to finish the job her husband failed to do and force a Palestine state into being.

To fully grasp this, it has to be understood that there are two kinds of people who threaten to deliver Israel to its enemies for annihilation. The first are the Israel-haters who want to see it destroyed. The second are those on the left who, while believing they have Israel’s interests at heart, believe also that its security can be guaranteed by a Palestine state. They thus see Israel’s resistance to that state as the obstacle to peace in the region, whereas in fact it would pose a mortal threat to Israel (and now also to the region and the world, since such a state would be a proxy for Iran).  That’s why Clinton Mark One pressurised Israel to dismember itself under Oslo and in the process turned the Palestinians from a terrorist gang into an army with international backing.  Clinton Mark Two would be Oslo all over again -- but this time trailing clouds of Iranian plutonium.

Baehr's article (11/29) in American Thinker:

This new role is ironic, to say the least, since the new Secretary of State , expected to be announced on Monday, is Hillary Clinton, a woman Ms.Power called a "monster" back in March. That characterization by Ms. Power embarrassed  the Obama campaign and Ms. Power resigned from her formal campaign role.    Presumably, Ms Power now  understands the need to be diplomatic in a State Department role, and not fly off the handle making vicious insulting statements,  and so will be a good judge of the people who don't behave as she has.

In any case it is worth recalling why Power was a problematic associate of Barack Obama even before she mouthed off about Clinton. Ms Power is not a friend of Israel.  Will she try to find people for State Department jobs who will balance (undermine?) Ms Clinton, who is viewed as friendlier to  the Jewish state? 

The expected appointment of General  James Jones for National Security Advisor is also viewed as potentially problematic by the pro-Israel community, following his harsh criticism of Israel in a report prepared for Secretary of State Rice on Israeli security forces in the West Bank.  Both Ms Power and General Jones have supported a role for international forces in the West Bank, whether UN or NATO, a concept that is anathema to even 
left of center Israelis.

Does Ms Powers' return, and General Jones imminent appointment suggest that Barack Obama is warming to this concept?

March 7, 2008 Atlas Shrugs: Powers: Obama's Foreign Policy Appease Team UPDATE ...

Hillary Clinton Accepts Secretary of State

Ah, so Billary will be the one to throw Israel under the bus. Knowing how Obama feels about Hil, he is doing her no favors. Hillary is hatchet man - she has the experience. But it might work out for Israel -- Hil hates O - she might just save Israel to spite Obama. Seriously.

Military report: Terms 'jihad,' 'Islamist' needed

Restating the obvious .... to the clueless, the oblivious, the comatose, appeasers, State department Arabists. At least the military has not gone over to the darkside. Love those guys!

Expect CAIR to sue the US military.

STATE DEPT FORBIDS USE OF "JIHAD" April 22, 2008

Military report: Terms 'jihad,' 'Islamist' needed Military Report (hat tip rut)

A U.S. military "Red Team" charged with challenging conventional thinking says that words like "jihad" and "Islamist" are needed in discussing 21st-century terrorism and that federal agencies that avoid the words soft-pedaled the link between religious extremism and violent acts.

"We must reject the notion that Islam and Arabic stand apart as bodies of knowledge that cannot be critiqued or discussed as elements of understanding our enemies in this conflict," said the internal report, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times.

The report, "Freedom of Speech in Jihad Analysis: Debunking the Myth of Offensive Words," was written by unnamed civilian analysts and contractors for the U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for the Middle East and South Asia. It is thought to be the first official document to challenge those in the government who seek to downplay the role of Islam in inspiring some terrorist violence.

"The fact is our enemies cite the source of Islam as the foundation for their global jihad," the report said. "We are left with the responsibility of portraying our enemies in an honest and accurate fashion."

The report, "Freedom of Speech in Jihad Analysis: Debunking the Myth of Offensive Words," was written by unnamed civilian analysts and contractors for the U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for the Middle East and South Asia. It is thought to be the first official document to challenge those in the government who seek to downplay the role of Islam in inspiring some terrorist violence.

"The fact is our enemies cite the source of Islam as the foundation for their global jihad," the report said. "We are left with the responsibility of portraying our enemies in an honest and accurate fashion."

The report contributes to an ongoing debate within the U.S. government and military over the roots of terrorism, its relationship to Islam and how best to counter extremist ideology.

• Read the internal report, "Freedom of Speech in Jihad Analysis." (download pdf)

It cites two Bush administration documents that appear to minimize any link between radical Islam and terrorism.

A January 2008 memorandum from the Department of Homeland Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties stated that unidentified American Muslims recommended that the U.S. government avoid using the terms "jihadist," "Islamic terrorist," "Islamist" or "holy warrior," asserting that would create a "negative climate" and spawn acts of harassment and discrimination.

WANT TO GET REMOVED FROM US TERROR LIST? BUILD NUKES, TEST MISSILES, COMMIT TERROR

IT DEFIES LOGIC. North Korea deployed more than 10 missiles on its west coast apparently for an imminent test launch, a South Korean newspaper said on Thursday, and Pyongyang halted U.N. monitoring of its nuclear complex. The United Nations nuclear agency says North Korea has completely banned its inspectors from the country's main Yongbyon nuclear complex (more here)

The result? The US backs down and panders to the brutal warden of a 30 million person gulag who sells nuke weapons to Islamic rogue regimes and their terrorist proxies. We will remove North Korea from the terror list. The details of the “verification protocol” are still unclear. Now that's pathetic.

The only thing at work in diminishing our standing in the world is our own self debasement. Surrender after surrender, apologizing for what. Our greatness? Groveling to who? Two bit tin pot brutal savage dictators. Truman is weeping. This is a tragedy.

US removes North Korea from terror list, saving nuclear deal TIME ONLINE

The failing North Korean nuclear deal appears to have been saved from collapse after the United States agreed to remove the isolated dictatorship from its list of terrorist states.

But the move has alienated the government of Japan, which opposes such concessions until Pyongyang has told the truth about Japanese citizens which it abducted during the Cold War.

The fragile agreement on North Korean nuclear disarmament, finally agreed last year after four years of tortuous negotiation, had appeared to be in danger after North Korea threatened to reactivate the plutonium reactor where it has generated the material for an unknown number of nuclear warheads.

Who decides who is to come, and who is to be kept out?

This is the poisonous fruit of having US consulates embassies in the Middle East  teeming with Muslims to handle would-be immigrants,  results we all see.

The State department is importing whole Muslim communities that are imposing their Islam on the workplace and the community at large under threat of violence - those agitators are welcome to live here but these folks can't even visit.

US shatters Iranian Jew's dream FOX News

Woman who arrived in Israel secretly planned to travel to US to meet siblings after 28 years, but American embassy denied her a visa

A Jewish woman residing in Iran recently arrived in Israel for a secret visit. The woman, who has not seen her siblings, who reside in the United States, for 28 years planned to travel to America for an emotional reunion. However, her dream was shattered after the US embassy in Israel rejected her visa request, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.

The woman arrived in Israel secretly via a European country, and planned to travel to New York for the holidays to see her siblings. After she landed in Israel, an Israeli relative who speaks some Persian accompanied her to the American embassy in Tel Aviv. At the end of her interview, an embassy official rejected her visa request.

The official said that as there was no Persian translator in the embassy, he was unable to verify her story and could not conclude that she does not intend to settle in the US. The official proposed that the woman's siblings travel to Israel to see her here.

ANOTHER CONDI FOREIGN POLICY SUCCESS! NO KOREA KICKS OUT UN, RESTARTS YONGBYON NUCLEAR FACILITY

Is there no bar that Condhimmi must reach to actually keep her job. Is there no performance evaluation of her record? Is there no measure of her success? I ask you. She has delivered the Jews into the jaws of Islamic jihad as she currently wrestles Jerusalem (the historical Jewish capital) away from the Jews. She gave the Islamic Republic of Iran enough carrots and jiyza to speed their jihad nukes to fruition. Russia invaded Georgia and Condi said "bad doggie".

I wonder if this was after delivery of the unprecedented commitment of one MILLION metric  tons os heavy oil aka carrots. The NORKS didn't even have the capability to house such an enormous amount of heavy fuel so we promised to build them the facilities.  Your taxpayer dollars at work!

The other parties reaffirmed their commitment to providing the DPRK
with economic, energy, and humanitarian assistance up to the equivalent of one million tons of heavy fuel oil (HFO), inclusive of the 100,000 metric tons that has already been delivered.(More here, October 2007)

 

North Kore aused the Six-Party Talks to gain time, testing its first nuclear weapon in 2006, all the while cloning its Yongbyon reactor in the Syrian desert. John Bolton said back in May, ""The issue with most rogue states like and Iran like North Korea by talking with them you are giving them legitimacy and you're also giving them time, which proliferators need"

The concept of nuclear non-proliferation seems almost a lost cause. The plate gets fuller. Condi's lethal legacy

...or many erstwhile administration supporters, this is a moment of genuine political poignancy. Nothing can erase the ineffable sadness of an American presidency, like this one, in total intellectual collapse.

BOLTON ON BUSH'S NORK NUCLEAR COLLAPSE

Tragic for us. The worst of all possible scenarios. Bolton: "North Korea Can Out Negotiate the US without Raising a Sweat""

North Korea kicks out inspectors and reopens nuclear plant Times Online hat tip Van

In a highly provocative snub to Washington, Beijing and Seoul, North Korea has broken the United Nations seals that had disabled its nuclear programme, and said it would soon begin feeding atomic material back into its Yongbyon facility.

As well as kicking UN nuclear watchdog inspectors out of the country and re-opening its reprocessing plant, Pyongyang is now likely to demand the removal of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) seals on the thousands of plutonium fuel rods removed from the plant last year.

The fuel rods represent the most critical ingredient in the resurrection of Kim Jong Il's nuclear weapons programme – a scenario which the United States and North Korea's immediate neighbours thought they had negotiated off the table and are desperate to avoid. CONTD...

Bush's North Korea Capitulation By JOHN R. BOLTON (May 19, 2008)

And Obama wants to meet with Ahmadinejad?

Barack Obama's willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea "without preconditions" is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of the presidential campaign. (Bolton here)

. First, the legitimacy you confer on leaders like that -- legitimacy from meeting as equals with the United States that they can use both in their own internal political situation and externally in the broader world. And secondly -- and this is particularly important in the case of states that are seeking or already have weapons of mass destruction -- time works on the side of the proliferators. They use negotiations -- and the Iranians and North Koreans have both proven this -- to perfect the complex science and technology they need to master having these weapons. So simply sitting down with them gives them an asset -- time -- that they couldn’t otherwise obtain. (Bolton, here)

STOP AHMADINEJAD'S VISA!

 

From the Jerusalem Prayer Team:

I began a campaign to stand against the U.S. granting a visa to allow Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to enter the U.S. Our team shared this vision with the sponsoring Senators; they have taken up the torch and have encouraged other Senators to sign the letter asking Condoleezza Rice to deny the entrance visa to Ahmadinejad and his entourage. Click here to read a copy of that letter.

THUS FAR, visas have NOT been granted, so time is of the essence as he is scheduled to speak at the U.N. on Tuesday, September 23. You can be sure that the U.N., EU, Arab League, Cuba, Venezuela and all God-hating liberals, leftists and liars are lobbying Rice to grant Ahmadinejad a visa.
It is absolutely critical that you rally everyone you know to sign the letter to Dr. Rice immediately. It is absolutely critical that you send this to EVERYONE YOU KNOW right now, and ask them to sign the letter today. The Senators have taken up the torch in response to a meeting with members of our Jerusalem Prayer Team, please do the same.

Please click here to sign the petition. Your response will go directly to the White House.

Dear Dr. Rice:

I have read the letter from twelve U.S. Senators asking the U.S. State Department not to grant a visa to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or to any members of his entourage. I agree with the Senators that:

"President Ahmadinejad is a clear adversary of the United States, and other democratic nations that uphold liberty and freedom."

Please do not grant an entry visa to a terrorist leader who is openly and blatantly hostile to both the United States and Israel.

Kindest regards,

Click here to add your signature to the letter to Secretary of State Rice.

CONDI GO HOME, TAKE OLMERDE - 200 TERRORISTS RELEASED TO CELEBRATE CONDI'S ARRIVAL

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 Telegraph hat tip van

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."

UPDATE: The Islamic Gaza feeding the media crack whore.

USELESS CONDI SAYS NYET TO GEORGIA IN NATO UPDATED: RUSSIANS SEIZE US VEHICLES

UPDATED: 3:48 Russia moves SS-21 missiles into Georgia: US defense official

Yulia Klimchuk cries during her son's funeral in Tbilisi

 

Georgian dead.

Why didn't the Georgians blow up the damn tunnel?

Georgians curse 'tunnel of misfortune'

The Georgian Times is running a piece today on the history of the Roki Tunnel, which runs beneath the Caucasus mountains connecting South Ossetia and Russia. As one of the only routes connecting North and South Ossetia, the tunnel was critical in Russia's ability to launch its counterattack into Georgia on Aug. 8.

Georgians long resisted the construction of the tunnel during the Soviet period, fearful of an influx of North Ossetians into Georgia, but the project was finally greenlit in the early 1990s by Georgia's first communist party secretary and later president Eduard Shevardnadze. The Georgian Times notes:

Shevardnadze perhaps did not imagine, when signing off the Roki project, what a fatal role this tunnel would play in the history of Georgia."

UPDATE: JOHN BOLTON ON CONFRONTING THE THREAT (BTW, Bolton will be joining me Thursday night on my radio show, Voices of Freedom,  on KFNX (8PM Pacific time, 11pm NY time)

Russia seizes US vehicles 

UPDATE: 3:30PM: Russia hits back at Nato warning

BBC News - 1 hour ago
Russia has dismissed a warning by Nato that normal relations are impossible while its troops remain inside Georgia. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Nato of bias and of trying to save the "criminal regime" in Tbilisi.

UPDATED: 8/19/08 1:26 Russia blockades port in Georgia and seizes soldiers 

Russia seizes US vehicles

The Russians have taken a page from Islamic jihad in dealing with Condi. Pay her lip service but pursue your malevolent aims. She is an idiot and she's got the whole wide world in her inept hands. Condi is a byproduct of affirmative action, the very definition of the Peter principle,
("In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence"), clearly she rose to the highest level of her incompetence.

"Unaacceptable", the Bush administration's favorite word, has no meaning whatsover. Iranian nukes - "unacceptable"! Everything Condi has said is "unacceptable" has been accepted.

The White House reported today:   

 "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday ruled out accelerating Georgia's admission to NATO in response to the Russian invasion. But she warned Moscow that it is playing 'a very dangerous game' by resuming Cold War-era strategic bomber patrols close to the Alaskan coast.

Another toothless bite. I am sure the Ruskies are quaking in their combat boots.

'Russia is a state that is unfortunately using the one tool that it has always used whenever it wishes to deliver a message and that's its military power,' Rice told reporters en route to an emergency meeting of NATO foreign ministers set for Tuesday. 'That's not the way to deal in the 21st century.' ... Finally, she said, the foreign ministers will reassess overall relations with Russia, which has been seeking membership in international financial institutions and closer ties with the European Union. 'Frankly, Russia can't have it both ways. It can't act in a way that it did in the Cold War when it was the Soviet Union and expect to be treated as a responsible partner,' Rice said."  (Jonathan S. Landay, "Rice: Moscow Playing 'Dangerous Game' With Bomber Runs Off Alaska," McClatchy, 8/19/08)

More Atlas Coverage Here.

 

UNPRECENDENTED: AMERICAN CHARITIES FOR "PALESTINIAN" ISLAMIC JIHAD

This  is unprecedented and USAID will NEVER be able to fully ascertain in whose hands the money will eventually end up.Why this? Why now? Why are we funding these barbarians? "tapping the generosity of Americans" to address Palestinian humanitarian needs. Don't they have to start behaving like human first? This is an abomination. We are not far from a Boston tea Party. I'll be damned if I am going to fund my death.

USAID funding of Palestinian university             with terror branches in violation of US Law PMW

Partnership between ACP and USAID Provides Unprecedented Opportunities for Aid to Palestine

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (August 10, 2008) Contact: Omar Tuffaha otuffaha@acpus.org

Phone: 2028870178
The new partnership between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the newly-established American Charities for Palestine (ACP) opens exciting new prospects for tapping the generosity of Americans to address Palestinian humanitarian needs. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the two groups on August 1 is the first agreement ever between the agency and any private charitable entity. USAID Administrator Henrietta H. Fore, who presided over the ceremony, described this achievement as "historic" and "the first of its kind."

The MOU commits USAID and ACP to work together to channel the generosity of American individuals and institutions to mutually agreed-upon projects in the Palestinian territories. The organizations plan to focus on the health and education sectors, in hopes of achieving a rapid and direct impact benefiting the quality of life for the Palestinian people.

Education ... like this?

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  Islam               is at War Against the Jews in PA Religious Teaching

           
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  Crossword               Puzzles

           
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  Comparing               the Palestinian Authority Opinions and School Textbooks with the               Hamas Charter

           
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  Rape,               Murder, Violence and War for Allah Against the Jews: Summer 2000               on Palestinian Television

           
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  Palestinian               Children Yearning Martyrdom, Encouraged by Parents

        

They will also work together to promote twinning and other partnerships between American and Palestinian health and educational institutions. ATFP founder Ziad j. Asali said, "We have established the American Charities for Palestine precisely to offer a safe, reliable and meaningful way for people to make their contributions with the full confidence that they can be sure not to be harassed and not to be questioned about their patriotism, or their contribution to the national interest."

ACP press release on the signing  

USAID press release on the signing  

Remarks by USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore  

Remarks by the Administrator's Special Assistant for the Middle East, George Laudato  

Remarks by ACP founder Dr. Ziad Asali

Watch the signing ceremony and hurl  

Al Hurra video coverage (Al Hurra, American dhimmitude media - deception to advance islam) 

Voice of America editorial 

America.gov article
 

Jewish Telegraphic Agency article >

Condi was for the Gazan Terror Tied "Scholars" before she Was Against Them

This sums up Condi's failure. Remember those "Palestinian" Fulbright students Condhimmi went ballistic over? She "personally berated" Israel, demanding they allow those "students" passage out of Gaza.  Things have changed. Big time.
Her failed policies have put the US and Israel behind the eight ball. Not only is she dangerous she's .... embarrassing. [Shakes head, walks away]

US denies entry to Arab students after demanding Israel clear them Israel today

Just a month after making a fuss over Israel preventing a group of Palestinian Fulbright scholars from leaving Gaza, the US last week decided to revoke the visas it had given to the Arabs because, as Israel originally pointed out, they pose a security threat.

[...]

Every year the State Department issues a number of Fulbright scholarships to outstanding foreign students who are invited to continue their education at American universities.

When Israel refused to allow three Gaza-based Palestinian recipients to exit the coastal territory for an interview at the US Consulate in Jerusalem in June, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice personally berated Israel and demanded that it let the students into its capital.

Schmuck!

 

Hughes Humiliating Jiyza: Karen's Caliphate Cash

Bowing to her master

I have been railing against this suicidal insne "strategy" for years now and it continues with the world class dhimmi Condi Rice (billions to Hamas). Sorry fellas, this ain't no way to win awar.

Karen Hughes gave money to bad guys (Newsmax)

A longtime adviser and close confidant of President Bush funneled millions of dollars in U.S. government grants to radical Islamist organizations, many of whose leaders have been convicted or indicted in terrorism cases in the United States, respected terrorism expert Steven Emerson told Congress last week. “When Ms. [Karen] Hughes was appointed as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, she set the tone to continue a disastrous policy of outreach with Islamist partners,” Emerson told the House International Relations Committee. Among the recipients of the State Department grants actively championed by Hughes was Ahmed Younes, formerly an official with the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), a group that has “publicly challenged the designation of Hezbollah and Hamas as terrorist organizations” and whose leaders “have made extreme statements defending terrorist organizations,” Emerson said.

Previous at Atlas: Karen Hughes Romper Bombers Room 9/1/07

The report said the new initiative was the brainchild of Karen Hughes, a confidante of President Bush who has become the most powerful public-diplomacy czar ...

Atlas Shrugs: KAREN HUGHES - STEP DOWN!

US STATE DEPARTMENT OF ISLAM

Frightening in its failure .............. deadly in its implications. The damn thing must be scrapped. Top to bottom, starting with Condhimmi.

Emerson Exposes Radical Ties of State Department Outreach Partners  IPT

The State Department has collaborated with many radical Islamist organizations and individuals in its attempts to engage in outreach to the American Muslim community at large, Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) Executive Director Steven Emerson told a congressional panel Thursday. Many of the individuals in charge of these organizations, and the organizations themselves, have been convicted, indicted, or designated as unindicted co-conspirators in terrorism cases throughout the United States.

(For detailed examples, see Emerson's complete written testimony here.)

Emerson appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade came despite the protests of some of the same Islamist organizations. Emerson urged Congress to review the State Department's interaction with these organizations in its attempts to reach out to the Muslim community.

Emerson outlined some of the more troubling aspects of participation with these groups: namely their ties to terrorist entities and promotion of radical Islamic ideology. A number of groups that the State Department has cooperated with have links to entities such as Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hizballah - which are designated as terrorist organizations by the United States government. The groups partnering with the State Department help to support an ideology that focuses on eliminating secular Western powers and promoting their stringent ideas of Sharia law, or law as governed by Islamic text.

[...]

While the outreach to the Muslim community by the State Department "is an honorable and worthwhile pursuit, the State Department has conducted outreach to the wrong groups, sending a terrible message to moderate Muslims who are thoroughly disenfranchised by the funding, hosting and embracing of radical groups that purport to be opposed to terrorism and extremism," Emerson wrote in his testimony further stressing the idea that the State Department's polices need to be reanalyzed in order to better select which Islamic organizations receive funding in order to promote peace and understanding.

Prior to Emerson's testimony, Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) both expressed their concerns over the State Department's funding and support of these organizations to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. They collaborated on a letter in which they urge Secretary Rice to stop funding entities that support radical Islamic ideology. The senators' concerns are that despite these organizations' known connections to radical terrorism entities, the State Department has willingly participated in awarding grants of about $500,000 to the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas fundraising trial with a long history of support for Hamas itself, and other radical Islamic organizations for programs that could help to promote or fund future terrorist ideology and violence.

[...]

Subcommittee Chairman Brad Sherman (D-CA) also was interested in ways to reform State Department outreach funding. He suggested creating a questionnaire for prospective grant recipients. Among the areas it would ask about are past connections to radical groups, whether the applicant condemns terrorist groups such as Hizballah and Hamas and whether their board members ever were connected to the Muslim Brotherhood or other radical groups. (More here)

This from Congressman Sherman's office, it takes courage - particularly when so many in Congress and bend over and submitted to an enemy bent on our destruction

Muslim Public Affairs Council Tries to Halt Congressman Sherman's Hearings

Sherman Oaks, CA – On Tuesday, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) demonstrated in front of the Office of Congressman Brad Sherman, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism and Nonproliferation. The demonstrators demanded the cancellation of a subcommittee hearing on whether American foreign aid is going to organizations affiliated with terrorists.

"This hearing will go on. We need to make sure that the State Department is not giving U.S. tax dollars to those on the other side in the war on terrorism," said Sherman. "I know there are many in our community so desperate for peace that they want us to sweep under the rug the pro-terrorism positions of some groups. There are groups in the Islamic world truly dedicated to peace, but we should not blind ourselves to the fact that some are not."

The day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, MPAC executive Salam Al- Marayati created a furor when he stated on a Los Angeles radio program, "If we are going to look at suspects, we should look at groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think we should put the State of Israel on the suspect list…"[1]

Two brothers have played a critical role in leading MPAC. Maher Hathout is a senior adviser and one of the founders of MPAC, while his brother Hassan Hathout served as MPAC's president.

In the "about the authors" section of his book, Hassan Hathout is described as "a close disciple of the late Hassan Al-Banna of Egypt,"[2] the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Maher Hathout has praised Hassan Al-Turabi as a reformist working for peace and justice for all.[3] Hassan Al-Turabi was head of the Sudan National Islamic Front (NIF) which the U.S. government condemned for supporting terrorism, and for launching a genocidal war in southern Sudan. Al-Turabi has been described as the "power behind the throne" in Sudan during the 1990s, as leader of the NIF and as Speaker of the National Assembly.[4] Turabi gave Osama Bin Laden sanctuary in Sudan.[5]

Maher Hathout has also asserted that "Hezbollah is fighting for freedom" and that the organization is "very American".[6] In fact, Hezbollah is listed by the State Department as a terrorist organization.

OT related: Hoekstra fights ban on terms that describe terrorists*

Regardless, U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Holland, offered an amendment last week to the 2009 Intelligence Authorization Act that would ban financing for any restriction on such words. Reps. Joe Knollenberg, R-Bloomfield Hills, Thaddeus McCotter, R-Livonia, and Bart Stupak, D-Menominee, also voted for the amendment.

"None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this act may be used to prohibit or discourage the use of the words or phrases 'jihadist,' 'jihad,' 'Islamo-fascism,' 'caliphate,' 'Islamist' or 'Islamic terrorist' by or within the intelligence community or the Federal Government," the amendment reads. It was approved by a 249-180 vote in the House. The Senate is working on its own authorization bill, and no such amendment has been offered, to date.

"I am sympathetic to the argument that if used inappropriately, the words can be counterproductive, but I find that the people who are criticizing this are very short on alternatives," Hoekstra said. "So how do they want us to describe al-Qaida and what they are involved with?"

Bush Agrees to Meet with Iran as Iran ends cooperation with UN nuclear arms probe

Stupid and obviously predictable. SHAME ON BUSH FOR PUTTING THE FREE WORLD AT RISK.  We have entered the era of the The Anti-Bush Doctrine. Good luck with that.

Iran ends cooperation with UN nuclear arms probe< (AP)

Iran signaled Thursday that it will no longer cooperate with U.N. experts probing for signs of clandestine nuclear weapons work, confirming the investigation is at a dead end a year after it began. The announcement from Iranian Vice President Gholam Reza Aghazadeh compounded skepticism about denting Tehran nuclear defiance, just five days after Tehran  stonewalled demands from six world powers that it halt activities capable of producing the fissile core of warheads.

State Department Mosque Calenders

YOUR TAXPAYER JIYZA $ AT WORK!

Synagogues calenders? No way!
Church calenders? Ha!
A mix? get real .....

"Mosques in America" calendar promoted by the U.S. State Department. WND

Better hurry--it's a "limited edition" for Ramadan.

Seriously, Anne tells me the U.S. State Department is selling a 2009 wall calendar of "Mosques in America" (in a limited edition for Ramadan) and trying to cover it up by erasing even the Google cache, etc.. (more at Boker Tov)