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Thank goodness, the relieving news came sooner than I thought (via Jihad Watch), and he gets asylum:

SAN DIEGO -- The son of a Hamas founder who became a Christian and an Israeli spy will be granted U.S. asylum after he passes a routine background check, an immigration judge ruled Wednesday.

Mosab Hassan Yousef got the news during a 15-minute deportation hearing after a U.S. Department of Homeland Security attorney said the government was dropping its objections.

The agency denied Yousef's asylum request in February 2009, arguing that he had been involved in terrorism and was a threat to the United States.

Attorney Kerri Calcador gave no explanation for the government's change of heart.[...]

In his book, Yousef describes growing up admiring Hamas and hating Israel, leading him to buy a couple machine guns and a handgun in 1996. He said the guns didn't work and that he was arrested by Israeli forces before he killed anyone.

He's lucky he didn't succeed, and we're lucky he learned his lessons since. This does provide him fairly well with the chance of redemption. And now he's found asylum and safety from the murderers he wisely thought to turn against.

Labels: immigration, islam, terrorism, United States, war on terror

The wretched veteran news anchor for NBC has admitted he's a left-leaner. Honestly, I don't know why he didn't just do so sooner.

Labels: msm foulness, United States

Brent Bozell discusses whether conservatives have learned anything from 2006 and 2008's election disasters. He even cites Grover Norquist, the apologist for Islam whom Frank Gaffney boldly discussed several years earlier and even more recently, and how Norquist has added one more questionable act to his record:

Comes now the news that fiscal conservative leader Grover Norquist, a man who prides himself on forming grand working coalitions, has joined the board of a group called GOProud, calling the group “an important part of the conservative movement” with a commitment to “core conservative values.”

It’s a gay group. And Norquist thinks social conservatives are going to accept this absolute abandonment?

Traditional marriage and the right of religious people to speak out against homosexuality as a sin are “core conservative values.” Proposition 8 in California — defending the institution of marriage, the only thing the GOP won in 2008 — was victorious because culturally conservative blacks and Hispanics joined the GOP coalition.

Norquist wants to take the GOP in the exact opposite direction now, full speed ahead, the consequences be damned.

He already has taken things in the opposite direction if he's going to help Islam make inroads into American institutions, and that's even more troubling than this news. This current matter might raise eyebrows for the right reasons, but even so, it's Norquist's support for Islam and even open borders that warrants major attention. Not to worry, Bozell has cited that part too:

Norquist is a man with a quixotic passion for trying to build strange coalitions by selling out core conservative principles. He doesn’t think opposing the excesses of sex, violence, and filthy language on television is a conservative value, even when tens of millions of impressionable children are being poisoned by these messages. He suggested “damn close to nobody” in the movement agreed with issuing real fines for broadcast indecency — this after a completely lopsided 391-22 House vote in favor in 2004 and before the 379-35 vote in 2006 that led to Bush signing the bill.

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He tried to build a large Republican bridge to radical Muslim Americans, which hasn’t exactly been the most promising of outreach projects. He has repeatedly welcomed lobbyists for legalized marijuana to his Wednesday morning meeting in Washington. He helped organize a Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles to support amnesty for illegal aliens, which conservative activist Mark Krikorian called “the Republican Auxiliary of the left’s open border movement.” His clumsy attempts to build a “big tent” often appear more likely to spur large chunks of conservatives to leave the tent than bring new constituencies into the tent.

Now, Norquist has declared open war on social conservatives. Note to Chairman Steele: If he succeeds, and they leave the party, the GOP is ruined.

Yes, Steele, pay sharp attention now, if you don't want the grassroots crowd to really end up frowning. It is Norquist who needs to leave the party, for all the damage - and dhimmitude - he's doing.

Labels: immigration, islam, political corruption, United States

The cold war is coming back (then again, did it ever end?), and we find this out via a story about eleven agents who were arrested in a sting, including a woman by the name of Anna Chapman (via Hot Air). More on this at Left Coast Rebel.

As we see here, some things just don't improve, or not for long.

Labels: anti-americanism, Russia, United States

Well here's the fatal day, as Mosab Hassan Yousef is appearing before an immigration judge to plead his case about the danger he faces of being sentenced to death if he is deported back to where the Hamas/Fatah can find him and exact revenge upon him for spying against them for Israel (H/T: Count Us Out).

Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado has been gathering signatures to help prevent his deportation, to be presented to Janet Napolitano, and we have to hope this will help Yousef's cause.

Here's more from the Weekly Standard (via Weasel Zippers).

Labels: dhimmitude, immigration, Israel, terrorism, United States

There's little reason or need to go fly there. According to this news clip:

Turkey is closing its skies to Israeli planes, Turkish media outlets reported Monday. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the closure in a meeting with Canadian journalists in Toronto, they said.

[...]

Israeli officials said they were not informed of any Turkish change in policy regarding Israeli flights. Unless Turkey makes an official statement, Israel will continue to assume that Turkish skies are open, they said.

But what's the point in flying there? Even before the flotilla farce, there were so many reports on their return to vicious anti-semitism, many Israel tourists stopped going there. It's practically best now to close down Israeli travel offices in Turkey, because there won't be much demand for them.

Update: here's one more report about this (via Hot Air Headlines).

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, turkey

Here is our own case of homegrown terrorism, discovered in Nazareth, where 7 fiends were captured:

According to suspicions, a terror cell consisting of seven Nazareth residents operated in Israel on behalf of global jihad, it was cleared for publication Monday after the men were indicted.

In what the Shin Bet and Amakim Police call one of the most severe security-related affairs in north Israel in recent years, seven young Muslim men who were inspired by extremist Islamist ideology operated in the region and even tried to join a terror network with links to al-Qaeda.

Among the crimes attributed to three of the cell members is the murder of 54-year-old taxi driver Yefim Weinstein in November 2009. Weinstein, from Upper Nazareth, was found dead near Kibbutz Kfar HaHoresh.

Three of the cell members - Ahmed Ali Ahmed (21), Haider Zaidana (26) and Raleb Ganayim (22) were indicted for the murder on Monday. The three Muslims became more radical over the past few years after being exposed to online video clips posted by Osama bin Laden and his followers, which also helped them obtain knowledge on the use of weapons and explosives.

The were charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, assault, Molotov cocktail attacks, weapons manufacturing and arms trade and a host of other criminal offences, including kidnapping and armed robbery.

Police say the men have admitted to the crimes, reenacted some of them and led investigators to their arms caches.

The investigation led to the arrest of four other Arab-Israeli residents who were charged mostly with weapons offences and belonging to an illegal organization. The men were named as Asim Muhhamad Alan (23), Abed al-Rahman Izz al-Din Abu Salim (19) and Udei Mahmoud Azzam (23) – all from Nazareth. Another suspect, Omar Ali Kahili (22), resides in the nearby village Umm el-Ganem.

When they're influenced by the Religion of Peace, this is what you can only expect could happen. This brings to mind a case that took place in Florida a few years ago, of 2 Muslims who may have learned how to build bombs online, and certainly had a videotape with instructions.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, jihad, terrorism, war on terror

Ron Brakin at Pajamas Media writes about how Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a Hamas leader who helped spy on them for many years, may be deported from the US because the immigration authorities there are uncaring people who're ungrateful for the help he provided in the war against terrorism. One of the officials in charge who opposes his asylum request came up with very flimsy charges, all for the sake of denying his request.

A Shin-Bet agent has broken his cover in order to testify for Yousef's defense. If Yousef's request is denied, we have to hope he'll get protection from Israel's authorities, and the Knesset has spoken in his defense.

Labels: immigration, islam, Israel, jihad, Knesset, terrorism, United States, war on terror

Just when you thought Turkey couldn't sink any lower, they've just proven they can. It is time to remove our ambassadors from that poisoned country and close our embassy and consulates there, to say nothing of boycotting any commercial products they have.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, turkey

But don't think that means we're safe from nuclear warfare. Michael Ledeen (via Power Line) reports that Iran has canceled its planned flotilla to Gaza after Israel's thankfully strong response.

But like I said, this is not over by a long shot, and as said here about Iran:

2. They will not risk direct confrontation, because any defeat will encourage the Iranian people to bring them down;

I do hope there's still resistance to Ahmedinejad's tyranny taking place in Iran now, because that would help greatly in stopping his horrors.

Labels: iran, Israel, jihad

Here's an article on the Hudson website about how Holland's authorities are deploying decoys to fight anti-semitism in the streets (via NRO's The Corner):

Last week, a television broadcast showed how three Jews with skullcaps, two adolescents and an adult, were harassed within thirty minutes of being out in the streets of Amsterdam. Young Muslims spat at them, mocked them, shouted insults and made Nazi salutes. “Dirty Jew, go back to your own country,” a group of Moroccan youths shouted at a young indigenous Dutch Jew. “It is rather ironic,” the young man commented, adding that if one goes out in a burka one encounters less hostility than if one wears a skullcap.

Were the Moroccans really serious about telling them to go back to their "own country"? I doubt it. Helen Thomas practically said the opposite.

In an effort to arrest the culprits who terrorize Jews, the Amsterdam authorities have ordered police officers to walk the streets disguised as Jews. The Dutch police already disguise officers as “decoy prostitutes, decoy gays and decoy grannies” to deter muggings and attacks on prostitutes, homosexuals and the elderly. Apparently sending out the decoys has helped reduce street crime. The “decoy Jew” has now been added to the police attributes.

While this part is good to learn about, guess who's opposing it:

The deployment of “decoy Jews”, however, is being criticized by leftist parties such as the Dutch Greens. Evelien van Roemburg, an Amsterdam counselor of the Green Left Party, says that using a decoy by the police amounts to provoking a crime, which is itself a criminal offence under Dutch law.

In other words, it's more of the classic blame-the-victim routine, and you can be sure this must even be their stance when it comes to the prostitutes and grannies.

And look at the situation in Belgium:

On Monday, the Belgian newspaper De Standaard reported that large numbers of Jews are leaving Antwerp for America, Britain or Israel. Antwerp — nicknamed the “Jerusalem of the North” — is one of the major centers of Jewish culture in the Low Countries. “In London, you are not harassed if you wear a skullcap, but here you are,” a young Antwerp Jew told the paper.

I have to disagree a little here, since I'd blogged about some of Britain's own problems with anti-semitism before, and it's not just Muslims who are responsible for the crimes there, but even some Brits themselves.

Still, this does show how much you can trust "brave little Belgium" I guess.

Kleinblatt, a famous Jewish Antwerp bakery, which has been handed down from father to son since 1903, will soon break with that tradition because the baker’s son has emigrated to the U.S. “We no longer feel safe and welcome here,” a young Jew who is leaving for London told De Standaard. “Muslim immigrants blame us for what is happening in Israel.” Another young Jew, who is leaving for New York, says: “New York is a paradise for Jews. Unlike Belgium, non-Jews in America are pro-Israel.”

Americans can feel great about that, but let's not think it's impossible, even today, for anti-semitism to occur in the US as it can/does. Just look at university grounds, for example. That should have one worried, as it's still a problem.

In Holland's case, I hope we have Geert Wilders to thank for the current security measures being laid out.

Update: speaking of Geert, he made a bullseye point on how Jordan is "palestine" (Hat tip: Melanie Phillips). More from Camie Davis.

Labels: anti-semitism, belgium, islam, londonistan, Netherlands, United States

Judish Apter Klinghoffer at History News Network finds some info on how Qatar, like Turkey, wants to be seen as another Islamic country that's legitimizing Hamas in the flotilla monstrosity, and has helped bankroll them. From MEMRI:

The Qatari daily Al-Raya argued that Turkey, which had played a central role in the flotilla, and Qatar, which offered to finance a lawsuit against Israel for attacking the flotilla, are spearheading the struggle against Israel: "With its clear positions, Turkey revealed the Arabs' true colors. Qatar, in pledging to bear the costs of the legal proceedings against Israel, proved to the world that it is always the first to support Arab rights. As such, it is the conscience that senses the pulse of the Arab and Islamic public, which demands that Israel be held to account and that the exploitative siege on Gaza be ended. It is no wonder that, spearheaded by Qatar and Turkey, the Arab and Islamic public is demanding an international account from Israel and an end to the siege on the Palestinians...

"The Arabs must understand that turning to the Security Council is of no avail regarding Israel, since it will [always] find someone [in the Council] to support it. It is the Arab leaders that must immediately find a way to break the siege on Gaza. Only thus will they rise to the level of their peoples. They must know that Turkey, in its firm stances vis-à-vis Israel, has put all the Arab leaders to a difficult challenge and test, and that Qatar, in its absolute support of the Palestinians and of Turkey's position, has drawn a roadmap for the Arab [leaders] – who need to meet the challenge and the goals of the Arab and Islamic public..."[11]

Goes in well with another post I did about this case. In a number of years, Qatar is likely to rank right down there with Turkey at the bottom of a pit of disgrace.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism, turkey, UAE

World Net Daily reports that Obama has chosen an expert in shari'a finance named Samir Ali among several "fellows" to work at the White House:

The Obama administration has announced its appointment of 13 White House fellows – and the first person featured on its short list is a Muslim attorney who specializes in Shariah-compliant transactions.

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Samar Ali of Waverly, Tenn., is the first name appearing on the White House list. She is an associate with the law firm Hogan Lovells – a firm that claims to have advised on more than 200 Islamic finance transactions with an aggregate deal value in excess of $40 billion.

According to Ali's biography posted on the White House website, "She is responsible for counseling clients on mergers & acquisitions, cross-border transactions, Shari'a compliant transactions, project finance, and international business matters. During her time with Hogan Lovells, she has been a founding member of the firm's Abu Dhabi office."

Hogan Lovells lists Ali's experience "advising a Middle Eastern university in the potential establishment of a Foreign Aid Conventional and Shari'ah Compliant Student Loan Program and advising a Middle Eastern client in relation to a U.S. government subcontract matter."

"Our team members are at the forefront of developments in the Islamic finance industry," Hogan Lovells boasts. "We help set standards for the sector. We have also advised on numerous first-of-their-kind transactions, such as the first convertible Sukuk, the first equity-linked Sukuk, the first Sharia-compliant securitization, the first international Sukuk al-mudaraba and Sukuk al-musharaka, the first Sukuk buy-back, and the first Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) guaranteed Islamic project financing."

Ali also clerked for Judge Gilbert S. Merritt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge Edwin Cameron, now of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

It's bad enough Britain's been doing this, even if it hasn't been successful. We certainly don't need shari'a finance making inroads into American politics. Nor do we need it on Wall Street, which has been embracing it too.

In his July 2008 essay, "Financial Jihad: What Americans Need to Know," Vice President Christopher Holton of the Center for Security Policy wrote, "America is losing the financial war on terror because Wall Street is embracing a subversive enemy ideology on one hand and providing corporate life support to state sponsors of terrorism on the other hand."

I wonder if America's investors should look elsewhere across the country, maybe to say, Los Angeles' stock market, for investing if Wall Street is going to stoop this monstrously low.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, political corruption, United States

Anyone who thinks this couldn't happen, in Michigan or elsewhere in the United States, must take a look at the following news from Michigan Live and from Power Line (via Hot Air):

Police in the heavily Arab Detroit suburb of Dearborn say they arrested four Christian missionaries for disorderly conduct at an Arab cultural festival.

Police Chief Ron Haddad says his department made the arrests Friday. The four are free on bond.

Here's also a video of the arrest, and note how the police demand of one of the bunch not film the arrest:

As the name of the chief of Henry Ford's burg suggests, he too could be a Muslim, making Dearbornistan one of the first places where Islamisation of the police could be a serious problem, just like in Britain. And their confiscation of cameras to keep this off record shows this is a lot worse than it looks.

The Detroit News says:

The Thomas More Law Center, an Ann Arbor-based Christian legal defense organization, has agreed to represent four evangelists who were arrested on charges of disturbing the peace Friday night at the Arab International Festival.

Dearborn police officers violated their free speech rights when their video cameras, which were used to record conversations with festival-goers, were confiscated, said lead attorney Robert Muise…

Muise faxed a letter Monday to Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad requesting the return of his clients’ cameras and tapes.

The Police Department has not responded to Muise’s request.

When this comes to court, the evangelists must ask for a lot of damage repairs.

Others on the subject include Cold Fury, Be John Galt, One News Now.

Labels: Christianity, dhimmitude, islam, michigan, United States

Reut Cohen at Pajamas Media writes about the case of the Muslim Students Association's militant thuggery at universities like UC Irvine, and how reaction to it eventually led to a reported suspension of their movement from the varsity grounds. However, they are appealing this ruling, and it still isn't clear if the varsity will stand firm on this position:

Responding to the recent suspension of the MSU, Ted Bleiweis, executive director of the group, was more cautious than many in the UCI community who have commended the suspension recommendation. “The evidence presented in the May 27, 2010, letter from UC Irvine to MSU officials appears to demonstrate an organized and deliberate attempt by the MSU to stifle Ambassador Oren’s First Amendment right to free speech and the audience’s right to hear what he had to say,” said Bleiweis. “It remains to be seen if the administration will actually follow through on its recommended action. In addition, keep in mind that until the appeals process has been completed, it is premature to draw any conclusions about the outcome.”

That's right. A recommended way to ensure they'll carry through with the ruling is for all concerned to continue writing to the staff and call on them to stand strong on the decision.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, racism, United States

News Australia reports that in Germany, a gang of likely Muslim suspects threw stones at a Jewish dance group, but tries to downplay the Islamic involvement here:

A JEWISH dance group was attacked with stones by a group of children and teenagers during a performance at a street festival in the Germany city of Hannover.

One dancer suffered a leg injury and the group then cancelled their performance.

The teenagers also used a megaphone to shout anti-Semitic slurs during the Saturday afternoon attack, Hannover police spokesman Thorsten Schiewe said.

Police said the incident is under investigation and that they do not have an exact number of attackers yet.

Mr Schiewe said there were several Muslim immigrant youths among the attackers.

Two suspects, a 14-year-old and a 19-year-old, were being questioned, he said.

Now it wouldn't surprise me if there were some German punks among the anarchists here, but what if a lot of these hoodlums were Muslim? That means that the MSM has perpetuated its atrocious method of downplaying the seriousness of the matters at hand. A shame this had to happen, and I can't understand why some people want to live in that country.

Update: Phyllis Chesler has more on this and other similar cases.

Update 2: full confirmation these were Arab youths (Hat tip: Jihad Watch).

Labels: anti-semitism, germany, islam

If the following news tells anything, it's that Belgium's law that enables prosecuting foreign politicians - perhaps more specifically, Israeli ones - inside their country, and even leftists aren't immune to it:

After similar circumstances last week prompted the last-minute cancellation of Defense Minister Ehud Barak's trip to Paris, another court case was filed against the Barak and a series of other senior Israeli officials for alleged war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead.

Among those targeted in the suit are Opposition Chairwoman Tzipi Livni, who also has an arrest warrant out against her in Britain for her role as foreign minister during the Gaza offensive, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai, and other Israelis in the IDF and Israel's intelligence services.

The claim was filed by a Belgian citizen of Palestinian descent together with 13 residents of the Gaza Strip. The plaintiffs' attorney estimated that the country's attorney general will evaluate the case to determine whether it provides just cause to open a case against the senior Israeli officials "already by the end of August."

[...]

Much of the claim is based on the Goldstone Report.

Oh, really? I guess this is simply an extension of the farce. This has got to be challenged and ended. Until then, Belgium is not doing enough to prove they're even against Islamofascism in their own country.

Labels: anti-semitism, belgium, islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism, war on terror

A synagogue in the Silwan neighborhood in Jerusalem has been illegally occupied by Arab families for decades now since anti-Jewish pogroms enabled a takeover, and not only do some Jewish families with a legal claim to the building want them evicted, some MKs have offered assistance:

Ten Knesset members from right-wing factions have expressed their willingness to join Jewish residents in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan and help them evacuate Arab families living in a building which previously served as a synagogue for Yemenite Jews.

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According to the letter, obtained by Ynet, "Israel is not carrying out its duty according to a verdict of the head of the repossession department. We wish to inform you that we plan, together with the Temple-treasury loyalists, to implement the legal right to carry out the demolition and evacuate the squatters from the synagogue."

The place, which served in the past as the Hechal Shlomo synagogue, is located only 150 meters (492 feet) from Beit Yehonatan, in assets runs by the Ateret Kohanim association.

"This is an ancient building which has been standing for more than 100 years," the MKs wrote in their letter. "For decades, the building served as a synagogue for Yemenite Jews, who lived in the area before being forced to leave at the British Mandate's order following the bloody events of 1938. Unfortunately, this building – like many others owned by the Temple-treasury, are being held by a family which invaded it and even made illegal building additions."

The protest's initiators added that this was done in disregard of a court ruling, which stated that the building additions must be destroyed and that the building must be returned to its original owners.

More news about this is available here. I fully agree that if the structure was taken over in a coup/pogrom by the Religion of Peace, it's high time to banish the conquestors. And, law and order must be upheld even when dealing with Arabs and the RoP. And political correctness cannot be allowed to hold justice back.

Labels: islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, Jerusalem, Judaism, Knesset

YnetNews reports that there was a rally for freeing Gilad Shalit in Paris, and at least 10,000 people attended to mark the fourth year since his abduction.

Labels: France, Israel, jihad, terrorism

Here are 3 reports regarding east Jerusalem. First, the shutdown of a Hamas office:

Armed with recently acquired intelligence information and an order signed by Police Insp.-Gen. David Cohen, Jerusalem Police on Sunday shut down an office in the eastern section of the city that had allegedly been used by Hamas as a fundraising and recruitment center.

No violent incidents were reported as officers arrived at the office – located at 19 Haroun el-Rashid Street, near the Herod’s Gate entrance to the Muslim Quarter of the Old City – and carried out the order to shut it down.

Jerusalem Police spokesman Shmulik Ben-Ruby confirmed that one man had been inside the office when police arrived early Sunday afternoon, although he was not taken in for questioning and complied with police orders to vacate the premises while the office was shuttered.

Ben-Ruby added that the office had been a managerial branch of the movement, used for raising funds and recruitment, and was not part of Hamas’s military wing.

Nonetheless, the move came some five days after Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Hamas was making a concerted effort to purchase land and properties throughout the Jerusalem municipal area.

Diskin also said that, along with Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and the Islamic Movement were all currently operating in east Jerusalem and that the groups were competing with one another in an effort to gain influence and widen their presence in the area.

This isn't really new. The PA has been doing this for years now, ditto the other 2 Islamofascist entities mentioned here. I don't suppose that, if they now have custody of the office, they might want to sell it to Jewish sources who could make better purpose out of it?

Second, multiple arrests have been made of violent perpetrators in Silwan:

A investigation launched after a series of violent demonstrations in Silwan has resulted in a series of east Jerusalem arrests, Jerusalem police and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced Monday morning.

Three unsolved cases of shooting attacks in the region were cracked as part of the probe. Multiple arrests were made, and confessions were taken by police.

Three arrests were made on May 30, in connection with an attack on a car in Silwan on March 3 in which a settler from Beit Yehonotan was wounded.

Issa Abassi, 25, Taed Fataafta, 26 and Mussa Fataafta, 24, all from Jabal Mukabar, were arrested on suspicion of carrying out the attack.

Abassi confessed that on March 1, the Fataafta brothers opened fire on a passing car, while he carried out surveillance in the area. Taed surrender the weapon that was used in the attack, as well as another pistol, both of which underwent forensic analysis.

In a second attack, which took place on May 2 this year, a security jeep from the City of David was attacked and one guard was injured. Seven suspects from Silwan were arrested in connection with the incident, in which terrorists spilled oil on the road, hid with rocks and Molotov cocktails and ambushed the car.

In a March 16 attack, a police officer was injured in a shooting at Ras al-Amud.

According to confessions taken as part of the investigation, a group of local Israeli Arabs had decided to perpetrate the attack during demonstrations against the re-opening of the Hurva synagogue in the Old City.

Weapons were surrendered in line with the investigation.

Security officials noted that the arrests underlined the increasing occurrence of east Jerusalem Arabs being involved in violent terrorist attacks.

They should have their citizenship revoked and be exiled, and it sadly won't happen. By the way, pay careful attention to the paper's stupid use of "settler" to describe the victim from Beit Yehonatan.

Third, the mayor has approved a plan for demolishing several illegally built structures, also in Silwan:

The Jerusalem Planning and Construction committee approved Monday a plan by Mayor Nir Barkat dubbed "King's Garden", which calls for the demolition of 22 houses in Silwan's al-Bustan neighborhood. In their place an archaeological park is to be founded.

We need to hope this can actually be done, because there is opposition to it, from the left-wing Meretz party, which still has representation in city hall.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, jihad, terrorism, war on terror

Hagai Segal writes on Ynet about the sadness of segregation:

Arab Israelis bitterly complained last week that the IDF forbids them from entering the Jewish street in Hebron. Despite the security motive behind the ban (security alone and nothing else,) this is a bothersome phenomenon. It’s somewhat reminiscent of the old South Africa, and it doesn’t only hurt Arabs – many roads in Judea and Samaria are closed off to Jews.

We should note that in Hebron there is one street that is partly closed to Arabs and hundreds of streets that are completely closed off to Jews. If a Jew insists on getting there, he will risk being lynched. Should such Jew be able to get out of there, he will immediately be detained by the police for entering a zone that was closed off via an order signed by a general.

Officially speaking, this order refers to “Israelis,” yet it unequivocally addresses Jews. Arabs possessing an Israeli ID are allowed to enter Ramallah or Nablus as often as they want. Yet Jews are not allowed to do so. Isn’t that apartheid? And what’s the reason for the silence displayed by Breaking the Silence members in the face of ethnic discrimination against Jews?

And Jimmy Carter has the gall to accuse the Jews of being apartheidists? What about the Arabs indeed? No wonder there's been a movement for forming special Jewish marches through Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem lately, to show that we won't be prohibited from where we want to go in Israel.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, Israeli Arabs

Mark Steyn paid a visit to what's left of the Jewish community of Morrocco, which is likely to disappear entirely within another decade (via The Weekly Standard):

By 2005, there were fewer than 150 Jews in Tangiers, almost all of them very old. By 2015, it is estimated that there will be precisely none. Whenever I mention such statistics to people, the reaction is a shrug: why would Jews live in Morocco anyway? But in 1945 there were some 300,000 in this country. Today some 3,000 Jews remain—i.e., about one per cent of what was once a large and significant population. That would be an unusual demographic reconfiguration in most countries: imagine if Canada’s francophone population or Inuit population were today one per cent of what it was in 1945. But it’s not unusual for Jews. There are cemeteries like that on the rue du Portugal all over the world, places where once were Jews and now are none. I mentioned only last week that in the twenties, Baghdad was 40 per cent Jewish. But you could just as easily cite Czernowitz in the Bukovina, now part of Ukraine. “There is not a shop that has not a Jewish name painted above its windows,” wrote Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, visiting the city in 1937. Not today. As in Tangiers, the “community” resides in the cemetery.

Not that it's a country worth our living in, because Islam's right around the corner there, and just as Turkey is deteriorating, it's not impossible for Morocco to do the same one day. Either way, it is sad in a way that this is happening, because yes, the Jews of Morocco did have a rich, notable history in those north African lands.

Steyn also notes the hypocrisy regarding the flotilla case:

North Korea sinks a South Korean ship; hundreds of thousands of people die in the Sudan; millions die in the Congo. But 10 men die at the hands of Israeli commandos and it dominates the news day in, day out for weeks, with UN resolutions, international investigations, calls for boycotts, and every Western prime minister and foreign minister expected to rise in parliament and express the outrage of the international community.

Odd. But why?

Because Israel is supposed to be up for grabs in a way that the Congo, Sudan or even North Korea aren’t. Only the Jewish state attracts an intellectually respectable movement querying its very existence, and insisting that, after 62 years of independence, that issue is still not resolved. Let’s take a nation that came into existence at precisely the same time as the Zionist Entity, and involved far bloodier population displacements. I happen to think the creation of Pakistan was the greatest failure of postwar British imperial policy. But the fact is that Pakistan exists, and if I were to launch a movement of anti-Pakism it would get pretty short shrift, and in Canada a “human rights” complaint or three.

The “Palestinian question” is a land dispute, but not in the sense of a boundary-line argument between two Ontario farmers. Rather, it represents the coming together of two psychoses. Islam is a one-way street. Once you’re in the Dar al-Islam, that’s it; there’s no checkout desk. They take land, they hold it, forever.

That’s why, in his first post-9/11 message to the troops, Osama droned on about the fall of Andalusia: it’s been half a millennium, but he still hasn’t gotten over it, and so, a couple of years ago, when I was at the Pentagon being shown some of the maps found in al-Qaeda safe houses, “the new caliphate” had Spain and India being re-incorporated within the Muslim world. If that’s how you think, no wonder a tiny little sliver of a Jewish state smack dab in the heart of the Dar al-Islam drives you nuts: to accept Israel’s “right to exist” would be as unthinkable as accepting a re-Christianized Constantinople.

Someday, it has to be repopulated by Greek peoples, if anything (the original inhabitants were the Byzantine, but they were of a similar background).

Labels: Africa, islam, Israel, jihad, Spain, terrorism, war on terror

Kenneth Timmerman reports on Newsmax about a moonbat lobby in Washington DC, Fenton, that's behind some of the current anti-Israel rhetoric:

An American communications firm best known for shaping the liberal Moveon.org into a national movement has tackled a new project: orchestrating an international anti-Israel campaign aimed at breaking the blockade of the Gaza strip.

Fenton Communications, which has offices in Washington, D.C., New York, and San Francisco, signed two contracts last year with Qatar to develop “a communications action plan for an 18-month campaign” aimed at delegitimizing Israel and generating international support for the Hamas-run Gaza strip, documents filed with the Department of Justice show.

The campaign, known as the “Al Fakhoora Project,” has a very visible Web presence that boasts of rallying 10,000 activists “against the blockade on Gaza.”

Fenton signed the contracts, worth more than $390,000, with the Office of Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, the wife of the Qatari ruler, and a separate foundation she chairs. The contracts are ongoing, according to Fenton’s Foreign Agent registration forms.

U.S. diplomats in the region view the elegant sheikha as a “progressive” force in Qatar, who has partnered in the past with U.S. AID and other U.S. government agencies on projects involving education, women’s rights, and the arts.

Fenton’s Al Fakhoora project is cleverly disguised as a campaign to help students in Gaza in the pursuit of a better education.

Read the rest. All I can say is that this princess/sheikha who's behind this is a really big phony, and while I don't know just now if Qatar is as bad in dealing with women's rights as Dubai is, I highly doubt they're much better, making her "projects" a joke.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, jihad, terrorism, UAE, United States

PBS features a rare gem of sanity in the form of an article questioning why many journalists can't handle criticism of their work by the public. It brings to mind a moonbat journalist who often went by the screen pseudonym of "Sciurus Rex"; a most obnoxious, stupid leftist man indeed. Yet it would not surprise me one bit if, come a criticism of say, the New York Sun, FOX News, Michelle Malkin, or even Mark Steyn, and he'd be quite comfortable with that, because they don't represent his leftist views.

Such moonbats simply do not deserve to be in the line of work they're in.

Labels: Moonbattery, msm foulness

The former premier of Spain has defended Israel's right to self-defense in the Times of London. Since the article requires registration/login to view, you can read it at One Jerusalem, which has reprinted the article in whole.

Aznar is to be warmly applauded for having the courage to stand up for Israel at a time like this.

Labels: islam, Israel, jihad, Spain, terrorism, United States

Barry Rubin at the Gloria Center reports that the White House is only proving itself unreliable on the Iranian issue:

During the several months that the bills were wending their way through the House of Representatives and Senate, the White House refused requests for guidance by the congressional leadership on what the president wanted. Now, with Congress determined to have a single joint bill ready for passage before the summer adjournment, the White House is telling them to ease up on Iran.

In that case, Congress should not be seeking any guidance from the Oval Office at all. The only thing Obama's administration is doing is hindering their efforts in achieving justice.

Labels: iran, jihad, political corruption, terrorism, United States, US Congress, war on terror

The police in Israel have recommended indicting Ariel Sharon's sons Omri and Gilad on more charges:

The police have recommended that Ariel Sharon's sons, Gilad and ex-MK Omri, be indicted. One analyst says that if their father was healthy, he too would have been on the list.

Well we can only hope he would. He deserves to be tried for his crimes, but for more than 4 years now, his mind has perished, and his body has been kept on life support. Did it ever occur they're actually doing him a disservice by leaving his body as it is for so long?

Omri Sharon, a one-term Knesset Member who was instrumental in having the Knesset pass the various Disengagement laws, has already been in jail, serving most of a nine-month term for perjury and campaign funding violations.

The current charges have to do with Austrian tycoon and Sharon-family friend Martin Schlaff, whose indictment has also been recommended - though he is not expected to visit Israel anytime soon. Schlaff is suspected of giving the Sharons a $3 million bribe, including to Ariel Sharon himself.

[...]

Journalist Aryeh Avneri, chairman of the anti-corruption Ometz Movement, expressed his satisfaction to Arutz-7 that "the corruption of the Sharon family is finally coming to light."

The story originally broke in 2002, when it was learned that Sharon the father received a $1.5 million loan from South African businessman Cyril Kern – which was later found to have actually come from Schlaff. The additional $3 million was also from Schlaff, the police believe.

Casino at Center of Probe
Schlaff's interests in Israel were focused on the now-defunct casino in Jericho and a plan to open offshore casinos on boats docked in Eilat. The Jericho casino, built in 1998, brought in million of dollars in profits – mostly from the Israelis who made up 99% of the clientele – but was closed due to lack of customers when the Oslo War broke out in October 2000.

"We know that after the Jericho casino was closed," Avneri said, "Omri Sharon tried to convince various bodies to give approvals for a casino boat... There were many problems with the investigation because the Austrian government did not cooperate, but in the end we now see that the police have recommended an indictment."

What they did was a most astounding display of political crimes, and Omri Sharon didn't get a strong enough sentence. It's time to bring him to trial again for what he did, and ensure that he won't be leaving prison so soon.

Labels: Europe, Israel, political corruption

The pastor who was going to approve a secret deal to sell a church to the Muslim American Association has wisely withdrawn the sale (via Jihad Watch):

NEW YORK -- The Staten Island pastor who signed off on a controversial plan to sell a former convent to the Muslim American Society has changed his mind. St. Margaret Mary R.C. Church Pastor Keith Fennessy sent a letter to Archbishop Timothy Dolan saying "after careful reflection" he's withdrawn his support for the convent sale. He also asked the New York Archdiocese to stop the deal from going forward.

Archdiocese spokesman Joseph Zwilling said...the pastor did not have the power to veto the sale. But he said the sale was not final until all approvals were met.

What I want to know is why he did it secretly in the first place? Obviously, because he knew this would likely be met with opposition, and indeed it did. But then doesn't that put him in a very negative light as dishonest with the public? I'm glad he turned around, and now, he could do a lot more to show that he's willing to do his best to roll these things back.

Labels: Christianity, dhimmitude, islam, New York, United States

CNET reports that the Democrats are trying to do more damage, as much as possible before the November election, to the technology sphere (Hat tip: Moonbattery):

A new U.S. Senate bill would grant the president far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of or even shut down portions of the Internet.

The legislation announced [last] Thursday says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines, or software firms that the government selects "shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed" by the Department of Homeland Security. [...]

That emergency authority would allow the federal government to "preserve those networks and assets and our country and protect our people," Joe Lieberman, the primary sponsor of the measure and the chairman of the Homeland Security committee, told reporters.

Notice that Lieberman is the sponsor of this bill. He may have sided with Israel in dealing with its enemies, but that one positive quality doesn't make him worth supporting at all costs, any more than say, Charles Schumer. Fortunately, there is opposition:

TechAmerica, probably the largest U.S. technology lobby group, said it was concerned about "unintended consequences that would result from the legislation's regulatory approach" and "the potential for absolute power." And the Center for Democracy and Technology publicly worried that the Lieberman bill's emergency powers "include authority to shut down or limit Internet traffic on private systems."

I'm glad they're concerned, because this could get way out of hand indeed.

Labels: communications, political corruption, United States

Barry Rubin at the Gloria Center tells that the EU's foreign ministers have shown some partial sanity on the subject of both Gaza and Iran. But again, it's only partial sensibility they've shown.

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, iran, islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism, war on terror

Here's an article in the Bulletin where we learn one of Blago's aides has testified:

CHICAGO — A former Illinois government insider testified Thursday that then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich told him two years ago of an alleged deal under which a lawmaker would stop passage of an ethics bill if Blagojevich would appoint him to Barack Obama’s Senate seat.

Alonzo Monk, who was Blagojevich’s chief of staff for three years, said the governor was eager to stop the bill, which would have sharply limited his ability to raise campaign funds.

Monk testified at Blagojevich’s corruption trial that the governor told him in 2008 that state Senate President Emil Jones of Chicago had agreed to block the bill.

“Blagojevich told me that if Emil did not pass the bill and Obama became president, then Rod would name him to the seat,” Monk testified.

Asked if he took the matter seriously, Monk said, “Yes.”

I'm sure Obama's trying to deny any involvement in this scandal. But that doesn't mean it's not possible.

Labels: political corruption, United States

In Paris, a group wanted to hold a party with pork and wine to stand up to what they feel is encroaching Islam in the neighborhood, but French officials banned it (Hat tip: Sabrepoint).

I think this is a case for writing in to the town hall and making it clear that they have a right to hold a party if they want, and any violence Muslims might threaten is unacceptable.

More on this case here.

Update: the party is taking place now, but in a different location.

Labels: dhimmitude, France, islam

Rassmussen Reports (via Hot Air Headlines) finds that 66 percent of voters are angry at the press. If you're a shop owner, you could send an even clearer message by not welcoming those lowly reporters at your place. Seriously.

Labels: msm foulness, United States

Okay, so Paypal has wisely retreated from their warning that they'd terminate Pamela Geller's account (Hat tip: The Jawa Report). Nevertheless, as they couldn't or wouldn't provide an answer why she of all people got this warning, and not a site like Revolution Muslim, the ones who issued a threat against the South Park creators, she decided to cancel her account on her own terms nevertheless.

If they cannot provide any answers, which could actually help understand what the problems are, how can anyone with common sense trust them?

Still, as far as I know, Revolution Muslim's own Paypal button is now gone, so at least they did something right.

Update: she's raised the issue on Big Journalism too, and I learned that, as told by Patrick Richardson:

PJM made repeated requests for comment to PayPal which were not returned. In fact, we were given a non-working phone number as the number for a spokesperson.

It doesn't take much to guess that they clearly don't want to come clean and be clearer about where they stand.

Labels: islam, United States

Phillipe Karsenty, the media watchdog manager in France who exposed the Mohammed al-Durah hoax for what it was, a blood libel, has won another lawsuit against Canal Plus, who tried to defame him with a "documentary":

A French court has upheld a suit by journalist Phillipe Karsenty, ruling that a French documentary about him and the death of 12-year-old Muhammed Al-Dura in 2000 was defamatory and prejudiced.

There's a bit of an inaccuracy here: al-Durah didn't die in September 2000 at the Netzarim intersection in Gaza in the originally filmed propaganda itself. That said, we can't be sure if he's still alive now either; what if his own kin murdered him instead?

Karsenty, a French media commentator, has now been twice vindicated in his fight against the France-2 television station’s version of the boy’s death. Karsenty was sued for libel in 2004 by France 2 for saying that the film of Al-Dura’s death, which accused Israeli forces of killing him, was distorted and false. Though the case is now being heard by the French Supreme Court, the status quo is that in May 2008, the Paris Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s ruling against Karsenty from 2006.

In the weeks preceding the Paris Court of Appeals’ decision, an attempt was made to sway public opinion against Karsenty when private French television channel Canal + broadcast a documentary about the case. “The verdict found that the Canal + news documentary about the case was defamatory,” Karsenty wrote late last week, “and that the journalist who made it wasn't objective, even though he had access to all the necessary information to know the truth about the al Dura hoax.”

“Here are some statements that were made about me in the documentary,” Karsenty continued. “According to this film, I am - faking information, pressuring journalists to self-censor themselves, manipulating the information in order to promote extremist political views without any interest in the truth, using the internet to dupe, falsify facts and to serve a cause and promote a despicable ideology,” etc.

Though the original France 2 report claimed that Al-Dura was killed by Israeli gunfire, a subsequent investigation by Israel and additional footage showed the boy lifting his head, opening his eyes and lifting his arm after being pronounced dead. Though France 2’s Charles Enderlin said that these were was just the boy’s death throes, others said the boy was actually peeking at the camera in what was actually an elaborate ruse.

A shame that even now, the MSM in France is vengeful for his success in proving that atrocity a hoax (and lest we forget that Enderlin acted very thin-skinned about it later on). Make them pay a nice big chunk of money now, with which Karsenty could open his own private news channel.

Labels: anti-semitism, France, Israel, jihad, msm foulness, terrorism

Paypal is threatening to cut off Pamela Geller's account, accusing her of running a "hate site", yet they allow Revolution Muslim, the site that issued a veiled threat against the South Park creators to continue maintaining one on their site.

However, as I was reading Left Coast Rebel, I discovered a little something most surprising about the same story by one of the readers:

E-bay owns Paypal. Ebay's founder and CEO is Iranian; it's a publicly-held company and you'd think that an American company would uphold American principles but when its founder is likely Muslim...

Ebay also owns Skype and other businesses.

Really?!? If this is so, then I'm not sure they're worth supporting at all. No joke.

See also at Reaganite Republican Resistance.

Update: in semi-related news, Caroline Glick talks about how YouTube censored her Latma video (via One Jerusalem). It makes me wonder then: why are some people still even bothering to use their services?

You can see it at Hot Air. And read some of the following info from Ed Driscoll. I don't suppose anyone's ever thought to be critical of Time-Warner for being a dhimmi in their own way?

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, United States

Israel National News reports that the Israeli government has appointed one judge and approved of two international observers to investigate the Gaza flotilla monstrosity.

Via One Jerusalem.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, jihad, terrorism, turkey, war on terror

Newsbusters presents some very surprising news about rabbi David Nesenoff, who exposed Helen Thomas's anti-semitism: he's actually a liberal who agreed with her (initially, anyway) on the Iraq war, and now has to reevaluate his views:

NESENOFF: Yeah, you know, I received about 25,000 hate mail, you know, emails, and, more shocking than even that, is the hate media I’m beginning to learn about – you know, from TV and newspapers and blogs and talk shows and entertainers, and they’re accusing me of being some right-wing ambusher, and it really rocked my world because I have to reevaluate my life and my standing in the agendas because, yeah, I’m a New York Democrat Jewish liberal supporter of Obama, donated to his candidacy for a year, said give him a chance, give him a chance, defended, watched all these liberal media, and now I have to reevaluate, I have to speak, I have to now speak to people with all different agendas because if I was part of a team where their agenda was that Israel and the Jewish people don’t have a connection – which is exactly what Helen Thomas said – there’s no connection, why are they even there-

Some call this a case of liberals eating their own, and indeed, there have been quite a few cases like that over the years (The New Republic, which is liberal, could be one of those they've eaten).

I'm glad to see he understands why he'll need to reconsider his standings. This is another case where a liberal might be waking up.

Labels: anti-semitism, Iraq, United States

Mark Steyn looks at the left's strange dislike of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, this completely despite how she's supported those groups you'd think they supported too.

Via Hot Air Headlines.

Labels: islam, misogyny, Moonbattery

From the Yeshiva World, we learn that four professors, 3 from Bar-Ilan U. and 1 from Georgetown U. have sent a letter to the prime minister's office asking them to do the right thing and recognize the Armenian Holocaust:

Signing the letter are Professors Yossi Katz, David Tzuriel, and Yaakov Katz, all from Bar Ilan and Dr. Ofir Yisraeli from Georgetown.

The academics feel that over the years, Israel has refrained from addressing the slaughter of Armenians during World War I and immediately thereafter, opting to place strategic ties with Turkey over doing the correct thing, but now, Israel can indeed adopt a morally commendable position towards compelling Turkey to accept responsibility for its actions.

I read in Yisrael HaYom's June 11, 2010 edition that for many years, the Israeli government actively sought to avoid "offending" Turkey, all for the sake of trade deals involving arms manufacturing and tourism. This includes not raising the subject as a school-based history lesson, and not only that, most bewildering enough, it seems that some even thought it would "belittle" the subject of the Jewish people's own tragedy during WW2! Excuse me? Where's the logic in that?

Discovering this, I can't even begin to describe how embarrassing and shameful this is. Even Shimon Peres was one of these politicians who circled around the issue. And I think it's time not only to change this, but also to apologize, for how previous governments dealt with the issue. By the logic they went by in past years, one could say that even the massacres and genocides of certain black peoples of Africa cannot be discussed out of fear of "offending" Islam in Sudan.

We must maintain the integrity of the historical record.

Labels: anti-semitism, Armenia, Israel, political corruption, racism, turkey

The Weekly Standard has reported they've discovered senoir Obama administration officials have been telling foreign governments they intend to support an effort next week to set up an "investigation" into Israel's behavior in the flotilla incident. No surprise, really, but definitely dismaying.

Update: more about this subject on Hot Air's Green Room.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, jihad, political corruption, terrorism, turkey, UN corruption, United States

The Israeli government's investigation into what was on the Mavi Marmara itself has found that there was no humanitarian aid on board. Specifically:

The equipment does not constitute humanitarian aid in the accepted sense (basic foodstuffs, new and functional equipment, fresh medicines).

I guess they forgot it back at the port in Turkey, right?

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism, turkey, war on terror

The parliamental elections in Holland have taken place, and Geert Wilders' party has made some of the most significant gains:

Dutch populist Geert Wilders yesterday stunned the Netherlands by coming third in general elections – a historic vote that could see him enter a coalition government.

Best known for his strident attacks on Islam, Mr Wilders' electoral triumph sent shock waves through the country's large immigrant communities and sounded the death knell for the image of the Netherlands as a bastion of tolerance.

The shock-factor was all the greater as the peroxide-haired politician had appeared sidelined during the election campaign, as the mainstream parties focused on how to deal with the nation's economic woes and immigration slipped down the political agenda.

Yet Mr Wilders made the strongest gains in Wednesday's election, doubling the number of seats for his Freedom Party to 24. The pro-business VDD party – which Mr Wilders left to set up on his own – won 31 of the 150 seats up for grabs, pipping the Labour Party of former Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen by a single seat in the narrowest ever electoral victory.

"The impossible has come true," a triumphant Mr Wilders said, noting that 1.5 million people had chosen his party's "optimistic" platform. "More security, less crime, less immigration, less Islam – that is what the Netherlands has chosen."

And those Islamists in Holland who are "terrified" at this result can go on back to where they came from if they don't want to cooperate and respect western values and laws. I congratulate Wilders on his party's victory, and hope this'll help turn things around for Holland. and Europe.

Labels: Europe, islam, Netherlands

Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana has done the right thing by warning Turkey that America will stand with Israel. He's also ideally asked Obama whose side he's on, following his pledge of $400 million to the "palestinian territories", which can only be called a terrorist stimulus package. As the following report from Palestinian Media Watch (via Jihad Watch) tells, Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah have a long list of inciteful actions which Abbas blatantly denied when he visited the White House recently, where he continued to lie about what his gang does.

Pence is right, this is a very serious problem. Why doesn't Obama just come out and admit honestly where he stands?

See also what John Hinderaker has to say about the Abbas farce on Power Line.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, terrorism, turkey, United States, US Congress

It's a shame this is happening, but there you have it, another case of a brave patriot getting threats and hate e-mails in exchange for doing something right. Newsbusters and Hot Air Pundit have more.

Labels: anti-semitism, United States

Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs direct attention to the mysterious sale of a Roman Catholic convent to the Muslim American Society, the Muslim Brotherhood's main arm of operations in the US.

Whoever the would-be church representatives were who were behind this sellout, it's clear to me that they were part of the religious left.

Labels: Christianity, dhimmitude, islam, New York, United States

Phyllis Chesler found the notorious professor Tony Judt mouthing hostility to Israel in the NY Times, and at the end of his op-ed, demanding that the US sever its ties with Israel. Chesler also notes an important thing about Judt:

Many will say: Judt himself is Jewish, thus his piece cannot be anti-Semitic.

Oh yes it can. If women can be sexists and we are, we are; we have internalized sexist values just as men have—read my book Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman to understand the phenomenon; if dark-skinned people can be racists and they can be; they, too have internalized preferences either for light-skinned or for dark-skinned people; then surely, Jews, an imperfect “perfect” people can internalize anti-Semitism/Judeophobia.

Just last night in New York City, a Jewish man, Brooklyn-born Adam Shapiro, who is the founder of Free Gaza and the co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement—the very man who, in 2002, stayed with Arafat in Ramallah when he was under seige, spoke in favor of the Turkish “Free Gaza” Flotilla movement; no, he did not factor in the Turkish terrorist mercenaries on board who planned to—and who did—violently and viciously attack the Israeli soldiers. Why would he? Shapiro favors a “violent resistance” to Israel and has written that the demolition of Palestinian homes and the closure of offices servicing Palestinians reminds him of Kristallnacht.

And today, I’ve just read that German Jews (yes, you’ve read that correctly) will be funding a flotilla-like ride to Gaza as well in order to break the Israeli blockade. The German Jews believe that Israel is withholding “candy and children’s food” from Palestinian children.

Well there you have it, if women can be inhuman to one another, and if dark-skinned people can be just as racist as light-skinned, than so too can Jews be bigoted against each other.

I too have found something most troubling, and it comes in the form of Conrad Black, who recently wrote a piece supporting division of Israel, in the New York Sun, alarmingly enough. (It was first published in the National Post in Canada, but still...) The headline asks "should Turkey be expelled from NATO?" but the effectiveness stops there with a screeching halt. First, he blows it by saying:

We have the Europeans to thank for driving Turkey back into Asia with racial and religious slurs resonating in its ears, and the 90-year legacy of Kemalist secularism and western emulation in tatters. But this too is an opportunity. If Ankara goes cock-a-hoop for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood, we should close up support for Egypt and other states on the firing line with the Turks’ new proteges, and Turkey should be expelled from NATO and its citizens barred from migrating into the European Union.

Okay, what's going on here? I'm afraid he's just implied that the Europeans victimized the Turks and turned them to evil by supposedly being racist to them, not the other way around. And I guess that's the same summary with many other Muslims in Europe, right? As a result, the impact of arguing that Turkey should be expelled from NATO - which is correct - is sadly nullified.

And here's more where Black bombs:

Several weeks ago in the National Post, several writers including me were asked to outline an Israeli-Arab settlement. The key points I mentioned were the right of Palestinian return to the West Bank, a wider Israel along the Mediterranean than in 1967 and a deeper Gaza, with adjoining Jerusalems, and a special regime for the holy places of all faiths in both Israel and Palestine. Tactically, the West Bank should be assisted into prosperity and statehood as long as it accepts the legitimacy of Israel, and Gaza should be economically strangled as long as it does not. And crypto-terrorist, meddling poseurs such as this Turkish flotilla cannot be tolerated.

Okay, what's going on here too? Pay careful attention here, but Black is advocating the division of Jerusalem, and perpetuating the myth of "palestine". And, he's even legitimizing Fatah with the statehood bit. Just what is Black trying to prove here? Moral equations, maybe? No wonder he's just drowned out my ability to appreciate what he says about the Turkish flotilla.

If people like Black are going to legitimize propaganda and even separate between Fatah and Hamas when in truth, there are no genuine differences, then they are only making themselves look stupid and disgraceful. If that's how it's going to be, then Black is no friend of Israel's any more than Professor Judt.

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, islam, Israel, Jerusalem, Moonbattery, msm foulness, RINOs, terrorism, turkey, United States

There's some bad news and good news about Hungary. Let's start with the bad, which comes in the form of Jobbik, described as a "far-right" political party here, which tragically won considerable spots in the Hungarian parliament:

The neo-fascist, specifically anti-Semitic movement was created seven years ago. At that time, Catholic and Protestant history professors and their students at two universities – Hungary's venerable Eotvos Lorand, and the private, Calvinist Karoli Gaspar – gathered to create from the right-wing Fidesz party a new, even more nationalist framework.

The party is also known to be pro-Palestinian Authority. “The Movement for a Better Hungary has always been primarily sympathetic to the Palestinian cause,” Jobbik states on its website. “As Hungarian nationalists, we can sympathize more readily with a people who have had their land taken away from them, in order to form a new country.”

Jobbik parliamentarian Marton Gyongyosi heavily criticized Israel for its interception of the recent attempt by a Turkish-sent six-ship flotilla to break the blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza. The far-right lawmaker said Israel's actions should be viewed as an attack against one of Hungary's NATO allies that “calls for Hungary's support on the side of Turkey.”

[...]

Particularly disturbing is a study conducted by Hungarian sociologist Maria Vasarhelyi that found fully one-third of the country's history majors are anti-Semitic. Fifteen percent of students take racist positions, she writes, 35 percent believe that Gypsies are criminal due to their genetic coding and 60 percent said that the Gypsies themselves are responsible for the prejudice.

So let me get this straight. Why is this party being called "far-right" when I'd say they're far-left? Their claim to be "nationalist" is decidedly bogus too. The real word for them would be fascist, the antithesis of nationalist. (This actually suggests a problem with the article - it takes the whole far-right term for granted.)

Now for the good, coming in the form of a city in Hungary called Nyireghyhaza that supports Israel against the flotilla propaganda:

As Israel continues to be lambasted in the international arena, a small voice of support was heard out of Hungary on Tuesday.

A delegation of public officials from the Hungarian city of Nyireghyhaza ("Birch Church") arrived in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Motzkin on June 8. Nyireghyhaza and Kiryat Motzkin are sister cities. As part of the Hungarian's reception, Deputy Mayor of Nyireghyhaza Laszlo Nagy presented Kiryat Motzkin Mayor Haim Tzuri with a petition signed by over 500 Hungarians in support of Israel's fight against terrorism.

The petition stated: "We, the citizens of Nyiregyhaza, assure our brother city of Kiryat Motzkin and the State of Israel of our support. We consider the breaking of the naval blockade of Gaza as a provocation and we proclaim that Israel, like all other recognized states, had, has and will have the right to protect itself and the lives and security of its citizens."

After the petition was read, Deputy Mayor Nagy spoke. "The Israeli action against the flotilla was justified," he asserted. "It was done in order to prevent an attack on the sovereignty of the State of Israel and we should all understand the importance of this."

I'm glad to find some sanity in Hungary. But what to do about Jobbik and the demonic influence they have, particularly in the academic arena? This is a case of prejudice sanctioned at university grounds by the far left, and the religious left, in Europe, and requires serious concern. Maybe that's why the city spoken of here could be a help in combatting Jobbik's influence?

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, jihad, political corruption, racism

Mark Steyn makes a point about how many anti-semites are also anti-American, and about Turkey's return to evil of Islam:

Foreign policy “realists,” back in the saddle since the Texan cowboy left town, are extremely fond of the concept of “stability”: America needs a stable Middle East, so we should learn to live with Mubarak and the mullahs and the House of Saud, etc. You can see the appeal of “stability” to your big-time geopolitical analyst: You don’t have to update your Rolodex too often, never mind rethink your assumptions. “Stability” is a fancy term to upgrade inertia and complacency into strategy. No wonder the fetishization of stability is one of the most stable features of foreign-policy analysis.

Unfortunately, back in what passes for the real world, there is no stability. History is always on the march, and, if it’s not moving in your direction, it’s generally moving in the other fellow’s. Take this “humanitarian” “aid” flotilla. Much of what went on — the dissembling of the Palestinian propagandists, the hysteria of the U.N. and the Euro-ninnies — was just business as usual. But what was most striking was the behavior of the Turks. In the wake of the Israeli raid, Ankara promised to provide Turkish naval protection for the next “aid” convoy to Gaza. This would be, in effect, an act of war — more to the point, an act of war by a NATO member against the State of Israel.

Ten years ago, Turkey’s behavior would have been unthinkable. Ankara was Israel’s best friend in a region where every other neighbor wishes, to one degree or another, the Jewish state’s destruction. Even when Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP was elected to power eight years ago, the experts assured us there was no need to worry. I remember sitting in a plush bar late one night with a former Turkish foreign minister, who told me, in between passing round the cigars and chugging back the Scotch, that, yes, the new crowd weren’t quite so convivial in the wee small hours but, other than that, they knew where their interests lay. Like many Turkish movers and shakers of his generation, my drinking companion loved the Israelis. “They’re tough hombres,” he said admiringly. “You have to be in this part of the world.” If you had suggested to him that in six years’ time the Turkish prime minister would be telling the Israeli president to his face that “I know well how you kill children on beaches,” he would have dismissed it as a fantasy concoction for some alternative universe.

Yet it happened. Erdogan said those words to Shimon Peres at Davos last year and then flounced off stage. Day by day what was formerly the Zionist entity’s staunchest pal talks more and more like just another cookie-cutter death-to-the-Great-Satan stan-of-the-month.

I think we should consider that, if the Religion of Peace still rules Turkey, that's why their return to Islamofascism is likely. In fact, that's sadly what'll likely be the case with Iraq if Islam continues to reign supreme there. I may have said it before, I'll say it again: you don't uproot the leading problem, you can't expect all your hard work to pay off. Sooner or later, it collapses, because Islam and socialism, as is the problem with Russia's form of thinking, were not genuinely opposed.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, islam, Israel, jihad, Russia, terrorism, turkey

The crummy news syndicate has once again been doctoring photos of the flotilla case to conceal the real truths. More at Hot Air and Yid With Lid.

Update: Big Journalism has more.

Labels: islam, Israel, jihad, msm foulness, terrorism, turkey, war on terror

William Shawcross writes in the Jerusalem Post (via Melanie Phillips) about the anti-Israel hatred that's been flooding over the world, both Islamic and western, following the flotilla monstrosity where the boaters, as noted, even yelled "shut up, go back to Auschwitz" at the IDF:

It is not surprising that such racist loathing creates a siege mentality in Israel. Worse is the fact that Israelis know it’s not just ‘the black Islamic banners’ with which they have to contend, but also the irrational hatred of much of the rest of the world.

The realities of Gaza, Israel and the West Bank – where, with Israel’s assistance, the Palestinian economy is booming – are deemed irrelevant to the conventional narrative. Israel is a cartoon villain, beyond sympathy, beyond even redemption.

What is deeply shocking – and frightening – is that the narrative the world accepts is always that of Israel the evildoer... The hatred that Israel arouses is absurd, even obscene... The Muslim world and the Western Left are in an unholy alliance; they do not want to improve the Jewish state, they want to remove it.

Fortunately, there are a few voices of sanity on the left, even in Spain, where anti-semitism is rampant. Pilar Rahola gave an impassioned speech a couple months ago denouncing her fellow leftists for their promotion of such hatred:

Why don’t we see demonstrations against Islamic dictatorships in London, Paris, Barcelona? Or demonstrations against the Burmese dictatorship? Why aren’t there demonstrations against the enslavement of millions of women who live without any legal protection? Why aren’t there demonstrations against the use of children as human bombs where there is conflict with Islam? Why has there been no leadership in support of the victims of Islamic dictatorship in Sudan? Why is there never any outrage against the acts of terrorism committed against Israel? Why is there no outcry by the European left against Islamic fanaticism? Why don’t they defend Israel’s right to exist? Why confuse support of the Palestinian cause with the defense of Palestinian terrorism? An finally, the million dollar question: Why is the left in Europe and around the world obsessed with the two most solid democracies, the United States and Israel, and not with the worst dictatorships on the planet?

The international press does major damage when reporting on the question of the Israeli-Palestinian issue. On this topic they don’t inform, they propagandize. When reporting about Israel the majority of journalists forget the reporter code of ethics. And so, any Israeli act of self-defense becomes a massacre, and any confrontation, genocide. So many stupid things have been written about Israel, that there aren’t any accusations left to level against her. At the same time, this press never discusses Syrian and Iranian interference in propagating violence against Israel; the indoctrination of children and the corruption of the Palestinians. And when reporting about victims, every Palestinian casualty is reported as tragedy and every Israeli victim is camouflaged, hidden or reported about with disdain.

And those are very important points.

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, islam, Israel, misogyny, Spain

It's not just Malmo that's got this problem. In the Stockholm neighborhood of Rinkeby (via Jihad Watch):

Rioting was reported in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby on Tuesday night as 50-60 youths pelted police with stones and set alight to a building.

"It is a war zone out here, it is raining stones", said one witness who wished to remain anonymous to the Metro daily.

According to another witness a bus trying to enter the deprived area was forced to stop.

"Not a single window on the bus was intact," an eye witness said.

Police were given an indication that something was afoot earlier in the evening as youths gathered on the streets equipping themselves with paving stones.

"They did all they could to attract our attention," said Mats Brännlund at Stockholm police.

But police decided to react first when a building housing a mentor programme for young people in the area, burst into flames.

"We had to help the emergency services to get through," Brännlund said.

In total around 20 police patrols with dogs were present in the area throughout the night as they tried to restore calm. Police vehicles were also subject to stone throwing.

Worth noting besides this is the startling PC-madness that overrules Sweden's own press; that's why they won't mention who it is who's causing the riots.

Labels: islam, Scandanavia

I'd seen the news about Brazil collaborating with Iran and Turkey, and even North Korea, and here's an article in the Asia Times by Bertil Lintner, an expert on southeast Asia (via One Free Korea), giving more details:

Recent indications are that Pyongyang has sought willing trade partners outside of Asia and its new closest commercial ally appears to be Brazil. Relations between the two countries have warmed considerably since leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva became president in January 2003.

The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported in October 2004 that North Korea planned to open an embassy in Brasilia, its fourth in the Latin and South American region after Havana, Cuba, Lima, Peru and Mexico City. On May 23, 2006, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and the Brazilian media reported that the two countries had signed a trade agreement.

More recently, the KCNA reported last December that a “protocol on the amendment to the trade agreement” had been signed in the capital Pyongyang. “Present at the signing ceremony from the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea] side were Ri Ryong Nam, minister of foreign trade, and officials concerned and from the Brazilian side Arnaldo Carrilho, Brazilian ambassador to the DPRK, and embassy officials,” according to the news report.

China’s role in facilitating trade between Brazil and North Korea remains a matter of conjecture, but it is significant that the state mouthpiece Xinhua has eagerly reported on the warming of relations between the two countries. China remains Pyongyang’s most important base for all kinds of foreign trade - legitimate as well as more convoluted business transactions through front companies in Beijing and elsewhere.

Brazil doesn't exactly have the same kind of civil rights afforded the United States, and that could tell why they're following in the footsteps of disaster. They may be a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

This Front Page Mag article also mentions the Iran-Brazil relations.

Labels: Asia, China, iran, Latin America, political corruption, terrorism, turkey

Another case I'm belatedly noting, two Muslims were arrested at JFK airport as they were attempting to travel to Somalia to participate in jihad abroad:

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. – Two New Jersey men who envisioned a terrorist attack in the U.S. with a body count twice that of the Fort Hood massacre were arrested at a gate at New York’s Kennedy Airport as they were about to board flights on their way to Somalia to seek terrorist training from al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists, officials said.

Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 26, were arrested Saturday before they could board separate flights to Egypt and then continue on to Somalia, federal officials in New Jersey and the New York Police Department said.

Law enforcement became aware of the men in the fall of 2006 after receiving a tip. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said they had traveled to Jordan in 2007 and tried to get into Iraq, but were turned back by their would-be recruiters.

Since then, a New York undercover officer recorded conversations with the men in which they spoke about jihad against Americans.

“I leave this time. God willing, I never come back,” authorities say Alessa told the officer. “Only way I would come back here is if I was in the land of jihad and the leader ordered me to come back here and do something here. Ah, I love that.”

Alessa also was allegedly recorded telling Almonte that he would outdo Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, last year.

It's possible that both of them are converts, and they're certainly both dangerous. Here's more at the NY Post (via The Jawa Report).

Labels: anti-americanism, islam, jihad, Somalia, terrorism, United States, war on terror

Whew. Her offensive remarks drew so much fire she took responsibility and retired from her job:

Veteran American journalist Helen Thomas, the former dean of the White House press corps, has retired from her job as a columnist for the Hearst News Service. Her retirement followed shortly on the heels of an interview in which she told Rabbi David Nesenoff that Israeli Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go back” to Germany and Poland.

The May 27th interview spread widely online, and earned Thomas criticism from the White House press secretary and the White House Correspondents Association.

Press secretary Robert Gibbs called Thomas's remarks “offensive and reprehensible.” The Correspondents Association termed the interview “indefensible,” and “unfortunate.”

Thomas expressed regret for her comments, and said they “do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance.”

I think what's really sad about her statements is that she's not willing to acknowledge that the "palestinians" will not recognize anything unless they abandon Islamofascism. Her announcement is superficial at best.

One more thing: it may not have been mentioned before, but she's of Lebanese descent, which could shed some light on why she first made those statements.

Update: Obama's reaction to Thomas was fairly disappointing, IMO. According to this:

Controversial comments made by the dean of the White House press corps, Helen Thomas, were "offensive," but at the same time she had a remarkable career, President Barack Obama said Tuesday.

Oh please. Her career was nothing much, really.

Others on the subject include Yourish, The Anchoress, Sister Toldjah, Maggie's Notebook, Cassy Fiano.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, political corruption, terrorism, United States