NIDAL HASAN IS MORE HONEST THAN OBAMA

STEYN: NIDAL HASAN KNOWS WHAT HE DID AND WHY SO... HOW CAN OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES KEEP DENYING IT?. 

MORE PROOF THAT LEFTISTS ARE DANGEROUS, UNPRINCIPLED, AMORAL DOUBLE-TALKING PHONIES

I'D CALL THEM HYPOCRITES IF I FELT THEY HAD ANY PRINCIPLES AT ALL.

FIRE WARS - ISLAMO-TERROR AS ECONOMIC WARFARE

WILLIAM SCOTT: former editor, Aviation Week; former official, National Security Agency; and author of Space Wars: “Fire Wars”

Economic Warfare Institute at American Center for Democracy
www.econwarfare.org AND www.acdemocracy.org 

July 9. 2012:

MORE HERE.

THE DHIMMITUDE OF SHMUEL RABINOWITZ

While commenting on the whole needless circus the Haredis cause over Women of the Wall, The Jewish Press points out an appeasement act by the dhimmi "rabbi" at the Western Wall I hadn't quite realized he was committing:

Haredi men and women and the Women of the Wall movement made their monthly commotion at the Western Wall Wednesday morning, ignoring pleas from the Western Wall rabbi to show “sensitivity” to Muslims and not to pray at the holy site.

The Women of the Wall also rejected a police request not to come with Tefillin, which are not used by women in traditional Judaism. However, police have successfully barred Jews from ascending the Temple Mount the entire week.

Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz published a letter Tuesday, emphasizing “sensitivity and security at the conclusion of the month of Ramadan", the Muslim holy month that concludes this week. Tens of thousands of Muslims crowd the Temple Mount for Muslim prayers in Ramadan, especially at the beginning and the end of the month.

Rabbi Rabinowitz has failed in the past to keep the Women of the Wall (WoW) away from the Kotel, but his using “sensitivity to Muslims” as an excuse is exactly the kind of Ghetto mentality that has allowed Arabs to squeeze out political and religious concessions from Jews for decades.

The unprecedented closure of the Temple Mount to Jews for an entire week was a victory for the Waqf, the Muslim authority that runs the holy site to which Israel has surrendered de facto sovereignty. Harassment, insults and riots by Palestinian Authority Muslims have occasionally forced Jews to leave the Temple Mount, but they have become routine in recent weeks.

Police have allowed the violence to win the day, and Rabbi Rabinowitz’s “sensitivity” to Muslims broadcasts a strong signal that Jews are willing to give up their rights if it means causing a commotion.

Ironically, it is the Women of the Wall and Haredim who are not surrendering. Approximately 250 women showed up at the Western Wall Wednesday morning, which is the first fay of the Hebrew month of Elul and the first day of daily shofar blowing until the day before Rosh HaShanah, except for Shabbat.

I hadn't thought of it that way. Rabinowitz really is a most despicable man, with no true love for his heritage, if he's going to view Islamofascism as legitimate. And where has this disgusting man been when jihad's been taking place anywhere in the country, or whenever Jews fall victim to it outside the country? In fact, where's he been whenever non-Jews suffer the same problems? It brings to mind what the mother of one of the soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in 1997 said after several Haredis swam in a memorial fountain: these are the same people who will not help build/defend the country. Rabinowitz clearly isn't much different.

IS THERE A 9/11 MEMORIAL IN ANY MUSLIM NATION?

Just asking.

There's one in Israel.

QOTM: "Detroit is dead and Al-Qaeda is obviously alive."

VIDEO HERE.

REIFICATION AND THE LEFTIST MIND

To reify or to hypostatize is to treat a concept as a thing with the substance of reality.

This includes when people project their subjective opinions onto reality as when some people say, "That girl is pretty." In fact, the girl is average looking - with an average nose and average eyes and so on, and some people merely find that look pretty. If they said, "I find that girl pretty" then they'd be more accurate - and confining their subjective opinion with its proper confines: they are not saying something ontologically true about the girl; they are saying something true about their perception of the girl.

They reify their subjective feeling about the girl into an aspect of the girl herself.

I believe certain people become attracted to leftism and become attached to leftist factions because they are habitual reifiers and leftism is an ideology of reification: leftists in all their varieties - collectivists, groupist, socialists and especially postmodernists - reify their feelings and abstract groups and classes and genres. They feel that their conceptual collections really exist and aren't just an arbitrary heuristic devices. 

And because their policies are based on this "fallacy of misplaced concreteness" they always fail.

As when they pass "campaign finance laws" to prevent groups or classes they don't like - ("Big Oil" for example) - from having influence over the electorate - only to find a few years later that ingenious lawyers in the employ of ambitious people find a way around those laws. Leftists think passing news "campaign finance" laws will solve things and try to pass new laws and new regulations as if human nature won't ingeniously find a way around these new reg's. They did the same thing when prohibiting the sale of alcohol and raising exorbitant taxes on cigarettes (to stop OTHER people from doing what they find distasteful and to attack "Big Tobacco"): they really just gave a reason for ambitious people to start a black market.

It is human nature for humans to do what they want to do when they want to do it. Nobody is taught that; we are born that way. We are born with individual will and individual tastes and individual talents and individual desires. These desires and tastes might be like those that other members of our family have, or those in our tribe or in our race or in our class, or in or nation.

They might not.

That's why despite the fact that grouping humans together in various groups can be fun and can be useful - these genres often make somewhat useful heuristic devices - they are not real.

This is why economic prognostication is so often wrong: individuals are hard to predict and what millions of them might do is truly just as hard to predict.

Leftists are bullies who reify and then project their personal/subjective tastes and goals on to other people. What they feel and believe isn't just right for them; they are, according to leftists/(reifiers) part of the world and right for the world:

• "That girl is pretty."
• "That man has enough money."
• "That house is too big for any person."
• "No athlete is worth that much."
• "Nobody needs to own a gun."
• "A 16 ounce drink it too big."
• "It's not the criminals fault; an unfair.racist society and poverty create criminal and crime and the criminal justice system is racist."
• "Poverty is the swamp in which islamic radicalism grows."

And so on...

Leftists have a hard time distinguishing between islam and muslims; they can't seem to understand that islam - as it is written and practiced - can be evil, but that not all muslims are evil. Leftists seem to think that is you criticize islam that you must be criticizing all muslims. This is similar to how they fell about criticism of Obama: "If you hate Obama's policies  then you must hate blacks."

Leftist love to say stuff like this: "There's no such thing as an illegal alien; just "undocumented workers".

They deny the existence of a real, limited, well-defined/jurisprudentially defined group - real "persons who have broken our immigration laws and regulations" - and instead reify their feelings about these people, by calling them "undocumented workers" - a term which says more about their feelings than reality. 

Trey Gowdy makes this point, brilliantly:

Leftists intuitively know this an that is why they so effectively use feelings to gain adherents.

As Bill Whittle recently said, they feel "morally superior" and attack opponents as morally inferior - as racists or homophobes or islamophobes.

What they have is not "moral superiority"; it is the audacity to reify.

SENATOR HARRY REID: "TEA PARTY OPPOSED ROMNEYCARE BECAUSE ROMNEY IS BLACK."

REID ACTUALLY SUGGESTED THIS ABOUT CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION TO OBAMACARE.

SHEESH.

IS THERE A SINGLE FUNKING DEM WHO ISN'T A RACE-BAITING PIECE OF CRUD?

DON'T THINK SO.

SIGH.

Dr. Doom: we're headed for an '87-like crash

THE BLAZE:

The S&P has rallied 19 percent in 2013, which is impressive by any measure. But the market did far better in 1987, when stocks added more than 30 percent from the beginning of the year to Aug. 8. 

The problem? 

The market ended up tanking in the second half of that year—dropping 36 percent from the Aug. 25 peak to the October low, before closing out 1987 nearly exactly where it began. 

And Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, predicts that the very same thing will happen in the back half of 2013. 

“In 1987, we had a very powerful rally, but also earnings were no longer rising substantially, and the market became very overbought,” Faber said on Thursday’s “Futures Now.” “The final rally into Aug. 25 occurred with a diminishing number of stocks hitting 52-week highs. In other words, the new-high list was contracting, and we have several breaks in different stocks.” 

Faber says that’s exactly where we find ourselves this August.

RTWT.  VIDEO AT LINK.

OBAMA LOVES AMERICA - BUT IN A VERY PARTICULAR WAY:

Obama, and the postmodern left, love America the way a wife loves a husband she wants to change ENTIRELY  - (and we know how badly that always works out!).

That's the "change" they believe in; they call it progessivism and it has made the USA progressively worse.

People on the right love America AND all its warts and bad habits and idiocentristic ways. They understand that each of us is imperfect and all together we are always going to be imperfect. And that therefore, utopia is impossible - just the way turning a man into a "perfect husband" is impossible.

IT'S WORSE ACTUALLY:

People who feel they can turn society into utopia have slaughtered hundreds of millions of people and impoverished billions - and done so DESPITE knowing their efforts were going cost lives because they fervently believed that their vision of utopia was within their reach; that's why gulags exist: in order to perfect humans and humanity and society. As one famous utopianist once said, if you want an omelet you have to break some eggs.

People on the right know that capitalism and democracy aren't perfect (and can;t be because we're not perfect); they're just the best POSSIBLE ways for us imperfect humans to organize ourselves.

People on the right revere our founding principles - which protect individual liberty and limit government authority because the limited government based on these principles allow us to live our own lives as freely as we can, each pursuing happiness as we each see it - and not how politicians, aristocrats or bureaucrats want us to see it.

People on the right know that these principles are responsible for our prosperity - as our prosperity certainly cannot be the result of race since we are a multiracial nation.

People on the right want America to RETURN to these principles and core values.

That's change we can believe in.

NYTIMES AGREES: SYRIA IS FLYPAPER

NYTIMES:

As foreign fighters pour into Syria at an increasing clip, extremist groups are carving out pockets of territory that are becoming havens for Islamist militants, posing what United States and Western intelligence officials say may be developing into one of the biggest terrorist threats in the world today.

THREAT!?!?!?

NOPE.

TARGET.

LET THEM FLY IN.

BUY THEM FREAKIN' AIRLINE TICKETS!

AND THEN BLOW THEM TO SMITHEREENS!

WHY SHOULD NIDAL HASAN'S UNDESERVED ATTORNEYS CARE IF HE DOES GET A DEATH SENTENCE?

The defense attorneys assigned to represent Nidal Hasan, undeserving as actually is, want to drop out but the judge won't let them, and here's why:

The military judge overseeing the trial of admitted Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan told defense attorneys Thursday that they can't drop out of the case -- even though they believe it's tantamount to helping him commit suicide.

"This is nothing more than their disagreement with Major Hasan's strategy in conducting his defense," said the judge, Col. Tara Osborn, rejecting a motion by the standby counsel who are tasked with assisting Hasan as he represents himself.

The attorneys argued Wednesday that Hasan is trying to help the prosecution achieve a death sentence.

Let us be perfectly clear here. No matter how much he wants to make himself a martyr, he still deserves the death sentence to the very end, and they should not allow his deluded desires to get in the way of justice. Mainly because it's unlikely he'll get 72 virgins, and more likely he'll go to hell and appear before an even higher court. As the UK Telegraph reports, one Hasan's victims was a pregnant woman:

Private Francheska Velez, 21, who had become pregnant while serving in Iraq, was one of those killed in the massacre carried out by Hasan, an American-born Muslim, in a medical building at the Fort Hood military base in Texas on Nov 5, 2009.

In emotional testimony at the Fort Hood trial on Thursday, Sergeant Maria Guerra, who was on the other side of an office door when Hasan opened fire, said: “I hear 'Run, run,’ and I hear 'He’s coming.’ I hear 'Please don’t, please don’t. My baby, my baby.’ And then I hear shots. I hear continuous shots.

“When I opened the door I could hear a pin drop it was so silent. I see bodies, I see bodies everywhere, and I see blood. No-one is moving. I yelled 'Is everybody OK?’ and I started hearing 'Help me, I’m bleeding, help me.’”

For this, Hasan deserves a pure death sentence, and I'd recommend his head be cut off and he be put before a firing squad that fire at more than just his torso. They should fire at his shitty face too until it's completely unrecognizable. Then, they should run over his body with a tank to smash it all into debris. That's how murderers should be dealt with. They don't even deserve a decent burial.

The attorneys for Hasan would be doing everyone involved a favor by ensuring death's bell tolls for him.

ISLAM VERSUS ISLAMISM: SHREWD STRATEGY OR DELUSION?

DANIEL PIPES DEFENDS THE STRATEGY OF TREATING ISLAMISM AS DISTINCT FROM ISLAM:

What motives lay behind last month's Boston Marathon bombing and the would-be attack on a Via Rail Canada train?

Leftists and establishmentarians variously offer imprecise and tired replies — such as "violent extremism" or anger at Western imperialism — unworthy of serious discussion. 

Conservatives, in contrast, engage in a lively and serious debate among themselves: some say Islam the religion provides motive; others say it's a modern extremist variant of the religion, known as radical Islam or Islamism.

As a participant in the latter debate, here's my argument for focusing on Islamism.

Those arguing for Islam itself as the problem (such as Wafa Sultan and Ayaan Hirsi Ali) point to the consistency from Muhammad's life and the contents of the Koran and Hadith to current Muslim practice. Agreeing with Geert Wilders' film "Fitna," they point to striking continuities between Koranic verses and jihad actions. They quote Islamic scriptures to establish the centrality of Muslim supremacism, jihad and misogyny, concluding that a moderate form of Islam is impossible. They point to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's deriding the very idea of a moderate Islam. Their killer question is "Was Muhammad a Muslim or an Islamist?" They contend that we who blame Islamism do so out of political correctness or cowardliness.

To which, we reply: Yes, certain continuities do exist, and Islamists definitely follow the Koran and Hadith literally. 

Moderate Muslims exist, but lack Islamists' near-hegemonic power. 

Mr. Erdogan's denial of moderate Islam points to a curious overlap between Islamism and the anti-Islam viewpoint. 

Muhammad was a plain Muslim, not an Islamist, for the latter concept dates back only to the 1920s. 

And no, we are not cowardly but offer our true analysis.

And that analysis goes like this:

Islam is the 14-century-old faith of a billion-plus believers that includes everyone from quietist Sufis to violent jihadis. Muslims achieved remarkable military, economic and cultural success between roughly 600 and 1200 A.D. Being a Muslim then meant belonging to a winning team, a fact that broadly inspired Muslims to associate their faith with mundane success. Those memories of medieval glory remain not just alive, but central to believers' confidence in Islam and in themselves as Muslims.

Major dissonance began around 1800, when Muslims unexpectedly lost wars, markets and cultural leadership to Western Europeans. It continues today, as Muslims bunch toward the bottom of nearly every index of achievement. This shift has caused massive confusion and anger. What went wrong? Why did God seemingly abandon His faithful? The unbearable divergence between premodern accomplishment and modern failure brought about trauma.

Muslims have responded to this crisis in three main ways. Secularists want Muslims to ditch the Shariah (Islamic law) and emulate the West. Apologists also emulate the West, but pretend that in doing so they are following the Shariah. Islamists reject the West in favor of a retrograde and full application of the Shariah.

Islamists loathe the West because of its vast influence over Muslims and its being tantamount to Christendom, the historic archenemy. Islamism inspires a drive to reject, defeat and subjugate Western civilization. Despite this urge, Islamists absorb Western influences, including the concept of ideology. Indeed, Islamism represents the transformation of Islamic faith into a political ideology. Islamism accurately indicates an Islamic-flavored version of radical utopianism, an -ism like other -isms, comparable to fascism and communism. Aping those two movements, for example, Islamism relies heavily on conspiracy theories to interpret the world, on the state to advance its ambitions, and on brutal means to attain its goals.

Supported by 10 percent to 15 percent of Muslims, Islamism draws on devoted and skilled cadres who have an impact far beyond their limited numbers. It poses a threat to civilized life in Iran and Egypt, and not just on the streets of Boston, but also in Western schools, parliaments and courtrooms.

Our killer question is "How do you propose to defeat Islamism?" Those who make all Islam their enemy not only succumb to a simplistic and essentialist illusion, but lack any mechanism to defeat it. We who focus on Islamism see World War II and the Cold War as models for subduing the third totalitarianism. We understand that radical Islam is the problem and that moderate Islam is the solution. 

We work with anti-Islamist Muslims to vanquish a common scourge. 

We will triumph over this new variant of barbarism so that a modern form of Islam can emerge.

IMO:

THE DEARTH OF ANTI-ISLAMIST MUSLIMS MAKES THIS STRATEGY MOOT.

A MODERN FORM OF ISLAM IS NO MORE LIKELY TO EMERGE NOW THAN DID A MODERATE FORM OF COMMUNISM EMERGE SUCCESSFULLY IN 1988 IN THE USSR.

THERE IS VERY LITTLE LIKELIHOOD THAT A SUFI-LIKE OR FIGURATIVE APPROACH TO THE KORAN AND HADITH AND SURA WILL EVER OCCUR.

AS LONG AS SAUDI'S FUND ISLAMIST MOSQUES AND MADRASSAS AND AS LONG AS PARTIES LIKE THE AKP AND HAMAS AND HIZBALLAH AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD (AND ALL THE OTHERS) ARE TOLERATED IN THE WEST - AND WITHIN THE ISLAMIC WORLD - ISLAM WON'T CHANGE.

THE LONGER WE CALL ISLAM AN ROP, THE LONGER THE WAR GOES ON.

THE LONGER THIS WAR GOES ON THE GREATER THE LIKELIHOOD THEY WILL GET NUKES AND USE THEM AND - FAIAP - DEFEAT US.

SO, THE IDEA WE CAN ALLY OURSELVES TO PHANTOM ANTI-ISLAMIST MUSLIMS IS A DANGEROUS DELUSION.

YES: THERE ARE A FEW, BUT TO FEW TO MENTION.

TOO FEW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

AND IRAN WILL HAVE NUKES SOON - UNLESS WE ACT.

AND THEN, THEY'LL HAVE THE UPPER HAND - AS THEY WILL GLADLY USE THEM FIRST.

AND OUR ADVANCED CIVILIZATION MIGHT NOT SURVIVE WHAT FOLLOWS NEXT ANY BETTER THEN THEY WILL.

TRAYVON MARTIN SHOULD NOT BE MADE INTO A ROLE MODEL OR A HERO - AS THE LEFT HAS BEEN ATTEMPTING TO DO

I KNOW ALL AFRICAN-AMERICANS AREN'T DUPES - THE FOUR ABOVE PROVE IT.

I HOPE MORE OF THEM START THINKING FOR THEMSELVES, WAKE UP, AND THAT THEY STOP ALLOWING THEMSELVES BE INSIDIOUSLY CORRALLED INTO PARTY POSITIONS WHICH - ALTHOUGH THEY MIGHT TEMPORARILY HELP THE PARTY - ARE SOCIALLY DESTRUCTIVE, AND REALLY ONLY HELP THE LEFTIST ELITES.

SIGH...

GOVERNMENT ASKING COURT TO DENY PETITION BY FAMILIES OF TERROR VICTIMS IS CONTEMPT FOR THEM

The Israeli government has committed a very grave offense in the legal system:

The government on Wednesday asked the High Court of Justice to reject a petition filed by the families of terror victims against the slated release of Palestinian prisoner, as part of renewed peace talks with the Palestinians.

Israel has agreed to release 104 security prisoners who were jailed prior to the 1993 Oslo Accords, as a goodwill gesture to the Palestinian Authority. The prisoners, some of whom are considered "heavyweight terrorists," will be released in four groups, according to the progress made in the negotiations. The first group is slated to be released next week.

The petition, drafted by Attorney Naftali Wertzberger for the Almagor Terror Victims Association, was filed against the state, Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein the government's legal counsel and the Justice Ministry's Amnesties and Pardons Department, demanding to know why they chose not to prevent the release of terrorists in question.

Asking the court to reject the petition is an act of hostility against the victims of terrorism as much as releasing the murderers with blood on their hands. It could jeopardize the Likud's electoral chances too. It would be equally offensive if the US government asked the Supreme Court to reject a petition by 9-11 Families against the release of jihadists serving time in American prisons.

The Utopian Fantasy Of Luddism Permeates Leftist/Anti-Capitalist Ideology And It Has a Genocidal Impulse

I know people are almost violently against Technology. I have one friend who is so opposed to Technology that he fantasizes that someone would set off an EMP attack which would force human beings to start all over on a more primitive level.

People like this are called Luddites. It's an old, but rarely studied mental illness. You can look it up.

Such an EMP attack might put a stop many types of pollution. It would put a stop Genetically Modified Foods. And it would seize up the "Global Warming" process ... or it might not.

It would certainly put a stop to our ability to accurately study Global Warming.

It would also shut down Hospitals, Retirement Homes, Rehab Centers, and Medical Research Facilities. Many millions of people would die, as they would no longer be able to receive the various kinds of care they currently receive.

Luddites would be happy about this because they believe our Earth needs less people anyway. They like the idea of culling the herd.

Few Luddites believe themselves to be among the herd which needs to be culled. Luddites believe they are a noble elite. And they believe, if the world were returned to it's "Natural State", it would enter a Golden Age, wherein the remaining humans would recognize the brilliance and pure personal power of the noble elites who had envisioned and carried out the Luddite Dream of destroying civilization as we know it.

This Noble Elite of Luddites would then reign as Kings and Queens of Benevolence and Graciousness, tilling the Green Earth, and sharing all things as human beings were meant to do. There would be no more tears, no more pain. There would be only a kind, Communal existence, similar to the more fevered episodes of My Little Pony, or the Care Bears, or the Teletubbies, but without the TV's on their Chests.

Yes, the Luddite Dream is a thing of beauty. It is truly a unique product of the Human Imagination. It is alive in many of us, and animates quite a bit of our political discourse.

But, there are other ideas alive in the imagination of Humans. For instance, some people dream of giving the blind eyes to see, and the deaf ears to hear.

And, some people are making those ideas come true, with the aid of very Advanced Technology:

Two 18 Year Old British Girls Volunteer To Teach In Zanzibar and Make the World A Better Place, Muslims Throw Acid In Their Faces

Two young British girls decide to go do some volunteer work to help out people less fortunate than themselves.

Two young Muslims decided to go do some volunteer work for Allah, by flinging acid in the faces and across the bodies of these two well-meaning young ladies.

You may want to make the world a better place, and that is admirable.

But, Muslims want to make the world a worse place.

From the BBC:

Two British women have had acid thrown in their faces in Zanzibar, police on the east African island say. 

Katie Gee and Kirstie Trup, both 18 and from London, were working as volunteer teachers on the island. 

Their mothers, Nicky Gee and Rochelle Trup, said they expected them to return to the UK on Thursday night. 

The women's mothers said in a statement: "Both families are extremely upset and distressed at this completely unprovoked attack on their lovely daughters who had only gone to Zanzibar with good intention. We understand that they will be flying home overnight. 

"We appreciate all the interest and support we have received from the media but we would ask that we are left alone until we have been reunited with our daughters." Nicky Gee told Sky News her daughter's whole face and body had been burned by acid in the attack. 

Police said two men on a moped threw the acid at the women, splashing their faces, chests and hands as they walked through the streets of Stone Town, the old part of the island's capital Zanzibar City, which is a Unesco world heritage site. 

Kari Korhonen runs Art in Tanzania with two other directors. He told the BBC in an email the "ladies are OK considering the seriousness of this type of case". He added: "We have been operating as NGO some 10 years and this is the first serious incident." 

He said he found out about the incident immediately after it took place and that the charity was "sorting out the incident background with the British High Commission and the Tanzanian-Zanzibar government". 

Another of Art In Tanzania's representatives in Zanzibar said the two women had been volunteering with the organisation for just over two weeks. He said they had been on their way to dinner when they were attacked. 

In a statement, i-to-i Travel said: "All our efforts remain focussed on ensuring they are supported whilst assisting them and their relatives with the arrangements for their return home." 

Tanzania's minister of information, tourism, culture and sports, Said Ali Mbarouk, condemned the attack. 

... added that "the motive for the incident is as yet not known".

Yes, that's right. The motive is not yet known.

But you see, because I am a RACIST, I am blaming this attack on a set of ideas called Islam, even though I have no knowledge of who did it or why.

TURKISH WORKER MURDERED HIS ROMANIAN GIRLFRIEND

A shocking murder took place in Tel Aviv, and we can guess the culprit's religion, I'm sure:

Police have arrested a Turkish man who has allegedly murdered his Romanian lover, dismembered her body, stuffed it into a suitcase, and dumped the case in southern Tel Aviv, where it was found on Saturday. The police said the motive for the gruesome killing was most likely a financial dispute. The suspect was arrested just a few hours before he managed to flee the country.

"We arrested him on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. in Ramat Gan, as he was on his way to the airport," said Tel Aviv Police officer Sharon Malka. "He had a plane ticket with a 9:00 p.m. departure time. He confessed to [the crime] and reenacted it for us, showing us the places where he disposed of her body. Our officers have been searching since Monday night, trying to locate the [victim's] head. The investigation has just started."

The gag order which was originally imposed on the case was lifted Wednesday morning. Police identified the suspect as Eidan Damiran, a 50-year-old foreign worker from Turkey. Damiran allegedly strangled to death 45-year-old Ilona Denis, a Romanian woman who was working as a caregiver in Israel. Damiran then allegedly dismembered her body, thinking it would prevent the police from identifying her.

So far, they may not have recovered the poor woman's head. It may have been money that led to this, but it could also have been Islamisogyny that did. And they shouldn't deny that.

GLICK SUMS UP NETANYAHU'S COWARDICE WELL

Caroline Glick had some pretty unmincing words to say about Netanayhu's dhimmitude by releasing jihadists:

There was nothing even vaguely courageous about his cabinet members' decision to vote for their release. Theirs was an act of utter cravenness. They dishonored the victims, the victims' families and the nation as a whole.

And they endangered the country. According to the Almagor Victims of Terror organization, from 2000 to 2005, 180 Israelis were murdered by Palestinian terrorists released by Israel in previous "deals." And those terrorists had been imprisoned for non-lethal actions, (i.e., without blood on their hands).

The fact that Netanyahu and his ministers passed this decision simply to provide a sufficient payoff to Abbas for him to send Saeb Erekat to Washington to talk about nothing with Livni, makes their actions, not only craven, but insane. [...]

What is surprising - and frightening - is that Netanyahu, who is not a true believer, and knows that they are true believers, is going along with this.

Netanyahu knows that Israel cannot survive without Judea and Samaria. He knows what the Muslim Brotherhood is. He knows the nature of the Iranian regime. He knows that the PLO is no different from Hamas. Their goal is the same - they want to destroy Israel.

Netanyahu knows that Obama is hostile to Israel and that he will not lift a finger to block Iran from becoming a nuclear power.

So why is he going along with their insanity? In bowing to US pressure and approving the release of 104 terrorist murderers from prison, Netanyahu behaved like a coward. In bowing to US pressure not to bomb Iran's nuclear installations, Netanyahu is being a coward.

The most important question for Israel today then is whether our leader is capable of being anything else.

Well said, and at this point, I'm decidedly not defending him anymore. If he were to encounter another trumped up scandal like he once did when he was first elected, how could anyone he kicked in the face bring themselves to help him? It was once the same situation with former president Moshe Katsav. He may have been wrongly convicted of rape a few years ago, but since he refused to speak in defense of the people whom Ariel Sharon wronged, he lost the support he could have found.

Martin Sherman says it's impossible now to justify Netanyahu's incumbency. And he's right. His dhimmitude is also a betrayal of his family, including his brother Jonathan and even his father. Barry Rubin is also sad, and notes that it only brings more demands from the PLO.

So I won't feel sorry if Netanyahu goes down in history in disgrace. He had a big chance to prove otherwise. For now, he didn't.

SUSPECT ARRESTED IN KNIFING OF HAREDI JERUSALEMITE

A Muslim from the Silwan neighborhood was arrested for attacking at least 3 people:

Police arrested a 22 year old Arab man suspected of stabbing a Jewish man in a public bathroom in Bloomfield Park in the capital last month.

The man is a resident of the Silwan neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Police do not suspect terrorism as a motive of the attack.

He is also suspected of attempting to stab another haredi man immediately after the first attack and then stabbing an Arab youth at Damascus Gate.

That's why they don't think terrorism was a motive? That's awfully shallow thinking, and I get the vibe they're once again taking the risk of making themselves look like stupid fools by not considering the suspect's jihadist mindset.

Blogpost title of the month: "Kill Terrorists in Yemen, Free Them in Israel"

THE USA CAN KILL TERRORISTS THOUSANDS OF MILES FROM ITS SHORES.

BUT ISRAEL IS EXPECTED TO RELEASE THE ONES THEY HAVE IN JAIL.

TYPICAL ANTISEMITIC DOUBLE STANDARD.

YEAH!: ANTISEMITIC NOT JUST ANTI-ZIONIST. WHY?! SIMPLE: WHEN YOU HOLD THE JEWS TO A SEPARATE STANDARD THAN EVERY OTHER NATION YOUR ARE BEING AN ANTISEMITE.

BY FORCING BIBI TO GIVE IN TO FATAH'S PRECONDITION FOR TALKS, OBAMA AND KERRY ARE JOINING IN WITH FATAH'S ANTISEMITISM.

UH-OH: CONFIRMED H2H BIRD FLU IN CHINA!

BBC: Researchers have reported the first case of human-to-human transmission of the new strain of bird flu that has emerged in China. The British Medical Journal said a 32-year-old woman was infected after caring for her father. Both later died. Until now there had been no evidence of anyone catching the H7N9 virus other than after direct contact with birds.

WHOA. THIS COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF THE END...

FUN LITTLE MORSEL OF LIBERAL HYPOCRISY: HATE NOAH; LOVE AL GORE

A liberal friend of mine said the problem with American politics is that there are too many people here who believe in Noah.

SIGH.

It's chic to be critical of Judeo-Christian values.

He'd never say that India is incapable of self-governance because it's comprised of Hindus & muslims; (India is the country with the most muslims on earth).

And he ridicules Noah, but LOVES Al Gore - a man who imagines he is a modern day Noah saving the earth from global climate catastrophe.

Isn't Al Gore merely a modern Noah?

NOPE. Al Gore is a modern Chicken Little crying that the sky is falling.

And my liberal friend's belief in Al Gore isn't much different than the belief in Noah that the conservatives he disdains have.

BTW: you will never hear a liberal be critical of Gilgamesh. Or the Mahabharata. NO. They are postmodernists who have been brainwashed to hate the West. And love foreign cultures.

Postmodernists have been brainwashed to believe that the West is guilty of massive centuries old sexual repression, creating a global climate catastrophe, most of history's genocide, and Third World poverty.

ALL ARE DEMONSTRABLY FALSE.

I don't know if Noah happened the exact way the story says; after all, there is much figurative language in the Bible and a lot of morality fables.

I do know that the lessons it teaches and the values it imparts have lifted humanity out of pagan, heathen, uncivilized mayhem and helped create societies based on equality before Eternal law and mutually agreed to civil arrangements.

The Torah is the basis of all this - the idea that G-d alone rules and the we here below must govern ourselves based on His laws and based on restraining our evil inclination and restrianing those who would violate His Ten Commandments.

Those Ten Commandments have been a blessing for ALL humans - regardless of what or how you believe - more so than either Das Kapital or the Democrat Party Platform or Krugman or Gore or Billary or Obama or the editorial pages of the NYTIMES.

When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS, MAKE LEMONADE

Not strictly a political post...

This might be a good idea for a longer period of time:

After a 2011 earthquake damaged the Washington Monument, scaffolding was erected.   On July 8, 2013, the scaffolding was illuminated.

The National Mall frequently undergoes changes. Museums are added, landscaping is done. No longer is there much room for additional structures.

Many are advocating permanent illumination of the obelisk:

HMMM...: WHAT IF THE AL QAEDA CONNECTION TO THE EMBASSY CLOSINGS IS A RUSE TO COVER UP THE REAL REASON THEY ARE CLOSING???

IF THE USA AND/OR ISRAEL WAS ABOUT TO SNEAK ATTACK IRAN AND/OR SYRIA IN A MASSIVE WAY MEANT TO TOPPLE ASSAD AND/OR DEMOLISH IRAN'S NUCLEAR ASSETS, THEN THEY'D LIKE IN ADVANCE TO EVACUATE THE DIPLOMATS WHO'D BE IN HARM'S WAY IN THE DAYS/WEEKS FOLLOWING SUCH AN ATTACK WITHOUT TIPPING THEIR HANDS.

AN IMPENDING AL QAEDA ATTACK WOULD MAKE A GOOD COVER STORY FOR SUCH A WITHDRAWAL.

WHY ELSE EVACUATE 70 EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES ACROSS THE MUSLIM WORLD WHEN JAY CARNEY TELLS US THAT THE THREAT IS REALLY ONLY FOR THE ARABIAN PENINSULA?

JUST GAMING THE SITUATION... JUST A WILD HYPOTHESIS...

STAY TUNED...

UPDATE: IS THIS A COVER STORY TOO - TO EXPLAIN AWAY OUR HEIGHTENED ACTIVITY IN THE REGION???

VIDEO: Courageous French woman speaks out against islamization

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BEZOS WILL FAIL WITH THE WASH POST AS HARMON AND DILLER DID WITH NEWSWEEK

BEZOS  - WHO IS ACTUALLY LESS PROFITABLE TO DATE ON THE INTERNET THAN DILLER AND NOWHERE NEAR AS MASS-MEDIA SAVVY AS DILLER - WILL DO NO BETTER WITH HIS WASHPOST PURCHASE, THAN DILLER DID WITH NEWSWEEK.

UPDATE: Film clip of the once and future Bezos - or how he sees himself? (via kaching):

DESPITE PSEUDO-PEACE TALKS, ISRAELI GOVERNMENT APPROVES SPECIAL STATUS FOR "SETTLEMENTS"

Which angers the PLO, as usual:

Even as Israeli-Palestinian talks are set to begin next week and deal with the borders of a future Palestinian state, the cabinet on Sunday approved a new national priorities map that includes a number of small settlements beyond the security fence.

The national priorities map lists communities eligible for preferential treatment by various ministries, such as smaller classrooms, enhanced budget for cultural programming and additional funds for security needs not faced by other communities.

Government officials stressed that before any West Bank settlement receives the affirmative action it is entitled to under this plan, a second approval will be needed by the “political echelon.”

Among the new settlements on the list are Rehalim and Bruchin in Samaria, and Sansana and Negohot in the South Hebron Hills. Up until a few months ago, these communities were considered illegal settlement outposts. Other settlements new to the list are Hebron, Nofim, Geva Binyamin, Ma’aleh Michmash, and Eshkolot. [...]

PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi, meanwhile, denounced the inclusion of settlements in the priority map as a “confidence destruction measure.”

“While Palestine has cooperated with international efforts to seek a two-state solution on the 1967 border, Israel is responding once again by destroying the 1967 border and violating international law,” Ashrawi said. “Israeli attempts to grab more Palestinian land and to provide settlers with preferential treatment will not be tolerated.”

So cry us all a bath, why don't you. They're only interested in hatemongering, so this is what they get. 91 villages/towns have been approved for this special issue.

And yet, if the Israeli government releases jihadists with blood on their hands, I can't I'll feel sorry if Netanyahu's career takes a nosedive as a result. There's a fine line on morale that can't be crossed, no matter what attempts they make to deflect the damage.

PREDICTION: BECAUSE OF OBAMA'S SUPPORT FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, EGYPT WILL SOON BE BACK IN RUSSIA'S CAMP

PREDICTION:

PUTIN WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OBAMA'S DISASTROUS SUPPORT OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND OUR CRUMBLING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY FORGE AN ALLIANCE WITH THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY AND HENCE THE GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT - WHICH WAS FIRMLY IN THE USSR'S CAMP UNTIL NIXON'S ADMINISTRATION.

WHO IS ON THE RUN, AL QAEDA OR THE USA UNDER OBAMA?

KRISTOL NAILS IT.

GUARANTEED NOT HALAL: SAMA AL MASRY - EGYPTIAN BELLYDANCER - HAS MADE A MUSIC VIDEO THAT MOCKS OBAMA

VIA GATEWAY:

IN MORSI-RUN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD DOMINATED EGYPT SHE'D BE AS SAFE AS NIKOULA WAS IN OBAMA'S AMERICA, WHICH US TO SAY: SHE'D BE IN JAIL. 

FASCISTS LIKE MORSI AND OBAMA DON'T LIKE FREE SPEECH.