(16Sept 06) “…What should amaze us isn't the terrorists' strength, which has limits, but the comprehensive failure of Middle Eastern civilization. Given all the wealth that's poured into the region, its vast human resources and all of its opportunities for change, the mess the Middle East has made of itself is stunning…. Beyond Israel , the region hasn't produced a single first-rate government, army, economy, university or industry. It hasn't even produced convincing second-raters….. Many of the social, governmental and psychological structures at the core of Middle Eastern societies pre-date Islam. Authoritarian government; a slave-like status for women; pervasive corruption; labor viewed as an evil to be avoided; the relegation of learning to narrow castes; economies that rely on trade rather than productivity to generate wealth, even the grandiose rhetoric - all were in place long before Islam appeared. The repeated failures we've witnessed go far beyond a religion on its sickbed. Instead of Islam being the Middle East's problem, what if Islam's problem is the Middle East ?...” Cradle of Hate by Ralph Peters, New York Post “…Were Christianity and Judaism "saved" because they escaped the Middle East? Were these other two great monotheist religions able to master the power of knowledge and human potential because they were driven from their stultifying cultural and geographic origins? Did the Diaspora and the subsequent Muslim destruction of the cradle of Christianity ultimately save these two faiths? …The Middle East is a straitjacket that turns religions mad. We got away…. Since the Renaissance, the West fixed its gaze on the future. Islamic civilization sought to freeze time, to cling to a dream of a lost paradise, part Islamic Baghdad, part Babylon…"Oil-rich" Saudi Arabia has a per capita GDP half that of Israel's (whose sole resource is people). Dubai has shopping malls - selling designer goods with Western labels… The problem is that the Middle East hasn't been able to escape the Middle East…”
(2Sept 06) “…. Let's take a Middle East quiz . Name a major medical breakthrough generated in a Middle Eastern nation other than Israel ?.... Got to think about that one?..... Let's narrow it down. Name a Middle Eastern nation that has produced extraordinary technological breakthroughs that power and operate millions of computers?.... Israelis working in Motorola's largest research and development centre came up with the basic elements of the modern cell phone. At Microsoft-Israel, Israelis developed most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems. And the Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at the Intel operation there. In fact, both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed, and produced in Israel…Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only research and development facilities outside of the United States in Israel….” A Middle East Quiz by Alan Caruba “…By comparison with any other Middle Eastern nation, Israel has the highest average living standards with a per capita income in 2000 that exceeded the United Kingdom. Compared with the rest of the world, it has the third highest rate of entrepreneurs and the highest rate among women and people over 55….This is the nation that Iran 's president wants to “wipe off the map.”…. When the Israelis withdrew from the Gaza strip, they left behind greenhouses that had employed hundreds of Palestinians and produced an abundance of foods. The greenhouses were destroyed within days. Meanwhile Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization are at each other's throats…. Last question . If you had to move to any nation in the Middle East , which one would you choose?...”
Hezbollah building bunkers near Israeli border
(30Aug06)One to bear in mind come the next inevitable conflagration…Still using human shields and this time inside refugee camps. No doubt to maximise outrage in the international media and the Muslim world. With this foreknowledge we can but wonder where is the UN??
“….Hezbollah, with the help of Iran , has started building underground war bunkers in Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to senior Lebanese officials…” Hezbollah building bunkers near Israeli border “..A senior Lebanese official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told WND Hezbollah has started building a new set of bunker system, this time in Palestinian refugee camps . "The Lebanese Army doesn't have the authority to patrol inside the camps ," said the official. "Hezbollah knows it is safe there to rebuild their war bunkers, and they began doing so with Iranian help." A second Lebanese official confirmed the information…”
Gaza caught in anarchy and thuggery
(30Aug06) Where there is a healthy admission, there is hope
“…When you walk in the streets of Gaza City, you cannot but close your eyes because of what you see there: unimaginable chaos, careless policemen, young men carrying guns and strutting with pride and families receiving condolences for their dead in the middle of the street." This is how Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority government and a former newspaper editor, described the situation in the Gaza Strip in an article he published on Sunday on some Palestinian news Web sites. “…I remember the day when Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip and closed the gates behind. Then, Palestinians across the political spectrum took to the streets to celebrate what many of us regarded as the Israeli defeat or retreat…” Gaza caught in anarchy and thuggery , Khaled Abu Toameh, The Jerusalem Post . “…Dismissing Israel 's responsibility for the growing state of anarchy and lawlessness in the Gaza Strip, Hamad said it was time for the Palestinians to embark on a soul-searching process to see where they erred…. Hamad admitted that the Palestinians have failed in developing the Gaza Strip following the Israeli withdrawal and in imposing law and order…. "We're always afraid to talk about our mistakes," he added. "We're used to blaming our mistakes on others. What is the relationship between the chaos, anarchy, lawlessness, indiscriminate murders, theft of land, family rivalries, transgression on public lands and unorganized traffic and the occupation? We are still trapped by the mentality of conspiracy theories - one that has limited our capability to think…We have all been attacked by the bacteria of stupidity," he remarked. "We have lost our sense of direction and we don't know where we're headed…”
Hezbollah, coming soon to your hometown
(29Aug06) This is what a twisted satanic death cult looks like. Hezbollah, coming soon to your hometown (running time 1.30 mins)
Note the mass rally towards the end. It's the Nuremburg Rallies of the mid 1930's all over again
Hitler, the Mufti of Jerusalem , and Islamic Fascism
(20Aug06)When you read Serge Trifkovic's book Islam - Sword of the prophet , and others, you will see that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had travelled to Germany to lend his support to Hitler during World War 2. In fact he came very close to being put on trial at Nuremberg . Now you can SEE it happening …. In this German documentary, actual film of the meeting of Hitler with the Mufti is shown along with the M ufti's support for Hitler's campaign... with their common link of 'hating Jews'. Running time about 5 minutes.
English subtitles are given... This is ESSENTIAL VIEWING! Hitler, the Mufti of Jerusalem , and Islamic Fascism (scroll down to Wednesday August 16 th )
Hezbollah sinks Australian Navy ship
(20Aug06)Devious but STUPID Hezbollah sinks Australian Navy ship
(20Aug06) “…Let me get this straight. You allow one of the largest terrorist organizations in the world to set up shop throughout your country. You permit them to completely take over the entire southern third of Lebanon and you claim to have seen nothing. You allow the terrorists to build sophisticated, fortified bunkers and you did not see any heavy equipment building them.…You allow the Hezbollah terrorists to move into many of your towns and villages, including the complete takeover of one of the largest neighbourhoods in Beirut, where they proceed to build numerous, complex command and control centers...and then you claim ignorance. You allow Hezbollah to store weapons, bombs and rockets in your basements. You turn a blind's eye when they carry arms into your restaurants, stores and buildings, yet you call yourself an "innocent civilian….” Those Poor, Innocent Lebanese by Irwin N Graulich, Michnews.com "…So you allow the "Devil" into your homes and into your lives; you take the Devil's money, food and medicine; you sleep with the Devil...and get a serious evil disease. And then you blame the Jews, of course! Well, there is no sympathy for the devil...or his helpers!... The confused, immoral left and their paper of record, The New York Times only see "innocent civilians throughout Lebanon ." Europe , that moral bastion which gave birth to Nazism, will look at photos of men, women and children in despair, without putting the image into its proper context. Yet countries like Sweden , Switzerland and Ireland , who could not decide whether to support Hitler or Churchill during WWII, can drum up the moral authority to criticize Israel today. And leave it to Vichy , France 2006 headed by Jaques "Petain" Chirac to condemn Israel 's response..”
Understanding the Jihad to Destroy Israel
(17Aug06)“…[Iranian President Ahmadinejad at an “emergency” meeting of the 57 Muslim member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Malaysia] … the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime … pronouncements from Iran's Shi'ite regime and President Ahmadinejad , complemented by an independent statement from the immensely popular Sunni cleric, and “spiritual” leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Yusuf Qaradawi , make clear that this jihad transcends the sectarian Shi'ite-Sunni divide within Islam…. Past and present, Shi'ites and Sunnis certainly do concur on the centrality of jihad war in Islam, particularly when waged against non-Muslims for the extension, or maintenance, of the rule of Islamic Law….” Understanding the Jihad to Destroy Israel by Andrew Bostom “…The distinguished Shi'ite theologian al-Amili (d.1622) wrote the following (p.213) about jihad war in the Jami-i-Abbasi , his seminal Persian manual of Shi'a Law: 'Islamic Holy war [ jihad ] against followers of other religions, such as Jews , is required unless they convert to Islam or pay the poll tax' ….. During one of his widely viewed Qatar TV sermons this past February 25, 2006 , Qaradawi elucidated these ideas: Our religion commands us... We are fighting in the name of religion, in the name of Islam, which makes this Jihad an individual duty, in which the entire nation takes part, and whoever is killed in this [Jihad] is a martyr….”
Anti-Israel, Anti-USA Images from around the World
(12Aug06) Who are the racists and bigots here??? ….A picture's worth a thousand….(make that a billion) words.
By the way, these pictures are courtesy of a democracy. NYC NO LESS.
Notice the second photo from the top. The posters read “The Islamic Thinkers Society” Hmmm!!! Not a lot going on there , is there??
Only ‘useful idiots' are blaming Israel
(10Aug06)“…If you took Western news outlets at face value, you'd think that every Arab hamlet, no matter how humble, must have at least one thriving American and Israeli flag merchant….Another tactic in this “asymmetric” war is to make the Israelis the bad guys for resisting terrorism. Jews have a well-cultivated sense of guilt (take my word for it). And, for obvious reasons, no insult could hurt more than depicting Jews as Nazis…” Only ‘useful idiots' are blaming Israel by Jonah Goldberg “…No insult is barred from the anti-Israel script. Terrorize your enemy and make them feel like villains in the process — that's a powerful strategy….This strategy depends on the willing support of what Lenin called “useful idiots.” These are the accommodating Westerners — many of them intellectuals — all too willing to take the word of totalitarians and even more eager to believe that the champions of democracy are in the wrong….”
Israel's elimination is being planned, plotted, scheduled
(10Aug06)A response to a policy speech delivered by British Prime Minister Tony Blair who laid out his vision on the West's war with radical Islam .
“…I'm writing to encourage you to continue to do your utmost to see a just and realistic end to the fighting in Lebanon …To leave Hizbullah largely intact would be to guarantee greater and bloodier fighting in the years ahead. The danger, as I am sure you are aware, is not only to Israel, but for the people of Lebanon, who may find themselves at Hizbullah's mercy….With a terrorist organization in control of Gaza and dominant in the West Bank, with a terrorist army on its borders, and with an apocalyptic Iranian president determined to wipe it from the map, Israel is faced with the greatest threat ever suffered by any nation since these islands faced the armies of the Third Reich…In the 19th century, a sectarian group of Shi'ite Muslims in Iran, believing the advent of their messiah, the Twelfth Imam, to be imminent, purchased and made arms and prepared for the final jihad. They made ready to fight in order to bring the Imam to earth…” Israel's elimination is being planned, plotted, scheduled Dennis MacEoin, The Jerusalem Post “…Today, there are reliable reports that President Ahmadinejad holds an identical belief, that he anticipates the return of the Imam in a short space of time, and that he may be preparing to force his hand by initiating the holy war necessary to his advent…Just as our parents and grandparents fought the dark ideology of Nazism in the 1930s and 40s, so I believe this generation has the heaviest of responsibilities face to face with this growing threat to all civilized values….Civilization itself is at stake. The values of democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and the open society are as much or more at risk today than in the decades when we confronted, first German fascism and then Soviet communism….”
Reuters scandal demands an outside investigation
(8Aug06)Chalk another one up to the pyjama clad revolutionaries (The Bloggers)
“…Reuters now admits supplying the world's media with crude propaganda pictures, faked by an Arab photographer. The agency's journalistic standards are now a global laughingstock. If the agency hopes to regain credibility it must appoint an outside panel of experts to review other work of the same photographer, including the controversial photos supplied from Qana…” Reuters scandal demands an outside investigation The American Thinker “…However, as Michelle Malkin pointed out, the Reuters website claims the following “Our policy is to send news to our customers only after scrutiny by a group of production editors who ensure quality standards are maintained across all our news services. When we get something wrong, our policy is to be honest about errors and to correct them promptly and clearly.”….Which begs the question of what kind of quality standards would allow a crudely Photoshopped picture to run? How is the review of the Qana pictures by Hajj any different from the scrutiny applied to the Beirut pictures by Hajj?..”
(7Aug06)“…If sacred Arab ground were driving the Middle East crisis, surely Syria would now be willing to risk a shooting war over the all important Israeli-occupied Golan Heights…. The world prayed that after the unilateral departure of Israel from Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005, and the recent elections in Beirut and the West Bank, it was witnessing an incremental evolution toward a lasting peace between rational democratic states…But all that optimism presupposed a radical change in the Middle Eastern mentality that unfortunately hasn't happened….if the most recent war in Lebanon and Gaza is not about land per se, whence arises the elemental desire to destroy Israel?.... The answer boils down to Islamists feeling their reputation is at stake. Words like "honor" and "pride" are evoked-- in the sense they need to be regained…” It's not just about land Victor Davis Hanson The Washington Times “..For about the last half-century, globalization has bypassed most of the recalcitrant Middle East -- economically, socially and politically. So there are now few inventions and little science emanating from the Islamic world -- but a great deal of poverty, tyranny and violence. And rather than make the necessary structural changes that might end cultural impediments to progress and modernity -- such as tribalism, patriarchy, gender apartheid, polygamy, autocracy, statism and fundamentalism -- too many Middle Easterners have preferred to embrace the reactionary past and the cult of victimization…Victimization turns out to be the real creed of the Middle East…."They did it to us" offers an easy explanation of why Islamic states are now weak and offer little hope to millions of their poor, who, ironically, emigrate to the much pilloried West by the millions…Without these reforms, they will continue to fail, seeking easy refuge in the shreds of mythical ancestral honor -- and this pathetic neurosis of blaming nearby Israel for the loss of it….”
The civilian casualties are awful but Israel is fighting for its existence
(5Aug06) “….Islamonazis are sophisticated propagandists and they know they'll find a gullible audience in the civilised world for their carefully-strewn teddy bears, strategically-placed 'Baby Milk Factory' signs (in English) and wailing widows from central casting…..Why is there only ever one child's shoe in the rubble, never a pair? There always seems to be a broken medicine box, too, with a handy red cross - never a red crescent, mind you - on the lid, just in case we haven't got the message….Credulous CNN correspondents and handwringing BBC reporters fall over themselves to sign up for the Hezbollah guided tour of the ruins… Hezbollah has started a war it knows it can't win in the certain knowledge that there will be civilian casualties. It's stated aim is to kill as many Israelis as possible and if innocent Lebanese get caught in the crossfire, tough…” The civilian casualties are awful but Israel is fighting for its existence Daily Mail “…These fanatics have little or no regard for human life. Their tactic is to hide among civilians; to use terrified women and children as human shields; to deploy school playgrounds as rocket launch sites; hotels and apartment blocks as command centres; homes as weapons dumps; mosques as air-raid shelters…Although we had wall-to-wall coverage of grumbling British passport holders being evacuated from Beirut, there doesn't seem to have been equal concern about our fellow citizens under bombardment on the other side of the border…. What struck me about the recent pro-Israel demonstration in London was the number of Union flags in the crowd. These are our people….I didn't notice any Union flags at the Stop The War rally, though there were plenty of 'We Are All Hezbollah Now' banners. It doesn't seem to dawn on them that if you want to stop the war you've got to stop Hezbollah….”
Evidence mounts that “Kana Massacre” was a fake
(5Aug06) “…Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, declared that “War is deceit.” Specifically, he taught that lying was permissible in battle.[1] While the doctrines of religious deception (taqiyya and kitman) are most often identified with Shi'ite Islam, and ostensibly rejected by Sunnis, because they were sanctioned by the Prophet, they can still be found in traditions that Sunni Muslims consider reliable, and are practiced among Salafis. Jihadists today have spoken of the usefulness of deceptive practices…” Evidence mounts that “Kana Massacre” was a fake (part 2) by Robert Spencer “… Americans and Westerners are not used to dealing with carefully orchestrated and large-scale deception of this kind . It is time that it be recognized as a weapon of warfare, and an extremely potent one at that. Qana has already largely accomplished what it was supposed to. It will now take its place beside the Danish cartoons, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and all the rest as a useful focal point for Muslim outrage and a magnet for jihad recruitment..”
More Evidence Mounts that Kana "Massacre" Was a Fake
(5Aug06) “…Brig.-Gen. Amir Eshel of the Israeli Air Force told reporters Sunday night, “It is difficult for me to believe that they waited eight hours to evacuate it…..Gen. Eshel also said that the building was used by Hizbullah to store explosives. This was supported by a letter by Dr. Mounir Herzallah, a southern Lebanese Shiite, who wrote that Hizbullah terrorists came to his town, dug a munitions depot and then built a school and a residence directly over it…. The first bombs, according to CNN correspondent Brent Sadler, did not hit the building in question, but rather landed "20 or 30 meters" away. The second strike hit targets further away, and the third strike, around 7:30 in the morning, landed over 400 meters away…” Evidence Mounts that Kana "Massacre" Was a Fake by Hillel Fendel “…Another CNN correspondent, Ben Wedeman, noted that there was a larger crater next to the building. He observed that the roof of the building was intact and that the building appeared not to have collapsed as a result of the Israeli strike…Lebanese rescue teams did not start evacuating the building until after the camera crews came….But, Koret noted, the ashen-gray faces of the victims gave cause to think that the bodies looked like they had been dead for days…”
For more deception and “staged events” visit these links.
UN Ambulances picking up fighters in Gaza
Pallywood ( this is 18 minutes long but is the most revealing)
(29July06) “…I think we've mis-numbered the global wars so far…. I see this conflict – one that has defined history for the last 1,400 years – as World War I. This is the real Great War. It's far bigger than the conflicts that took a few years to settle. And it's not going away anytime soon. This war is so big, some people can't even see it. You know the expression, "He can't see the forest for the trees"? That's what it is like for some people who look at this war. They see fighting. They see conflict. They see death and destruction. But they can't see what it's all about. They can't see that the root cause…. much of the world believes this evil ideology can be negotiated with. They believe it can be placated. They believe it can be bought off. They believe it can be reasoned with. They even believe that it might be enflamed by legitimate grievances…” Is this World War III by Joseph Farah, WorldNet Daily “…The Islamic radicals want all the Jews dead. The Jews, meanwhile, want to live. It is about as irreconcilable as a conflict gets…. the West has the power to destroy every Islamic country in the world. It's not a consideration. Yet, everyone reading this column understands intuitively and intellectually that if the shoe were on the other foot, the West would be in big trouble…. This is the way it has always been – since Muhammad first got his demonic visions in the desert. Ever since then, radical adherents to his message have been on the march – beheading, converting by sword, wiping out entire villages, raping and pillaging. Sometimes they are set back – for years, decades, centuries. Sometimes they are on the ascendancy – for years, decades, centuries. This isn't World War III or World War IV. This is World War I..”.
Iran testing Israel ahead of confrontation?
(29July06) “…Tehran is using Hezbollah's confrontation with the Jewish state to test the abilities of Iranian weapons and to observe Israeli military capabilities, Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt charged in a WorldNetDaily interview yesterday….he fears Syria will take advantage of the growing crisis in Lebanon to reassert its influence in the country and convince the international community Syrian domination of Lebanon is crucial to the stability of the Middle East….Syria will likely try to tell the world, 'Look, see, since we left Lebanon the Cedar Revolution and the forces in Lebanon that got our military out through popular support, those forces are not able to control Lebanon. While we (the Syrians) were in control, Lebanon was a safe place. Now it's not. We need to come back in,'" said Jumblatt…” Iran testing Israel ahead of confrontation? By Aaron Klein, WorldNet Daily “….It militarily occupied the country until Syrian troops withdrew last year under intense international pressure following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, for which Damascus was widely blamed….Syrian President Bashar] Assad made comments last month about al-Qaida infiltrating Lebanon. Now Assad can send into our country the same extremists he has been sending into Iraq to blow themselves up and wreak havoc here and blame it on al-Qaida. No one can prevent him from doing this."….They triggered this war through their proxy Hezbollah. They continue to hold us hostage…”
(27July06) “…What is disproportion in the Middle East ? How should one state respond to multi-state-sponsored terror?... Begin with the fundamentals. Hezbollah, once described as “the A-team of terrorists” by former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, is a terrorist group with a record of killing hundreds of Americans and Israelis (from Beirut to Saudi Arabia to Argentina to inside Israel ). Hezbollah is of global reach and extent…. it has branches in some 20 countries. It occupies 20 percent of the Lebanese parliament but that percentage does not give it sufficient due…” Israel, the model by William J Bennett “…As for Israel's disproportion, it is worth remembering that Israel is but one state — with a majority of Jews but a substantial Arab population. The Arab states number 22. The land-mass comparison is some 10,000 square miles compared to over five million square miles. That does not include Iran …. We know this about terrorists groups: As nature abhors a vacuum, terrorists thrive in them — that is where they grow and empower themselves. And at least since Israel left Lebanon six years ago, Hezbollah has not gotten weaker….”
When innocents are the firing line
(25July06) The deliberate use of civilians as shields and swords by Hezbollah and Hamas in their attacks against Israel requires reassessment of the rules of war, argues Alan M. Dershowitz.
“…There is no democracy in the world that should tolerate missiles being fired at its cities without taking every reasonable step to stop the attacks….The big question raised by Israel's military actions in Lebanon is: What is reasonable? The answer, according to the laws of war, is that it is reasonable to attack military targets so long as every effort is made to reduce civilian casualties…This is all well and good for democratic nations that deliberately locate their military bases away from civilian population centres….” When innocents are the firing line by Alan M. Dershowitz “…Hezbollah and Hamas, by contrast, deliberately operate military wings out of densely populated areas. They launch anti-personnel missiles with ball-bearing shrapnel, designed by Syria and Iran to maximise civilian casualties, then hide from retaliation by living among civilians…This misuse of civilians as shields and swords requires a reassessment of the laws of war. The distinction between combatants and civilians - easy when combatants were uniformed members of armies that fought on battlefields distant from civilian centres - is more difficult in the present context… A democracy is entitled to prefer the lives of its own innocents over the lives of the civilians of an aggressor, especially if the latter group contains many who are complicit in terrorism….”
(21 May06) “…If it hasn't occurred to most Americans by now, Arabs don't think like us. They see the world in very different terms. Rationality, logic, and common sense do not rate high among their priorities…. In 1980, Edward V. Badolato, a retired U.S. Marine Colonel with a distinguished career in government and private enterprise and a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College with several tours of duty in the Middle East, beginning in 1967 shortly after the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, wrote a white paper, “Learning to Think like an Arab Muslim: a Short Guide to Understanding the Arab Mentality”. I am going to provide a brief introduction to it. At only 14 pages, (click here) it is not a long document, but it succinctly explains why Americans and others in the West are encountering such difficulty understanding why Arab Muslims appear, by our standards, to be completely insane..” Thinking like an Arab by Alan Caruba “…Badolato begins by describing Arabs as “a proud and sensitive people whose culture is mainly derived from three key factors: family, language, and religion…you are either a Muslim or you are an infidel and, by definition, a threat to Islam…What America and the West are up against are Islamic fundamentalists and countless sympathizers who would destroy us in a desperate effort to retain their Arab identity….Their very identity as Arabs and/or Muslims is at stake. The validity of Islam as the one, true faith is at stake…Arab Muslims are not like us. They do not want to be like us. If they become more like us they will have to let go of a culture that both stunts their humanity and provides an odd, brutal security blanket at the same time. For the West that leaves us with the same demand we made of Japan and Germany in the last century, unconditional surrender..”
(16April06) “… Israel is used to being singled out for unjust criticism and subjected to startling double standards by the United Nations, the European Union, much of the Western media and numerous academic bodies. But now FIFA, the supposedly nonpolitical organization that governs the world's most popular sport, soccer, is getting in on the act as well…. FIFA has condemned Israel for an air strike on an empty soccer field in the Gaza Strip that was used for training exercises by Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. This strike did not cause any injuries. But at the same time FIFA has refused to condemn a Palestinian rocket attack on an Israeli soccer field last week which did cause injuries… ” Football Killing Fields ( Outrage and disbelief as world soccer body condemns Israel, not Hamas) by Tom Gross, National Review Online “…When Saddam Hussein's son Uday had Iraqi soccer players tortured in 1997 after they failed to qualify for the 1998 FIFA World Cup Finals in France, FIFA remained silent…FIFA's silence was no less deafening when, according to the International Red Cross, about 7,000 prisoners were detained (and some tortured) in Chile's national soccer stadium after Augusto Pinochet seized power in 1973…”
Our two faced ‘friends' in the Middle East
(5Mar06)“…On any given day, the state-run media of the Middle East publish vile anti-Semitism and various slanders against the West. With such an unapologetic assault on Western values, why then would thousands riot when an obscure Danish publication runs a few tasteless cartoons caricaturing Islamic radicalism?...The honor-bound Middle East's leadership is obsessed with the West in general, and the United States in particular. It desperately seeks our undivided attention, and yet resents deeply that this very desire reflects either dependence or hidden admiration… Middle Eastern media outlets practice a particular behavior for themselves while insisting on quite another one for others — expecting, like troubled teenagers, to be offensive and touchy at the same time ..” Our two faced ‘friends' in the Middle East by Victor Davis Hanson “..But there is another rarely discussed reason that a two-faced Middle East feels it can be both savagely critical and needy of the U.S. We idealistic American people are ourselves also hypersensitive, but in a different way: We want to be liked at all costs…Castigate an average American overseas for his support of democratic Israel and he will often apologize rather than cite America's aid to Jordan, the Palestinian Authority or Egypt — much less the liberation of Kuwait, feeding of Somalia and saving of Muslims in Bosnia and Kosov..”
(19Feb06) “…Tired of that old Danish cartoon rage? You've probably caught a virus. Did you hear? The Jews have planted a flu virus to sicken the Arab Nation. At least, that's what the government of Syria is trying to tell the world. MEMRI reports that the government daily Al-Thawra published an article by columnist Abd Al-Rahman Ghunaym suggesting that Israel created the avian flu virus in order to damage “genes carried only by Arabs” ….The suspicion regarding a link between the avian flu and Israel's ‘race bomb' is compounded by a report from the Palestinian Authority, regarding 85,000 good chickens that were buried [by Israel] in fields in the West Bank, and by the fact that the Palestinian Authority was not allowed to take samples from these chickens for testing…” Arab Paranoia Strikes Again from The American Thinker “…Tampering with Arab genes [without affecting] the white race is very difficult. But the Zionists are capable of attempting this [risky] adventure if [they have] a preventive treatment or a [cure for the disease]. Recall that the assassination of Yasser Arafat was carried out by means of biological weapons….Certain activities may have had something to do with Arafat's passing. His autopsy is still top secret . There is at least as much reason to speculate he died of AIDS as there is to suspect poisoning…”
(19Feb06) Next time you see a piece by Robert Fisk it would be worth bearing in mind this review of his book by Amir Taheri.
“Starting as the memoirs of a veteran reporter covering the Middle East, this tsunami of a book quickly develops into a fierce indictment of Britain and the United States, lumped together as “Anglo-Saxons”, as the principal sources of evil in the world during the past 100 years.…It would take a book as long to challenge Fisk's numerous sensational charges against the “Anglo-Saxons”. But a look at two such charges would show that Fisk's seething anger might have affected his objectivity as a reporter and amateur historian. “ The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East ” by Robert Fisk (A review by Amir Taheri) “..First, he claims that Saddam Hussein was installed and maintained in power by the “Anglo-Saxons” although neither Britain nor the United States played any role in the Ba'athist coup in 1968. In fact between 1958 and 1984 the US didn't even have an ambassador in Baghdad ….Fisk's second claim is that the US created the Taliban to fight the Soviets. In fact, the Taliban were created by the Pakistani military intelligence in 1992, three years after the Soviets had left Afghanistan . Even when the Taliban captured Kabul and claimed to be the government of Afghanistan , the US and Britain refused to recognise their regime and denied them the Afghan seat at the United Nations….Fisk has a low opinion of his journalist colleagues whom he labels either as “gullible”, “stupid”, or “hatchet men”... Fisk's hatred of the “Anglo-Saxons” is matched only by his hatred of Israel which he accuses of numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity…”
We were brought up to hate and we do
(15Feb06) ‘The cartoons did not cause the disease of hate that we are seeing in the Muslim world on our television screens at night - they are only a symptom of a far greater disease…I was born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo, Egypt and in the Gaza Strip…In school in Gaza, I learned hate, vengeance and retaliation. Peace was never an option, as it was considered a sign of defeat and weakness. At school we sang songs with verses calling Jews "dogs" (in Arab culture, dogs are considered unclean). ….Criticism and questioning were forbidden. When I did either of these, I was told: "Muslims cannot love the enemies of God, and those who do will get no mercy in hell." As a young woman, I visited a Christian friend in Cairo during Friday prayers, and we both heard the verbal attacks on Christians and Jews from the loudspeakers outside the mosque. They said: "May God destroy the infidels and the Jews, the enemies of God. We are not to befriend them or make treaties with them." We heard worshippers respond "Amen".' We were brought up to hate and we do by Nonie Darwish, Telegraph ‘My friend looked scared; I was ashamed. That was when I first realised that something was very wrong in the way my religion was taught and practised. Sadly, the way I was raised was not unique. Hundreds of millions of other Muslims also have been raised with the same hatred of the West and Israel as a way to distract from the failings of their leaders. Things have not changed since I was a little girl in the 1950s….But the rallies and riots come from a public ripe with rage. From my childhood in Gaza until today, blaming Israel and the West has been an industry in the Muslim world. Whenever peace seemed attainable, Palestinian leaders found groups who would do everything to sabotage it….Is it any surprise that after decades of indoctrination in a culture of hate, that people actually do hate? Arab society has created a system of relying on fear of a common enemy. It's a system that has brought them much-needed unity, cohesion and compliance in a region ravaged by tribal feuds, instability, violence, and selfish corruption. So Arab leaders blame Jews and Christians rather than provide good schools, roads, hospitals, housing, jobs, or hope to their people'.
(11Feb06) This is the Mother from Hell . This woman, and like minded types in the Middle East and living in the West, is certainly not a mother and would be regarded as criminally insane in the civilised world. But she is not part of the civilised world. She has been elected to the Palestinian Parliament as a representative of her people. Tragic but true.
Drawing a line under hypocrisy
(9Feb06) “….The arguments from Muslims - though not the fanatical,
violent manner of many of their protests - would no doubt be taken more seriously if they had also objected to the depiction on Syrian television of rabbis as cannibals…. Al Ahram, one of Egypt 's leading dailies, has published cartoons of Jews laughing while they drink blood. Drawing a line under hypocrisy by Tom Gross, The Jerusalem Post “….Some of the cartoons don't just resemble those published by the Nazis. They are literally copied from Nazi originals.
For instance, a cartoon from Arab News (an English-language Saudi daily regarded as one of the more moderate publications in the Arab world), depicts rats wearing Stars
of David and skullcaps….”
Israel wiped off the map at the UN
(5Dec05) If there were any doubt as to where the UN stands vis a vis wiping Israel off the map, the maps on display at the November 29, 2005 UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People should lay those doubts to rest.
The Legacy of Jihad in Historical Palestine
(28Nov05) Take time to read and understand this. The Legacy of Jihad in Historical Palestine I think it is fair and reasonable to say and assume that until there is an out in the open, on the table, clear, unambiguous, and unequivocal, repudiation and declaration that the Grand Plan has changed, (a reformation if you like) then nothing has changed…..
“…The jihad is an institution intrinsic to Islam, and not an isolated event, or series of events:.. .it is a part of the normal functioning of the Muslim world… The conquered populations change status (they become dhimmis), and the shari'a tends to be put into effect integrally, overthrowing the former law of the country. The conquered territories do not simply change ‘owners'. [2]… In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the [Muslim] mission and [the obligation to] convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force…Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations. [5]… Reconciliation and security last as long as the payment is made. If the payment ceases, then the jihad resumes..” The Legacy of Jihad in Historical Palestine by Andrew G. Bostom “… During the Abbasid caliphates of Harun al-Rashid (786-809) and al-Mutawwakil (847-861), Jews and Christians were required to wear yellow (as patches attached to their garments, or hats) ( Sound Familiar) “… The brutal nature of the Crusader's conquest of Palestine, particularly of the major cities, beginning in 1098/99 C.E., has been copiously documented. [30] However, the devastation wrought by both Crusader conquest and rule (through the last decades of the 13th century) cannot reasonably be claimed to have approached, let alone somehow “exceeded”, what transpired during the first four and one-half centuries of Muslim jihad conquests, endless internecine struggles for Muslim dominance, and imposition of dhimmitude…”
Israel can bank on our support
(23Oct05)“…The UN has a deep structural bias against Israel . To take one of many examples, there has been at the UN Commission on Human Rights a separate agenda item devoted to Israel at every meeting. No other nation gets a whole agenda item, not China , not North Korea , not Iran . It has been impossible even to get up a single resolution about Zimbabwe 's recent murderous practices…” Israel can bank on our support by Greg Sheridan, The Australian. “..For 40 years more than one-quarter of the resolutions passed at the commission have been aimed at Israel . Anyone who believes Israel is responsible for one-quarter of the world's human rights violations needs to get their medication changed…. No other nation is singled out for the relentless attacks at the UN that Israel has to cop…. All this anti-Israel activity does nothing to improve the Palestinians' lot. It makes the UN worthless in the Middle East because Israel is utterly hostile and distrustful of it, while the Palestinian cause is endlessly inflamed in soaring and worthless rhetoric, taken over by the international bureaucrat class far from the realities on the ground….”
(18Sept05) In recent weeks Tony Blair was advised to abolish the annual Holocaust day in Britain as it was regarded as offensive to Muslims making them feel excluded and marginalized. Perhaps there is another reason, the real reason they wanted the day abolished ( click here ). It's about being an ally of Hitler and the Nazis , spiritual bothers in arms. Also it is worth noting that The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini was the uncle of Yasser Arafat .
In case you have difficulty reading the script under the photo link it read as follows:
“ A photo of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem reviewing the Nazi “Handzar” Division SS in Yugoslavia 1944. In an address to the Muslim troops, the Mufti put Islam and Nazism on the same level, claiming there were considerable similarities between Islamic principles and National Socialism.”
(The David Pryce Jones book The Closed Circle (chapter 8) covers the links and connections between the Arab World and The Nazis in detail.)
Now, it's the Palestinians' turn
(16Sept05) “…For the past year, the disengagement has been perceived first and foremost as an Israeli event. …But now, after the last Israeli has come home, the disengagement has ceased to be an Israeli event. Now, after the gate of the Kissufim checkpoint has been locked, the disengagement has become a Palestinian event. Now, it's the Palestinians' turn “… Never before have the Palestinians not lived under occupation. Thus now, following the end of the disengagement, they have attained what they never had before. After hundreds of years of subservience to Turkish foreign rule and British foreign rule and Egyptian and Jordanian and Israeli foreign rule, some 1.5 million Palestinians have finally gained self-rule. After hundreds of years of oppression, some 1.5 million Palestinians now live, for the first time, without roadblocks, without prisons, without settlements and without a government of occupation..” “…Freedom creates obligations - even when it is only partial. Now, when the Palestinians have been given freedom such as they have never known before, they also bear responsibility such as they have never known before….”
(16Sept05)“…Only days after the final withdrawal of Israeli forces, the Gaza Strip is on the verge of anarchy. Despite promises to impose law and order, the Palestinian Authority has allowed mobs of looters and armed extremists to rampage through former Jewish settlements, where they have burned or bulldozed synagogues left standing by Israel . Many of the valuable greenhouses that, with the generous help of international donors, were saved for use by the Palestinians have been stripped of equipment as police stood by and watched.” The Scorpion and the Frog (Self destruction - "Its my Nature", said the Scorpion...) “…Mr. Abbas's problem is in part one of weakness; it's not certain that the security forces loyal to him could impose order by force in Gaza even if he ordered them to.” Bad Start in Gaza from the Washington Post “..The Gaza withdrawal should have been a step toward an Israeli-Palestinian settlement; instead, it could become a leap away from it…”
Shame, Honor and Terror in the Middle East
(11Sept05) “..Their way of war- brilliantly described by T.E. Lawrence in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom – is based on hit and run forays by camel-mounted Bedouin who appear suddenly out of the desert, tear up an unsuspecting enemy camp, and then disappear back into the waste, carrying ‘honorable' loot .” Shame, Honor and Terror in the Middle East by David Leo Gutman (FrontPage Magazine October 2003) “…The traditional Bedouin created a nearly pure "Shame" culture, whose goal was to avoid humiliation, and to acquire sharraf - honor. Thus, the goal of the Bedouin raid is not to finally win a war, for such inter-tribal conflict is part of the honorable way of life, and should never really end. The essential goals of the raid are to take wealth – not only in goods, but also in honor - and to impose shame on the enemy…..This calculus of shame and sharraf is an important element in all Arab warfare, whether waged by Saddam Hussein, Yasir Arafat, or a Bedouin sheik. In particular, that same dynamic drives the Arab preference for irregular over conventional war…”
The “Arab Mindset” and the Art of Evasion and Self-Deception
(22Aug05) "The world has changed drastically, but we haven't. We refuse change and resist it…..After every terrorist act, the same old faces pop up and repeat the same broken record: “the Mossad,” “Zionism,” “America,” “international conspiracies!” Don't they get tired or bored? The “Arab Mindset” and the Art of Evasion and Self-Deception by Dr. Abdul Hamid al-Ansari ( translation by Tony Badran )
Why would the rest of the world conspire against us, when it is us who need them and not the other way round? The “Arab mindset” has become immune to change, having mastered the art of evasion, trickery, and self-deception in the face of all the challenges that lie ahead before we can overcome our depressing situation."
(16Aug05) "[ Jennings ] hosted what looked like a little intercontinental tea party for alleged experts on the Middle East, one of whom was professional Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi, whom Jennings hailed as 'widely known in the United States .' Also widely disliked. The ABC's of Media Bias "It's no surprise that ABC News anchor Peter Jennings allowed Palestinian proselytizer Hanan Ashrawi to peddle propaganda on his program -- she used to be his girlfriend. U.S. News & World Report noted in 1991: 'In the early 1970s, when he was single and head of the ABC bureau in Beirut, Jennings dated Ashrawi, who at the time was also single and a graduate student in literature at the American University in the Lebanese capital. Jennings was introduced to Ashrawi's parents and sisters and became part of her circle of friends.
(5Jun05) What was that about the desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay ??? Why all the fuss??? Check out this story (and before and after photos) about the wrecking, trashing and vandalising of the ancient Joseph's Tomb in Nablus in October 2000. Then of course there was the desecration and vandalism in April 2002 of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem where bibles were used as toilet paper by Palestinians and many valuable sacramental objects looted. And of course who could forget the wanton, mindless, nihilistic destruction of the 2000 year old Buddha's of Bamyan of Afghanistan in 2001. There's no doubt more but I think you get the point.
Western liberalism proving to be only idea left standing
(5Jun05)“….2005 is a culmination of dying ideas. Despite the boasts and threats, almost every political alternative to Western liberalism over the last quarter-century is crashing or already in flames” observes Victor Davis Hanson in Western liberalism proving to be only idea left standing . “Oil, terror, anti-Semitism and hating America gave the fundamentalists some resonance, but there were never any ideas. The Islamicists offered nothing to galvanize the Arab masses other than nihilism. That doctrine feeds or employs no one. Instead, we witness the creepy threats and the pyrotechnics of a lunatic ideology going the way of bushido and the kamikazes…. Global communications now reveal hourly to people abroad how much better life is in Europe than in the Middle East and Asia — and how in America, Australia and Britain the standard of living is even better than in most of Europe….The racket and clamor from all these anti-democratic ideas in 2005 are not birth pangs, but the bitter death throes of those whose time is about past….”
We (Muslims) Will Rule America; Israel is a Cancer;
(20May05) The following are excerpts from this week's official Friday sermon on Palestinian Authority (PA) TV.(1) The preacher is Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris, a paid employee of the PA. To view the sermon .
"Allah has tormented us with 'the people most hostile to the believers' - the Jews. 'Thou shalt find that the people most hostile to the believers to be the Jews and the polytheists.' Allah warned His beloved Prophet Muhammad about the Jews, who had killed their prophets, forged their Torah, and sowed corruption throughout their history.
"With the establishment of the state of Israel , the entire Islamic nation was lost, because Israel is a cancer spreading through the body of the Islamic nation, and because the Jews are a virus resembling AIDS, from which the entire world suffers. "You will find that the Jews were behind all the civil strife in this world. The Jews are behind the suffering of the nations.. . ."
To view this Special Dispatch in HTML
It's difficult to succinctly convey what is happening in the Middle East and more broadly on an international scale…This power-point presentation is testimony that a picture is worth a thousand words.. Pipeline of hatred.
Officials praise Arafat as 'jihad' warrior
(17Nov04) Tigers and stripes...Leopards and spots Surprise, surprise....... "Following announcement of the death of Yasser Arafat last Thursday, Palestinian officials and leaders spoke candidly in Arabic-language television interviews of their continued commitment to "jihad," or holy war, and the elimination of Israel. Officials praise Arafat as 'jihad' warrior -WorldNetDaily.com Tuesday, November 16, 2004
(14Nov04 ) The Arafat Files - a selection of articles
(26 May 04) For those who didn't see the 15/20 seconds worth of vision on television….Here is more detail as to what the recent Israeli raids into Rafah were all about…complete with photos and graphics. Inside Gaza's terror tunnels - by By Aaron Klein - worldnetdaily.com 26 May 2004
In this piece, Another One Bites the Dust, by Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily, he pretty much nails the sentiments of the civilized world.
It is often said that when nothing needs to be said, it's best to say nothing. Having said that, this email sent to me by a listener, says it all regarding the Israeli wall to keep out suicide bombers. If this is a little cryptic for you, think in terms of people in glass houses etc…
.....and yet again..Even more on fences"
If We Can't Even Name the Enemy
Israel, the United States, the European Union, India and parts of Africa, as well as Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Animists and many others, all have a common problem. Actually, three common problems: they are all in a state of war with an organized global entity numbering in the many millions; they refuse to accept this reality; and they cannot even name the enemy." If We Can't Even Name the Enemy by Beth Goodtree April 22, 2004 -Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com