WHAT WOULD MAKE THE BEST "STOP OBAMA" THEME SONG FOR THE NOVEMBER ELECTION?

I NOMINATE STAND:



Stand
In the end you'll still be you
One that's done all the things you set out to do
Stand
There's a cross for you to bear
Things to go through if you're going anywhere
Stand
For the things
you know are right
It s the truth that the truth makes them so uptight
Stand
All the things you want are real
You have you to complete and there is no deal
Stand. stand, stand
Stand. stand, stand
Stand
You've been sitting much too long
There's a permanent crease in your right and wrong
Stand
There's a midget standing tall
And the giant beside him about to fall
Stand. stand, stand
Stand. stand, stand
Stand
They will try to make you crawl
And they know what you're saying makes sense and all
Stand
Don't you know that you are free
Well at least in your mind if you want to be

Everybody
Stand, stand, stand

AFTER NOMINATING A PRO-SAUDI LAWYER AS DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL, OBAMA NOMINATES A PRO-SANCTUARY CITY COP TO ICE

UNREAL: SCARED MONKEYS:

Barack Hussein Obama has picked Harold Hurtt as the director for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of State and Local Coordination (ICE). With this pick, Obama has proved that he has a complete disdain for the rule of law in America when it comes to illegal immigration. Harold Hurtt is an outspoken critic of immigration enforcement and was the former police chief in Houston, TX and Phoenix, AZ.

“Chief Hurtt is a respected member of the law enforcement community and understands the concerns of local law enforcement leaders,” said John Morton, the Homeland Security assistant secretary for ICE. “His experience and skills will be an invaluable asset to the ICEs outreach and coordination efforts.”

But as a police chief, Hurtt was a supporter of “sanctuary city” policies, by which illegal immigrants who don’t commit crimes can live without fear of exposure or detainment because police don’t check for immigration papers.

OBAMA EITHER HATES AND WANTS TO DESTROY THE USA, OR HE'S A DUPE OF THOSE WHO DO.

SAME DIFFERENCE.

WE CAN STOP HIM AND HIS COMRADES AND SAVE THE USA THIS NOVEMBER: VOTE GOP!

AMSTERDAM POLICE DEPLOY "DECOY JEWS"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And look at the situation in Belgium:

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

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

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

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

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

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

I PROPOSE A NEW LAW REQUIRING ALL CONGRESSMEN TO PASS A TEST ABOUT WHAT'S ACTUALLY IN A NEW BILL BEFORE BEING ALLOWED TO VOTE ON IT

THEY CAN EVEN BE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS...

BUT EACH CONGRESSMAN WOULD HAVE TO GET AT LEAST 75% CORRECT TO BE ALLOWED TO CAST A VOTE!

THEN WE CAN END THIS CRAP:

Once more, with feeling

June 26th, 2010

Another 2000 page bill makes its way out of Congress. WaPo:

“It’s a great moment. I’m proud to have been here,” said a teary-eyed Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), who as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee led the effort in the Senate. “No one will know until this is actually in place how it works.”

It’s been said before: “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” How reassuring.

NEVER AGAIN.

THERE'S ACTUALLY AN EASIER WAY TO END THIS CRAP: VOTE GOP THE NOVEMBER!

BBC HELPING MUSLIMS DECIDE ABOUT BEARDS

THE DHIMMI BBC IS OPENLY CATERING ITS CONTENT TO MUSLIMS NOW.

EL BARADEI AGITATING AGAINST MUBARAK GOVERNMENT

EL BARADEI - WHO AS HEAD OF THE UN'S IAEA SPENT YEARS ENABLING IRAN'S NUKE PROGRAM AND ATTACKING THE USA - MIGHT AS WELL ANNOUNCE HE'S PART OF THE GLOBAL JIHAD: NOW HE'S ACTIVELY PROTESTING MUBARAK, OUR 2ND BEST ALLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

(THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD HAS ALREADY ENDORSED HIM TO RUN AGAINST MUBARAK - AND HE ENDORSED THEM.)

OBAMA IS GROWING BIG GOVERNMENT AND KILLING THE ECONOMY

NRO:

Since the beginning of the recession (roughly January 2008), some 7.9 million jobs were lost in the private sector while 590,000 jobs were gained in the public one. And since the passage of the stimulus bill (February 2009), over 2.6 million private jobs were lost, but the government workforce grew by 400,000.

GROWING THE GOVERNMENT HURTS THE ECONOMY BECAUSE NOTHING THE GOVERNMENT DOES OR SPENDS CAN INCREASE THE GDP AND THE ONLY WAY TO INCREASE PROSPERITY IS TO INCREASE THE GDP.

IF GOVERNMENT SPENDING COULD GROW THE ECONOMY THAN THE USSR WOULD BE THE BIGGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD.

LIMITED GOVERNMENT IS A NECESSARY EVIL; BIG GOVERNMENT IS A PARASITE.

WE CAN KILL IT THIS NOVEMBER: VOTE GOP.

OBAMA IS "THE EDUCATOR-IN-CHIEF ON ISLAM"

From Creeping Sharia, citing the Weekly Standard:

Rashad Hussain, America’s special envoy to the Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Saudi-based body formed in 1969 to “protect” Jerusalem from the Israelis, announced a new title this week for President Barack Obama. According to Hussain, Obama is America’s “Educator-in-Chief on Islam.”

Hussain so designated Obama in a keynote speech Wednesday, June 23, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars....

[...]

In his remarks, Hussain also congratulated Obama for sending Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser, to last year’s annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America, a notorious front for Saudi-financed Muslim radicalism. Worse, Hussain has now divulged that the U.S. will support the OIC in the latter’s United Nations effort to criminalize “defamation of religion”...

Read the rest HERE.

Galloping shari'a and Islamification! The goals of the Obama administration? Apparently.

Note to Reliapundit: Got a graphic for this posting? Please add one if you do.

WHY THOSE WHO PROMISE HEAVEN ON EARTH ARE ALWAYS TERRORISTS - AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT THEM

The people who tell you they can turn society into heaven on earth are always terrorists because people who believe this can be done are willing to do ANYTHING to bring it about and if you or anyone else gets in the way of their vision/version of heaven on earth, then they will get you out of their way any way they can.

That's why the most dangerous people on earth are utopianists, and it's why they're always statists - because to attempt to refashion society into a utopia you must have a strong state to reign in individuals who resist. And to reign them in they always use terror - in one form or another.

People on the right - who value most individual liberty and accountability - are people who accept that people and society are imperfectable; therefore they accept that a society based on individual liberty and democracy and a free market is merely the best we can hope to do. Many things about a free democratic society suck (just as idiot statist Tom "China for a day" Friedman); it's just the best social system around - ever & anywhere.

Our Founding Fathers weren't out to create a PERFECT UNION, just a MORE PERFECT one.

That's why they wrote Article Ten of the Constitution:

X - Rights of the States under Constitution

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The state ONLY has defined limited power and rights derived from a willing transfer of some of the power and rights inherent to each person.

Any system which attempts to take individual power and liberty away from the individual is tyrannical.

Even if they say it's for our own good or the common good. (They always do, don't they!)

They have always been wrong and have always made things worse, poorer and less free.

WANT A BETTER WORLD?

Then let each person attempt to perfect their own self. No one gets hurt and we all prosper.

Socialists and jihadists are the two biggest threats to individual liberty and the prosperity individual liberty produces.

We are now locked in a global struggle against both:

Socialism is dying in Europe - just as Obama is trying to inflict it on us here.

Jihadism is attempting to reconquer the Caliphate and force the rest of the world into dhimmitude.

If Obama and socialism win here, then jihadism and dhimmitude will win everywhere else.

We can prevent that from happening by voting GOP this November!

Typical pseudo-intellectual leftist Janeane Garofalo derides Bible

WZ:

Miserable Lefty Janeane Garofalo: Bible a ‘Work of Fiction’ for a ‘Child-Like Audience,’ Complains, Obama is ‘Such a Conservative’…

Why do I bother with her? Because she annoys the ever living shit out of me…

Sometime-comedian Janeane Garofalo never passes up an opportunity to slam conservatives or, apparently, Christianity. The Huffington Post gave her an opportunity June 24 to kill two birds with one stone.

In a June 24 interview promoting her upcoming special on a network called EPIX, Garofalo compared the most widely-read book of all time, the Bible, to a Bill O’Reilly autobiography and a children’s book authored by former President Bush.

Garafoolo could not be further off the mark.

Marx was dead wrong about religion in general and Judeo-Christianity in particular; in fact, socialism is the opiate of the pseudo-intellectuals.

What truly never ceases to amaze me about pseudo-intellectual leftist scum like Garafoolo, is that they truly BELIEVE in Marxism – and other forms of socialism – despite the fact that in just over 150 years they have all been discredited because they have failed everywhere and every time they’ve ever been employed.

And they deride the 3000 year old Bible, which is the basis for all that is good in Western Civilization - our inalienable Natural Rights & Natural Law, democracy, personal freedom - and personal accountability.

Idiots like Garafooolo ignore the genocidal truth about socialism: Not only does it wipe our wealth and make prosperity creation nearly impossible, in the 20th Century alone, socialism killed more people than Judeo-Christianity killed in the preceding 20 centuries!

REPEAT: in the 20th Century alone, socialism killed more people than Judeo-Christianity killed in the preceding 20 centuries! (In all olf human history, only Islam has killed more people than socialism!)

People who remain leftists are the truly child-like idiots & dupes, as are all people who refuse to accept that we are in the midst of WW4 and that it's Global Jihad.

BJ CLINTON OPTS TO HANG OUT IN SOUTH AFRICA TO WATCH TEAM USA

TRIB: After U.S. win, Clinton opts to stay

Former President Bill Clinton liked what he saw from the U.S. World Cup team so much, he’s staying for the next game.

Clinton said yesterday that he changed his schedule so he can attend the Americans’ game against Ghana tomorrow in Rustenburg, South Africa. The honorary chairman of the U.S. bid to host the World Cup in either 2018 or 2022, Clinton was in the stands for Wednesday’s thrilling 1-0 victory against Algeria that sent the United States on to the round of 16. He then spent more than an hour in the locker room celebrating with the team.

“I lost my voice yesterday. I had to come home and drink hot tea with honey for an hour,” Clinton said. “I was very diplomatic until we scored, and then I was up there screaming and yelling with everybody.”

Clinton was meeting with former South African President Nelson Mandela later yesterday and traveling to Malawi today to visit health initiatives and economic development projects sponsored by his Clinton Foundation. He also made a trip to Tanzania to check on foundation projects there.

But his primary purpose in Africa is to promote the U.S. World Cup bid to FIFA’s executive committee, which will select the 2018 and 2022 hosts in December. Clinton sat with FIFA President Sepp Blatter during Wednesday’s game, met with seven members of the executive committee yesterday and will meet with others at a reception Sunday in Cape Town.

“I think it would be good for America, really good for America, if we can do it,” Clinton said. “And I think it would be good for soccer worldwide if we could do it.”

COOL.

COOLER:
BJ LOOKS LIKE HE STILL KNOWS HOW TO HAVE A GOOD TIME...

GEE: I HOPE BJ DOESN'T GET BIT BY ONE OF THEM NEW CONDOMS.

OBAMA NOMINATES ANOTHER PRO-JIHAD LAWYER TO THE DOJ

UNREAL - THIS TIME, OBAMA HAS NOMINATED A LAWYER WHO DEFENDED THE HOUSE OF SAUD FROM THE 9/11 FAMILIES.

EXIT QUESTION:

IF OBAMA REALLY WAS A CRYPTO-MUSLIM WHO WANTED TO DESTROY AMERICA, WOULD HE BE DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY?

NOPE.

WILL JOHN BOEHNER BE POTUS #46?

IT'S EASY:

WE IMPEACH OBAMA, DECLARE ALZHEIMER'S AFFLICTED POTUS #45 JOE "BITE ME" BIDEN UNFIT, AND THEN MAKE THE NEXT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE POTUS #46 IN 2011.

YEAH, BABY!

Assad to start Latin American tour

Jpost:

Syrian leader seeks to strengthen int'l image, economic ties.

  To improve Syria's image on the international stage and strengthen economic ties, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has set out on a landmark tour to Latin America Friday, AFP reported.

Assad will visit the region for the first time on a tour that will begin in Venezuela and continue with visits to Brazil and Argentina, all countries with large Syrian expat communities, as well as Cuba.

Under Obama; we are losing influence in our own hemisphere to Russia and the axis of jihad.

We can stop this infiltration this November: vote GOP!

FOLLOWING FRANCE, BRITAIN RAISES RETIREMENT AGE

BBC:

The government is to speed up plans to raise the state pension age for men to 66, possibly by as early as 2016.

Ministers will also raise the option of extending it further, perhaps to 70 and beyond in the following decades.

THE USA NEEDS TO DO THE SAME THING -

AND ALSO GRADUALLY PRIVATIZE THE ACCOUNTS ...

SO WHAT YOU PUT IN REMAINS PART OF YOUR ESTATE ...

AND DOESN'T TRANSFER TO THE GENERAL ACCOUNT UPON YOUR DEATH.

ASSAD TO TOUR LATIN AMERICA

Assad to start Latin American tour Syrian leader seeks to strengthen int'l image, economic ties.

To improve Syria's image on the international stage and strengthen economic ties, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has set out on a landmark tour to Latin America Friday, AFP reported.

Assad will visit the region for the first time on a tour that will begin in Venezuela and continue with visits to Brazil and Argentina, all countries with large Syrian expat communities, as well as Cuba.

Under Obama; we are losing influence in our own hemisphere to Russia and the axis of jihad.

We can stop this infiltration this November: vote GOP!

GEITHNER: COURTESY OF OBAMA AND THE LEFT, THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told the BBC that the world "cannot depend as much on the US as it did in the past".

In an exclusive interview, Mr Geithner said that other major economies would have to grow more for the global economy to prosper.

MORE PROOF THAT THE USA'S CURRENT FINANCIAL, ECONOMIC AND FEDERAL BUDGETARY CRISIS WAS CAUSED BY LIBERAL HOUSING POLICIES

• CANADA VERSUS THE USA = FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SOUNDNESS VERSUS VIRTUAL COLLAPSE.

• CANADA VERSUS THE USA = CONSERVATIVE LENDING PRACTICES VERSUS LIBERAL LENDING PRACTICES.

• CANADA VERSUS THE USA = GOOD ECONOMY VERSUS PROBABLE DOUBLE-DIP.

PROOF HERE.

HMMM: GAZA FLOTILLA PROVOCATIONS SUSPENDED

IT SEEMS THINGS HAVE CALMED DOWN:

HAARETZ:

One of the organizers of an Iranian aid flotilla that was to said to Gaza in efforts to break Israel's naval blockade on the territory, announced Thursday that the event has been cancelled due to "Israeli threats."

Army Radio reported that a separate Iranian ship, carrying 60 Iranian activists, was being prepared to sail to Gaza via the Caspian Sea. This after the Lebanese media reported several days ago that Egypt has denied Israel's request to prevent Iranian ships from passing through the Suez Canal toward Egypt.

Meanwhile Thursday, the U.S. State Department issued a statement calling the aid flotillas to Gaza irresponsible.

"Mechanisms exist for the transfer of humanitarian assistance to Gaza by member states and groups that want to do so," the U.S. State Department said regarding Lebanese plans to ship aid to Gaza. "Direct delivery by sea is neither appropriate nor responsible, and certainly not effective, under the circumstances."

INN:

After years in which Israel has limited entrance to Gaza in order to isolate Hamas, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman invited his European Union counterparts to visit the region. Lieberman was quoted Thursday by Channel 2 news.

The invitation was reportedly extended during a meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.

Lieberman told Frattini that he could lead a delegation to Gaza and visit all parts of the region. Delegates may meet with whomever they wish, the foreign minister reportedly said.

He also suggested that the EU invest in improving Gaza's infrastructure.

Previously, Israel has allowed United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton to visit Gaza. Egypt has largely sealed its border to visitors as well, although it recently allowed a handful of aid delegates to enter Gaza via the Rafiah crossing.

(KADIMA CRITICIZED THE MOVE ON THE BASIS THAT IT LEGITIMIZES HAMAS.

THIS IS RUBBISH: IT WILL HAVE THE OPPOSITE EFFECT.)

THE COMBINATION OF RESOLUTE ISRAELI POSITION ON THE FLOTILLAS, AND (FINALLY!!!) A CLEAR STATEMENT FROM THE US STATE DEPARTMENT AND THE INVITATION FROM FM LIEBERMAN HAS DEFUSED THE DELIBERATELY FOMENTED ANTI-ISRAEL CRISIS.

IF OBAMA AND HILARY HAD BEEN THIS CLEAR FROM THE START, THEN THIS WHOLE CRISIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN AVOIDED.

OBAMA AND HILARY SHOULD HAVE WARNED-OFF ERDOGAN BEFORE HE SENT THE IHH IN ON THE MARMARA.

BUT OBAMA AND HILLARY ARE INCOMPETENTS.

UPDATE:

SPECULATION/QUESTION:

DID ISRAEL THREATEN IRAN WITH AN IMMEDIATE ATTACK IF THEY WENT THROUGH WITH THE FLOTILLA?

AFTER ALL, IRAN LIKES SERIOUS CONFLICT BETWEEN HAMAS AND HIZBALLAH AND ISRAEL TO DISTRACT THE WEST FROM THEIR NUKE PROGRAM.

SO WHY ELSE WOULD THEY COOL IT SO PRECIPITOUSLY!?

UPDATE #2:

IRAN NEWS AGENCIES REPORTED THE IDF WAS IN SAUDI ARABIA.

WERE THEY SETTING UP ANTI-MISSILE SHIELDS - TO PROTECT SAUDI ARABIA AND THEIR OIL FIELDS FROM A CONVENTIONAL RETALIATORY ATTACK FROM IRAN AFTER AN IDF PREEMPTIVE ATTACK?

I THINK THESE SPECULATIVE SCENARIOS EXPLAIN EVERYTHING WE KNOW.

I DON'T ANYTHING ELSE DOES.

DEARBORNISTAN SHARI'A

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

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

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

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

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

The Detroit News says:

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

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

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

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

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

NOT A VICTORY YET AT UC IRVINE

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

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

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

Germany: Youths attack Jewish group

The "Youths" are restless.

From the Jerusalem Post:

BERLIN — A Jewish dance group was attacked with stones by a group of children and teenagers during a performance at a street festival in the Germany city of Hannover, police said Thursday. One dancer suffered a leg injury and the group then canceled their performance.

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

Police said the incident is under investigation and that they do not have an exact number of attackers yet. Schiewe said there were several Muslim immigrant youths among the attackers.

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

Alla Volodarska, whose Progressive Jewish community of Hannover group held the performance, told The Associated Press in an interview that members were still in shock.

"What happened is just so awful," Volodarska said. "The teenagers started throwing stones the moment our dance group was announced, even before they started dancing."

Volodarska said she did not attend the event herself, but had talked to several members of the eight-person dance group since the incident. She said one dancer, a woman in her forties, was injured by several stones that hit her leg.

"There were many kids throwing stones, many of them, but we don't know the exact number," she said, adding that the community had performed Israeli group dances at many festivals in the past and never experienced this kind of hostility before.

Volodarska said that the festival took place in Sahlkamp, an immigrant neighborhood of Hannover. 

This was a coordinated attack. They began throwing stoned immediately after the group was announced, not even bothering to watch the performance begin.

As we all know by now, "youths" is euphemistic journo-speak for Muslims.

Europe hides behind it's "youths" to do the job to do their dirty work.

If that were not the case, then Europeans would have no problem telling us who is attacking, and what motivated the attacks in the first place.

GOOD GUYS WIN ONE: ILLINOIS POLICE FIRE JIHADIST CHAPLAIN

NYTIMES/AP: Ill. Police Revoke 1st Muslim Chaplain's Post

The Illinois State Police has revoked the appointment of the agency's first Muslim chaplain, citing only information revealed during a background check. A national Muslim advocacy group Wednesday blamed the move on Islamophobia.

Kifah Mustapha, a Chicago-area imam, was appointed the agency's first Muslim chaplain in December. Community groups had praised Mustapha's appointment as a nod to the growing diversity among the agency's nearly 2,000 officers.

But within days, the appointment came under criticism from the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a Washington-based think tank.

The group alleged that Mustapha was linked to the Palestine Committee of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, a popular movement in the Muslim world that advocates the formation of Islamic governments in the Middle East. It also alleged he raised money for the Holy Land Foundation, a now-defunct Islamic charity whose founders were sentenced last year for funneling money to the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The group cited internal documents and a list of unindicted co-conspirators.

... Ahmed Rehab, CAIR's executive director in Chicago, called it discrimination against Muslims, especially since Mustapha hasn't been formally accused of wrongdoing.

''The ISP is kowtowing to the run-of-the-mill fear-mongering that Islamophobes have devoted their careers in order to avoid a public relations controversy,'' he said.

Steve Emerson, executive directr of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, on Wednesday defended the group's original report, saying it merely published content linking Mustapha to fundraising for terrorists.

He said his group was prompted to investigate after news of the appointment was published on the website of the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, one of the Chicago area's oldest and largest mosques. Mustapha is an imam and director there.

Emerson dismissed charges of Islamophobia as ''empty diversions and without merit'' in an e-mail.

CAIR planned to file a lawsuit and a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Mustapha's behalf.

MAYBE MEXICO AND OBAMA WILL FILE AMICUS BRIEFS ON BEHALF OF THE JIHADSTS.

Aussie Labor Party dumps ear-wax eater Rudd - electing first female PM

This is good news: disarray of the left is alwaqys good; they dumped Rudd for the first female PM of OZ.

The Dems might take note - and dump Obama!

Obama's lie to Kyl reveals his true objective: open borders AND amnesty

It is commonly understood that securing the border would make it EASIER to grant citizenship to our current crop of illegal aliens. Few Americans want to kick long-time illegals out of the country, but people know that if the borders are not secured first then any talk of amnesty will increase the flood of illegal immigration as Mexicans jump across the border to get in on it and to get in line for future amnesties. That will make our illegal alien problem worse, not better, making amnesty a non-starter. Only if the borders are secured first does amnesty becomes viable.

So why did Obama pretend in his discussion with Senator Kyl that securing the border would make it HARDER to achieve amnesty? Here is Kyl's account of the discussion:

“The problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’” [Audible gasps were heard throughout the audience.] Sen. Kyl continued, “In other words, they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’”

An Obama spokesman issued a nominal denial that actually confirmed Obama's linking of border security to amnesty, and Senator McCain now adds that Obama also told him that he would not move on border security without amnesty.

Thus we have a conundrum. Obama is saying something extraordinarily impolitic: that he is holding border security hostage to amnesty. Yet this impolitic admission is clearly not true. Our unsecured border is the great obstacle to the passage of any sort of amnesty. The only reason to admit such a damaging falsehood is if the truth is even worse, and indeed, we can be certain that this is the case.

If Obama wanted both border security and amnesty then he would secure the border today, paving the way for some sort of amnesty later in his term. He is adamantly against this path, yet we know that does want half of it: he does want amnesty. The only conclusion is that what he actually wants is amnesty without border security. In other words: his goal is to kill the hostage.

Which is no surprise. Our entire Democrat political class is in favor of amnesty without border security, especially after the last amnesty-without-border-security bill, signed by Ronald Reagan in 1986, worked out so well for them. The '86 amnesty spawned the prospect of future amnesties, which in the absence of border security only added to the flow of illegal immigration (almost entirely Hispanic):



Between 87 and 88 the number of illegal aliens dipped from 5 million to 2 million as 3 million illegals took advantage of the amnesty to become American citizens. The number of illegals was back up to 5 million by 1996 and has grown apace ever since. This has been good for Democrats, who Hispanic voters favor by a wide margin (voting 67 to 31 for Obama over McCain in 2008), so it is not surprising that Democrat politicians are highly motivated both to grant amnesty (so current illegal Mexicans can vote), and to keep the border open (to bring in more future Democrats).

Of course Democrats cannot be honest about this strategy of securing their own power by serving foreign interests. Such treason sits very poorly with vast majority of Americans of both parties, so Obama tried to hide the full maliciousness of his agenda by admitting only half of it: that he is holding border security hostage. It's nice to get that much on him. Just understand the full import. Obama has no intention of swapping the border-security hostage for any amount of concessions. He means to take the concessions AND kill the hostage.

MAYBE NETANYAHU SHOULD PULL A MCCHRYSTAL?

WHAT IF... WHAT IF BIBI TOLD ROLLINGSTONE HOW AWFUL THE OBAMA TEAM WAS?

JUST ASKING.

HONDURAS MIGHT HAVE SIMILAR THINGS TO SAY TO THEM, TOO.

AND SO MIGHT POLAND AND SOUTH KOREA...

AS A MATTER OF FACT, I THINK ALL OUR ALLIES ARE A LITTLE PISSED OFF AT OBAMA'S APPEASING AND HIS INCOMPETENCE.

BTW: I THINK OBAMA WAS RIOGHT TO FIRE MCCHRYSTAL.

EVEN THOUGH MCCHRYSTAL JUST TOLD THE TRUTH.

OBAMACARE WILL KILL PATIENTS AND FREE ENTERPISE

OBAMACARE = RATIONING = DEATH PANELS FOR PATIENTS.

OBAMACARE = PRICE CONTROLS = DEATH PANELS FOR PRIVATE INSURERS.

AGW = A/C EXHAUST

MIGHT AGW = A/C EXHAUST? IN AT LEAST ONE CASE: YES!

BELGIUM'S STILL GOT ITS WAR CRIME BIAS LAW AGAINST ISRAEL

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

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

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

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

[...]

Much of the claim is based on the Goldstone Report.

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

IT'S TIME TO MAKE A SYNAGOGUE IN SILWAN JEWISH AGAIN

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

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

[...]

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

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

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

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

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

PM Netanyahu: We face delegitimization attack

"Extremist leftist and Islamist organizations are organizing a campaign to delegitimize Israel," said Netanyahu.

"Certain parties, not just from the flotilla, are calling for Israelis to return to Poland and Morroco and demanding that Zionism be destroyed," stated the prime minister.

Netanyahu added that leftists mainly from Europe, together with radical Islam have formed an alliance against Israel. This alliance hates Israel's free and pluralistic society, he added.

This is straight out of Andy McCarthy's book: The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America

Obama is a leftist who is facilitating these efforts.

And, he is doing so via his NPT/"nuke free middle east" stance and his condemnation of the Gaza embargo and of Jews building in east Jerusalem.

SPAIN TAKES ANOTHER BIG STEP AWAY FROM SOCIALISM

BBC:

Spain's parliament has ratified labour reforms designed to bring down high unemployment.

Measures include promoting youth employment and cutting the cost of firing workers, which critics say makes employers reluctant to hire more staff.

Changes to the labour law follow spending cuts introduced last month in a bid to cut the large budget deficit.

Spain's two main unions have called a general strike on 29 September in protest at the tough economic measures.

THEY NEED TO DO M,ORE, BUT THEY ARE NO HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION - LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY: THE ARE BACKING UP ON THE ROAD TO SERFDOM!

I want all you "Blame Bush" morons to put your feeble minds around this: the costs of the Fannie Mae debacle dwarfs the costs of the BP spill

The CBO estimates that bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will end up costing taxpayers $400 BILLION.

That's TWENTY TIMES the cost of the BP spill.

If BP was negligent with their well, then the Democrats of Congress were negligent with Fannie Mae.

I'll tell you another thing that makes Fannie Mae worse: the taxpayer is paying for the Democrats' negligence, but NOT for BP's negligence.

And there will be more long term headaches for more people as a result of the Fannie Mae debacle then the BOP spill.

BOTTOM LINE: we need to clean up Congress as much as we need to clean up the Gulf.

We can do tat this November: Vote GOP!

NORWEGIANS CREATING HUGE NEW DEEP SEA OIL FIRM

DESPITE OUR CURRENT DEBACLE IN THE GULF, THE REST OF THE WORLD STILLLOVES DEEP SEA ENERGY EXPLOITATION:

BBC: Acergy to buy Subsea 7 in oil and gas engineering deal

North sea gas rig Acergy built the world's longest undersea gas pipeline in 2006

Norway's Acergy has announced an acquisition that will create a major new oil and gas engineering firm.

The company will buy out rival Subsea 7, creating a company of 12,000 employees and worth $5.4bn (£3.6bn).

Acergy built what was the world's longest underwater gas pipeline in 2006, connecting the UK to Norwegian North Sea gasfields.

IF THEY CAN DO IT - AND IF BRAZILIANS CAN DO IT - THEN WE CAN DO IT!

Amazing Hubble video reveals bubbles and baby stars

AWESOME HUBBLE VIDEO:

This zoom sequence begins with a very wide-field view of the southern sky including both the Milky Way and the two Magellanic Clouds. We then close in on a bright region in the outer part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. This is the rich star formation region N11. As the zoom finishes the full majesty of this complex of gas, dust and young stars is revealed in a very detailed picture from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA, ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2, Akira Fujii and Eckhard Slawik. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin

SHARIA BANKING IN BRITAIN IS A HUGE FLOP

THIS IS BUSINESS:

Muslim leaders have backed comments by a leading Islamic finance expert who said Sharia-compliant banking had been a "huge flop" in the UK.

Junaid Bhatti, part of the team which set up the Islamic Bank of Britain (IBB), which has one of its eight branches in Leicester, said Islamic products had been wrongly marketed by banks, which had over-emphasised the religious aspect.

These products are forbidden to charge, pay interest or be linked to the alcohol or tobacco industries.

The city is considered to be a hotspot for Sharia-compliant banking, mortgages and insurance due to its large Muslim population.

Earlier this year, Ali Vania, manager at the Leicester branch of IBB, in London Road, Leicester, – which opened in 2005 – said demand for Islamic financial products has increased because of the economic crisis.

However, Mr Bhatti told Muslim Politics.com: "As we now approach the sixth anniversary of IBB's launch, I'm sad to finally have to admit that Islamic finance in the UK has been a huge flop."

IBB has not made a profit since it was founded in 2004 and last year saw losses rise to £9.5 million, compared to £5.9 million in 2008.

Mr Bhatti said that products created by the major banks had also failed to take off.

"Lloyds, which made a half-hearted stab at Sharia-compliant products in 2004, doesn't seem to have promoted its offering for years," he said in the article.

"Even HSBC Amanah, probably the most credible and efficient provider of halal banking in the UK, has dramatically reduced its dedicated Islamic banking staff in Britain, and its marketing volume has been turned way down."

IBB declined to comment.

HSBC said Sharia-compliant accounts were increasing at 10 per cent to 15 per cent a year. Lloyds said it no longer marketed its Islamic products.

I DON'T THINK SHARIA BANKING WAS EVER INTENDED TO MAKE MONEY; IT WAS A FORM OF INTIMIDATION AND CREEPING ISLAMIZATION.

I'M GLAD IT'S FLOPPING.

PEOPLE WHO WANT SHARIA IN ANY FORM SHOULD BE DEPORTED FROM THE WEST.

COMRADE OBAMA ATTACKS THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY

TO OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES, PROFIT-SEEKING ENTERPRISE IS EVIL. YUP: MORE AND MORE OBAMA SOUNDS LIKE LENIN.

BRITAIN ENACTS AUSTERITY BUDGET TODAY. WHEN WILL THE USA?

BRITAIN ENACTED AN AUSTERITY BUDGET TODAY.

• THE USA NEEDS TO, ASAP.

• WHEN WILL WE?

• NEXT JANUARY - WHEN THE GOP TAKES OVER CONGRESS.

• THEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL DO WHAT CHRIS CHRISTIE & NEW JERSEY - AND MOST OF EUROPE ARE DOING.

CHRISTIE IS GRRRRRRREAT! WATCH HIM HERE:

KURDISTAN? YES. GAZASTAN OR PALISTAN? NO.

THE KURDS DESERVE A STATE. THE KURDS AHVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. GAZA ARABS AND WEST BANK ARABS DO NOT.

MORE HERE.

ANOTHER SIGN OBAMA IS BEELZEBUB?

DRUDGE TODAY:



LORD OF THE FLIES

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS A LONG LONG TIME AGO:

Obama: Lord Of The Flies

Someone is trying to tell us something.

BEEZELBUB IS AN ALTERNATIVE NAME FOR SATAN.


IT MEANS "LORD OF THE FLIES".


CLICK HERE for A NYTIMES STORY, (A FOLLOW UP TO DEADLY OBAMA'S FLY-SWAT) ABOUT HOW THE WHITE HOUSE IS NOW LOADED WITH FLIES.


JUST SWARMING WITH THEM!


REALLY!!


NUFF SAID.

GILAD SHALIT RALLY IN PARIS

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

OBAMA'S CORE BELIEFS

Does he have any? From Richard Cohen in the Washington Post finally asks questions conservatives have been asking for approximately two years now:

Who is this guy? What are his core beliefs? The president himself is no help on this score. When it comes to his own image, he has a tin ear....

Mr. Cohen gets specific in his essay:

For instance, it's not clear that Obama is appalled by China's appalling human rights record. He seems hardly stirred about continued repression in Russia. He treats the Israelis and their various enemies as pests of equal moral standing. The president seems to stand foursquare for nothing much.

Even some not on right are learning that BHO is an empty suit.

Voter remorse will likely continue to increase. May it increase so much that the November 2010 election shoves every Democrat out the doors of Capitol Hill.

HOLLAND CUTTING SALARIES OF STATE-OWNED COMPANY EXEC'S BY 45%

DUTCH NEWS:

The bosses of a number of companies owned by the Dutch state face salary cuts of up to 45%, acting finance minister Jan Kees de Jager said on Tuesday.

Pay is being cut in the executive ranks at seven out of 14 state-owned firms. The head of the local authorities bank BNG and the national lottery, where starting salaries are high, will see their pay almost halved, De Jager said.

WE NEED SOME OF THIS HERE: GOVERNMENT WORKERS GET PAID DOUBLE WHAT THE SAME JOB GETS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

THEY ALL WANT TO GET OFF THE SINKING SHIP: EMANUEL, ORZAG, MCCHRYSTAL

WHO IS NEXT... GEITHNER... NAPLOITANO... SALAZAR... SIBELIUS.... HILLARY?

THINGS ARE ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE FOR OBAMA BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER.

THE BEST TIME FOR THESE FOLKS TP JUMP SHIP IS NOW, BEFORE THE ELECTION DEBACLE

ECB ALSO WANTS AUSTERITY AND DEFICIT CUTS

MORE PROOF THAT SOCIALISM HAS FAILED AND THE AGE OF AUSTERITY HAS BEGUN.

NOTE:

• THE STAGGERING DEBT OF EU NATIONS LIKE GREECE AND SPAIN PROVES THAT THE US DEBT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FIGHTING TWO WARS -
• AS THE LEFT LIKES TO ARGUE AS THEY "BLAME BUSH!"-
• AND THAT IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOO MANY BIG EXPENSIVE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS.
  
• IOW: SOCIALISM.
• I GUESS THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED THE ROAD TO SERFDOM.

BRAZIL: STATE-OWNED OIL COMPANY, PETROBAS, TO INVEST $224 BILLION IN DEEP-WATER DRILLING

If they can do it, why can't we?

From the New York Times:

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian state oil company PETROBRAS on Monday unveiled a $224 billion five-year investment plan as it pushes forward a campaign to tap billions of barrels of deep water oil reserves.

They're doing it. We're not.

In fact, President Obama's moratorium on drilling in the Gulf has had the negative consequence of inspiring business to send their rigs to Brazil.

As far as Barack Obama is concerned, Brazil can expand their oil industry, but the United States can not.

Would it be any different if we had a Marxist in the White House who was bent on destroying the United States?

PREVIOUS POST HERE.

Hamas-supporting NY pol defines racism the way Islam defines blasphemy

Racism used to be defined (and should be defined) as opposition to people or things because of their racial origins. How the times have changed. From Outside the Beltway:

Former Black Panther Charles Barron, city councilman from Brooklyn, says only racists would ban vuvuzelas. Which he’d never heard of 30 seconds earlier.

Barron's reasoning? IF the vuvuzelas have a black origin, THEN opposition to the vuvuzelas is racist. Nothing about whether the opposition has anything to do with race:

Absolutely it's racist, because if that's something that comes out of our culture, it's in our country South Africa, then we have a right and you have to adopt to tue culture ande the traditions of the country that's hosting the games. Absolutely it's racist. Outrageous. Let 'em blow.

Barron is being jocular, but his definition of racism is dead serious. To oppose anything black-associated or of black origin is racism. You know, the same way opposing anything white people do is racist. Hasn't that been the Black Panther position since the 60's?

Apparently the most racist ban is on shooting pistols in the air on New Year's Eve. It's racist against Mestizos, since they are the ones who do it. And it's racist against whites, because whites invented the pistol.

Of course opposition to the vuvuzela has nothing to do with race. The idiotic noisemakers are literally deafening:

The researchers said the average sound exposure during the near two hours was 100.5 decibels and peaked at 144.2 decibels. National standards for occupational noise require hearing protection for workers exposed to 85 decibels and above.

For comparison, a circular saw produces 90-100 decibels, jackhammer produces 112, and a jet engine at 100 feet produces a sound pressure of 140 decibels.

Similarity to the Islamic definition of blasphemy

In Islam, criticism of any orthodox Islamic doctrine is interpreted as criticism of Muhammad and is charged as blasphemy (which according to Sharia law is to be punished by death). Makes for an interesting parallel. Criticism of anything Muslim is blasphemy. Criticism of anything black is racism.

Is ex-Panther Barron a Muslim? He doesn't say, but he certainly has many Islamic associates. Black Panthers were Black Muslims and Barron (along with other semi-hidden Muslims like William "Abu Zayd" Ayers) is one of the organizers of the Hamas-supporting Gaza flotilla . In any case, Barron acts like a Muslim, viewing all criticism of his side as essentially criminal. Note the confidence with which Barron asserts his perverted definition of racism. The blatant double standard comes out joyously, even innocently. To him, it is perfectly logical:



This is the confidence of Islam, with its unabashed double standards. Islam is to reign supreme. To even criticize it is a crime. Similarly now for anything black, as we have seen for the last year and a half. If you oppose Obama's socialist agenda, or even the vuvuzela, you're a racist.

THREE ITEMS FROM EAST JERUSALEM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weapons were surrendered in line with the investigation.

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

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

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

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

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

WHAT ABOUT JEWISH RIGHTS TO TRAVERSE ARAB NEIGHBORHOODS?

Hagai Segal writes on Ynet about the sadness of segregation:

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

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

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

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

THE FADING JEWISH COMMUNITY OF MOROCCO

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

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

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

Steyn also notes the hypocrisy regarding the flotilla case:

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

Odd. But why?

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

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

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

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

LEFTIST LOBBYISTS IN US ORCHESTRATE GAZA CAMPAIGN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AMERICAN WARSHIPS HEAD THRU SUEZ CANAL AND HEAD TOWARD IRAN: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS DRUDGE

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11 U.S. warships pass through Suez Canal en route to Red Sea...

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JOSE MARIA AZNAR: IF ISRAEL GOES DOWN, WE ALL DO

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

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

IS THERE A UNIVERSAL RIGHT TO NATIONAL DEFENSE, OR, IS THERE A UNIVERSAL RIGHT TO NATIONAL DEFENSE FOR EVERY NATION EXCEPT ISRAEL???

HMMM: WHAT IF:

ISRAEL has vowed to fight HAMAS until they are "annihilated", after attacks killed 11 soldiers.

PM BIBI NETANYAHU said Saturday's "cowardly" assaults would not end ISRAEL’S determination to fight HAMAS "to the end".

The army said it had retaliated with a helicopter attack that killed at least 12 rebels.

There has been a sharp increase in the number of recent clashes with the HAMAS.

On Friday the ISRAELI military said it had killed about 120 HAMAS since March, while 43 members of the ISRAELI security forces had also died.

Rebels killed nine soldiers in a raid on an outpost near the Iraqi border early on Saturday, in the deadliest attack against the ISRAELI military since April 2009, when nine soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb that was blamed on the HAMAS.

The deaths of 11 men in a single day will certainly harden official attitudes towards the HAMAS.

In a country where every soldier's funeral whips up a frenzy of nationalist sentiment, Mr NETANYAHU's party is vulnerable to charges of selling out to terrorists, because of its efforts last year to promote a softer approach to the conflict.

The increasingly bold attacks by the HAMAS this year have effectively killed off that initiative, although it was already running out of steam.

But after 26 years and 40,000 deaths, few officials can be under any illusion that just throwing more military forces at the HAMAS along the Iraqi border can finish the movement off.

Later on Saturday, two soldiers were killed in a mine explosion while attempting to capture rebels near the border.

As well as responding with helicopter attacks, ISRAEL launched air raids on HAMAS positions inside GAZA territory.

IF THIS WAS A REAL NEWS ITEM, THEN IT WOULD BE FOLLOWED BY CALLS FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST ISRAEL.

BUT IT ISN'T A REAL NEWS ITEM - NOT ABOUT ISRAEL, AT LEAST.

IT'S REALLY ABOUT TURKEY:

BBC: Turkey has vowed to fight Kurdish rebels until they are "annihilated", after attacks killed 11 soldiers.

PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday's "cowardly" assaults would not end Turkey's determination to fight the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) "to the end".

The army said it had retaliated with a helicopter attack that killed at least 12 rebels.

There has been a sharp increase in the number of recent clashes with the PKK.

On Friday the Turkish military said it had killed about 120 Kurdish rebels since March, while 43 members of the Turkish security forces had also died.

Rebels killed nine soldiers in a raid on an outpost near the Iraqi border early on Saturday, in the deadliest attack against the Turkish military since April 2009, when nine soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb that was blamed on the PKK.

The deaths of 11 men in a single day will certainly harden official attitudes towards the PKK.

In a country where every soldier's funeral whips up a frenzy of nationalist sentiment, Mr Erdogan's party is vulnerable to charges of selling out to terrorists, because of its efforts last year to promote a softer approach to the conflict.

The increasingly bold attacks by the PKK this year have effectively killed off that initiative, although it was already running out of steam.

But after 26 years and 40,000 deaths, few officials can be under any illusion that just throwing more military forces at the PKK along the Iraqi border can finish the movement off.

Later on Saturday, two soldiers were killed in a mine explosion while attempting to capture rebels near the border.

As well as responding with helicopter attacks, Turkey launched air raids on PKK positions inside Iraqi territory.

THE WORLD ACCEPTS TURKEY'S POSITION. BUT IT DOESN'T ISRAEL'S.

WHY THE DIFFERENCE IN TREATMENT?

• IT CAN'T BE THE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES: IN THE LAST 26 YEARS, MORE KURDS HAVE BEEN KILLED BY TURKS THAN GAZANS OR ARABS BY ISRAEL.

• ROUGHLY THE SAME NUMBER OF ARABS HAVE BEEN KILLED BY ISRAEL SINCE 1948 - MORE THAN TWICE THE NUMBER OF YEARS!
  

• IN FACT, MUSLIMS HAVE KILLED 100X ARABS THAN JEWS HAVE - SOMETIMES EVEN USING WMD, AS ASSAD DID AND SADDAM DID!!
  

SO WHY IS THERE ONE RULE FOR TURKEY AND ANOTHER FOR ISRAEL?

BY DEFINITION IT'S ANTISEMITISM.

AND IT WILL NOT STAND.

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: NEDA MURDERED BY JIHADO-TERRORIST IRANIAN TYRANTS

RIP.

MORE HERE - VIA GLENN.

SEIZING FANNIE AND FREDDIE TO COST TAXPAYERS $389 BILLION!

NYTIME:

the government’s decision to seize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in September 2008 that is likely to cost taxpayers the most money. So far the tab stands at $145.9 billion, and it grows with every foreclosure of a three-bedroom home with a two-car garage one hour from Phoenix.

The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the final bill could reach $389 billion.

DIDN'T BUSH AND MCCAIN WARN THIS WOULD HAPPEN? YES:



BUT DIDN'T ULTRA-LIB BARNEY FRANK AND HIS DEMOCRAT ALLIES DEFEND FANNIE AND FREDDIE AND TELL US THIS WOLD NEVER HAPPEN? YES:



THANKS BARNEY!

MORE BARNEY DEFENDING THE BUBBLE HE HELPED TO CREATE (WATCH THE WHOLE THING - BARNEY SAYING THERE'S NO PROBLEM AND ARGUING THAT THE TAXPAYER WON'T BE BAILED OUT AT 1:50):





MARK LEVIN TELLS YOU EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT BARNEY FRANK BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK:



HERE'S 2008 WSJ ARTICLE EXPOSING BARNEY'S ROLE IN THE BUBBLE THAT LED TO THIS $389 BILLION DOLLAR DISASTER.