Tel-Chai Nation

Still more damning info comes in on the distasteful Congressman. First, there's news that his site has been distributing and publicizing the anti-Jewish monstrosity called Protocols of the Elders of Zion for the past 3 years (via PJ Tatler):

The website for “Campaign for Liberty”, an organization started by “Republican” anti-Israel Presidential candidate Ron Paul, has, since late 2008, been featuring a page offering the opportunity to purchase the notorious forged anti-Semitic book The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.

As word spreads of this, inevitably Paul’s campaign will take down the page and claim the situation was a mere innocent mistake with which Paul (who of course hopes to lend his managerial skills to the entire nation) had nothing to do, a la the controversy over his newsletters in the 1990s. This of course despite the fact that the page with the link has now been up for over three years.

It's now indeed been taken down, but both above sites that spoke about this have a screenshot available of the page. More on the subject here too.

Next, there comes word from the Wash. Post (also via PJ Tatler) that Paul knew about the racist newsletters, because he personally signed off on them:

But people close to Paul’s operations said he was deeply involved in the company that produced the newsletters, Ron Paul & Associates, and closely monitored its operations, signing off on articles and speaking to staff members virtually every day.

“It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product. . . . He would proof it,’’ said Renae Hathway, a former secretary in Paul’s company and a supporter of the Texas congressman.

The newsletters point to a rarely seen and somewhat opaque side of Paul, who has surprised the political community by becoming an important factor in the Republican race. The candidate, who has presented himself as a kindly doctor and political truth-teller, declined in a recent debate to release his tax returns, joking that he would be “embarrassed” about his income compared with that of his richer GOP rivals.

IMHO, that's simply admitting he was a profiteer over some of the grimiest notions possible. Then there's this:

A person involved in Paul’s businesses, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid criticizing a former employer, said Paul and his associates decided in the late 1980s to try to increase sales by making the newsletters more provocative. They discussed adding controversial material, including racial statements, to help the business, the person said.

“It was playing on a growing racial tension, economic tension, fear of government,’’ said the person, who supports Paul’s economic policies but is not backing him for president. “I’m not saying Ron believed this stuff. It was good copy. Ron Paul is a shrewd businessman.’’

The articles included racial, anti-Semitic and anti-gay content. They claimed, for example, that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “seduced underage girls and boys’’; they ridiculed black activists by suggesting that New York be named “Zooville” or “Lazyopolis”; and they said the 1992 Los Angeles riots ended “when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.’’ The June 1990 edition of the Ron Paul Political Report included the statement: “Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.”

Paul's desecration of the memory of Dr. King is something that truly makes my blood boil. No sane person should ever get treatment from a so-called physician like Paul if he's going to even publish that kind of abominable dreck.

Labels: anti-semitism, Moonbattery, political corruption, racism, RINOs, United States

The Weekly Standard found a Pew Research poll that finds many people consider Iran the most dangerous threat to the US, and the numbers polled have doubled since last year. I'm very glad to see that many Americans understand the threat Ahmedinejad's dictatorship poses to the safety of the globe.

Labels: iran, islam, jihad, United States

This wasn't unexpected:

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood categorically rejects dialogue with Israel, the group’s spokesman told an Arabic newspaper in an interview published Wednesday.

Mahmoud Ghazlan told London’s Asharq Alawsat daily that the Islamist group’s position is “clear and not up for discussion.” Ghazlan denied his organization had been contacted by Israel’s embassy in Cairo, and said it would “reject any request from the Israeli embassy to meet with leaders of the Brotherhood.”

Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told Army Radio on Tuesday that Israel “has not closed the door” to the new government in Cairo and “would be happy to conduct dialogue with anyone prepared to talk with us.” Palmor said he believes Egypt would continue to honor the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, which he said serves the interests of both countries.

Ghazlan flatly rejected the prospect of talks with the Jewish state.

“Our group is not prepared to conduct dialogue with Israel – that is our decision.

Our position is consistent and clear, and is not up for discussion,” he said.

“It is illogical to open dialogue, any dialogue, given the current Israeli policies against the Arab peoples,” he said. “We will reject any request from the Israeli embassy to meet with leaders of the group.”

Earlier this month the deputy leader of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) said it would not recognize Israel “under any circumstances.”

“This is not an option, whatever the circumstances – we do not recognize Israel at all. It’s an occupying criminal enemy,” Rashad Bayoumi told London’s Al-Hayat daily, adding, “I will not allow myself to sit down with criminals.”

“The Brotherhood respects international conventions, but we will take legal action against the peace treaty with the Zionist entity,” Bayoumi said without elaborating.

He already has elaborated - that he/they view "Zionists" as nothing but filth, and are not willing to be good neighbors with them. Even if the treaty isn't officially cancelled by Egypt, it's clear that it's already dead in the water.

Labels: anti-semitism, Egypt, islam, Israel

France's parliament has approved the law opposing denial of the tragedy, much to the chagrin of Turkey's premier Erdogan:

PARIS - France approved on Monday a bill making it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide, sparking angry retaliation from Turkey which threatened a "total rupture" of diplomatic ties.

Lawmakers in the upper house (Senate) voted 127 to 86 in favor of the draft law outlawing genocide denial after almost six hours of debate. The lower house had backed it in December, prompting Ankara to cancel all economic, political and military meetings with Paris and recall its ambassador for consultations.

The bill had been made more general so that it outlawed the denial of any genocide, partly in the hope of appeasing the Turks. But Ankara condemned the bill's approval and said it would take permanent steps against France, a NATO ally. [...]

"Turkey is committed to taking all the necessary steps against this unjust disposition which reduces basic human values and public conscience to nothing," Turkey's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Well, if they want to break off their relations with France, I'd say the latter could find much better relations elsewhere, like in Armenia, for example.

In related news, here's an amazing story of a couple in Yerevan who've named their newborn son after Sarkozy in gratitude.

Labels: Armenia, France, islam, jihad, racism, turkey

The modern Sikrikim in Beit Shemesh, if you'll call them that, have struck again, this time attacking a lottery advertising employee:

A woman was injured in Beit Shemesh when she was attacked by ultra-Orthodox men while hanging up posters for the Mifal Hapayis national lottery on Tuesday.

According to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, Natalie Mashiach, 27, was accosted by several men in the ultra-Orthodox Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet neighborhood, who demanded that she leave the area.

They surrounded her car and pelted it with stones, smashing several windows, and punctured her tires. One stone struck Mashiach on the head, lightly injuring her.

“I was afraid for my life. I thought I was going to die,” she said.

“They came right up to my face and spat at me, so I went back to the car and called the police,” she told the press after the incident.

She had called the police who told her to wait where she was, but while they were on their way to her, 10 young men approached her car, smashed the windows and threw bleach at her, she said. “Fifty, maybe 100 people were watching and pleaded with them to let me leave, but then they threw this liquid on me, which only afterwards I realized was bleach, and I thought they were going to set me on fire, and that this was it. I was going to die.”

Police arrived quickly, dispersed the crowd and arrested three men.

While the woman is lucky to be alive and safe from possible arson attack, the mayor went about this very disgracefully by remaining ambiguous about condemnation, and some Hasidic news sites were dishonest and trivialized the violence by acting as though it was justified:

Mayor Moshe Abutbul said, “I again condemn violence of any kind carried out by extremist elements from both sides, and call on the police to enforce the law with severity and with zero tolerance for those breaking the law and disturbing public order.”

Rabbi Dov Lipman, head of the Committee to Save Beit Shemesh that lobbies against ultra-Orthodox extremism in the city, said Abutbol’s comments are “part of the problem.”

“When a woman is attacked in this way, condemnation must be unconditional,” he said. “He is trying to minimize the extent of haredi extremism in Beit Shemesh when he should be conducting all-night sessions to work out how to solve the problem.”

According to several haredi websites, Mashiach went into the foyer of a synagogue to hang flyers but behaved immodestly when asked to leave.

Lipman said that he had spoken to an ultra-Orthodox witness who denied this version of events and said that Mashiach was outside the synagogue when she was attacked.

Lipman added, “I applaud the police for arresting suspects immediately and for promising more arrests.

There is no doubt that the police force has been more aggressive since we began our campaign to save the city and since a new chief took over two weeks ago.”

However, the mayor himself is going to have to be given the pink slip, because it's clear he's not taking this matter seriously. And if the Hasidic news sites who spoke about this lied, to say nothing of acted as though the woman was "asking for it", then they've desecrated the Ten Commandments' belief in honesty.

And if anybody in the public was just standing around there and not trying to drag those hoodlums away from the woman and her car, I can't help but wonder if that smacks of partial Kitty Genovese syndrome. Some advice to those disturbed by that kind of atrocious behavior: next time, if you can, try to stop those hoods yourself if the police haven't arrived yet, lest someone really get seriously hurt.

Update: some news on one of the suspects who was arrested, and it also tells how those vicious characters even yelled vulgar slurs like "shiksa" and "whore" at the victim.

Labels: Israel, Moonbattery

After meeting at least 5 times as a mere "goodwill gesture", the PLO has again left what they were discussing in Jordan:

The Palestinian Authority will not restart direct peace negotiations with Israel unless Jerusalem recognizes the borders of a Palestinian state, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday according to the Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA).

"If the borders are set it's possible to return to negotiations, but the Israelis do not want established borders" Abbas said following a meeting with Jordanian King Abdullah II.

And he doesn't want to renounce the evil ways of Islamofascism.

The most outstanding issue preventing the resumption of high-level direct negotiations is the continued expansion of Israeli settlements, especially in "occupied" Jerusalem, Abbas said according to the report.

Other PA official made abrupter comments Wednesday, saying that Wednesday's meeting between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Amman would be the final meeting.

It might not be, but in any case, they demonstrated their callousness yet again, not to mention just how pro-segregation they are.

Labels: islam, Israel, Jerusalem

The prime minister has demanded an investigation into a local mufti who preached anti-Jewish hatemongering (via Big Peace):

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday called on Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein to open an investigation into Jerusalem Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Hussein for incitement after he was recorded quoting a passage by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Hadith that calls for the killing of Jews.

"These are grave words that the world needs to condemn," Netanyahu said.

Responding to the allegations of incitement on Israel Radio Sunday, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein denied inciting the murder of Jews, saying he was just quoting the Islamic text. "I can't change the Hadith," he added.

But he can admit what that particular filth is like, and it's just as bad in the main Koran, as seen in verses 2:52-65 and 5:59-60, for example. It just shows what a horrific hate book both the Koran and Hadith really are.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, Jerusalem, jihad

Well, it was predictable. The Islamists have won 75 percent of the parliament in Egypt, and with that we can expect things to only go from worse to hopeless from here on.

Labels: Egypt, islam

Another example of a would-be conservative who goes and does something really stupid has just surfaced. While warning about the efforts the OIC and its willing minions are making to censor criticism of Islam, Ned May at Big Peace damages the impact of his article with the following:

An end run around the Constitution may also be available in the recently-passed National Defense Authorization bill, which permits the president to order indefinite military detention of American citizens, even within the United States. The rationale is that we are in a “time of war.” The war, however, has never been declared, and the enemy is unnamed — except, of course, as “extremism.” And we all know who Barack Hussein Obama considers to be the “extremists.” The NDAA does not bode well for tea-partiers, Islamophobes, Ron Paul supporters, and other “right-wing extremists.” If nothing else, the feds will be forced to detain a few of us just to prove they are not engaging in “profiling.”

What does Paul and his 9-11 truther screwball following have to do with this? Paul's most definitely not an opponent of Islamofascism, and there's plenty of signs he wouldn't exactly oppose this bill himself. His supporters may not be deserving of arrest, but tossing them into this whole affair is in poor taste, and Obama might actually be favorable to Paul, because he embarrasses and divides Republicans and conservatives.

Just how many more self-professed conservatives are going to make fools of themselves and undermine the effort to keep the GOP free of horrific characters like Paul? This is just absolutely shocking and awful every time a so-called right-winger does something this dumb.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, Moonbattery, political corruption, United States

Aaron Rubinger writes in the Jerusalem Post about how Islamic anti-semitism in Europe is causing plenty of Jews to want to leave, and we can thank TPTB in part for failing to prove that they're committed to enforcing the law and ensuring safety, even for their own (via Hot Air).

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, islam

The Israeli ambassador to Egypt came back for the weekend, and for all we know, it may end up being permanent:

Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Yaakov Amitai has quietly left Cairo, and flown back to Tel Aviv to spend Shabbat at home with the family. But he may not return until after January 25 --the first anniversary of the Tahrir Square Revolution. In Egypt, the day is being celebrated as a National Holiday. [...]

Depending upon how things go in Egypt, Amitai may return to his post in Cairo by January 29, according to a report in The Egyptian Gazette, at his Ma'adi home.

And maybe he will, but with the deterioration under increasing Islamization in Egypt, chances are he may come back to Israel for good, as Egypt may end up under an Islamic regime most hostile to Israel's existence. The article says that the embassy there is still closed.

Labels: anti-semitism, Egypt, islam, Israel