Think of all the great restaurants! post 4, July 23 – 2014

1. CRUZ: Did President Obama just launch an economic boycott of Israel?

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today questioned the Obama Administration’s decision to ban flights to Israel while, at the same time, announcing continuing aid that will be funneled to the terrorist organization, Hamas.

“Aiding Hamas while simultaneously isolating Israel does two things. One, it helps our enemy. Two, it hurts our ally,” said Sen. Cruz.

2. Bombs in north Nigeria’s Kaduna kill at least 82

Moderate clerics often targeted by Boko Haram

* Islamists are spreading attacks across Nigeria

KADUNA, Nigeria, July 23 (Reuters) – Two bomb blasts in the north Nigerian city of Kaduna killed at least 82 people on Wednesday, officials said, in attacks that bore the hallmarks of violent Islamist group Boko Haram.

A suicide bomber targeting a moderate Muslim cleric killed at least 32 of the cleric’s congregation on a busy commercial road. Shortly after, a second bomb blast killed 50 people in the crowded Kawo market on Wednesday, a local Red Cross worker on the scene, who declined to be named, told Reuters.

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3. Somali musician and MP Saado Ali Warsame shot dead

Popular Somali musician and member of parliament Saado Ali Warsame has been shot dead by Islamist militants.

She was killed along with a civil servant in a drive-by shooting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

A spokesman for the Islamist al-Shabab group, Abdulaziz Abu Musab, told the BBC that she was targeted for her politics and not her music.

4. US defends its ban on flight to Israel

(I hope she is earning her extra high school credits on this job)

5. Iran leader urges Palestinians to keep fighting Israel

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged Palestinians Wednesday to keep fighting Israel and to extend a conflict that has killed nearly 700 Gazans to the occupied West Bank.

“The only way to deal with this savage regime is to continue resistance and armed struggle and extend it to the West Bank,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Khamenei as saying.

Thank you M, Wrath of Khan, Yucki, Richard and all. More to come I’m afraid.

About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

13 Replies to “Think of all the great restaurants! post 4, July 23 – 2014”

  1. Thank you Iran for giving Israel more justification to fully take over Judea and Samaria. Seriously. Thank you ever so much. Heh.

  2. About the pausing of flights to the Israeli airport. It does seem like a reasonable precaution.

    I’d also add that it’s a good reason for Israel to wipe out Hamas once and for all. No more fiddly half measures. If Hamas remains they will be able to target that airport whenever they like.

    The ONLY option now is to wipe them out.

    As for the oh so innocent Gazans that everyone has been so busy pretending to care about: they voted for Hamas knowing full well what Hamas’ goal was. They knew the destinction between Hamas and the PA. They made their decision. They intentionally decided to live in a war zone when they KNEW they didn’t have to by voting for the PA. That’s democracy. It was their concious decision to eventually get targeted by the Israeli military.

    THEY KNEW FULL WELL WHAT COULD HAPPEN AND CHOSE THAT POSSIBILITY.

    So tough on them.

    • That is 100% correct. The people of Gaza consciously chose to declare perpetual war on Israel by voting overwhelmingly for Hamas. They should be happy their children are getting killed – it’s what they want…

      • Since these are the people who teach their kids to be suicide bombers from the time they are toddlers they probably are proud that they are dying fighting the Jews, this way their kids are ensured a place in paradise.

  3. #1 Obama won’t call it an economic boycott but he will do his best to create one.

    • No [redacted] comment.
      Band-aid over my camera notwithstanding, I could go to jail for harboring such thoughts about the POTUS.