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What can you expect when Islamofascism is still prevalent? Well, as this confirms, Egypt can still be dangerous:

Documents revealed by Wikileaks show that Egypt continues to see Israel as its primary military threat despite a decades-old peace treaty. Egypt and Israel fought against each other in four wars before signing the treaty in 1979.

United States diplomats have been frustrated as Egyptian leaders focus on being prepared for war with Israel while ignoring threats such as terrorism and weapons smuggling. [...]

While America pressures Egypt to update its tactics, Egypt requests a boost in military funding, apparently in hopes of buying advanced weapons and achieving military parity with Israel. Other leaked files reported that Egyptian officials are pushing for more than the $1.3 billion in annual military aid that Egypt currently receives from the U.S.

And when that dark day comes where Egypt decides to go to war against Israel anew, I sadly figure it'll be much worse than it was during the Yom Kippur War.

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

Mediaite reports about Frank Gaffney's recent appearance on FOX News with Eric Bolling interviewing, and said he was let down by everyone in the press, including FOX, for underestimating the threat of stealth jihad.

He's right to make sure FOX doesn't escape a drubbing either: of course even they're not saints, and even they've done what to disappoint from a conservative POV.

His leading statement was:

Guys like Feisal Abdul Rauf who are prime practitioners of this stealth jihad tend to get a pass or worse yet are sometimes lionized as moderate Muslims who are the opponents of this Jihadism when in fact they are simply prosecuting it by different means. . . . A mosque that is used to promote a seditious program, which is what Sharia is . . . that is not a protected religious practice, that is in fact sedition.

I wouldn't be surprised if a mosque that's said to be a few blocks away from where this one is planned could be the same, which is why even that mustn't be overlooked.

Labels: communications, dhimmitude, islam, jihad, Moonbattery, msm foulness, New York, terrorism, United States

An amazing discovery: Christine Brim reports that Saudi oil production is in decline. And so long as they continue with their shari'a enforcement, they've asked for it. Free western countries shouldn't be getting oil from them either until they abandon their primitive, backward barbarism.

Labels: House of Saud, islam

Israel Today discovered a new movie set for release called "Miral" which, while it may not be the first hostile to Israel movie released in mainstream (for all I know, the Little Drummer Girl might've preceded it), it's certainly unfortunate that it may get that kind of distribution:

Scheduled for a March 2011 release, the new feature film “Miral” follows the turbulent life of a young Palestinian Arab girl who becomes involved in terrorism against Israel. It unabashedly demands sympathy for this girl and other Palestinian terrorists in their battle with a Jewish state that is portrayed as arbitrarily cruel and barbaric.

There is little surprise there, since the film is an adaptation of a book written by director Julian Schnabel’s new Palestinian Arab girlfriend, Rula Jabreal. In a series of interviews following screening of “Miral” at the Toronto and Venice film festivals, Schnabel, who is Jewish, acknowledged that it was not the film’s intent to give a comprehensive background to the conflict or present a “balanced” view.

Further evidence that the film is, as Schnable himself hinted, aimed at promoting the Palestinian narrative of the conflict is the fact that Vanessa Redgrave is given a cameo. Redgrave is famous for denouncing the “Zionist hoodlums” during a 1978 Academy Awards acceptance speech. Despite Redgrave’s minor role, her presence in the film is being used as part of the marketing campaign.

Ugh. Redgrave - even in a cameo - is enough to discourage me from wasting time. Fortunately, the following writer for the National Post has understood why this is bad news. And not only that, he tells who is producing this junk:

Miral, the film he brought to the Toronto International Film Festival this week, scheduled for theatrical release in December by the Weinstein Company, is a piece of blatant propaganda that does all it can to denigrate Israel and arouse sympathy for radical Palestinians. It’s a chronicle of history without a trace of fairness: All Israelis are brutes; almost all Palestinians are angels and victims.

Besides informing about the anti-Israeli bent, he tells that Bob and Harvey Weinstein are the company behind this. What's wrong with them? Well, in 1998, they produced a movie called A Price Above Rubies, which was very hostile to Hasidic Jews, depicting males within the community as possessive, biased, among other absurd and insulting screeds. I remember that even Ed Koch, NYC's former mayor, disliked the movie. If the Weinsteins were going to associate themselves with that kind of badness, it isn't too surprising this time round, and only makes me lose all the more respect for them, as it does for Schnabel. Miramax, in retrospect, was no biggie as a studio, and I don't feel sorry for them for losing it. While as for their new company, I think it's best left unaided.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, jihad, Moonbattery, showbiz, terrorism

Today, former Israeli president Moshe Katsav was convicted on at least 2 counts of rape (the initial charge against him that he attacked a woman only known as "A" was dropped).

Following this, you know what? I'm not sure if I should care, really. Because back in 2005, Katsav turned dhimmi, and told expellees of Gush Katif on television to just accept their exile. He could and should have stayed out of the whole mess Ariel Sharon caused. Maybe this is God's punishment to Katsav for doing something he could've avoided?

You decide.

Benjamin Netanyhu said that this verdict sends a message that women have full rights over their own bodies. Yes indeed.

Labels: Israel

Pamela Geller wrote at The American Thinker about how ICANN has changed its directorial board to include members of Arab/Islamic countries, and this signal that the internet may be at a critical stage in development, especially for free speech in combatting Islamofascism:

It was hardly noticed at the time, but its consequences could be catastrophic. Late last September, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which assigns internet domain names, approved a huge change in the way it operates. Europe and North America will now have five seats on its Board of Directors, instead of ten, and a new "Arab States" region will have five seats as well.

How big a deal is this? ICANN at the same time took a reference to "terrorism" out of its Draft Applicant Guidebook. Why? Because Arab groups complained. And so now jihad terror websites can grow and prosper, as ICANN has removed its own ability to police them.

This has been a long time coming.

Back in October 2009, I warned of a seismic transformation in internet regulation and free speech. Under the transnational-happy Obama administration, the U.S. relinquished control of the net at that time. ICANN ended its agreement with the U.S. government.

If not America, who? Now we know the answer to that. The new agreement gave other countries (including dictatorships and rogue nations) and the U.N. the ability to set internet use policies. At the time, I wrote, "[W]atch for Sharia law to find its way into this."

Well, that didn't take long. The ICANN action in September gave the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) and other unfriendly nations a prominent internet role -- something they never could get during the administration of George W. Bush.

Read it all. This is exactly why everyone concerned needs to take notice, and do their best to prevent what could be a takeover by shari'a from happening online. Otherwise, the Net could be destroyed by Islamofascism.

Update: here's more on the FCC issue at Hot Air and Big Government.

Labels: communications, dhimmitude, islam, terrorism, UN corruption, United States

The same contributor to the Breitbart network who fell for a Ynet distortion when rabbis called not to sell homes to Arabs/Muslims (the de-contexting claim was that they said not to rent) has fallen for another one, and practically run the gauntlet of being offensive to women by implying that the wives of the rabbis are "racist" because they signed a letter in turn not to date/marry Arab men. The Ynet article says:

After the rabbis’ letter called on Jews not to rent apartments to Arabs comes their wives’ turn: Twenty-seven prominent rabbis’ wives signed a letter distributed by the ‘Lehava’ organization calling on Jewish women not to date Arabs, work in places where Arabs are employed or volunteer for National Service with them.[...]

The letter stated that “there are quite a few Arab workers who use Hebrew names. Yusuf becomes Yossi, Samir becomes Sami and Abed becomes Ami. They seek your proximity, try to appeal to you and give you all the attention you could ask for, they actually know how be polite and act making you believe they really care…but their behavior is only temporary.

“As soon as they have in you in their grasp, in their village, under their complete control – everything becomes different. Your life will never be the same, and the attention you sought will be replaced with curses, physical abuse and humiliation.”

The letter further stated, “Your grandmothers never dreamed that one of their decedents would, by one act, remove future generations from the Jewish people. For you, for future generations, and so that you will never have to endure the terrible suffering, we appeal to you, begging, pleading, praying: Don’t date them, don’t work where they work and don’t perform National Service with them.”

Doesn't that third paragraph, if you realize what Islamisogyny is like, tell why they've voiced their concern, and are trying to send a message to help with a woman's safety? Schweizer says, "Those behind it insist that it isn’t about racism but about protecting the Jewish faith. Really? Doesn’t sound like that when you read the letter." This is a most reprehensible man. Not only has he made a joke out of practically everyone's efforts to combat Islamofascism, he's even implying he sees nothing wrong with an effort to protect Jewish women from harm at the hands of Islam, and maybe that he's even worse than Charles Krauthammer is when it comes to Israel. If Schweizer is as bad as I now suspect, he shouldn't even be working at the Breitbart network, and I'd recommend canning him immediately.

Update: this article about the subject reveals something very disturbing that's taken place in Ashkelon:

Glam went on to point out what he said was a new phenomenon, which manifests itself on Fridays on the cities' beaches and in certain neighborhoods. Arab construction workers who rent apartments in Ashkelon or are given apartments to live in by the contractors "bring girls aged as young as 12 into town and 'go out on the town' with them at parties that include, among other things, the serving of alcohol to girls."

So now we can understand what the earlier letter was about if it involved rental issues.Is this not reason why to advise women to look out for their safety? Add to that how pedophilia may have been committed, and curiously enough, even alcohol, usually considered unworthy in Muslim society, has yet found its way into this whole affair.

Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, islam, Israel, misogyny

It looks like efforts to prevent sale of much of the Nof Zion project to a PLO sympathiser - who's also using Ariel Sharon's former crony Dov Weissglass as his assistant - are paying off. The latest news:

The threatened Arab takeover of a Jewish neighborhood along the seam-line in Jerusalem may have been averted. The Digal Investments and Holdings company informed the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that it received, on Sunday, another proposal to buy all its land holdings in the Nof Zion project in Jerusalem, as well as other holdings.

The identity of the buyer is not known, other than that he is Jewish – as opposed to the man whose offer has been under consideration until now, Arab-American Bashar Al-Masri.

The offer, if it goes through, will help Digal pay off its debts to Bank Leumi – and Digal has said that it will then be able to raise the money for its approximately 50 million shekels’ worth of debts to its bondholders.

There's more information here. We have to hope the bank will accept this very good offer from a Jewish source and make the right decision.

Update: One Jerusalem has more. And here's an article in the Jerusalem Post.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, Israel, terrorism

As this New York Post article tells, mayor Michael Bloomberg and his office staff, now rightfully looked upon in disgrace by many Americans, wrongfully used his standing to help the reprehensible imam Feisal Rauf to gain city approval for the mosque he wants to build at Ground Zero (via Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs):

Dozens of e-mails between Mayor Bloomberg's aides and developers of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero reveal a cordial, if not downright cozy, relationship and the length to which a top city staffer went to help the project -- even drafting a letter for the group soliciting support from the community board, and providing the fax number to send it.

In one exchange, Community Affairs Commissioner Nazli Parvizi penned the draft of a letter to be sent by Daisy Khan, a key sponsor of the project known alternately as Cordoba House or Park51, to the chairperson of Community Board 1, Julie Menin, as the panel prepared to vote on its recommendation on the project.

The letter drafted by Parvizi thanked Menin for being open-minded about the plan for a mosque and cultural center -- which by then had become a flashpoint issue around the nation.

Parvizi e-mailed the draft to Khan and her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf -- ending with the salutation, "Best, Daisy," indicating that she actually was preparing Khan's letter to a city agency.

She also included the fax number and mailing address for CB1 -- which ultimately voted in favor of the project in May -- and offered further assistance.[...]

Opponents of the plan were furious.

"The mayor was touting, ironically, government not being involved in religion, and here you have the mayor's staffer assisting in a public-relations campaign on behalf of a mosque and Islamic center," said Debra Burlingame, whose brother was a pilot of one of the hijacked planes on 9/11.

"I think this is highly improper."

So do I. And for this, Bloomberg should practically be impeached. I would not be one bit surprised if Bloomberg himself fully approved of this, and had his staffers do the dirty work to avert attention from his own involvement; it's usually done that way in cases like these. In any case, it does not excuse Bloomberg's own disgraceful behavior in all this. He has shown utter contempt for the victims of 9-11, and the sooner he's out of office, the better.

Update: The Wall Street Journal (via The Weekly Standard) has just reported about this disturbing case too:

The chairman of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission allegedly wanted "political cover" before denying landmark status to a building situated on the site of the proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero, giving critics ammunition in their legal quest to stop the project, records released Thursday showed.

The records—sought by the project's opponents and released by City Hall—show members of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration working very closely with the organizers of the project, known as Park51, to combat public opposition and navigate various governmental hurdles. One city official ghost-wrote a letter for the project's organizers.

Aides to Mr. Bloomberg, an outspoken champion of the organizers' right to build the mosque, said the slew of emails reflects the typical back-and-forth between government officials and members of the community. The project's opponents said the records show the Bloomberg administration was in cahoots with the organizers. The records, they allege, raise serious questions about the legitimacy of the Landmarks Preservation Commission's Aug. 3 vote, which paved the way for the project to rise two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In one email from May, Shelly Friedman, the organizers' lawyer, wrote that Manhattan Community Board 1's vote in support of the project would be helpful as organizers urged landmark commission Chairman Robert Tierney and other panel members to reject landmark status for the building currently on the site. "I do know that chairman Tierney was looking forward to having the 'political cover' their support would bring him," Ms. Friedman wrote.

[...]

Brett Joshpe, counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, one of the groups that sought the documents and is suing the city, said Ms. Friedman's email is telling.

"Our allegation all along has been that politics tainted this process and that the Landmarks decision was not actually based on a faithful review of the architectural or historical value of the building but based upon political influences," Mr. Joshpe said.

The exchange of emails also reveals how heavily involved the administration was in the project's development. One email shows that Nazli Parvizi, the city's community affairs commissioner, drafted a letter that Daisy Khan, the wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, wrote to the community board. City officials also intervened to help the organizers get permits to conduct prayers at the site. In one email, organizers agreed to help fund a 2009 Ramadan celebration at Gracie Mansion.

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said the emails are proof that the mayor's staff was coordinating with the Islamic center's leaders.

"They were getting press advice from the mayor's office, they were editing letters for them," he said. "They were advising them on the all important landmark issue."

"They were told what to do in order to get approval and there was never any question of getting approval," he said. "It was obviously political."

I fully agree, and that only makes this matter all the more disgraceful.

Labels: anti-americanism, dhimmitude, islam, New York, terrorism, United States

The young actress who appeared in the Harry Potter movies is now in hiding and won't even press charges/testify against her Muslim father and brother, because she fears the police in Britain won't protect her. And Hollywood, predictably, won't come to her defense. Not only that, they may just recast her role for any further movie made, and won't even care if she vanishes.

Labels: islam, londonistan, misogyny, showbiz

The outcry over an attempted anti-Israel advertisement in Seattle, which is overrun with shady characters as it is, has led the local bus company to practically want to ban all political ads of this sort. From the Seattle Times:

The outcry over a proposed bus ad to protest Israeli actions in Gaza prompted King County Executive Dow Constantine on Friday to order the county's transit system not to accept it or any other new noncommercial advertising.

A group called Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign paid nearly $1,800 to place the ad on 12 buses, starting Monday. The placard shows children and a demolished building with the caption, "Israeli War Crimes - Your tax dollars at work."

Monday is the two-year anniversary of Israel attacking Gaza. The three-week invasion, begun after Israel received incessant rocket barrages, left more than 1,400 Palestinians dead, including many civilians.

Is this newspaper trying to incite simultaneously (they don't mention any of the Israelis hurt or killed)? I'm not sure, but it's good if the bus company owners are going to avoid politically charged ads like this in the future. After all, the atmosphere has become far too politically charged in the past decade. It's something that many people need to move away from.

This clip says:

On Wednesday, Seattle Jewish community leaders held a meeting with senior officials from the King County Executive's office and Metro Transit management about the "potential threat to the Seattle-area Jewish community" after over 2,000 emails, and numerous organizations announced that counter advertisements would be initiated to promote Israel.

The problem here is that it's not clear enough, but I assume they mean that anti-Israelists could try to attack the Jewish community because of these ads. They're right to be concerned.

Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism, United States

Aaron Hanscom at Pajamas Media writes about the recent farcical case of a Muslim student in Spain who told a respected veteran teacher he was offended by his mere mention of pork. The teacher's explanation that he doesn't consider religious beliefs didn't help, as the parents then filed a complaint with the police. Luckily, they understand that this is absurd and are not going to prosecute or charge him at all. Nevertheless, this should serve as an example of how Islam is trying to create exceptions by their say-so. And why wouldn't it be surprising if the poor man had been prosecuted?

Update: here's the story on Big Peace.

Labels: islam, Spain

The Weekly Standard reports about a former inmate at Gitmo who's come up with another anti-semitic fantasy in an interview with Al Jazeera: that Jews used witchcraft on him at Gitmo. Here's a MEMRI translation (via Hot Air). And you can be sure that somewhere, someplace, there'll be those who're more than willing to buy into this kind of sickening libel.

Do you know what this brings to mind now? DC Comics' abominable Identity Crisis miniseries, where you could say they came up with an obnoxious story that was disturbingly similar in how it depicted the superheroes "changing Dr. Light's personality". This makes me understand even more how that vile comic book was an allusion to anti-western fantasies that Gitmo detainees can contrive.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Moonbattery, msm foulness

The Washington Times reports on how the Obama administration could be trying to resort to sneaky gimmicks to regulate the internet. The GOP is opposed to the measures. Update: Michelle Malkin writes more about this.

Iraqi Christians are canceling Christmas festivities because of fear of al Qaeda attacks. It's very sad that they have to live in danger like this, and nobody is doing anything to help.

An anti-Israeli group in Seattle has been putting up those very type of disgusting ads on city buses. Fortunately, SIOA is launching a counter-campaign of their own to combat the blood libel propaganda (via Jihad Watch). Update: here's an article about another counter-campaign by Stand With Us.

A Democrat representative, probably one of the few with common sense, has asked France not to sell arms to Lebanon, as they could end up being used by the Hezbollah against Israel.

CBS News reports that there was a plot to poison food in USA hotels and resturants, and the culprit who planned this may have been the al Qaeda in Yemen (Hat tip: Big Peace). As sources tell, the threat was very real.

Mahmoud Abbas, as expected, is opposed to Israel's efforts to defend its citizens from the Hamas' rocket attacks.

Beit Yehonatan is still facing angering problems from the pretentious attorney-general.

Caroline Glick talks about how Tzipi Livni continues to try and damage/bring down the government (Hat tip: One Jerusalem).

Why isn't the state comptroller willing to publicize the majority of the report on the Wakf's destruction of the Temple Mount?

Here's an interview with Dr. Boaz Ganor about the sources of Islamic terorrism.

The trial of the jihadist in Little Rock, Arkansas, who murdered 2 soldiers at a recruitment center, will remain in the state court. His disgraceful lawyer has been trying to use measures that could surely make it more difficult get a conviction. Thankfully, the state hasn't allowed his antics to prevail.

Labels: communications, France, Iraq, islam, Israel, jihad, Lebanon, Moonbattery, political corruption, terrorism, United States, yemen

The Hamas has fired more rockets, leading the military to have to respond (via Jihad Watch):

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel carried out a series of air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian officials and witnesses said, after militants from the Hamas-ruled territory fired rockets into southern Israel.

No one was reported killed in any of the strikes that targeted a Hamas training camp, where two gunmen were wounded, as well as smuggling tunnels along Gaza's border with Egypt and other, unpopulated areas, Hamas officials and witnesses said.

An Israeli military spokesman said at least 14 rockets had been launched at Israel from the Gaza Strip in the past two days.

A rocket that later struck an Israeli farming community on the Mediterranean coast lightly wounded one person who was taken to hospital, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Media reports said the rocket landed near a kindergarten.

A spokesman for the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades militant group, an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the latest rocket attack and said it was fired in retaliation for Israel's air strikes.

Hamas leaders have tried to curb rocket fire at Israel from Gaza, but smaller groups continue to carry out such attacks.

Israel's military said more than 200 cross-border missiles, rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza this year.

Unsurprisingly, Reuters pretends the Hamas is really trying to prevent these attacks. But it's just a case of their lying in wait for when they consider the perfect moment to attack. Reuters also goes the PC route by using "militant" in place of "terrorist".

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

Prime minister Netanyahu has announced that he'll seek convicted spy Jonathan Pollard's release:

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will issue a public, formal, and official call in upcoming days for US President Barack Obama to release Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard, the Prime Minister's Office announced in a press release issued Tuesday.

Netanyahu will issue the call at the behest of Pollard, whose wife Esther delivered him a request from her husband at the Knesset on Monday.

"I intend to continue to act with determination to free Pollard, both because of the ethical obligation Israel has toward him and because Jonathan should have the right to live with his family and rehabilitate his health after so many years in jail,” Netanyahu said in the press release.

Sources close to Netanyahu said he had consulted with American officials and his advisers about whether issuing the formal call could be helpful or whether it would do more harm than good.

Here's the problem: Obama likely wouldn't do it, if at all, without huge concessions on Israel's part. And that's the really severe difficulty in getting Pollard released.

Update: Phyllis Chesler writes about the case.

Labels: Israel, Knesset, United States

Roman Polanski, the filmmaker who disgraced himself when he raped a 13-year-old girl in 1977, and then fled the US to avoid any jail time, recently directed an anti-American movie called The Ghost Writer, which predictably won a Euro Film Academy award for best picture. And the most interesting thing about it is that it got German-based financing:

As discussed in my earlier PJM report on “Berlinollywood,” Polanski’s The Ghost Writer was not only largely filmed in Germany, it also benefited from massive German public subsidies. These included €3,540,944 directly from the German government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. This works out to nearly $5 million at current exchange rates. The money came in the form of a grant from the German Film Fund (DFFF). The DFFF is a federal program under the direction of Germany’s commissioner for Culture and Media. As noted on the German government’s website, the commissioner reports directly to the chancellor. The commissioner is commonly referred to as the “Culture Minister.”

The German Federal Film Board (FFA), a distinct federal program, pitched in with another €500,000, as did the joint “Media Board” of the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg. Other regional film funds contributed smaller sums. The Ghost Writer also received some €590,000 in support from the European Union’s MEDIA program. (See European Commission press release here.) This brings total either German or EU support to over €5.5 million or nearly $7.5 million at current exchange rates.

And who finances the European Film Academy? Lo and behold, yet again, chiefly the German public — which is to say, whether it wants to or not. In this case, German taxpayers are somewhat spared. German gamblers take up the slack. According to the Berlin-based academy, it is “mainly financed by the German National Lottery.” What is meant by this is, apparently, just the Berlin regional division of the latter, part of whose proceeds go to a so-called Lotto Foundation. A 2010 press release of the Lotto Foundation lists a grant to the academy of €264,000.

Polanski almost redeemed himself with the Pianist, but when he makes a movie like this - especially with that kind of bankrolling - it makes me wonder if he really isn't all that different from George Soros. He certainly isn't helping his image by filming these kind of movies now.

Labels: anti-americanism, Europe, germany, showbiz

Claudia Rosett writes that the United Nations has tossed the subject of their notorious Oil-for-Food scandal into oblivion. She also reminds that:

Plenty of blame goes to the UN Secretariat, run during all but the first month of Oil-for-Food by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan — whose hand-picked head of the program, Benon Sevan, was later alleged by a UN-authorized inquiry to have “corruptly” derived “personal pecuniary benefit from the Oil-for-Food Programme” via “cash proceeds” from lucrative Oil-for-Food contracts. The UN-authorized inquiry, led by Paul Volcker, devoted hundreds of pages to the mismanagement, derelictions and abuses that went on in the Secretariat, which had the hands-on responsibility for dealing with most of Oil-for-Food’s dirty details.

But the Security Council, which doubled as the Iraq sanctions committee, also bears plenty of blame. The Security Council authorized the program, approved contracts and — as we now know, after many post-mortem investigations and congressional hearings — had its own internal wrangles, in which the U.K. and U.S. made private protests over the obvious corruption, but failed to stop the fiesta of graft — in which Saddam was ordering up such stuff as milk from Russian oil companies and Chinese weapons manufacturers.

The UN owes an apology for this atrocity, which FOX News, who reported about much of this case 5 ago, sadly doesn't even mention now either. And unfortunately, it's clear that the UN won't ever apologize for the damage they caused.

Labels: Iraq, oil-for-food scandal, UN corruption

There's been a murder - very likely terrorist related - of an American born woman who was tour-hiking near Beit Shemesh. A British born friend of hers survived:

Police early Sunday morning found the body of Christine Logan, who held an American passport, 16 hours after two Arabs stabbed her and wounded a friend. Police have clamped a gag order on the murder, which authorities now believe was a terrorist attack. Earlier, they were equally suspicious that the attack was criminal, although they still have not ruled the possibility.

Logan and British immigrant Kaye Susan Wilson, a tour guide, hiked in a dry river bed near Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, after Wilson had completed a tour with a group. Although Wilson's and Logan's names do not sound Jewish, their religion is not known. Wilson rents a home at the religious-secular Givat Ze'ev community, located west of Jerusalem on Highway 443. Logan's residence is not known at this time.

Wilson may have saved her own life by pretending she was dead until the attackers left the scene after stabbing her in her back and stomach. She told police that two Arabs had bound her hands and that after they left, she reached a nearby parking lot, where passersby called for an ambulance and police.

Wilson was rushed to Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, where she was treated for serious wounds and is in the ICU, but.her life is not in danger.

We have to hope the hunting party that's been formed to search for the murderers will find the monsters. The victim's friend is very lucky to be alive.

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

Wikileaks has revealed another thing that isn't too surprising, but is nevertheless disturbing:

Steven Spielberg was blacklisted by the Arab League's Central Boycott Office after making a $1m (£645m) donation to Isreal during the 2006 conflict in Lebanon.

A US embassy memo released by WikiLeaks reveals that during a meeting of the group in April 2007, diplomats or representatives from 14 Arab states voted to ban all films and other products related to Spielberg or his Righteous Persons Foundation.

At the confidential US briefing, the head of the Syrian regional office for the boycott of Israel, Muhammad al-Ajami, said that Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen had agreed to ban all Spielberg's works.

Malaysia, Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia were also present at the meeting and voted in favour of the boycott. The memo from the US embassy in Damascus to Washington says that "they and other countries will likely implement their own bans" similar to that adopted by the Arab states.

At the same meeting, cosmetics giant Estée Lauder was added to the blacklist while financial services behemoth Merrill Lynch was placed on a "watchlist".

Wow, even after he kowtowed to the Islamic entity with Munich, they still don't care? But if Spielberg is continuing to associate himself with George Soros, who may have bought his Dreamworks SKG production office, not to mention Tony Kushner, whom I will NOT trust to do a good job on their planned Lincoln movie, then I can't feel too sorry for him.

I do know that if I were a showbiz worker, I wouldn't mind too much if they wanted to boycott my works, since I don't endeavor to please such tyrants, though it would still be offensive.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, Lebanon, showbiz, UAE

He may not get the exact same response from me that Joan Rivers gave him to his jaw-crashing bigotry, but after reading Jeff Dunetz's take on the subject, let me just say that, while the Jewish religion does offer the chance for forgiveness, it's clear that Gibson doesn't want it, and I'm not giving it. I will say that he and Jodie Foster make a great combo together: she once said she supported Leni Riefenstahl, and gave a whole bizarre, whitewashed/sugarcoated blabber statement about that filthy nazi-supporter during WW2. Let's hope they both sink down together at the box office.

Labels: anti-semitism, misogyny, racism, showbiz, United States

ABC News (via The Jawa Report and Atlas Shrugs) has a report about women who come to Houston from Muslim-dominated Mali to avoid arranged marriages and worse, circumcision:

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The choice to fall in love and marry whomever you want is common here in America. But in some countries, marriage rituals include polygamy and violence.

For these reasons, many women are fleeing their home countries and are seeking refuge here in Houston. We have the story of one woman who is fighting to stay here, and we should warn you, the content of this story is graphic and meant only for adults.

The young woman says she needs protection from her own family.

"They want me to do something that I don't want," she said.

She is 24 years old. We can't use her real name, so we'll call her Rachel. She is from Mali, a country in West Africa. Rachel came to Houston two and a half years ago to study at a local university.

Now, her family is calling for her to return because they found her a husband. Rachel received word in a letter of warning from her sister.

"He is over 50 years old and he has already has two wives and a lot of children," the letter read. "Some are older than you, but he is very rich."

Rachel is in Houston on a student visa. When that runs out, she has to return home, where she'll be married. But her forced marriage isn't the only reason she doesn't want to go back.

Rachel, like the majority of women in Mali, must face circumcision before marriage. Her sister's words warn of the horror. [...]

"There are laws in the United States that recognize that we as a society do not tolerate this type of violence," said Anne Chandler, director of the Tahirih Justice Center, a group that protects women and girls from human rights abuses.

"What we're talking about here is very severe forms of violence that are perpetrated against women and girls," Chandler said.

Not everyone who applies is awarded asylum. Lawyers have to prove the applicant's home country or government is unwilling or unable to protect them from harm.

Tahirih only has two offices in the U.S. Houston has one of them. It opened in September 2009.

Volunteer attorneys have helped 125 women and girls locally. Right now, they have 33 active cases, including Rachel's.

"This is a unique model where you find volunteers who are not necessarily asylum or immigration attorneys," said Michelle Gibbons, an attorney with Mayer Brown.

Here's the attorney's site. Just like the case with Rifqa Bary, this too is a very important case where women fleeing from barbarism need protection from harm.

Labels: Africa, immigration, islam, misogyny, United States

A neighborhood in Jerusalem is under threat of being sold to a Fatah sympathiser, with the help of one of Ariel Sharon's assistants:

Spirited attempts are being made to prevent the Jewish neighborhood of Nof Zion in Jerusalem from falling into Arab hands.

The Digal Company that built the project, which was slated to be a religious-Zionist neighborhood, has fallen upon hard times, failing to pay its debt of nearly 60 million shekels to bond holders. The latter were made an offer of approximately 50% by a religious-Zionist real estate group known as Be’emunah (With Faith), but this was topped by an offer of approximately 60% - in cash – made by a Palestinian Authority Arab with American citizenship.

The potential Arab buyer is represented by Attorney Dov Weissglass, a former friend and advisor to ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during the Disengagement period.

[...]

Yisrael Ze’ira, founder of both the Rosh Yehudi outreach organization and Be’emunah, says that his group is seeking to raise 48 million shekels with which to purchase the 15 dunams (nearly 4 acres) on which Stages II and III are to be built. “We are short just a few million,” he told Israel National News. “Those who wish to help can visit our website.” The minimum investment is 320,000 shekels (roughly $89,000) - the price, including Value Added Tax, of land for one unit. Those who invest are promised a discount in purchasing the actual apartment.

Another approach, led by Jerusalem lands reclaimer Aryeh King, is to find buyers for a total of 25% of the bonds, thus preventing the necessary majority of 76% from voting to sell the bonds to Weissglass’ Arab client. The bondholders are to convene for the vote in two weeks’ time. Though some feel this attempt could easily be challenged in court, it could buy time for the Be’emunah group to raise the necessary funds to buy the project.

King’s Jerusalem projects are featured here.

Both King and Ze’ira emphasize that the importance of their efforts cannot be overstated, both for the future of Nof Zion and for Jerusalem in its entirety.

Anyone who can offer their help will be doing a great favor for Israel.

Labels: islam, Israel, Jerusalem

Geert Wilders is quoted in the National Post as one of those who's told how the Netherlands may introduce their own burqa ban this coming year:

THE HAGUE — The Netherlands could ban the burqa, the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women, as soon as next year, Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders told Reuters in an interview on Thursday.

Mr. Wilders’ populist Freedom Party is the third largest in parliament and provides crucial support to the minority ruling coalition in exchange for the government taking a tougher line on Islam and immigration from non-Western countries.

His party has grown in popularity largely because of his outspoken criticism of Islam, which he describes as “a violent ideology.”

“There are not too many people who are willing to fight for this cause. It’s a big responsibility. It’s not only a Dutch problem, it’s a problem of the West,” said Wilders.

That's not the only thing they're going to have to do: they also need to harden sentences for aggravated assaults, something that many Jews, and even gays/lesbians, in Holland have suffered at the hands of Islamofascists in Holland. And the sooner such laws can be passed, the better for Europe to protect itself against Islamofascism.

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, islam, Netherlands

Front Page Magazine has conducted a video interview with Phillipe Karsenty, who braved the odds against the blood libelists like Charles Enderlin who commandeered the al-Durah hoax.

Labels: anti-semitism, France, islam, Israel, jihad, msm foulness, terrorism, war on terror

Specifically, by making that insulting claim that Aslan could represent Muhammad just as well as Jesus, just a few weeks before the third Narnia movie was to open, he cost it quite a bit at the box office. So too, lest I forget, did Mark Johnson. Even an interview Big Hollywood conducted with another of the producers didn't help.

What Neeson did was completely avoidable, and nobody would have thrown him out of Hollywood if he'd kept his mouth shut. What they should've done was avoid the whole subject of religion altogether, and that would've been enough. Now, thanks to their stupidity, what could be a decent adaptation of famous literature may be buried forever.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, showbiz

Here's a video page on Israel National News about a Christian delegation from Congo that's come to support Israel.

Labels: Africa, Israel

One of the contributors to the Breitbart network, Peter Schweizer, has voiced his disagreement to the news of a number of rabbis who signed a declaration that Jews shouldn't sell property to Arabs in Israel. Here's the problem: the two articles he got about this, are from YnetNews, which so happens to be a left-wing source. And it's really no surprise that they might take this all out of context.

As it so happens, the actual problem here is selling property to Arabs. Renting is another matter. And as told in this INN article (via Cosmic X):

The Rabbis’ Letter forbidding Jews from selling homes in Israel to Arabs has become the latest controversy in Israel. It was placed on hold for a few days while the Carmel fire raged wildly around it, but is now comfortably back on the media’s “hot seat” – and the rabbis are indeed feeling the heat.

Some 300 rabbis have expressed support for the ruling, while several mainstream rabbis have come out prominently against it. What is a bystander to think?

Here’s one opinion: The question is not so much one of technical Jewish Law, but rather this: May Jews help Israel remain Jewish, or not?

It appears that the rabbis who signed on the ruling take very seriously accusations leveled at them in the past of “standing idly by,” “not being proactive,” and “ignoring dangers.” In fulfillment of the Mishnaic teaching, “Where there is no man, try to be a man,” they took bold and seemingly unpopular action to try to stem a tide that threatens to engulf all of us – reporters, modern rabbis, Jews in the Diaspora, and certainly the Jews of Tzfat, Lod, Ramle, the Galilee, Haifa, Arad, Tel Aviv, and all of Israel.

In a word, Israel faces a gerrymandering demographic threat, if you will. Instead of the slowly growing Arab minority to which we have essentially grown accustomed and which basically remains within specific areas, Arabs have now begun moving into specific Jewish areas, rendering many of the areas no longer Jewish.

I suppose there is one flaw in all this issue as to how the rabbis went about this: although the concern about selling to Arabs is fairly legit, maybe the mistake they made was not arguing against selling to Muslims? That's right, are they sure they can't raise an argument like that?

In any case, I'm afraid Schweizer has been misled, and I'd appreciate it if he could kindly correct the info and look for a better news source than Ynet on this issue. I'm not saying INN is any better - indeed, sometimes they're not - but he could do a lot of good by maintaining an awareness that even Israeli media can be ultra-leftist and propagandistic.

Labels: islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, msm foulness

The Daily Mail has an article about how Israel maintains a very surprisingly effective security system for airports (via Rubin Reports), something that there's sadly no telling if any US security services will ever emulate/adopt.

Labels: Israel, terrorism, war on terror

I wish I'd remembered to look for this news, which tells how the Pittsburgh Steelers did a very important service by holding a special dinner to honor the victims of Flight 93. It is a very positive thing they've done, and for this, we must thank them.

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

A Syrian Muslim has been sentenced for lying about his role in the Holy Land Foundation case:

DETROIT (AP) - A prominent Islamic singer who pleaded guilty to making false statements during the U.S. immigration process was sentenced to time served and ordered deported.

Syrian native Mohamad Masfaka uses the stage name Abu Ratib. He was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Detroit to one year and one day in prison, with credit for time behind bars.

Defense lawyer Doraid Elder says Masfaka was freed and will leave the U.S. after getting a new Syrian passport. He says the U.S. is losing a productive member of society.

The government says the 47-year-old was the Holy Land Foundation's Detroit-area representative in 1997 and 1998 but didn't mention it in a 2002 application for naturalization.

The U.S. labeled the foundation a terrorist group in 2001, saying it had helped Hamas.

Who'd even want to hear a despicable character like that sing? Such disgusting people are not "productive" in any way.

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

The Jerusalem Post reports that a new report has come out from the US National Archives on the horrific alliance between the nazis and the mufti:

NEW YORK – A newly released report by the US National Archives details the close collaborative relationship between Nazi leaders and the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, indicating that Nazi authorities planned to use Husseini as their leader after their conquest of Palestine.

Husseini was paid handsomely by the Nazis for his efforts, recruited Muslims for the SS and was promised that he would be made Palestine’s leader after its Jewish population of 350,000 had been murdered.

The report, Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, US Intelligence and the Cold War, was prepared on the basis of thousands of documents declassified under the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.

“Hitler’s Shadow” is an addendum to a 2004 US government report, US Intelligence and the Nazis.

The new report’s authors, Norman J.W. Goda of the University of Florida and Richard Breitman of American University, said the addendum was particularly important.

“We thought the information was significant and detailed,” Breitman told The Jerusalem Post regarding the newly uncovered facts on the Jerusalem mufti in particular.

“We thought the April 1945 contract between the [German] Foreign Office and Husseini was striking evidence of an ideological collaboration both sides hoped would continue after the war.”

Husseini, who died in Beirut in 1974, was apparently paid 50,000 marks per month, and 80,000 additional marks a month for living expenses, according to a contract with the Germans. This was a time when a German field officer typically earned 25,000 marks a year.

According to the report, on November 28, 1941, Adolf Hitler told Husseini that the Afrika Korps would “liberate” Arabs in the Middle East and that “Germany’s only objective there would be the destruction of the Jews.”

“SS leaders and Husseini both claimed that Nazism and Islam had common values as well as common enemies – above all, the Jews,” the report states.

In fall 1943, it says, Husseini went to the Croatia, a German ally, to recruit Muslims for the Waffen-SS.

“During that trip he told the troops of the newly formed Bosnian-Muslim 13th Mountain Waffen-SS division that the entire Muslim world ought to follow their example,” the report states.

Husseini also organized a 1944 mission in which Palestine Arabs and Germans would carry out sabotage and propaganda after German planes dropped them into Palestine by parachute.

“Husseini insisted that the Arabs take command after they landed and direct their fight against the Jews of Palestine, not the British authorities,” according to the report.

As late as 1945, the German Foreign Office rewrote its contracts with Husseini.

At that point, the outcome of the war was no longer in question, and therefore the contracts are significant as indications of Nazi intentions to work with the mufti in future political-ideological campaigns in Arab lands.

In October 1945, the report said, the British head of Mandatory Palestine’s Criminal Investigation Division told the US assistant military attaché in Cairo that the mufti might be able to unite Palestine’s Arabs and “cool off the Zionists. Of course, we can’t do it, but it might not be such a damn bad idea at that.”

Husseini’s CIA file, the report states, indicates that wartime Allied intelligence organizations gathered a “healthy portion” of the incriminating evidence against him.

This evidence “is significant in light of Husseini’s lenient postwar treatment,” the report notes. Husseini was allowed to flee to Syria after the war despite enough evidence to bring him to trial as a war criminal.

“Together, the Army and CIA records will keep scholars of World War II and the Cold War busy for many years,” the report’s authors conclude.

Challenging question: will this ever be taught in public schools in America?

Update: Atlas Shrugs has a special topic about this too. And here's an extra related topic on Contentions.

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, germany, islam, Israel

Some new tapes of Richard Nixon's discussions have been released from the archives, and while Nixon certainly has guilt on his part, Henry Kissinger marks himself as the most repugnant (Hat tip: Simply Jews):

WASHINGTON – Henry Kissinger is heard saying the genocide of Soviet Jews would not be an American problem on newly released tapes chronicling President Nixon’s obsession with disparaging Jews and other minorities.

Kissinger’s remarks come after a meeting between the two men and former prime minister Golda Meir on March 1, 1973, in which Meir pleads for US pressure on the Soviet Union to release its Jews.

The men dismiss her plea after Meir leaves.

“The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy,” The New York Times on Saturday quoted Kissinger, then secretary of state, as saying on the tapes. “And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”

Nixon replies: “I know. We can’t blow up the world because of it.”

Six months later, during the Yom Kippur War, Nixon rejected Kissinger’s advice to delay an arms airlift to Israel as a means of setting the stage for an Egypt confident enough to pursue peace; Nixon, among other reasons, cited Israel’s urgent need.

Nixon secretly recorded his White House conversations.

Granted, Nixon did act wisely and saw to it that Israel would get the ammo it needed during the war. Yet that does not excuse the ignorance he sadly showed for the plight of Russian Jews stuck under communist rule. Kissinger definitely makes himself worthy of scorn for making such a gross statement.

From this article:

The shocking statements contradict an image among some American Jews that Nixon was a friend of Israel and the Jews.

Nixon also is quoted as saying an anti-Semitic generalization, “What it is, is it's the insecurity. It’s the latent insecurity. Most Jewish people are insecure. And that's why they have to prove things."[...]

The American Jewish Committee stated that the revealed conversations displayed a shocking level of bigotry in the Nixon White House from the President downwards… the AJC was also dismayed by the remark made to the President by his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, in which the latter stated, ‘[I]f they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern.’

"The Nixon Oval Office was clearly a place where bigotry and prejudice were normalized," said AJC Executive Director David Harris. "It is deeply saddening to observe that the person elected to our nation's highest office employed such crude, vicious stereotypes in referring to a range of groups.

"That a German Jew [Kissinger] who fled the Nazis could speak of a genocidal outcome in such callous tones is truly chilling. Perhaps Kissinger felt that, as a Jew, he had to go the extra mile to prove to the President that there was no question as to where his loyalties lay. That he used such graphic language in doing so speaks volumes about the degree of prejudice inside Nixon's Administration. It's hard to find the right words to express the degree of our shock and revulsion at Kissinger's remarks."

Maybe this is why Nixon went down via Watergate a year later. Kissinger, tragically, was still around. And even Nixon hadn't been so nasty and double-standard towards Jews, I would still be very offended by his vicious remarks about blacks, Italians and Irish, not to mention his position that there's something wrong with mixed-race children. If it's a case involving rape, that's one thing, but acting as though interracial affairs and births are bad, regardless of whether they're consensual or not, is crossing the line.

Kissinger has written himself down in history as one of the most atrocious, traitorous beings on the earth, possibly after George Soros. A most truly awful politician, and I do think we should certainly be angry that Nixon would ever employ this man, regardless of whether he agreed or not with the abominable things he said.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, political corruption, Russia, United States

This serves as another clue to how Britain's willing to allow terrorists to make it a hub for operations. From Reuters (via Jihad Watch):

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - British police were searching a house in southern England on Monday as part of investigations into two explosions in Stockholm which Swedish authorities said they were treating as an act of terrorism.[...]

Swedish daily Expressen said on Monday the dead man had planned to set off three devices, including one at the main railway station and one at a large department store.

The man was named on an intelligence website as Taymour Abdulwahab, an Iraqi who had studied in Britain. Police have not identified him.[...]

Following reports that the man had a Facebook entry and a profile on a Muslim dating website which said he had spent time in Britain, British police said they were examining a house in the town of Luton under the terrorism act. The house has been cordoned off.

"No arrests have been made and no hazardous materials found," a police statement said.[...]

The man had planned to blow up his car but also had 12 pipe bombs strapped to him and a bomb in a rucksack, it said.

"It is clear that he was trying to create as much chaos and hurt as many people as possible," Expressen quoted a police source as saying.

The mosque he went to in Luton claims they threw him out for his extremist views (also via Jihad Watch). But frankly, I don't buy it. The really sad part is that it's unlikely they'll arrest any suspects in this case. Even the Tories, alas, aren't particularly reliable.

Labels: jihad, londonistan, racism, Scandanavia, terrorism, war on terror

Just this weekend, a jihadist tried to bring a bomb to a retail street in Stockholm, and thankfully just blew himself up; 2 people struck by the blast were only injured. There was even a recorded vocal warning message sent to the authorities beforehand (via Hot Air):

TT said the warning, which was also sent to Sweden’s Security Police, was received 10 minutes before the blasts. The agency said the mail had sound files in both Swedish and Arabic attached.

The voice on the sound file addressed Sweden and the Swedish people and talked about Sweden’s silence over the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed by artist Lars Vilks and Sweden’s presence in Afghanistan, TT reported.

“Our actions will talk for themselves. As long as you do not end your war against Islam and humiliation of the prophet and your stupid support for the pig Vilks,” TT quoted the man on the sound file as saying.

The man also urged all Muslims in Sweden to “stop sucking up to and degrading,” reported The Local, Sweden’s English news publication. He concluded the message with yet another call to “all the mujahedeen” in Sweden and Europe, adding “Now it’s time to act, don’t wait any longer. Fear no one, don’t fear prison, don’t fear death.”

This of course is the result of years of bad immigration policies on the part of Sweden's government and authorities. Unfortunately, even now, there's little to no chance they'll act responsibly.

Labels: immigration, islam, jihad, racism, Scandanavia, terrorism

Caroline Glick writes about Brazil and Argentina's unexpected and atrocious support for a palestinian state, something the MSM in Israel or elsewhere did little to understand or explain, and provides some worthy explanations for how this has happened:

Israelis can be excused for wondering why Brazil and Argentina unexpectedly announced they recognize an independent Palestinian state with its capital city in Israel’s capital city. Israelis can be forgiven for being taken by surprise by their move and by the prospect that Uruguay, and perhaps Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and El Salvador, will be following in their footsteps because the Israeli media have failed to report on developing trends in Latin America.

And this is not surprising. The media fail to report on almost all the developing trends impacting the world. For instance, when the Turkish government sent Hamas supporters to challenge the IDF’s maritime blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza coastline, the media were surprised that Israel’s ally Turkey had suddenly become Hamas’s ally and Israel’s enemy.

Their failure to report on Turkey’s gradual transformation into an Islamic supremacist state caused the media to treat what was a culmination of a trend as a shocking new development.

The same is now happening with Latin America.

Whereas in Turkey, the media failed only to report on the significance of the singular trend of Islamization of Turkish society, the media have consistently ignored the importance for Israel of three trends that made Latin America’s embrace of the Palestinians against Israel eminently predictable.

Those trends are the rise of Hugo Chavez, the regional influence of the Venezuela-Iran alliance, and the cravenness of US foreign policy towards Latin America and the Middle East. When viewed as a whole they explain why Latin American states are lining up to support the Palestinians. More importantly, they tell us something about how Israel should be acting.

OVER THE past decade Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has inherited Fidel Castro’s mantel as the head of the Latin American anti-American club. He has used Venezuela’s oil wealth, drug money and other illicit fortunes to draw neighboring states into his orbit and away from the US. Chavez’s circle of influence now includes Cuba and Nicaragua, Bolivia, Uruguay and Ecuador as well as Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Peru. Democracies like Colombia and Chile are also taking steps in Chavez’s anti-American direction.

Chavez’s choice of Iran is no fluke although it seemed like one to some when the alliance first arose around 2004. Iran’s footprint in Latin America has grown gradually. Beginning in the 1980s, Iran started using Latin America as a forward base of operations against the US and the West. It deployed Hizbullah and Revolutionary Guards operatives and other intelligence and terror assets along the largely ungoverned tri-border area between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. That staging ground in turn enabled Iran to bomb Israeli and Jewish targets in Buenos Aires in the early 1990s.

There's more at the link, and it all leads to wonder: if South America is developing anti-semitism anew, not to mention anti-Americanism...could democracy, such as it is, in that part of the continent be coming apart to boot?

I have to dispute one thing, about whether Turkey had really been against Hamas. They weren't exactly against Fatah when the Israeli left allowed them to take over parts of the land of Israel in 1993-94, so whether they were ever actually against Hamas is uncertain.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, islam, Israel, jihad, Latin America, terrorism, United States

The Investigative Project on Terrorism has a report explaining where much of the anti-Christian, anti-semitic, misogynist and anti-western problems are stemming from:

An influx of immigrants seeking asylum from Africa and the Middle East is causing quite a headache for Europe. According to Dutch investigative reporter Emerson Vermaat, this pool of immigrants includes individuals who promote Islamist ideology, persecute other Christian asylum seekers and carry anti-Semitic beliefs.

"Certainly not all Muslim asylum seekers and migrants are criminals or radicals," writes Varmaat. Yet, as he points out, known al-Qaida sympathizers and leaders of Islamist movements have entered European countries, seeking asylum. For example, Abu Qatada, who has been described as "Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe" and Omar Bakri Mohammed, former leader of the racial group al-Muhajrioun, were both granted asylum in Britain.

Read the rest, but for now, it shouldn't be a surprise that Britain suffers so much from this problem. They, of course, have been the biggest bleeding-hearts for terrorists who whine about the trouble they're going to face if sent back to their native countries. No wonder they've taken such a collapse.

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, immigration, islam, jihad, londonistan, racism, terrorism

The atrocious Ron Paul, whom John Hinderaker at Power Line once called the Pee-Wee Herman of politics, has demonstrated once again why he is an embarrassment to the conservative movement, and gives libertarianism a bad name: when the House voted to honor Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo for the Nobel prize she won, and the resulting vote was 402-1, guess whom that lone negative vote belonged to? That's right, the one and only Ron Paul voted against.

Paul's nay vote is an abominable example for an American politician. That he would vote against freedom and democracy even overseas is perverse, and it's tragic that he was reelected to Congress. What did any of the people who voted for him see in him anyway? He does not belong in the Republican party, let alone Congress, and the sooner his colleagues there get rid of him, which would be setting a good example, the better.

Update: Paul also defended Wikileaks, which, for the most part, is a bad operation, and I'm glad the head honcho was arrested in London, but who knows if he'll be extradited? Unfortunately, there's no telling if Britain will be willing to help do justice with Julian Assange.

Labels: China, Moonbattery, RINOs, US Congress

Following what's already being described as one of the worst fire tragedies in Israel's history, the government is doing its best to make repairs.

It's possible for other people to help, and more info can be found here at One Jerusalem. Also here at the Jawa Report.

In related news, Big Journalism writes about how Jeffrey Goldberg, disturbingly enough, has been going off the rails recently by telling people not to donate to Israel to help in relief efforts (I recall he attacked Pamela Geller a month or two ago as well). It's regrettable that Goldberg is going downhill just to appease pathetic moonbats. Don't listen to Goldberg, and please donate to the JNF and other such charities to help in aid following this tragedy.

Update: and I almost forgot: a suspect has been arrested for starting the arson: a 14-year-old boy from Usfiya. Worst part about this:

After seeing the flames grow out of control, the boy became panicked, “ran back to his school [in Usfiya], and did not report the fire to anyone,” police said.

What a most atrocious coward of a youngster. He is going to have hell to pay for the horrific catastrophe he caused.

Labels: anti-semitism, Israel, msm foulness

When they're addicted and obsessed with Islam, it shouldn't be too surprising they'll return to jihadism, as this disturbing report in the Weekly Standard reveals (Hat tip: R.S. McCain). Simply put, the released prisoners have thrown their lives and futures away, all for the sake of anti-western bigotry. That's why they're so fixated on going back to filthy behavior almost instantly after they're out of the pen.

It's not surprising at all.

Labels: anti-americanism, islam, jihad, terrorism

Soon after the case of a jihadist who was arrested in Oregon after he tried to blow up bombs that were actually fake decoys sold to him by undercover FBI agents, another case of a Muslim - in this case, a convert - comes up. The man in question, one Muhammed Hussein/Antonio Martinez, attempted something similar, and luckily, this too was just part of a sting operation to nail a jihadist for attempting horrific crimes. FOX News has the story (via Michelle Malkin):

An official told Fox News that the arrest was part of a sting operation and that there is no threat to the American public. The official said the suspect was given a phony bomb and was arrested after trying to detonate it.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the suspect’s goal was to blow up a military recruitment center in Baltimore County.

One official told Fox News that this is “another Portland-type case.”

Martinez is reportedly a U.S. citizen.

Then revoke his citizenship; he doesn't deserve to have any. The worst part is that, sooner or later, there could be a disaster, where a jihadist could try to blow up a bomb for real. And we have to be on the alert to prevent any such disaster from happening.

Update: Michelle Malkin, in her latest column, perfectly describes what Hussein/Martinez is: a homegrown anti-military monster.

Others on the subject include Rhymes With Right, The Jawa Report, The American Pundit, Hot Air, Power Line.

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

Yisrael Medad writes about a letter to the editors at the NY Times they surprisingly were willing to publish, from the spokesperson for the Israeli consulate in New York, who wanted to make clear that "settlers" is a most disparaging term. Well indeed, it is. But don't expect the NYT or any other such awful newspaper to stop using it any time soon.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, msm foulness, United States

Rob Miller at Big Peace writes about the announcement that was made that any deal for a building freeze between Israel and the US has been taken off the table, and "negotiations" between Israel and Fatah are not being renewed at the time.

Another reason why? Well:

The deal was also likely pulled because the ‘Palestinians’ refused to go along with it and were going to say no anyway.

According to one of my notorious Little Birdies, this one inside the ‘Palestinian Authority’, the ‘Palestinians’ were insisting that the freeze include East Jerusalem and that the boundaries of a future Palestinian state be guaranteed by Obama before they would return to the negotiating table.

Needless to say, as much as Obama might like the idea, there’s no way Netanyahu or any other Israeli politician could get their cabinet to go along with it. And thanks to Israel’s new referendum law that requires public approval of any further territorial giveaways, even if they were silly enough to approve it they could never have gotten it past the Israeli public.

Yup. Something the "palestinians" would do well to respect, but are completely unlikely to.

This doesn't mean, however, that the whole mess won't resurface, and it could be much sooner than later. If and when it does, however, all opposed to concessions to the Islamists must be ready to object.

Labels: islam, Israel, Jerusalem, terrorism, United States

In his "promotion" of the latest film based on C.S Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, Liam Neeson claims that Aslan the Lion wasn't just meant to be an allusion to Christ, but also to Mohammed, upsetting many fans of the books (via Big Hollywood).

But you know what's really bizarre? If we were to look at all this in the context of how, in the first story, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the main adversary was an evil queen, one could figure that Neeson, even more dreadfully, is turning this all into just how many Islamisogynists would like to see things! Ugh!

Neeson has just labeled himself another dumb panderer for Islam, and after this, I won't feel sorry if the newest movie flops.

Update: oh dear. Paul Bond, the current producer, is making things worse (also via Big Hollywood and What Would Toto Watch). Well, I guess there's even less reason to bother about a movie whose makers have so little respect for the authors of the source material.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, showbiz

In this news clip from the Jerusalem Post (via The Jawa Report):

Police found a bike, a bag, and a wig inside near a fire center in Tzur Shalom on Friday, leading them to believe that the Carmel brush-fires raging across northern Israel are being caused by an arsonist or arsonists.

Galillee police were spread out over the area searching for suspects.

Members of the public who see suspicious activity should call 100 immediately.

More pictures are available here. The fire sadly is still raging. And the death toll of the fire has tragically risen to 42. Our prayers must go out to the families of the deceased.

Update: police have arrested 2 suspects.

Labels: Israel, terrorism

The Weekly Standard, in studying the Wikileaks cables, has discovered that Christoph Heusgen, the German premier's main advisor for mideast affairs, supports the Goldstone reports Israel-bashing, and also opposes construction for Jews. This sadly puts Merkel's support for Israel in doubt.

Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, germany, islam, Israel, jihad, political corruption, terrorism

British MP David Davis has brought up an important subject - the serious need for reformation of Britain's libel laws (Hat tip: Melanie Phillips):

As a Parliament, we have failed to defend one of our nation's primary virtues-free speech. We have also failed in the duty to protect the weak and vulnerable from the rich and powerful. More often than not, it is the rich and powerful who use the libel laws to intimidate the less wealthy and the less powerful, as I shall demonstrate. Perhaps the best demonstration that English libel law has become a weapon of the rich and powerful is the extent to which they choose to use the English courts over any other option and over the courts of any other country. When Boris Berezovsky sued a Russian TV company, he did so not in Russia, where the deed occurred, but in England. Similarly, Roman Abramovich chose to sue an Italian newspaper not in Rome, but in London.

In 2004, the Saudi billionaire, Khalid bin Mahfouz, launched a libel action against Rachel Ehrenfeld, the American author of ‘Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed-and How to Stop It’. The book claimed that Mahfouz financed al-Qaeda. It was not published here, but it was available online. Mahfouz brought the case not in America or Saudi Arabia, but in Britain, and the court awarded him substantial damages. As a direct result, New York law was changed to prevent British judgments applying in the US and American national law is undergoing the same change.

Those rich men each brought their cases under the English judicial system, rather than in the appropriate forum, because English libel law is complex, clumsy, expensive and draconian. It is 140 times more expensive to defend a libel case in England than in other European nations. As a result, it favours the wealthy man who has the most financial stamina and can afford the most expensive lawyers. Although libel tourism is not the most important weakness in English libel law, it is the starkest symptom of how unfair it can be, compared with every other jurisdiction in the modern world.

The coalition has promised to reform the libel law to end such abuse. We have to hope they'll do so and remain true to their word. But it's not just in Britain where this kind of reform is needed: even in France, if it hasn't been done yet, there's serious need for reforming their own libel laws, so that monsters like Charles Enderlin cannot stifle people's right to challenge his blood libels.

And, over the United States, the Republicans would do well to again raise the issue of an amendment that can protect people against frivolous lawsuits, something the Democrats sabotaged during the time the "flying imams" caused problems for the airline they deliberately caused a scene at. Come to think of it, even here, there's need to amend some laws to ensure for example, that Jewish land owners will not be discriminated against, to name but one example.

Labels: France, islam, londonistan, United States, US Congress

I wish I could've written about this earlier, how Canada's prime minister Stephen Harper has made it clear he does not condone anti-Israelism. He's succeeded in addressing something that many British Jews will not.

That said, if there's still serious problems with anti-semitism in Canada, not to mention Islamofascism creeping in, it would be greatly appreciated if he were to confront the problem out loud, which could be of great help in countering that specific problem as well.

Labels: anti-semitism, Canada, islam, Israel

There's been a terrible fire in the Carmel district, with many of the victims being prison security personnel, and the worst part about this case is that it could be terror-based arson.

Prime minister Netanyahu has asked for help and aid from a few countries, including Greece, Italy and Russia. This is, as he's said, one of the worst disasters in the country's history.

Labels: Israel, terrorism

I'm sure the Wikileaks site's exposure of documents does have a downside. However, as Rachel Ehrenfeld notes, there's also some very eye-opening discoveries made here too, including how Saudi Arabia is one of the top funders of al Qaeda. Here's also some extra notes about the subject.

As Ehrenfeld also says, the US would be helping tremendously by stopping all ignorance or condoning the House of Saud's funding of terrorists, and Congress would do a good thing by strengthening laws that would protect Americans' free speech, including an adoption of Senator John Kyl's recommendations on how to improve things.

Others on the subject include Gloria Center, Yid With Lid.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, House of Saud, islam, jihad, terrorism, United States, US Congress, war on terror

Fortunately, politician Rex Duncan, the author of the bill, intends to appeal LaGrange's ruling. From the AP Wire (via Jihad Watch):

Former state Rep. Rex Duncan says the judge is exactly the kind of "liberal activist" his legislation intends to stop. The judge issued a temporary injunction Monday, blocking the law from taking effect. More than 70 percent of voters supported adding the ban in the state constitution. [...]

Also Tuesday, the Oklahoma State Election Board voted to ask the state attorney general to appeal the court's granting of the injunction. A spokesman for the attorney general says such an appeal is "likely."

That's good to know if they do file one. In fact, this made me think of something else: there needs to be a site that can cover problems with leftism in the legal system. I don't suppose maybe Andrew Breitbart could add another site to his network specially for that?

Update: here's a video about this on Breitbart's television section.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, United States