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 ‘Hamas’
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
Protest Outside the ‘House of the Lord’ Church in Brooklyn
by Delectable ( 122 Comments › )Filed under Anti-semitism, Communism, Gaza, Islamists, Israel, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Turkey at June 18th, 2010 - 2:00 pm
Last night I attended a protest outside where certain Gaza ‘flotilla’ (aka terror armada) passengers were speaking in Brooklyn, at the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn. It should be noted that this ‘church’ actually believes in liberation theology, and claims that Jesus was an African, rather than Jewish.
Anyway, back to this protest. Here are pictures of the event. This is my favorite picture of the protest.
About 40 people of mixed background came to the protest in Brooklyn, on Atlantic Avenue. It should be noted that the Blind Sheikh was based out of the Masjid al-Farooq Mosque, at 554 Atlantic Avenue. This ‘church’ was at 415 Atlantic Avenue. So this protest occurred deep in the heart of Radical Islam.
In any case, the pro-jihadis had this clown singing ‘peace’ songs. It was quasi-comical. Of course, I also was handed the newspaper of the Communist Worker’s Party. Red/Green Alliance strikes again.
Some of the protesters (i.e., the good guys) started singing “We Con the World” while wearing clown wigs, which is the song popularized by the group Latma. It was quite appropos.
Some observations of the event:
- A person running for City Council happened to be half a block from the ‘flotilla’ event. I asked him if he was pro-Israel, and he said yes. I then asked him if he backed Israel specifically in the ‘flotilla’ bruhaha, and he said “Well, it is complicated.” And then he went into a long story. I replied that it is not complicated at all and it is about Israel’s right to self defense. I then informed this would-be City Councilman (a Dem, of course), that I will not support him.
- There was someone from Brazilian TV there, and I told him on camera that what I am most troubled by is language desecration, and I fear for the future over the misuse and defamation of the word “peace.” I told the same to a Columbia School of Journalism reporter.
- More evidence of the red/green alliance – al-Awda NY sponsored this event, and you had communists handing out the Communist Worker’s Party newspaper. Al-Awda is linked to extremely unsavory jihad groups, as documented here.
- I saw Turkish flags at this event. Never before have Turkish flags flown at such pro-jihad events. This is an extremely troubling trend.
- At the event, the so-called ‘peace activists’ were screaming that Zionism is racism.
Overall, it is my considered opinion that peace is not possible while we buy into these false narratives, and claim that those who wish for the destruction of another are ‘peaceful.’ We must fight the war on the English language that the press has bought into, hook, line, and sinker.
And on a final note, I want to say that the pro-jihadis were really…pathetic. I mean, a tired, sad-looking man, singing a hippy-dippy ‘peace’ song, while wearing a jihad scarf? Come on! The only tragedy of this all is that we take these people seriously, and actually treat them like they have a substantial opinion, rather than the farces that they are.
Once we cut off the teat of the Western largesse to our jihadi adversaries, and stop treating the jihadis and their sympathizers as people worth listening to, real peace is possible.
► Hot LinksLone Jewish High School Student Faces Down Arab Mob in L.A.
by Bob in Breckenridge ( 200 Comments › )Filed under Anti-semitism, Democratic Party, Dhimmitude, Gaza, Hamas, Hezballah, Holocaust, Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Jihad, Judaism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Palestinians, Progressives, Sharia (Islamic Law) at June 2nd, 2010 - 1:30 pm
Lone Jewish High School Student Faces Down Arab Mob in LA
► Hot LinksA loud and angry mob of pro-Arab demonstrators outside the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday became even more enraged when one, lone Jewish high school student with a yarmulke and a large Israeli flag marched fearlessly alongside them.
The young man seemed to be unmoved by the angry curses hurled at him by the American-Arab crowd. Though protected by a line of policemen, it appeared he could be attacked at any moment.
Reporters asked him afterwards about his unusual presence, and he explained, “I came out because I want to defend Israel…They (the soldiers attempting to divert the flotilla ships) were attacked, and they had the right to defend [themselves]. These people [on the boats] were not humanitarians; their ship was armed with knives, batons, and all kinds of things to attack the Israelis with. There is a naval blockade on Gaza, and they [the soldiers] were just doing their job of enforcing it… Hamas is a terrorist organization trying to kill Israelis.”
Asked if he is affiliated with any group, he said, “Just Judaism and Israel, that’s it.”
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Palestinians: 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
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► 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 LinksIs International Policy On Jewish Presence In Judea & Samaria Racial Segregation?
by WrathofG-d ( 205 Comments › )Filed under Anti-semitism, Barack Obama, Dhimmitude, Fatah, Gaza, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic hypocrisy, Islamists, Israel, Judaism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Middle East, Palestinians, Progressives, Racism, Religion, Sharia (Islamic Law), United Nations, World at December 29th, 2009 - 5:00 pm
It seems that the more you live, the more you realize that there is nothing new under the sun. This is ever so true with the canary-in-the-coal mine of the Jewish people, and their representative on the international stage; Israel. The amount of hypocrisy, and downright injustice of the American policy (especially recently) regarding the post-1967 Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria continues to be on display to the World, and yet they continue to choose the status quo of ignorant blindness.
While the entire world, lead by our President Obama is up in arms over “illegal building” in Judea and Samaria, -even going as far as to state that it is the number one problem stumbling block regarding “Middle East” peace, they are purposefully blind to the fact that Arab/Muslim illegal building continues at a remarkable pace.
No Inspectors to Enforce Illegal Building by Arabs
Although the issue of Jewish life in Judea & Samaria is often discussed, and debated among the talking heads throughout the world, none (or at least very few) are aware or willing to admit or discuss the horrible inequality, and injustice to the present “accepted norms” with this situation.
This is surprising however as what is going on regarding the treatment of the Jews in Judea & Samaria is very familiar to the World, and especially Americans. As some have argued, the continuing double standard, and willful blindness to the violations by the Muslim/Arabs within the world and specifically Judea and Samaria and the World’s “accepted norms” regarding their final solution is in actuality nothing short than an actual Apartheid policy and the implementation of racial segregation laws against he Jewish people reminiscent to the “separate but equal”, and other famous former Civil Rights problems within the United States.
Settlement freeze is like racial segregation in U.S. (from Haaretz if you can believe it!)
Once upon a time there was a black woman; her name was Rosa Parks. There were racially discriminating laws in the United States, but she continued to sit on the bus even when she was told to vacate her seat for a white person. She was arrested, which set off a process whose end saw the abolition of racial segregation on American buses. How is it possible that one little black woman, a dressmaker by profession, could change history simply because she remained sitting? Her protest was stronger than any demonstration, op-ed piece or Knesset vote. She opted for the natural choice; that is why she was triumphant.
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My family and friends were outlawed. Why? Because we are building in the Land of Israel. After all the permits and approvals, in recognized and orderly settlements in which a third generation has already been raised, we woke up one morning to the humming of drones in the sky, taking pictures of us and the situation on the ground. It is forbidden to build. Not even a storeroom. Not a kennel. In certain places, it is even forbidden to add an air conditioner.
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The freeze is an edict that the public cannot tolerate. It is not democratic, nor is it humane… But at its foundation, either intentionally or by accident, is pure and basic apartheid – it is forbidden for Jews to live in certain places. It is forbidden to build. It is forbidden to develop.
This author, although admittedly not eloquent, is right as these rules apply ONLY to Jews, and the excuses by the world for such treatment, and their excuses are not much different than when the U.S. claimed “separate but equal”. Then, as is the case as well now, the situation and laws applied are anything but “equal”, and as a result of the inherent injustice with the application of the laws the “separate” part only applies to the Muslim/Arab neighborhoods, as the Jews are forced to allow Muslim/Arab building, and inclusion, where the Muslim/Arab ones aren’t. A great example of this was the 2005 Expulsion of everything Jews in Gaza without any requirements or demands on the Muslim/Arabs within Israel, or within Gaza. This horrible segregation and double standard is still present today in the complete silence about the nearly complete Islamification of Gaza by the Islamist Hamas. The international communities policy on Israel is that it force Jews living in Judea & Samaria (and then, Gaza) to halt life, be stripped of all their rights, and be expelled yet they are completely silent regarding the Arab/Muslim populations within Israel or within Judea & Samaria. Similar to pre-Civil Rights America, the policies are directed at curtailing the existence of one racial group at the preference of another. In the U.S., the Black communities rights were curtailed while the Whites were given free reign.
In the context of Islamist doctrine (Sharia Law), the Caliphate, and dhimmihood, none of this really is surprising. As the Koran instructs, the Muslims are to have the superior (white/Muslim) role in society, and the infidel/dhimmi (Black/Jew) the inferior. The double standard and racial segregation methods of the presently used “peace process” where Muslims can live where ever they wish, build whatever they wish, and practice their religion openly and freely, but the Jews of Judea & Samaria cannot, only bolsters this understanding.
Further bolstering the argument that what we see today against the Jews of Judea & Samaria is nothing less than racial segregation are the stats as provided by the CIA Fact Book regarding the population of Gaza, Judea & Samaria, and Israel where Israel has a large minority of cultures, religions, ethnicities, and languages while Gaza and Judea & Samaria are nearly 100% “palestinian arab” and “Muslim” only.
There is a bit of irony to the fact that our President, raised in a Black Liberation Church, and who happens to identify with his Black heritage would be the leader of the new international Klan which has at its core -consciously or unconsciously – policies of racial segregation and our generations own “separate but equal” treatment but on an international scale.
► Hot LinksHamas using English law to demand arrest of Israeli leaders for war crimes
by Speranza ( 117 Comments › )Filed under Gaza, Hamas, Islamic hypocrisy, Israel, Palestinians at December 21st, 2009 - 4:00 pm
Talk about an Orwellian World! The disgrace is that the British in their zeal to lead the way in the continuing demonization and delegitimization the Jewish nation and people, have acquiesced in the undermining of their own legal institutions to the point where they are now puppets of Hamas and their British allies. The can of worms that they are opening up may one day come back to bite them as British politicians, military personnel, diplomats etc., may one day find that they too are under indictment.
by James Hider
The Islamist group Hamas is masterminding efforts to have senior Israeli leaders arrested for alleged war crimes when they visit European countries including Britain, a top Hamas official involved in the effort has told The Times.
The claim comes amid continuing diplomatic fallout after a British arrest warrant was issued last week against Tzipi Livni, who served as Foreign Minister during Israel’s Gaza offensive last winter. The warrant was withdrawn when it became clear that Ms Livni, now leader of the opposition, was not in the country. Its existence apparently prompted her to cancel a trip to attend a meeting in London.
President Peres described the incident as “one of the greatest political mistakes” that Britain could have made and calling for the law to be changed. “Everything is based on … a hostile majority public opinion,” he said last week. “The British promised they would fix this and it is time that they do so.”
Gordon Brown and David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, have each expressed their concern and their opposition to the warrant.
The campaign by Hamas takes advantage of an aspect of law in England and Wales that allows anyone to apply for an arrest warrant for alleged war crimes without the need for a prosecuting lawyer. The identity of the person or organisation that applied for Ms Livni’s warrant has not been made public, but Hamas says that it initiated the move.
Read the rest here.
► 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”.
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Hamas Ready For Peace…With A Muslim Israel
by WrathofG-d ( 31 Comments › )Filed under Gaza, Hamas, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic hypocrisy, Islamists, Israel, Jihad, Middle East, Palestinians, Terrorism, World at June 25th, 2009 - 10:48 am
The Obama Administration, along with most of the Western world, continues to fool itself into thinking that the Arabs want peace with Israel, and two states living side-by-side. This is despite the fact that the Arabs themselves have never explicitly said so.
Here is Hamas’ most recent example.
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Hamas head Khaled Mashaal gave a speech Thursday evening in response to a policy speech given by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu several days earlier. Mashaal proclaimed that Hamas is ready to cooperate with the international community in order to reach a deal with Israel, but only under conditions it deems favorable.
Specifically, Mashaal rejected every proposal supported by Israel, including Netanyahu’s insistence that the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Hamas will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state, because it hopes to see millions of descendants of Arab residents of pre-state Israel “return” to the area, potentially turning Israel into a majority-Arab state, Mashaal explained.
He rejected Netanyahu’s proposal that the PA form a demilitarized state within Judea, Samaria and Gaza. “A demilitarized state is a miserable state, not a serious entity,” he stated.
Mashaal also insisted that an Arab state in Judea and Samaria be granted Jerusalem as its capital.
While stating his readiness to cooperate, Mashaal compared Israel to Nazi Germany and expressed support for terrorism. “[Israel] failed in its Nazi war on Gaza, just as it failed in Lebanon,” he said. “This was due to the resistance, not to dialogue, which serves only to hide the true face of occupation.”
Mashaal praised United States President Barack Obama for “using new language” with Israel, but called on the U.S. leader to do more. “We’re hoping for real pressure on the Israelis,” he said.
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What the Arabs want is not two states living side-by-side in peace, but instead a Phakestinian State created so it can be used to destroy Israel – all according to the PLO Phased Plan.
The Arabs have never wanted “two states”, and have honestly never stated such. “Two states” is simply what the West wants to hear, and thus we pretend that it has been said. Every act by the Arabs regarding Israel (as acknowledged again by Hamas) is in furtherance of their goal to destroy Israel. They want Judea, Samaria and Gaza to chip away at the body of Israel, and they insist on Jerusalem as their capitol because they know it will destroy Israel’s heart and soul. The “demand of so-called Return” is to create a cancer within the Jewish state.
Every Arab act of “peace” is to destroy Israel. It is about time the West (especially the U.S.) woke up to this fact.
► Hot LinksAfter Obama’s Meeting With Netanyahu, MSM Works Overtime To Manufacture Anti-Israel Sentiment
by WrathofG-d ( 13 Comments › )Filed under Gaza, Hamas, IDF, Iran, Israel, Jihad, Media, Middle East, Palestinians, Terrorism, World at May 20th, 2009 - 2:14 pm
The international mainstream media has been working overtime to shift the narrative regarding the Arab-Israel conflict, and place all blame on Israel’s shoulders – despite the reality being the complete opposite. Although many of us have come to accept this from the press, a sharp left turn against Israel has become more apparent, and they are using all the weapons of propaganda in their arsenal.
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Fauxtography
What better place to start than with with Fautography from the AP in Bilin? The Associated Press would have you believe that this man holding a key aloft in one hand, and raising the other in a defiant fist, directly in front of a photographer Bernat Armangue simply “passed out” from tear gas at a Nakba demonstration this week.
For those who do not know, Bilin is home of the West Bank’s longest continuous run of manufactured dissent and grandstanding for the cameras. It is “ground zero” for the ISM, and their ilk to Paliwood riots, and “IDF abuses”.
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Inverting The Facts / Shaping The Discussion
The AP however, didn’t stop there. Much of their, and other’s, media coverage of Netanyahu’s meeting with Obama this week tended to concentrate on Netanyahu’s refusal to formally endorse the creation of a Palestinian state dispite the fact that this is a misnomer regarding his position. In fact, while with President Obama, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke eagerly about renewing negotiations and expressed support for Palestinian autonomy. Despite this, the media’s coverage implied that his position presented an obstacle to peace.
While the media outlets focused on the negative with Netanyahu, the real obstacle to peace – Hamas – continued to be treated completely differently. In an Associated Press article published the day after the meeting, the A.P. provided a platform for Hamas leaders to propagandize to the West and falsely express “moderate” positions, such as a quote from Hamas lawmaker Yehiye Moussa saying, the group is “not demanding to destroy Israel.”
This is despite the fact that, as writer Karen Laub point out, that Hamas is not about to change its ideology – which explicitly precludes any recognition of Israel. Insofar that it is the historically stated position of Hamas that it is their ultimate goal to destroy Israel, an honest reporter would have to conclude that nothing has changed with Hamas. However, Karen Laub streteches reality to note that Hamas has begun “raising the possibility they would someday accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel.”
So while Netanyahu’s call for Palestinian autonomy is treated as insufficient and anti-peace, Hamas’s rhetorical, though not ideological or practical, shift from total rejectionism is presented as a cause for hope.
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Blaming The Victim; Ignoring The Huge Kiffiyah Wearing Elephant
Last, but definatly not least, in this hall of shame is England’s “The Independent” which stands out from the crowd with a glaring omission.
In an article by Donald Macintyre, “Israel goes cold on plan for regional peace deal,” a list of “obstacles to peace” includes issues such as settlements, Palestinian infighting, Iran, Syria and Israel’s own apparent reluctance to publicly endorse a Palestinian state.
Putting aside the relative importance or otherwise of issues such as settlements being primary stumbling blocks, Macintyre conveniently forgets a very real and potentially the greatest obstacle to peace – Palestinian terror and violence.
How can Macintyre omit the thousands of missiles fired from Gaza at Sderot and surrounding Israeli communities for several years (and before the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip)? Indeed, only the day before Macintyre’s piece was published, Sderot endured a Qassam rocket attack on a courtyard adjacent to two private homes. One resident was wounded while several others were treated for shock.
And how can Macintyre forget the brutal campaign of suicide attacks against Israeli buses, cafes and other civilian targets that has claimed the lives of over 1000 Israelis and wounded thousands more since the year 2000? While major attacks have declined recently thanks to Israeli counter measures such as the Security Fence, the incentive for terrorist groups to carry out similar acts of violence has not.
We could also add to the list other potential obstacles to peace, for example, Palestinian intractability on issues such as the right of return, incitement in Palestinian media and the education system that has poisoned Palestinian minds, and the increasing role of Islamic extremism represented by Hamas.
The way that the Pro-Arab propagandists, useful-idiots, and Terror sympathisersr associate home building, with murder is truly disgusting.
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DONT JUST SIT THERE….DO SOMETHING!
Please write to The Independent – letters@independent.co.uk – to remind them that there are many potential obstacles to peace and that some of these that the paper has omitted, are the responsibility of the Palestinian side to overcome.
You can also contact The Associated Press – to remind them of their duty to provide unbiased, truthful reporting on such an important issue.
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by WrathofG-d ( 23 Comments › )Filed under Gaza, Hamas, Humor, IDF, Islamists, Israel, Jihad, Open thread, Palestinians, Religion, Terrorism at April 27th, 2009 - 4:53 pm
I have a feeling that this video is supposed to be (a) frightening (b) intimidating, or (c) inspirational. As far as I’m concerned, it is (d) none of the above.
I think something must getting lost in the translation, or I’m just not picking up on the cultural sensitivities. I don’t plan to either by-the-way. What a bunch of morons. Other than the rampant child abuse, and evil I know they have in their souls, this video is just hilarious!
Where does one submit for Hamas’ Funniest Home Videos?
This video is just begging for a video version of a caption contest.
Oh, I guess you could consider this an open thread as well.
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