NEW SHAS GURU WON'T OFFER BLESSING TO IDF

Shalom Cohen, the new spiritual leader for Shas whom I hesitate to call a rabbi, lets his disdain for the army be known:

“Do you think that the people of Israel need an army?” Rabbi Shalom Cohen asked during a sermon. “It is God almighty who fights for Israel.”

The foremost religious arbiter in the Shas movement raised eyebrows on Wednesday when, during a special prayer held at Jerusalem’s Western Wall for IDF soldiers, he remarked that “Israel doesn’t need an army.”

The comments by Cohen, the man who succeeded the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef as spiritual leader of Shas, drew rebukes from secular Israelis, as IDF soldiers continue to operate in the Gaza Strip on the 17th day of Operation Protective Edge.

When stunned worshipers asked the rabbi to offer a blessing for IDF troops, he replied, “Do you think you are fighting? I am fighting for you. We screamed out to God: ‘Save us without inflicting anymore sorrow on the people of Israel.’” The head of Hiddush, a religious freedom lobbying group, lambasted the rabbi for the comments.

“If the country doesn’t need an army, then there’s no doubt that the yeshivot and Torah students don’t need budgets from the Treasury,” Uri Regev, the director- general of Hiddush, said. “From now on, they can put their faith in the Lord when it comes to asking for money to fund their education systems. We will help the ultra-Orthodox in saying earnest prayers for money to start growing on trees.”

“At the end of the day, most of us believe that we do need an army, but we are quite uncertain as to whether we need Shas,” Regev said.

Of course we don't need those phonies, but sadly, there's a segment of the public that thinks we do, that being the knee-jerk Haredis who'll vote for them, if anyone. Cohen has let many better people down by refusing to bless the soldiers fighting for his safety and wish them a safe return. He's a rabbi in name only.

OBAMA, ISIS, AND THE KURDS

Paul Mirengoff at Powerline seems surprised that Obama is refusing military aid to the Kurds:

It seems criminal for Obama to deny this assistance in the name of defending the interests of a central government that Obama has condemned for its dealings with the Kurds (among others).

ISIS is looking to establish a caliphate, and making good progress toward that end. Meanwhile, Obama dithers, using the Iraq government’s poor treatment of the Kurds as an excuse for not doing more to help it fight ISIS, and the Kurd’s natural animosity to the government as an excuse for not helping them.

It’s almost as if Obama is indifferent to the progress of ISIS and willing to embrace any excuse for standing idly by in the face of that progress.

Obama isn't looking for any excuses. He is not dithering.  He wants ISIS to win.

"By their fruit you will recognize them."  Don't listen to what he says, rather watch what he does, if you want to know what he is all about.

OBAMA'S EFFECTIVENESS AND COMPETENCE

Pundits claim that Obama is bored . . . he spends his time playing golf, while the world erupts in flames . . . . he attends pricey fundraisers with lefty fat cats while his domestic legislative agenda withers on the vine . . . they think he has given up . . .

They're missing the point.

There's no need for Obama to spend any time at all on foreign policy.  Remember when he told Dmitri Medvedev to tell Vladimir how flexible he would be in his second term?  Now we see the results.  Obama is happy letting Vladimir Putin and the Muslim Brotherhood take care of the rest of the world for him.  He's been content to turn Libya, Egypt, and Iraq over to the Muslim Brotherhood . . .  well, the Egyptian army took Egypt away from his buddies, but they may get Syria after all . . . and what he described as the most beautiful sound in the world, the morning call of the adhan from the minaret, now sounds sweetly in Mosul, without any more competition from Christian church bells . . . . how happy that must make a man who was raised from childhood to hate Americans . . . . whom his mother denounced as not her people . . . .

As for his legislative agenda, there is none anymore.  All he wants from Congress is continuing resolutions and spending bills.  There's no need for Obama to waste any more time talking to Congress . . . . he never liked doing it anyway, and there's nothing for him to gain there any more.

The midterms don't bother him a bit.

He's going to singlemindedly pursue his cherished lifelong goals: fundamentally transforming the United States of America into a socialist paradise.  And he's going to do it by executive actions alone.

While you were thinking he was inept, incompetent, stupid, and ineffectual, he has successfully damaged this country more severely than any foreign enemy has ever managed.

There is no border anymore.  He took it down all by himself.  The immigration laws of this country no longer exist, and any terrorist or criminal who wants to come across from Mexico is welcome.

He will ignore District Court and Supreme Court decisions that go against him, and continue by executive orders to dismantle the domestic energy industry, cripple America's health care providers, and turn the educational system into a machine for socialist indoctrination.  He will continue to print money and debase the currency, taxing savers and investors by making their capital vanish into inflationary air.

And as long as our corrupt Representatives and Senators continue to supply him with the spending bills to do it, there will be no brakes on an engine that is now hurtling over a cliff from which there can be no easy turning back.

Impeachment will accomplish nothing to repair the damage that he has already done . . .  and will have done by the time an impeachment process went through.

I have long thought that the perfumed princes of the Pentagon were just as liberal, just as politically correct, just as socialist-lite as the rest of the sycophants and trough-guzzlers in Washington.  But some of the comments that are leaking out from the mouths of several high-ranking officers make me think that there may be a few patriotic generals and admirals left in this country.

Will it take a military coup and a caretaker government to restore the Constitution? . . . . That would come with a lot of pain, too.

But the America of the Constitution, of the Declaration, is dying . . . . slowing being choked to death by traitors in high places. It may be too late to save her at all . . . . and the process of saving her will be very unpleasant to live through . . . . living through her demise however will be hell.

WHAT JON GRUBER SHOULD HAVE SAID

No need to claim it was a "speak-o." 

Just explain, "DUDE THIS WAS LIKE TWO YEARS AGO."

PROOF THAT HAMAS VERSUS ISRAEL IS EVIL VERSUS GOOD

THERE'S GOING TO BE A ROCKET ATTACK IN ISRAEL AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS:

THERE'S GOING TO BE A ROCKET ATTACK IN GAZA AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS (VIA FOXMULDAR):

"Hamas members brutally beating civilians of Gaza who leave their homes following IDF warning."

The Israelis use rockets to protect civilians, the Hamas use civilians to protect their rockets.

NETUREI KARTA KREEPS ATTENDED MORE ANTI-ISRAEL DEMONSTRATIONS

Almost forgot, but in the past few weeks, Neturei Karta have been at their anti-Israel activities again, with this demonstration in London one of their sickest faustian pacts of late. They also attended a demonstration in Canada, and a local rabbi wrote in the Hamilton Spectator why nobody should think they're real representatives of the Jewish community:

So-called "rabbis" affiliated with a radical fringe group called Neturei Karta, dressed in traditional Jewish garb, rallied together with hundreds of anti-Israel protesters in downtown Hamilton this past Saturday.

The group, founded in 1938 and funded in part by various Islamic entities, is dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state. Its members are part of a cadre of professional anti-Zionist protesters that travel worldwide to various anti-Israel rallies — Hamilton being one of its more recent stops. While the number of adherents is sometimes estimated to be in the thousands, in reality it may total no more than several hundred.

The sect, whose outward appearance is similar to many Hassidic groups, has no current or historic ties to any Hassidic group whatever. While professing to represent "authentic Judaism," these radicals have been unequivocally disenfranchised and shunned by the most religious and pious Jewish communities throughout Europe and the world.

While certain Hassidic groups maintain the belief that the establishment of a Jewish state should await the coming of the messiah, they do not support or advocate on behalf of terrorist entities determined to eradicate the Jewish state. This is precisely the policy of Neturei Karta.

I wouldn't be too sure most other Haredi movements don't support Islamofascism. After all, the Satmar's reps in Kiryas Joel met with delegates from the UAE a year ago, and some of their past members might have formed the Kartas in their modern incarnation. They also blamed the victims in the case of yeshiva students who were murdered by Hamas.

They may only number several hundred, but even that's more than dangerous enough. Let's recall the member who wanted to spy for Iran, another who vandalized a section of Yad Vashem's property, and a neighborhood in Mea Shearim where their followers may have a stronghold. Even if they don't number big, they can still cause a lot of danger, and again, that's why they were added to the ADL's list of worst anti-Israel movements.

MERIAM IBRAHIM FINALLY FREE FROM SUDAN'S SHARIA

The mother who'd been sentenced to death for alleged apostasy has finally made it out of Sudan safely, thanks to help from the Vatican and Italy's government:

Pope Francis met privately Thursday with a Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence, blessing the woman as she cradled her infant daughter born just weeks ago in prison.

The Vatican characterized the visit with Meriam Ibrahim, 27, her husband and their two small children as "very affectionate."

The 30-minute encounter took place just hours after the family landed at Rome's Ciampino airport, accompanied by an Italian diplomat who helped negotiate her release, and welcomed by Italy's premier, who hailed it as a "day of celebration."

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the pope "thanked her for her faith and courage, and she thanked him for his prayer and solidarity." Francis frequently calls attention to the suffering of those persecuted for their religious beliefs.

Lombardi said the presence of "their wonderful small children" added to the affectionate tone of the meeting. Video footage released by the Vatican shows the pope giving the family papal medals and rosaries.

Ibrahim held her sleeping infant as she stepped off the plane from Sudan, which had initially blocked her from leaving the country even after the country's highest court overturned her death sentence in June. An Italian diplomat carried her 18-month-old son, while her husband, Daniel Wani, who is disabled, joined them on the tarmac in a wheelchair.

Ibrahim and her family are expected to spend a few days in Rome before heading to the United States, where her husband is a citizen. Ibrahim's husband had lived in New Hampshire.

Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but whose mother was an Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia, was sentenced to death over charges of apostasy. She married Wani, a Christian from southern Sudan, in a church ceremony in 2011. As in many Muslim nations, Muslim women in Sudan are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, though Muslim men can marry outside their faith.

The sentence, issued in May, was condemned by the United States, the United Nations and Amnesty International, among others, and both the United States and Italy — a strong death penalty opponent with long ties to the Horn of Africa region — worked to win her release.

Sudan's high court threw out her death sentence in June, but she was then blocked from leaving the country by authorities who questioned the validity of her travel documents.

Lapo Pistelli, an Italian diplomat who accompanied the family from Sudan, said Italy was able to leverage its ties within the region. "We had the patience to speak to everyone in a friendly way. This paid off in the end," he said.

How strange the UN opposed the death penalty for apostasy, given how dhimmified they are today. For all we know, this could've been a disaster with people like them, and surely still is. Fortunately, all turned out well in the end for Ibrahim, and now she's able to live in freedom away from those savages.

MORE ON THE INQUIRY ON SHARIA IMPOSED IN BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS

Reuters reports the findings of the inquiry on the Muslim trojan horse scheme in Britain:

A British government inquiry has found that hardline Muslims tried to impose an "intolerant and aggressive" Islamic agenda on some schools in the city of Birmingham, including separation of boys and girls in lessons and banning Christmas celebrations.

Some of the majority-Moslem schools invited speakers with known extremist views to assemblies and promoted organisations that would be categorised as 'extremist' under government classifications, according to the report by Peter Clarke, former head of London Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command.

Hardline Muslims also tried to force schools to install governors and teachers who would support a conservative Islamic religious agenda.

Look at how here, they're willing to use the word "conservative" to describe Muslims, and for the most dhimmified, that kind of conservatism is fine.

"There has been co-ordinated, deliberate and sustained action, carried out by a number of associated individuals, to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamic ethos into a few schools in Birmingham," Clarke said.

He said he had not looked for evidence of terrorism, radicalisation or violent extremism, and he had not found any during the course of his investigation.

But he found "a number of people, associated with each other and in positions of influence in schools and governing bodies, who espouse, endorse or fail to challenge extremist views."

It doesn't have to be education for jihad per se. It can just be the basic type of indoctrintion taught via the Koran, and that's horrible enough as it is.

The report, released on Tuesday, cited instances where pupils were banned from singing and listening to music, and forbidden to draw faces in art classes.

It also gave evidence of lessons being segregated by sex and discrimination against non-Muslims. Some schools had cancelled Christmas celebrations.

Transcripts of electronic conversations between a group of male teachers at the schools showed evidence of homophobia and anti-western, anti-American and anti-Israeli attitudes.

And the worst part is that some of the students must've eaten up all that propaganda. And we wonder how Britain becomes so bad?

CAIR TAKES PART IN PRO-HAMAS DEMONSTRATION IN FLORIDA

CAIR came out in favor of the terrorist organization that helped found it:

Clad in the war garb of the jihad, the keffiyeh and chanting the Islamic death dirge, Khybar, Khybar, ya yahud, jaish Muhammad sayud.” The threat of Khybar is the threat of extermination harkening back to Muhammad’s annihilation of an entire tribe of Jews, the Quraya

Decked out in keffiyahs and stocked with vulgar posters, anti-Israel demonstrators have been descending upon cities across the United States rallying for what they call peace. One such group gathered on Sunday, July 20, 2014, just blocks from the Israeli consulate in Miami.

Photo of protest information card obtained at the Miami protest on July 20, 2014. Note, “Burning flags will not be allowed.”

The flier for this protest declares, “Stop the bombing – Stop the Killing – Free Palestine” and includes logos from: the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Florida, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Students for Justice in Palestine, the American Muslim Association of North America, American Muslims for Emergency & Relief, Syrian American Council of South Florida, and the American Muslims Foundation. Some of these groups have thousands of members across the country and their leaders are often featured prominently in the news as being representative of the Muslim-American community.

The event’s Facebook page indicates additional coalition sponsors including: Al-Awda Coalition, National Lawyers Guild (South Florida), CAIR among others. The same page declares the purpose of the event was “to support peace, liberation, and human rights.”

And initially, one mostly heard peaceful-sounding slogans like “Viva, Viva Palestina” and “No more killing, no more war.” These were interspersed with others like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” which means eliminating the Jewish State.

The “peace” aspect, however, was completely forgotten whenever a suspected Zionist appeared. One such man filming the event was accosted in a threatening manner by about six protestors, with one grabbing his arms from behind. The police had to calm the crowd as some rushed towards a passing vehicle carrying an Israeli flag. Later in the day, a small group of about eight Israel supporters arrived. At that point, the anti-Israel demonstrators shifted their focus to the pro-Israel group.

The anti-Israel protestors became increasingly hostile, to the point of invoking outrageous Islamist slogans.

In Arabic, they screamed:

“The martyr is God’s love.” This encourages one to die while committing Jihad — it is a celebration of terror attacks including suicide bombings.

“Khaybar, Khaybar Oh, Jew. Muhammad’s army will return.” This refers to a seventh-century massacre in which Muhammad’s army attacked the Jewish community of Khaybar in the Arabian Peninsula. The Jewish males who surrendered were beheaded; Muhammad and his soldiers then divided the women, children, and property. Islamists today routinely invoke this battle as a rallying cry to attack Jews.

In English, they yelled:

“We are Hamas!” openly confirming support for a group officially designated a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, and Egypt.

“We are Jihad!” thereby calling for holy war.

And these kind of obscenities have become hallmarks of anti-Israel demonstrations. Another truly repulsive display of inhumanity.

Egypt's Air Sinai kept flying to Israel

The airline that kept flying to Israel: Egypt's Air Sinai: 

The decision to continue scheduled flights to Ben-Gurion airport was likely made by Cairo's leadership. Egypt's Air Sinai has continued its scheduled flights to Israel, despite the cancellation of flights by numerous American and European airlines, according to Calcalist. The Egyptian carrier runs four weekly flights to Ben-Gurion International Airport. 

The decision to continue flying to Israel must have been made at the highest echelons, and is meant to send a message to Hamas, which Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi regards with disdain, Calcalist reported. 

THINK ABOUT IT: IT PROVES OBAMA IS LESS A FRIEND OF ISRAEL THAN EGYPT.

ABORIGINAL INMATES IN AUSTRALIA CONVERTING TO ISLAM

And the imams supposedly trying to curb this won't be honest about the influence:

Australia's spy agency has been enlisted to help crack down on radicalisation in jails after revelations Aboriginal prisoners are converting to Islam and risk becoming extremists.

Sheikhs and imams are being brought into prisons to deliver de-radicalisation messages during Friday prayers, but two prominent Sydney sheikhs have told a high-level forum that chaplaincy services are grossly under-funded and prison converts are misinterpreting the religion.

A small but high-risk group of radicals are causing concern to Corrective Services NSW and it is believed recruitment to Islam is active, particularly among Aboriginal inmates.

Sheikh Omar Habbouche, who has worked with inmates and prison chaplains, says faith is a powerful tool in the reformation of prisoners but the lack of Muslim chaplaincy services in NSW means prison converts are misinterpreting Islam.

Yes, please tell us more taqqiya, why don't you. The Koran and its verses are the influence, and those imams should know it better than anyone else, so there's no misinterpretation at all. It's terrible the Aboriginal community in Australia is falling for such a repulsive religion.

DEATHS THREATS MADE AT ANTI-SEMITIC RIOTS IN SARCELLES

Another anti-Israel demonstration was conducted - this time illegally - in Paris, and the behavior this time was utterly worse (Hat tip: Town Hall):

Eighteen people were arrested for attacks on shops, including a kosher supermarket, a Jewish-owned chemist and a funeral home. Rioters, who carried batons and threw petrol bombs according to eyewitnesses, were yards from the synagogue when they were driven back by riot police who used tear gas.

“They were shouting: ‘Death to Jews,’ and ‘Slit Jews’ throats’,” David, a Jewish sound engineer told The Times. “It took us back to 1938.”

It's beyond the pale and obscene, and it's only discouraging more Jews from remaining in a once fine country to come here instead. A modern day Kristallnacht. And prime minister Manuel Valls wasn't helping when he brought up the war in Gaza as though that really matters:

Valls and Fabius reiterated calls for an immediate ceasefire in the region and rejected criticism of France's stance in the latest outbreak of violence there. Pro-Palestinian protesters and some leftist politicians accuse it of pro-Israeli bias.

"The images we see of women, children, being killed by Israeli bombings are horrendous. There is no other solution than an immediate ceasefire and negotiations," Valls said.

This is exactly what's encouraging those savages to resort to violence and worse. It's hardly pro-Israel at all. And people like him wonder why the Jewish community will only end up leaving? A very sick man who can't decide clearly where he stands. This is exactly what European politicians fail to come to terms with.

It's very sad if Jews have to leave France, but even the government's left no choice, and there's plenty of people there who won't be satisfied, because the government is failing thanks to political correctness. The worst part is that Europe as a whole does look to face a bloody civil war. If it comes, I hope nobody sane is going to let the Islamofascists take over the continent, because then, it would only lead to more misery for future generations in countries that pride freedom above all, and lead to just what we don't want: war.

SHEESH: HOW ABOUT THOSE USEFUL IDIOTS WITH THE "FREE GAZA" SIGNS!

I STILL SEE THOSE SIGNS AT THE RECENT "PROTESTS".

THEY SEEM TO FORGET THAT GAZA IS 100% UNDER SELF-RULE.

IF THE GAZANS NEED TO BE FREED FROM ANYTHING, THEN IT'S FROM THE HIDEOUS IDEOLOGY WHICH RULES IT: ISLAMISM.

EVEN THE EGYPTIANS - WHO HAVE A CLOSED WALL ON THEIR GAZAN BORDERS - KNOW THIS.

THERE WON'T BE A "FREE GAZA" OR PEACE BETWEEN GAZA AND EGYPT OR ISRAEL UNTIL HAMAS AND THE HIDEOUS IDEOLOGY THAT INSPIRES HAMAS ARE ERASED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

NORWAY ON RED ALERT: EXPECT JIHADIST ATTACK WITHIN DAYS

BBC:

Norway is boosting security because of an imminent threat from people linked to Islamist militants in Syria, the Norwegian intelligence chief says. The head of the PST security service, Benedicte Bjoernland, said it had "reliable information" about plans for some kind of attack "within days". She called the threat "non-specific" but "credible". ... Norwegian police are stepping up their presence at airports, stations and border crossings because of the new threat. 

A PST assessment last month said about 50 people had travelled to Syria from Norway as foreign fighters, and half of them had now returned to Norway, the Associated Press news agency reports. Ms Bjoernland did not name any possible targets when she announced the alert, at a news conference with Justice and Security Minister Anders Anundsen and police chief Vidar Refvik. 

The PST "recently received information that a group of extremists from Syria may be planning a terrorist attack in Norway", she said. A Frenchman who travelled to Syria to join Islamists last year has been accused of murdering four people in a gun attack on the Brussels Jewish museum in May. Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, is now facing extradition from France to Belgium.

Other European governments, including the UK and France, have warned of the risk that "home-grown" Islamist volunteers may return from the Syrian conflict and carry out attacks.

NORWAY IS PRO-PLO AND YET STILL A TARGET.

PROVING ONCE AGAIN THAT ISRAEL HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH ISLAMO-TERROR.

(NEED MORE PROOF? THEN JUST AS A SYRIAN-SHIA OR AN IRAQI SHIA.)

THE WORLD WON'T BE SAFE UNTIL SALAFISM/QTUBISM/KHOMENISM/ISLAMISM IS COMPLETELY ERASED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

BECAUSE OBAMA HAS APPEASED THESE ISLAMISTS, THE WORLD IS INCREASINGLY UNSAFE SINCE 2008 - AND NOW VERY UNSAFE.

WE CAN START TO MAKES THINGS SAFER THIS NOVEMBER.

IN FACT, IT'S NOVEMBER OR NEVER.

UNDERAGED GIRL "MARRIED OFF" IN AUSTRALIA UNDER SHARIA

The Australian Telegraph reported that a Muslim's been charged with marrying off his young daughter, and the "husband" was charged with illegal sexual activity:

In a case that has brought awareness of secret child brides in Australia, the girl’s father and the 26-year-old man she “wed” were charged in February over numerous child sex offences.

Documents that formed part of a successful apprehended violence order application by police at the time against the girl’s “husband” state that the young girl “believed or had been informed that sharia law overrides the Australian law”.

Correction: she'd been indoctrinated and lied to.

“She stated that together with the accused they had been trying to get him registered as her legal guardian with Centrelink in order to obtain any welfare benefits they could,” the court documents state.

The police allege in the AVO document that the 26-year-old man, who was charged with 25 counts of sexual intercourse with a child, admitted to officers on the day he was arrested that he had had sex with the girl daily since the religious ceremony in the living room of the girl’s Hunter Valley home on January 12.

“When questioned on this he showed no remorse and was confident that in doing this he had committed no crime,” the police documents state. His matter is still before the courts and he is being held at Villawood Detention Centre after his student visa was revoked.

The child and the Lebanese university student met at a mosque through the girl’s 62-year-old father who is a Muslim convert, police alleged.

The girl’s father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is charged with procuring a child for sex and accessory before the fact to sexual intercourse with a child.

Dressed in a traditional Islamic tunic, the father-of-seven fronted Burwood Local Court yesterday where he was committed to stand trial in the Sydney District Court.

His lawyer Mario Licha said outside court the father would be defending the charges.

The alleged child bride, who is now 13, and her eight-year-old sister remain in the care of the Department of Community Services.

Interesting. Another convert who's done as much harm to his child's health as the mainstay Islamisogynists have. And it looks like he sees nothing wrong with child bridemongering any more than the so-called husband does. He should be jailed for a long time for the damage he did to the daughter.

"... in what might be the largest scientific fraud ever uncovered, NASA and the NOAA have been caught red-handed altering historical temperature data..."

SPPI: 

"... in what might be the largest scientific fraud ever uncovered, NASA and the NOAA have been caught red-handed altering historical temperature data..."

SLOTT'S AMBIGUITY (AND BREVOORT'S TOO)

More know-it-all sainthood from Dan Slott, which begins with a Q&A on Tom Brevoort's site:

Peter Parker has been said to be ambiguously Jewish. Why would you let Slott force him to team up with a member of the faith that seeks to destroy Jews and all "infidels?"

Careful, anonymous sir, your racism is showing!

As usual, it's just like Brevoort to make no distinctions whatsoever between race and religion. Sigh, I hesitate to think what kind of educational institute he studied in. I don't know if Slott intends to team Spidey up with an Islamist (though I wouldn't put it past him to plan that now), but the poster who wrote that query is somebody whom I want to thank for raising the topic. I guess in the mind of Brevoort/Slott, defending Jews from Islamofascism is reprehensible? Very sad. I do know that a decade ago, Paul Jenkins wrote a story using a morally equivalent depiction of Muslims, where Spidey had to rescue a PLO operative from Dr. Octopus. I wonder if that's what the poster really meant?

Anyway, here's some tweets Slott wrote in followup:

Priceless. RT @TomBrevoort Anonymous said: Peter Parker has been said to be ambiguously Jewish. Why would you let... http://t.co/MrL6EH5Ais
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) July 17, 2014

The irony is... I'M ambiguously Jewish. :-)
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) July 17, 2014

Alas, yes, he is. It's not clear if he's truly proud of his racial background. It's less clear if he even likes his community's founding religion, Judaism. Where does he even stand on Hamas, who launched rockets galore at Jewish neighborhoods, even around my vicinity in Israel, and murdered three yeshiva students? Where does he stand on a Muslim cabbie who murdered a 19-year-old woman? Come to think of it, what does he think of all the Islamofascists in France and other parts of Europe who terrorized Jews and worse, murdered their victims? Ambiguity indeed.

It's only in the minds of the worst ideologues that Jews and Muslims can't possibly get along. http://t.co/bA13tCF84m
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) July 17, 2014

It's only in the minds of the worst ignoramuses that Muslims couldn't possibly turn against Jews and commit taqqiya, as he's doing himself now (H/T: New English Review). It's only in the minds of such ignos that we shouldn't look at such Satanic Verses, as Salman Rushdie called them, as the repellent declarations they are against Jews and Christians. And it's only in said minds that an apostate from Islam couldn't possibly know what the religion he/she left is like.

No. RT @hoosierjedi @TomBrevoort @DanSlott This is the 1st I've heard of Peter having anything to do Judaism. Is this from a specific story?
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) July 17, 2014

But it will be soon, and in a bad way. Don't underestimate what Slott/Brevoort could have in mind now.

HAMAS SACRIFICES CHILDREN ON THEIR ALTER OF EVIL

Finance minister Yair Lapid has some questionable standings, but his take on the jihad stemming in Gaza written for the UK Telegraph is spot on:

Since the beginning of the last round of fighting, thousands of rockets have been launched at Israeli cities, armed terrorists have attempted to execute mass attacks in villages by the border and hundreds of mortars have been aimed at kindergartens and schools. The only reason these attempts at mass killing are not making an impression is that Hamas has failed. The Israeli Defence Forces’ land and air operation, along with Iron Dome, the anti-missile defence system developed by Israel, prevented us from gaining the world’s sympathy in return for images of mutilated Jewish children. Given a choice between sympathetic news coverage and the lives of our children, I choose life.

Hamas chooses otherwise.

Western eyes and ears consider it a dubious choice, but Hamas never hid its position on the matter: it has no problem with Palestinian children dying, so long as it serves its political objectives.

I know that sounds cynical, but that’s because it really is. Islamic terror is absolutely cynical, it always was and always will be, and its greatest speciality is taking advantage of every democracy’s main weakness – the fact that we sanctify life.

He's correct. It's almost like how the nazis sacrificed many people for their own evil ends, even selling them a badly developed car like the early Volkswagen Beetle just so they'd have an affordable car, but without good safety features (and the engine was in the rear, making it more dangerous in the front). When you deliberately put children in danger and don't urge them to take cover, that only proves you do not care about life at all, and hate the subjects who end up as pawns in an endgame. That's also why the Hamas imposed sharia in Gaza.

SHOWING SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL AND ENMITY TO THE HAMAS: Mike Bloomberg flying to Tel Aviv on El Al

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg was set to fly to Tel Aviv on the Israeli airline El Al Tuesday, as he claimed flying to Israel remains safe even though U.S. and European carriers have halted flights there. 

The U.S. and European carriers decided to halt flights to Israel Tuesday after a rocket landed near Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv. 

But Bloomberg called the flight restrictions a concession to Hamas militants, and said flying to Israel remains safe and should not be avoided. 

“This evening I will be flying on El Al to Tel Aviv to show solidarity with the Israeli people and to demonstrate that it is safe to fly in and out of Israel. Ben Gurion is the best protected airport in the world and El Al flights have been regularly flying in and out of it safely,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “The flight restrictions are a mistake that hand Hamas an undeserved victory and should be lifted immediately. I strongly urge the (Federal Aviation Administration) to reverse course and permit U.S. airlines to fly to Israel.”

HOW WOULD A REAL ALLY HELP ISRAEL REOPEN ITS SOLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT?

A REAL ALLY WOULD HELP ISRAEL BOMB THE HELL OUT OF GAZA UNTIL ALL ROCKET FIRE CEASED.

INSTEAD, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TELLS USA CARRIERS TO AVOID ISRAEL.

IT'S SICKENING.

AND NOT MERELY CAPITULATION TO TERRORISM.

IT ABETS TERRORISM.

AND IT SENDS A CLEAR MESSAGE TO OUR ENEMIES:

THAT THE USA WON'T DEFEND INTERNATIONAL AIRSPACE.

I EXPECT OUR ENEMIES TO SHOOT DOWN ANOTHER AIRLINER.

AND SOONER THAN ANYONE EXPECTS.

THANKS TO OBAMA.

IT MATTERS NOT WHETHER OBAMA HAS ENCOURAGED OUR ENEMIES OUT OF HIS POSTMODERN LEFTIST ATTACHMENT TO APPEASEMENT, OR BECAUSE OF HIS COWARDICE, OR BECAUSE HE IS INCOMPETENT OR BECAUSE HE'S REALLY ON THE OTHER SIDE.

THE RESULT IS THE SAME.

THE ONLY NEARBY ANTIDOTE IS ELECTING A GOP SENATE.

I PRAY NOVEMBER IS NOT TOO LATE TO SAVE THE USA AND THE FREE WORLD.

SIGH...

ROCKET LANDS NEAR BEN GURION AIRPORT, CAUSING FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS

A Hamas rocket landed near the airport, and it's led to some flights being momentarily cancelled, for how long we cannot know:

In a sign of increased caution about flying near combat zones, US and European airlines halted flights to Israel Tuesday after a rocket landed near Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport.

Delta Air Lines and United Airlines suspended service between the US and Israel indefinitely. US Airways scrapped its one flight to Tel Aviv Tuesday. Germany's Lufthansa and Air France also suspended flights. The actions come days after a Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine with 298 people on board.

It's terrible, and shows how dangerous the Hamas' arsenal has become.

EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS MAY BE WAKING UP, BUT STILL HAVE TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR

Tom Wilson at Commentary says European governments may be waking up to the violent Islamofascism that's taking a toll on European Jewry and even non-Jews in the continent:

For the second weekend running European cities witnessed a surge of hateful, and in places violent, anti-Israel protests. With the temper of these gatherings becoming so alarmingly extreme, European governments may now be waking up to a problem that has been festering in parts of their societies for quite some time. Yet as they attempt to make sense of this growing source of public disorder, one wonders whether Europe’s political elites will reflect upon their own role in manufacturing this fiercely anti-Israel atmosphere.

Absolutely correct. In fact, some French media outlets are government-owned, including Le Monde, the second TV channel, and even the AFP. The BBC is also government-owned, and there's probably a couple other newspapers in Britain under the same status. It's that precise ownership that allows them to get away with such incitement more than many others. I don't know if selling them to private ownerships would help, but at least it would be a step towards what Americans call limited government, and it could help built better jobs, depending on what companies buy into these newscasters.

And the governments in Europe, if they're really concerned, are going to have to address their own roles here, and have to be confronted about it seriously, to see if they're willing to admit they're capable of making mistakes. Only that way will it be possible to make some repairs in Europe, yet it's certain there's a lot of damage that'll take ages to mend.

THE FRENCH INTIFADA IS THE MOST TERRIFYING NON-FICTION BOOK CURRENTLY ON THE MARKET

Harold Goldmeier reviewed Andrew Hussey's new book, The French Intifada, which tells the history of how Islamofascism ended up in France's backyard; surely one of the scariest non-fiction books you can read. It also tells how, when the French colonialists came to Africa:

The Europeans brought their ancient religious hatred of the Jews to North Africa. ‎It was, inter alia, French anti-Semitism that gave gravitas to Jew-hatred among ‎Arabs. Hussey illustrates this with a fascinating, little-known story on the heels of ‎the Dreyfus Affair. Doctor Mauchamp was murdered by an Arab mob in ‎Marrakesh. The Arabs labeled him an agent of the French there to control the local ‎population through the use of new technology. Rather than confront the ‎Moroccans directly, the French Foreign Ministry blamed the murder on a German ‎Jew, Judah Holzmann, an employee of the local pasha. A convenient scapegoat, ‎since everybody hates the Jews.‎

So the same government that turned Dreyfus into a scapegoat at the time also saw fit to use a similar tactic over in north Africa. Later politicians then proceeded to take what they first used with Jews and victimize their own community with it by bringing those same Islamofascists over to European soil. Describe it like this: "first they foisted abominations on the Jews..."

But it's not entirely accurate to say French anti-semitism influenced Arabs - what it did was jumpstart what was already written in the Koran. And that's one of the biggest sins anti-semites from allegedly western backgrounds could commit: re-encouraging more violence in what they see as the most ideal tools.

Here's a related op-ed from Robert Wistrich.

HAMAS BUILT A VAST TUNNEL NETWORK IN GAZA

The IDF found long tunnels in its incursion back to Gaza:

Israeli infantry soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip unearthed at least 22 tunnels and killed 40 terrorists in the first day of the IDF's ground incursion into the Hamas-ruled enclave, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said on Friday.

The military released pictures of the tunnels on its Twitter account. Israel has stated that it seeks to destroy Hamas' network of tunnels that are used to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip.

More at the link. This is what the "disengagement" enabled. And unless these tunnels are destroyed, the operation will be a failure, as an expert explains:

Unless the Hamas tunnel threat is eliminated Operation Protective Edge will be a failure and Israeli citizens on the front lines will remain in mortal danger, the head of the Eshkol Regional Council said Sunday.

"This is not a matter of if you're on the right or left, this is a situation that was forced upon them [Eshkol region residents]. They see no joy in the attacks in Gaza but they were forced into this," Eshkol Regional Council head Chaim Yellin said Sunday.

On Thursday over a dozen gunmen infiltrated into Israel near Sufa in the Eshkol region, and on Saturday, another infiltration was foiled near the Eshkol town of Ein Hashlosha. On Sunday, the IDF announced that they had found another tunnel, this one dug deep into Israel underneath Nativ Haasarah in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council.

The threat has become so instilled in the minds of residents that many report hearing the sound of digging underneath their houses late at night. Yellin said when these complaints are made, the IDF is called to investigate and the sound usually turns out to be from an animal or local infrastructure, if it is found at all. Yellin said that at the moment the residents of the council's 15 kibbutzim and 13 moshavim are facing different levels of danger based on their location. In the communities closest to Gaza as much as 75% of the residents have relocated to areas farther from the Gaza Strip and the rockets, mortars, and tunnel threat, while those farther from Gaza for the most part remain. He said in some of those communities farthest from Gaza as much as 85% of people remain.

The IDF has now taken to demolishing the tunnels, and they must ensure that every last one of them collapses, or they could even be used for smuggling weapons in from Sinai.

PHOTO: APPARENTLY, THE GAZA TUNNELS BUILT BY HAMAS ARE USED FOR MORE THAN JUST TERROR ATTACKS ON JEWS

AP WIRE CONCEALS IDENTITY OF RIOTERS IN SARCELLES, AND VILLIFIES JEWS

The AP Wire covered up the identity of the anti-Israelists who defied a ban on protesting in France, and to make matters worse, they even make Jews out to look bad:

SARCELLES, France – French youth defying a ban on a protest against Israel's Gaza offensive have set fire to cars and garbage cans in a Paris suburb after a calm demonstration.

Sunday's unrest in Sarcelles, north of Paris, was the second time in two days that pro-Palestinian demonstrations turned violent. The demonstration, like the one in Paris on Saturday, had been banned to ensure peace.

Tension mounted as scores of Jewish youth, some armed with iron bars, encircled a synagogue to "protect" it.

The rampage came hours after France honored some 13,000 Jews rounded up 72 years ago, most kept in a cycling stadium before being sent to Auschwitz.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls denounced a "new form of anti-Semitism" on the Internet and spreading among youth in working class neighborhoods.

This is one of the most disgusting briefs I've seen from the AP, written in a manner that makes the Jewish worshipers at the synagogue look like fiends, and censors the word "Muslim" in it. I think the managers of the synagogue should sue the AP for this.