CONVERTS TO ISLAM INDOCTRINATED FOR OVERSEAS JIHAD

RT reports about a Belgian convert who went to wage jihad in Syria:

Accounts of Belgian youths joining the rebel forces in Syria have raised questions about the radicalization process in the country. RT has interviewed one father who driven by love placed his life at risk to find his son.

Dimitri Bontinck is on a crusade to find his son Jejoen and return with him to Belgium, after the teenager fled to fight with the jihadists against government forces. The last time the father saw his son was in March when Jejoen informed him that he was going to study in Egypt.

Bontinck claims that his son underwent an Islamic radicalization process which took approximately two years. Prior to Jejoen’s conversion to Islam, his father said he was raised Catholic. Jejoen lived with his Belgian father and Nigerian mother in Antwerp, Belgium's second largest city.

It's bad enough that there's creepies already raised under Islam doing this. Now, we've even got converts brainwashed for this kind of warfare. Parents have to do much more to protect their children and warn them against indoctrination.

AGAIN, AN ATTEMPT BY CONGRESS TO MOVE THE US EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM

Capitol Hill is again making an altruistic effort to get the embassy here moved to Jerusalem:

Members of Congress have introduced legislation that would transfer the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, sending a message of commitment and resolve to Israel and also presenting the US government with a cost-saving measure at a time of major budget cuts.

The bipartisan bill, known as the Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of the State of Israel Act (H.R. 2846), comes as Israelis and Palestinians are resuming peace negotiations after a three-year hiatus, and is intended to offer an unflinching sign of support on Capitol Hill for Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital.

The bill, which is being sponsored by Representatives Trent Franks (AZ-08), Brad Sherman (CA-30), Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Gene Green (TX-29), Juan Vargas (CA-51), is now being circulated among members of Congress.

The initiative is unique because it recommends that the United States government either repurpose the current Embassy property in Tel Aviv to a consulate, or sell the property, which has the potential to garner an estimated hundred million dollars at market value.

[...] “For historical, biblical and moral reasons, we are committed to the unity of Jerusalem as Israel's undivided capital with no waivers and no caveats," said Congressman Doug Lamborn. "Our unflinching support is especially crucial at this critical hour of turbulence throughout the region."

And I thank them for their efforts. This is real show of recognition, far more than can be said for the staff at the White House, Obama included.

MILITARY EXECUTIONS ARE RARE TODAY, WHICH COULD MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO PUNISH NIDAL HASAN

The AP Wire wrote about the problems with the military law system, and what that could mean in the case of jihadist Nidal Hasan:

DALLAS (AP) - Hundreds of unarmed soldiers, some about to deploy to Afghanistan, were waiting inside a building for vaccines and routine checkups when a fellow soldier walked inside with two handguns and enough ammunition to commit one of the worst mass shootings in American history.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan climbed onto a desk and shouted "Allahu Akbar!" - an Arabic phrase meaning "God is great!" Then he fired, pausing only to reload.

Hasan doesn't deny that he carried out the November 2009 rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 people dead and more than 30 others wounded. There are dozens of witnesses who saw it happen. Military law prohibits him from entering a guilty plea because authorities are seeking the death penalty. But if he is convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that starts Tuesday, there are likely years, if not decades, of appeals ahead.

He may never make it to the death chamber at all.

While the Hasan case is unusually complex, experts also say the military justice system is unaccustomed to dealing with death penalty cases and has struggled to avoid overturned sentences.

Eleven of the 16 death sentences handed down by military juries in the last 30 years have been overturned, according to an academic study and court records. No active-duty soldier has been executed since 1961.

A reversed verdict or sentence on appeal in the Hasan case would be a fiasco for prosecutors and the Army. That's one reason why prosecutors and the military judge have been deliberate leading up to trial, said Geoffrey Corn, a professor at the South Texas College of Law and former military lawyer.

"The public looks and says, 'This is an obviously guilty defendant. What's so hard about this?'" Corn said. "What seems so simple is in fact relatively complicated."

Hasan is charged with 13 specifications of premeditated murder and 32 specifications of attempted premeditated murder. Thirteen officers from around the country who hold Hasan's rank or higher will serve on the jury for a trial that will likely last one month and probably longer. They must be unanimous to convict Hasan of murder and sentence him to death. Three-quarters of the panel must vote for an attempted murder conviction.

The jury will likely hear from victims and relatives of the dead. A handful of victims still carry bullet fragments in their body. Others have nightmares.

"It never goes away - being upset that it's taken so long for this trial to come," said Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, who was shot in the head, stomach and upper body. "So now's the day of reckoning, which is positive - very positive."

The trial's start has been delayed over and over, often due to requests from Hasan. Any of the hundreds of decisions large or small could be fair game on appeal. The entire record will be scrutinized by military appeals courts that have overturned most of the death sentences they've considered.

"A good prosecutor, in military parlance, would be foolish to fight only the close battle," Corn said. "He's got to fight the close battle and the future battle. And the future battle is the appellate record."

Hasan has twice dismissed his lawyers and now plans to represent himself at trial. He's suggested he wants to argue the killings were in "defense of others" - namely, members of the Taliban fighting Americans in Afghanistan. The trial judge, Col. Tara Osborn, has so far denied that strategy.

Hasan has grown a beard while in custody that he says expresses his Muslim faith, but violates military rules on decorum. After a military judge ordered him forcibly shaved, an appeals court stayed that order and took another judge off the case.

The last man executed in the military system was Pvt. John Bennett, hanged in 1961 for raping an 11-year-old girl. Five men are on the military death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., but none are close to being executed.

An inmate was taken off death row just last year. Kenneth Parker was condemned for killing two fellow Marines in North Carolina, including Lance Cpl. Rodney Page. But Parker was given life without parole last September by an appeals court. The court found his trial judge should have not allowed him to be tried for both murders at the same time, nor should the judge have allowed testimony that the appeals court said was irrelevant to the crimes.

Parker's accomplice in the killings, Wade Walker, was also sentenced to death, only for the sentence to be overturned.

Examples abound of other death sentences set aside. They include William Kreutzer Jr., who killed one soldier and wounded 18 others in a 1995 shooting spree at Fort Bragg, N.C.; James T. Murphy, who killed his wife in Germany by smashing her head with a hammer; and Melvin Turner, who killed his 11-month-old daughter with a razor blade.

Part of the problem, experts say, is that death penalty cases are rare in military courts.

A study in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology identified just 41 cases between 1984 and 2005 where a defendant faced a court-martial on a capital charge. Meanwhile, more than 500 people have been executed since 1982 in the civilian system in Texas, the nation's most active death-penalty state.

While lawyers and judges in Texas may get multiple death penalty cases a year, many military judges and lawyers often are on their first, said Victor Hansen, another former prosecutor who now teaches at the New England School of Law. The military courts that are required to review each death-penalty verdict are also more cautious and likely to pinpoint possible errors that might pass muster at a civilian court, Hansen and Corn said.

Hansen compared the military's conundrum to small states that have a death-penalty law on the books, but never use it.

"You don't have a lot of experience or institutional knowledge," said Hansen, who compared it to "the reinventing of the wheel every time one is done."

If Hasan is convicted and sentenced to death, his case will automatically go before appeals courts for the Army and the armed forces. If those courts affirm the sentence, he could ask the Supreme Court for a review or file motions in federal civilian courts.

The president, as the military commander in chief, must sign off on a death sentence.

"If history is any guide, it's going to be a long, long, long time," Hansen said.

It's important that they reminded us. If Hasan is to be sent suitably to the death chamber where he belongs, something needs to be done to modify the law system for the military.

WHAT KILLS MORE BLACKS IN THE USA, WHITES WITH GUNS, BLACKS WITH GUNS, OR ABORTIONS?

ABORTIONS. THEN BLACKS WITH GUNS. THEN WHITES WITH GUNS - IN A DISTANT THIRD PLACE.

LIBERALS WHO FAVOR ABORTION AND USE ZIMMERMAN TO ATTACK THE RIGHT ARE THE REAL RACISTS.

AMERICAN PATRIOTS WITH GUNS ENDED SLAVERY, AND DEFEATED FASCISM AND COMMUNISM IN EUROPE.

TO MAKE THE FREE WORLD MORE FREE AND MORE PROSPEROUS, WE NEED MORE ARMED PATRIOTS AND FEWER LIBERALS.

MORE YOUNGER MUSLIMS BACK SHARIA

A poll published by Policy Exchange in Britain shows how effective the indoctrination of Islam can be on a child's mindset:

A growing minority of young Muslims are inspired by political Islam and feel they have less in common with non-Muslims than their parents do, a survey reveals today. The poll, carried out for the conservative-leaning Policy Exchange thinktank, found support for Sharia law, Islamic schools and wearing the veil in public is significantly stronger among young Muslims than their parents.

In the survey of 1,003 Muslims by the polling company Populus through internet and telephone questionnaires, nearly 60% said they would prefer to live under British law, while 37% of 16 to 24-year-olds said they would prefer sharia law, against 17% of those over 55. Eighty-six per cent said their religion was the most important thing in their lives.

Nearly a third of 16 to 24-year-olds believed that those converting to another religion should be executed, while less than a fifth of those over 55 believed the same. The survey claimed that British authorities and some Muslim groups have exaggerated the problem of Islamophobia and fuelled a sense of victimhood among some Muslims: 84% said they believed they had been well treated in British society, though only 28% thought the authorities had gone over the top in trying not to offend Muslims. Munira Mirza, a doctoral student at Kent University who wrote the report, said: "The government should engage with Muslims as citizens, not through their religious identity."

Technically, it's true that Britain has been quite accommodating of the ummah. But even if the majority of the poll doesn't ask for sharia per se, we must take into account how taqqiya could play a role here, and the numbers who back sharia could be much higher than we think.

RELEASE OF SECRET DOCUMENT REVEALS GERMAN CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL WAS A VISIONARY ON ISLAMIZATION

BBC:

Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl wanted to halve the number of Turks living in West Germany in the early 1980s, British official papers cited by a German magazine reveal. He discussed the idea with then UK PM Margaret Thatcher at a meeting in Bonn in 1982, Spiegel Online reported. Mr Kohl said that Turks "did not integrate well", minutes of the meeting said. He told Mrs Thatcher he wanted their numbers cut by half within four years. 

Spiegel Online said the minutes were marked "secret" but have now been released as the period of confidentiality has ended."Chancellor Kohl said... that it would be necessary over the next four years to reduce the number of Turks by 50% - but he could not say that publicly," notes from the meeting said, according to the Spiegel Online report.  

"Germany had no problems with the Portuguese, the Italians, even the south-east Asians, because these communities integrated well," the notes read. "But the Turks came from a very distinctive culture and did not integrate well." The author of the report was said to be Mrs Thatcher's then private secretary, AJ Coles. 

Turkish migration to Germany stems from October 1961 when a labour recruitment agreement was signed between the two countries. Many so-called "guest workers" also came from Italy, Greece, Portugal, Tunisia and the then Yugoslavia. Mr Kohl, who was chancellor until 1998 and a leader of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), often spoke out against immigration during his time in office. However, numbers of immigrants continued to rise steadily.

KOHL WAS RIGHT AND WHAT HE SAID IS TRUE ABOUT MUSLIM IMMIGRATION INTO EUROPE SINCE THE 1970'S.

SADLY, NEITHER KOHL OR THATCHER ACTED THEN - AND NOTHING EFFECTIVE HAS BEEN DONE SINCE.

NOW, THE COLONIZATION OF EUROPE BY ISLAM IS SELF-PERPETUATING AND THE FACT THAT SO MANY MUSLIMS WITH NO INTENT OF ASSIMILATING - (AND WITH BIRTH RATES TRIPLE THAT OF NATIVE EUROPEANS) -  ARE CITIZENS OF THE EU VIRTUALLY CONDEMNS EUROPE TO A FUTURE OF SHARIA AND DARKNESS.

SIGH.

ONLY DEPORTATION OF NON-CITIZEN MUSLIMS WHO FAVOR SHARIA, AND INCARCERATION - (OR VOLUNTARY EXILE) - OF MUSLIMS CITIZENS WHO FAVOR SHARIA, (AND THEREFORE ARE GUILTY OF SEDITION), CAN SAVE EUROPE.

SADLY, THE LEFTIST PROGRAMS OF MULTICULTURALISM AND PC ARE PREVENTING THIS.

AND NOW, EVEN AS BRITISH SOLDIERS ARE BEHEADED IN LONDON IN DAYLIGHT, THE RULING CLASS FAILS TO ACT IN A WAY THAT MIGHT ENDURE CULTURAL SURVIVAL.

ONLY POLITICIANS LIKE GEERT WILDERS AND NIGEL FARAGE AND PAUL WESTON CAN SAVE EUROPE VIA DISMANTLING THE E.U. GOVERNMENT AND TAKING ACTIVE MEASURES TO DEFEND NATIVE CULTURES.

I DOUBT THIS WILL HAPPEN.

IF A BEHEADING IN LONDON DURING DAYLIGHT DOESN'T MOBILIZE A REBIRTH OF EUROPEAN PRIDE AND A WILLINGNESS TO DO WHAT MUST BE DONE, THEN WHAT WILL???????

THE IMPORTANCE OF I24NEWS FOR ISRAEL

The AP Wire wrote about the new Israeli-owned cable TV station called i24 News that's dedicated to presenting the Israeli-Jewish side of the whole story:

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - State-of-the-art TV studios above an ancient Mideast port signal Israel's arrival in a modern media landscape in which countries increasingly seek to broadcast their own perspective to the world.

Israel advocates have long alleged that their country is portrayed in an unfair and one-dimensional way by the international media, largely as an occupier of the Palestinians.

Now the answer has arrived in the form of i24news - the first international channel dedicated to reporting the news from an Israeli point of view. Its goal is to tell the rest of the Israel story in English, Arabic and French.

The new station's founders insist they aren't an Israeli version of the Qatar-funded Al-Jazeera pan-Arab channel. They receive no government funding, hold no political affiliation and pledge to cover the news dispassionately and objectively.

The initiative, which follows dozens of other attempts to tell Israel's side of the story, highlights a deep-seated sense that Israel is losing the battle over international public opinion and that its voice has been missing from a smorgasbord of news outlets.

"When you are talking about Israel in the international media today, it is only through the perspective of the Arab-Israeli conflict. We have to show that there are a lot of things about Israel that people don't know about," said Frank Melloul, the channel's chief executive. "What I want to do with this channel is to connect Israel to the world and connect the world to the Israeli reality."

To do so, i24news broadcasts around the clock, devoting 30 percent of its content to local coverage, including culture, technology and sports.

Its spacious studios in Jaffa, an ancient port city merged with Tel Aviv, include three glass-encased sets for simultaneous broadcasts in three languages, along with an integrated news desk for its 150 journalists.

The station went on the air less than two weeks ago, and most of the office space is still under construction. Though it is not yet clear how many people are watching, i24news says it can potentially reach 350 million households via cable and satellite operators in Europe, Asia and Africa. An expansion to the North American market is expected in early 2014.

Melloul, a former French diplomat, helped launch France24, a satellite channel aimed at improving France's international image. Other governments have engaged in similar outreach efforts, resulting in Russia Today, China's CCTV and Qatar's Al-Jazeera.

The Israeli effort is funded by private money. Much of it comes from Patrick Drahi, a French-Israeli telecom tycoon who owns HOT, an Israeli cable network of TV channels and telephone service providers.

Calling i24news a "startup channel," Melloul said its private ownership frees the station from government intervention.

"We are not talking about propaganda," he said, "(But) it is time to listen to another voice from the Middle East besides Al-Jazeera."

Walid Omary, Middle East bureau chief of the pace-setting and influential Al-Jazeera, said he was not familiar with the new station, but he welcomed the competition and considered it a compliment that others were trying to emulate his network.

"Apparently Al-Jazeera has a quality that everyone wants to challenge," he said. "Even those who criticize us recognize we have an impact."

Israel accuses Al-Jazeera and others of endorsing the Palestinian and Arab narrative, providing slanted coverage of the Mideast conflict and contributing to anti-Israel sentiment. Such allegations become more heated during bouts of Israeli-Arab fighting.

Al-Jazeera denies it is biased against Israel.

Israel's critics argue that it needs to change its policies toward the Palestinians rather than look for more sophisticated tools in a propaganda war.

Others believe that the premise that news media are overwhelmingly anti-Israel is overstated. Israelis and their backers abroad are highly sensitive to criticism and tend to label any coverage that is less than totally supportive as anti-Israel - though Israel's own local media are frequently harder on their country and government than foreign outlets are.

i24news, particularly its Arabic broadcast, looks to show a different face of Israel by highlighting its diversity. The channel's main English-language anchor, for instance, is an Arab woman.

The content also tries to spotlight the tough choices the country faces.

A report about an Israeli Cabinet vote this week to release Palestinian prisoners ahead of renewed peace talks was followed by an in-studio debate between two parents over whether the killers of their children should be freed in return for the prospect of peace.

"It is part of the diversity of the Israeli society, and it is part of also showing the world that nothing is easy," Melloul said. "You can discover another face of Israel you don't see anywhere else in the world."

Even without direct influence, Israeli officials are predictably pleased.

Nitzan Chen, the head of the government press office, said such an outlet has been "definitely missing" and wished the new station success.

Marcus Sheff of The Israel Project, a pro-Israel advocacy group, said that a broadcaster that "does not instinctually bash Israel is probably a good thing."

Tal Azran, a professor of communications at Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, a college north of Tel Aviv, said the backing of private sponsors with ideological motivations represents a new breed in global news.

"i24news is part of a larger trend in international media where more and more countries, rulers and governments have begun to understand that international news reporting can be highly influential on what we call global public opinion," said Azran, who has written extensively about the effect of Al-Jazeera. "It has almost become something that every country 'must have.'"

Given Israel's prominence in current affairs, he said i24news would likely become part of the new media marketplace, where consumers shop for several different perspectives before forming their own opinions.

"During operations in Gaza, for instance, those seeking the Israeli voice may tune into i24news," he said. "What's the Israeli angle? No one has ever heard it before on television."

I think it's a very good thing someone's stepping up to plate and batting for Israel in the TV world. And it's available on the internet as well, so for a computer generation, it's the most welcome concept we can get.

EXPOSING ANOTHER GLOBAL WARMING LIE:

When the Danish Meteorological Institute measures the "highest temperature ever" in Greenland it makes headlines in Denmark.  The article also includes a meteorological explanation about  "a combination of weather phenomena: a High over Greenland and a Low over Baffin Island created the ideal conditions for this warmth..." and is followed by concluding remarks from DMI  that " point out that any 'warmth event', going forward will have the potential of being slightly warmer because of general developments..."

General Developments?  That sounds like code for GLOBAL WARMING.

The only problem with the story of Greenlands latest warm record is that it is based on faulty measurements.  The story has since  been taken down by DMI.  The only place you will read about it is in the Greenland press. 

 "Asiaq’s measurements in Maniitsoq  have  ”only” measured up to 24,0°C on 30. juli 2013, which is 1,9°C lower than DMI and 1,5°C lower than the previous warm record. The reason that DMI og Asiaq do not measure the same temperature is because DMI gets their measurements from Mittarfeqarfiits weatherstation. This temperature sensor sits on an airport building just over a door. Furthermore the "entire area under the thermometer is covered with asphalt, which gives significant warmth to the surrounding air when it is calm, like it was on tuesday" explains Per Hangaard, climate worker, Asiaq.  Asiaq uses data from GLV,  but only data measured according to international standards...therefore Asiaq uses a smaller weather station 100 meters from the airport....

This is all very important because Denmark is a nexus for the Global Warming debate...The EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard is danish, and Denmark has been the site of billions of Euros of fraudulent CO2 trading...and of course it is important because Greenland is this fairy tale land, supposedly untouched by humans,  about to be raped by mining and oil interests...

THE ANTIDOTE TO A LIE IS THE TRUTH - AND BIBI NAILS IT

MORE PROOF:

Below are excerpts from Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State William H. Seward's book Travels Around the World describing Jewish worship at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. (Cited at http://lennybendavid.com/2012/08/president-lincolns-secretary-of-state.html)

"June 13, 1871... Jerusalem is now divided according to its different classes of population. The Mohammedans are four thousand, and occupy the northeast quarter, including the whole area of the Mosque of Omar. The Jews are eight thousand, and have the southeast quarter... The Armenians number eighteen hundred, and have the southwest quarter; and the other Christians, amounting to twenty-two hundred, have the northwest quarter...

The Jewish Sabbath being on Saturday, and beginning at sunset on Friday, the weekly wail of the Jews under the wall takes place on Friday, and is a preparation for the rest and worship of the day which they are commanded to "keep holy." The small rectangular oblong area, without roof or canopy, (i.e., the Western Wall) serves for the gathering of the whole remnant of the Jewish nation in Jerusalem. Here, whether it rains or shines, they come together at an early hour, old and young, men, women, and little children--the poor and the rich, in their best costumes, discordant as the diverse nations from which they come. They are attended by their rabbis, each bringing the carefully-preserved and elaborately-bound text of the book of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, either in their respective languages, or in the original Hebrew. For many hours they pour forth their complaints, reading and reciting the poetic language of the prophet, beating their hands against the wall, and bathing the stones with their kisses and tears. It is no mere formal ceremony. During the several hours while we were spectators of it, there was not one act of irreverence or indifference. Only those who have seen the solemn prayer-meeting of a religious revival, held by some evangelical denomination at home, can have a true idea of the solemnity and depth of the profound grief and pious feeling exhibited by this strange assembly on so strange an occasion, although no ritual in the Catholic, Greek, or Episcopal Church is conducted with more solemnity and propriety."

[Travels Around the World, William H. Seward

MORE:

The Reverend James Parkes, an authority on Jewish/non-Jewish relations inthe Middle East, assessed the Zionists' "real title deeds" in 1949.²

It was only "politically" that the Jews lost their land, as Parkes reminded us. They never abandoned it physically, nor did they renounce their claim to their nation -- the only continuous claim that exists.

It was, perhaps, inevitable that Zionists should look back to the heroic period of the Maccabees and Bar-Cochba, but their real title deeds were written by the less dramatic but equally heroic endurance of those who had maintained the Jewish presence in The Land all through the centuries, and in spite of every discouragement. This page of Jewish history found no place in the constant flood of Zionist propaganda.... The omission allowed the anti-Zionists, whether Jewish, Arab, or European, to paint an entirely false picture of the wickedness of Jewry trying to re-establish a two thousand-year-old claim to the country, indifferent to everything that had happened in the intervening period. It allowed a picture of The Land as a territory which had once been "Jewish," but which for many centuries had been "Arab." In point of fact any picture of a total change of population is false....

WE WERE THERE FIRST.
WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THERE.
WE WILL ALWAYS BE THERE.

A WORD TO PROGRESSIVES FROM PAT CONDELL

CNN/TAPPER MAY HAVE UNCOVERED WHAT OBAMA IS REALLY COVERING UP IN BENGHAZI

TODAY - August 1:

CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly Benghazi terror attack. Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the assault by armed militants last September 11 in eastern Libya. Sources now tell CNN dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret.

THIS IS WHAT THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS GATEWAY AND SENATOR RAND PAUL SUSPECTED WAY BACK ON MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2013

THE BENGHAZI COVER-UP IS REALLY ALL ABOUT THIS: OBAMA ARMING AL QAEDA. 

AND HE'S ALSO SELLING OUR LATEST WEAPONRY TO THE MUSLIM MOTHERHOOD. 

GREAT.

I BELIEVE NOW MORE THAN EVER THAT THIS IS WHAT OBAMA IS REALLY COVERING UP. AND NOT FOR ANY OTHER REASON EXCEPT POLITICAL:

HE KNEW THAT IF THE PUBLIC KNEW HE WAS ARMING AL QAEDA, THAT HE'D HAVE BEEN EASILY DEFEATED BY ROMNEY. AND IF IT GETS OUT NOW - AFTER THE COVER UP - HE COULD BE IMPEACHED.

OBAMA IS SCUM. A PIECE OF  CRAP WHO HAS ILLEGALLY SOLD WEAPONS TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS AND AL QAEDA.

AND GOTTEN AMERICANS MURDERED AS A DIRECT RESULT.

AND SELLING WEAPONS TO AL QAEDA PROBABLY VIOLATES AMERICAN LAW AND THE 2001 AUMF.

BOTH IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES.

IF WE HAD A DECENT AND COURAGEOUS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, THEN WE'D BE BEGINNING IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS.

MUST SEE TV: OBAMA ANNOUNCING PLAN TO USE IRS TO SQUASH CONSERVATIVES

THIS VIDEO REVEALS WHERE THE IRS SCANDAL ALL BEGAN - WITH AN ANGRY AND DISMISSIVE AND EGOMANIACAL AND TYRANNICAL POTUS WILLING TO ERRONEOUSLY ATTACK THE SCOTUS IN HIS SOTU:

I FEEL THIS UNSTATESMANLIKE OUTBURST REVEALS THAT THE IRS SCANDAL WAS HATCHED BY OBAMA AND JARRETT AND NOT WILKINS OR LEW OR LERNER. WE NEED TO PROVE THIS AND IMPEACH OBAMA.

NETUREI KARTA MEMBER CHARGED WITH TRYING TO SPY FOR IRAN

Another member of the most vile and reviled Haredi sect was caught in the act of agreeing to perform horrific acts for the Religion of Peace in Iran 2 years ago:

A haredi man from the anti-Zionist Naturei Karta sect was charged Thursday with allegedly making contact with Iranian representatives abroad with the intention of passing them sensitive information about Israel.

The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office filed the indictment with the Jerusalem District Court on charges of intent to commit treason and contacting a foreign agent.

There had previously been a media blackout on the case and a gag order remains on the haredi man’s identity.

At an unknown date, the man, 47, decided to make contact with the Iranian government in order to collect intelligence on Israel and send it to them, the indictment alleged.

In order to do this, he went online to check where he could approach an Iranian embassy, said the indictment.

The indictment said that in January 2011, he flew to Berlin and two days after arriving, approached the embassy to tell the Iranians that he was an Israeli and wanted to speak to them. At the time he was clothed in his regular haredi dresswear, including black and white clothes, and tzizit (ritual undergarments).

Next, he met Hagi Baba and two others, said the indictment.

According to the indictment, he told Baba that he was against the Jewish state, wanted the state to be taken over by non-jews, was ready to provide them intelligence and was even ready to "kill a Zionist," if necessary.

And who would those Zionists be that he'd be willing to mark for death? It could have been pro-Israel Haredis and even people from outside the Haredi enclave. It's lucky he was arrested, because even if the Iranian officials he met with didn't take him with full seriousness, he could still have caused considerable harm to innocent people everywhere. Clear proof why sects like Neturei Karta must be kept under surveillance.

POLISH CHURCH SACKS PRIEST OVER DIALOGUE WITH JEWISH COMMUNITY

This is a sad reminder of how not all is better today in Poland. However, there's one drawback along the way in the article:

JASIENICA, Poland, Aug 1 (Reuters) - When the outspoken Polish priest Wojciech Lemanski returned with his parishioners to his church near Warsaw after holding a prayer vigil at the Treblinka Nazi death camp in early July, a dismissal notice awaited him.

The Warsaw diocese of the Roman Catholic Church sacked Lemanski as parish priest in the small village of Jasienica for what it said was his insubordination after numerous clashes on issues such as in-vitro fertilisation, abortion and his engagement with the Jewish community.

Lemanski sealed his fate when in a radio interview he accused Archbishop Henryk Hoser, who oversees his parish, of asking whether he was a Jew and circumcised - a charge the diocese has denied.

The episode exposed a rift within the church, as it struggles to retain a central role in Polish life, between conservatives and those who want more openness in dealing with social issues and some of the darker episodes in Poland's past.

I can't stand it when they stuff in that crap about "conservatives", as though refusal to come to terms with serious issues is just an ideological belief. That's one definite weakness within an otherwise interesting report, explaining just where Reuters really stands.

"At a time when Pope Francis is calling for open-mindedness, the church in Poland is crawling into its shell," said Iwona Jakubowska-Branicka, a sociologist at Warsaw University.

"As with many moral issues, the question of relations with Jews has been swept under the carpet," she said.

Relations with the Jewish community are an especially difficult subject in Poland, where millions of Jews perished in the Holocaust during the Nazi German occupation of the country.

Most of those who survived were forced to leave in the late 1960s by the communist regime. Poland's post-communist leaders have condemned the "anti-Zionist campaign" of that time and have often spoken out against other signs of anti-Semitism.

"SPECIAL SENSITIVITY"

Poles have celebrated those compatriots who helped to save local Jews in World War Two, but they have also downplayed events such as the burning of 340 Jews by Polish peasants in the village of Jedwabne in 1943.

The episode was buried by the communist authorities after the war and resurfaced only after a 2001 book written by Polish-born U.S. historian Jan Gross described the massacre.

The publication was criticised by some Catholic church leaders as stoking anti-Polish and anti-Jewish sentiments, but the subsequent debate inspired young Lemanski to work on improving the dialogue between the two groups.

"God knocked on my door and said he wanted something more from me. I can't imagine being a priest without a special sensitivity for the Jews, their tragedies and a need for dialogue," the priest said in an interview.

I really appreciate this guy, and feel disgusted that the church in Poland would throw him out over this, signaling they're not very repentant.

It's interesting how, despite Reuters's stance on "conservatism", they do acknowledge that the communist forces were anti-Jewish, as they were being by covering up the good done by sensible people in Poland and throwing out many of the Jewish residents in the 1960s. Regarding the Polish church, I'd say they have a lot of apologies to make, as they clearly still have a very long road to travel for redemption.

Prominent African-American Members of the Media Must Be Held To The Same Standards of Truth, Reason, and Decency As Everyone Else

To not hold them equally accountable is RACISM.

It's called "The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations".

And, it's not so "soft" given the fact that it leads to a culture wherein a large percentage of people are almost completely incapable of playing on a level playing field, as they were never expected to do so in the first place.

OPRAH’S “MILLIONS OF LYNCHINGS” TURNS OUT TO BE 4,743 – ONE OF FOUR VICTIMS WERE WHITE

MSNBC: REPUBLICAN PARTY BIGGER RACIST THREAT THAN THE KKK…

RAPPER T.I. SAYS HE WOULD HAVE MURDERED GEORGE ZIMMERMAN…

THIS HAPPENED IN THE KNESSET?

Odd sight 2 see: A Palestinian flag in the Knesset for a meeting of the Knesset caucus on ending the conflict. #Jpost pic.twitter.com/AM0jKSTqoJ
— Gil Hoffman (@Gil_Hoffman) July 31, 2013

A PLO flag seen in the Knesset at what was bound to be a propaganda forum. Sickening.

AMONG THE OUTRAGED AT NETANYAHU'S DHIMMITUDE: STEPHEN FLATOW

The father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered by jihadists in the mid-90s, has written his fears in the NY Post that his daughter's murderers may go free:

My daughter Alisa was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in 1995. Some of those terrorists or their co-conspirators were killed by Israeli security forces; some were arrested by the Palestinian Authority, then released soon afterward. Two have been in an Israeli prison since 1995, serving life sentences.

Unlike the United States, Israel doesn’t have the death penalty for terrorists, but I thought these guys would be behind bars for, well, life — because Israel, our family was told, wouldn’t use terrorists as political bargaining chips. That was a “red line” that Israel would supposedly never cross.

I’ve always accepted the fact that Israel would have to make hard decisions when it came time to negotiate a solution to 65 years of Arab hostility and warfare against the Jewish state. I understood this when an Israeli prime minister shook hands with arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn in 1993.

And I didn’t complain to the Israeli government when, after Alisa was murdered by Islamic Jihad, some Israeli officials called her a “casualty of the peace” — when she was, in fact, murdered by Palestinian Arabs freely operating with the knowledge of the Palestinian Authority and some of her killers were roaming free under the noses of Arafat and his deputy — now Palestinian president— Mahmoud Abbas.

But then Israel began to breach the red line on releasing terrorists. Small numbers of Palestinian terrorists — although not those directly involved in murders — were set free as “good-will gestures” to either revive a stagnant peace process or because Israel’s hand was forced because of some political or military blunder.

Perhaps one could understand the logic of releasing prisoners to establish good will with the Palestinian public or to strengthen the Palestinian leadership. But it became clear to me, and (according to poll after poll) the Israeli public, that these efforts were not met with any reciprocity from the other side.

Terrorists are idolized by the Palestinian people; their leaders name parks, stadiums and athletic events after mass murderers.

As a result, I thought that by now Israel would have learned the first lesson of negotiating: Never negotiate with yourself.

I appear to be wrong, because, apparently at the behest of Secretary of State John Kerry, over 100 terrorists are going free, including many directly involved in multiple murders — as a good-will measure to “bolster” Abbas and to give Kerry something to say he accomplished after racking up so many frequent-flyer miles traveling to the Middle East.

What will Israel get in return? From all news accounts, it appears the answer is nothing more than the Palestinians returning to the negotiating table.

As of now, it may not have happened yet. But if it does, and Netanyahu's career is destroyed as a result, then what can I say? He'll deserve it, because of his own failures to prove which side he's really on.

Here's more on the issue from USA Today.

FRED VAN LENTE CONDEMNS ISLAM'S "PROPHET" MUHAMMED (UPDATE: OR DOES HE?)

If I'm reading this correctly, comics writer Van Lente has said something pretty gutsy:

The Prophet Muhammed preached each unbeliever will have 99 dragons personally assigned to torment him or her in the afterlife. #dragonfacts
— Fred Van Lente (@fredvanlente) July 27, 2013

As far as I've known, Van Lente is a leftist (and he did make the enemies capitalists in the new take on Archer and Armstrong), so this is pretty bold coming from him. The Koranic verses he's alluded to include suras 40:71-72 and 22:19-21, and that's just for starters.

We'll certainly have to give him some credit for showing the courage to speak out against a belief system built upon evil.

Update: now that I realize, it's uncertain he's actually being critical of Islam at all, since his statement doesn't contain any negativity per se. If he's not, then it's a real shame.

HERE'S THE SIMPLE REASON DEFUNDING OBAMACARE IS A BAD IDEA: IT WILL SOON COLLAPSE ON ITS OWN, SO: AVOID GETTING BLAME

DURING ROUGH EXTRA-MARITAL SEX, A HORNY DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN GOT A BITTEN ON HIS PENIS BY HIS INTERN/SEXTING PARTNER. 

IT GOT INFECTED. HE WENT TO HIS DOCTOR. THE DOCTOR SAID IT WOULD HAVE TO BE AMPUTATED. HE GOT A SECOND OPINION. THAT DOCTOR AGREED: IT WOULD HAVE TO BE AMPUTATED.  

NOT WILLING TO ACCEPT IT, HE WENT TO AN ALTERNATIVE MEDICIE GURU. THE GURU TOLD HIM THAT, "THE DOCTORS WERE WRONG. IT DID NOT HAVE TO BE AMPUTATED. 

IN TWO WEEKS, IT WOULD  FALL OFF BY ITSELF."

SO IT IS WITH OBAMACARE.

IT WILL COLLAPSE ON ITS OWN - AS ALL SOCIALIST PONZI SCHEMES COLLAPSE.

LIKE THE USSR AND DETROIT.

IT MAY VERY WELL NEVER REALLY GET OFF THE GROUND DUE TO ITS OWN RIDICULOUS, TEDIOUS, CUMBERSOME RUBEGOLDBERGIAN COMPLICATIONS.

SO, THE GOP OUGHT TO STAND ASIDE AND JUST WATCH THE INEVITABLE TRAIN WRECK.

AND SAY, "I TOLD YOU SO".

IF THE GOP MESSES WITH OBAMACARE AND IT FAILS, THEN OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES IN THE STATE-RUN MEDIA WILL BLAME THE GOP - AND ENOUGH OF THEIR SUPPORTERS WILL AGREE TO HELP THEM AT THE POLLS.

THIS BLACK MAN SPEAKS MORE TRUTHS IN 5 MINUTES THAN OBAMA HAS IN 5 YEARS!

WATCH THIS.

BESIDES HIS PENIS, WHAT DID HUMA ABEDIN EVER SEE IN ANTHONY WEINER?

MAYBE SHE THOUGHT HE LOOKED LIKE A RICH SAUDI - PRINCE AL-WEED BIN TALAL?:

SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

THIS IS WEIRD:

THE PRINCE LOOKS MORE LIKE CARLOS DANGER THAN WEINER DOES!

ANOTHER UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF THE OBAMACARE FIASCO

Wrinkle in Health Care Law Vexes Lawmakers’ Aides 

Thousands of Congressional staff members are required to get health insurance through new exchanges, with no obvious way for the government to keep paying its share of the premiums.

EFF'EM!

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PASS GARGANTUAN LAWS YOU HAVEN'T READ WHICH INTEND ON MASSIVE CHANGE ALL AT ONCE.

FIASCOBAMACARE.

MUSLIMS BOMB CHRISTIAN BARS IN NIGERIA - KILL 28...

...AND NOT A JEW OR AN ISRAELI OR WHITE IN SIGHT:

At least 28 are people have been killed in a series of explosions that targeted bars in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, a hospital source tells the BBC. Witnesses said the blasts shook a Christian neighbourhood that has previously been attacked by militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram. The army said 12 people had been killed when explosions placed in packages were dropped in the area on Monday evening. In March, explosions at a bus station in the city killed more than 20 people.

MUSLIMS AREN'T HAPPY MERELY OBEYING THEIR OWN EDICTS; THEY MUST FORCE NON-MUSLIMS TO OBEY THEM, TOO.

THIS IS WHY THEY CANNOT PEACEFULLY CO-EXIST WITH NON-MUSLIMS AS EQUALS.

THESE ATTACKS ONCE AGAIN PROVE THAT ISLAM ISN'T A FORM OF FAITH. A PATH TO HIGHER BEING OR A ROAD TO HEAVEN, BUT A MARTIAL CREED THAT ENFORCES MARTIAL LAW UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH.

RELIGION OF PEACE?

Now that John Kerry is beginning this adminsitrations last ditch efforts at a lasting peace agreement between the phalistinians and Israel let me point out one thing:

IF ISLAM WAS  TRULY THE RELIGION OF PEACE THE ARABS WOULD GIVE THE JEWS ALL OF ERETZ YISROEL...OR AT LEAST JERUSALEM.

WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS BUT AS A GESTURE OF GOODWILL.

But the fact is Islam will never accept Israel...and if the Arabs weren't so busy killing each other they'd go back to killing jews.

WHISTLEBLOWER? MY ASS!

This morning on the radio I heard two dolts referring to Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden as whistleblowers ...what irked me was not that they were discussing if Manning and Snowden were whistleblowers  or not...the journalist was referring to the two as whistleblowers...ergo they must be whistleblowers.  

I think the scale and method of Manning and Snowden's leaks are best characterised as treasonous.  There are laws that exist to protect whistleblowers - and both Manning and Snowden could have exposed immoral or unlawful behaviour without committing treason on the scale they did.

The confusion of Whistleblower and Traitor is no different than the confusion of Terrorist and Freedom Fighter.  The fact that so many cannot smell the difference is a dangerous symptom of deeper problems.

SYRIA = FLYPAPER: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT BY A MONTH

INSTAPUNDIT TODAY:

REMEMBER THE “FLYPAPER STRATEGY” IN IRAQ? I wonder if the Obama Administration has adopted something similar. Syria A Lure To Many Radicalized Western Muslims.

Posted at 8:24 am by Glenn Reynolds

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There sure have been an awful lot of train wrecks lately.....

What's going on with that?

Just asking...

UPDATE: IS THIS THE ANSWER???

OBAMA HAD LUNCH WITH HILLARY TODAY - I wonder what was "on the plate"

Obama and Hillary had lunch today at the White House:

That's a photoshop - putting the head of murdered Ambassador Chris Smith right in front of Obama and Hillary - the two people most responsible for allowing Smith and three other courageous Americans to be murdered by islamists in Benghazi.

It's a shocking photoshop - and I apologize to Smith's family for making and posting it, but Obama and Hillary are more disgusting than the image is shocking.

In a figurative sense, the image is actually very "realistic" - and truthful: for Obama and Hillary go on laughing and preening and posturing... while Smith and his three colleagues' bodies lie a-mouldering in their graves.... and scores of important questions about Benghazi still unanswered... as if nobody can be held accountable.

Obama and Hillary both deserved to be impeached for abandoning Smith and the three others in Benghazi and for lying about it and covering it up.

Yet here they are smugly mugging for the state run media.

They are SCUM.

SO-CALLED PEACE TALKS ARE DOOMED TO FAILURE NO MATTER THE OUTCOME

The UK Telegraph has acknowledged the obvious, at least in some ways:

There are any number of reasons to think the latest round of peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians is dead in the water before it has even started. In Israel, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is filled with hawks for whom making concessions to their long-standing enemies is anathema. The Palestinians, meanwhile, are divided between the moderate leadership of President Mahmoud Abbas and the radical Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip and does not even recognise the Jewish state’s right to exist.

Precisely how John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, intends to resolve these seemingly irreconcilable difficulties and persuade the parties to sign a peace agreement remains one of the great enigmas of modern diplomacy.

Granted, they do admit that this is only an experiment bound for failure. But the downside is their false claim that Abbas is a "moderate". He most definitely is not. He and his MSM apologists just try to make it look that way.

SCREWDRIVER JIHAD

Any chance this disgusting incident could've been encouraged by the impending "peace talks"?

An off-duty police officer was assaulted in the capital’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood Monday afternoon by a suspect believed to be an Arab-Israeli, in what police are investigating as a possible terrorist-related attack.

According to Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, at approximately 4:30 p.m. the officer, who was in plain clothes, was accosted by the suspect, who attempted to impale him with a screwdriver without provocation.

“The officer fired a warning shot into the air with his side arm in self-defense and the suspect then fled the scene in his car,” said Rosenfeld. “Police unites arrived at the scene and searched the general area and found the suspect’s car abandoned roughly one kilometer away.”

Rosenfeld said the officer was unharmed in the attack and that police are investigating whether it was a criminal or terrorist-related incident.

“We know the suspect’s identity and plan to make an arrest soon,” he said.

Just about every case like this could be considered a terrorist attack, even if it was on a small scale.

PROGRESSIVE MALTHUSSIANS ARE 1000% WRONG: THE WORLD IS RICHER THAN EVER - AND THE THIRD WORLD HAS GAINED THE MOST

BUSINESSWEEK;

Penn Tables provide GDP data for both 1960 and 2010, providing a 50 year window to view global economic progress. It has been considerable. Looking at absolute GDP, no country anywhere in the world for which we have data is smaller today than it was in 1960. The countries that saw the size of their economies less than double since 1960 contain just 80 million people—a little more than 1 percent of the planet’s population. A further 1 billion people lived in countries where GDP climbed by somewhere between two- and fivefold. That leaves 4.9 billion people—the considerable majority of the planet—living in countries where GDP has increased more than fivefold over 50 years. Those countries include India, with an economy nearly 10 times larger than it was in 1960, Indonesia (13 times), China (17 times), and Thailand (22 times larger than in 1960). 

... Penn World Tables ... confirm that traditional Malthusian fears of national output constrained by resources have absolutely no basis in reality anywhere. 

They also suggest that concerns over widespread ‘poverty traps’—where countries are condemned to penury and stagnation by centuries-old institutions or culture or genetics—are more a figment of economic theorists’ imaginations than major factors in real-world economic outcomes. Nearly all the planet has got a lot richer.  And there’s good reason to hope the Penn Tables update fifty years hence will suggest we don’t need the qualifier ‘nearly’ any more.

PROGRESSIVES LIKE PAUL EHRLICH AND HIS COMRADES IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAVE BEEN ATTACKING CAPITALISM AND THE FREE MARKET AND THE FIRST WORLD FOR DECADES.

THEY ARE ALL 1000% WRONG:

WHAT UPLIFTS PEOPLE FROM POVERTY IS ENGAGEMENT  WITH THE FIRST WORLD'S ECONOMY AND NOT HANDOUT AND REDISTRIBUTIONIST SCHEMES.

WHAT LIFTED INDIA AND CHINA AND INDONESIA AND THAILAND OUT OF POVERTY WAS ENGAGEMENT WITH THE BIG BAD EVIL AMERICAN CAPITALISTS.

THROW IN SOUTH KOREA, TOO:

# 39    Korea, South: PER CAPITA GDP  1950 $876.00  

South Korea has advanced into a developed economy to eventually attain a GDP per capita of $30,000 in 2010

NOT ONE NATION IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY HAS EVER LIFTED IT'S PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY WITH SOCIALISM.

SOCIALISM IS A SHELL GAME - A PONZI SCHEME, A FRAUD.

THE ONLY WAY TO INCREASE PROSPERITY IS CAPITALISM AND THE FREE MARKET.

OBSTACLES TO BOTH INCREASE POVERTY AND HUMAN SUFFERING.

LEFTIST REGULATIONS THAT STIFLE TRADE, INNOVATION AND COMPETITION AND HAMPER  GROWTH INCREASE POVERTY.

THEREFORE:

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY, YOU HAVE TO MAKE SOCIALISM HISTORY.

IS THE CHINESE BUBBLE ABOUT TO BURST?

BBC: China has ordered a nationwide audit of all government debt, underlining fears that the recent slowdown in its economy may impact the financial sector. Local governments in China borrowed heavily after the global financial crisis to try to sustain growth rates. The last audit, published in 2011, showed they had debt of 10.7tn yuan ($1.7tn; £1.1tn) by the end of 2010. Debt may threaten China's growth, and there are growing fears that local governments may not be able repay.

THIS MAY VERY WELL BECOME THE STRAW THAT BREAKS THE GLOBAL ECONOMY'S BACK.

DETROIT ON A MASSIVE SCALE.

STAY TUNED...

104 MUSLIM TERRORISTS TO BE RELEASED

The government cabinet voted in favor of what could turn out to be a pure disgrace and act of dhimmitude, all for the sake of a "goodwill gesture" that's never been returned in kind:

The cabinet on Sunday voted to approve negotiations with the Palestinians including the release of 104 Palestinian terrorists in stages over the next nine months as part of diplomatic negotiations.

The measure passed at the end of a nearly six hour cabinet meeting by the vote of 13-7, with two abstentions.

The ministers voting against included Likud ministers Gilad Erdan and Yisrael Katz, Yisrael Beytenu ministers Yair Shamir and Uzi Landau, and Bayit Yehudi ministers Naftali Bennett, Uri Ariel and Uri Orbach. Likud ministers Silvan Shalom and Limor Livnat abstained.

Those who voted for the proposal were Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Yuval Steinitz, Moshe Ya'alon and Gideon Sa'ar from the Likud, Sofa Landver and Yitzhak Aharonovitch from Yisrael Beytenu, Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid, Yael German, Yaakov Peri, Shai Piron, Meir Cohen, and Hatnua's Tzipi Livni, and Amir Peretz.

"This moment is not easy for me, for the ministers, and especially not for the bereaved families, whom I understand very well," Netanyahu said during the cabinet meeting. "But there are times when difficult decisions must be made for the good of the state, and this is one of those times."

The cabinet on Sunday also approved the draft of a bill mandating a national referendum if an accord with the Palestinians is reached that necessitates withdrawals from part of Jerusalem or land swaps. The bill will be brought to the Knesset for a vote on Wednesday.

"Any agreement, if it is achieved in negotiations, will be brought as a referendum. It is important that every citizen will directly vote on fateful decisions like these that determine the future of the state," Netanyahu said during the meting.

The only two ministers to oppose the bill were Livni and Peretz.

Was that by any chance a trick used to ensure that the motion for releasing jihadists would be approved? I have no idea. What's clear is that Netanyahu has otherwise disrespected the wishes of the public, 84 percent of whom oppose releasing terrorists. And Nadav Shragai's correct that the Islamofascists only see this as a victory for them, and defeat for us.

Update: see also Jonathan Tobin's excellent points on the issue.

THE SATMAR'S CULTURE OF HATE

The Jewish Press ran a commentary about how the Neturei Karta are by far the most dangerous Haredi sect towards Israel, and while the Satmar, from which they may have broken off in the past, haven't gone as far, it could change one day, if this recent anti-military draft protest they held is any suggestion.

It is very terribly possible that the Satmar could one day succumb to the exact kind of demonic mindset that Neturei Karta leads.