Orlando Mosque Finances Hamas

With the help of a useful idiot...

War crimes are in the eye of the beholder...

“The kids in first grade in Sderot were born when rockets were being fired at Sderot. They have lived their entire lives having to think that when they leave the house, when they’re walking down the street, when they’re playing ball, that they have fifteen seconds to hide from an incoming rocket. And it’s not only the kids, it’s the parents. I have a friend who won’t drive with two kids in the car. If the alert goes off he doesn’t want to have to ask himself which of his kids he is going to save.” If the Israelis were doing this to Palestinians, it would be a war crime . . . .

And that is a big part of the problem. Too many people see everything that the Israelis do as a crime and everything that the Palestinians do as self-defence whereas reality is pretty much the exact opposite and no amount of proof to that effect will change their minds. Unfortunately until that happens or the Israelis are eradicated, there will not be peace in that region. The Palestinians are too brutal and the Israelis too civilized for this to end any other way.

Hamas developed Kassam rockets continue to fall on Israel

The link will take you to the Sderot, Israel site that had information about the Kassam rockets that Hamas has fired into Israel since January of 2001. These rocket attacks have occurred despite the existence of any of the "cease fires" that are so widely reported in the press. Don't overlook the "Kassam Counter" that tallies the number of rockets that have been fired and consider what you would do if your town or city were subject to this type of assault on an ongoing basis.

Dog bites man, again

Israel closes Gaza crossings after rocket fire
Day of violence presents cease-fire with its first serious test

Palestinians violating a cease-fire truce, what a shocker...

One small win for the good guys

Now it is time for France 2 to acknowledge that it created and is continuing to perpetuate the worst anti-Semitic libel of our era.

Though I would not hold my breath if I were you...

BBC Fabricates Home Demolition Report

It is not enough that the BBC wages a propaganda war against Israel and for Palestine, it is not enough that they willingly carry Palestine propaganda as news without a hint of fairness but now they feel it necessary to fabricate stories.

The BBC showed a home being demolished and claimed that it was the home of child murderer Alaa Abu Dheim, when in fact the home of this killer as well as a shrine erected by the Palestines to honor this human trash still stand as shown by a number of AP photos taken days after the BBC story.

That the home and shrine still stand should be sufficient proof to anyone with an open mind, who the decent participants in this conflict are. Could anyone imagine a shrine to fallen Israeli solders lasting even 5 minutes in Palestine? Me thinks not.

Do Palestinians deserve their own state?

A valid question, I think and based on this action by the Palestinian Authority, the short answer would appear to be no, not yet.

Mahmoud Abbas's official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper has honored the terrorist who gunned down eight high school students at point blank range with the status of shahid, or holy Islamic martyr.

The official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida prominently placed a picture of the point-blank child killer on the front page, with the caption, "The Shahid Alaa Abu Dheim." In a page one article on the massacre at the Mercaz HaRav Kook yeshiva, his crime was again defined as an act of martyrdom (shahada).

A cold-blooded murderer of children is a person to be vilified not honored. No matter where you stand on the Israel/Palestine issue, I would have hoped that we could all agree that someone that murders children is a monster that should be condemned by one and all. Apparently not in Palestine when the murdered children are Israelis. Do the Palestines deserve a state? At this time they are certainly not doing anything to show they have earned one and for the US to continue to push Israel forward with the "road map for peace" while Palestine continues to act like this way and to condone these acts is even more unforgivable.

So much for the plight of the Palatines

As a Jerusalem-based Reuters correspondent in 1998, I visited several Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza, and was astonished to see living conditions better than in the slums of Cairo, my hometown. (Frustration and not mean-spiritedness compels me to make that comparison.)

Timeline of a fraud

I do not believe as yet that there has been any honest apology or even an admission that this entire episode was used to falsely accuse the Israelis of murder. As with most of these types of stories, world wide MSM is blind to the reality as well. Israel is always the aggressor and never the victim even after there is clear evidence of malfeasance on the part of Palestine.

You can't make this stuff up...

Mr. Abir [spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees] blamed the Jewish state for the desecration of the Gaza synagogues by Palestinian Arabs, claiming the decision to leave the structures intact was part of an Israeli conspiracy.

Israel "left the synagogues behind so the world would see the Palestinians destroying them," Mr. Abir said.

Another example of Palestine pride

It takes a special kind of amoral ruthlessness to desecrate one of your own holy places and use it as a hideout and to shoot at your opponents. If such a thing were done by Christians, there would be world wide condemnation. But not when it is done by Arabs. In that case it is just an all too common occurrence and is treated as a non-event. It does not even garner much attention when those same gunmen use willing women as human shields to try and make their escape. In this case, two of the gunmen were killed as were two of the female shields. If this gets any significant air time, it will be to condemn the Israelis for “gunning down innocent women at a mosque” with little or no mention of what was really going on there.

As is typical, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas "saluted the women of Palestine ... who led the protest to break the siege of Beit Hanoun." Haniyeh urged U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to witness firsthand "the massacres of the Palestinian people," and appealed to the Arab world to "stop the ongoing bloodshed."

What sparked this clash, you might ask? The article states the mosque standoff came on the third day of Israel's fiercest bid in months to halt Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli border communities. This can’t be! There is a cease fire so there is absolutely no way that any Palatines or Hamas would be firing rockets into Israel. There must be some mistake.

Palestinian video you won't see on CBS

This is a long video that attempts to document what is going on in the Palestinian battle video clips that you see on the nightly news. Watch it all.

Update: 7/8/2008

This video is (I am surprised to say) still available on YouTube. These generally don't last all that long.

The rest of the "Qana" story...

Watch the entire video.

Continued Palestinian Chutzpa

Again, I thought there was a cease fire going on!?!

In a leaflet distributed in the Gaza Strip, the group, which belongs to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party, said the weapons were the result of a three-year effort.

According to the statement, the first of its kind, the group has managed to manufacture and develop at least 20 different types of biological and chemical weapons.

The group said its members would not hesitate to add the new weapons to Kassam rockets that are being fired at Israeli communities almost every day. It also threatened to use the weapons against IDF soldiers if Israel carried out its threats to invade the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian Chutzpa

The Chicago Tribune recently reported that "an Israeli missile strike in the Gaza Strip late Thursday killed a prominent militant who was the security chief of the Hamas-led Palestinian government."

The strike killed Jamal Abu Samhadana, 43, leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, a group responsible for many recent rocket attacks on southern Israel and suspected in the 2003 bombing of an American diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip in which three security officers were killed.

To me the important part here is the line: a group responsible for many recent rocket attacks on southern Israel. But wait, this can’t be so! It is just not possible because I read just this past week that Israel was once more threatening the cease fire between Palestine and Israel. But this Chicago Tribune article alludes to “recent rocket attacks” originating in Palestine. If this is true, how can Israel be threatening a cease fire that apparently Palestine is not trying to honor?

This appears to be a common theme with the Western press. Palestine and Israel declare a cease fire, the Palestinians routinely ignore it and as soon as Israel takes defensive action the press screams that Israel is threatening the cease fire.

I also like this part: called the killing an assault on the government and said that militant groups vowing revenge had a right to respond.

OK, so this guy is the head of a group that is responsible for recent rocket attacks against Israel and when Israel kills the person responsible, a Hamas leader says they vow revenge and have a right to respond. That is what Israel was doing, responding to a series of rocket attacks. In part: the group was responsible for a series of deadly attacks on Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Gaza Strip before the settlers were withdrawn from the area last year.

The only word for this is chutzpa!

P.S. for anyone unfamiliar with the word, I found this great definition online: A classic example of chutzpa is someone who kills his father and mother, then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.