Any Jewish movements who championed Islamic immigration to the west are part and parcel of the problem

Mark Steyn commented on the horrifying terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, and notes a few things to ponder. For example:

The Boulder police chief is a chap called Stephen Redfearn, formerly the Department's chief LGBTQWERTY liaison. That's the Pride flag flying outside the Boulder courthouse above; as the mysteriously motiveless Molotov man rampages around with his cocktails, apparently undisturbed for a disturbing amount of time.

Of course it's also disturbing when people like that are in charge, because despite any suggestions to the contrary, they too are okay with the Religion of Peace, and when it takes over, only then will they jettison their LGBTQ positions. Well actually, they won't, if it involves the kind of double-standard the Religion of Peace goes by when it comes to children. To be sure, these kind of authority figures might've also played a part in any Kitty Genovese syndrome that's resulted by extension, and that too is very grave.

Now, here's more about how it got to such a heinous situation anywhere in the world:

In Paris, they have advanced to the next stage: the nation's young people, especially in the cities, are increasingly Muslim, so the nation's youth culture is increasingly Muslim, and so are its attendant jubilations. Ask those two girls in Paris, if they're still alive. A seventeen-year-old boy in Dax is dead, stabbed as part of the festivities. Dax is half-an-hour south of Toulouse, where a decade ago I visited the Jewish school at which another Mohammed of the Day had just shot dead the rabbi and three young pupils, and where the remaining synagogues in town have had to be consolidated into one windowless edifice guarded 24/7 by French soldiers.

Diversity is our strength - but only until everyone's Muslim. The wanker Jews from the ADL and the Canadian Jewish Congress and their European equivalents championed mass Islamic immigration and set in motion the extinguishing of Jewish life in the west. But, as the girls in that car could tell you, a taste for Jew-killing quickly expands to targets of more general interest.

So cut out the "values" bleating and get real. If you're not in favour of "remigration", the remnants of your society are either going to be Muslim or living psychologically in that besieged Citroen.

Yes, isn't that interesting how these "Jewish congresses" actually sided with the very followers of the Religion of Peace that led to antisemitic persecution even in Islamic countries themselves, and have blame to shoulder for foisting it upon European countries and the USA/Canada, at the expense of their own populations as much as Israelis/Jews themselves. Could these congresses have even been okay with forcing Jewish women to sit at the back of public buses because ultra-Orthodox demanded it? Well this is disgusting, and even Jewish movements, if and when responsible on their part for enabling tragedies in the long run, cannot be let off the hook for any part they had in leading to the horror story we're facing now. They must apologize and step away from any leadership position they're in, and should be ostracized by the wider public for lending their influence to bad causes, proving they were never really against antisemitism.

Update: in more related news about Colorado's case, it seems the Democrats running the state have been passing legislation making it harder for ICE to track illegal immigrants like the monster from Egypt:

Weeks before an illegal immigrant threw a Molotov cocktail at a group of pro-Israel demonstrators in Colorado, Democrats in the state passed legislation that would make it even harder to identify criminals like the man who told authorities he had been planning the attack for a year while illegally in the country.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national and illegal alien, is believed to have entered the United States on a visa before he was granted work authorization by the Biden administration, which he overstayed after it expired in March. Federal court filings say that Soliman not only admitted to the attack, but said that he wanted to kill all “zionists.”

Just weeks before the attack, Colorado Democrats passed legislation aimed at hindering Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) ability to find and deport illegal aliens. The bill, signed by Governor Jared Polis in late May, bars law enforcement in the state from respecting ICE detainer requests, which the federal agency uses to gain custody of illegal aliens who have been placed in local jails after being arrested for crimes.

The legislation was marketed as a way to counter the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration by Democrats in the state.

Well, this is definitely chilling as it's offensive in the extreme. Let's hope the Trump administration imposes special sanctions on Colorado's government to make clear what they're doing is unacceptable, just as it is that any European country's government could or does allow this.

Update 2: Soliman also tried to buy a gun, but was miraculously prevented from doing so because of his residency status.

Update 3: a survivor recounts what happened at the incident in Boulder, in which the police even took time to arrive.

Muslim illegal immigrant from Egypt committed horrific terrorist attack in Boulder, CO

A Muslim from Egypt who infiltrated the USA under the former fraud-in-chief Joe Biden's administration attacked people at a pro-Israel march in Boulder, Colorado, and fortunately, was captured before he could cause any serious injuries:

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have revealed that the suspect behind the Park Street Mall attack in Boulder, Colorado, is an illegal alien who entered the United States under the Biden administration.

Fox News’s Bill Melugin revealed that “three senior” DHS sources said Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, is “an Egyptian national in the U.S. illegally,” and has overstayed his visa after entering the United States under the Biden administration.

Melugin added that he was “told” Soliman “arrived at LAX on 8/27/22 on a B1/B2 nonimmigrant visa with an authorized stay through 2/26/23, but he overstayed & never left.”

“I’m told on 9/29/22, he filed some sort of claim with USCIS, potentially an asylum claim, and on 3/29/23, USCIS under the Biden admin gave him work authorization, which expired on 3/28/25,” Melugin added.

Melugin’s post came after FBI Special Agent Mark Michalek revealed during a press conference that Soliman had been identified as the suspect behind the attack which left multiple people injured and burned. Michalek also said there were six victims between the ages of 67-88 and that witnesses had reported the suspect had “used a makeshift flamethrower and threw an incendiary device into the crowd.”

“I’m able to confirm there are six victims, ages 67-88, all of them have been transported to local hospitals,” Michalek shared. “This attack happened at a regularly scheduled weekly peaceful event. Witnesses are reporting that the subject used a makeshift flamethrower and threw an incendiary device into the crowd. The suspect was heard to yell, ‘Free Palestine’ during the attack. The subject has been identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, and he’s 45-years-old.”

“As a result of these preliminary facts, it is clear that this is a targeted act of violence and the FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism,” Michalek continued. “Sadly, attacks like this are becoming too common across the country, this is an example of how perpetrators of violence continue to threaten communities across our nation.”

The identification of Soliman as the suspect behind the attack in Boulder comes hours after reports came out that multiple people had been injured and burned by an attacker with Molotov cocktails while they were taking part in a pro-Israel walk to support hostages held by Hamas.

Videos on social media show Soliman allegedly shouting, “end Zionists,” and, “Palestine is Free.”

We must hope all who were injured will recover. As for the monster, he should be locked in solitary confinement, and most importantly, should not be allowed to read Korans if that's what it takes to lessen the psychological damage already done. And should definitely not be allowed to stay in the country. Here's more news about the case.

Update: more commentary from Robert Spencer, Mark Tapson and Daniel Greenfield.

John Daniel Davidson's wrong about how the USA should deal with middle eastern issues

One of The Federalist's leading editors, John Daniel Davidson, has written a very sloppy and concerning take on Donald Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia, one that sounds like he doesn't think the USA should promote and demand civilized values in the middle east:

Not only did Trump lambast neocon “nation-building” in the region, he more or less vowed never to pursue the kinds of neocon misadventures that spilt American blood and treasure over the past 25 years in the insane pursuit of creating western liberal democracies in the Middle East.

In stark and unmistakable terms, the president reminded the world of the abject failure of decades of neocon and liberal interventionist U.S. foreign policy under both Democrat and Republican leadership. He specifically called out the trillions of U.S. tax dollars wasted in a totally unsuccessful attempt to turn Iraq and Afghanistan into western-style democracies as part of the global war on terror.

“In the end, the so-called ‘nation-builders’ wrecked far more nations than they built — and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves,” Trump said. “The gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation-builders, neocons, or liberal non-profits like those who spent trillions failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad.”

Ahem. If we take Afghanistan as an example, they didn't even try to do that, and most importantly, refused to wean the country off of the Islamic religion. How does Mr. Davidson expect there to be any long range peace and quiet if there's a dominant ideology that leads to a boomerang effect, where years later, they can, much like a "sleeper agent", go right back to old and dirty tricks?

In other words, Trump’s vision of American foreign policy isn’t driven by a zeal to remake the world into some version of a liberal western democracy. In Riyadh, he was saying that Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states can just be Islamic monarchies, and as long as they present no threat to American interests, and as long as they promote peace and stability, then we can do business with them.

Well, this is telling something. So it's okay if Islam continues to govern such countries - and additionally chilling, if it ends up dominating Europe and the USA - so long as it supposedly doesn't affect the USA? Also, what's this about a "liberal" western democracy? Why not a conservative western democracy? This has got to be another chilling flaw in Mr. Davidson's argument. Something only somebody who doesn't value foreign lives as much as local ones could possibly write. He later says, very insultingly:

Critics will simply repeat platitudes like we fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here, or that a world of liberal democracies is in the American interest. Maybe that’s true in theory, but in practice it amounts to a carte blanche to intervene anywhere in the world for any reason. What’s more, no one seriously believes that America has the ability or competence to plant stable democracies in Africa or Asia — or anywhere, for that matter. The reason for this is simple: stable democracies cannot be planted by any outside power, no matter how rich and powerful. They have to grow organically and domestically from the people themselves. We can applaud emergent democracies, we can do business with them, but there is precious little we can do to guarantee them, much less build them in the first place.

And not every nation has to be a democracy. The great lie of the Bush-era war on terror was that all people yearn for freedom and democracy. No they don’t. Some yearn much more for justice, or righteousness, or simply revenge. Some will be hereditary monarchies, or Islamic caliphates, or any number of other things. That’s fine. We shouldn’t be troubled by our differences with other nations, so long as they don’t threaten us. The idea that we could turn Afghanistan into a modern democratic state was perhaps the greatest delusion of the past quarter-century. As Trump said on Tuesday, “I am willing to end past conflicts and forge new partnerships for a better and more stable world, even if our differences may be very profound.”

Ahem. Maybe democracy isn't what every nation need be, but should any nation be a spot where barbarism, misogyny and racism can reign? Absolutely not. And it's unacceptable that any country have totalitarians savaging their own subjects. Similar points can be made about communism. Davidson's argument is defeatist in that it additionally refuses to recognize that indoctrination to evil is another grave wrong that can't go unopposed. And it goes without saying that said indoctrination is what's led to "honor murders" by Islamofascists. And it's insulting to Americans' intellects to say the USA doesn't have the ability to establish sturdy democracies on continents like Africa and Asia. By that logic, they didn't have what it took to tame Germany and Japan either.

And Adam Johnston isn't doing much better with his claim the USA shouldn't go to war with Iran, which has some strange descriptions of certain commentary figures:

Meanwhile, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is under fire from neocons after she recently testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee “that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not authorized [restarting] the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.”

This caused neoconservative media personality Mark Levin and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley to push back on Gabbard, both sharing an op-ed from former John Bolton Chief of Staff Fred Fleitz, who called the intelligence reports referenced by Gabbard “stupid intelligence.”

I can't currently recall Levin ever being described before as a "neocon". Is this some kind of absurd propaganda to undermine those who believe force is the only true way to defeat savage evil? And are the lives of innocent women in Iran persecuted for not dressing in abayas worthless? Well that's what Johnston runs the gauntlet of implying, and that's no improvement over Davidson's approach. Maybe the war in Iraq was unnecessary, but that's only if you fail to get rid of the Islamist indoctrination that since became more prevalent there. Same can be said about Iran. Are we to assume Johnston and Davidson also believe Lebanon should remain in the clutches of the Islamists too?

Yet under the growing influence of the more nationalist and non-interventionist America First movement, this longstanding alliance is beginning to fracture. A new generation of right-wing leaders — figures who are notably more realist and restraint-oriented, and less reflexively pro-Israel, such as Vice President J.D. Vance, Elbridge Colby, and influential media figures like Tucker Carlson — are questioning endless American interventionism in the Middle East and whether U.S. interests are always best served by unconditional support for Israel.

Wow, with this kind of mentality, we'd never have won WW2, let alone WW1. Interesting Carlson comes up in discussion here, because he's regrettably proven negative to Israel, and that's not good. Also, what's so wrong with being "hawkish"? Does that mean that when a left-winger is "dovish" that's a great thing? Forget it, these propagandists have gone too far, and the Federalist's just proven a most embarrassingly bad publication with this embarrassment.

Now in more news related to Trump's recent Saudi Arabia conference, Christine Williams has addressed the issue, and points to serious info on what crimes al-Sharaa's organization has done:

A MEMRI article entitled, “Qatar Continues To Finance Terror With U.S. Consent: Will Fund Syria’s New Regime, Led By HTS Terror Organization, Just As It Funded Hamas,” examined the terrorist history of Syrian leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani, who reverted to his original name Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, to create a false impression that he had changed, even though he remains dedicated to the jihadist cause, ie. to establish the Sharia.

Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) “was established in 2012 by Al-Sharaa (then known as Al-Joulani) at the behest of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, who would soon become the founder of ISIS. In 2013 the group became the official branch of Al-Qaeda in Syria after Al-Joulani broke with Al-Baghdadi and swore allegiance to Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri.”

Al-Sharaa’s followers have slaughtered Christians, Alawites and Druze since toppling Al-Assad.

The MEMRI article also exposes the modus operandi of Qatar, “the world’s greatest financer of extremist Islamist elements such as the Muslims Brotherhood and jihadi terror organizations.”

[...] The fall of the al-Assad Syrian regime was bad news for its staunch ally, Iran, which was good news to America and Israel. But like the mujahideen of Afghanistan, Al-Sharaa is no friend to America and Israel, and neither is Qatar. In December, Qatar “rushed to position itself as a pivotal player in shaping Syria’s future” after the fall of al-Assad. Qatar was hand in hand with “its closest regional partner,” Turkey, which was responsible for facilitating and backing al-Sharaa before and after al-Assad’s fall.

Now al-Sharaa is making significant inroads, as his leadership is legitimized by Muslim Brotherhood-supporting Qatar (and Turkey), with new US support to boot.

Seriously, it's very sad and regrettable it's come to this, because not only does it not help Israel, it also does not help any innocent Druze, Kurds and Yazidis in the area. Williams does note though:

One thing for certain is that Trump inherited Joe Biden’s complete betrayal of American interests, both domestically and abroad. Biden left open borders, poured billions into the coffers of Iran, left billions of dollars worth of state-of-the-art military equipment in Afghanistan for free use by the Taliban, and virtually factored America out of the equation of any global influence. Biden left Trump to contend with a nuclear threshold Iran and a turbulent Middle East that saw America under the declining Biden as nothing more than a joke.

It’s also no secret that Qatar has been buying out American campuses, where pro-Hamas, intimidating protests proliferated, with little to no intervention by the campus administration.

The picture looks grim. But one needs to remember that Trump, not Biden, cracked down on campus antisemitism, which was disguised as “free speech” when it was really a promotion of jihad terror against Israel and Jews.

Yes, but that doesn't mean Trump should allow jihadism to gain footholds even abroad. As some conservatives may realize, the day will come when right-wingers will have no choice but to do battle overseas if that's what it takes to ensure future generations of decent folk everywhere will have a future. Let's also consider that Iran may not be the only Islamic regime with nuclear research in store.

Of course, the cautionary tale of the mujahideen in Afghanistan should be remembered. However, considering Trump’s past policies of protecting American borders from the worst criminals and jihadists, as well as his reinstatement of the travel ban on Muslim-majority countries of concern, it makes little sense to assume without further evidence that he would betray America to the jihadist cause. Let’s hope there is a method (and long-term results) to the madness — as appears to be the case even at this point. In the meantime, expect the inevitable media circus as America continues to emerge from disastrous, nightmarish Democrat rule.

Certainly it's important to protect USA borders, and to back Israel, but that doesn't mean we should turn our backs on any innocent souls in Islamic regimes who should be liberated from the Religion of Peace's tyranny. And even communist regimes are a bad omen. Mainly because of how they're more than perfectly willling to do business with the Religion of Peace, and maybe even sell out their countries to Islam in the end. Interestingly enough, Trump's deal with al-Sharaa in Syria doesn't seem to have met any opposition or complaints from the Democrats. Surely that's not telling something?

Then, here's some more observations about Trump's gamble on Syria:

“Obviously, it is a bit of a gamble,” Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, told the DCNF. “If you take a look at historical cases in which an entity has been on a terrorist list and then has transitioned towards becoming more acceptable as they become a political party or take over a country, whether it’s the [African National Congress], the [Irish Republican Army], or the [Palestinian Liberation Organization], it’s nevertheless been a process with specific demands and time in order to make sure that this is not just a temporary change of heart.”

What it really is, is taqqiya (deception). And vehement refusal by the PLO to abandon Islam only worsens the matter.

Al-Sharaa has attempted to distance himself from his jihadist past, but HTS still retains the salafist jihadist interpretation of Islam that al-Qaeda espouses, with the latter viewing HTS as traitorous.

Point: if we take the case of Egypt's past autocrat Anwar Sadat as an example, there are jihadists who won't accept that he pulled an act of deception of his own on Israel, and that's how Sadat was slain a few years after the Camp David accords. So it's no surprise if al-Qaeda doesn't accept al-Sharaa's own acts of deception regardless of his intentions. Either way, both al Qaeda and al-Sharaa are bad news, and nobody should have to make a choice between either.

More important information comes from Dr. Yehuda Balanga:

Last Wednesday, US President Donald Trump met with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa (al-Julani). It appears Trump chose to ignore the fact that until that meeting, al-Sharaa had been a wanted terrorist in the eyes of the Americans. Overnight, he became wanted in Washington under very different circumstances. "A young and attractive guy," Trump said of al-Sharaa. "A tough guy with a strong background. A very strong background. A fighter." Notably, the American president failed to mention that this "fighter" he praised led a Sunni Islamist-jihadist organization that persecuted and killed men, women, and children during the Syrian civil war solely because of their religious beliefs or political affiliations. [...]

To date, no Islamist movement that seized power has ever abandoned its ideology. Quite the contrary - every past success has emboldened a wider Islamist surge. This was true in Iran after the 1979 revolution, and again after the Arab Spring, when Islamist movements, many tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, rose to power in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and now Syria. Given al-Sharaa's past in al-Qaida and Islamic State, a shift in worldview seems unlikely.

See, this is exactly what may be overlooked in this whole concerning development. Do MAGA supports and America Firsters intend to let this go without public comment?

Anyway, after discovering what the above writers/editors for the Federalist were using for apologia, I decided I'd had enough, and the time had come to remove them from my side menu. Even the Daily Caller so far hasn't written anything that foolish, which is amazing considering Carlson was one of their co-founders. The Federalist had turned out some very tasteless, disturbing and divisive op-eds before, and these latest are only compounding a very embarrassingly bad situation. We could decidedly do without their shoddy "opinions".

Muslim infiltration in France may go back as far as 70 years

The French government is looking to ban having girls younger than 15 wear Islamic veils in public, after a chilling report about Muslim Brotherhood infiltration that spans as far back as 70 years:

French President Emmanuel Macron’s political party has called for a ban on young girls wearing Islamic veils in public and a new law against “Islamist entryism” after a bombshell government report found that the Muslim Brotherhood has waged a multi-generational campaign to infiltrate institutions and control Islamic communities in service of instituing Sharia law to the West.

Former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who leads President Macron’s Renaissance party in the National Assembly, proposed on Wednesday that the ban on wearing veils in public be extended to girls under the age of 15. France became the first European country to impose such a ban for adults in 2011.

However, Attal argued that the government must go further in the wake of the publication of a government report, which found that the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood has sought for at least seven decades to subvert France and other European nations through clandestinely entering institutions and taking control over various facets of Muslim communities to promote Sharia practices to Islamise the West.

According to the report, the movement has seized upon supposed social justice campaigns through its various Muslim association proxies against “Islamophobia” — a term coined by the Muslim Brotherhood — and the veil ban to create a veneer of legitimacy in public discourse and to rally Muslim communities to their cause.

Meanwhile, local arms of the Brotherhood, in which trained Islamist activists are installed as managers at community shops, sports groups, private education, financial services, dating sites and elsewhere, have been established to control all aspects of life within Islamic communities and enforce strict Muslim practices, such as forcing the veil on women and girls.

The report found that this has resulted in a “massive and visible increase in little girls wearing the veil”, including girls as young as five or six years old, who are described as the “baby lion cubs” of radical Islam in France.

Thus, the Macronist party has called for fresh legislation to make “an offence of coercion to wear the veil against parents who force their minor daughters to wear the veil,” which they argue contravenes gender equality and child protection principles, Le Figaro reports.

While this is important news, it's a terrible shame Macron himself is undermining efforts to enforce safety for youngsters by attacking Israel over its army campaign in Gaza (as are the UK and Canada), because all that does is send a message to Islamofascists that the French government isn't really serious about their objections. Exactly why somebody needs to tell Macron this is just as unacceptable as Islamofascism in France's area too.

Egypt willing to relocate Gazan Muslims

If this information has anything to it, then it looks like Egypt's premier is willing to take in Muslims from Gaza:

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said that his country was ready to temporarily host half a million Gazans who would be evacuated from the Gaza Strip, according to a Friday report by Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.

According to the report, the Gazans would be allocated a city in the North of the Sinai Peninsula.

The comment reportedly came during a conference held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on the situation in the Middle East, in which the Egyptian leader was present, among other attendees.

Let's hope this is correct, because such a barbaric community has no place anywhere in or near civilized societies. If El-Sisi's willing to do this, then he's coming around to agreeing with Donald Trump, whose own plan for the Gaza strip is the more positive one.

COVER THE SPHINX WITH WAX?

From this source:

The new and fresh like Arab Spring Egypt may desecrate the Sphinx...[and destroy]...the country’s $13 billion a year tourism industry while robbing the world of precious, priceless historical artifacts and landmarks. Welcome to Iran 2.0.

Fundamentalist Muslims do have a propensity for destroying artifacts. HERE is one example. Other examples abound.

What else might fundamentalist Muslims destroy in Egypt? See 13 things Egyptian your grandchildren will never see at Planck's Constant.

And Obama plans to praise the Arab Spring during the upcoming 9/11 commemoration.

ADOPTIONS ARE ILLEGAL IN EGYPT

Something worth noting from Egypt, for a long time now an Islamic bastion:

CAIRO (AP) - An Egyptian judge has convicted two American couples of human trafficking in an illegal adoptions case and sentenced them to two years in prison.

The judge also ordered the four to pay a fine of 100,000 Egyptian pounds, or $18,153.

Iris Botros and Louis Andros of Durham, North Carolina, and Egyptian-born Suzan Hagoulf and Medhat Metyas have been on trial since earlier this year.

They sought to adopt children in Egypt, where an orphanage allegedly gave them forged documents stating the adoptive children were born to them.

Seven Egyptians were also sentenced, including a doctor who provided fake birth certificates.

Adoptions are illegal for Muslims in Egypt and nearly impossible for Christians.

It was unclear if the couples would appeal Thursday's verdicts.

If adoptions really are illegal for Muslims there, that's surprising, but less so that they're forbidden for Christians. I won't be surprised if the charges of fake birth certificates are phony, but what this certainly does tell is that children there are surely doomed to darkness by adults being barred from adopting them.

Speech to Muslim World Hinges on Venue, Content

President Barack Obama will travel to Egypt next week. While there, he is expected to deliver a major address to the Muslim world, thus fulfilling a promise made during his presidential campaign. As he fulfills that promise, some say his choice of a venue and the content of his message could prove controversial. You decide.

The story is here.

EGYPT IS WORRIED ABOUT IRAN, BUT ALSO ABOUT ISRAEL

Surprising news: even Egypt is worried about Iran's nukes. However, they still have negative views on Israel:

The new US administration's engagement with Iran could be a positive move as long as there are clear parameters and a timetable for negotiations, and as long as the concerns of Arab states like Egypt are kept in mind, an Egyptian Foreign Ministry representative said Wednesday.

"We told them that this is a good step," spokesman Hossam Zaki told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday about US President Obama's decision to conduct talks with Iran. "Confrontation so far has had negative effects... but you have to know on what terms you are engaging and until when you are engaging. If you decide on these issues, then it is possibly a good move."

While Iran is a regional power that shares a common Islamic heritage with the Arab world, their behavior "is subversive in many ways and we have to keep them in check," he said.

On Wednesday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Egypt's view on the danger of nuclear weapons did not distinguish between Israeli capabilities and the dangers that the Iranian case could pose, especially if its program became one with military capability that threatened regional security.

"Possession of any nuclear weapons in the Middle East is unacceptable by Egypt... particularly as the current confrontation between Iran and the West and Israel has consequences for the stability and peace in the region," he said, according to a statement released by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.

Zaki was quoted by the Middle East News Agency this week as saying that Israel's nuclear abilities posed the first and greatest threat to the region.

No kidding. Then even if they consider Iran a greater threat, their stand on Israel is still disgusting.

LIEBERMAN WASN'T QUITE INVITED TO EGYPT

It was report a few days ago that Egypt went back on its decision to ban Avigdor Lieberman from visiting. Now, it's been reported that this isn't quite so:

Cairo's intelligence chief did not invite Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to come visit when the two officials met in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said Thursday.

However, another Egyptian official who attended Omar Suleiman's meeting with Lieberman would not rule out the possibility that an invitation had indeed been extended to the foreign minister, or would be in the near future.

"Egypt welcomes any official from any country that respects Egypt and the Egyptian leadership," the second official told The Jerusalem Post.

Lieberman "said he respects Egypt and respects the president. Then that's it... this is the basis."

The unnamed official called Lieberman's remarks, which apparently stopped short of an apology to Suleiman for past remarks, "a positive development" and a change from his previous statements about Egypt.

Following the meeting, sources close to Lieberman told reporters that Suleiman had invited him to Egypt, but Zaki said, "no he did not" in a text message he sent to the Post.

Lieberman and his aides would not respond to inquiries about the meeting or reports of an invitation on Thursday.

Also, in a rare public statement, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak addressed the issue on Thursday, confirming only that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had been invited, and that when he came to Egypt, he would come unaccompanied by any other minister.

"The Israeli prime minister might come to us during May... and some say that he will bring with him [Lieberman]... The Israeli prime minister will come alone. The only one who will come with him is the director of his office and no other minister will come with him," Mubarak said, according to Arab press accounts.

Officials in Jerusalem noted this is usually the case.

Last week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told Russia Today TV that Cairo would deal with the new Israeli government, but not via Lieberman.

He also said Lieberman "will not visit Cairo. He will certainly not visit as long as his positions remain as they are."

It really doesn't matter what Egypt's positions are. I expect relations between Egypt and Lieberman to be very cold, that's for sure.

WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY?

Israel's government is supposedly getting ready, I presume, for a ground strike, not just simply an air strike, on Hamas in Gaza. But don't be sure if they'll be convincing about this.

Egypt is trying to undermine efforts to do it already. They say they're angry at Hamas for ending the "truce", as if there ever was one in the first place, yet they warn Israel against a "devastating" assault on Gaza. Believe me, Egypt is not improving, and I wouldn't be surprised if in another decade, they'll collapse into a worse situation once again.

WHAT WILL BECOME OF EGYPT POST-MUBARAK?

Barry Rubin talks about the state of Egypt under undemocratic president Hosni Mubarak, who's now about 80 years old. The question is - how much longer can he continue? And, better still, what'll happen when's gone?

Even now, there's every sign that relations with Egypt, as well as that country's own stability, are withering away, and that the Muslim Brotherhood is rising in the background. The fallout will be coming one day.

Update: in a related item, the British reporter and author John R. Bradley says in an interview on Front Page Mag (via The American Thinker) that there could come a revolution in Egypt very soon, and that the next 2 years will be important to take note of.

MUBARAK BUSTS AL QAEDA CELL WITHIN EGYPTIAN ARMY

AND THEY WERE OFFICERS; DAILY STAR NEWS (CAIRO)/AFP: Egypt holds army officers for 'plotting Israel attacks'

CAIRO: Two Egyptian army officers are among 14 alleged Islamists arrested on charges of planning attacks in Israel, one of their lawyers said on Saturday.

The 14 were held following raids in Cairo and Alexandria on Egypt's Mediterranean coast in November, said Muntazer Al-Zayat, a frequent defender of alleged Islamists.

No official announcement of the arrest of the two army officers and 12 civil engineers was made at the time. A security source could not immediately confirm the men, all unnamed, were being held.

Security services claim the men formed an Al-Qaeda linked cell and planned to launch unspecified attacks on Israel from Egypt, according to Zayat.

• AL QAEDA WOULD LIKE TO TOPPLE ALL THE MODERATE MUSLIM NATIONS AND TAKE THEM OVER.
• INCLUDING EGYPT.
  

• THE DEMS WOULD LET THEM - STARTING WITH IRAQ, (WHERE THEY HAVE STATED THAT THEY WANT TO WITHDRAW ALL OUR TROOPS ASAP), AND PAKISTAN, (WHERE THEY ARE EAGER TO DUMP MUSHARRAF FOR... ER ... WHAT... WHO!?!?!

THE VACUUMS CREATED BY STATED DEMOCRAT POLICY WOULD BE FILLED BY AL QAEDA.

THAT'S WHY WE MUST NOT LET THE LEFTIST DEM APPEASERS WIN THE WHITE HOUSE.

SOONER OR LATER, ISRAEL'S RELATIONS WITH EGYPT WILL FALL APART

P. David Hornik talks about the rising tensions between Israel and Egypt, following the discovery of their helping terrorists enter Gaza.

It's going to happen, eventually, that diplomatic relations will crumble. Not that I would feel sorry, seeing how Egypt's Islamists led by Hosni Mubarak haven't changed an iota. "Peace" with Egypt is on a political level only, and if they're going to continue their Islamist hostility, then I think a parting of the ways with them would surely be quite welcome.

HAMAS: ARAB AND MUSLIM WORLD RESPONSIBLE FOR GAZA STRIP DETERIORATION

Guess it's not Israel's fault after all. Not that it will stop human rights groups, academics, and the UN from blaming Israel. But if we're still pretending that the truth matters to somebody somewhere, this should probably get some play:

Both the Saudi Arabian and Egyptian governments have refused a proposed visit by Khaled Mashaal, head of Hamas' political bureau in Damascus, stating that the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip must be reversed before they would allow him to enter the countries, Al-Jareeda reported. A Hamas leader, who wished to remain anonymous, told the newspaper that Hamas refused to accept these conditions. He said that under such pressure from the Arab states and other international countries, Mashaal's efforts to improve the situation in Gaza has been made virtually impossible. According to the anonymous Hamas leader, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are also demanding that Hamas accept the government of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas as the legitimate government in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

It's getting tough to be an Iranian proxy in the Middle East these days. Syria tried to get the Arab world to support it last week and failed spectacularly. Now Hamas can't get a hearing in any of the Sunni capitals of the Arab world. Think it has anything to do with the prospect of a Shia bomb? We think it might have something to do with the prospect of a Shia bomb. If you click through, make sure you check out the part of the article where the Saudis accuse Hamas of committing humanitarian crimes against Palestinians in Gaza? Sound familiar? It should.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]

EGYPT'S ACTOR'S UNION DOESN'T WANT TO DO BUSINESS WITH ISRAELIS

They're not pleased that an Egyptian actor did some work in Tunisia with an Israeli one:

The chairman of Egypt's Actors' Union said Thursday that the group planned to investigate one of the country's brightest young movie stars for appearing in an upcoming miniseries with an Israeli actor.

The controversy began when the group discovered that Amr Waked, who starred in the Hollywood film "Syriana," was in Tunisia filming a four part series on Saddam Hussein's life opposite Yigal Naor, an Israeli of Iraqi descent.

"We found out Amr Waked was participating in a movie with an Israeli artist and so when he returns from abroad he will be investigated," union chairman Ashraf Zaki told the Associated Press. "The Actors' Union here is against normalization with Israel."

Media and artistic circles here remain deeply opposed to improving cultural relations with Israel even though Egypt is one of only two Arab nations that has made peace with the Jewish state.

Nearly a dozen articles have appeared in the past week condemning Waked for participating in the series, titled "Between Two Rivers" and backed by the British Broadcasting Corp. and Home Box Office.

"Who will hold Amr Waked accountable?" read a headline Monday in Egypt's opposition daily el-Wafd.

Actually, maybe someone should hold Waked accountable for helping make a propaganda movie like Syrianna instead? But there's another example of how "peace" with Egypt is political only.

By the way, why do I get the feeling that this miniseries on Saddam will be another work of propaganda too?

Update: More on this at Hot Air too.

SUDANESE WOMAN MURDERED BY EGYPTIAN POLICE

This strikes of nazism, nothing new for many Islamofascists:

Egyptian police shot and killed a Sudanese woman and seriously wounded four others Sunday on the Sinai Peninsula as they tried to sneak into Israel, a local police officer said.

Many refugees trying to enter Israel from Egypt have been arrested, and some wounded, by police, but Haja Abbas Haroun's death was the first of its kind.

Haroun, 28, was killed instantly by police gunfire, while four others, including a woman and young girl, were critically wounded and taken to a local hospital, said Capt. Mohammed Badr of the northern Sinai police force.

The border guards arrested 22 refugees with Haroun who were also seeking political asylum in Israel, Badr added. Eighteen from the group, including Haroun and three of the wounded, were from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region. The rest were from Eritrea and the Ivory Coast, the home country of the fourth person injured.[...]

Many Sudanese find life difficult in Egypt, a country that struggles to provide jobs and social services for a growing refugee population. Egyptian riot police violently cleared a refugee encampment in central Cairo in 2005, killing nearly 30 people.

Despite what the article says about jobs, I doubt they try to find any for the refugees in Egypt. They've done a lot of harm to many of the Sudanese to whom they offer no genuine help there. Is it any wonder they want to enter Israel so badly?

OF COURSE CUTTING-EDGE MILITARY TECH ENDED UP IN HAMAS HANDS

Weapons given to Fatah end up in terrorist hands. This has been a demonstrably true statement for the better part of a decade. Either the Fatah people become terrorists, or they give the weapons to terrorists, or the terrorists hijack the weapons en route after fortuitously guessing the time and place of the delivery. And now this:

Hamas gunmen completed the conquest of the main building of the headquarters of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service, long associated with Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan, as additional bastions of Fatah support fell to the Islamist forces. Hamas seized the vehicles and weapons in the compound, wrapping up a broad sweep which has almost completely vanquished the forces of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

Don't give invaluable resources to people who are likely to be overthrown by radical forces. This is not a radical proposition. The post-Sinai weapons transfers to Egypt were a mistake because Egypt is one disgruntled general away from being the most dangerous country in the Middle East - don't compound the error by giving them nuclear technology. This is not an isolated example - experiences with Syria and Lebanon - to say nothing of pre-Islamist Iran - are almost entirely one-sided on this issue. The fantasy of "bolstering moderate forces" by giving them arms and concessions has never worked. At best it just paints them as Western stooges. Far more often it provides bait for their overthrow.

[Read an extended version of this post at Mere Rhetoric]

EGYPT ALLOWED TO JOIN UN'S HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

The sublining of this article in the Toronto Star says, "History of torture in African nation makes a mockery of UN, critics say". But what difference does it make when the UN happens to be corrupt already, and it's otherwise typical of them to allow corrupt countries like Egypt to join the wrong councils?

In Egypt, Canadian bank teller Mohamed el-Attar is facing 15 years in jail on spy charges he says he confessed to under torture. Human rights groups say prisoner abuse is routine in the North African country.

In New York yesterday, Egypt won an uncontested seat on the 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council, which is meant to defend the rights of the vulnerable worldwide.

What part of this equation doesn't compute?

"Things like this leave one worried that all the fine things said last year when the council was created aren't being played out in practice," says Alex Neve, who heads Amnesty International's Canadian office.

Oh, Amnesty Intl. is the one to voice disagreements on this. They're just as bad and phony, so what's the use?

More than a dozen human rights groups asked the 192-country General Assembly not to vote for Egypt in yesterday's election to fill 14 seats on the Geneva-based council, charging that the country's record "is full of serious human rights violations that have been practised widely for long years."

They named torture, arbitrary detention, election rigging and the use of military courts for trying civilians as reasons not to back Cairo's bid.

Critics cite Egypt's win – along with Qatar and Angola, with similarly dubious human rights records – as a sign that the council, created last year to replace the politically charged UN Human Rights Commission which had become known as "the abuser's club," is already irrelevant.

"Sadly... the new council has not been an improvement over the much-derided commission," said a report from Geneva-based UN Watch.

"In some ways it has even been worse."

Yes, sadly, it has.

NEWSWEEK MAKES YET ANOTHER STAB AT LIBERAL CREDIBILITY, REGURGITATES MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD REFORM MEME

This is how overeager faux sophistication filters downward through self-consciously bourgie cocktail parties, until it hardens into conventional wisdom. Allahpundit calls it "disgraceful from beginning to end", which are strong words coming from the center-right's most measured blogger.

This began with that absurd Foreign Affairs article that tried to outweigh the MB's overwhelming and fundamental commitment to sharia with half-uttered suggestions that maybe some time in the future the MB might be less genocidal (also: they love kids!) The fact that it's appearing in a popular news magazine instead of an elite foreign policy journal doesn't make the argument any less stupid. Or any less execrable.

Bonus question: Is the reapproachment between the MB and the American realist-Democratic camp being driven by media coverage of MB reform? Or are partisans in think tanks and newsrooms making excuses for policies that are being informally floated by realists and Democrats?

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]