Remember all those Gazans, who are touted by the world press as being in “dire economic straits” due to the blockade imposed by Israel? Yep! They’re in such dire economic straits, they’ve gone ahead and opened yet another shopping facility full of goods imported from:
• France! (No surprise there.)
• Turkey! (Imagine that!)
• The United States! (No doubt, courtesy of الرئيس أوباما and the Demo☭rats.)
More photos here.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if this place were open 24/7? Such is the hypocrisy of the MSM and the Paleostinians.
NOTE TO IDF: Please schedule an after-hours Grand Opening DEMOLITION!
Posts Tagged ‘Gaza’
Gaza, Under Siege, Opens New Luxury Mall
by Macker ( 76 Comments › )Filed under France, Gaza, Hamas, Islamic hypocrisy, Palestinians, Turkey at July 21st, 2010 - 11:30 am
Mother of Infant Saved by Israelis Hopes He Will Murder Them
by Eliana ( 160 Comments › )Filed under Gaza, Israel, Terrorism at July 9th, 2010 - 11:30 am
A Gazan woman with an infant dying from a genetic defect that causes failure of the immune system took the child to Israel for expensive life-saving treatments. Individual Israelis donated money to help save the boy’s life.
It was such a heartwarming story about how the two peoples might be able to come together someday that an Israeli journalist started filming it as a documentary.
Imagine the filmmaker’s surprise when the woman explained to him that she hoped her desperately ill baby would grow up to murder Israelis someday.
Nevertheless, this idyllic situation developed into a deep crisis that led to the severance of the relations and what appeared to be the end of the filming. From an innocent conversation about religious holidays, Raida Abu Mustafa launched into a painful monologue about the culture of the shahids – the martyrs – and admitted, during the complex transplant process, that she would like to see her son perpetrate a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem.
“Jerusalem is ours,” she declared. “We are all for Jerusalem, the whole nation, not just a million, all of us. Do you understand what that means – all of us?”
She also explained to Eldar exactly what she had in mind. “For us, death is a natural thing. We are not frightened of death. From the smallest infant, even smaller than Mohammed, to the oldest person, we will all sacrifice ourselves for the sake of Jerusalem. We feel we have the right to it. You’re free to be angry, so be angry.”
And Eldar was angry. “Then why are you fighting to save your son’s life, if you say that death is a usual thing for your people?” he lashes out in one of the most dramatic moments in the film.“It is a regular thing,” she smiles at him. “Life is not precious. Life is precious, but not for us. For us, life is nothing, not worth a thing. That is why we have so many suicide bombers. They are not afraid of death. None of us, not even the children, are afraid of death. It is natural for us. After Mohammed [her sick infant] gets well, I will certainly want him to be a shahid. If it’s for Jerusalem, then there’s no problem. For you it is hard, I know; with us, there are cries of rejoicing and happiness when someone falls as a shahid. For us a shahid is a tremendous thing.”
When the liberal peacemakers say that all cultures are alike and we all want the same things, they aren’t just liars. They are damn liars.
Hat Tip: Carl in Jerusalem & Elder of Ziyon
► Hot LinksPalestinians: Jews Are Bacteria, Should Be Annihilated
by WrathofG-d ( 177 Comments › )Filed under Anti-semitism, Gaza, Hamas, Holocaust, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic Terrorism, Islamic hypocrisy, Islamists, Israel, Jihad, Judaism, Middle East, Palestinians, Racism, Religion, Terrorism, World at March 18th, 2010 - 9:30 am
While discussing the teachings of the (unholy) Koran, Hamas Deputy Minister of Religious Endowments calls for Jews to be annihilated, adding that they are nothing but bacteria and not even human beings.
MEMRI TV Clip preaching about Jews as bacteria from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.
Abdallah Jarbu’: “[The Jews] suffer from a mental disorder, because they are thieves and aggressors. A thief or an aggressor, who took property or land, develops a psychological disorder and pangs of conscience, because he took something that wasn’t his.
“They want to present themselves to the world as if they have rights, but, in fact, they are foreign bacteria – a microbe unparalleled in the world. It’s not me who says this. The Koran itself says that they have no parallel: ‘You shall find the strongest men in enmity to the believers to be the Jews.’
“May He annihilate this filthy people who have neither religion nor conscience. I condemn whoever believes in normalizing relations with them, whoever supports sitting down with them, and whoever believes that they are human beings. They are not human beings. They are not people. They have no religion, no conscience, and no moral.
This is not the first time that someone has described the Jewish people as subhuman bacteria, or called for their annihilation. The claims being made today by this modern day Muslim Nazi, are nearly identical to those made decades ago by the German Nazis. Unfortunately, this is not the first time that the World leaders have decided to ignore it either, relying instead on hope and appeasement to dissuade their generation’s genocidal maniacs.
Does anyone still really believe that this vicious Jew hatred based on the Koran will magically end if Israel were to create a “Palestinian” State in Judea & Samaria? An emboldened Hamas, and these comments are the result of attempting to create a “State” in Gaza! Don’t be fooled! The so-called “Palestinians” are nothing short of Muslim Nazis who openly admit they share Hitler’s ultimate goal!
Wake up World! This is not about land disputes, it is about Jewish survival!
Thanks To: Et Norsk Troll
*PS: Please forward this post and help it go viral. The word MUST get out.
► Hot LinksCrossing The Line: The Intifada Comes To Campus
by Bob in Breckenridge ( 110 Comments › )Filed under Al Qaeda, Anti-semitism, Dhimmitude, Fatah, Hamas, Hate Speech, Hezballah, Islamic Invasion, Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Israel, Jihad, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Palestinians, Progressives, Sharia (Islamic Law), Terrorism at March 4th, 2010 - 4:00 pm
As most of us here already know, the true bigots and anti-Semites are on the left. You know, those understanding, tolerant and all-caring liberals/progressives. Yeah right. Piss on those scumbags. Most college campuses are nothing but places of intolerance, ignorance and anti-Semitism, where it’s not only okay to attack Israel and call for its destruction, but downright “chic”.
But just don’t protest the worldwide jihad the muslims are committing on a daily basis against Christians and Jews, and followers of other religions or no religion at all. Here’s a 6 minute video from some of our institutions of higher “learning”, along with a viewing guide-
VIEWING GUIDE
Shaping the World
College is a time for social action, student protest and the formulation of ideas and worldviews; a time to broaden one’s mind and for students to begin to shape the world they live in. In North America, college students have been instrumental in some of the biggest protest movements of the 20th Century, including the fight to end the Vietnam War, Women’s Rights and the Civil Rights Movement. Today, the activism continues with students fighting against the genocides in Tibet and Darfur and the war in Iraq.
Anti-Israel or Anti-Semitic?
There is one issue that seems to evoke more hostility then any other – Israel. Israel’s Operation Cast Lead at the close of 2008 evoked feelings of resentment and hatred from people throughout the world. There was something “different” about the protests that this war sparked as the line between anti-Israel policy and anti-Semitism became blurred. These protests weren’t just against Israel but also against the Jewish People. Around the world, synagogues and Jewish graves were desecrated and anti-Semitic chants were shouted at protests – even on the streets of America.
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Please read the whole viewing guide here: crossing the line, intifada comes to campus
► Hot LinksBernardine Dohrn & William Ayers vs Egypt
by Eliana ( 157 Comments › )Filed under Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Progressives at January 18th, 2010 - 3:30 pm
Egypt won. Bernardine Dohrn blames Israel.
Obama pals Bernardine Dorhn and William Ayers are up to mischief again and their target is Israel. So far, they aren’t doing very well, though.
As Caroline Glick tells the story…
Oh the shame of it all. Last month, 1,300 pro-Palestinian activists from the US and Europe came to the region in the name of peace and social justice to demonstrate their solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. Led by the self-declared feminist, antiwar group Code Pink, the demonstrators’ plan was to enter Gaza from the Egyptian border at Rafah and deliver “humanitarian aid” to the Hamas terrorist organization.
But it was not to be. Led by Code Pink founder and California Democratic fund-raiser Jodie Evans, the demonstrators were not welcomed by Egyptian authorities. Many were surrounded by riot police and barbed wire as they demonstrated outside the US and French embassies and the UN Development Program’s headquarters. Others were barred from leaving their hotels.
Those who managed to escape their hotels and the bullpens outside the embassies were barred from staging night protests in solidarity with Hamas on the Nile. In the end, as the militant Israeli pro-Palestinian activist Amira Hass chronicled in Haaretz last week, all but 100 of them were barred from travelling to Gaza.
The lucky few allowed into the Strip included neither Evans nor her friends, former Weather Underground terror leaders Bernadine Dohrn and William Ayres. But they bore no grudge against Egypt. The Egyptians were mere puppets of the real culprit: Israel. As Evans said, “It’s obvious that the only reason for [Egypt's treatment of the demonstrators] is to make Israel happy. Israel is behind the refusal [to allow the demonstrators into Gaza] – what other excuse could there be?”
Dohrn, the woman who has called for a “revolutionary war” to destroy the US, felt that the Egyptian authorities’ behavior was nothing but an unfortunate diversion from their mission. As she wrote in a blog post from Cairo, “We find ourselves unwillingly in Cairo, drawn into clashes with authorities and one another on side issues, when what we most want is to keep our eyes on the Palestinian people.”
Their goal was to break the “siege” on Gaza, but the 100 people who made it into Gaza couldn’t break the seige imposed on themselves by Hamas when they got there:
Unfortunately for the lucky 100 who were permitted to enter Hamastan, the diversions didn’t end at the Egyptians border. Hamas immediately placed them under siege. The Palestinian champions had planned to enjoy home hospitality from friends in Gaza. But once there they were prohibited from leaving the Hamas-owned Commodore Hotel and from having any contact with local Gazans without a Hamas escort.
Rather than being permitted to judge the situation in Gaza for themselves, they were carted onto Hamas buses and taken on “devastation tours” of what their Hamas tour guides claimed was damage caused by the IDF during Operation Cast Lead. And then these international protesters were forced to participate in a Hamas-organized march to the Erez crossing.
As [Amira] Hass tells it, in “a slap to many feminist organizers and participants,” no Palestinian women were allowed to participate in the march, which “turned into nothing more than a ritual, an opportunity for Hamas cabinet ministers to get decent media coverage in the company of Western demonstrators.”
Hamas probably didn’t mention to the Code Pink people that the Erez Crossing between Gaza and Israel is closed most of the time because Gazan terrorists try to blow it up when it’s open. An attempt happened again recently after Israel had been leaving it more open than usual.
The crossing is currently open on a limited basis. Last week, a Jewish woman and her four children escaped from Gaza and her Arab husband (the father of her children) who is currently in prison for his work on the smuggling tunnels. Her Arab brother-in-law threatened to kill her if she tried to escape Gaza, but her Jewish family arranged things with Israel’s Shin Bet (similar to the FBI) to get the woman and her four children through the crossing quickly if they could make it there via taxi and if they managed to fool Hamas into letting them go through the Hamas side of the crossing. It all worked! The woman and her children are FREE in Israel!
Not that an American Feminist organization like Code Pink would care about a woman’s and four children’s freedom when Code Pink has mass murderers to support.
[Militant Israeli pro-Palestinian activist] [Amira] Hass’s participation in the pro-Hamas propaganda trip is a bit surprising. In November 2008, she was forced to flee from Gaza to Israel after Hamas threatened to kill her. At the time, Hass appealed to the Israeli military – which she has spent the better part of her career bashing – and asked to be allowed to enter Israel from Gaza, after sailing illegally to Gaza from Cyprus on a ferry chartered by the pro-Hamas Free Gaza outfit.
Hass’s behavior is actually more revealing than surprising. The truth is that Hass and her fellow demonstrators were willing to be used as media props by Hamas precisely because it isn’t the Palestinians’ welfare that concerns them. If they cared about the Palestinians they would be demonstrating against Hamas, which prohibited local women from participating in their march to the Israeli border, and which barred non-Hamas members from speaking with them. It would offend their sensitivities that Hamas goons beat women for not covering themselves from head to toe in Islamic potato sacks. It would bother them that Hamas executes its political opponents by among other things throwing them off the roofs of apartment buildings.
The demonstrators did not come to Gaza to demonstrate their support for the Palestinians, but rather their hatred for Israel and for their own Western governments that refuse to join Hamas in its war against Israel. As one of the organizers told Hass as she sat corralled by Egyptian riot police outside the UNDP offices in Cairo, “In our presence here, we are saying that we are not casting the blame on Egypt. The responsibility for the shameless and obscene Israeli siege on Gaza rests squarely with our own countries.”
By happily collaborating with Hamas in its propaganda extravaganza, these demonstrators demonstrated that the rights of Palestinians are not their concern. Their concern is waging war against their own societies and against Israel. They are more than happy to have their pictures taken with the likes of Hamas terror master Ismail Haniyeh. And while they will never acknowledge that his organization’s terror war against Israel is illegal and immoral, or care that Hamas’s founding charter explicitly calls for the genocide of Jewry, they will demonstrate from today till doomsday against their governments’ recognition of Israel.
Dohrn & Ayers are old Obama pals, of course, and Code Pink is welcome at the White House too.
The last line of Caroline Glick’s artile is especially chilling:
Israeli authorities tend to treat groups like Code Pink and its Israeli allies as nothing more than nuisances. Since unlike Egypt and these self-proclaimed human rights champions themselves, Israel actually does care about human rights, it would never occur to anyone to treat these demonstrators as Egypt did. At the same time, the Egyptian authorities’ actions were clearly informed by their understanding that, with their ties to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbullah, Syria and Iran, Code Pink and its friends are active collaborators with the jihad war machine.
With their open ties to our jihadist enemies on the one hand, and their direct line to the White House on the other, Israel ignores them at our peril.
Caroline Glick’s article is here — Column One: Code Red on Code Pink
► Hot LinksObsessive Compulsive Israel Disorder (OCID)
by Eliana ( 121 Comments › )Filed under Gaza, India, Israel, Media, Palestinians at January 7th, 2010 - 7:00 am
It’s no secret that the media has an unhealthy obsession with Israel. The Free Middle East website has a video about this obsession:
Their Obsessive and Compulsive article explains the mental disorder / global disease:
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder that causes repeated unwanted and intrusive thoughts. An OCD sufferer will engage in repetitive behaviors (compulsions) aimed at reducing anxiety caused by these thoughts (obsessions). OCD is a chronic or long-term illness that can take over a person’s life, hurt relationships, and limit the ability to work or go to school.
Scientists have proven that OCD is caused by one part of the brain being unable to receive information from the other.
In the past 20 years the 24/7 cable news, internet and social networking sites have revolutionized the way we receive information. In the shadow of this information revolution lays a disease that has surprisingly not yet received an official diagnosis. The cause is also a restriction of information. The disease is called Obsessive Compulsive Israel Disorder or OCID.
For a country that is thousands of miles away, has a population of just 7 million and speaks a completely different language, the world is obsessively and compulsively focused on Israel.
From the same article, Obsessive and Compulsive:
In January 2009, when Israel launched operation Cast Lead, to root out rocket fire from the Gaza strip, the media covered every minute. There was no shortage of information that often presented Israel as the aggressor and perpetrator of all the violence in the region. Just like OCD stops the flow of information from one part of the brain to the other, OCID, stopped the flow of the rest of the important events going in the world.
While a tiny country was trying to secure its borders from rocket attack the world was going through major challenges.
- * The Ethiopian military withdrew its troops from the Somalia civil war. This ongoing conflict has killed 300-400 thousand people since 1991.
- * Indian Army continued to battle Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed militants in the disputed Kashmir region. This ongoing conflict has seen countless civilian massacres and terror attacks.
- * The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Sri Lanka terrorist group, launched major offensives around the northern part of the country including the bombing the state department of defense. 80 thousand people have been killed in the country’s civil war, including 8000 this year alone.
In another article on Free Middle East, they pose this question: Which is Googled More: Israel or Darfur? Take a look at the graph in this article. The answer isn’t surprising:
This graph shows the relative popularity of the search terms over the last twelve months of world-wide googling. Iran received 60% of the attention that Israel did, Iraq 40%, and AIDS little more than half.
Over the last few years 300,000 people have been killed in Sudan, yet over the last 12 months Darfur was googled a mere 4% as much as Israel!
Going back to Obsessive and Compulsive, this is the media’s problem:
► Hot LinksWhile the media was predominantly reporting only on the conflict in the Gaza Strip as a prime example, the world was going through universal struggle. Their continual criticism and singling out of Israel is baseless in its logic vis a vis its abnormal media coverage. The larger worldly causes of global warming, hunger, aids and genocide have to take a back seat to feed a news aristocracy that clearly suffers from the sociological disease, Obsessive-Compulsive Israel Disorder.
Egyptians Gas “Palestinians”; World Yawns
by WrathofG-d ( 139 Comments › )Filed under Egypt, Guest Post, Palestinians at December 11th, 2009 - 11:38 am
Blogmocracy In Action!
Guest Post by “Snork”
Yes, you read that right.
The following is the latest nontroversy from Haaretz -the most left-leaning of Israel’s English-language media outlets:
Egypt building iron wall on Gaza border to stop smuggling, which starts out with the opening paragraphs:
Egypt has begun the construction of a massive iron wall along its border with the Gaza Strip, in a bid to shut down smuggling tunnels into the territory. The wall will be nine to 10 kilometers long, and will go 20 to 30 meters into the ground, Egyptian sources said. It will be impossible to cut or melt.
The new plan is the latest move by Egypt to step up its counter-smuggling efforts. Although some progress had been made, the smuggling market in Gaza still flourishes.
Ahhhh the humanity, the “ethnic cleansing”, the “apartheid”, the “land grab”….THE SILENCE! On a different note, I have a couple of engineering comments: “impossible to cut or melt?”; my butt! Haven’t they ever heard of oxy-acetylene? Also, if you assume that it is made of 1/4” thick plate (it’s probably thicker), 25 meters by 10 km works out to about 50,000 cubic feet, or 12,250 tons of steel. That’s a big job. The steel alone is close to $10,000,000. I wonder who’s paying for it?
Anyway, on to the third paragraph:
Egyptian forces demolish tunnels or fill them with gas almost every week, often with people still inside them, and Palestinian casualties in the tunnels have been steadily rising.
You don’t say? I expect the human rights apparatus to snap to attention and start comparing this to the Nazi gas chambers. Anyone?…Bueller???…Hello?….Where did everybody go?
It goes without saying that if this were the Israelis doing this, there would be massive protests from the highest UN officials, to the lowest so-called “peace” or “human rights” activist. This silence, and hypocrisy is enough to make one question whether the human rights groups are really earnest.
It would be churlish to think that Amnesty International and HRW had an agenda that was anything but 100% altruistic. Maybe they just don’t know this is going on. Can somebody tell them? I’m sure they’d like to know, so they can bring this to the world’s attention. Can somebody also let the UN know? I guess they don’t read Haaretz for some reason.
I guess these nice people are too busy with all these human rights issues in Jerusalem, and don’t have time to read the papers. Surely, they have nothing but the best interests of these poor Palestinians in their hearts, or they wouldn’t be kicking up such a fuss in Jerusalem. So I’m sure they’d be astonished and appalled to learn what’s happening on the Gaza/Egypt border. Will someone please let them know?
This is why the UN needs a standing army. To move in and stomp out this kind of human rights abuse.
► Hot Links‘Fun with terror’
by m ( 102 Comments › )Filed under Gaza, Hamas, Islamists, Terrorism at August 24th, 2009 - 1:05 pm
This is nothing new and yes, most of us have seen these before. However, that doesn’t change the fact that it never ceases to amaze me that the world continues to blame every Islamic ill on Israel. Will they ever take responsibility for anything? (rhetorical) I hope and pray that people all over the world will begin to open their eyes to the hypocrisy and hate that oozes through almost every fabric of palestinian life.
They could have hope, instead these children are only taught hate.
Hamas Woos Gaza Kids from UN Camps to Join ‘Fun with Terror’
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas has embarked on a massive campaign this summer to woo Gazan children away from UNWRA (United Nations Works and Relief Association) summer camps to its own camps. At Hamas summer camps, kids learned to wage war against Israel and were indoctrinated with Islamic ideology.
Hamas has run 700 summer camps throughout Gaza in 2009 at a budget of $2 million, which were attended by 100,000 children. according to a research report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. In contrast, UNRWA ran camps that were attended by between 200,000 to 250,000 kids. Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and other Islamic groups also run Gaza summer camps.
Leading up to the summer, Hamas embarked on a massive advertising campaign which included a designated website designed to encourage parents to send their children to Hamas camps instead of the UNWRA camps.
Hamas council member Younis al-Astel repeatedly lambasted the UNWRA camps for being coeducational, and claimed that campers there used drugs, learned how to dance, and worst of all, were taught about reconciliation between Gaza and Israel.
[...]Besides learning about Islam and studying the Koran at Hamas summer camps, children also learn to fight in the Jihad against Israel. Children are taught weapons training, hand-to-hand combat, as well as the use of explosive belts for suicide missions.
In one incident in July, children in a Hamas summer camp reenacted the June 2006 kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, in which two other Israeli soldiers were killed.
“In the war against Israel, there were more than 100 children trained to attack Israeli forces in Gaza,” a source in Gaza told Middle East Newsline. “Some of them ran away and many of them were killed.”
Children in Hamas summer camps also protested the “Israeli siege” of Gaza, some laying on the ground in rows, faking death from starvation.
Flashback:
(07/14/04):
(07/31/08):
Gaza summer camps teach kids to fire rockets
Palestinian children on annual vacation can choose between Hamas or Islamic Jihad summer camps, both of which boast militia-style training, Koran classes, lessons on political prisoners
But our “leaders” are more worried about Israelis building homes in a city they created, than to take issue with Palis militarizing children.
pfft!
► Hot LinksHamas Stages Mass Wedding of 450 Little Girls To Adult Men
by WrathofG-d ( 58 Comments › )Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Gaza, Hamas, Islamists, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Media, Middle East, Multiculturalism, Politics, Religion, Sharia (Islamic Law), World at July 31st, 2009 - 10:55 am
It is not often that I am truly shocked by what is going on in Gaza, and with Hamas. This however has me actually sick to my stomach. How the world can sit idly by and ignore this sort of thing is mind-boggling. The fact that the U.S. is probably paying for it is even worse.
This is not Change I believe in!
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SHEIKH ZAYED CITY, Gaza Strip — Nearly a thousand Palestinians celebrated marriage on Thursday night in a ceremony organised by Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas dignitaries including Mahmud Zahar, one of the militant group’s top leaders, were on hand to congratulate 450 grooms who took part in the carefully stage-managed event.
“We are saying to the world and to America that you cannot deny us joy and happiness,” Zahar told the men, all of whom were dressed in identical black suits and hailed from the nearby Jabalia refugee camp.
Each groom received a present of 500 dollars from Hamas, which said its workers had also contributed five percent of their monthly salaries to add to the wedding gift.
The 450 brides shared none of the glamour, taking seats among the audience of around 1,000 party guests: most couples had already taken part in religious ceremonies elsewhere, with more marriages planned for the next few days.
“We are presenting this wedding as a gift to our people who stood firm in the face of the siege and the war,” local Hamas strongman Ibrahim Salaf said in a speech.
The Gaza Strip has been under Israeli blockade since the Islamist Hamas movement seized control there in June 2007. In December and January 1,400 Gazans and 13 Israelis were killed in a 22-day war that left much of the territory in ruins.
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Notice how the AFP article says nothing about the ages of the girls, ignores what is really taking place at this event, but finds space to stick in a blurb about how “evil” Israel is. What the heck does Israel have to do with this wedding of 450 old perverts to pre-pubescent girls? This sort of thing is unheard of in Israel.
The media, and the liberal establishment behind it, should be ashamed of themselves. They are so blinded by Israel hatred, Islamist sycophancy, multiculturalism and their rudderless leftism that they have completely forgotten the universal principles of decency their liberalism is supposed to stand for. Instead they help Hamas turn the mass rape, and enslavement of over 400 pre-pubescent little girls into into some sort of glorious rebellion against a mythical oppression. This is really sick!
The following video shows the true age of the “brides”.
► Hot Links
Anti-Semitism; Now Mainstream!
by WrathofG-d ( 45 Comments › )Filed under Anti-semitism, Gaza, Hamas, Hate Speech, IDF, Israel, Judaism, Media, Religion at March 26th, 2009 - 11:49 am
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The above is a cartoon by Pat Oliphant that is currently running in some of America’s most popular newspapers. The cartoon portrays a headless, jack-booted figure marching in a goose step with a sword in one hand and pushing a Star of David on a wheel with the other. The Jewish Star has fangs and is chasing after a woman carrying a child, labeled “Gaza.”
Pat Oliphant’s use of the Star of David in combination with Nazi-like imagery is hideously anti-Semitic. It falsely employs Nazi imagery to portray Israel as a jack-booted, goose-stepping headless apparition, and goes beyond-the-pale of “dissent” and regular ‘criticism”
Welcome to the United States 2009! You aren’t reading about these widespread and mainstream anti-Semitic incidents in a history book regarding Germany…this is your world, and it is taking place now! I wouldn’t be shocked if we soon hear of “Palestine”-American Solidarity rallies that fill Madison Square Garden! One would expect this type of disgraceful cartoon from an insignificant Neo-Nazi publication, or something similar, but in today’s America it is run widely in the New York Times and The Washington Post, among others.
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DON’T JUST SIT THERE….DO SOMETHING!
~Contact Universal Press Syndicate, which runs Oliphant’s cartoons:
Lee Salem, President and Editor, Universal Press Syndicate, 1130 Walnut Street Kansas City, MO 64106-2109 816-581-7301, lsalem@amuniversal.com.
~Contact The New York Times.
~Contact The Washington Post
~Contact Yahoo News.
~Contact Slate.
**However, remember that you will get more with honey than vinegar! Let them know you are angry, but be polite about it. It is also important that you make it clear that your are upset, not because they criticized Israel, but because this cartoon was grossly flawed, offensive, not factually based, etc., by presenting Israel as Nazis. The cartoon doesn’t reflect the truth that Israel strained to protect civilian life in Gaza, nor the true war crimes committed (practically daily) by Hamas – such as targeting civilians and their use of human shields.
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Pamela Geller from Atlas Shrugs adds that Cafepress Store is selling a pin reading: “it was wrong in Auschwitz, it is wrong in Gaza”. I am told that Cafepress is actually pretty specific about what they allow people to sell on their site. Thus, they either don’t know about this, or find the message acceptable. I hope that it is the former and not that this is just another step towards normalizing blatant anti-semitism.
Atlas Shrugs suggests that you contact Cafepress, and let them know how you feel about their selling that offensive product.
You can get more of their contact info, see a picture of the button, and learn more about the story at Atlas Shrugs.
► Hot LinksHamas on the verge of International Acceptance
by Rodan ( 5 Comments › )Filed under Dhimmitude at March 22nd, 2009 - 10:26 am
This doesn’t shock me at all since Hamas is the Left’s new favorite group. This really sickens me.
Today Hamas stands on the cusp of international acceptance. It may take a week or a month or a year, but today Hamas stands where Fatah and the PLO stood in the late 1980s. The genocidal jihadist terror group is but a step away from an invitation to the Oval Office. Two events in the past week show this to be the case.
First, last Saturday, The Boston Globe reported that Paul Volcker, who serves as President Barack Obama’s economic recovery adviser, and several former senior US officials have written a letter to Obama calling for the US to recognize Hamas. As one of the signatories, Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser under president George H.W. Bush, explained, “I see no reason not to talk to Hamas.”
I bet the Internationalists will also recognize Al Qaeda also . Well 7 1/2 years after 9/11 it seems looks like Bin Laden won.
► Hot LinksJewish Leaders see Hillary’s true colors
by Rodan ( 8 Comments › )Filed under Politics at February 26th, 2009 - 10:43 pm
Jewish leaders who once supported Hillary now see her true anti Israel colors. She was always anti Israel, until she ran for the senate. Now she is backstabbing many who helped her get into the Senate.
Jewish Leaders Blast Clinton Over Israel Criticism
In a swift about face from her views as New York’s senator, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now hammering Israel over its treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. As First Lady, Clinton raised eyebrows when she kissed Suha Arafat.
Since she was then seeking a Senate seat the resulting brouhaha caused her to “re-think” her positions.
“I’m a very strong supporter of Israel,” Clinton said back in February 2000. On Thursday, as Secretary of State she had yet another about face in the form of angry messages demanding Israel speed up aid to Gaza. Jewish leaders are furious.
To us Clinton watchers, this comes as no surprise. When Bill was president he forced Israel to give up territory top the Muslims. As I have been stating, what happened to Serbia in the 90′s, Is now happening to Israel.
► Hot LinksUS again throws Ally under the Bus for Islam
by Rodan ( 27 Comments › )Filed under Gaza, Islamists, Israel, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Politics at February 25th, 2009 - 7:54 am
Israel is the new Serbia it seems. Hillary Clinton who’s husband Bill commited war crimes in his bombing of Serbia, is now criticizing Israel for not doing more in allowing humanitarian aid in.
Clinton warns Israel over delays in Gaza aid
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has relayed messages to Israel in the past week expressing anger at obstacles Israel is placing to the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. A leading political source in Jerusalem noted that senior Clinton aides have made it clear that the matter will be central to Clinton’s planned visit to Israel next Tuesday.
Ahead of Clinton’s visit, special U.S. envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell is expected to issue a sharply worded protest on the same matter when he arrives here Thursday.
Israel is lucky it has Nukes. If not NATO would start bombing it like they did to Serbia. The US is offically a puppet of the Saudis and a Dhimmi nation.
► Hot LinksU.S. To Pledge $900 Million To Gaza
by WrathofG-d ( 19 Comments › )Filed under Democratic Party, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Palestinians, Politics, United Nations at February 23rd, 2009 - 5:55 pm
Hey, why not…..its not like we are in a recession, a deficit, or anything like that….and besides what could go wrong with giving millions of dollars to Gaza?
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‘U.S. plans to pledge $900 million for Gaza’
The United States plans to pledge more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel’s offensive against Hamas and strengthen the Palestinian Authority, a U.S. official said on Monday.
The money will be channeled through UN and other bodies and will not be distributed via the militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to make the announcement next week at a Gaza donors conference in Egypt.
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Clinton’s bid to get the $900 million could face an uphill battle in Congress where requests for Gaza will likely meet resistance as Hamas continues to rule there and the U.S. focus is on its own souring economy.
In December, the former Bush administration said it would give $85 million to the United Nations agency giving aid to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Hamas is labeled a terrorist group by the United States and money must be channeled through UN bodies or the Palestinian Authority run by President Mahmoud Abbas.
The United States wants Abbas’ PA to play a central role in the reconstruction effort in Gaza, hoping this will increase its influence in the Hamas stronghold. Washington is also putting pressure on other donors to bolster the Palestinian Authority. Hamas ousted Fatah from Gaza in a bloody 2007 coup.
“We call on donor countries to focus their pledges to meet the Palestinian Authority’s priorities, including budget support, and on projects that can be funded through the Palestinian Authority and other existing, trusted mechanisms,” said the State Department official.
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