1. As reported here earlier, Gaza saw a lot of fighting overnight.
Below the fold are some videos on the fighting there last night.
2. England now has a greater population density per Sq. mile than China, Japan or India
3. Jihadists stone Syria woman to death for ‘adultery’: NGO
Beirut (AFP) – Jihadists in the northern Syrian province of Raqa have accused a woman of adultery and stoned her to death, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.
The “final solution” for Mosul’s Christians was blared from loudspeakers in the minarets of the city’s Sunni mosques after Friday prayers. They would have twenty-four hours to flee, taking nothing but the clothes they were wearing. Those found still in the city, after noon yesterday, would be put to the sword. A third option, conversion to Islam, was mentioned only for the record. Any intending to do that would surely have done it by now. The possessions of all Christians had been “nationalized,” according to the announcement — everything they owned now belonged to the Islamic Caliphate of Iraq and the Levant.
5. UNRWA Gives Rockets to Hamas
UNRWA in Refugee CampFlash 90
The UN agency for Palestinian Arab “refugees,” UNRWA, has caused outrage by apparently giving rockets to Hamas.
On Thursday, UNRWA confirmed that 20 rockets had been found in one of its vacant schools in Gaza.
UNRWA staff said last week that they had “informed the relevant parties and successfully took all necessary measures for the removal of the objects.”
However, Channel 2 reports Sunday that – rather than destroying the rockets – UNRWA workers called Hamas to come remove them.
6. Imam in Berlin prays for the annihilation of the Jews
7. Tunisia orders crackdown on mosques after 14 soldiers killed by militants
Tunisia on Saturday launched a crackdown on mosques and radio stations associated with hardline Islamists after militants killed 14 soldiers in an area near the country’s border with Algeria.
The move underscores the difficulty one of the Arab world’s most secular countries faces in dealing with the rise of conservative Islamist movements and militants since the 2011 revolt that ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali
Thanks to M, Buck, DP111, Richard and many many more. Thank you. More to come. This will be a difficult week for civilization in the world. When it is over and the obviously orchestrated Muslim Brotherhood marches and riots settle down like they did after Op Cast Lead, governments will tilt that little bit more towards Islamic norms and a little bit farther from our own cultures, values and civilizations in the name of the illusion of peace, just like the Meccans did when Mohamed Abdullah signed a fake peace treaty with them and then attacked them 2 years later when they weren’t expecting it.
And just like then, we may lose to them if we don’t find our vertebrae. Not the ability to win, he have that in spades. But the will to fight.
Al Jazeera:
Copters and tanks in Gaza
Hamas Video Purportedly Shows Gaza Tunnels
VICE: Blast Hits Gaza City: This Just In
IDF Soldiers Find Gaza House Rigged with Explosives
Bibi’s message to the people of Gaza:
Four more videos:
Egyptian Activists Denied Entry into Gaza
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IDF Paratroopers Discover Tunnel Under a House in Gaza
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IDF Paratroopers Blow Up Tunnel in Gaza
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Humanitarian Aid Transferred to Gaza
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An idea for us in item 4. Maybe we should give 24 hours for conversion, and then deport wholesale to their 57 ancestral lands and nationalise everything they have taken. Since most are on benefit we would be saving the state millions in the future. Could this happen in Britain? only when enough Britons get angry, and when will that be? what will be the catalyst? The worst that could happen would be a shortage of tacky restaurants and taxis.
No one knows what will be the breaking point, but one is approaching and probably very rapidly.
Oh for Gods sake….This is the left, this is the BBC, this is Islam, these are the words of our political betters, attempting to soften us up for what is about to be revealed about them…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/can-paedophiles-be-good-people-we-flinch-but-there-are-varying-degrees-9616930.html
“our political betters“?
Sounds like an oxymoron, Tasha.
Adam. He’s an American 19-year-old, and his primary sexual feelings have always been for children. Three years ago, he came to realise that the stuff he sought online as a matter of instinct was vile, that “these children were real people”.
Always been for children?
Not true. When he was aged two they were like ADULTS to him.
A matter of instinct. The Prepubescent sex-trainers. A natural evolution. Welcome in Sex-Ed in any school as they give it… feeling. Like they mean what they demonstrate. So kids know all about human sexuality.
Someone will be telling me next Gays get married and have children and it is a Hate Crime to mention it negatively; and Muslims who kill for Allah and it a Hate Crime to mention it negatively; and Socialist Ministers dressed up as Conservatives in a crumbing moral-less Big Society and a Hate Crime coming soon.
Can’t happen. Can it?
How did our grandparents, in their old-style hats and coats, ever manage without early education about the cornucopia of human sexual possibility, without Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centres, and Swiss NGOs, and Foundation Directors of Research and Development to help child molesters stop feeling ‘defensive, anxious, withdrawn, unco-operative’ so they can contribute to society in a positive way? How did they cope in the absence of clinical definitions and complicated psychological explanations, without expensively-trained sociologists and leading psychologists in the field, without an intrepid Independent apologist journo for pedophilia called ‘Archie Bland?’ It must have been unspeakably awful, given that we’re sinking even with benefit of all this expert help. Thank heavens succeeding generations have largely taken Philip Larkin’s wisdom on board and heeded his advice:
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
Now there was a poet with his beer half full; and his child’s refrain:
This be Perverse.
You winged and whined about ma and dad
Of why you didn’t go far
Picked on failings that they had
– Like your right to drive a car.
Resentment smouldered, anger burned
For tools in smock and Mortar
In half-the-time the lesson learned:
You should have been a daughter.
Welfare hands the female-twirl
The Spirit fills Herself
Spread your legs you Commi-girl
There’s no momma on the shelf!
Now, there’s a Sovietesque po-wit and the glass nearly empty.
Selah! A considerable improvement on the original. How Larkin must have lived to regret his self-sorrowing ditty, no doubt dashed off while he was in his cups, foreseeing it was something people would remember him for.
The West might rue the generations of poets, since the Romantics anyhow, schooled to think the thing to do with verse is cultivate the sense of your own exquisite victimhood. I once tried to teach Sylvia Plath to utterly baffled mainland Chinese:
If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two——
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
Daddy, you can lie back now.
There’s a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.
Interestingly, the only thing any of them could imagine she was talking about was the communist state.
In Canada, the more calculating Margaret Atwood, who did not stick her head in an oven, set the tone with lines like:
You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
Given the state of so much of what has been passing for high culture, we are all probably better off listening to Pink Floyd.
This be Inverse.
They screw you up, your mum, her mum.
They may not mean to, but they did.
They filled you up from flaps they had
To now always outraged like a kid.
But they were screwed-up in their turns
By Eton-cloth and memo’d notes,
Half who live like soppy-interns
And half at one another’s scroats.
Woman hands on to woman.
Brooding dark oil slick
They won’t let you out now, never can
Nowt left, but new uses for your dick.
Sorry Don,
I just posted after you posted.
Just don’t lead me on…..!
I fit into You
A knife into butter
butter tip
knife slip
[No not YOU. It’s about Communist Russia and the Ukraine situation or thingymajig]
With ‘scroats’ for ‘throats’ I suspect you’ve left an indelible stain on Larkin’s entire oeuvre for me.
Hamas military wing claims abducted Israeli soldier
The armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas group claimed on Sunday night that it had kidnapped an Israeli soldier, prompting celebrations in the streets of Gaza City.
“The Israeli soldier Shaul Aaron is in the hands of the Qassam Brigades,” a spokesman using the nom-de-guerre Abu Obeida said in a televised address.
A spokeswoman for the Israeli military said they were aware of the claim and were investigating.
AFP correspondents said there were celebrations in Gaza City, as well as in the streets of the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Hebron following the announcement from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, with Palestinians firing guns in the air and praising Hamas.
The Qassam Brigades said the soldier had been kidnapped 24 hours earlier during an ambush on Israeli forces in the Tuffah district on the eastern edges of Gaza City.
http://news.yahoo.com/hamas-military-wing-claims-abducted-israeli-soldier-201316552.html
Ramallah :
Hebron :
Bethlehem
HEBRON :
Watchdog Group’s Massive Billboard Equates New York Times With Terror Group Hamas
A pro-Israel watchdog group equated The New York Times with terror group Hamas on a massive billboard banner which went up outside the famed newspaper’s newsroom on Friday.
“Hamas attacks Israel: Not Surprising”, the banner reads, above a picture of a missile. Underneath it says: “The New York Times attacks Israel: Also not surprising”, on top of an image of a pen.
“Stop skewing facts. Stop the key omissions. Stop the Anti-Israeli Bias”, the billboard concludes.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/20/watchdog-groups-massive-billboard-compares-new-york-times-to-hamas/
Well duh.
don c wrote, “How did our grandparents, in their old-style hats and coats, ever manage without early education about the cornucopia of human sexual possibility”, etc”
I give up. How did they?
And survived the Great Depression and the Nazis and the World War, and finished building the house and got a job in a diner and raised the kids when her husband didn’t return from that war, and with primitive refrigeration and no air con and no internet, and only two channels on television when TV got itself invented, and so on and so forth. How did they do it? There must have been an epoch of Homo sapiens with backbones before our Invertebrate Age.
They lived before the left got enough control to try and make them dependent on the government for everything