Pope Francis demands justice for 1994 Argentine Jewish centre attack victims

BBC: 

The biggest bomb attack on Argentine soil killed 85 people and injured another 300. The Jewish community in Argentina - the most numerous in Latin America - said there was enough evidence to show that Iran planned and financed the attack against Amia and that the militant group, Hezbollah, carried it out. Argentine prosecutors accused Iran and Hezbollah in 2006. Eight suspects were named, including former Iranian Defence Minister, Gen Ahmed Vahidi. But no arrests have been made. ... 

 Pope Francis has demanded justice for the victims of a bomb attack against a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires exactly 20 years ago. 

In a recorded video to mark the anniversary, the Pope described the attack as an "act of madness". 

Eighty-five people were killed in the attack, which was masterminded by Iran, according to Argentine courts. Iran denies any involvement.
Last year, Iran and Argentina agreed to set up a truth commission. 

Pope Francis said the suffering of the families cannot be forgotten. He was the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires at the time. 

"My prayers for all the victims are accompanied today by my call for justice. Justice must be done," he said. "And may God give peace to all of those who died in this act of madness."

16 GLOBALLY RENOWNED SCIENTISTS SAY MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE IS BULLSHIT

WHO ARE THEY?

HERE: 

1. Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris; 
2. J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting; 
3. Jan Breslow, head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism, Rockefeller University; 
4. Roger Cohen, fellow, American Physical Society; Edward David, member, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences; 
5. William Happer, professor of physics, Princeton; 
6. Michael Kelly, professor of technology, University of Cambridge, U.K.; 
7. William Kininmonth, former head of climate research at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology; 
8. Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences, MIT; 
9. James McGrath, professor of chemistry, Virginia Technical University; 
10. Rodney Nichols, former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences; 
11. Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne; 
12. Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. senator; 
13. Nir Shaviv, professor of astrophysics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; 
14. Henk Tennekes, former director, Royal Dutch Meteorological Service; 
15. Antonio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva;
16. AND: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever.

HERE'S AN EXCERPT:

In September, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever, a supporter of President Obama in the last election, publicly resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) with a letter that begins: "I did not renew [my membership] because I cannot live with the [APS policy] statement: 'The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.' In the APS it is OK to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?" 

In spite of a multidecade international campaign to enforce the message that increasing amounts of the "pollutant" carbon dioxide will destroy civilization, large numbers of scientists, many very prominent, share the opinions of Dr. Giaever. And the number of scientific "heretics" is growing with each passing year. The reason is a collection of stubborn scientific facts. 

Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as one can see from the 2009 "Climategate" email of climate scientist Kevin Trenberth: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." But the warming is only missing if one believes computer models where so-called feedbacks involving water vapor and clouds greatly amplify the small effect of CO2. 

The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2. 

The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle. Plants do so much better with more CO2 that greenhouse operators often increase the CO2 concentrations by factors of three or four to get better growth. This is no surprise since plants and animals evolved when CO2 concentrations were about 10 times larger than they are today. Better plant varieties, chemical fertilizers and agricultural management contributed to the great increase in agricultural yields of the past century, but part of the increase almost certainly came from additional CO2 in the atmosphere.

Although the number of publicly dissenting scientists is growing, many young scientists furtively say that while they also have serious doubts about the global-warming message, they are afraid to speak up for fear of not being promoted—or worse. They have good reason to worry. In 2003, Dr. Chris de Freitas, the editor of the journal Climate Research, dared to publish a peer-reviewed article with the politically incorrect (but factually correct) conclusion that the recent warming is not unusual in the context of climate changes over the past thousand years. 

The international warming establishment quickly mounted a determined campaign to have Dr. de Freitas removed from his editorial job and fired from his university position. Fortunately, Dr. de Freitas was able to keep his university job. 

This is not the way science is supposed to work, but we have seen it before—for example, in the frightening period when Trofim Lysenko hijacked biology in the Soviet Union. Soviet biologists who revealed that they believed in genes, which Lysenko maintained were a bourgeois fiction, were fired from their jobs. Many were sent to the gulag and some were condemned to death. 

Why is there so much passion about global warming, and why has the issue become so vexing that the American Physical Society, from which Dr. Giaever resigned a few months ago, refused the seemingly reasonable request by many of its members to remove the word "incontrovertible" from its description of a scientific issue? There are several reasons, but a good place to start is the old question "cui bono?" Or the modern update, "Follow the money."

RTWT!

ANTI-ISRAEL RIOTS ERUPT IN TURKEY

The Israeli foreign ministry withdrew its staff in Turkey because of anti-Israel rioting:

Violent protests erupted at the Israeli embassies in Istanbul and Ankara on Thursday night, with throngs of shrieking Turkish demonstrators hurling rocks at the embassy and at staff, screaming hate slurs, and waving pro-Palestinian flags and banners.

Hundreds of protesters attacked the Israeli consulate in Istanbul while similar numbers sought to break into the residence of the ambassador in Ankara.

Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon to halt the protests in Istanbul in the early hours of the morning but in Ankara they stood on the sidelines.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman announced Friday that he would be retracting much of the Israeli embassy staff in Turkey following the senseless riots, citing safety concerns and growing anti-Israel incitement from the Turkish leadership.

Which, you can be sure, was encouraged by Recep Erdogan, also mentioned in the article:

The move follows a number of inflammatory and anti-Semitic hate slurs from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has become increasingly vocal against Israel after the IDF moved to protect millions of Israelis from Hamas rocket fire.

Erdogan has threatened to end the normalization process with Israel over "state terrorism" before, and also accused Israel of "lies" because "not enough" Israeli Jews have died in the conflict.

"They say (Hamas) is firing rockets. But is there anybody who died?" he asked. "The number of Palestinians that you (Israel) killed is now 100. Their (Israel's) life is based on lies."

"You will first stop this oppression. If not, it is not possible to realize normalization between Turkey and Israel," Erdogan said, on a separate occasion.

On Thursday night, he claimed Israel had a long history of "genocide" against Muslims, in a series of confused and violent slurs relating to the Ramadan fast.

"This is not the first time we have been confronted by such situations," Erdogan told a meeting of Islamic scholars gathered in Istanbul for Ramadan, a holy month of fasting for Muslims. "Since (the creation of the state of Israel) in 1948 we have been witnessing this attempt at systematic genocide every day and every month. But above all we are witnessing this attempt at systematic genocide every Ramadan."

Erdogan himself has also had a long public record of anti-Semitic statements, including several recently despite efforts to normalize relations.

If he keeps that up, he's obviously not trying to mend fences and "normalize". What's so normal about a man saying such ugly things? Update: Michael Rubin at Commentary has more about what Erdogan is like.

TERRORIST WHO BOMBED BUS IN SOFIA, BULGARIA WAS DUEL FRENCH/LEBANESE CITIZEN

The Bulgarian authorities have revealed the name of the jihadist who committed murder in Sofia:

Bulgarian prosecutors revealed for the first time Friday the identity of the bomber in a deadly attack on Israeli tourists in the Bulgarian sea resort of Burgas in 2012. Five Israeli tourists were killed in the attack as well as the driver of the bus and the bomber, while more than 30 other Israelis were injured.

The bomber was named as Mohamad Hassan El-Husseini, a dual French and Lebanese citizen, born in Lebanon in 1989, prosecutors said in a joint statement with the national security agency DANS.

"He was positively identified thanks to a DNA test and other measures during the course of the investigation," they added.

"Friends and relatives of Husseini also posted messages of praise on social media for his martyr's death," the statement noted.

So here we have another jihadist who lived in France, and who's also got relatives and friends who condone his sadistic behavior. He should go to hell for what he did, along with all those who support him.

THE HOMES OF THE ISLAMOFASCISTS WHO MURDERED 3 YESHIVA STUDENTS WILL BE DESTROYED

The authorities discovered who the culprits are in the murder of the yeshiva students, and now, they're going to demolish their homes, as is justly deserved:

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday ordered the demolition of the homes of Marwan Kawasme and Amar Abu Aysha, the two suspects in the kidnapping and murders of Israeli teens Gil-ad Shaer, Eyal Yifrach, and Naftali Frenkel. A further demolition order for the home of Hussein Kawasame, who is also suspected of involvement in the crime, was also issued.

The homeowners have been given 48 hours to leave their homes or to appeal the orders in court.

Kawasme and Abu Aysha are wanted by Israel's defense establishment and have been missing since the three teens were kidnapped on June 12. Despite the current focus on Gaza and Operation Protective Edge, the IDF Central Command and Judea and Samaria Division are continuing the search for the two suspects.

Since Operation Brother's Keeper began, relatives of the suspects have been arrested in an effort to learn more about their whereabouts. The defense establishment has promised that the search will not end until they are found.

It'll remain to be seen whether the families of these satanic worshipers will cooperate with the authorities to pinpoint the whereabouts of the turds they produced.

WHAT KIND OF MUSLIM WAS MOHAMMED, PBUH?

IF THE JIHADISTS ARE “MISUNDERSTANDERS” OF ISLAM, THEN SO WAS MOHAMED – AND THIS IS UNLIKELY.

IF THE JIHADISTS ARE APOSTATE EXTREMISTS, THEN SO WAS MOHAMED – AND THIS IS UNLIKELY.

IF THE APPEASING LEFT INSISTS THAT THE JIHADISTS ARE RADICAL ISLAM-TWISTING EXTREMISTS, THEN THE APPEASERS ARE ESSENTIALLY SAYING MOHAMED WAS EXTREMIST AND THE RELIGION HE FOUNDED IS AN EXTREMIST RELIGION AND NOT A RELIGION OF PEACE.

THAT’S THE PARADOX WHICH EXPOSES THE HYPOCRISY AND FALLACY AND USELESSNESS OF THE ‘ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE” ARGUMENT.

IRSHAD MANJI – A FAMOUS THE POSTMODERN LEFTIST MUSLIM LESBIAN WHO BELIEVES THAT ISLAM CAN BE TRANSFORMED AND BE MADE COMPATIBLE WITH MODERNITY AND DEMOCRACY – HAS CALLED THE EXTREMISTS “LITERALISTS” :

What is the trouble with Islam? 

Irshad Manji: The problem with Islam today, in a word, is literalism.

MANJI HAS ARGUED THAT ISLAM CAN EVOLVE  IF MUSLIMS ASSUME A “FIGURATIVE” APPRECIATION OF THE KORAN AND SURA AND HADITHS AND THE LIFE OF MOHAMED.

BY MAKING THIS ARGUMENT, SHE IS TACITLY AGREEING WITH ME AND THE ”ROPMA” ARGUMENT (RELIGION OF PEACE, MY ASS!):

MANJI IS ESSENTIALLY SAYING THAT MOHAMED AND THE HADITHS AND THE SURA AND THE KORAN ARE LITERALLY EXTREMIST AND JIHADIST AND VIOLENT AND SEXIST.

AND IN THIS SHE IS CORRECT.

NOT ALL MUSLIMS BAD OR ROTTEN TO THE CORE, BUT ISLAM IS.

REPEAT: NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE BAD, BUT THE CORE OF ISLAM IS.

MOST MUSLIMS DO NOT READ ARABIC AND ONLY KNOW WHAT THEIR IMAM TELLS THEM.

BECAUSE MOST IMAMS ARE NOT JIHADISTS AND ARE NOT EMULATING THE "PROPHET" MOHAMED, MOST MUSLIMS ARE NOT A THREAT TO THE FREE WORLD.

THESE MELLOW NON-THREATENING MUSLIMS ARE APOSTATES - ACCORDING TO WAHHABISTS, SALAFISTS, Q'TUBISTS, AND JIHADISTS LIKE THOSE IN I.S.I.S.  --- WHO ARE EMULATING MOHAMED AND WHO ARE LIVING ACCORDING TO THE EXPLICIT PRECEPTS IN THE KORAN, THE HADITHS AND THE SURA - AND WHO ARE SLAUGHTERING 100x MORE MUSLIMS THAN NON-MUSLIMS ARE!

OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON OUR ABILITY TO COUNTER-ATTACK EFFECTIVELY, AND THE APPEASERS' DENIALS ARE HAMPERING OUR EFFORTS.

THE UNPLEASANT TRUTH IS THAT WW4 IS A RELIGIOUS WAR – NOT BECAUSE “RIGHTWING NUTJOBS” SAY SO, BUT BECAUSE THE ENEMY SAYS SO AND BECAUSE THE ENEMY IS PROACTIVELY FIGHTING IN WAYS THAT SAY SO.

AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: IT'S US VERSUS THEM:

SAUDI ARABIA HAS AN ARMY.

THEY HAVE AMASSED 30,000 TROOPS ON THEIR BORDER TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM I.S.I.S.

THE SAUDIS SHOULD INVADE IRAQ AND ATTACK I.S.I.S.

IF THE SAUDIS REALLY THOUGHT THAT THE SUNNIS IN I.S.I.S WERE APOSTATES, THEN THEY WOULD.

THE FACT THAT THEY HAVEN'T INVADED PROVES THEY SEE I.S.I.S. AS RIVALS, NOT APOSTATES.

WHICH ALSO PROVES THE HOUSE OF SAUDI ARE OUR ALLIES OUT OF CONVENIENCE AND NOT BECAUSE THEY VALUE, RESPECT OT LIKE THE NON-MUSLIM WEST.

RECENT EVENTS IN PARIS PROVE THAT EXILING MUSLIMS WHO LIVE IN THE WEST AND WHO SUPPORT SHARIA IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE WEST TO SURVIVE.

YOU CANNOT BE A CITIZEN OF THE WEST AND SUPPORT SHARIA.

IF YOU SUPPORT SHARIA THEN YOU ARE GUILTY OF TREASON AND SEDITION, AND SHOULD BE JAILED OR.... SENT SOMEWHERE WHERE SHARIA IS THE LAW OF THE LAND.

HERE'S A VIDEO TAKEN ONLY A FEW DAYS AGO OF MUSLIMS IN PARIS:



THIS BEHAVIOR IS NOT SPONTANEOUS OR ALIEN TO ISLAM.

THIS BEHAVIOR IS ESSENTIAL TO ISLAM AND TO ISLAMIZATION.

AND IT'S MADE POSSIBLE BY APPEASEMENT, MULTICULTURALISM AND COWARDICE.

UNLESS WE FIGHT BACK, ISLAMIZATION IS INEVITABLE.

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:

AS THE MUSLIM POPULATION INCREASES IN THE WEST - (VIA COLONIZATION/"IMMIGRATION" AND BY REPRODUCING LIKE INSECTS VIA MULTIPLE WIVES AND MANY CHILDREN) - ISLAMIZATION INCREASES.

FACTS:

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

• United States -- Muslim 1.0%
• Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
• Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
• China -- Muslim 1%-2%
• Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
• Norway -- Muslim 1.8%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

• Denmark -- Muslim 2%
• Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
• United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
• Spain -- Muslim 4%
• Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).

• France -- Muslim 8%
• Philippines -- Muslim 5%
• Sweden -- Muslim 5%
• Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
• The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
• Trinidad &Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris --car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).

• Guyana -- Muslim 10%
• India -- Muslim 13.4%
• Israel -- Muslim 16%
• Kenya -- Muslim 10%
• Russia -- Muslim 10-15%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:
Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

• Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
• Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
• Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

• Albania -- Muslim 70%
• Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
• Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
• Sudan -- Muslim 70%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

• Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
• Egypt -- Muslim 90%
• Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
• Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
• Iran -- Muslim 98%
• Iraq -- Muslim 97%
• Jordan -- Muslim 92%
• Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
• Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
• Palestine -- Muslim 99%
• Syria -- Muslim 90%
• Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
• Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
• United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of Peace -- there's supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:

• Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
• Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
• Somalia -- Muslim 100%
• Yemen -- Muslim 99.9%

Of course, that's not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.

SYRIA AND IRAQ MAY REVEAL THE SOLUTION: AS MUSLIM KILLS MUSLIM THEY ARE IN EFFECT TURNING THEIR ENCLAVES INTO "SELF-CLEANING OVENS".

BUT WE SHOULDN'T DEPEND ON THEIR FRATRICIDAL WARS TO SAVE US.

WE SHOULD TAKE EVERY STEP TO SAVE OURSELVES:
USING CIVIL LAW, DIPLOMACY AND EVEN.... WAR.

GAZA GROUND OPERATION BEGINS

Finally, it looks like the army is taking a much needed approach to put an end to the Hamas rocket attacks:

After days of waiting and deliberation, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday night directed the IDF to send ground troops into Gaza to strike the terror tunnels into Israel.

A statement put out by the Prime Minister's Office said that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon Netanyahu directed the IDF to prepare to expand the ground operation.

The statement said that the security cabinet approved the operation after Israel agreed to the Egyptian cease-fire proposal on Tuesday, which Hamas rejected. In addition, the statement said, Hamas even fired rockets during the Thursday's five-hour humanitarian cease-fire.

“In light of Hamas' continuous criminal aggression, and the dangerous infiltration into Israeli territory, Israel is obligated to act in defense of its citizens,” the statement said.

The statement said that Operation Protective Edge, now in its 10th day, will continue until its goals are reached: restoring quiet for an extended period of time,and delivering a significant blow to Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in Gaza.

It's about time. The citizenry should not have to put up with this at all. One contributor to the Jerusalem Post says that the Hamas particularly likes to fire the rockets at times when parents take their children to school, because terrorists consider that the ideal way to terrify parents. So from here, we'll see what results the operation yields.

MOSQUES IN GAZA HAVE TO BE DESTROYED BECAUSE OF THEIR KEY ROLE IN JIHAD

Ethel Fenig at the American Thinker makes a good point about the role mosques play in jihadism, and points to a document explaining all this:

Military use of the Al-Farouq Mosque by Hamas is not an exception. Hamas and other terrorist organizations systematically use many mosques in the Gaza Strip for military and political purposes. Mosques in the Gaza Strip are used not only for worship but also for diverse military and political purposes, such as recruiting operatives for terrorist activity, storing weapons, meeting places for terrorist operatives, points of departure for terrorist attacks, training sites, places for firing rockets and mortar bombs and centers for political and ideological activity.

4. Military use of mosques is rooted in the perception of senior Sunni and Shiite clerics, including Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Hamas’s main religious role model that the use of mosques for military purposes as part of jihad (holy war) is legitimate. This perception is based on Islamic tradition (hadith) that states that the Prophet Muhammad himself used a mosque for military and political purposes, in addition to the classic function of the mosque as house of worship for the faithful.

They also use them for indoctrinating children, surely the worst part of preparations for jihad. That's why all those mosques should be turned into rubble, as it'll make it harder for them to run an indoctrination center.

PARIS BANS A PRO-PLO DEMONSTRATION

It's about time these pathetic excuses for "protests", which are really excuses for violence, were barred:

Paris police are forbidding pro-Palestinian protesters from holding a march, after violence marred a recent protest amid tensions in France around the fighting in Gaza.

France has Western Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish populations, and unrest in the Mideast sometimes translates into tensions between the communities.

"Tensions between"? It's the Islamofascists who're causing the tensions by turning to violent acts. As usual, the AP/Wash. Post resorts to moral equations. The city's done the right thing to put a halt to this, and should continue to do so for a long, long time. Ditto other cities like Lyon and Lille, among others.

JEWISH MISSIONARY KILLED BY HAMAS MORTAR FIRE

As was sadly possible, and now has happened, somebody was murdered by Hamas rockets:

Two Israelis were wounded following a barrage of rocket and mortar fire, one of whom succumbed to his wounds. The victim, Dor Chanin, 37, was at the Erez Crossing delivering food and cheer to soldiers when a barrage of rockets and mortars rained down and critically wounding him.

Absolutely terrible. Condolences for his family.

Update: the government says the Hamas will pay a price for refusing to cease fire, and indeed they should.

HAMAS REJECTS A CEASEFIRE

Israel accepted an Egyptian-brokered truce, but Hamas rejected it:

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon ordered a restart of the attacks on the Gaza Strip Tuesday afternoon after Israel's acceptance of an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire was met with a morning and afternoon of Hamas rockets fired at Israel.

Diplomatic officials said that the IDF actions, which came at 3:00 pm, six hours after Israel held its fire and responded positively to the Egyptian cease-fire proposal, were the result of Hamas and Islamic Jihad rejecting the cease fire.

IAF aircraft began striking targets on Tuesday afternoon following the decision. The IDF stated that it would strike all "elements that are behind terrorist attacks on Israel."

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip claimed on Tuesday that they had been receiving text messages and pre-recorded phone calls from the IDF that blame Hamas for the renewal of Israeli strikes following Hamas's rejection of the ceasefire.

Netanyahu had earlier warned that Israel would widen its offensive in Gaza if the rocket attacks continued.

It's pretty clear for now that Hamas has gone unhinged, as goes the saying. The army would do well to seriously mow them down.

TWO PRETEEN GIRLS INJURED BY ROCKETS IN BE'ER SHEVA

The Hamas rockets have resulted in more injuries:

Three people were seriously injured from rocket fire in Be'er Sheva on Monday, including two teenage sisters.

The sisters, ages 11 and 12, respectively, were hit by shrapnel after a rocket landed in a Jewish village close to Be'er Sheva.

They admitted themselves to Soroka Medical Center shortly after the attack; they are listed in moderate and serious condition.

An 81 year-old disabled man was also seriously injured in the attack. Magen David Adom (MDA) and Ichud Hatzalah medics treated him at the scene; he was transferred to Soroka for more treatment.

Another rocket was shot down by the Iron Dome Monday evening, and two additional rockets exploded in open areas near Be'er Sheva.

Two additional rockets exploded near Yeruham, with no injures or damage reported.

Sooner or later, the attacks will claim a victim in death. If the government continues to wait and not plunge into Gaza to deal with the monsters, it could happen, and that's not what any sane person wants.

CANADA'S STEPHEN HARPER COMES TO ISRAEL'S DEFENSE

Canada's prime minister has spoken up:

Terrorists are deliberately placing people in the path of an Israeli offensive aimed at stopping rocket attacks from Gaza, says Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Harper says there is evidence that Hamas, listed by Canada as a terrorist organization, is using human shields in its attempts to stave off the Israeli offensive.

“The indiscriminate rocket attacks from Gaza on Israel are terrorist acts, for which there is no justification,” Harper said in a statement issued Sunday.

“It is evident that Hamas is deliberately using human shields to further terror in the region.”

Harper also called on other world leaders to rally behind Israel as it tries to prevent rockets being fired from Gaza into its territory.

Silence, he suggested, would only embolden Israel’s attackers.

“Failure by the international community to condemn these reprehensible actions would encourage these terrorists to continue their appalling actions,” Harper said.

“Canada calls on its allies and partners to recognize that these terrorist acts are unacceptable and that solidarity with Israel is the best way of stopping the conflict.”

Harper’s statements came as Israel briefly deployed ground troops inside the Gaza Strip.

I'm glad to see that ground troops were sent in, but a short time is not enough. It has to be much more time, but with cautious planning, of course, since the Hamas could've set up land mines and other death traps.

US GOVERNMENT MUST STOP GIVING TAXPAYERS' MONEY TO PLO

Star Parker protests the channeling of money to the jihadist autocracy:

On June 2, the Palestinians announced a new unity government, which included Hamas, an organization designated by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist group.

American aid to the Palestinians since the mid-1990′s, according to a Congressional Research Service report, has exceeded $5 billion. In recent years it has averaged $500 million per year.

The report notes three major U.S. objectives of these funds: preventing terrorism against Israel from Hamas; fostering “stability, prosperity, and self-governance on the West Bank”; humanitarian aid.

When Hamas joined the Palestinian government on June 2, the United States recognized the new government and there was no indication that the substantial funding Palestinians get from American taxpayers would be impacted. Business as usual would continue.

It shouldn’t surprise that U.S acceptance was seen as a green light for terror. Shortly thereafter, missiles started flying again from the Hamas-governed Gaza strip into Israel, and shortly after that, three teenage Israeli boys, one with dual American-Israeli citizenship, were kidnapped and murdered.

The response from America’s president to the kidnapping/murders was to convey American neutrality to an act of terror and to “urge all parties to refrain from steps that would further destabilize the situation.”

It should be clear to all that the world is spinning out of control and becoming an increasingly dangerous place because where there is supposed to be leadership from the leader of the free world there is now a vacuum.

Yes, the government's acceptance of Hamas in a "unity" government is exactly what encouraged the latest spate of violence. No less offensive is how the public's money keeps getting sent - and wasted - on an entity that has nothing but hate for them as well. Parker's right, funding to the PLO must cease.

GAS STATION IN ASHDOD STRUCK BY MISSILE, INJURING DISABLED MAN

A target the Hamas no doubt was hoping for got struck by one of their foul projectiles, and a disabled man was seriously wounded:

A disabled man was severely injured and seven more people were lightly injured Friday morning when a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit an Ashdod gas station, starting a massive fire. An Israeli Air Force plane bombed the launch site from where the rocket was fired.

The 61-year-old man who was seriously wounded in the blast was unable to exit his car when the air raid siren sounded, leaving him vulnerable. After being treated initially at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot, the man was transferred to Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva for further care.

Magen David Adom emergency services paramedic Yehuda Gabai was on his way to reserve duty when he saw the explosion.

"I heard the alarm and took cover," he said. "When I lifted my head, I saw a cloud of smoke and ran to the scene. MDA staff helped me get the injured man out of car."

Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, who arrived at the scene, said, "To their credit, people fled and took cover. If they hadn't, there would be many more people injured." He then praised the Iron Dome system for protecting Israel from the ongoing rocket fire.

Following the explosion in Ashdod, three rockets from Gaza were intercepted over the Tel Aviv area by the Iron Dome defense system. Air raid sirens sounded in cities throughout central Israel, including Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Hod Hasharon, Rehovot, Givatayim and Ramat Gan.

Shrapnel from the interceptions fell around the Tel Aviv area, including near a children's playground.

One more reason why a ground operation is going to have to be conducted, otherwise, this horror will return in the forseeable future. Zvika Fogel says every last Hamas terrorist should be smashed to pieces.

AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN MAKES CLEAR RAIDS ON HAMAS TARGETS ARE SELF-DEFENSE

The South China Morning Post, of all news sources, published an op-ed by Israel's foreign minister where he makes clear that Israel is fighting back against Hamas aggression:

Israel this week began a military operation in Gaza, in response to ongoing Hamas rocket fire.

The latest round of rocket fire began on June 12, the day that three Israeli teenagers were abducted and murdered. The Hamas shooting escalated significantly on June 30, even before the bodies of the teens were found and before the murder of a Palestinian youth, which was condemned sharply by the entire Israeli leadership, and whose murderers are already held in custody.

Over the past three weeks, the Hamas terrorist organisation has escalated its attack on Israeli civilians, launching nearly 300 rockets at our cities - including Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other major metropolitan areas - putting millions of Israeli lives at risk.

Families have been forced into shelters, summer camps for children closed, and all normal daily activities have been impacted. This is unacceptable.

Israel had shown great restraint prior to this operation. Our intention was to restore the calm without a major military operation.

However, Israel's repeated efforts to achieve calm were met with increased rocket fire by what is becoming a Hamas terrorist state.

Therefore, Israel launched an operation of self-defence on Monday, to counter these attacks, to defend our citizens and secure for them a life without constant threat.

Attacking and endangering unarmed civilians is unacceptable, and the Hamas - not to mention the PLO - have to go.

INDIA'S SUPREME COURT RULES SHARIA COURTS NOT LEGAL

India's supreme court made a landmark ruling against operations of sharia courts in their country:

In a landmark judgment pertaining to India's more than 160 million Muslims, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Sharia courts run by clerics have no legal sanctity and that their fatwas are not binding on anyone.

The top court said Islamic judges, who interpret religious law, can only rule when individuals submit voluntarily to them and their decisions, or fatwas, are not legally enforceable.

A bench of Justices C.K. Prasad and Pinaki Chandra Ghose restrained forums like Dar-ul Qaza, Dar-ul-Iftaa and Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband from giving verdicts or issuing fatwas against a person who is not before it on the basis of complaints by "strangers".

Women's rights activists are glad, since it can help defend the rights of Muslim women. Now if only Britain would learn from this, and get their own courts to make a ruling against the sharia advocates operating freely in their country under the protection of local law officials, but alas, I don't think the UK will ever pay attention to India's courageous steps.

NEIL GAIMAN'S POINTLESS DEFENSE OF ROALD DAHL

The writer of The Sandman and Books of Magic wrote this sloppy defense (?) of the British-Norwegian author in response to another writer's argument* why it's important to read even the works of bigoted book writers:

Dahl didn't support Hitler. RT @BookRiot: Why It's Important to Keep Reading Books By People Even If They're Monsters http://t.co/ugQBMIFGPw
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) July 6, 2014

Oh really, he didn't? Because according to this article (via CIF Watch), Dahl said something very horrific in the early 80s:

Anti-Dahlism has been further fuelled by a 1994 unauthorized biography, by the British writer Jeremy Treglown, which presents a complicated, domineering, and sometimes disagreeable man. Dahl was “a war hero, a connoisseur, a philanthropist and a devoted family man who had to confront an appalling succession of tragedies,” Treglown writes. “He was also . . . a fantasist, an anti-Semite, a bully and a self-publicizing trouble-maker.” When his first wife, the actress Patricia Neal, suffered a severe stroke at the age of thirty-nine, he adopted a cruel-to-be-kind strategy—bullying, goading, and sometimes humiliating her into acting again. He was prone to eruptions of pique. In 1981, Robert Gottlieb, who was at the time the editorial director of Knopf, Dahl’s American publisher, severed ties with Dahl, citing his “abusiveness” to the staff. More than once, Dahl offered up anti-Semitic remarks; in 1983, he told a journalist that “there’s a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity . . . I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.” (Such noxious sentiments, it must be said, cannot be found in his work for children.) And, in 1989, Dahl, who had no trouble waxing indignant about attempts to ban his own work, denounced Salman Rushdie as “a dangerous opportunist” after the fatwa was issued against him. [...]

As biased as the New Yorker may have been in Dahl's favor, they do admit he said something very repulsive, and even if he ostensibly didn't support Hitler/the Nazis in their attacks on Britain, he did condone their anti-semitism. And that, in itself, is a form of support. As this also notes, he was soft on Islamofascism too.

Now maybe Dahl's anti-semitism and racism (and tolerance for Islamofascism) didn't show up in his own books (according to one account I read years ago, that's because one of his editors persuaded him to refrain), but he did rely on a lot of alarming cruelty and repellent sense of humor in his works. I was foolish enough to read some of his junk in my youth, like James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Great Glass Elevator, and The Witches, and in retrospect, they were some of most slovenly excuses for children's adventures I ever read. I think one of the worst has to be The Big Friendly Giant (BFG for short), because if there's any tale Dahl told where his politics seeped in, that was it: when the BFG and the little girl are in Buckingham Palace, already introduced to the Queen of England and discussing the menace of the other 9 man-eating giants, the military says they'll mow them down with weapons, but the Queen balks at this idea, saying "I do not believe in murder". Without taking into account that's just what the other creepy giants were doing. It's a classically stupid argument that wiping out a formidably evil entity is literally committing the exact same sin as the murderous entity itself. Thinking about that now, I almost feel like using an exclamation by one of the giants after capture: "I is bopmuggered", because it could describe what I feel after reading some of Dahl's work: that my soul was mugged.

And Gaiman thinks this is someone who needs defending? I don't think so. Even if Dahl's racism didn't turn up in his books per se, he still had a very revolting vision of both parents and children, with women possibly hurt even more than the men in some of his stories. Just because there's a leading lady in The Witches (the grandmother of the unnamed protagonist), doesn't exonerate it from the bizarre misogyny it embodies. (Side note: I also hated the illustrations by Quentin Blake). Truly, what is there to learn from Dahl's works when he exhibited such a pretentious, downbeat take on life, tainted with nastiness? I hesitate to think of what his tales would be like if they were adapted into comics. There are authors with repellent views whose works may still be important reads. But Dahl, with all his sick ideas for storytelling, wasn't one of them. I think Gaiman would do better not to say something that only comes off as embarrassingly dumb.

* The list in that article unfortunately also puts Orson Scott Card on it.

HAREDI PARTIES WON'T JOIN A UNITY GOVERNMENT WITH LIKUD AT A TIME IT COULD HELP

With all the jihad now being waged against Israel, it's not the time for the two main Haredi parties in the Knesset to balk at entering the government over grudges, yet that's exactly what they're doing:

The leaders of Shas and United Torah Judaism rejected overtures from Likud officials Tuesday who wanted them to join Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition.

Netanyahu was forced to give up his long-standing political bond with the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties when Yesh Atid and Bayit Yehudi insisted they be left out of the coalition.

But Likud officials hoped that due to the ongoing security situation, Shas and UTJ could enter the coalition without angering Likud’s current partners.

Officials in Shas and UTJ confirmed that overtures had come from Likud.

But UTJ chairman Ya’acov Litzman said there was little to no chance of his party entering the coalition and Shas leader Arye Deri was even more pessimistic.

“There is no need now for such a thing,” Deri said. “At this stage such talk is worthless. There is no such proposal. We are not joining the government.”

Evidently, he thinks political positions are more important than public safety, which is shameful. At a time when even the Haredi population he represents is in danger, Deri would do better to put aside his disagreements on economic policies and join the coalition, yet he continues with a very insulting stance, no doubt under the confidence that most Haredis won't be perturbed from voting for his party and UTJ, which, sadly, is true. A lot of insular Haredis suffer from ghetto mentality, and Deri's making the situation worse by acting so selfish.

WERE MURDERERS OF ABU KHDER FROM OUTSKIRTS OF HAREDI SOCIETY?

Here's a report in Haaretz that says some of the people involved in the death of Mohammed Abu Khder came from the outskirts of Haredi society. Assuming there's any meat to it, it should raise some alarm bells:

The names of the six suspects in the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir are still under a gag order, and as some of them are minors, it’s not clear when or if their names will ever be released. What can be said is that these youths are on the margins of the ultra-Orthodox community.

In other words, they belong to the most overlooked and least understood part of Israeli society: young men and women who don’t fit into the rigid structure of their Haredi homes but have not crossed into another community and perhaps never will. They may be the most easily disowned group — not only in Israel, but in the entire Jewish world.

Tragically, they are also the most susceptible to influence from Kahanist and other racist groups that trawl the streets of Jerusalem for such disaffected youths, offering them acceptance into a cult that fuses nationalism, Judaism, violence and lawlessness.

I'm going to have to object here - what that gang practiced was not Judaism or even nationalism, as the author must surely want it to be. It was nothing more than one-dimensional hatred on their part, and I think they must've done it on purpose to undermine Israel. The Jerusalem Post has more:

Although the identities of the six suspects arrested in connection with the murder of Muhammed Abu Khdeir have not been released for publication, it is now clear that they come from a marginal Sephardi haredi background and that they are part of a societal grouping referred to colloquially as “delinquent youth.”

According to information gleaned by The Jerusalem Post, the suspects are from haredi neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh and the settlement of Adam some 20km northwest of Jerusalem.

The background of the suspects comes as something of a surprise since it appears that the murderers do not come from among extremist settler groups which were initially suspected in the case.

Why do I get the vibe they want there to be "extremist settlers"? This is one of the most offensive things about MSM - there's certain things they want to be fact, as the 9-11 trutherists have been doing for more than a decade now.

According to sources, the young men suspected of the murder belong to a family affiliated with the Sephardic Shas party. At least one of them was described as a delinquent youth who lived on the fringes of the haredi community.

Asked about the young man, one resident said that “everybody knows that he’s crazy. The guy is just nuts. The whole family is nuts.” The grandfather of one of the suspects told Yediot Aharonot that his grandchild was disturbed and that he “could destroy worlds if he did not take his pills.” It is unclear if he was referring to the suspect from Beit Shemesh.

One local shopkeeper complained of the high number of delinquent youth in Beit Shemesh, stating that many are denied outlets to channel their energy and end up acting out on the streets.

The Haaretz report says that in Bnei Brak, you can see a lot of bored kids around who aren't helped by the way their leadership runs things. If these kids would have the approval to run proper interaction between sexes, they might have improved lives, for example. But thanks to the Haredi leadership's efforts to ruin that, this is why many can't run them genuinely.

The biggest selling haredi daily Yated Ne’eman published on its front page a statement by the head of the non-hassidic Ashkenazi haredi community Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman who vigorously condemned the murder.

“Whoever did such deeds threatens the life of the Jewish people,” Yated Ne’eman quoted the rabbi as saying.

“This is a terribly severe deed which is forbidden and is not the way of the Torah,” said Shteinman.

“The path of violence and revenge are not our ways and anyone who does such things threatens the lives of the Jewish people.”

The comments about threatening the lives of the Jewish people refer to a concept in Jewish law known as ‘rodef’ in which the actions of one Jew can lead to attacks on the broader Jewish community.

Such a person is considered to pose a mortal danger to the lives of others and, according to Jewish law, may be killed before he himself causes harm.

Rabbi Shalom Cohen, the spiritual leader of the haredi Shas movement, also condemned the murder in severe terms and referred to the murderers in the context of the rodef concept.

“A person whose hands are stained with the blood of innocents is liable to the law of rodef ,” Ynet quoted Shalom as saying on Monday.

Well does this mean he's sorry for that offensive comparison of non-Haredis who wear knitted kippas to Amalekites? I hope his condemnation isn't because he believes relations with Arab/Islamic sources are far more important than with other Jewish sources.

Until now, you usually didn't hear of Haredis being accused of murder. This may have to serve as a grim wakeup call, that youth in their community could be vulnerable to exploitation by lunatics, and I'm outraged that they would do something as barbaric as Islamofascists themselves to somebody with no known involvement in the murder of the yeshiva students, not to mention how they helped cause a lot of trouble on their part that could've been avoided. The culprits should be tried as adults and sent away for a long, long time.

THE LONG ARM OF THE EPA

Power grabs on the part of the federal government continue apace and at an escalating rate of acceleration. The new EPA rule was quietly announced last week in the Federal Register.

From the Washington Times (dated July 8, 2014):

The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly floated a rule claiming authority to bypass the courts and unilaterally garnish paychecks of those accused of violating its rules, a power currently used by agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service [which puts the burden of proof on the debtor, not on the federal agency].

[...]

...[T]he threat of garnishing wages would be a powerful incentive for people to agree to expensive settlements rather than fight EPA charges.

EPA officials did not respond to repeated questions by The Washington Times about why they thought it was necessary to garnish people's wages.

The EPA announced the plan last week in a notice in the Federal Register, saying federal law allows it "to garnish non-Federal wages to collect delinquent non-tax debts owed the United States without first obtaining a court order."...

Read more details about the above HERE.

WHILE THE WORLD BURNS, OBAMA FIDDLES, GOLFS, AND SHOOTS POOL.

REUTERS: 

This Tuesday night out on the town in Denver, which included slices of pizza with a group of people who had written to him, was Obama's way of escaping the confines of Washington, where partisan gridlock reigns supreme. It was a case of "the bear is loose," the president's own description of the times when he is able to break free of the trappings of Washington and experience what everyday Americans see.

WHILE THE WORLD BURNS, OBAMA FIDDLES, GOLFS, AND SHOOTS POOL.

GREAT.