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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “Death to Israel”

02/11/2009 · Leave a Comment

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Ahmadinejad can claim he only means to encourage a “regime change” in the region of Eretz Israel, that there is no such phrase in Farsi that would approximate the concept of wiping a nation off the map, thus he can hide behind linguistic technicalities. I have been wondering about this myself, though in either case, the man is not sounding too friendly towards the nation of Israel.

There are those who argue this point, but others are quick to point out that though that exact phrase was not uttered, that it was closer to “disappear from the pages of history”, Mr. Ahmadinejad was not using a passive tense, but an active tense, indicating more of an aggressive stance than he will admit to in the American press.

Well, there is no misunderstanding Mr. Ahmadinejad’s words in this video: “Marg bar Israel” or  “death to Israel”. Chas v’Shalom

So for those wondering if Mr. Ahmadinejad or the Iranian mullocracy is such a threat to Israel,  I think the answer is obvious.

Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

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NGO Monitor Debunks Israel ‘War Crimes’

07/08/2009 · Leave a Comment

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor has debunked, at length, recent accusations by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that Israel committed “war crimes” during Operation Cast Lead.

The HRW, in its official report and accompanying press releases and interviews, accuses the IDF of using drones to launch precise weapons during the Gaza operation, leading to wrongful civilian deaths. The entire case is based on allegations from only six ambiguous incidents in which 29 civilians are said to have been killed, NGO Monitor states.

HRW’s case against Israel, in which Israel is repeatedly accused of war crimes, is entirely speculative, according to NGO Monitor, “but the conclusions are stated with absolute assurance, as if the evidence was totally clear.”  Robert Hewson, editor of the prestigious Jane’s Air-Launched Weapons, is quoted as stating, “Human Rights Watch makes a lot of claims and assumptions about weapons and drones, all of which is still fairly speculative, because we have so little evidence.”

NGO Monitor’s objective, its website states, is “to end the practice used by certain self-declared ‘humanitarian NGOs [non-governmental organizations]‘ of exploiting the label ‘universal human rights values’ to promote politically and ideologically motivated anti-Israel agendas.”

Inconclusive Nature of Arab Testimony
For instance, the report accuses of war crimes the Israelis who operated the drones that were allegedly involved in the attacks. Much of the evidence against them, however, is based on Arab eyewitnesses who claim to have not seen Israelis or Hamas targets in the area at the times of the attacks. HRW takes these claims at face value, despite the inconclusive nature of this testimony, and despite details provided by the Israeli government’s report on the Gaza combat that refute this speculation.

These eyewitnesses are “not likely to have known whether there were legitimate military targets in the area,” NGO Monitor states. “These [targets] could have included command and control centers, weapons’ storage sites, and other Hamas facilities… HRW’s reliance on this evidence reflects two highly speculative assumptions: (1) that the presence or absence of visible Israeli forces in an area is a central criteria; (2) that there were no legitimate targets (Hamas fighters, weapons, communications assets, etc.) in the area, visible or not visible… HRW propagates the misleading concept that there were no legitimate targets unless locals, UN staff, journalists or human rights activists (unnamed) claim to have observed ‘active” local fighters or fighting.”

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Sharia: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

22/06/2009 · 1 Comment

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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy

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Iranian Police Keeping the Peace

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Israel Builds New Pipeline to Provide Fuel to Gaza

11/06/2009 · Leave a Comment

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by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

(IsraelNN.com) Israel completed a new pipeline into Gaza on Tuesday. It is intended to facilitate Israel’s ongoing supply of fuel and natural gas to the civilian population of the Hamas-controlled region.

The work on the energy pipeline was carried out in accordance with decisions made by the Israeli Government, following relevant security assessments. The IDF’s Civil Administration coordinated the project with representatives of the Palestinian Authority. Construction was performed by both Israeli and PA crews.

In a statement from the IDF Spokesman’s Office regarding the new pipeline, the army said it “will continue to work in order to improve the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.”

Since the mid-January conclusion of the counterterrorist campaign in Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, Israel has transferred 40.17 million liters of fuel to Gaza. Israel supplies cooking and heating fuel according to PA demands, exempting those supplies from Israeli sanctions on the jihadist Hamas regime currently controlling the region.

Under current circumstances, Israel tankers bring gas supplies to the Nachal Oz crossing into Gaza, where it is pumped into underground tanks on the PA side.

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Debkafile Report: Wanted Hamas terrorists sheltered by 500 women in N. West Bank

10/06/2009 · Leave a Comment

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DEBKAfile’s Palestinian sources report that 500 Palestinian women in Nablus are providing wanted Palestinians with sanctuary and permitting their bank accounts to be used to whitewash Hamas revenues.

One of the Hamas operatives detained this week was found in possession of one-and-half million euros for establishing a stronghold in northern Samaria to support the terror campaign Hamas has declared on the Palestinian Authority and Israel. This West Bank region was evacuated by Israel in 2005 together with its pullback from the Gaza Strip. Three Hamas female suicide killers were captured this week in Qalqilya on a mission to murder six senior Palestinian Authority officers.

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Thanks Barack Obama…you just gave Hamas an excuse to step up the civil war going on between them and Fatah…

Read on if you don’t understant that last comment. — Ellie Katz

Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

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Report: Hamas Using Ambulances to Terrorize Civilians

09/06/2009 · Leave a Comment

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by Maayana Miskin

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas has stolen dozens of donated ambulances and is using them in its campaign of intimidation against Gaza civilians, Palestinian Authority officials have reported. The report, published in the PA paper Al-Hayyat al-Jadida, was translated by Palestinian Media Watch.

The ambulances in question were donated earlier this year, during Operation Cast Lead. Hamas took 46 ambulances, confiscated the expensive medical equipment inside, and converted the vehicles to police vans.

The vans were then used during arrest campaigns targeting civilian political dissenters, the PA charged.

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Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

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The Jews Deserved Their Annihilation By Hitler : Dr Wafa Musa

01/06/2009 · Leave a Comment

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more about “The Jews Deserved Their Annihilation …“, posted with vodpod

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U.S. Court: Arafat Responsible for Terrorist Murders

15/05/2009 · Leave a Comment

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by Maayana Miskin

(IsraelNN.com) A United States court ruled Thursday evening that the Palestinian Authority must compensate the children of Yaron and Efrat Unger, who were murdered in a terrorist attack in 1996. Former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat bore responsibility for the slayings, the court determined.

The court ruled that the couple’s children should receive the $116 million that they were awarded in a previous verdict.

Yaron, 26, and Efrat, 25, were shot and killed by a PA terrorist as they drove near the city of Beit Shemesh, southwest of Jerusalem and west of Gush Etzion. Their infant son was in the car but survived the attack.

The couple was survived by their children Dvir and Yishai, who were two years old and nine months old respectively at the time that their parents were murdered.

Yaron held U.S. citizenship, a fact that later allowed his family to seek damaged for the killing. Dvir and Yishai filed suit five years ago under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1991, which allows foreign terrorist groups to be sued for the deaths of U.S. citizens.

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More links related to this case:

Jerusalem Post Online

Jewish Law

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Hamas Calls to Kill All the Jews — again. Don’t they ever get tired of this?

08/05/2009 · Leave a Comment

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Yeah. I know. Bee-Oh-Are-Eye-Enn-Gee —- boring….

I have heard this same sermon soooo many times…y-a-w-n. Don’t these guys ever write anything original? Do they get paid to repeat this stuff Friday after Friday after Friday? Honestly fellas, it’s starting to lose it’s punch.

Aside from the fact that these sorts are genocidal maniacs who probably have to wipe the froth off their rabid, salivating mouths every few minutes… looks like an easy life.

Who’s the guy filming this and handing it over to PMW? Now that would be interesting. Oops. Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything. The guys in the mosque probably didn’t figure that part out yet, they’re so busy planning our mass destruction and all.

One thing I think is so funny is how scandalized these Imams are that “it’s in the Jews’s nature to hate Islam.” Duh. I mean, you Muslim clerics are always demanding the murder of every last one of us, citing it as your religious duty soooo — what do you expect?!? Sheesh. Is it unreasonable of us to not want to be murdered? Why is this difficult to figure out? I mean, if you just once said something nice, but no, you’re always going on and on about how evil we are, how we all deserve to die and stuff.  You guys are like the “Energizer” killer bunnies or something. Do you ever eat, sleep, play with your kids, go for a stroll? Chill out.

Man, where’s a grumpy face when I need one? I cannot for the life of me…oh, better not use that expression, well, I can’t  figure out how to import those emoticon grumpy faces to WordPress. But I would put one right HERE if I could.

It’s long been a pet theory of mine that the big problem with much of Islamic culture is that y’all don’t enjoy some of the finer things in life. Your idea of fun is to drink coffee and eat baklavah. No beer, no wine, no music, and only extremely limited contact with women. That would put anyone into a hypoglycemic fit, not to mention a very bad mood.

You see, happy people typically don’t go around wanting to kill people. Moderate alcohol use, laughing with your wife, even flirting with her, or listening to some good Chuck Berry is actually relaxing and calming. Sugar and coffee will just get you all hopped up and ticked off.

Did you know Hitler was a suspected hypoglycemic? Yup. Every time he’d only have a danish and some coffee for breakfast, he’d invade a country.

Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

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78%, eh. Maybe the Stats are Phoney?

05/05/2009 · Leave a Comment

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So, I see the Obama Administration, complete with his own token Israeli, Rahm Emmanuel, is not wasting any time pressuring Israel to commit national suicide. Did 78% of American Jews really vote for Barak Obama?

For insightful reading on this, I suggest Sultan Knish’s excellent post, Who did Jews really vote for in the 2008 Presidential Election?

Below are some excerpts from the Sultan Knish post:

“But there are of course two major reasons for putting out phony numbers for the Jewish vote.

”First of all a phony Jewish landslide helps cover up the real landslide of fraud that really brought Obama to power. Imaginary Jewish voters coming out in droves for Obama helps conceal the multiple voting ACORN frauds, the ballots thrown out and replaced and the whole ugly litany of deceit that forms the 2008 Presidential election’s true numbers.

”Second of all it creates the illusion of a broad Jewish consensus supporting Obama. This will be key in silencing internal Jewish criticism, moderating any Jewish newspapers that dared to criticize the false messiah… all in preparation for his crackdown on Israel.”

And here comes the crackdown: MK Katz: Pakistan Situation Proves Dangers of 2-State Solution.

This article discusses Rahm Emmanuel’s views, how disturbing they are to Israelis, particularly given Emmanuel’s family history. His father was in the Irgun. We have a name for the men and women, who, during the Holocaust, betrayed their own fellow Jews in order to save their own necks…”Kapo”. We’ll have to come up with a new term for a Jew who does it just for fun.

Excerpt from the Arutz Sheva article:

“In other words,” Katz continued, “we have to bring ourselves to the brink of extinction by allowing Hamastan into Judea and Samaria.  And this is the idea of a Jew, Rahm Emanuel – a Jew whose father fought in the Etzel (Irgun) against the British for the future of the State of Israel, but whose son, born in America, identifies with the most left-wing opinions, whose significance is the destruction of the State of Israel. I think this has to be stated very clearly.”

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Hat tip: WeJew

Back to Sultan Knish:

”So what was the real 2008 Presidential Jewish vote? The short answer is we’ll probably never know, but it also probably looked a more like Reagan vs Carter, than Gore vs Bush. And if the country ever makes it intact through the other side of the Obama junta, we can begin working toward a true history of what truly happened in the 2008 election.”

In a more recent post by Sultan Knish, entitled Obama’s Plan to Destroy Israel, he describes the various tools in Obama’s arsenal for putting the screws to Israel –

“On the military side, Obama’s people will make their non-existent efforts to stop Iran’s nukes conditional on more concessions to terrorists. Since Israel will never be able to make enough concessions and since Obama is working with Iran, rather than working to stop Iran’s nukes, this is a hollow charade.”

On Israeli concessions –

The more Israel will offer, the more the Obama Administration will tighten the screws. No offer will be good enough, and Israel will be blamed for every breakdown in talks and every bit of violence that takes place. The media will portray Israel and particularly Netanyahu as extremist and intransigent. Hamas will be slowly whitewashed in the media, the same way that Arafat’s goons were, (assuming that they prove more willing to cooperate in creating a positive media image of themselves than Ahmadinejad is.)

“The plan is to destroy Israel, and to do it by pushing Israel to the edge of the cliff and then over the cliff. Israel’s enemies will be getting top of the line US military equipment. Israel will not. Israel will be squeezed economically until the Netanyahu government collapses, leaving a weak left wing leader like Livni in charge of Israel, and in charge of acceding to the new Pharaoh’s demands.”

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This has been confirmed to be a real billboard, located in Albequerque, put out by a group headed by Cindy Sheehan, which is funded by Hamas affiliated Holy Land Foundation.

Hat tip: Israel Matzav

Sultan Knish understands the cynical plan better than most I’ve read. To read the entire post click HERE.

Sultan Knish in conclusion:

“Meanwhile so-called American Jewish groups will support Obama all the way, some because they were created precisely for that purpose, e.g. J-Street, and others because they have been hijacked, cowed or subverted.

“That is the game plan and some of it’s coming. The rest is already here.”

The red flags have been flying all over the place  for decades, spanning  several US Administrations, Democrat and Republican. The Obama Administration is characterized by the personality of the cult leader, Barak himself. He is a smooth talking, gifted speaker, particularly in tune with the American experience, knowledgeable enough to know what we want to hear, and willing to say it, to lie to us while doing exactly what he wants to do…dismantle Israel, while concurrently undoing America as we know it. He’s well on his way on both counts.

At Northeast Intelligence Network, Doug Hagmann, who refers to Obama as Captain Chaos, has written two articles that touch directly on this subject: This is Just the Beginning, and The US Abandonment of Israel, stated that the US Administration under Obama would be turning against Israel in the near future.

Excerpts from NIN:

31 December 2008: Northeast Intelligence Network director Doug Hagmann interviewed a highly-placed U.S. intelligence official late yesterday who not only confirmed rumors about escalated and more intensive Israeli military operations against the Muslim terrorists in Gaza, warned of the increasing probability of abandonment of Israel by the U.S. and other Western countries based on what he termed ‘malicious intelligence.’

“ ‘Remember that term,” advised this well-placed intelligence official, “you’ll be hearing it again.’ ”

Obama breaking with past US Administrative tradition –

“It has been a long standing policy to stand behind our Israeli allies, even if such policy merely amounts to paying lip service in public while exerting political pressure of restraint privately. Now, it appears evident that the United States, under Barack Hussein Obama as President and Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, is not even willing to do that. The pro-Palestinian, pro-HAMAS agenda of Barack Hussein Obama and his administration should be clear to anyone who is willing to take time away from watching their retirement funds evaporate into thin air, and equally unsettling.”

Operation Cast Lead. Necessary, but it came with a heavy price tag –

“I have every reason to believe, based on what I’ve seen at my level of [security] clearance especially over the last several years, that Israel will soon be completely on their own… or worse.” When asked what could be worse than losing the support of the United States, he stated: “when our administration provides more support to Arab countries [with] financial and military aid, undercutting Israel’s defense efforts all while pushing Israel to succumb to the pressure of unreasonable demands designed to end with their political annihilation as a nation.”

Massaged US Intelligence and MSM complicity in disseminating it –

“He continued: ‘When an intelligence work product that has been thoroughly and properly vetted is submitted to those in Washington, and I see a completely different and entirely inaccurate product intentionally submitted and aired in the media, only to be told ‘that is the way it must be,’ then I know it’s time for me to leave.’ “

American apathy, refusal to face facts –

“It is obvious to me that most Americans don’t understand or don’t care what is actually happening in the Middle East relative to Israel. People don’t understand history, or have been subjected to revisionist history based on lies and more lies. Add to that a media that fails to provide an accurate assessment of what is taking place in Israel, in Gaza, and you end up with a very bad situation for Israel,” stated this source. He added that the disinformation coming and going to and from Washington is getting worse, as is the media bias against Israel.”

One example of how Muslims pull the wool over willing American eyes is their calculated use of standard Islamic “cease-fires”, which give the appearance of moving from a hard-line stance to moderation. Here is one example at The Huffington Post:

“On the two-state solution sought by the Americans, he said: “We are with a state on the 1967 borders, based on a long-term truce. This includes East Jerusalem, the dismantling of settlements and the right of return of the Palestinian refugees.” Asked what “long-term” meant, he said 10 years.

Sigh. The more things change the more they stay the same. This is the lawful maximum amount of time allowed within sharia (Islamic law) to remain at peace with an enemy. It is called a “Hudna” and is designed to buy time in order to strengthen the given Islamic regime, in this case, Hamas, after being weakened (Operation Cast Lead) in order to recover and re-arm for the continued struggle. “If Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.16). But Americans will buy Hamas propaganda if packaged correctly, because we do not have patience for long-term struggles. We have not had to endure a 100 Years War.

Americans surely do not exhibit the tenacity that the Jewish people have had to make their standard “MO” just to ensure mere survival, never mind anything resembling a decent and stable life, which we’ve managed to do as well. That’s not just little ol’ Jewish me, bragging. I have it from authoritative sources that we are the “most tenacious people in history” (A History of the Jewish People by Paul Johnson, page 3. Mr. Johnson is a British Christian. Yeah, I just started it. Apart from his gospel interpretation of Scriptures, which is to be expected, it’s good so far.)

Having bragged about some of our finer qualities, I must say, it is extremely disconcerting to see an Israeli Jew, the son of an Irgun fighter, promoting the Obama policies which if followed, will result in the dismantlement of the modern State of Israel and the death of many innocent, good Jews. In such a horrible scenario, Heaven forfend, make no mistake, Jews in America and around the world will also be running for their very lives.

I have been amazed to see so many former IDF military leaders turn dovish. It is perplexing. The details of these sorts need to be investigated.  We need to find out if they are really “heroes” or are just selling themselves as such. If dovish former IDF military leaders were indeed outstanding in their service to Israel, it would be worth our time to find out what went wrong.

It’s disturbing to know that there are American Jews, any American Jews, who voted the smooth talking Barak Obama and his double-speak, destructive Administration into power. But we need to keep in mind, as we read the news, that ugly, deadly games are being played, Jewish organizations are being co-opted, influential Jews are being strong-armed in an effort to silence them. Numbers, statistics, intelligence…it’s all being manipulated. We are being lied to, all of us. No, not everything is a lie, but enough to throw us off, to make everything doubtful. Remember, it’s only paranoia if no one is out to get you.

What we see is only the tip of a very nasty, sewage infested ice-berg.

Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

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