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Category Archives: Israel
Ahmadinejad calls Israel ‘germ of corruption’ to be ‘removed soon’
The comments were posted Wednesday on his presidential Web site. They appear to be part of an effort to defuse criticism by hard-liners over recent remarks made by a high-level official.
Last week, Iranian media quoted Vice President Esfandiar Rahim Mashai as saying Iranians were “friends of all people in the world – even Israelis.”
The comments were rare from a government official in Iran. They sparked domestic criticism of Mashai, with some officials calling for his resignation.
Canada’s freedom of speech in worse shape than I thought
Canadian ‘human rights’ next victim
Canadian Ezra Levant got a notice from his province’s ‘human rights’ commission on Thursday that a complaint against him for ‘discrimination’ that was filed by the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities for publishing the famous Mohamed cartoons in Canada’s Western Standard has been dismissed (Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs). Unfortunately, the next victim of Canadian moonbattery is already on the firing line.
Howard Rotberg is a Canadian lawyer who has written a novel called The Second Catastrophe (you can order the book through that link). It’s a novel about a professor who is writing a book about the Jewish people and the State of Israel whose daughter is injured in a terror attack. Rotberg was invited to lecture about the book at the Waterloo, Ontario branch of Chapters, the largest bookstore chain in Canada. Some unexpected ‘guests’ showed up. Here’s part of his description of what happened (Hat Tip: Boker Tov Boulder):
A quiet Sunday afternoon at the Chapters store in Waterloo, Ontario. A nice, relaxed informal lecture to a small group about The Second Catastrophe, my new novel.
I had just started talking about why I had written the book — about how, after the failure of the Oslo process, and Arafat’s rejection of Barak’s generous offer for a two-state solution at Camp David II, the Palestinians had started the Second Intifada. I mentioned how disappointed a lot of us were to see that Arafat apparently did not want a state alongside Israel, but one in place of Israel.
That was a mistake.
I now realize that I was in Canada, where only politically correct speech is protected.
I was in Canada, the land of cultural relativism, where the most important value is tolerance. Criticizing any other country or culture is a breach of the now distorted policy of multiculturalism. Now, I would pay the price.
If I had only known how big a price.
A young man came in and sat in the second row. He picked up a copy of my book from the table, took a perfunctory look at it, and started interrupting me.
“You think all Muslims are terrorists,” he asserted.
Great little video about camp in the Gaza strip. Learn a new skill!
This would be funny if it wasn’t true
Busted. Islamic charity in Australia caught funding Hamas
Richard Kerbaj | July 25, 2008
A SYDNEY charity that admitted channelling aid through an Islamic organisation banned in Australia for its alleged terror links was yesterday raided by the federal police.
It was also attacked by one of its directors for failing to scrap a fundraising appeal that has been under investigation.
AFP and NSW Police counter-terrorism agents seized computer files and financial records from Muslim Aid Australia’s headquarters in Lakemba, Sydney’s Muslim heartland, during a seven-hour raid.
The ‘moderate’ palistinian TV response to the release of the terrorists
This clip is from Fatah TV. The moderate side of the Palistinians. The claim is made with great joy that “The first woman to hijack a plane was a Palistinian!”
http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1815wmv&ak=null
Sadly I cannot embed videos here from memri.org but do click through it’s worth the giggles.
While you are at it, check this clip of an Iranian ‘Historian’ explaining how things where. This is downright hysterical. It does make me realize though that Islam is still smarting over Jewish rejection of Mohamed as their Prophet. This whole lecture seems to stem from that first slight when Mohamed tried to get the Jews to follow him and they elected not to.
Released terrorist gives familiar gesture as he is celebrated in Lebanon
Kuntar gives Nazi salute; Al-AP says he ‘gestures’
Here’s a picture of Lebanese mass murderer Samir al-Kuntar at Wednesday’s ‘victory rally’ in Beirut.
And here’s Al-AP’s caption:
Samir Kuntar gestures as he symbolically breaks through makeshift prison bars during celebrations for his release in Beirut.
You make the call.
UPDATE 6:43 PM
Here’s another picture of Samir al-Kuntar from Wednesday’s ‘celebration’ (Hat Tip: Boker Tov Boulder):
And here’s Al-AP’s caption:
Released prisoner Samir Kantar salutes people as he arrives to pay his respects at the grave of slain top Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Five Lebanese prisoners who were set free as part of a prisoners swap between Lebanon and Israel prayed Thursday at the grave of Mughniyeh, pledging to follow his footsteps.(AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
Again, you make the call.
UN Peacekeepers Salute Imad Mughniyeh, Dead Terrorists
Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:58:06 am PST
United Nations “peacekeepers” stand and salute the remains of Hizballah terrorists on a truck decorated with a photograph of Imad Mughniyeh, mastermind of the Marine barracks bombing that killed hundreds of US citizens.
Mark Steyn on Rush transcript. great read!
Thank you so much SanS for sending this my way. Steyn is a wonderful read always
MY CONVERSATION WITH MARK STEYN
I was delighted to speak with the brilliant columnist and wit, author of the must-read America Alone: The End of the World as we Know It (Regnery), just released in paperback:
RUSH: Mark, my man, how are you, sir?
STEYN: I’m doing great, Rush. It’s an honor to talk to you.
RUSH: I appreciate that. What I want to hit on first is you. You have been on trial for “flagrant Islamophobia.”
STEYN: That’s right.
RUSH: With Maclean’s magazine, which published an excerpt from your book, America Alone. You have been brought before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal in Vancouver by the Canadian Islamic Congress “on behalf of Muslim residents in the province of British Columbia.” Closing arguments were Friday [June 6]. What are some of the highlights of the tribunal? Where does it stand?
STEYN: There is no First Amendment in Canada. Canada, like a lot of other Western governments, has become very comfortable in the business of regulating speech. It always sounds terribly reasonable when these people say, “Of course I believe in freedom of speech, but it’s a question of where you draw the line, how you strike a balance.” All that line-drawing and balance-striking appeals to Canadians’ sense of their own moderation. They set up these human rights courts 30 years ago and they have tripped over a couple of cases a year since then. Along comes the Canadian Islamic Congress, which wants to shut down discussion of Islam and Islam’s relationship to the West. They spotted their opening and have been using these pseudo-courts to basically go after anybody who wants to talk about this issue.
RUSH: You have said you hope you lose.
STEYN: That’s right. I want to lose here so that we can take it to a real court, to a court of appeals, and eventually, if necessary, up to the Supreme Court of Canada, and get this particular hate speech provision struck down as unconstitutional.
The whole position of the human rights nomenclature up there is that America is out of whack with the rest of the world, and they say, “There’s no point telling us that people have freedom of speech in America.” As the Canadian human rights commissioner put it: the international community has decided there are limits to free speech, and Canada – unlike America – being a member in good standing of the international community, has to respect that. In other words, you take Canada, France, Sweden, Libya, Sudan, and Yemen, you find out what the consensus on freedom of speech is, and you pitch it halfway between Yemen and Sweden and that should be fine for anyone. I returned from this cockamamie trial yesterday [June 8] and believe me, I have never been so glad to cross the border and get south of the 49th parallel again. The guy at the border said, “What was your business in Canada?” I said, “I was on trial at the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal for crimes against humanity.” He said, “Oh, well, welcome home,” and waved me on.
Stratfor on peace deal Syria and Israel. A good read
Strategic Forecasting, Inc. From www.stratfor.com
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THE NEW ERA
By Peter Zeihan
As students of geopolitics, we at Stratfor tend not to get overexcited when this or that plan for regional peace is tabled. Many of the world’s conflicts are geographic in nature, and changes in government or policy only rarely supersede the hard topography that we see as the dominant sculptor of the international system. Island states tend to exist in tension with their continental neighbors. Two countries linked by flat arable land will struggle until one emerges dominant. Land-based empires will clash with maritime cultures, and so on.
Petit vs. Grand Geopolitic
But the grand geopolitic — the framework which rules the interactions of regions with one another — is not the only rule in play. There is also the petit geopolitic that occurs among minor players within a region. Think of the grand geopolitic as the rise and fall of massive powers — the onslaught of the Golden Horde, the imperial clash between England and France, the U.S.-Soviet Cold War. By contrast, think of the petit geopolitic as the smaller powers that swim alongside or within the larger trends — Serbia versus Croatia, Vietnam versus Cambodia, Nicaragua versus Honduras. The same geographic rules apply, just on a smaller scale, with the added complexity of the grand geopolitic as backdrop.
The Middle East is a region rife with petit geopolitics. Since the failure of the Ottoman Empire, the region has not hosted an indigenous grand player. Instead, the region serves as a battleground for extra-regional grand powers, all attempting to grind down the local (petit) players to better achieve their own aims. Normally, Stratfor looks at the region in that light: an endless parade of small players and local noise in an environment where most trends worth watching are those implanted and shaped by outside forces. No peace deals are easy, but in the Middle East they require agreement not just from local powers, but also from those grand players beyond the region. The result is, well, the Middle East we all know.
British Schoolkids given detention for refusing to pray to Allah
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:30 AM on 04th July 2008
Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and ‘pray to Allah’ during a religious education lesson.
Parents were outraged that the two boys from year seven (11 to 12-year-olds) were punished for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration of how Allah is worshipped.
They said forcing their children to take part in the exercise at Alsager High School, near Stoke-on-Trent – which included wearing Muslim headgear – was a breach of their human rights.
Alsager School, near Stoke, has received furious complaints from parents after two Year 7 boys were punished for refusing to kneel to Allah during a religious studies class
One parent, Sharon Luinen, said: “This isn’t right, it’s taking things too far.
“I understand that they have to learn about other religions. I can live with that but it is taking it a step too far to be punished because they wouldn’t join in Muslim prayer.
The UN really must be ignored. Islam now above criticism
Discussion of religious questions now banned at UN Human Rights Council
International Humanist and Ethical Union June 30 2008
The UN Human Rights Council is not allowed to judge religions, according to president Doru Romulus Costea of Romania. Criticism of Sharia law or fatwas is now forbidden.
This ruling follows attempts by the Egyptian and Pakistani delegates at the Council to silence criticism of human rights abuse in the Islamic world.
The representative of the Association for World Education, in a joint statement with the International Humanist and Ethical Union, had denounced the stoning to death of women accused of adultery and of girls being married at the age of nine years old in countries where Sharia law applies.
The speaker, David Littman, was interrupted by no fewer than 16 points of order and the proceedings of the Council were suspended for forty minutes when the Egyptian delegate said that “Islam will not be crucified in this Council” and attempted to force a vote on whether the speaker should be allowed to continue.
On giving his ruling after the break Council President Costea said that the Council “is not prepared to discuss religious questions and we don’t have to do so”. “Declarations must avoid judgments or evaluation about religion. … I promise that next time a speaker judges a religion or a religious law or document, I will interrupt him and pass on to the next speaker”.
Stratfor on Israel, Iran and nuclear capability.
Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
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MEDITERRANEAN FLYOVER: TELEGRAPHING AN ISRAELI PUNCH?
By George Friedman
On June 20, The New York Times published a report saying that more than 100 Israeli aircraft carried out an exercise in early June over the eastern Mediterranean Sea and Greece. The article pointed out that the distances covered were roughly the distances from Israel to Iranian nuclear sites and that the exercise was a trial run for a large-scale air strike against Iran. On June 21, the British newspaper The Times quoted Israeli military sources as saying that the exercise was a dress rehearsal for an attack on Iran. The Jerusalem Post, in covering these events, pointedly referred to an article it had published in May saying that Israeli intelligence had changed its forecast for Iran passing a nuclear threshold — whether this was simply the ability to cause an explosion under controlled conditions or the ability to produce an actual weapon was unclear — to 2008 rather than 2009.
The New York Times article, positioned on the front page, captured the attention of everyone from oil traders to Iran, which claimed that this was entirely psychological warfare on the part of the Israelis and that Israel could not carry out such an attack. It was not clear why the Iranians thought an attack was impossible, but they were surely right in saying that the exercise was psychological warfare. The Israelis did everything they could to publicize the exercise, and American officials, who obviously knew about the exercise but had not publicized it, backed them up. What is important to note is that the fact that this was psychological warfare — and fairly effective, given the Iranian response — does not mean that Israel is not going to attack. One has nothing to do with the other. So the question of whether there is going to be an attack must be analyzed carefully.
The first issue, of course, is what might be called the “red line.” It has always been expected that once the Iranians came close to a line at which they would become a capable nuclear power, the Americans or the Israelis would act to stop them, neither being prepared to tolerate a nuclear Iran. What has never been clear is what constitutes that red line. It could simply be having produced sufficient fissionable material to build a bomb, having achieved a nuclear explosion under test conditions in Iran or having approached the point of producing a deliverable nuclear weapon.
Elmasry: Canada’s ayatollah-in-waiting
Much has been discussed regarding the decline of freedom of speech in this country. While the cases of Ezra Levant and Maclean’s/ Mark Steyn are high profile ones, many other smaller fish have been caught in the trolling net of various HRC’s. Mr. Levant and Mr. Steyn, along with numerous other journalists, broadcasters, bloggers and t.v. hosts have done an excellent job of exposing the creeping and dangerous desire by some to shut down open thought. It needs to continue until these fascist “courts” are dismantled.
That being said, I’d like to bring some well deserved exposure to the major complainants behind the push to silence Canadians. First, let’s read what CIC’s national vice president Wahida Valiante, has to say on freedom of speech in Canada. “Real democracy depends on the free flow of ideas, of debate and disagreement, and newspapers are the best forum for those debates”. It would be wonderful if she meant it, but in fact, she doesn’t. Click here For a full understanding of her actual view, And so the exposure of the bullshit begins.
The Canadian Islamic Congress and it’s ayatollah-in-waiting Dr. Muhammed Elmasry, is the main plaintiff in the Maclean’s/Mark Steyn affair. Of course, Elmasry denies this, preferring to describe his position as one of “facilitator”, merely playing a supporting role to the 3 or 4 Osgoode Law students. According to the CIC, these legal beagles are the real “complainants”, but according to the facts of the case, this is totally false. Elmasry is one of two plaintiffs with the law students playing the secondary role.
Excellent article on Iran, nuclear ambitions and the US policy towards it.
Thanks Koan and Fred at www.gayandright.blogspot.com for hipping me to this most excellent piece
| une 15, 2008 –“Hit us and we shall hit you ten times harder!” This is how General Muhammad-Ali Jaafari, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) has responded to speculation about a possible attack by the United States and/or Israel on Iran’s nuclear installations.Taking The Iran Nuke TourAnother Option On Iran
Jaafari replaced General Yahya Safavi last year after the latter made a speech in which he implicitly warned the mullahs that Iran’s military was not ready for war against far more powerful enemies. Those familiar with Iranian military capabilities know that it is Safavi’s sober assessment, and not Jaafari’s bluster, that reflects the true situation. The problem is that Jaafari can make his claim because he, and his political masters in Tehran, are convinced there would be no military action against their regime. In 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the then newly-minted President of the Islamic Republic and darling of the IRGC, unveiled a strategy based on the assumption that once George W. Bush is out of the White House, the United States would bite the bullet and accept a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic as “regional superpower” in the Middle East. Two events convinced Ahmadinejad that his strategy was correct: n The first came in May 2006 when the Bush administration, then at the nadir of its unpopularity because of the situation in Iraq, joined the line of supplicant Europeans begging Tehran to negotiate a deal. That unexpected shift in Washington’s policy produced the opposite effect. Far from persuading Ahamdinejad that this was a good time to defuse the situation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s attempt at nuance and multilateral diplomacy convinced Tehran that the Americans had blinked. |
Islam’s version of Mickey Mouse (From Der Spiegel)
I really have nothing to add to this at all.
Eeyore